ClubFloyd Transcript:
PAX East Speed IFs by Various Authors

As played on ifMUD on April 3, 2010

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 ten (TEN!)  eleven (ELEVEN!) PAX East Speed IFs, written by Various Authors. More games may surface as a result of this event, but these were the ten that were complete as of the time ClubFloyd met, plus one finished later in the day. The PAX East Speed IFs were crafted during the historic IF Summit held in conjuction with PAX East 2010 You can learn more about the games, including how to download them, by visiting the ifWiki.

If you'd like to skip to a particular game in this transcript, here are some helpful links:

     Queuelty, by Sarah Morayati

     Food Magic, by P Hughes, C Madden, R Madden, L Hughes, & C Muckenhoupt

     Apoptosis, by Kate McKee

     Mango, by A Reed, A Othenin-Girard, & D Bowsman

     Midair Madness, by Paul J. Furio

     Safehouse, by Benjamin Sokal

     Lobsters on a Plane, by Ben and Jack

     Vortex 2305, by Jacqueline A. Lott

     PAX East 2010 Speed-IF, by J McGrew & K Matthews

     A Wizard Goes Shopping, by Kevin Jackson-Mead

     PAXless, by Royce Odle

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.


ToyShop & Floyditorium
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxqueuelty"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
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Floyd |
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Floyd | Queuelty
Floyd | An Interactive Claustrophobia by Sarah Morayati
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 100403 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib


Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Oppressive Crowd
Floyd | People. People. So many people.
Floyd |
Floyd | You weren't quite sure what you were expecting. Crowds, sure, but not


Floyd | ten thousand people crammed into a tenth as many square feet until
Floyd | they ferment. They're sort of herded along by barriers and signs, but
Floyd | once you reach critical mass of a couple thousand, it just looks like
Floyd | an enormous mass. Fortunately, you made it to the end of the line.
Floyd | Unfortunately, so did Brody.
Floyd |


Floyd | Brody leers at you with either malice or lechery. You can't decide
Floyd | which would be worse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Benjor arrives, full of fun, but no funk.
Benjor waves
inky says (to Floyd), "x brody"
Floyd | Brody is an asshole.
Floyd |
Floyd | Yes, you've been known to prematurely call people assholes before, and


Floyd | you're becoming a bit worried that you're being typecast as the sort
Floyd | of person who indiscriminately dubs people assholes. But Brody really
Floyd | is an asshole.
Floyd |
Floyd | Brody has painstakingly manhandled his hair into what was probably a
Floyd | mohawk at one point. You have nothing against follicular


Floyd | self-expression, except when it's going to be sitting in front of you.
Floyd | Or when each individual plume of hair has a middle finger sculpted
Floyd | into it. He's wearing a ratty old T-shirt, on which he has just
Floyd | spray-painted (you can smell it): "DEVELOPERS! ASK ME ABOUT THE
Floyd | KICK-ASS GAME IDEA THAT WILL MAKE ME A MILLIONAIRE!" (Millionaire is
Floyd | in its own special shade of blood red.


Floyd |
Floyd | And you would be remiss not to mention the giant sign. You came to
Floyd | this convention to meet like-minded, wonderful people who do not wave
Floyd | giant signs in your face. You instead met Brody, a non-minded,
Floyd | wonder-free personoid who quite enjoys this. Especially when said
Floyd | signs depict naked people.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "ha"
Doug says, "I've never had netlag like this before, it's weird. Things I type get sent to the mud immediately, but I get no output at all for minutes at a time, then it either comes back in a gulp or I give up and disconnect and reconnect."
morten arrives, full of funk, but no fun.
MikeG arrives, full of fun, but no funk.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sign"
Floyd | (the signs)
Floyd | The usual signs, listing the PAX rules, the exits, you know the drill.
Floyd | The only sign you really care about is the one that indicates that


Floyd | there's only one more seat left in the panel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
* Jacqueline has added morten to the channel.
inky says (to Floyd), "wait"
Floyd | Time passes.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Doug asks, "is there a way to recap the output of this room?"
inky says, "@recap #toyshop = 20"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | You've always felt a bit out of place at conventions like this; you're
Floyd | not a big gamer, and you've never cosplayed in your life. And you're
Floyd | female, as much as you wish this wasn't an issue. But you love
Floyd | interactive fiction, so this was like your dream come true.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "yay"
inky says, "I assume thus far this game is entirely autobiographical"
inky says (to Floyd), "punch brody"
Floyd | The rules here tell you not to punch or kick people. More pertinently,

Floyd | they're enforced by about 100 beefy bodyguards scattered around the

Floyd | places you're not looking. Besides, the rules don't say a word about
Floyd | the magical equivalent of punching and kicking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I can SO RELATE to this character!"
inky says, "ha ha"
Nitku says (to Floyd), "cosplay"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Jacqueline asks (of Lucea), "Yeah, who's this Brody? Is it a pseudonym for one of us?"
inky asks, "wait, we know magic?"
Jacqueline says, "You can tell us. We won't hate you, Lucea."
inky says (to Floyd), "spells"
Floyd | You are the master of the following spells:
Floyd | blorb:   The blorb spell lets you safely protect a small object, as
Floyd | though in a strongbox. You wouldn't think it was so useful, but when
Floyd | was the last time you saw a strongbox?

Floyd | cleesh:   The cleesh spell lets you change something into a small
Floyd | amphibian. It's kind of fun being a stereotypical witch out of a kid's

Floyd | TV show.
Floyd | exex:   The exex spell lets you make things and/or people go faster.
Floyd | Hence the name.
Floyd | filfre:   The filfre spell lets you create gratuitous fireworks.

Floyd | Fortunately for party hosts, it works even better when you're drunk.
Floyd | frotz:   The frotz spell allows you to cause something to give off

Floyd | light. You love this spell. No more do you have to travel by the light
Floyd | of your cell phone!
Floyd | gnusto:   The gnusto spell lets you write a spell into a spellbook.
Floyd | You, like most magicians, dislike it; you never reveal your secrets to

Floyd | the world. It's the only leg up you've got on the bastards.
Floyd | gondar:   The gondar spell lets you put out an open flame. It makes

Floyd | you pretty popular at parties.
Floyd | guncho:   The guncho spell lets you banish someone to another plane of
Floyd | existence. In theory. In practice, it does absolutely nothing for you.
Floyd | You're sure there's some crappy cop-out excuse, like this convention

Floyd | room is actually the meeting point of every possible plane of
Floyd | existence, making them geometrically -- technically -- the same plane,

Floyd | but you're pretty sure you just can't make it work.
Floyd | izyuk:   The izyuk spell lets you fly. It also works on other people,
Floyd | you guess, but when you're got a flying spell you are keeping that
Floyd | shit for yourself, OK?

Floyd | krebf:   The krebf spell lets you repair willful damage to something.
Floyd | It's made you far too careless for comfort.

Floyd | kulcad:   The kulcad spell allows you to dispel another spell. You
Floyd | love do-overs.
Floyd | melbor:   The melbor spell lets you protect a magic user from harm
Floyd | from an evil being. You've had to duck into the bathroom and cast it

Floyd | at least three times this afternoon.
Floyd | nitfol:   The nitfol spell allows you to converse with the beasts in

Floyd | their own language. It is the only reason why you have not yet been
Floyd | fired.
Floyd | ozmoo:   The ozmoo spell allows you to make something survive
Floyd | unnatural death. No, you don't know if it works in the afterlife and

Floyd | aren't keen to find out.
Floyd | rezrov:   The rezrov spell lets you open things, even locked or

Floyd | enchanted things. It works either literally or figuratively, but you
Floyd | don't like to use it literally much after you accidentally split your
Floyd | best friend's goldfish in two.
Floyd | vaxum:   The vaxum spell lets you make a hostile creature your friend.

Floyd | It is the other reason why you have not yet been fired.
Floyd | zifmia:   The zifmia spells lets you magically summon a being. Out of

Floyd | all of your spells, it is among the most likely to get you arrested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
baf arrives, full of funk, but no fun. Jacqueline says, "Not much."
Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. Jacqueline says, "WOWZA"
inky says, "whoah holy crap"
maga says, "I'm not sure I'd have described the Enforcers as 'beefy'"
baf says, "helo"
dhakajack says, "Sure. There was a starter deck in the swag bag."
Nitku says (to Jacqueline), "Except "Brody""
inky says, "ha ha"
Jacqueline says, "Wait... we already know them all? Awesome."
Jacqueline says (to baf), "helo"
inky says (to Floyd), "vaxum brody"
Floyd | All of the jerkery vanishes from Brody's face. He reaches out and
Floyd | shakes your hand, and nothing else. "Oh wow! It's so great to see a
Floyd | girl at PAX." You nod. "So what are you in line for?"

Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh, there's this panel --"
Floyd |

Floyd | "The interactive fiction panel?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's the one!"

Floyd |
Floyd | Brody looks over at the room. Into the doors. At the single remaining
Floyd | seat. "Looks like there's only one seat," he says, voice hardening.

Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah," you say flatly. "Looks like."
Floyd |

Floyd | "So what the fuck are you here for?" He releases a torrent of
Floyd | misogyny. Guess not even vaxum can make him nice.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha"
Jacqueline says (to Jack), "haha"
inky says (to Floyd), "exex line"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "oh c'mon, that should have worked"
Dave arrives, full of neither funk nor fun.
inky says (to Floyd), "x queue"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x line"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "exex me"
Floyd | You hardly need to; you're sure you can outspeed Brody as it is. His
Floyd | presence is the problem here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Nitku says (to Floyd), "exex brody"
Floyd | The last thing you need is for Brody to be faster than you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "guncho brody"
Nitku says (to Floyd), "guncho brody"
Floyd | As much as you'd love to guncho the hell out of Brody, it just doesn't
Floyd | work.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | As much as you'd love to guncho the hell out of Brody, it just doesn't
Floyd | work.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Nitku says (to Floyd), "guncho me"
Floyd | Even if you could make guncho work, the odds that the particular plane
Floyd | of existence you'd be banished to would be the panel room are too slim
Floyd | to even contemplate.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "ack, have we started?"
Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "haha - great minds think alike."
Jacqueline says (to DW), "At the top of the hour, yes."
DavidW asks, "We don't start at 3?"
DavidW arrives, full of fun and funk. Jacqueline asks, "Where did that come from?"
Nitku says (to Jacqueline), "Great minds... timing"
inky says, "ha ha ha"
Jacqueline asks, "Where did this 3 business come from?"
Ellison says, "I've played through this one so I think I'll have to be quiet"
DavidW says, "uh, we've been playing at 3 for a while."
Jacqueline says, "We have been playing at 10 my time for weeks."
inky says, "ok, I'm pretty sure this isn't all my fault"
Ellison says, "I mostly blame inky"
inky says, "maybe alaska didn't switch to DST"
DavidW says, "I admit I didn't check the time since DST."
Jacqueline says, "It's listed in the RSS feed as 2. It's listed on the bb at 2."
DavidW asks, "Well, who reads that?"
baf says (to Floyd), "exex crowd"
Floyd | Like you're seriously gonna do a favor for a bunch of strangers.
Floyd | They're behind you, and they haven't seen it fit to open up to you, so

Floyd | there.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky asks, "actually, canada hasn't switched to DST, right? or has it?"
Jacqueline says, "DST has nothing to do with it, actually. That affects us and the UK, but not anything within North America."
inky says (to Floyd), "cleesh brody"
Floyd | Brody is similar enough to an amphibian that it does nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Anyway, yes. Sorry for any confusion, though I know not from where the confusion originated."
inky says, "ha ha"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "rezrov crowd"
Floyd | You speak the words, and all of a sudden, everything changes. The
Floyd | crowd seems so much less threatening, much less likely to trample you
Floyd | into a pulp or absorb you into its flesh.

Floyd |

Floyd | "Oh hey, man!" one of the attendees says. "Oh. Sorry. Hey there, uh,
Floyd | you!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Madeline," you say. "Nice to meet you."
Floyd |

Floyd | "You too! the guy responds. "I'm sorry -- we were just so caught up in

Floyd | the line that we completely forgot there was anyone else here." He
Floyd | smiles and shakes your hand, and the cluster of people beside him
Floyd | opens up a bit, into a circle. You should rezrov your social life more
Floyd | often.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

baf says, "Ooh, the crowd is a valid spell target! I didn't realize that when playing this initially."
DavidW says (to inky), "We have. We have to be in synch with the US, like it or not."
baf says (to Floyd), "cleesh crowd"
Floyd | You can't see what your spell did, but you're sure that somewhere in
Floyd | the morass, somebody is now frantically dodging feet.

Floyd |
Floyd | Someone tries to summon Captain Planet from somewhere in the crowd.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So did you see the Street Fighter panel?"

Floyd |
Floyd | "Nope," you say.

Floyd |
Floyd | "GTA?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "No," you say, a bit less chirpily. You feel like something in a

Floyd | museum.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says, "well, wake me up when the next game starts."
Jacqueline says, "And I've actually mentioned this morning on a few occasions how long until CF, too. Sigh."
Jacqueline says, "I hope no one else is missing."
inky says (to Floyd), "nitfol crowd"
Floyd | You speak the words, and everything changes again. (Isn't magic
Floyd | awesome?)
Floyd |

Floyd | "So did you ever play Photopia?"
Floyd |

Floyd | "I love Photopia!" you exclaim. "It's actually the only game that's
Floyd | ever made me cry."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Really? Me too!" a guy from the crowd exclaims. "Did you play..." And

Floyd | five minutes pass, and they are wonderful.
Floyd |

Floyd | You duck as someone throws a paper airplane at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison says, "yay new spell responses"
baf says (to Floyd), "spells"
Floyd | You are the master of the following spells:
Floyd | blorb:   The blorb spell lets you safely protect a small object, as
Floyd | though in a strongbox. You wouldn't think it was so useful, but when

Floyd | was the last time you saw a strongbox?
Floyd | cleesh:   The cleesh spell lets you change something into a small
Floyd | amphibian. It's kind of fun being a stereotypical witch out of a kid's

Floyd | TV show.
Floyd | exex:   The exex spell lets you make things and/or people go faster.
Floyd | Hence the name.

Floyd | filfre:   The filfre spell lets you create gratuitous fireworks.
Floyd | Fortunately for party hosts, it works even better when you're drunk.
Floyd | frotz:   The frotz spell allows you to cause something to give off

Floyd | light. You love this spell. No more do you have to travel by the light
Floyd | of your cell phone!
Floyd | gnusto:   The gnusto spell lets you write a spell into a spellbook.

Floyd | You, like most magicians, dislike it; you never reveal your secrets to
Floyd | the world. It's the only leg up you've got on the bastards.
Floyd | gondar:   The gondar spell lets you put out an open flame. It makes

Floyd | you pretty popular at parties.
Floyd | guncho:   The guncho spell lets you banish someone to another plane of
Floyd | existence. In theory. In practice, it does absolutely nothing for you.

Floyd | You're sure there's some crappy cop-out excuse, like this convention
Floyd | room is actually the meeting point of every possible plane of
Floyd | existence, making them geometrically -- technically -- the same plane,

Floyd | but you're pretty sure you just can't make it work.
Floyd | izyuk:   The izyuk spell lets you fly. It also works on other people,
Floyd | you guess, but when you're got a flying spell you are keeping that

Floyd | shit for yourself, OK?
Floyd | krebf:   The krebf spell lets you repair willful damage to something.
Floyd | It's made you far too careless for comfort.

Floyd | kulcad:   The kulcad spell allows you to dispel another spell. You
Floyd | love do-overs.
Floyd | melbor:   The melbor spell lets you protect a magic user from harm

Floyd | from an evil being. You've had to duck into the bathroom and cast it
Floyd | at least three times this afternoon.
Floyd | nitfol:   The nitfol spell allows you to converse with the beasts in

Floyd | their own language. It is the only reason why you have not yet been
Floyd | fired.
Floyd | ozmoo:   The ozmoo spell allows you to make something survive

Floyd | unnatural death. No, you don't know if it works in the afterlife and
Floyd | aren't keen to find out.
Floyd | rezrov:   The rezrov spell lets you open things, even locked or

Floyd | enchanted things. It works either literally or figuratively, but you
Floyd | don't like to use it literally much after you accidentally split your
Floyd | best friend's goldfish in two.

Floyd | vaxum:   The vaxum spell lets you make a hostile creature your friend.
Floyd | It is the other reason why you have not yet been fired.
Floyd | zifmia:   The zifmia spells lets you magically summon a being. Out of

Floyd | all of your spells, it is among the most likely to get you arrested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to DavidW), "you haven't actually missed anything plot-wise at this point"
Lucea says (to baf), "belated -- it wasn't in version 1 because I forgot to make it animate"
Nitku says (to Floyd), "izyuk me"
Floyd | Maybe after the convention. That way you can get a refund on your
Floyd | flight.

Floyd |
Floyd | "So did you play Broken Legs?"

Floyd |
Floyd | "I loved that game!" You grin. "Like, if the author could just come to
Floyd | my home and be my personal writing slave it would be awesome. Is that
Floyd | so weird?"

Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeeeeeaaah," a girl -- a girl! in the crowd says after a while.

Floyd | "That's pretty weird. And there needs to be a post-comp version."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh." You hardly know what to say anymore.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "spells are up here: [LINK]"
inky says, "ha ha ha"
Jacqueline says, "hahaha that's great"
inky says (to Floyd), "exex crowd"
Floyd | You cast the spell, but there are just too many people for it to have
Floyd | any noticeable effect. PAX: its attendance is stronger than magic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Oppressive Crowd
Floyd | You weren't quite sure what you were expecting. Crowds, sure, but not
Floyd | ten thousand people crammed into a tenth as many square feet until
Floyd | they ferment. They're sort of herded along by barriers and signs, but

Floyd | once you reach critical mass of a couple thousand, it just looks like
Floyd | an enormous mass. Fortunately, you made it to the end of the line.

Floyd | Unfortunately, so did Brody.
Floyd |
Floyd | A girl glares at you from the crowd -- she's glaring so hard that just
Floyd | by the scowl you can spot her. She's wearing a name tag reading

Floyd | "Elise."
Floyd |

Floyd | Brody leers at you with either malice or lechery. You can't decide
Floyd | which would be worse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

baf says (to Floyd), "vaxum crowd"
Floyd | It doesn't do anything. Yay, the masses doesn't hate you!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Nitku says (to Floyd), "frotz crowd"
Floyd | You cast frotz at the masses, but apparently it doesn't take; all you
Floyd | can muster is a sudden flash of bright white light. There must be some
Floyd | highly scientific explanation for this.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "filfre"
Floyd | A huge plume of fireworks bursts down from the ceiling. Tens of
Floyd | thousands of gamers stand agape for a second.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

baf says (to Floyd), "zifmia don woods"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x elise"
Floyd | Just looking at Elise, you know that you are out of your element.

Floyd | There's nothing remarkable about her by sight, but somehow, she's
Floyd | managed to score the rapt attention of every teenage and
Floyd | not-so-teenage boy at PAX, and most of the girls -- in short, about

Floyd | tens of thousands of people who are absolutely infatuated with her.
Floyd | She's also glaring at you like your very existence in this line and
Floyd | potentially in this panel is a personal affront to you. You don't get

Floyd | it. Why is everyone the world makes you encounter so horrible to you?
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice somebody dressed as Link try to blitz the enforcers,

Floyd | failing miserably.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW asks, "which game am I missing, anyway?"
inky says, "Lucea's"
Jacqueline says, "Well, no need to miss it. We've not missed much."
Jacqueline says, "In fact, we could restart it."
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "zifmia"
Floyd | You'd never be able to find anything you summoned in this crowd if you
Floyd | just cast it into thin air. Normally you at least have a field of

Floyd | vision to work with.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Just for you to catch the intro."
Jacqueline asks, "I don't *think* we've done anything that progresses the plot, have we?"
inky says (to Floyd), "vaxum elise"
Floyd | You speak the words, and Elise just changes. Her scowl turns to a
Floyd | smile. Her arms uncross. And all she can talk about is the games she

Floyd | loved, and why she loves them, and how hopeful she is about IF as a
Floyd | form. And she's only talking to you; it's like nobody else matters.

Floyd | And people wonder why you still do magic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "we opened the crowd"
Doug goes home.
Doug arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. inky says, "that seems to have been significant since it made this girl show up"
DavidW says, "Haven't even made coffee yet."
baf says, "And made them talk about IF."
inky says, "although maybe not, I dunno"
Lucea says, "we've vaxumed Elise"
Jacqueline says (to DW), "oh."
Lucea says, "you're sort of along in the plot, yes"
Jacqueline says, "Okay then."
JayBot says (to Floyd), "guncho crowd"
Floyd | As much as you'd love to guncho the hell out of the masses, it just
Floyd | doesn't work.

Floyd |
Floyd | You notice somebody dressed as Link try to blitz the enforcers,
Floyd | failing miserably.

Floyd |
Floyd | You notice Elise looking down at this tattered thing. She looks so
Floyd | forlorn, too. You really want to cheer her up.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar asks, "speed-if's are 'sposed to have plot?"
inky says, "I vaxumed elise, but can't vaxum my living room"
baf says (to Floyd), "exex elise"
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens, but then, you weren't paying extensive
Floyd | attention to its speed.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

dhakajack says (to Floyd), "smell"
Floyd | It reeks of overcrowding.
Floyd |

Floyd | You notice somebody dressed as Link try to blitz the enforcers,
Floyd | failing miserably.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison says (to inky), "hee"
inky says (to Floyd), "krebf t-shirt"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "krebf tattered"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Nitku says (to Floyd), "rezrov elise"
Floyd | You cast the rezrov spell at Elise, but it doesn't work.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "krebf elise"
Floyd | You cast the krebf spell at Elise, but nothing happens. You probably
Floyd | shouldn't be so disappointed it was undamaged.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x elise"
Floyd | Just looking at Elise, you know that you are out of your element.
Floyd | There's nothing remarkable about her by sight, but somehow, she's

Floyd | managed to score the rapt attention of every teenage and
Floyd | not-so-teenage boy at PAX, and most of the girls -- in short, about
Floyd | tens of thousands of people who are absolutely infatuated with her.
Floyd | She's also glaring at you like your very existence in this line and

Floyd | potentially in this panel is a personal affront to you. You don't get
Floyd | it. Why is everyone the world makes you encounter so horrible to you?

Floyd |
Floyd | You notice somebody dressed as Link try to blitz the enforcers,
Floyd | failing miserably.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
baf says (to Floyd), "talk to elise"
Floyd | You strike up a conversation with Elise. "So what brings you here?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, I don't know. Seeing people talk, picking up swag, the works."

Floyd | She holds up a small leather-bound book, sort of in tatters. "Like

Floyd | this, for instance. It's supposedly real vellum, or vegan fake vellum,
Floyd | or something -- anyway, it's legit. I got it at one of the booths, and
Floyd | I'd always wanted a spellbook of my own, you know? But then some
Floyd | asshole ripped it out of my hands and tore it up." She sighs. "I
Floyd | really wanted to get back at him, too, but he just stormed off. Him

Floyd | and his stupid hair and his really stupid T-shirt." Your gaze shifts

Floyd | over to Brody for a second. Could there be more than one asshole at
Floyd | this con? Probably, yeah, but perhaps nobody quite at his level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Nitku says (to Floyd), "rezrov crowd"
Floyd | You don't really want to cast rezrov at them again. You don't mind
Floyd | them, but you don't exactly want to hear the intimate details of their
Floyd | lives either.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

inky says, "oh, I see"
JayBot says (to Floyd), "guncho enforcers"
Floyd | As much as you'd love to guncho the hell out of the enforcers, it just
Floyd | doesn't work.

Floyd |

Floyd | You notice somebody dressed as Link try to blitz the enforcers,
Floyd | failing miserably.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "krebf book"
Floyd | You speak the words. Elise looks skeptical at first -- oh damn it, did
Floyd | you undo your spell already? -- but the skepticism quickly dissolves
Floyd | once she notices what happens to your book. It's reforming, kind of
Floyd | like an ice cube freezing, And before you know it, it's as good as

Floyd | new. Possibly better.
Floyd |

Floyd | "Oh my God," Elise says. "How'd you do that?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I know magic," you say, smiling. You try to restrain yourself from a
Floyd | huge monologue to her on the topic, but it's so hard and you kind of

Floyd | want to tell her anyway.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I saw Link. He was pretty awesome."
inky says, "man, she totally has us mind-controlled"
Ellison says, "I don't remember seeing any male Links"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "tell Elise about magic"
Floyd | (To talk to people in this game, use TALK TO ______. It's a Speed IF.
Floyd | Its conversational prowess is limited.)
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "ha"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to elise"
Floyd | You start to tell Elise about magic, and much to your relief, she
Floyd | doesn't immediately blow you off. You tell her about many things: the

Floyd | time you singlehandedly stopped the Irish potato famine and started

Floyd | the Revolutionary War in one fell swoop to the night you summoned up
Floyd | this delicious chicken-lobster-mango fettuccine for a date. She's
Floyd | absolutely rapt. It might sound weird, but you never knew magic could
Floyd | make your life so awesome!
Floyd |

Floyd | "So this spellbook. If I wanted to, I could do magic too? Because I've

Floyd | got this asshole that needs a magical ass-whooping."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Did he have a middle-finger mohawk?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "YES!" There's so much in her voice: anger, astonishment. Relief.

Floyd | "That's the one."

Floyd |
Floyd | "If you want to, I can teach you," you say, hardly even knowing it.
Floyd | "Just let me." She nods vigorously. Awesome! Now you just need a plan.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Lucea says, "not as good as the message in Aaron and Duncan's game"
Jacqueline says, "I love how many of us tossed all the odd things we were supposed to include in this speed into on big text dump. Huzzah."
vaporware says (to Floyd), "plan to teach elise about magic"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
inky says, "my plan is she beats up Brody and gets arrested, and then we get into the panel"
inky says (to Floyd), "teach elise"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
dhakajack says, "It's interesting how many Speed IF themes are food-related."
Jacqueline says (to inky), "Dude."
Lucea says, "food is wacky!"
DavidW says, "We get hungry."
Jacqueline says (to Jack), "Hm, good point."
inky says (to Floyd), "izyuk elise"
Floyd | You manage to make Elise hover for a few minutes, but flying's the
Floyd | sort of thing that people really need to be on board with first.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says, "food is also something that anyone can identify with"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "spells"
Floyd | You are the master of the following spells:


Floyd | blorb:   The blorb spell lets you safely protect a small object, as
Floyd | though in a strongbox. You wouldn't think it was so useful, but when
Floyd | was the last time you saw a strongbox?
Floyd | cleesh:   The cleesh spell lets you change something into a small
Floyd | amphibian. It's kind of fun being a stereotypical witch out of a kid's
Floyd | TV show.


Floyd | exex:   The exex spell lets you make things and/or people go faster.
Floyd | Hence the name.
Floyd | filfre:   The filfre spell lets you create gratuitous fireworks.
Floyd | Fortunately for party hosts, it works even better when you're drunk.
Floyd | frotz:   The frotz spell allows you to cause something to give off
Floyd | light. You love this spell. No more do you have to travel by the light


Floyd | of your cell phone!
Floyd | gnusto:   The gnusto spell lets you write a spell into a spellbook.
Floyd | You, like most magicians, dislike it; you never reveal your secrets to
Floyd | the world. It's the only leg up you've got on the bastards.
Floyd | gondar:   The gondar spell lets you put out an open flame. It makes
Floyd | you pretty popular at parties.


Floyd | guncho:   The guncho spell lets you banish someone to another plane of
Floyd | existence. In theory. In practice, it does absolutely nothing for you.
Floyd | You're sure there's some crappy cop-out excuse, like this convention
Floyd | room is actually the meeting point of every possible plane of
Floyd | existence, making them geometrically -- technically -- the same plane,
Floyd | but you're pretty sure you just can't make it work.


Floyd | izyuk:   The izyuk spell lets you fly. It also works on other people,
Floyd | you guess, but when you're got a flying spell you are keeping that
Floyd | shit for yourself, OK?
Floyd | krebf:   The krebf spell lets you repair willful damage to something.
Floyd | It's made you far too careless for comfort.
Floyd | kulcad:   The kulcad spell allows you to dispel another spell. You


Floyd | love do-overs.
Floyd | melbor:   The melbor spell lets you protect a magic user from harm
Floyd | from an evil being. You've had to duck into the bathroom and cast it
Floyd | at least three times this afternoon.
Floyd | nitfol:   The nitfol spell allows you to converse with the beasts in
Floyd | their own language. It is the only reason why you have not yet been


Floyd | fired.
Floyd | ozmoo:   The ozmoo spell allows you to make something survive
Floyd | unnatural death. No, you don't know if it works in the afterlife and
Floyd | aren't keen to find out.
Floyd | rezrov:   The rezrov spell lets you open things, even locked or
Floyd | enchanted things. It works either literally or figuratively, but you


Floyd | don't like to use it literally much after you accidentally split your
Floyd | best friend's goldfish in two.
Floyd | vaxum:   The vaxum spell lets you make a hostile creature your friend.
Floyd | It is the other reason why you have not yet been fired.
Floyd | zifmia:   The zifmia spells lets you magically summon a being. Out of
Floyd | all of your spells, it is among the most likely to get you arrested.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "melbor elise"
Floyd | You speak the words. Nothing visible happens, but Elise just comes off
Floyd | as so much more... primed. Yeah. That's it. Primed. Primed for


Floyd | ass-of-Brody-kicking.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Thanks," she says, and it's almost like a one-liner."Now teach me a
Floyd | spell. Do it quickly," she adds.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I don't have any murder spells," you say.


Floyd |
Floyd | "So do you have any go-away spells, then?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Actually, yes!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Then just put it in here! I know you can do that, right?" Your face


Floyd | shouldn't be blanching this much.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice somebody dressed as Link try to blitz the enforcers,
Floyd | failing miserably.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Gerynar), "Esp. if we haven't eaten lunch yet."
inky says, "the spells are up at [LINK]"
Jacqueline says, "Yeah, we did this speed at 1pm, and I hadn't eaten yet."
vaporware says (to Floyd), "zifmia plan"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to inky), "Thanks."
inky says (to Floyd), "guncho book"
Floyd | As much as you'd love to guncho the hell out of the spellbook, it just
Floyd | doesn't work.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "gnusto book"
Floyd | Nothing happens. You were never all that great at gnusto anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice somebody dressed as Link try to blitz the enforcers,
Floyd | failing miserably.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

baf says (to Floyd), "frotz guncho"
Floyd | You cast frotz at guncho, but apparently it doesn't take; all you can
Floyd | muster is a sudden flash of bright white light. There must be some
Floyd | highly scientific explanation for this.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "gnusto zifmia"
Floyd | Nothing happens. You were never all that great at gnusto anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "hmm"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "gnusto guncho"
Floyd | You start to speak the words, but it's no use; guncho is appearing in
Floyd | the spellbook, but one pixel at a time. Like you're on a 0.000001
Floyd | modem. It's depressing. And Elise is sighing more than you ever want


Floyd | to see her sigh. There has to be a way to speed this up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
baf says (to Floyd), "gnust guncho"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Nitku says (to Floyd), "gnusto elise"
Floyd | Nothing happens. You were never all that great at gnusto anyway.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
baf says (to Floyd), "exex gnusto"
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens, but then, you weren't paying extensive
Floyd | attention to its speed.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
baf says (to Floyd), "exex book"
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens, but then, you weren't paying extensive
Floyd | attention to its speed.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
Lucea says, "cringe guess the ver"
baf says (to Floyd), "exex me"
Floyd | You speak the words. Nothing happens that she can see, but you notice
Floyd | your brain absolutely racing. It's like the 1990s when they were


Floyd | talking about the information superhighway. Except there is one, and
Floyd | it's up in your head. Your casting probably just went up a million
Floyd | times. Like you leveled up. And it feels awesome.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha"
DavidW says (to baf), "yay"
inky says (to Floyd), "gnusto guncho"
Floyd | You speak the words, and gnusto appears in the spellbook. Lightning
Floyd | fast. Like the first time you got a real Internet connection. You


Floyd | grin.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So is that it?" Elise says.
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's all," you agree.
Floyd |


Floyd | "Awesome," she says. "Now stand back!" Elise stomps up to Brody, who
Floyd | regards her with something between contempt and absolute confusion.
Floyd | "Yo. You. You with the stupid hair and the ridiculous T-shirt."
Floyd |
Floyd | "At your service," he drawls."
Floyd |


Floyd | "You ruined my spellbook," she says. "And from what I hear, you've
Floyd | been being a real jerk to Madeline here." She points at you. "So what
Floyd | do you have to say to that?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, shit, I dunno," he responds. "Maybe that I don't care?
Floyd | Shouldn't you be playing like Farmville or Barbie or something?" He


Floyd | laughs. And laughs. And laughs some more.
Floyd |
Floyd | "No," Elise says. "Maybe I should be playing magic. Because Madeline
Floyd | knows magic. Ever consider that?" She doesn't even let him finish.
Floyd | "And now I know it too. And your ass is going down. Or should I say,
Floyd | going away. GNUSTO!"


Floyd |
Floyd | You'd love to say that there was this big explosion, full of flashing
Floyd | light, and gravity stopped too, and the world just completely
Floyd | collapsed in on itself. But gnusto was never that flashy. Instead,
Floyd | Brody is just gone, and Elise is standing before you. She gives you a
Floyd | hug, then a high-five. And for once, you're completely lost for words.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline gives Lucea a hug and pats her on the back, saying, "There there, Sarah. It's only a SpeedIF... and remember this moment when I'm crying while they play mine. Hug me back then, okay?"
inky says, "aw"
inky says, "hey wait a minute--"
inky says (to Floyd), "look"
Floyd | Oppressive Crowd
Floyd | You weren't quite sure what you were expecting. Crowds, sure, but not
Floyd | ten thousand people crammed into a tenth as many square feet until
Floyd | they ferment. They're sort of herded along by barriers and signs, but


Floyd | once you reach critical mass of a couple thousand, it just looks like
Floyd | an enormous mass. Fortunately, you made it to the end of the line.
Floyd | Unfortunately, so did Brody.
Floyd |
Floyd | Brody seems to have left a lamp behind.
Floyd |


Floyd | Elise smiles at you. You never even knew you could actually make real
Floyd | friends at these things!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh man he is an ass."
inky says (to Floyd), "get lamp"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x lamp"
Floyd | It's a brass lantern. It looks eminently lightable with the right
Floyd | means.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "frotz lamp"
Floyd | You speak the words. Immediately, the lamp lights up with bursts of
Floyd | bright, flashing light. You wonder why light always does that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

baf asks, "Er? She copied him into her spellbook?"
inky says (to baf), "ha ha ha"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read spellbook"
Floyd | You really don't think it's real vellum -- the booth guy probably

Floyd | stiffed her -- but it's nevertheless kind of breathtaking. Especially

Floyd | now that it's fixed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read brody"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "aw"
Jacqueline says, "heh"
baf says (to Floyd), "frotz lamp"
Floyd | There's no need; it's glowing more than you are.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice somebody dressed as Link try to blitz the enforcers,
Floyd | failing miserably.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "oh well. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm lost."
vaporware says (to Floyd), "get in seat"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Gerynar says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You head through the door, the lamp lighting your way, down the
Floyd | corridor, to your seat, into your chair. The panelists haven't even
Floyd | started yet. But once you sit down, as if magic, they do. And they say
Floyd | wonderful things, and you take in even more wonderful things, all

Floyd | about IF and its future and the amazing things that will be done in
Floyd | the future. It is all you ever wanted out of PAX.

Floyd |
Floyd | A week later, the glow hasn't faded. All you want to do is write
Floyd | something amazing, and get it out to the whole world, and make IF
Floyd | viable, and commercial, and artistic, and something the whole world

Floyd | can appreciate. But you also have something else. You have a
Floyd | collaborator. And, you think as Elise sits by you, nose buried in

Floyd | Inform 7 on her laptop, you've never been more hopeful about the form.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |     *** You have won ***
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?

Floyd | >
dhakajack exclaims, "Yay!"
Benjor wonders why ifwiki is taking minutes to respond to page requests... Jacqueline says, "hooray!"
Lucea says, "yay!"
Ellison says, "huh, you changed the ending where they drive off the cliff together"
Jacqueline says, "HAHAHA"
Jacqueline cackles.
Gerynar asks, "question is: did Elise forget half her charging cord and have to by a new one?"
Jacqueline says, "Oh, Ellison."
dhakajack asks, "It's coming up OK for me. Have you tried using the chrome browser?"
Jacqueline says (to Jack), "Ben would never use Chrome!"
baf asks (of Benjor), "I've just given the server a kick. Is it better now?" Jacqueline says, "Okay. That was quick. Let's play one more before we take a quick break."
Benjor exclaims, "suddenly fast again!" Lucea says (to gerynar), "heh"
Jacqueline says, "All conversation back on the channel, please!"
Benjor says, "thanks, baf" Jacqueline glares at people whose handles begin with B.
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.

Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q"
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.

Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit"
Floyd |

Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" Ellison says, "also, with beards"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxafoodmagic" Gerynar asks, "do goatees count as beards, Ellison?"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Food Magic
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Paul Hughes, Caolan Madden, Rory Madden, and
Floyd | Laura Hughes, with a little help from Carl Muckenhoupt

Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 100327 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib

Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Crying Place
Floyd | You are in your hovel, which you call the Crying Place. It makes you
Floyd | feel like crying.

Floyd |

Floyd | You can see a front door, a knife, a cookbook and Half a potato here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Benjor edits the official Lobsters on a Plane page for the more recent link
Lucea says (to floyd), "get all"
Floyd | front door: That's fixed in place.
Floyd | knife: Taken.
Floyd | cookbook: Taken.
Floyd | Half a potato: Taken.
Floyd | xyzzy: You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
Lucea says (to floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd | I'm not quite sure what you meant by that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Benjor points at Lucea. "CHEATER!" Ellison says (to Gerynar), "I don't think so"
Lucea says, "I am a fan of GET ALL"
Lucea says, "So much that I always disable it"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cry"
Floyd | A tear rolls down your cheek.
Floyd |
Floyd | The landlord pounds on the door, demanding rent. After a few seconds

Floyd | he thrusts his hand through a hole in the door, wiggling his fingers.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says, "good, I'm safe then"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take fingers"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "pull finger"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Lucea says (to floyd), "guncho landlord"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull hand"
Floyd | That would be less than courteous.
Floyd |

Floyd |  The landlord wiggles his fingers.

Floyd | >
Doug goes home.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake hand"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison says, "yeah, GET ALL is super helpful for betatesting"
Doug arrives, full of fun, but no funk.
Lucea says (to floyd), "spells"
Floyd | You have not learned any spells.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | As good-looking as ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Lucea says (to floyd), "attack landlord"
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.


Floyd |
Floyd | "All right, I've put me finny in the hole like you wanted. Give me
Floyd | some rent in return, ye ninny!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "cut hand"
Floyd | You slice the landlord's hand off. You hear an anguished scream, and
Floyd | rapid footsteps retreating from your cottage. You have beaten the
Floyd | landlord! But at what cost? To the landlord?
Floyd |


Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Lucea says, "WE'RE NOT GONNA PAY RENT"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hand"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison says, "heh"
dhakajack says, "oops"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hand"
Floyd | You see a twitching, bloody hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
baf says, "I should point out a couple of things about this one:"
DavidW says, "darn. No rings we can hock."
Lucea says (to floyd), "l"
Floyd | Crying Place
Floyd | You are in your hovel, which you call the Crying Place. It makes you
Floyd | feel like crying.


Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a front door here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Lucea says (to floyd), "open door"
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Lucea says (to floyd), "break door"
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Lucea says (to floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a hand


Floyd |   a tear
Floyd |   Half a potato
Floyd |   a cookbook
Floyd |   a knife
Floyd |   a key
Floyd |


Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tear"
Floyd | You see nothing special about the tear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Lucea says (to floyd), "unlock door"
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the front door with?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Lucea says (to floyd), "unlock door with key"
Floyd | You unlock the front door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "read cookbook"
Floyd | OLD GRANNY'S DIFFERENT KINDS OF SODA BREAD. Getboatbread: To cook,
Floyd | wave a salty hand in the air. Changewarbread: To cook, put some
Floyd | lobster in some fettuccini. Getlampbread: To cook, get a lamp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Lucea says (to floyd), "wave hand"
Floyd | You look ridiculous waving the hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Lucea says (to floyd), "cry on hand"
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to cry.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Lucea says (to floyd), "cry"
Floyd | A tear rolls down your cheek.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put tear on hand"
Floyd | That's one salty hand!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Nitku asks, "Who are the authors?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave hand"
Floyd | You summon a boat. A captain cries, "All hands on deck!" The hand
Floyd | joins the rest of the salty crew. You are boated to America.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |     *** You win! As a reward, you eat the following: A potato (of

Floyd | which there was a dearth) a mango tang ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 2 out of a possible 0, in 20 turns.
Floyd |

Floyd |

Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "You guys are going lightning fast, but I'm having fun speed reading your funniness."
Lucea says, "What"
Lucea says, "oookay"
baf says, "First, the byline is not a lie. This was mainly written by Paul and Caolan, who had never touched Inform 7 before."
inky says, "I don't understand this game at all"
Jacqueline says, "Paul Hughes, Caolan Madden, Rory Madden, and Laura Hughes, with a little help from Carl Muckenhoupt"
Touchy arrives, full of fun, but no funk.
PaulFurio arrives, ready to play with the toys. DavidW says, "I assume there's more than one ending to that one."
Touchy barges in.
Nitku asks, "Yeah but do we/I know them?"
Lucea says (to floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Crying Place
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

baf says, "The initial premise is based on a story that Caolan's parents told her."
* Jacqueline has added PaulFurio to the channel.
Touchy exclaims, "I'm late but I'm very self important so drop everything and pay attention to me!"
Jacqueline says, "ha"
DavidW says (to Touchy), "YES SIR!"
Lucea says, ">DROP ALL"
baf says, "And yes, there are multiple endings."
* vaporware has joined the channel.
Touchy says, "haha"
Johnny arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. Touchy says, "Hi guys"
Gerynar drops his cigarette on the floor and looks to Touchy
dhakajack says, "waving the hand was one of the recipes"
Jacqueline sits and stares, her glassy eyes fixed on Touchy.
baf says, "Also, apparently I never told them how to put newlines in strings."
Gerynar smells smoke
Jacqueline asks (of baf), "So, we should play again, then?"
baf says, "Yes."
Jacqueline says, "mmkay"
MikeG goes home.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart"
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart?
baf says, "I think there are exactly two endings."
Lucea says, "I used UNDO"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Food Magic

Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Paul Hughes, Caolan Madden, Rory Madden, and
Floyd | Laura Hughes, with a little help from Carl Muckenhoupt
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 100327 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib

Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Crying Place

Floyd | You are in your hovel, which you call the Crying Place. It makes you
Floyd | feel like crying.
Floyd |

Floyd | You can see a front door, a knife, a cookbook and Half a potato here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

baf says, "Not counting deaths."
Jacqueline says (to lucea), "Yeah, but new peoples showed up."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read cookbook"
Floyd | OLD GRANNY'S DIFFERENT KINDS OF SODA BREAD. Getboatbread: To cook,
Floyd | wave a salty hand in the air. Changewarbread: To cook, put some

Floyd | lobster in some fettuccini. Getlampbread: To cook, get a lamp.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I'm guessing there's a lamp to be gotten somewheres."
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x potato"
Floyd | You see nothing special about Half a potato.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "mmhmm"
DavidW says, "Maybe the lamp is in the potato."
baf says (to Floyd), "Hey wait. That potato is supposed to have a description."
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x half"
Floyd | You see nothing special about Half a potato.
Floyd |
Floyd | The landlord pounds on the door, demanding rent. After a few seconds
Floyd | he thrusts his hand through a hole in the door, wiggling his fingers.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

baf says (to Floyd), "No, wait, I guess it isn't."
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question.
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.

Floyd |

Floyd | "All right, I've put me finny in the hole like you wanted. Give me
Floyd | some rent in return, ye ninny!"
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to take inventory.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Touchy asks, "Is there some hint in the fact that half is written in uppercase?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give potato to hand"
Floyd | (first taking Half a potato)
Floyd | The hand withdraws, and a moment later Half a potato is thrown back

Floyd | through the hole, followed by the return of the hand.

Floyd |
Floyd | "You must pay the rent!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I obviously am not good at SpeedIFs. I thought about the lamp in the potato, then dismissed it as implausible... but wait, this is a SpeedIF."
PaulFurio goes home. baf says, "Er, I'm addressing things to floyd that I should be saying on this channel."
dhakajack says, "It must be the larger half"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut potato"
Floyd | You don't have anything to cut with.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take knife"
Floyd | Taken.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
baf says (to Touchy), "It's a hint that we didn't spend a lot of time debugging this."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut potato"
Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little.

Floyd |
Floyd |  Ye owe me a HANDsome sum for all the months o" back rent ye haven't
Floyd | paid, ye lazy unemployed drunk"
Floyd | >

inky says, "ha ha"
inky says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a knife
Floyd |   a key

Floyd |

Floyd | "I demand the rent!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | As good-looking as ever.

Floyd |
Floyd |  The landlord wiggles his fingers.
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "put key in hand"
Floyd | He can't contain things.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Wait, a key?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock door with key"
Floyd | You unlock the front door.

Floyd |
Floyd | "I ain't about to give ye a HAND-out, ye scallywag"
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "give key to handlord"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door"
Floyd | You open the front door.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd |

Floyd | Outdoors

Floyd | You can see a front door, a lobster, some fettuccini and a lamp here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Looks like the landlord dropped some stuff.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "give key to landlord"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha"
baf asks, "Handlord?"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "get stuff"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
inky says, "this game rules"
Touchy says, "hehe"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get all"
Floyd | front door: That's fixed in place.
Floyd | lobster: Taken.
Floyd | fettuccini: Taken.
Floyd | lamp: With an actinic flash, the lamp vanishes. A lamp appears in its
Floyd | place.
Floyd | xyzzy: You can't see any such thing.


Floyd |
Floyd | "I demand the rent!"
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to baf), "I dunno, all those hand puns are controlling me"
inky says (to Floyd), "x xyzzy"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "yay actinic"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "in"
inky says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "get lamp"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crying Place
Floyd | All you can see is his hand sticking through the hole in the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a front door, Half a potato and a cookbook here.

Floyd |

Floyd |  Ye owe me a HANDsome sum for all the months o" back rent ye haven't
Floyd | paid, ye lazy unemployed drunk"
Floyd | >
Floyd | I'm not quite sure what you meant by that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You already have that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read cookbook"
Floyd | OLD GRANNY'S DIFFERENT KINDS OF SODA BREAD. Getboatbread: To cook,

Floyd | wave a salty hand in the air. Changewarbread: To cook, put some
Floyd | lobster in some fettuccini. Getlampbread: To cook, get a lamp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

baf says, "Uh. OK, you're not supposed to be able to go outside until after you've got rid of the landlord."
DavidW says (to baf), "well, I didn't know."
Jacqueline says, "Christ, did you not thoroughly beta test this?!"
baf says, "Bah. I showed them how to use scenes and everything to control that kind of thing."
Touchy exclaims (at DavidW), "You fool!"
Jacqueline asks, "Well, um, should we get rid of him now?"
DavidW cries a salty tear.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cut hand"
Floyd | You slice the landlord's hand off. You hear an anguished scream, and
Floyd | rapid footsteps retreating from your cottage. You have beaten the

Floyd | landlord! But at what cost? To the landlord?
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "c.i.l.l. my landlord"
Floyd | [c -> close]
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "There he's gone."
Jacqueline says, "Now what."
DavidW says, "drop lamp. get lamp."
Jacqueline wipes the knife clean.
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "n"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop lamp"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Touchy asks, "My...is Jacq having a particularly cruel day?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get lamp"
Floyd | With an actinic flash, the lamp vanishes. A lamp appears in its place.
Floyd |

Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "score"
Floyd | You have so far scored 3 out of a possible 0, in 26 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lamp"
Floyd | You see nothing special about the lamp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub lamp"
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "that's just efficiency"
Jacqueline says, "hahaha"
Nitku says (to Floyd), "get la,mp" Jacqueline says, "3 out of 0 - not bad!"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "get lamp"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | You already have that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave lamp"
Floyd | You look ridiculous waving the lamp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get a lamp"
Floyd | You already have that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "sing"
Floyd | Your singing is abominable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop lamp"
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "get lamp"
Floyd | With an actinic flash, the lamp vanishes. A lamp appears in its place.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "put the lobster in the fettucinni"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a lamp
Floyd |   some fettuccini
Floyd |   a lobster

Floyd |   a knife

Floyd |   a key
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says, "I can do this all day..."
Nitku says, "hooray infinite points"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put lobster in fettuccini"
Floyd | Those can't contain things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "If only life were like that."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put fettuccini in lobster" baf says, "We actually discussed whether or not you should be able to get multiple points for getting the lamp over and over. It was decided that you should."
Floyd | That can't contain things.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "read cookbook"
Floyd | OLD GRANNY'S DIFFERENT KINDS OF SODA BREAD. Getboatbread: To cook,
Floyd | wave a salty hand in the air. Changewarbread: To cook, put some

Floyd | lobster in some fettuccini. Getlampbread: To cook, get a lamp.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Nitku says (to Jacqueline), "Yeah, I would score all the time"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fettuccini"
Floyd | You see nothing special about the fettuccini.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "cut lobster"
Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it"
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut fettuccini"
Floyd | Cutting those up would achieve little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says, "Maybe we should find an oven outside..."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put lobster on fettuccini"
Floyd | You are transported to the Battle of Bunker Hill. A lobsterback hands
Floyd | you a potato and says, "Here's your ration." You eat the potato and
Floyd | then kill the redcoat because you hate the English, your oppressors.
Floyd | You created America! But at what cost? To America?

Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You win! But at what cost? To us? ***
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | In that game you scored 5 out of a possible 0, in 42 turns.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >
Touchy says, "To cook the fettulobster."
DavidW says, "ah. ON vs IN."
Jacqueline says, "YAY"
Touchy says, "haha"
Touchy says, "I'm so looking up fettucini.."
Ellison says, "ha ha, I love a good 'but at what cost' running joke"
Jacqueline says, "That. Is. Awesome."
baf says, "You have found both endings! Congratulations."
Jacqueline says, "yay us"
Jacqueline says, "and YAY AMERICA"
inky says, "ha ha ha"
Jacqueline asks, "Okay, can we make it to the top of the hour before our break?"
inky says, "sure"
Benjor exclaims, "woo!"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit"
Floyd |
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" Touchy asks (of Jacq), "Do you mean you want us to stall?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxapoptosis"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |

Floyd |
Doug says, "#belated-due-to-lag was 'Madeline' a reference to Flourish? (that's her given name)"
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | It can't be possible, after the evolutionary price your kind has

Floyd | already paid to get this far.  There are thousands of them, jostling,
Floyd | vying for a few places inside.  There's a lot more of them than you,
Floyd | but even in your very short life, you've already competed successfully
Floyd | for limited resources.
Floyd |

Floyd | Fortunately, your genomic >TRAITS will serve you in achieving your

Floyd | goal. You might be able to steal traits from others, along the way.
Floyd |
Floyd | So get rid of the competition in front of you, get inside, and save a
Floyd | spot for your friends.  And be sure to keep your strength up along the
Floyd | way.  This whole process is exhausting.

Floyd |

Floyd | Apoptosis
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Kate McKee
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 100327 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |

Floyd | Interstices

Floyd | A long narrow space in which you all line up, jockeying for access
Floyd | Inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | In front of you: The gently-waving, cream-colored cascade over her
Floyd | face and shoulders looks like so much fettucine.  Delicate skin in a

Floyd | thin grey coat.

Floyd |
Floyd | In front of you: A potato-shaped adolescent.  Perhaps that's an
Floyd | uncharitable description.  But honestly, he looks like a potato.
Floyd | Brown, bulgy, irregular, poorly-washed, and common.
Floyd |

Floyd | In front of you: Presumably a full-grown adult, although it's hard to

Floyd | tell with the peaked red felt cap, antennaelike extensions, eyes on
Floyd | rods, and the enormous Pokemonesque bodysuit.  You can't help but be
Floyd | impressed by the clawlike projections, however.
Floyd |
Floyd | In front of you: A couple, joined at the hip and shoulder, matching in

Floyd | light blue.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware asks, "yay. So were these authors just people who stopped by the suite?"
Benjor says, "Kate is a long-time raif follower, she said"
vaporware says, "The previous ones, I mean."
Benjor says, "sorta like me. :-)"
inky says, "weird"
inky says (to Floyd), "traits" vaporware says, "Other than baf."
Floyd | You are the master of the following spells:

Floyd | corripere:   steal traits from a neighboring organism
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "corripere lobster"
Floyd | You watch him CHOPPUS with his pincers, again and again.  You absorb

Floyd | his trait, CHOPPUS, which will now allow you to cleave things in two.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Nutrients materialize out of the ether.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "choppus"
Floyd | You'll have to specify what you want to chop.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "eat nutrients"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Interstices
Floyd | A long narrow space in which you all line up, jockeying for access
Floyd | Inside.
Floyd |


Floyd | Deliciously appetizing: a fat cube, a carbohydrate cube and a protein
Floyd | cube.
Floyd |
Floyd | In front of you: The gently-waving, cream-colored cascade over her
Floyd | face and shoulders looks like so much fettucine.  Delicate skin in a
Floyd | thin grey coat.


Floyd |
Floyd | In front of you: A potato-shaped adolescent.  Perhaps that's an
Floyd | uncharitable description.  But honestly, he looks like a potato.
Floyd | Brown, bulgy, irregular, poorly-washed, and common.
Floyd |
Floyd | In front of you: Presumably a full-grown adult, although it's hard to


Floyd | tell with the peaked red felt cap, antennaelike extensions, eyes on
Floyd | rods, and the enormous Pokemonesque bodysuit.  You can't help but be
Floyd | impressed by the clawlike projections, however.
Floyd |
Floyd | In front of you: A couple, joined at the hip and shoulder, matching in
Floyd | light blue.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "eat protein"
Floyd | Eat?  Do you mean, PHAGUS?
Floyd |


Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha"
DavidW says, "oh heck. I stepped away from the computer."
inky says (to Floyd), "corripere potato"
Floyd | You watch him PHAGUS his food, again and again.  You absorb his trait,
Floyd | PHAGUS, which will now allow you to phagocytose nutrients.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The potato-like youth spies the protein cube, extends a pseudopod, and
Floyd | greedily phagocytoses the protein cube.  Gulp.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "phagus carbohydrate"
Floyd | You consume the carbohydrate cube and feel the surge of energy.
Floyd |


Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "There's always zords of text I've missed."
Nitku says, "If you want to break the game, try PHAGUS ME"
Ellison says, "wow, love the new lingo"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "phagus me"
Floyd | You consume yourself and feel the surge of energy.
Floyd |
Floyd | Limbo
Floyd | Deliciously appetizing: a carbohydrate cube and a protein cube.


Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "benedate xenophober"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "yay limbo"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Limbo
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Interstices
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oh dear. I'm not understanding this one at all."
Jacqueline says, "Sorry. Do continue."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Interstices
Floyd | A long narrow space in which you all line up, jockeying for access
Floyd | Inside.


Floyd |
Floyd | Deliciously appetizing: a fat cube.
Floyd |
Floyd | In front of you: The gently-waving, cream-colored cascade over her
Floyd | face and shoulders looks like so much fettucine.  Delicate skin in a
Floyd | thin grey coat.


Floyd |
Floyd | In front of you: A potato-shaped adolescent.  Perhaps that's an
Floyd | uncharitable description.  But honestly, he looks like a potato.
Floyd | Brown, bulgy, irregular, poorly-washed, and common.
Floyd |
Floyd | In front of you: Presumably a full-grown adult, although it's hard to


Floyd | tell with the peaked red felt cap, antennaelike extensions, eyes on
Floyd | rods, and the enormous Pokemonesque bodysuit.  You can't help but be
Floyd | impressed by the clawlike projections, however.
Floyd |
Floyd | In front of you: A couple, joined at the hip and shoulder, matching in
Floyd | light blue.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I see words. I don't know them."
inky says (to Floyd), "phagus cube"
Floyd | You consume the fat cube and feel the surge of energy.


Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
baf exclaims, "They're spells!"
Doug says, "which ones were the remote speed-ifers? I don't remember meeting Kate McKee or the Hugheses and Maddens"
DavidW asks (of baf), "What are?"
inky says (to Floyd), "traits"
Floyd | You are the master of the following spells:
Floyd | phagus:   consume a nutrient for energy
Floyd | corripere:   steal traits from a neighboring organism


Floyd | choppus:   to chop or cleave something into two pieces
Floyd |
Floyd | >
dhakajack says, "Kate was there."
Touchy says (to Floyd), "corripere"
Floyd | You'll have to specify whom you're stealing traits from.
Floyd |
Floyd | Nutrients materialize out of the ether.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "phagus protein"
Floyd | You consume the protein cube and feel the surge of energy.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The potato-like youth spies the carbohydrate cube, extends a


Floyd | pseudopod, and greedily phagocytoses the carbohydrate cube.  Gulp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "corripere potato"
Floyd | You watch him PHAGUS his food, again and again.  You absorb his trait,


Floyd | PHAGUS, which will now allow you to phagocytose nutrients.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
baf says (to doug), "The Hughses and Maddens were over in the spillover room for most of the writing time."
inky says (to Floyd), "corripere linguini"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "corripere couple"
Floyd | You watch him canoodle and attempt to reproduce. You absorb their
Floyd | trait, SCINDERE, which allows you to split yourself into two equal
Floyd | selves.
Floyd |

Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "corripere fettucini"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Touchy says, "woohoo"
inky says (to Floyd), "corripere fettucine"
Floyd | You watch her TRUDERE her hair, back and forth, so many times.  You

Floyd | absorb her trait, TRUDERE, which will now allow you to move stuff from
Floyd | in front of you to behind you.

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "scindere"
Floyd | You successfully split yourself into multiple selves!

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

dhakajack says, "f canoodle"
Jacqueline says, "Man, all this phagussing is making me want leftovers."
inky says, "ha ha"
inky says, "it makes me hungry for a delicious fat cube"
inky says, "with perhaps a carbohydrate cube for afterwards"
morten has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. baf says, "Mmm, cube."
Ellison says, "hee"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "trudere couple"
Floyd | You try to shove the pair behind you in line, but you're not able to
Floyd | move the duo.  You'll have to find another way to get them behind you.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | The potato-like youth spies the fat cube, extends a pseudopod, and
Floyd | greedily phagocytoses the fat cube.  Gulp.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar is feeling rather amoeba-like at the moment
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "choppus couple"
Floyd | You successfully divide the undivisible pair.  They fall apart,
Floyd | distraught, and drift gradually behind you in line.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "trudere potato"
Floyd | A moment's hesitation, then you mutter the words, trying to push
Floyd | Potato-Boy behind you in line.

Floyd |
Floyd | A few heated moments where outcome is in doubt, then an actinic flash,

Floyd | as you successfully alter gravity, shoving Potato-Boy successfully
Floyd | backwards behind you in line.  Potato-Boy, finding himself at the rear
Floyd | of the line, sulks.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | Nutrients materialize out of the ether.

Floyd |
Floyd | The potato-like youth spies the carbohydrate cube, extends a
Floyd | pseudopod, and greedily phagocytoses the carbohydrate cube.  Gulp.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Touchy says, "dhakajack well done."
dhakajack says, "tnx"
inky says (to Floyd), "phagus protein"
Floyd | You consume the protein cube and feel the surge of energy.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "score"
Floyd | You have so far scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 19 turns.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
baf says, "I remember it seemed like this one could be solved multiple ways. In fact, pretty much any way."
inky says (to Floyd), "health"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Interstices
Floyd | A long narrow space in which you all line up, jockeying for access

Floyd | Inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | Deliciously appetizing: a fat cube.
Floyd |

Floyd | In front of you: The gently-waving, cream-colored cascade over her
Floyd | face and shoulders looks like so much fettucine.  Delicate skin in a

Floyd | thin grey coat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind you: A potato-shaped adolescent.  Perhaps that's an
Floyd | uncharitable description.  But honestly, he looks like a potato.

Floyd | Brown, bulgy, irregular, poorly-washed, and common.
Floyd |

Floyd | In front of you: Presumably a full-grown adult, although it's hard to
Floyd | tell with the peaked red felt cap, antennaelike extensions, eyes on
Floyd | rods, and the enormous Pokemonesque bodysuit.  You can't help but be
Floyd | impressed by the clawlike projections, however.

Floyd |

Floyd | Behind you: A couple, joined at the hip and shoulder, matching in
Floyd | light blue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "trudere fettucine"
Floyd | A moment's hesitation, then you mutter the words, trying to push
Floyd | Fettucine-Woman behind you in line.
Floyd |
Floyd | A few heated moments where outcome is in doubt, then an actinic flash,

Floyd | as you successfully alter gravity, shoving Fettucine-Woman
Floyd | successfully backwards behind you in line.  Fettucine-Woman, finding

Floyd | herself at the rear of the line, sulks.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "in"
Floyd | The only way you want to go is in, and you still have some
Floyd | competition.
Floyd |
Floyd | The potato-like youth spies the fat cube, extends a pseudopod, and

Floyd | greedily phagocytoses the fat cube.  Gulp.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Interstices

Floyd | A long narrow space in which you all line up, jockeying for access
Floyd | Inside.

Floyd |
Floyd | Behind you: The gently-waving, cream-colored cascade over her face and
Floyd | shoulders looks like so much fettucine.  Delicate skin in a thin grey
Floyd | coat.

Floyd |
Floyd | Behind you: A potato-shaped adolescent.  Perhaps that's an

Floyd | uncharitable description.  But honestly, he looks like a potato.
Floyd | Brown, bulgy, irregular, poorly-washed, and common.
Floyd |
Floyd | In front of you: Presumably a full-grown adult, although it's hard to

Floyd | tell with the peaked red felt cap, antennaelike extensions, eyes on
Floyd | rods, and the enormous Pokemonesque bodysuit.  You can't help but be

Floyd | impressed by the clawlike projections, however.
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind you: A couple, joined at the hip and shoulder, matching in
Floyd | light blue.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "traits"
Floyd | You are the master of the following spells:
Floyd | trudere:   application of sagittal force to an object, forcing it to

Floyd | move behind you
Floyd | phagus:   consume a nutrient for energy

Floyd | corripere:   steal traits from a neighboring organism
Floyd | choppus:   to chop or cleave something into two pieces
Floyd | scindere:   splitting oneself into two equal selves
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "if the only goal is to get to the front of the line it seems pretty easy"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "corripere adult"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x adult"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "unless I'm missing something"
inky says, "the adult is a lobster"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lobster"
Floyd | He keeps cleaving small objects between his powerful claws.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "corripere pokemon"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "corripere red cap"
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to do something to corripere
Floyd | Lobster-Man.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says, "Oh that was him"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "trudere lobster"
Floyd | A moment's hesitation, then you mutter the words, trying to push
Floyd | Lobster-Man behind you in line.
Floyd |


Floyd | A few heated moments where outcome is in doubt, then an actinic flash,
Floyd | as you successfully alter gravity, shoving Lobster-Man successfully
Floyd | backwards behind you in line.  Lobster-Man, finding himself at the
Floyd | rear of the line, sulks.
Floyd |
Floyd |


Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "in"
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside
Floyd | Finally, you're inside!  Now grab a seat for you and several for your


Floyd | friends.
Floyd |
Floyd | Nutrients materialize out of the ether.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "phagus fat"
Floyd | You consume the fat cube and feel the surge of energy.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "phagus seat"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "grab seat"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "dit"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit"
Floyd | You and yourselves sit on all the chairs there are!  You have overcome
Floyd | the cell wall and caused apoptosis!
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have won ***

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 27 turns.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "w00t"
Touchy says, "hrhr"
inky asks, "what was the point of duplicating ourselves?"
Jacqueline asks, "Where did the cellular thing come from?"
Touchy asks, "Wasn't that surreal?"
morten arrives, full of fun and funk. Benjor says, "Jack and I were clearly way too ambitious."
DavidW says, "I don't even know what apoptosis means."
inky asks, "I guess to be able to sit in multiple seats?"
Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "That's one word for it."
Touchy says (to Jacqueline), "We're some sort of organism..."
DavidW says (to inky), "We needed multiple us to seat in multiple seats."
Touchy says (to inky), "I guess so."
Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "I know. But that wasn't part of the speed constraints. I'm just wondering what the inspiration was."
inky | Apoptosis is the process of programmed cell death (PCD) that may occur in multicellular organisms.
Touchy says, "hm..we should have looked that up earlier"
inky | In contrast to necrosis, which is a form of traumatic cell death that results from acute cellular injury, apoptosis, in general, confers advantages during an organism's life cycle. For example, the differentiation of fingers and toes in a developing human embryo occurs because cells between the fingers apoptose; the result is that the digits are separate.
DavidW says (to inky), "That so doesn't clue me in."
Jacqueline asks, "Didn't you guys take biology?"
Jacqueline says, "Grow an organelle, for goodness sake."
DavidW says, "I took biology in grade 9 -- which was decades ago."
Jacqueline says, "Okay, sorry. I couldn't resist."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit"
Floyd |
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" Touchy says, "I fucking hate biology. Always."
DavidW says, "I may have forgotten a few things."
Jacqueline says, "Aw I love bio."
Touchy asks, "There are so many things that are remotely interesting, why did teachers have to tell me about biology?"
Gerynar says, "I took earth-science instead, but my dad's cousin studies apotosis in her lab at Michigan State/University (can't remember which one)"
baf says, "I hate biology but love zoology."
schep says (to Gerynar), "both. It's MSU."
Jacqueline asks, "Let's take ten minutes, then start again. Top of the hour? Give people a chance to get food, use the loo, etc?"
dhakajack says, "Yay loo"
Touchy says, "Yay food"
inky says, "top o' the hour"
DavidW says, "I'm already eating emergency potato chips."
inky asks, "how many games are there, anyway?"
Nitku says, "Yay etc"
schep says, "don't forget to check if >FLUSH is implemented"
Ellison says, "I liked biology well enough, except for dissecting animals since I am so poor at it. luckily, I can practice with hobos."
Jacqueline says, "Okay, that idea seems well received. Start again at the top of the hour."
Jacqueline says (to inky), "I uploaded ten. I doubt we'll hit them all today, though I guess if we remain energized, we can."
Jacqueline says, "But if we get through half today, I'm thinking that's good enough."
Touchy says (to Ellison), "Hahaha"
JayBot asks (of Jacqueline), "Just curious, how are you ordering them?"
Touchy says, "Can I join you? I think I'm suddenly interested in biology."
Ellison says (to Touchy), "aw, sorry, I misled you. I'm only interested in saying the word 'hobo'"
DavidW says, "Now imagine a hobo in a kimono."
DavidW says, "And then, in walks Yoko Ono."
inky says, "ha ha"
Touchy tacks a rhyming badge to DavidW's breast.
baf says, "reading Dororo"
Jacqueline says (to Jaybot), "We did Lucea's first because she had to leave. After that, it's the order they're listed on Floyd."
Jacqueline says, "So, in other words, in five minutes we'll load up Lobster. Then Mango."
baf asks, "Then Potato?"
Jacqueline says, "No, then Midair Madness."
Jacqueline says, "Also, I wonder if Dan Quayle spells it mangoe."
Doug goes home.
Doug arrives, full of funk, but no fun. dhakajack says, "I wonder if mangoes spell him Dan Quayl"
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Benjor asks, "iz we on break?"
Jacqueline says, "For thirty more seconds."
Benjor says, "I'll be back in about 45 mins. enjoy"
Jacqueline says, "Though I am inclined to start a minute late to catch the straglers."
Jacqueline asks (of Benjor), "We're about to play yours, aren't we?"
Benjor asks, "what!??"
Jacqueline asks, "Yeah. Lobster, right?"
Benjor says, "oh man"
Jacqueline says, "Though I can alter the order iffin you want me to."
DavidW says, "We can save Lobster for when he gets back."
dhakajack says, "Hey -- watch that faux-Western dialect. We have a patent."
dhakajack says, "Lobster is even better cold."
Jacqueline says (to Jacknotjacq), "Now settle down there, pardner."
dhakajack says, "Like revenge, but goes better with butter."
Jacqueline says, "Okay, we'll hold off on Lobster."
Benjor says, "if you guys delay, that would be great"
Jacqueline says (to Jack), "mmmbutter"
Benjor says, "otherwise I can read the transcript later"
Jacqueline says, "Okay, Lobster is on the back burner."
Nitku says, "mmm lobster on a back burner"
Jacqueline asks, "Folks ready to recommence?"
Doug says, "ready"
dhakajack says, "Sined. Sealed."
Jacqueline says, "Okay, I shall deliver."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load mango"
Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "Floyd doesn't know that game." Jacqueline says, "ACK"
Touchy says, "meep"
Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxmango"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | What a long and difficult journey it was! But at least you've found
Floyd | your way to this hotel. Even though the cab driver seemed mysteriously
Floyd | ignorant of its existence.

Floyd |
Floyd | Mango

Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Aaron Reed, Alexei Othenin-Girard, and
Floyd | Duncan Bowsman
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 100327 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)

Floyd |
Floyd | Room 13

Floyd | The peeling wallpaper and cracking plaster inspires a distinct lack of
Floyd | confidence.  The room is both dank and dim, and the furniture inside
Floyd | the room seems crammed into a space too small to contain it.  Wan,
Floyd | watery light filters in, scattered by the skeletal fingers of a dead

Floyd | tree right outside the room. The door out of your room is to the west;
Floyd | south is a tiny kitchenette and north is the bathroom.

Floyd |
Floyd | An old-fashioned writing desk with a drawer in the corner is
Floyd | reasonably creepy.
Floyd |

Floyd | You can also see a pink sink, a hatch, an invisible mirror, a creepy
Floyd | bed, a chair, a large portrait of Millard Fillmore, a historic lamp

Floyd | and a large wooden door here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "yeah you pax- prefixed the files."
Jacqueline says, "Oh man. This one."
inky says, "this is a great room description"
inky says (to Floyd), "x mirror"
Floyd | It's a frame for a mirror, but the mirror itself isn't actually there.

Floyd | Weird. And kind of cheap.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "yes"
inky says (to Floyd), "x sink"
Floyd | You see nothing special about the pink sink.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "touch mirror"
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "x portrait"
Floyd | An unfinished portrait of third president Millard Fillmore hangs from
Floyd | the wall. His torso and nose appear to be mostly missing. The dead
Floyd | president's eyes seem to be watching you. Creepy.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lamp"
Floyd | It looks historic. A nearby plaque affixed to the wall reads "This
Floyd | lamp was donated by the Sisters of Infinite Benevolence to light the
Floyd | way through the Irish Potato Famine of 1843."

Floyd |

Floyd | The historic lamp is currently switched off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to David), "I think you'll really like this one."
inky says, "this game has everything, including the pink sink"
Jacqueline says, "heehee"
inky says (to Floyd), "x bed"
Floyd | You see nothing special about the creepy bed.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "x portrait"
Floyd | An unfinished portrait of seventeenth president Millard Fillmore hangs
Floyd | from the wall. His torso and nose appear to be mostly missing. The
Floyd | dead president's eyes seem to be watching you. Creepy.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
Doug says (to Floyd), "x portrait"
Floyd | An unfinished portrait of thirteenth president Millard Fillmore hangs
Floyd | from the wall. His torso and nose appear to be mostly missing. The

Floyd | dead president's eyes seem to be watching you. Creepy.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "look under bed"
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I've played some of this one already, so I'm going to mostly watch."
inky says (to Floyd), "x chair"
Floyd | This unattractive chair is neither cheap enough to be easily broken,

Floyd | nor well-made enough to be comfortable to sit in.  The chair is light

Floyd | enough to be moved, but is equally unpleasant no matter where in the
Floyd | small room you move it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "sit in chair"
Floyd | After a second of sitting in the chair, your lower back protests.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "move chair"
Floyd | You push the chair over beneath the hatchway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x hatch"
Floyd | A mysterious hatchway which looks very much like something you would
Floyd | like to open and then enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "open hatch"
Floyd | The hatch is bolted on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison asks, "was there a post-pax release for this one?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "unlock hatch"
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the hatch with?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga exclaims (at Ellison), "it's already tested!"
Jacqueline says, "No, not that I saw."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | As good-looking as ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
baf says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "...and now you've offended maga"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Room 13 (on the chair)
Floyd | The peeling wallpaper and cracking plaster inspires a distinct lack of
Floyd | confidence.  The room is both dank and dim, and the furniture inside
Floyd | the room seems crammed into a space too small to contain it.  Wan,


Floyd | watery light filters in, scattered by the skeletal fingers of a dead
Floyd | tree right outside the room. The door out of your room is to the west;
Floyd | south is a tiny kitchenette and north is the bathroom.
Floyd |
Floyd | An old-fashioned writing desk with a drawer in the corner is
Floyd | reasonably creepy.


Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a pink sink, a hatch, an invisible mirror, a creepy
Floyd | bed, a large portrait of Millard Fillmore, a historic lamp and a large
Floyd | wooden door here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Ellison says, "heh"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "x hatch"
Floyd | A mysterious hatchway which looks very much like something you would
Floyd | like to open and then enter.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get lamp"
Floyd | It's bolted to the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

baf says (to Floyd), "x bed"
Floyd | You see nothing special about the creepy bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "open drawer"
Floyd | It seems to be stuck shut. This really isn't a very good hotel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

maga says, "for values of 'twenty minutes of markm and I shouting out bugs while Aaron yells "hold up getting to it"'"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "turn on lamp"
Floyd | That's funny, it doesn't seem to switch on... without magic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "hit desk"
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "spells"
Floyd | You have learned the spells: .
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "pull drawer"
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "kick drawer"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "hit drawer"
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask fillmore about hotel"
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "."
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "move fillmore"
Floyd | It is fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind fillmore"
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bed"
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Room 13 (on the chair)


Floyd | The peeling wallpaper and cracking plaster inspires a distinct lack of
Floyd | confidence.  The room is both dank and dim, and the furniture inside
Floyd | the room seems crammed into a space too small to contain it.  Wan,
Floyd | watery light filters in, scattered by the skeletal fingers of a dead
Floyd | tree right outside the room. The door out of your room is to the west;
Floyd | south is a tiny kitchenette and north is the bathroom.


Floyd |
Floyd | An old-fashioned writing desk with a drawer in the corner is
Floyd | reasonably creepy.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a pink sink, a hatch, an invisible mirror, a creepy
Floyd | bed, a large portrait of Millard Fillmore, a historic lamp and a large


Floyd | wooden door here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take portraait"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take portrait"
Floyd | That's fixed in place.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look behind portrait"
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sink"
Floyd | You see nothing special about the pink sink.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in sink"
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "x door"
Floyd | You see nothing special about the large wooden door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "open door"
Floyd | Strangely, the lock seems to have jammed in place. As much as you
Floyd | jiggle the handle, you can't seem to get it unlocked.
Floyd |
Floyd | Oh dear. The doorknob has come off in your hand, leaving only an

Floyd | unpainted wooden circle behind. Well, you put it into your pocket;
Floyd | it's bound to come in useful later.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
baf says (to Floyd), "x knob"
Floyd | Goodness me, this suggests all sorts of possibilities.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Check out the bathroom."
Touchy says, "yay"
Touchy says, "open the hatch"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub knob"
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Ellison says, "yeah, this game was great. maybe the one thing that stood out was intentional"
Jacqueline says (to DW), "TSD"
Doug goes home.
Doug arrives, full of fun and funk. Jacqueline says, "Bouncydoug"
DavidW asks, "May we visit the bathroom to the north?"
Jacqueline says, "Sure"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" Touchy says, "Visiteth away."
baf says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | The sink is so large it is actually physically impossible to enter the

Floyd | bathroom. Shoddy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | The sink is so large it is actually physically impossible to enter the

Floyd | bathroom. Shoddy.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push sink"
Floyd | It is fixed in place.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "if you gotta go, you gotta go"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sink"
Floyd | That's fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "turn on sink" Lucea says, "yay, this game"
Floyd | That's not something you can switch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

vaporware says (to Floyd), "shrink sink"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "enter sink"
Floyd | The sink is so large it is actually physically impossible to enter the
Floyd | bathroom. Shoddy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit sink"
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to vw), "haha"
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "purloin sink"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "unlock hatch"
Floyd | (with the doorknob)
Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says, "gna"
baf says (to Floyd), "x tree"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell"
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "unlock drawer"
Floyd | (with the doorknob)
Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "open it"
Floyd | It seems to be stuck shut. This really isn't a very good hotel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "hit it"
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick drawer"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "push it"
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "x hatch"
Floyd | A mysterious hatchway which looks very much like something you would
Floyd | like to open and then enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "i"
JayBot says (to Floyd), "pull it"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a doorknob
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Nothing obvious happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "put doorknob on drawer"
Floyd | Putting things on the drawer would achieve nothing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "pull picture"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x knob"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "unlock door"
Floyd | Goodness me, this suggests all sorts of possibilities.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | (with the doorknob)

Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "sorry, maybe I'd better give up and read the transcript later"
inky says (to Floyd), "look behind picture"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "open hatch"
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | The hatch is bolted on.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "move picture"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put knob on fillmore"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | Putting things on the large portrait of Millard Fillmore would achieve

Floyd | nothing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to doug), "No worrie."
Touchy says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Room 13 (on the chair)
Floyd | The peeling wallpaper and cracking plaster inspires a distinct lack of

Floyd | confidence.  The room is both dank and dim, and the furniture inside
Floyd | the room seems crammed into a space too small to contain it.  Wan,
Floyd | watery light filters in, scattered by the skeletal fingers of a dead
Floyd | tree right outside the room. The door out of your room is to the west;

Floyd | south is a tiny kitchenette and north is the bathroom.
Floyd |

Floyd | An old-fashioned writing desk with a drawer in the corner is
Floyd | reasonably creepy.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a pink sink, a hatch, an invisible mirror, a creepy

Floyd | bed, a large portrait of Millard Fillmore, a historic lamp and a large
Floyd | wooden door here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "look under bed"
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
baf asks, "Hm. Thge portrait was missing a nose, right?"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You can't, since the large wooden door is in the way.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchenette (But Mostly Still In Hotel Room)

Floyd | You can see a fridge (closed) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Kitchenette"
inky says (to Floyd), "open fridge"
Floyd | You open the fridge, revealing a plate of lobster fettuccine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says, "whoops"
Touchy says, "sorry"
inky says (to Floyd), "get plate"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "look"
Floyd | Kitchenette (But Mostly Still In Hotel Room)
Floyd | You can see a fridge (empty) here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "OH RIGHT"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "x plate"
Floyd | Wafts of delicious lobster-scented steam are coming off the piping hot
Floyd | fettuccine. Apparently the fridge is broken.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "eat lobster" Jacqueline says, "I remember now."
Floyd | Mmm, delicious.

Floyd |

Floyd | As you scrape the last of the delicious lobster sauce from the plate,
Floyd | you see that a word has been scratched into the porcelain: CHAMP.
Floyd | Your brain is wreathed in eldritch fire!  The letters of the spell
Floyd | burn themselves into your pituitary, which you probably needed for
Floyd | other things.  Oh well!

Floyd |

Floyd | You can now type SPELLS to see what spells you have learned.
Floyd | >
Jacqueline whistles.
DavidW says (to baf), "I tried to use the knob as a nose."
inky says, "WE ARE THE CHAMPions"
inky says (to Floyd), "spells"
Floyd | You have learned the spells: champ .
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "x champ"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing (probably because you misspelled it).
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "I FOUND A BUG"
inky says (to Floyd), "champ me"
Floyd | You do a dozen push-ups. Getting stronger! Every day!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x plate"
Floyd | The word CHAMP is scrawled into the bottom of the plate, almost as if
Floyd | it is important in some way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

vaporware says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   an empty plate
Floyd |   a doorknob
Floyd |


Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "champ plate"
Floyd | You'd just break it with your magically freakish muscles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

vaporware says (to Floyd), "champ doorknob"
Floyd | You are strong enough to handle the doorknob already.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "champ the sink"
JayBot says (to Floyd), "n"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |

Floyd | Room 13

Floyd | The peeling wallpaper and cracking plaster inspires a distinct lack of
Floyd | confidence.  The room is both dank and dim, and the furniture inside
Floyd | the room seems crammed into a space too small to contain it.  Wan,
Floyd | watery light filters in, scattered by the skeletal fingers of a dead
Floyd | tree right outside the room. The door out of your room is to the west;

Floyd | south is a tiny kitchenette and north is the bathroom.

Floyd |
Floyd | An old-fashioned writing desk with a drawer in the corner is
Floyd | reasonably creepy.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a pink sink, a hatch, an invisible mirror, a creepy

Floyd | bed, a chair, a large portrait of Millard Fillmore, a historic lamp

Floyd | and a large wooden door here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | The sink is so large it is actually physically impossible to enter the
Floyd | bathroom. Shoddy.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "champ sink"
Floyd | You'd just rip the sink out of the wall! Which would be kind of
Floyd | awesome, but you'd lose your deposit.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "champ the bit"
inky says (to Floyd), "champ drawer"
Floyd | With mighty strength, you pull open the desk drawer!

Floyd |

Floyd | You open the drawer, revealing a word carved into the wood.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "champ hatch"
Floyd | You can't reach it.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says, "woohoo"
inky says (to Floyd), "x word"
Floyd | It seems to say STAMP.

Floyd |
Floyd | Your brain is wreathed in eldritch fire!  The letters of the spell
Floyd | burn themselves into your amygdala, which you probably needed for
Floyd | other things.  Oh well!
Floyd |

Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "stamp sink"
Floyd | A giant magical stamp appears, attempts to stamp the champed pink
Floyd | sink, then disappears in a huff of disappointment.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stamp"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing (probably because you misspelled it).

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "uh what"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "spells"
Floyd | You have learned the spells: champ stamp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "stamp hatch"
Floyd | A giant magical stamp appears, attempts to stamp the hatch, then
Floyd | disappears in a huff of disappointment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "this game apparently doesn't support examining spells"
inky says, "so I don't understand how you get what they do"
DavidW says, "awkward"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "stamp doorknob"
Floyd | The doorknob now says "Doorknob" on it.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "also, I really hope at some point I will be able to cast >TRAMP STAMP"
inky says (to Floyd), "stamp fillmore"
Floyd | Strangely enough, you can't bring yourself to mar such a large and
Floyd | delightful portrait of thirteenth president Millard Fillmore. Maybe if
Floyd | it wasn't taking up so much of your field of vision.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

vaporware says (to Floyd), "stamp me"
Floyd | A tattoo of a green dragon suddenly (and painlessly) appears on your
Floyd | torso.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

dhakajack says, "I think the spelling remark crept in because there was a lively discussion of how to spell fettucine"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "stamp plate"
Floyd | The plate already has a word written on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "stamp door"
Floyd | A giant magical stamp appears, attempts to stamp the large wooden
Floyd | door, then disappears in a huff of disappointment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Nitku says, "You have to experiment to find out what they do"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "x doorknob"
Floyd | Goodness me, this suggests all sorts of possibilities.
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems to be dented.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Lucea says, "heh, that wasn't changed"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stamp hatch"
Floyd | A giant magical stamp appears, attempts to stamp the stamped hatch,


Floyd | then disappears in a huff of disappointment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "stamp bed"
Floyd | The plain white sheets suddenly blossom into a complicated plaid and


Floyd | paisley pattern. This does not make the bed more inviting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "stamp mirror"
Floyd | A magical stamp appears and the blank mirror appears within the frame!


Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x mirror"
Floyd | It's now a fairly ordinary mirror with an elaborately ornate frame.
Floyd | Curiously, you notice that it reflects a strange word written on the


Floyd | ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x word"
Floyd | (the strange word)


Floyd | The word, which you can only see reflected in the mirror (creepy!) is
Floyd | CRAMP.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your brain is wreathed in eldritch fire!  The letters of the spell
Floyd | burn themselves into your corpus callosum, which you probably needed
Floyd | for other things.  Oh well!


Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "cramp doorknob"
Floyd | The doorknob crumples in on itself. It's now a little smaller, and
Floyd | might fit a slightly smaller, more mysterious door.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "cramp sink"
Floyd | The champed stamped pink sink shrinks in a blink.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha, I missed that they keep replacing different internal organs"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "move chair"
Floyd | You push the chair over beneath the hatchway.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Bathroom
Floyd | You can see a cramped champed stamped pink sink and a toilet (on which


Floyd | is a book called What Have You Done For Me Philately?) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy asks, "What?"
inky says, "ha ha"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take book"
Floyd | You pick up the book and flip through it as you conduct your business.
Floyd | It looks like there's an article you could perhaps READ.
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read book"
Floyd | You look up the Millard Fillmore stamp and discover that, due to a
Floyd | mix-up, several million were printed without the former president's


Floyd | nose. Because of this embarrassing faux-pas, the stamp is thus worth
Floyd | so little that being within a hundred yards of it actually reduces
Floyd | your credit score by a full ten points.
Floyd |
Floyd | HOWEVER, one rare proof stamp exists which contains the president's
Floyd | nose, and it highly prized by philatelists everywhere.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Doug says, "goodness me"
inky says (to Floyd), "score"
Floyd | You have so far scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 98 turns.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "stamp book"
Floyd | That might make it illegibile.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "flush toilet"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "BOOOO"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Bathroom
Floyd | You can see a cramped champed stamped pink sink and a toilet here.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "champ toilet"
Floyd | You wouldn't want to
Floyd | >

baf says (to Floyd), "wink at pink sink"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "put knob on fillmore"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing (probably because you misspelled it).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "maybe just stamp the nose"
inky says (to Floyd), "s" Jacqueline says (to inky), "Surely you can't expect functional plumbing in a speed."
Floyd |
Floyd | Room 13

Floyd | The peeling wallpaper and cracking plaster inspires a distinct lack of

Floyd | confidence.  The room is both dank and dim, and the furniture inside
Floyd | the room seems crammed into a space too small to contain it.  Wan,
Floyd | watery light filters in, scattered by the skeletal fingers of a dead
Floyd | tree right outside the room. The door out of your room is to the west;
Floyd | south is a tiny kitchenette and north is the bathroom.

Floyd |

Floyd | An old-fashioned writing desk with a drawer in the corner is
Floyd | reasonably creepy.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a cramped champed stamped pink sink, a stamped hatch,
Floyd | a strange word, a mirror, a stamped creepy bed, a chair, a large

Floyd | portrait of Millard Fillmore, a historic lamp and a stamped large

Floyd | wooden door here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "stamp portrait"
Floyd | Strangely enough, you can't bring yourself to mar such a large and

Floyd | delightful portrait of twenty-second president Millard Fillmore. Maybe
Floyd | if it wasn't taking up so much of your field of vision.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "stamp nose"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing (probably because you misspelled it).
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "cramp portrait"
Floyd | The portrait shrinks down-- at first you think it has vanished, but
Floyd | then you realize it has turned into a tiny square portrait about the
Floyd | size of stamp.
Floyd |

Floyd | On the wall behind the portrait is a mysterious word.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x word"
Floyd | Which do you mean, the mysterious word, the strange word or the word

Floyd | carved into the wood?
Floyd |

Floyd | >
maga says, "also the fluctuating president number"
inky says (to Floyd), "mysterious"
Floyd | The word is RAMP.
Floyd |

Floyd | Your brain is wreathed in eldritch fire!  The letters of the spell
Floyd | burn themselves into your pons medulla, which you probably needed for
Floyd | other things.  Oh well!
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "stamp portrait"
Floyd | A magical stamp appears and stamps the stamp. As it dissolves, you see
Floyd | that the image of seventeenth president Millard Fillmore now has a

Floyd | nose.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Touchy says, "woohoo"
baf says (to Floyd), "cramp lamp" inky says, "ha ha awesome"
Floyd | The lamp shudders slightly, but utterly fails to reduce in size.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "ramp me"
Floyd | You lifts a foot or so off the floor.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "ramp chair"
Floyd | The chair lifts a foot or so off the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "ramp hatch"
inky says (to Floyd), "stand on chair"
Floyd | A waft of pot smoke floats out of the hatch, but otherwise nothing
Floyd | happens.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You stand on the chair, and get much closer to the hatchway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "open hatch"
Floyd | The hatch is bolted on.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ramp lamp"
Floyd | The lamp utterly fails to rise into the air, and seems to resent your

Floyd | interference.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "cramp hatch"
Floyd | The stamped hatch gets a little bit smaller.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "ramp hatch"
Floyd | A waft of pot smoke floats out of the hatch, but otherwise nothing

Floyd | happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "lamp lamp"
Floyd | You have to get something before you can lamp it.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "champ hatch"
Floyd | You rip the hatch open with your super strength!

Floyd |
Floyd | >
baf asks, "Lamp is a verb?"
baf says (to Floyd), "lamp get"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing (probably because you misspelled it).

Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "lamp me"
Floyd | You have to get something before you can lamp it.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I guessed it might be."
inky says, "it is probably a spell we learn later"
Touchy says, "zomfg"
baf says (to Floyd), "turn on lamp"
Floyd | That's funny, it doesn't seem to switch on... without magic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "x hatch"
Floyd | A mysterious hatchway which looks very much like something you would
Floyd | like to open and then enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems to be dented.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd | The tunnel is too small for you to enter with your freakishly enlarged
Floyd | muscles.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy exclaims, "Who shrunk the hatch?!"
Touchy growls.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cramp me"
Floyd | You shrink down to a smaller but still agreeable size.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd | With a mighty heave, you pull yourself upwards and into the tunnel.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tunnel
Floyd | You can see a cramped champed stamped hatch and the time machine here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says, "heh"
inky says (to Floyd), "x time machine"
Floyd | You know it's a time machine because of the engraving on it that reads
Floyd | "Time Machine." There is a large red button marked "Future."
Floyd |


Floyd | The time machine is currently switched off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha ha"
DavidW says, "ha ha"
inky says, "this game is insane-o"
DavidW says, "excellent"
inky says (to Floyd), "turn on time machine"
Floyd | In a flash of actinic light, you zap your way into...
Floyd |


Floyd | Front of the Queue
Floyd | You are standing near a desk. Stretching off to the south into a
Floyd | nearly infinite grey distance is an twisty line of little
Floyd | time-travelers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sitting behind the desk is a gentleman whose name tag identifies him


Floyd | as "Phillippe Lampe."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison says, "ok, probably heading out of this cafe soon enough"
Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst..
Ellison has disconnected.
inky says (to Floyd), "x lampe"
Floyd | You see nothing special about Phillippe Lampe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "ask lampe about me"
Floyd | Just say TALK PERSON. No TO. We didn't have time to get to the TO.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "ha ha more"
inky says (to Floyd), "talk lampe"
Floyd | "Back of the line," says Lampe, pointing south. When you look
Floyd | confused, he says "All time travellers who ever pushed the button
Floyd | throughout history ended up here, in The Future. We don't have room


Floyd | for you all, so we're sending you back to evenly distributed points of
Floyd | history. We're giving the best times out first, so better get a spot
Floyd | in line fast."
Floyd |
baf says (to Floyd), "get lamp" Jacqueline says, "heehee"
Floyd | >
Floyd | You can't see any such thing (probably because you misspelled it).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

baf says (to Floyd), "get lampe"
Floyd | "Get your hands off me!" Lampe says. "I'm fixed in place!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "HA HA HA"
Touchy says, "haha"
DavidW says, "hooray!"
Jacqueline says, "yayay"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter line"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing (probably because you misspelled it).
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get spot"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing (probably because you misspelled it).
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get in line"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing (probably because you misspelled it).

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Front of the Queue
Floyd | You are standing near a desk. Stretching off to the south into a

Floyd | nearly infinite grey distance is an twisty line of little
Floyd | time-travelers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sitting behind the desk is a gentleman whose name tag identifies him

Floyd | as "Phillippe Lampe."
vaporware says (to Floyd), "queue"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Lucea says (to floyd), "light lampe"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |

Floyd | Queue Maze
Floyd | You are in a time-traveling twist of little liners, all alike.
Floyd |

Floyd | Bored queuers wait listlessly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

vaporware says (to Floyd), "wait"
Floyd | Time passes.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "cramp line"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing (probably because you misspelled it).
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "cramp queue"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing (probably because you misspelled it).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "cramp queuers"
Floyd | The queuers gets a little bit smaller.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "champ queuers"
Floyd | With great strength, you heft the cramped champed queuers above your
Floyd | head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Queue Maze
Floyd | You are in a little line of twisty time-travelers, all alike.
Floyd |


Floyd | Bored queuers wait listlessly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Lucea says, "heh"
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Queue Maze
Floyd | You are in a line of twisty little time-travelers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bored queuers wait listlessly.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
Touchy says, "o m g"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "ramp queuers"
Floyd | The cramped champed queuers lifts a foot or so off the floor.
Floyd |


Floyd | You overhear one of the queuers asking another "So what are your
Floyd | favorite spells?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, I'm partial to DAMP," she responds. "And also VAMP, CLAMP, and
Floyd | CAMP. TAMP is useful when gardening, I find."
Floyd |


Floyd | "Indeed," says the first. "And also LIMP."
Floyd |
Floyd | "No, I hate limp," she says. "I use GRAMP instead."
Floyd |
Floyd | Your brain explodes in a fiery paroxysm of magic. Too much strain on
Floyd | the ol" medula oblangata, apparently. You pass out.


Floyd |
Floyd | When you wake up, it seems as if you are at the end of the line, and
Floyd | only a few of your SPELLS have stuck around.
Floyd |
Floyd | End of the Line
Floyd | The line stretches off into infinity to the north.


Floyd |
Floyd | A large sign reading "Line" is nearby, pointing off into the misty
Floyd | distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha"
inky says (to Floyd), "spells"
Floyd | You have learned the spells: stampgramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

baf says (to Floyd), "spells"
Floyd | You have learned the spells: stampgramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Yes, that's awesome."
Lucea says (to floyd), "cramp line"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing (probably because you misspelled it).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "I hope this is just one spell"
Lucea says (to floyd), "gramp line"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing (probably because you misspelled it).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

baf says (to Floyd), "stampgramp"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "stampgramp line"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Lucea says (to floyd), "l"
Floyd | End of the Line
Floyd | The line stretches off into infinity to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large sign reading "Line" is nearby, pointing off into the misty

Floyd | distance.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Lucea says (to floyd), "s"
Floyd | You can't go that way.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x line"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing (probably because you misspelled it).
Floyd |

Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sign"
Lucea says (to floyd), "gramp sign"
Floyd | You see nothing special about the large sign.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The large sign withers and seems suddenly much older.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

dhakajack says (to Floyd), "gramp me"
Floyd | cramped ramped You withers and seems suddenly much older.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Lucea says (to floyd), "stamp sign"
Floyd | A magical stamp appears and adds the words "Front Of" to the start of
Floyd | the sign.

Floyd |
Floyd | After a few moments, Phillippe Lampe appears and sets up his desk. He
Floyd | looks up at you and says "Next?"

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "vamp me"
Floyd | You don't know that spell.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "excellent!"
inky says (to Floyd), "talk to lampe"
Floyd | Just say TALK PERSON. We really didn't have time to implement TO.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "talk lampe"
Floyd | "I'm only one day away from retirement," Phillippe Lampe says. "Once

Floyd | I'm retired I can spend all my days searching for that elusive antique
Floyd | Millard Fillmore stamp I've always lusted after."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

baf says (to Floyd), "gramp lampe"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "stamp lampe"
Floyd | Phillippe Lampe withers and seems suddenly much older.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says, "hehe"
Floyd | A giant magical stamp appears, attempts to stamp gramped Phillippe
Floyd | Lampe, then disappears in a huff of disappointment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky asks, "uh, we did pick that portrait up before going here, right? right??"
Lucea says (to floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a tiny portrait of thirteenth president Millard Fillmore
Floyd |   a stamped book called What Have You Done For Me Philately?


Floyd |   a champed stamped empty plate
Floyd |   a cramped champed stamped doorknob
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a tiny portrait of seventeenth president Millard Fillmore
Floyd |   a stamped book called What Have You Done For Me Philately?
Floyd |   a champed stamped empty plate
Floyd |   a cramped champed stamped doorknob
Floyd |


Floyd | >
Touchy says (to we), "did not"
Jacqueline says, "Oh noes."
Jacqueline says, "Oh yays"
Lucea says (to floyd), "gramp portrait"
Floyd | The tiny portrait ages and yellows until it looks very old indeed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "hunh, weird, we did"
Touchy says, "oh wtfs"
Lucea says (to floyd), "stamp portrait"
Floyd | A magical stamp appears and stamps the stamp. As it dissolves, you see
Floyd | that the image of twenty-second president Millard Fillmore now has a
Floyd | nose.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give portrait to lampe"
Floyd | Lampe's eyes widen in delight. "It's the rare stamp feature third
Floyd | president Millard Fillmore!" he exclaims. "This is just what I've


Floyd | always wanted!" In a flash of joy, he quickly presses a button to send
Floyd | you back in time, destintation unknown, in an actinicer flash....
Floyd |
Floyd | In the Midst of the Irish Potato Famine, 1843
Floyd | A hotel that looks as if it might one day be creepy is being built in
Floyd | the midst of the blight.


Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a wizard, a field of blighted potatoes, a brand new
Floyd | lamp and an inattentive nun here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I'll bet we did automagically. Thank you, authors."
Lucea says, "ha ha"
Jacqueline says, "Haha now he's the third president."
Lucea says (to floyd), "talk to wizard"
Floyd | Just say TALK PERSON. We really didn't have time to implement TO.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I guess first would have been pushing it."
Lucea asks, "did we see that message yet?"
Touchy says, "hehe"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "talk nun"
Floyd | Actually, you usually find conversation to be overrated.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x nun"
Floyd | You see nothing inattentive about the special nun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nun"
Floyd | You see nothing inattentive about the special nun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "talk potatoes"
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Lucea says (to floyd), "eat potatoes"
Floyd | (first taking the field of blighted potatoes)

Floyd | That's fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd | wizard: I don't suppose the wizard would care for that.

Floyd | field of blighted potatoes: That's fixed in place.
Floyd | under construction hotel: That's fixed in place.
Floyd | brand new lamp: Taken. (Nice!)
Floyd | inattentive nun: I don't suppose the inattentive nun would care for
Floyd | that.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "talk wizard"
Floyd | The wizard speaks, in an Irish brogue, "Time travelers from the
Floyd | future! Just as I predicted!" He grips you by the collar and shouts

Floyd | "It is vitally important that I teach copious amounts of magic spells

Floyd | so you can save the past!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Your brain shuts down in abject terror. The wizards softens, and says
Floyd | "Alright, alright, just one spell then. LAMP. It will light the way.
inky says (to Floyd), "x wizard"
Floyd | Use it wisely, my son."
Floyd |
Floyd | The wizard casts DAMP and disappears in a puff of moist air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You can't see any such thing (probably because you misspelled it).
Floyd |
Floyd | >
baf says (to Floyd), "lamp"
Floyd | What do you want to lamp?

Floyd |
Floyd | >
baf says (to Floyd), "lamp me"
Floyd | You have to get something before you can lamp it.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "lamp lamp"
Floyd | You lamp the lamp. The lamp lights up, and in the actinicest flash of
Floyd | all, you magically rematerialize in your hotel room.

Floyd |

Floyd | The door swings open. You resolve to find a less creepy hotel.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
baf says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd |     *** You have won ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 159 turns.
Floyd |

Floyd |

Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?

Floyd | >

dhakajack says, "Yay."
Lucea says, "yay"
inky says, "man dang"
Jacqueline says, "What a ride."
dhakajack says, "Love the way this game gradually revealed its list of spells, one leading to another."
inky says, "this isn't actually out of line from what I would expect from aaron and duncan"
(from Jacqueline) inky says, "man, this game"
inky says, "but it is still insane-o"
Touchy says, "wow...this was very well done"
Touchy asks, "How many people worked on this?"
Jacqueline says, "Yeah, it was great."
Lucea says, "indeed, this game was awesome"
maga says, "it was powered by beer and cackles"
DavidW says (to Touchy), "3"
Jacqueline says (to maga), "heehee"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit"
Floyd |
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." Jacqueline says, "oops"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxmidairmad"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | A train ride led to a taxi ride, which lead to a ride in the cleanest
Floyd | elevator you've ever seen, and ended with you here, in a plane over
Floyd | plains.  The Great Plains, to be exact, heading east in a private jet

Floyd | owned by your eccentric Uncle Doug.
Floyd |

Floyd | Now, after spending what seemed like hours watching a collection of
Floyd | even more eccentric talking people in the in-flight movie (something
Floyd | named "GET LAMP"), you find yourself wondering how a jet traveling
Floyd | near the speed of sound could be so completely silent.

Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | Midair Madness
Floyd | A 2010 PAX East SpeedIF Entry
Floyd | Copyright (c) 2010 by Paul J. Furio.
Floyd | Written remotely from Seattle, WA

Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 100327 / Inform v6.31 Library 6/11 S
Floyd |

Floyd | Rear Cabin
Floyd | The aft end of the aircraft.  The cabin continues foreward, which,
Floyd | based on the direction of travel, is also east.
Floyd |

Floyd | A small storage box is tucked away under one of the seats.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
dhakajack exclaims, "Hey -- Inform 6!"
Jacqueline says, "nice"
DavidW says, "yes."
Jacqueline says, "old skool"
dhakajack says, "extra credit, particularly for speed if"
Jacqueline says, "Back in the day we did it this way."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | As good-looking as ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "All my speedifs are in I6."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x box"
Floyd | You can't see inside, since the storage cabinet is closed.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take storage box"
Floyd | That's fixed in place.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open box"
Floyd | You open the storage cabinet, revealing a red bulb, a green bulb, a
Floyd | purple bulb, a left arrow card, a straight arrow card and a right
Floyd | arrow card.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | That's already open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Curious."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x red bulb"
Floyd | A small, red tinted light bulb
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x left"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd | A business card sized piece of plastic with a few notches in one side,
Floyd | and the image of a left-turn arrow upon it
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | storage cabinet: That's fixed in place.
Floyd | jet plane: That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from box"
Floyd | red bulb: Removed.
Floyd | green bulb: Removed.
Floyd | purple bulb: Removed.
Floyd | left arrow card: Removed.
Floyd | straight arrow card: Removed.
Floyd | right arrow card: Removed.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "rotate left arrow"
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x straight"
Floyd | A business card sized piece of plastic with a few notches in one side,
Floyd | and the image of a straight arrow upon it
Floyd |


Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x notches"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seat"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a right arrow card
Floyd |   a straight arrow card
Floyd |   a left arrow card


Floyd |   a purple bulb
Floyd |   a green bulb
Floyd |   a red bulb
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plane"
Floyd | A very nice personal jet plane.  Looking through the windows, you can
Floyd | notice that the landscape far below you is not moving.  In fact the
Floyd | engines are not even spinning, explaining the eerie silence.  It seems
Floyd | that the jet is simply stuck stationary in midair, tens of thousands


Floyd | of feet above the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "I suppose we go east?"
Jacqueline says, "huh"
Jacqueline says, "Sure"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Forward Cabin


Floyd | The fore end of the aircraft.  The cabin continues aft, which, based
Floyd | on the direction of travel, is also west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a refrigerator (which is closed) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | Cockpit
Floyd | The oddly empty cockpit is completely devoid of controls.  Only a
Floyd | solitary label reads "Autopilot", and a red light is blinking madly
Floyd | beneath it.
Floyd |


Floyd | Uncle Doug is standing here, looking out the windows nervously.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a black box (in which are a tray (which is empty) and
Floyd | a socket (which is empty)) and a mechanical mouse here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "whoops"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Forward Cabin
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |


Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Forward Cabin
Floyd | The fore end of the aircraft.  The cabin continues aft, which, based


Floyd | on the direction of travel, is also west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a refrigerator (which is closed) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x fridge"
Floyd | You can't see inside, since the refrigerator is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I bet there's lobster."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open fridge"
Floyd | You open the refrigerator, revealing a cooked lobster tail, a mango, a
Floyd | Fetuccini and a piece of black plastic.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "haha"
Jacqueline asks, "HOW DID YOU KNOW?"
DavidW says, "I've been on a plane before."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all from fridge"
Floyd | cooked lobster tail: Removed.
Floyd | mango: Removed.
Floyd | Fetuccini: Removed.
Floyd | piece of black plastic: Removed.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

dhakajack says (to Floyd), "enter refrigerator"
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x black"
Floyd | An 8 1/2" by 11" piece of paper-thin black plastic, with "450nm"

Floyd | inscribed in a tiny font in one corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Fridges containing lobsters are always on planes."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tail"
Floyd | You see nothing special about the cooked lobster tail.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

dhakajack says, "I think that would be red light."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mango"
Floyd | You see nothing special about the mango.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline asks, "nm... Nick Montfort? Nautical miles?"
dhakajack says, "nanometers"
Jacqueline says, "Or that."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fetuccini"
Floyd | Ah, Fetuccini.  Uncle Doug's favorite pasta dish, which is very much

Floyd | like fettuccini, but with less tea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heh"
inky says, "apparently it's violet/blue"
inky says, "(red is more like 620)"
inky says, "so I guess nick montfort *is* a good guess"
Touchy asks, "So we put the bulb in the socket and the thingy in the basket underneath?"
DavidW asks, "What socket? What basket?"
Touchy says, "I need to see if I can find that somewhere."
Jacqueline says (to inky), "No, it's just nm's shirt."
Touchy asks (of DavidW), "Wasn't there something like that in the cockpit?"
inky says (to DavidW), "stuff in the cockpit"
DavidW says, "We undid. We haven't been to any cockpit."
Jacqueline says, "Yeah, we could go to the cockpit now."
DavidW says, "I have read no cockpit description yet."
Jacqueline says, "I didn't mean to make us go double east. Sorry."
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Don't worry, me neither."
Jacqueline asks, "Shall we?"
DavidW says, "sure."
dhakajack says, "you're right... (I can pretend I was thinking terahertz....)"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Cockpit
Floyd | The oddly empty cockpit is completely devoid of controls.  Only a
Floyd | solitary label reads "Autopilot", and a red light is blinking madly
Floyd | beneath it.
Floyd |


Floyd | Uncle Doug is standing here, looking out the windows nervously.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a black box (in which are a tray (which is empty) and
Floyd | a socket (which is empty)) and a mechanical mouse here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x red light"
Floyd | A small, red tinted light bulb
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask doug about autopilot"
Floyd | "I don't want to talk about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask doug about plane"
Floyd | "I had to turn off the engines and cast an Anti-Gravity spell to keep
Floyd | us in the air! We can't land this jet!  It's crazy down there!  It's
Floyd | like the Revolutionary War and the Irish Potato Famine had a crazy
Floyd | loony baby and that baby made crazy baby poop all over the place!

Floyd | Who's going to clean up the crazy revolutionary potato baby poop?  Not

Floyd | me, that's for sure!"
Floyd | Perhaps the high altitude is having a bad effect on Uncle Doug.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha"
Jacqueline says, "HA"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mouse"
Floyd | A tiny robot mouse, with three business card shaped slots on the top,
Floyd | each labeled "first", "second", and "third".

Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh dear."
Jacqueline says, "yay"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tray"
Floyd | The tray is empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "this looks like it is actually going to be hard"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give fetuccini to uncle"
Floyd | Uncle Doug doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Well, we tell it which direction to go, right?"
Jacqueline asks, "With the cards?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a piece of black plastic
Floyd |   a Fetuccini

Floyd |   a mango

Floyd |   a cooked lobster tail
Floyd |   a right arrow card
Floyd |   a straight arrow card
Floyd |   a left arrow card
Floyd |   a purple bulb

Floyd |   a green bulb

Floyd |   a red bulb
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x poop"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says, "I betyou put them in the mouse"
inky asks, "yeah, but why?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look through window" Touchy asks, "but we don't want it to go anywhere, do we?"
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "I don't know what the mouse does yet, but I assume we program it with the cards, yes."
Jacqueline says, "Well, I was hoping there was a poop maze."
inky says (to Floyd), "x autopilot"
Floyd | A red light.  It's blinking.  Madly.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

inky says, "ha ha"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put fetuccini on tray"
Floyd | That won't fit in the tray.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "put paper on tray"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put black on tray"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (the piece of black plastic on the tray)
Floyd | Putting things on the tray would achieve nothing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "My original thought was that we'd be using the cards in the mouse to negotiate the poop maze, but sadly I am wrong."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put black in tray"
Floyd | (the piece of black plastic in the tray)

Floyd | You put the piece of black plastic into the tray.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "x black plastic"
Floyd | An 8 1/2" by 11" piece of paper-thin black plastic, with "450nm"
Floyd | inscribed in a tiny font in one corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "ON vs IN again."
inky says (to Floyd), "x red light"
Floyd | A small, red tinted light bulb
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "x mouse"
Floyd | A tiny robot mouse, with three business card shaped slots on the top,
Floyd | each labeled "first", "second", and "third".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "get red light"
Floyd | You already have that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mouse"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "x socket"
inky says (to Floyd), "get red light from autopilot"
Floyd | The socket is empty.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put mouse on black"
Floyd | (the black box)

Floyd | Putting things on the black box would achieve nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "put mouse in tray"
Floyd | That won't fit in the tray.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box"
Floyd | A two foot square cube, with a mouse-shaped platform on top, and a
Floyd | chute at the bottom. A gooseneck extends above the box, with a

Floyd | light-bulb type socket at the end.  Below the box is a paper sized
Floyd | tray.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask uncle about box"
Floyd | "I don't want to talk about that."
Floyd |

Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "ask uncle about poop"
Floyd | "I don't want to talk about that."
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "put blue light in socket"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gooseneck"
Floyd | The socket is empty.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "put blue in socket"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "put purple in socket"
Floyd | You screw the purple bulb into the socket, casting a purpleglow across
Floyd | the black box.You hear a brief sizzling sound from the tray, but it
Floyd | ends quickly.
Floyd | You put the purple bulb into the socket.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says, "I'm not sure I understand the layout of ...everything here."
inky says, "hmm"
Jacqueline says, "Hm. Sizzling is bad."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tray"
Floyd | In the tray is a developed film.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x film"
Floyd | An 8 1/2" by 11" piece of paper-thin clear plastic, with the following
Floyd | image imprinted upon it:
Floyd | *****
Floyd | *F* *

Floyd | *   *

Floyd | **S**
Floyd | *****
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says, "hehe"
Touchy says, "sizzling be good"
Jacqueline says, "hm"
inky asks, "I guess we need to expose it to all the colors?"
dhakajack says, "start > finish"
Jacqueline says, "Evidently."
inky says (to dhakajack), "oh, that makes sense"
inky says, "so the open space is actually open space"
Doug says, "Uncle Me!"
inky asks, "so we should go forward, left, right?"
DavidW says, "I don't understand the film image."
dhakajack says, "yeah, I think so."
Touchy asks, "So..forward left forward goes the mouse?"
Touchy says, "ah..right..of course"
Jacqueline says (to inky), "Yes"
Touchy says, "Seen from within the mouse. Clever inky."
Jacqueline says, "Let's try that."
DavidW asks, "S is Start, F is Finish?"
Touchy gives inky a treat.
Jacqueline says (to DW), "We think, yeah."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put straight card in first slot"
Floyd | You put the straight arrow card into the first slot.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put left card in second slot"
Floyd | You put the left arrow card into the second slot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "put right card in third slot"
Floyd | You put the right arrow card into the third slot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put mouse on box"
Floyd | Putting things on the black box would achieve nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put mouse in box"
Floyd | You put the mechanical mouse into the black box.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says, "OK so kudos for the puzzles. Love it. It's like the incredible machine in text."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mouse"
Floyd | A tiny robot mouse, with three business card shaped slots on the top,
Floyd | each labeled "first", "second", and "third".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW asks, "Where's the on switch?"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "put mouse on gooseneck"
Floyd | You need to be holding the mechanical mouse before you can put it on
Floyd | top of something else.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "get mouse"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "put mouse on gooseneck"
Floyd | You can't put the mechanical mouse in the socket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Cockpit
Floyd | The oddly empty cockpit is completely devoid of controls.  Only a
Floyd | solitary label reads "Autopilot", and a red light is blinking madly


Floyd | beneath it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Doug is standing here, looking out the windows nervously.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in socket"
Floyd |


Floyd | You can also see a black box (in which are a tray (in which is a
Floyd | developed film) and a socket (in which is a purple bulb)) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | In the socket is a purple bulb.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
JayBot asks, "Just turn it on?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on mouse"
Floyd | That's not something you can switch.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "put mouse on tray"
Floyd | That won't fit in the tray.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "ask uncle about mouse"
Floyd | "I don't want to talk about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "put mouse in box"
Floyd | You put the mechanical mouse into the black box.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "push autopilot"
Floyd | You are unable to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "x mouse"
Floyd | A tiny robot mouse, with three business card shaped slots on the top,
Floyd | each labeled "first", "second", and "third".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on autopilot"
Floyd | That's not something you can switch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red light"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "turn mouse on"
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | That's not something you can switch.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take red light"
Floyd | You already have that.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "push mouse"
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a Fetuccini

Floyd |   a mango
Floyd |   a cooked lobster tail

Floyd |   a green bulb
Floyd |   a red bulb
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "put green bulb in socket"
Floyd | You screw the green bulb into the socket, casting a purpleglow across
Floyd | the black box.You put the green bulb into the socket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "good thing Limax isn't here or his head would explode."
Touchy says, "argh....go mouse go"
Jacqueline says, "hrm"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take purple"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take green"
Floyd | Taken.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "put green in socket"
Floyd | You screw the green bulb into the socket, casting a purpleglow across

Floyd | the black box.You put the green bulb into the socket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "take green"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put purple in socket"
Floyd | You screw the purple bulb into the socket, casting a purpleglow across
Floyd | the black box.You put the purple bulb into the socket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy asks, "What's with the colors?"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "get blue"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take purple"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put blue in socket"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

(from Rob) <tuba playing sad trombone wah-wah-wahh>
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Cockpit
Floyd | The oddly empty cockpit is completely devoid of controls.  Only a
Floyd | solitary label reads "Autopilot", and a red light is blinking madly

Floyd | beneath it.

Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Doug is standing here, looking out the windows nervously.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a black box (in which are a mechanical mouse, a tray
Floyd | (in which is a developed film) and a socket (which is empty)) here.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put red in socket"
Floyd | You screw the red bulb into the socket, casting a redglow across the
Floyd | black box.You put the red bulb into the socket.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open window"
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box"
Floyd | A two foot square cube, with a mouse-shaped platform on top, and a
Floyd | chute at the bottom. A gooseneck extends above the box, with a
Floyd | light-bulb type socket at the end.  Below the box is a paper sized

Floyd | tray.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "x platform"
Floyd | You see nothing special about the platform.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x chute"
Floyd | The chute is empty.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "get mouse"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "get mouse"
Floyd | You already have that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "put mouse on platform"
Floyd | The platform descends into the black box, taking the mechanical mouse
Floyd | with it. From within the box, you hear a series of whirs and bumping
Floyd | noises, followed by a triumphant bell ringing. A scroll is deposited
Floyd | into the chute below the box.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "put it on platform"
Floyd | You can't see "it" (the mechanical mouse) at the moment.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
Touchy says, "duh"
DavidW says, "ah"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take scroll"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read scroll"
Floyd | The scroll reads "Know ye that if Gravity's Grasp has been released

Floyd | from an object, to restore it one must speak the spell GNILLAF at
Floyd | thine object"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy asks, "Where did that box come from?"
Touchy says, "Me be vewy confuthed."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from socket"
Floyd | Removed.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open box"
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mouse"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mouse"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box"
Floyd | A two foot square cube, with a mouse-shaped platform on top, and a
Floyd | chute at the bottom. A gooseneck extends above the box, with a
Floyd | light-bulb type socket at the end.  Below the box is a paper sized

Floyd | tray.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "GNILLAF plane"
Floyd | You cast the Gnillaf spell on the jet plane.  As Gravity once again
Floyd | takes hold, the autopilot kicks in, firing up the jet engines and
Floyd | guiding piloting the plane safely on to it's final destination at
Floyd | Boston's Logan International Airport.

Floyd | Uncle Doug calms down once he exits the plane, and is met by another
Floyd | extremely tall bearded man.  "Steve!" shouts Uncle Doug.  The two

Floyd | friends embrace, and then Doug turns to you.  "Steve, I want to
Floyd | introduce you to a very clever relative of mine..."
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |     *** You have won ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 97 turns.

Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?

Floyd | >
dhakajack says, "wow"
Touchy says, "hm.."
Jacqueline says, "That felt like a CYOA for some reason."
inky says, "this game was confusing"
Touchy says, "cut short in the end"
Jacqueline says, "I think it was the implausible plot and ending."
Touchy asks, "cyoa?"
DavidW says, "oh. I thought there was more to do."
Alex says (to Touchy), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that CYOA is Cover Your Own Ass."
Touchy says, "mkay"
Jacqueline says (to Alex), "Ha, no."
Alex exclaims (at Jacqueline), "Awwwk! You're a great crowd! I'll be here all night -- try the tarte au chocolat aux cork nuts!"
Jacqueline says, "Choose Your Own Adventure."
Jacqueline says, "But ha ha Gunther for programming Alex to say that."
JayBot exclaims, "I6!"
Touchy exclaims, "Still, yay for the remote maze!"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit"
Floyd |
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" Jacqueline asks, "Another?"
Touchy says, "It's like rc car in gta or mousebot in jedi knight. Somehow awesome."
Touchy says, "Sure."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxsafehouse"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | You just had to play it safe, didn't you? You had to build your
Floyd | bunker-buster resistant bunker, save up years of canned fettucini and

Floyd | bottled water, and stow yourself a hundred feet underground. Now why
Floyd | did you go and do all that without giving yourself something to do for
Floyd | the next 30 years? It's only been two hours and you're bored out of

Floyd | your mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | But the worst part is that you forgot your spellbook, and you're going

Floyd | through a major case of magic withdrawl right now. God, how could you
Floyd | forget such a thing? At least you remember some of your spells.
Floyd |

Floyd | Safehouse
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Benjamin Sokal
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 100327 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib

Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Safehouse

Floyd | Your safehouse is truly a feng-shui nightmare come true. Mother
Floyd | screamed and fainted when she first saw the thing. You prefer to think
Floyd | about your safehouse as a collection of objects so as not to be thrown

Floyd | off kilter by the arrangement: Your suped up Apple iie computer forms
Floyd | the centerpiece of the room. An arrangement of cans are stacked
Floyd | against the wall, forming a pyramid.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oops. Safehouse is one word. I'll have to fix ifwiki."
JayBot says (to Floyd), "x cans"
Floyd | Yum. Too bad you forgot your can opener.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   some mangoes
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "x computer"
Floyd | You call it "your precious". It is currently off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | Your name is Jones. You enjoy video games, 80s movies, and long walks
Floyd | on the beach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Oh I hope this is a Seventh Guest puzzle!"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "spells"
Floyd | You are the master of the following spells:
Floyd | frotz:   The frotz spell causes spherical objects to quiver.
Floyd | gnusto:   The gnusto spell causes great gusts of wind.

Floyd | nitfol:   The nitfol spell does something completely different.

Floyd | power up:   The power up spell is used exclusively to power up Apple
Floyd | computers built in 1983 or 1984.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy asks, "seventh guest?"
inky says, "this person is pretty careless"
inky says (to Floyd), "power up computer"
Floyd | The computer beeps and begins to power up. Suddenly you are thrown
Floyd | upwards against the ceiling. As your face is about to meet the cold

Floyd | wet stone, you have just enough time to chastise yourself for powering

Floyd | up the computer without removing the gravity reversal spell from it.
Floyd | You also notice that the computer hits the ceiling at exactly the same
Floyd | time (thank you Galileo Galilei), and as the computer crashes into the
Floyd | ceiling the enchantment is broken. You plummet back down to the
Floyd | ground.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "A graphic adventure famous for its soup can puzzle."
Jacqueline asks (of inky), "How so?"
Touchy says, "hm..goes on the list."
inky says, "I mean, they locked themselves into a bunker without their spellbook or their can opener"
inky says (to Floyd), "nitfol computer"
Floyd | You cast nitfol at the computer, but nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "True enough."
inky says (to Floyd), "nitfol ceiling"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "eat mangoes"
Floyd | You forgot the spells that would make eating a mango less messy, and
Floyd | you don't have any napkins here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "Mangoes are spherical, I suppose."
JayBot says (to Floyd), "x computer"
Floyd | You call it "your precious". It is currently off. Also, it is
Floyd | completely smashed to bits.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Maybe we weren't supposed to destroy the computer?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "frotz mangos"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "frotz mangoes"
Floyd | You cast frotz at the mangoes, but nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline asks, "Sort of the 'learn through failure restart try again' thing?"
inky says, "oh, whoops"
inky says, "yeah, that was probably a mistake"
inky says (to Floyd), "turn on computer"
Floyd | There's no power to it and nowhere to plug it in. You usually just
Floyd | cast "power up" and it gives the computer enough power for a few
Floyd | hours.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "power up computer"
Floyd | The computer beeps and begins to power up. Suddenly you are thrown
Floyd | upwards against the ceiling. As your face is about to meet the cold
Floyd | wet stone, you have just enough time to chastise yourself for powering
Floyd | up the computer without removing the gravity reversal spell from it.


Floyd | You also notice that the computer hits the ceiling at exactly the same
Floyd | time (thank you Galileo Galilei), and as the computer crashes into the
Floyd | ceiling the enchantment is broken. You plummet back down to the
Floyd | ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "hmm"
Jacqueline says, "Oh."
Touchy says, "Nope, still good. :"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:

Floyd |   some mangoes
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mangoes"
Floyd | Mangoes.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "nitfol me"
Floyd | A voice whispers in your ear, "Lead with your nose and all will be
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cans"
Floyd | well."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Yum. Too bad you forgot your can opener.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Benjor exclaims, "back!"
JayBot says (to Floyd), "smell mangos"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Benjor exclaims, "wait, ANOTHER plane game?!? wow!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell"
Floyd | The room smells damp and a lot like canned fetticini alfredo.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell mangoes"
Floyd | The room smells damp and a lot like canned fetticini alfredo.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell fettucini"
Floyd | The room smells damp and a lot like canned fetticini alfredo.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Benjor), "Yeah, after that Lobsters on a Plane movie, everybody wants to be Samuel L Jackson."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cans"
Floyd | You would rather lift things with your lifting spell. Unfortunately
Floyd | you can't remember how it goes. Why did they have to make such a basic
Floyd | spell so hard to pronounce? Oh well, maybe it'll come to you at a

Floyd | later time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "smell me"
Floyd | The room smells damp and a lot like canned fetticini alfredo.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy asks, "Plane? Where?"
Alex says (to Touchy), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that a plane is three non-colinear points -- or, a line and a point."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nose"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "Last game."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "spells"
Floyd | You are the master of the following spells:
Floyd | frotz:   The frotz spell causes spherical objects to quiver.

Floyd | gnusto:   The gnusto spell causes great gusts of wind.
Floyd | nitfol:   The nitfol spell does something completely different.
Floyd | power up:   The power up spell is used exclusively to power up Apple
Floyd | computers built in 1983 or 1984.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nitfol cans"
Floyd | You cast nitfol at the cans of fettucini, but nothing happens.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "nitfol mangoes"
Floyd | You cast nitfol at the mangoes, but nothing happens.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "nitfol computer"
inky says (to Floyd), "gnusto cans"
Floyd | You cast nitfol at the computer, but nothing happens.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | The cans topple over with a big crash. You notice a hatch that was
Floyd | hidden behind them. Ah, so that's where the exit is.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "frotz mangoes"
Floyd | You cast frotz at the mangoes, but nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "open hatch"
Floyd | The extreme Actinic rays would kill you if you did that. Try waiting a
Floyd | few hundred years, and then it may be safer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

dhakajack says, "champ hatch"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wait 500 years"
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to wait.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "frotz mangoes"
Floyd | You cast frotz at the mangoes, but nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says, "he"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wait"
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "open hatch"
Floyd | The extreme Actinic rays would kill you if you did that. Try waiting a
Floyd | few hundred years, and then it may be safer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "nitfol hatch"
Floyd | You cast nitfol at the hatch, but nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hatch"
Floyd | You see nothing special about the hatch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rays"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "look"
Floyd | Safehouse
Floyd | Your safehouse is truly a feng-shui nightmare come true. Mother
Floyd | screamed and fainted when she first saw the thing. You prefer to think
Floyd | about your safehouse as a collection of objects so as not to be thrown

Floyd | off kilter by the arrangement: Your suped up Apple iie computer forms
Floyd | the centerpiece of the room. Behind a fallen tower of cans is a sealed

Floyd | hatch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cans"
Floyd | You would rather lift things with your lifting spell. Unfortunately

Floyd | you can't remember how it goes. Why did they have to make such a basic
Floyd | spell so hard to pronounce? Oh well, maybe it'll come to you at a
Floyd | later time.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x objects"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "I'm not really sure of our goals here or anything"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x computer"
Floyd | You call it "your precious". It is currently off. Also, it is

Floyd | completely smashed to bits.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear computer"
Floyd | (first taking the computer)
Floyd | You would rather lift things with your lifting spell. Unfortunately
Floyd | you can't remember how it goes. Why did they have to make such a basic
Floyd | spell so hard to pronounce? Oh well, maybe it'll come to you at a

Floyd | later time.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "spells"
Floyd | You are the master of the following spells:

Floyd | frotz:   The frotz spell causes spherical objects to quiver.
Floyd | gnusto:   The gnusto spell causes great gusts of wind.

Floyd | nitfol:   The nitfol spell does something completely different.
Floyd | power up:   The power up spell is used exclusively to power up Apple
Floyd | computers built in 1983 or 1984.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I was hoping since it was Our Precious we could somehow wear it and be invisible and see the Eye."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "power up computer"
Floyd | The computer beeps and begins to power up. Suddenly you are thrown
Floyd | upwards against the ceiling. As your face is about to meet the cold

Floyd | wet stone, you have just enough time to chastise yourself for powering

Floyd | up the computer without removing the gravity reversal spell from it.
Floyd | You also notice that the computer hits the ceiling at exactly the same
Floyd | time (thank you Galileo Galilei), and as the computer crashes into the
Floyd | ceiling the enchantment is broken. You plummet back down to the
Floyd | ground.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "nitfol computer"
Floyd | You cast nitfol at the computer, but nothing happens.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "gnusto cans"
Floyd | The cans topple over with a big crash. You notice a hatch that was
Floyd | hidden behind them. Ah, so that's where the exit is.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "nitfol ceiling"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

dhakajack says (to Floyd), "nitfol hatch"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "gnusto comptuer"
Floyd | You cast nitfol at the hatch, but nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "nitfol cans"
Floyd | You cast nitfol at the cans of fettucini, but nothing happens.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "nitfol me"
Floyd | You cast the spell again, but nothing happens this time.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "frotz hatch"
Floyd | You cast frotz at the hatch, but nothing happens.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "gnusto computer"
Floyd | You cast gnusto at the computer, but nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "x hatch"
Floyd | You see nothing special about the hatch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "gnusto me"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open hatch"
Floyd | You cast gnusto at yourself, but nothing happens.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The extreme Actinic rays would kill you if you did that. Try waiting a
Floyd | few hundred years, and then it may be safer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

dhakajack says (to Floyd), "go out"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "exit"
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm."
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "enter hatch"
Floyd | The extreme Actinic rays would kill you if you did that. Try waiting a
Floyd | few hundred years, and then it may be safer.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Safehouse
Floyd | Your safehouse is truly a feng-shui nightmare come true. Mother
Floyd | screamed and fainted when she first saw the thing. You prefer to think

Floyd | about your safehouse as a collection of objects so as not to be thrown
Floyd | off kilter by the arrangement: Your suped up Apple iie computer forms
Floyd | the centerpiece of the room. Behind a fallen tower of cans is a sealed

Floyd | hatch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "search cans"
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search computer"
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   some mangoes
Floyd |

Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "drop mangoes"
Floyd | Mango say no to that!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat mangoes"
Floyd | You forgot the spells that would make eating a mango less messy, and
Floyd | you don't have any napkins here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Ellison says, ">RICHARD HATCH"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell mangoes"
Floyd | The room smells damp and a lot like canned fetticini alfredo.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "gnusto mangoes"
Floyd | You cast gnusto at the mangoes, but nothing happens.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nitfol mangoes"
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "nitfol mangoes"
Floyd | You cast nitfol at the mangoes, but nothing happens.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You cast nitfol at the mangoes, but nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "frotz mangoes"
Floyd | You cast frotz at the mangoes, but nothing happens.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd | Yes, yes, this spell would solve ALL your problems. Unfortunately it
Floyd | is very hard to pronounce correctly. Most people simply guess, with

Floyd | the result being pretty random depending on the spellcaster's
Floyd | environment. You know what the spell really does when worked properly.

Floyd | Of course, you could could give it a try even without your
Floyd | spellbook...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "powerup mangos"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd | A spherical blue portal rises out of the ground. It shifts left and
Floyd | right a few times, then seems to come to an equalibrium.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to dhakajack), "hooray"
inky says (to Floyd), "enter portral"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "enter portal"
Floyd | Bang! Upon entering the gateway, you hear a bang and then the rush of
Floyd | air as a bullet barely misses your right ear. Then, a musket to the
Floyd | chin. "Vous ?tes qui?" The revolutionary officer asks.
Floyd |


Floyd | Shit.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** The game has ended. Poorly. ***
Floyd |


Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 63 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Jack), "Our hero"
dhakajack says, "I'm a little surprised that worked... if it did."
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Safehouse

Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]

Floyd |
Floyd | >
dhakajack says, "huh."
inky says, "...weird"
inky says (to Floyd), "frotz portal"
Floyd | The gateway quivers, then comes to a rest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "enter portal"
Floyd | You begin to enter the gateway, but are assaulted by the odor
Floyd | of...lobster? You've never smelled lobster this strong before, and
Floyd | decide it may not be the best move to enter the portal now. You're
Floyd | allergic to shellfish, after all.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "frotz portal"
Floyd | The gateway quivers, then comes to a rest.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "enter portal"
Floyd | As you enter the portal, you smell diesel fuel. When you find yourself

Floyd | in the middle of a bustling airplane terminal, it makes sense. Taxis
Floyd | beep their horns outside and a plane takes off somewhere in the
Floyd | distance. An elevator behind you beeps and then opens, revealing a

Floyd | very brightly chap and a poodle who is dressed as a train. A queue of
Floyd | people snake all around you in a nearly random fashion. The bright man
Floyd | and his poodle plunge straight into the middle of one of the lines.

Floyd | Someone starts to complain but then the poodle bares her teeth,
Floyd | quieting them. You follow the man and his poodle, trying to make it
Floyd | appear you know where you're going.

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |     *** The game has ended. You can do better. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 66 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell portal"
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.

Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
inky says (to Floyd), "smell portal"
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.

Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |

Doug says, "huh, apparently if I wait long enough, the mud output eventually does reach me. This last lag was long enough for a complete game to be played"
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Safehouse
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "smell portal"
Floyd | There is a smell eminating from the blue gateway. It smells like
Floyd | gasoline fuel.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "frotz portal"
Floyd | The gateway quivers, then comes to a rest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "smell portal"
Floyd | There is a smell eminating from the blue gateway. It smells arid and
Floyd | vaguely of disease.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "frotz portal"
Floyd | The gateway quivers, then comes to a rest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "smell portal"
Floyd | There is a smell eminating from the blue gateway. It smells like
Floyd | popcorn!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "!"
Ellison says, "huh"
DavidW says, "That sounds good."
inky says (to Floyd), "enter portal"
Floyd | Smells like popcorn. You enter the gateway...and find yourself in a
Floyd | crowded movie theatre. Normally you would cringe at this many people
Floyd | conglomerated together at once, but not today - on the screen in front
Floyd | of you is the film "Get Lamp", and it's just beginning. Perfect!
Floyd |

Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |     *** The game has ended. Good job. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 71 turns.

Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heehee"
inky says, "hooray"
Jacqueline says, "Popcorn ftw!"
dhakajack says, "Like the multiple endings."
inky asks, "was 'get lamp' one of the speedif items?"
Jacqueline says, "Yes"
DavidW says, "yes"
inky asks, "so, er, was everything in this game pointless except guessng to use xyzzy?"
DavidW says, "not sure"
inky says, "and I guess using frotz on the portal"
dhakajack says, "I guess that blowing the cans around was intended to show that you couldn't exit that way."
dhakajack says, "And there was a hint that some difficult-to-pronounce magic word was important."
DavidW says, "Some speedifs are like that; they have useless content just to satisfy the conditions given."
Jacqueline says, "The constraints, again, for those playing along at home, were:"
Jacqueline | Spellcasting; Travel trains, plains, taxis, elevators; Gravity changes; Lobster; GET LAMP movie; Mangoes; Fetuccini; Actinic; Queue maze; Irish Potato Famine; Revolutionary War
dhakajack says, "Constraints is too harsh -- let's say.... guidelines..."
zarf asks, "is that more or fewer topics than the typical mud-mediated speedif?"
Jacqueline says (to Jack), "Well, yes."
DavidW says (to zarf), "more"
Jacqueline says (to z), "Yeah, seems like more."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q"
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |

Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit"
Floyd |

Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" maga says, "a little high, but not beyond standard deviation"
JayBot asks, "Which one's nexT?"
Jacqueline says (to maga), "You've done the stats? Excellent."
zarf says, "okay, then I don't feel bad about dropping a big "that's enough" hint when Dave was picking 'em :)"
Ellison says, "I think Dave always likes to go heavy on topics, and other people like to go on the side of fewer"
Jacqueline says, "Next shall be... either Lobster or Vortex."
Jacqueline says, "Vortex is short."
Jacqueline says, "Not sure about Lobster."
JayBot asks, "What's VW's called?"
Jacqueline says, "SpeedIF."
Benjor gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop.
Benjor arrives, ready to play with the toys. dhakajack says, "Likely less short. On the plus side... you might die quickly."
Benjor says, "hm"
DavidW says, "VW's is PAX East 2010 Speed IF, I think."
Jacqueline says, "Which is why I put 'vw' in the title."
Dave has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. inky says, "I guess benjor's is here"
maga says, "hmm, maybe I should do another Jacket sometime"
inky says, "er, benjor is here"
Benjor says, "I fell off somehow"
Benjor says, "back now."
Jacqueline says (to Benjor), "Gotta hold on to the wagon, buddy."
Benjor says, "but if you guys are burned out, that's ok too"
Jacqueline says, "Nah, I'm good."
Jacqueline says, "Given that the plot keeps changing, I'm fine."
inky asks, "how many do we have left?"
Jacqueline says, "Lessee..."
Jacqueline says, "4"
Jacqueline says, "So we should either hold off or go fer it, methinks."
Jacqueline says, "And I am actually in favor of goin' fer it."
Benjor asks, "are we the last game?"
Jacqueline says (to Benjor), "In theory you're the next game, though it totally matters not."
inky says, "let's go for it!"
inky says, "I mean, goooooo for it"
Touchy says, "hell yeah"
Jacqueline asks (of Benjor), "Can we do yours and Jack's now? Or do you have to make more peepsushi?"
Benjor says, "I'm back and ready"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxlobster"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | There is an actinic flash. The seat belt signs illuminate. On the

Floyd | overhead speakers, the pilot mechanically reassures the passengers
Floyd | that the minor turbulence is no cause for concern. A second, more

Floyd | abrupt crash and the plane lurches. Air masks drop. An overhead
Floyd | baggage bin flies open, and lobsters pour out. Ignoring the passengers
Floyd | in your section, you let the food cart topple forward, the potatoes au
Floyd | gratin mixing with the fettuccine and mango compote. You climb towards

Floyd | the lavatory and throw the latch from "vacant" to "occupied." The
Floyd | plane revolves slowly -- pushing you towards the wall -- even as the

Floyd | sudden loss of altitude makes you feel lighter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lobsters On A Plane
Floyd | Parboiled crustaceans at 30,000 feet by Ben and Jack

Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 100403 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib
Floyd | 6/12N) SD

Floyd | Type "help" for instructions.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lavatory
Floyd | A claustrophobic vertical coffin, lit by blue-tinted fluorescent bulbs

Floyd | and smelling of disinfectant. A uselessly small vestigial sink, a
Floyd | unisex toilet, and a mirror are the only furnishings in the room. Your

Floyd | uncanny (yet invariably useful) sense of direction tells you that the
Floyd | aft compartment of the plane is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a bathroom door and a sink (empty) here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Benjor says, "to watch and grin"
inky says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | Four-hundred and eighty-six years, and you look like a supermodel.

Floyd | That's partly due to your inherently superior breeding, and partly
Floyd | attributable to the plastic surgery, cybernetic implants and magical

Floyd | enhancements all courtesy of The Republic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost slip as the plane pulls up suddenly. Good thing you had the
Floyd | mango compote for lunch and not the fettucine.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Johnny says (to Floyd), "help"
Floyd | You make the sigil in the air with your wand... but nothing happens.
Floyd | It's like there is no resistance at all in the ethereal fabric. You

Floyd | are cut off. On your own.

Floyd |
Floyd | Except for the carnivorous lobsters.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "crikey"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a pair of high-heeled shoes (being worn)
Floyd |   a flight attendant uniform (being worn)

Floyd |   a magic wand

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "oho"
inky says (to Floyd), "x shoes"
Limax arrives, full of fun and funk.
Floyd | Shiny, high-heeled shoes. Part of the TRANSGLOBAL AIRLINES uniform.
Floyd | Your least favorite part.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "x uniform"
Floyd | A dark blue pants suit, with smart, military-style epaulets, a stripe
Floyd | down each sleeve, and gold embroidery on the cuffs. A pair of silver
Floyd | wings is pinned to your left breast, just below your name tag. The
Floyd | pressed, pleated pants continue the faux-military look. You are

Floyd | surprised that TRANSGLOBAL AIRLINES spent so much time and effort on

Floyd | designing the uniforms and so little effort verifying your identity
Floyd | before handing it over to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Above the chaos in the plane's cabin, you can just make out the
Floyd | automated message, "Please turn off all electronic devices including

Floyd | cell phones and two-way pagers. The flight crew will instruct...

Floyd |
Floyd | It's got my eye! My eye! I can't see! Get it off me! Get it off me!
Floyd |
Floyd | ...thank you for complying with these regulations, which contribute to
Floyd | everyone's safety." The rest is lost in the screaming.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
Limax asks, "What have I missed?"
DavidW asks, "Are we a Magical Girl?"
Jacqueline says (to Limax), "Sigh"
inky says, "I think we are more a magical space alien"
Limax says (to Jacqueline), "Okay, you don't have to answer"
Jacqueline says (to Limax), "Nothing much. Two hours of speed IFs. Five games thus far."
Ellison says, "ha ha my eye"
Limax says, "Okay. HTat's all I was wondering"
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Limax says, "Was how many games"
inky says (to Ellison), "it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wand"
Floyd | Your wand is a mid-19th century Celtic model, passed down to you on
Floyd | your Father's side (who used it to conjure food during the great Irish
Floyd | Potato Famine). It appears to be broken in the disaster, though;
Floyd | you'll have to take a second look.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the sound of metal scraping against metal.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Doug says (to Limax), "You missed a game featuring an "Uncle Doug""
Ellison says, "this is why inventory management is important!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wand"
inky says (to Floyd), "x wand"
Floyd | Once capable of casting nearly any class-N spell, the spell-selector
Floyd | dial seems utterly broken. You're unsure what will happen when you USE
Floyd | WAND ON SOMETHING.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | Once capable of casting nearly any class-N spell, the spell-selector
Floyd | dial seems utterly broken. You're unsure what will happen when you USE
Floyd | WAND ON SOMETHING.
Floyd |


Floyd | From the cabin you hear someone trying to reason with a carnivorous
Floyd | lobster.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "hmm"
inky says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Lavatory
Floyd | A tight, poorly lit, aircraft bathroom. Ordinarily, a welcome refuge
Floyd | from the demanding mortal customers who need to use planes to move
Floyd | from one place to another, but now a safe haven from the carnivorous


Floyd | lobsters infesting the plane. The mirror, toilet, paper roll, and
Floyd | smoke detector are unremarkable. Your uncanny (yet invariably useful)
Floyd | sense of direction tells you that the aft compartment of the plane is
Floyd | to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a bathroom door and a sink (empty) here.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Limax asks (of Doug), "Was that you, or me?"
inky asks, "is our plan just to hang out here until the lobsters kill everyone?"
inky says (to Floyd), "x sink"
Floyd | A small metal bowl with two knobs, marked "hot" and "cold", and a
Floyd | faucet. The sink is bone dry.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a plaintive whine from the motors that are supposed to lower
Floyd | the landing gears. Back when the plane had landing gears.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on sink"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you witness the PUSH
Floyd | spell, which sends things to limbo.
Floyd |


Floyd | The sink suddenly blinks out of existence!
Floyd |
Floyd | The plane whips back and forth, as if the rudder controls are no
Floyd | longer working properly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug asks, "are we a Highlander?"
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Lavatory
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |


Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on sink"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you witness the PUSH
Floyd | spell, which sends things to limbo.
Floyd |


Floyd | The sink suddenly blinks out of existence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Lavatory


Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "use wand on toilet"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you witness the PUSH


Floyd | spell, which sends things to limbo.
Floyd |
Floyd | The toilet suddenly blinks out of existence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky asks, "maybe our goal is to survive the plane crash?"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on me"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you realize it's the
Floyd | BALANCE spell, which summons elements to even out a situation.
Floyd |


Floyd | You hear a strange tingling sound; a large cod fish suddenly
Floyd | materializes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha"
Jacqueline asks, "Or PUSH the lobsters?"
inky says (to Floyd), "get fish"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "get cod"
Floyd | You're sure it would snap your fingers off if you tried!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "x cod"
Floyd | A three-foot long, reddish-brown predatory fish. You guess it weighs
Floyd | at least 25 pounds, and it appears fairly mean and hungry. Crustaceans
Floyd | are its main food. It is not happy to be out of the water.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
Benjor says, "try 'use wand on something'"
inky says (to Floyd), "open door"
Floyd | You rattle the door, but it won't open.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "unlock door"
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the bathroom door with?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "push door"
Floyd | The door doesn't fold that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "pull latch"
Floyd | You yank back and forth on the latch, when you realize that what you
Floyd | really want to do is just open or close it. Clearly, your mind is too
Floyd | powerful for the trivial devices that clutter the meaningless
Floyd | existence of mortals.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "open latch"
Floyd | The latch slips to the side.
Floyd |


Floyd | The plane whips back and forth, as if the rudder controls are no
Floyd | longer working properly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "open door"
Floyd | You open the bathroom door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "wait"
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "push cod"
Floyd | That would be less than courteous.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "point wand at cod"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
Limax asks, "Can we eat the cod?"
inky says (to Floyd), "wave wand at cod"
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to wave the magic wand.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on cod"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you discover it's
Floyd | the JIGGER spell, which un-jams things.

Floyd |

Floyd | The cod vibrates a bit, but nothing else happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cod struggles on the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "use. USE is the verb."
inky says, "hmm"
Limax asks, "Whoever heard of using use?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Lavatory

Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "use wand on door"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you discover it's

Floyd | the JIGGER spell, which un-jams things.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bathroom door vibrates a bit, but nothing else happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

dhakajack says, "use is useful"
Fang arrives, full of neither funk nor fun.
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You stumble and lurch, unable to maintain your tip-toed balance on the

Floyd | sloping floor. Your shoes may be fashionable, but are not very

Floyd | functional when it comes to airplane disasters.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang asks, "hmm, how much have I missed?"
inky says (to Floyd), "remove shoes"
Floyd | You take off the high-heeled shoes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "remove shoes"
Floyd | You're not wearing those.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are thrown against the wall as the plane pitches over violently.
Floyd | The harried passengers are whipped to an ever more desperate state of

Floyd | alarm.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "we just started this one"
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, ">FROTZ MANGOES"
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |

Floyd | Tail Section
Floyd | A cramped storage section in the rear of the plane, where, if you
Floyd | remember correctly, some emergency supplies are supposed to be stored.
Floyd | The floor slopes upward to the economy section. The emergency escape

Floyd | hatch is inset into the wall.
Floyd |

Floyd | You can see a bathroom door and an equipment bin (closed) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The plane slams into the ocean, skipping like a rock, before sinking
Floyd | like one.

Floyd |
Floyd | The aft section of the plane pitches downward, flipping you sideways.

Floyd | Water jets into the cabin from seams that are not as tight as you had
Floyd | hoped. Moments later, you are ankle-deep in frigid salt water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Snap, crackle, pop!  The big ones are molting.  And advancing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Fang says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Tail Section

Floyd | A cramped storage section in the rear of the plane, where, if you
Floyd | remember correctly, some emergency supplies are supposed to be stored.
Floyd | The floor slopes upward to the economy section. The emergency escape

Floyd | hatch is inset into the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a bathroom door and an equipment bin (closed) here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "maybe we should have summoned the cod outside"
Jacqueline says, "I said we'd done five games, but this is actually number seven."
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on me"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you watch the POP
Floyd | spell surface, which returns things from limbo.

Floyd |
Floyd | Out of nowhere, a toilet suddenly appears!
Floyd |

Floyd | Obviously, someone from the FOB got wind of Meretzky's presence on
Floyd | this flight. Apparently, you guessed wrong about them wanting to
Floyd | recover him alive.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha ha"
Limax asks, "Six broke?"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on me"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you quickly
Floyd | recognize the FREEZE spell, which magically holds things fixed in

Floyd | place.
Floyd |
Floyd | Luckily, every novice mage learns to repel this effect in first year
Floyd | of academy. The energy dissipates around you.

Floyd | A bolt of icy-blue lightning shoots from the wand towards yourself,
Floyd | freezing him instantly.

Floyd |
Floyd | Why lobsters? Why now? It's too much for one Guardian to handle.
Floyd |
Floyd | Like there is ever a good time for lobsters...

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Ellison says, "heh"
inky says, "ha ha ha ha"
DavidW asks, "Once you see a spell, can you use it specifically?"
Benjor exclaims, "bug!"
inky says, "it claimed earlier the dial was broken"
Benjor files bug
Limax says, "Maybe it lied to you"
inky says, "true"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on wand"
Floyd | Your hand tingles as the wand's self-referential recursion dampener
Floyd | sucks the spell back in before it can affect the very wand that cast
Floyd | it.

Floyd |
Floyd | Lobsters scuttle along the aisle, between seats, provoking screams of

Floyd | fear from the crash survivors.
Floyd |
Floyd | How clich?d. This may have worked back in the day, but come on.
Floyd | Carnivorous lobsters? Have they no decency? You conclude that they are

Floyd | called the "Forces of Banality" for a good reason.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks (of Benjor), "Will there be another release?"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on lobsters"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "freeze lobster"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Limax says, "Ha ha"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on lobster"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on water"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open bin"
Floyd | What lousy equipment. The bin has never been easy to open and seems
Floyd | stuck shut.
Floyd |

Floyd | Before the magical attack, you had worked your way through most of the

Floyd | economy and business class, but still hadn't located High Wizard
Floyd | Meretzky. You had assumed that he would not be so obvious as to fly
Floyd | first class, but this is not a good day for your assumptions.
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd |
Floyd | Lavatory
Floyd | A tight, poorly lit, aircraft bathroom. Ordinarily, a welcome refuge

Floyd | from the demanding mortal customers who need to use planes to move
Floyd | from one place to another, but now a safe haven from the carnivorous

Floyd | lobsters infesting the plane. The mirror, paper roll, and smoke
Floyd | detector are unremarkable. Your uncanny (yet invariably useful) sense
Floyd | of direction tells you that the aft compartment of the plane is to the
Floyd | west.

Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a bathroom door, a cod, and a sink (empty) here.

Floyd |
Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "use wand on lobsters"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "whoops"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "jitter bin"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

dhakajack says, "Yes, we are planning to release this game about every ten minutes. That's agile."
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Tail Section
Floyd | A cramped storage section in the rear of the plane, where, if you

Floyd | remember correctly, some emergency supplies are supposed to be stored.

Floyd | The floor slopes upward to the economy section. The emergency escape
Floyd | hatch is inset into the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a bathroom door and an equipment bin (closed) here.
Floyd |

Floyd | Two years of deep cover as a stewardess. A bloody stewardess! Waiting

Floyd | hand and foot on these sink holes of attentions. And for what? The
Floyd | biggest failure of your career. If you lose Meretzky, it will be a
Floyd | death blow to The Republic, and nothing will be able to stop the
Floyd | Forces of Banality and their langustinian minions.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Ellison says, "heh"
Benjor says, "flexes and stretches, to be even more agile"
DavidW says, "like, this bin should've been opened 12 turns ago."
Touchy says (to Floyd), "jigger bin"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "use wand on bin"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "use wand on bin"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you witness the PUSH
Floyd | spell, which sends things to limbo.
Floyd |
Floyd | The equipment bin suddenly blinks out of existence!

Floyd |

Floyd | The plane shudders, then angles downward just a bit more.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Fang says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a pair of high-heeled shoes
Floyd |   a flight attendant uniform (being worn)

Floyd |   a magic wand

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says, "damn"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "use wand on shoes"
Fang says (to Floyd), "take off shoes"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you realize it's the
Floyd | BALANCE spell, which summons elements to even out a situation.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a strange tingling sound; a large cod fish suddenly

Floyd | materializes.
Floyd |

Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cockpit radio crackles to life for a moment, burps static, then
Floyd | falls silent.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You're not wearing those.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.
Floyd |

Floyd | Sobs of the still-living reach your ears;  moans you cannot bear to
Floyd | hear.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Doug says, "if you take the uniform off, this game will appeal to women more!"
Jacqueline says, "HAHAHA"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "use wand on uniform"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you discover it's
Floyd | the JIGGER spell, which un-jams things.
Floyd |

Floyd | The flight attendant uniform vibrates a bit, but nothing else happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Ellison says, "heh"
maga says, "snorfle"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "use wand on uniform"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you watch the POP
Floyd | spell surface, which returns things from limbo.

Floyd |
Floyd | Out of nowhere, an equipment bin suddenly appears!

Floyd |
Floyd | A lobster scuttles towards your foot, but you quickly punt it back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Fang says (to Floyd), "und"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open bin"
Floyd | What lousy equipment. The bin has never been easy to open and seems
Floyd | stuck shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Benjor says, "phew"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "use wand on bin"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you quickly
Floyd | recognize the FREEZE spell, which magically holds things fixed in
Floyd | place.

Floyd |

Floyd | A bolt of icy-blue lightning shoots from the wand towards the
Floyd | equipment bin, freezing it instantly.
Floyd |
Floyd | In response, yourself thaws out.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Fang says, "maybe this is timed"
Jacqueline says, "I was just thinking that."
Touchy says, "can I please get the damn jigger spell now"
Benjor says, "it ain't random"
Jacqueline says, "Yeah."
inky asks, "oh, it cycles?"
Doug asks, "yourself thaws out?"
DavidW says, "I haven't been able to follow what's going on very well."
inky says, "cunning"
Fang says (to Floyd), "x wand"
Floyd | Once capable of casting nearly any class-N spell, the spell-selector
Floyd | dial seems utterly broken. You're unsure what will happen when you USE

Floyd | WAND ON SOMETHING.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to DavidW), "well, we're on a plane"
Benjor says, "I like how repeated use of 'undo' tests the randomness theory. never thought of that. :-)"
DavidW says, "With all the undoes and so on."
inky says, "and apparently bad guys are using lobsters"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "use wand on self"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you witness the PUSH

Floyd | spell, which sends things to limbo.
Floyd |

Floyd | You feel sick as the world suddenly turns inside-out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Limbo
Floyd | Uh oh. Not good.

Floyd |
Floyd | Grey mists swirl around you. You are lost somewhere between universes.

Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a twinkie and a statuette here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW asks, "There are bad guys?"
inky says, "ha ha"
Fang says (to Floyd), "x twinkie"
inky says (to Floyd), "get twinkie"
Floyd | Golden brown, and every bit as edible as the day it rolled off the
Floyd | assembly line.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "x statuette"
Floyd | It abstractly resembles a tornado of some sort.  On the bottom is some
Floyd | intricate inscription. There is just enough light here to read it.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Fang says (to Floyd), "read statuette"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it"
Floyd | Welcome to Limbo!  You may be the unlucky target of an angry mage, but
Floyd | if you believe you arrived here in error, please don't hesitate to
Floyd | file a 951-EZ-5C report with your local dimensional constabulary.

Floyd | Assuming you have a popping spell to exit this place, that is. Have a
Floyd | great day.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Welcome to Limbo!  You may be the unlucky target of an angry mage, but
Floyd | if you believe you arrived here in error, please don't hesitate to

Floyd | file a 951-EZ-5C report with your local dimensional constabulary.
Floyd | Assuming you have a popping spell to exit this place, that is. Have a
Floyd | great day.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "apparently bad guys are attacking the plane, and we are here to rescue meretzky"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "use wand on self"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you realize it's the
Floyd | BALANCE spell, which summons elements to even out a situation.
Floyd |

Floyd | You hear a strange tingling sound; a large cod fish suddenly
Floyd | materializes.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "g"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you discover it's
Floyd | the JIGGER spell, which un-jams things.
Floyd |

Floyd | Unfortunately, this spell is certainly not enough to get you out of
Floyd | this predicament.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Doug says (to Floyd), "fix wand"
Floyd | You are a Guardian of the People's Republic of IF -- not a
Floyd | repairwoman. Besides, you always end up with more parts than you
Floyd | start.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says, "man the game is going to overflow with codfish"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on self"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you watch the POP

Floyd | spell surface, which returns things from limbo.
Floyd |

Floyd | Your head reels as everything turns outside-in again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tail Section
Floyd | A cramped storage section in the rear of the plane, where, if you

Floyd | remember correctly, some emergency supplies are supposed to be stored.
Floyd | The floor slopes upward to the economy section. The emergency escape

Floyd | hatch is inset into the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a bathroom door and an equipment bin (closed) here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Doug asks, "we have Guardians?"
trikiw materializes. Benjor says, "nice job"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "use wand on lobsters"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "use wand on bathroom door"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you quickly

Floyd | recognize the FREEZE spell, which magically holds things fixed in
Floyd | place.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bolt of icy-blue lightning shoots from the wand towards the bathroom
Floyd | door, freezing it instantly.

Floyd |

Floyd | In response, the equipment bin thaws out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read dial"
Floyd | That's not something you can read.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "use wand on bin"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you witness the PUSH

Floyd | spell, which sends things to limbo.
Floyd |
Floyd | The equipment bin suddenly blinks out of existence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says, "nononono"
Touchy says, "noooooo"
Fang says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Tail Section
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says, "aww..that's no fun"
DavidW says, "we'll never finish at this rate."
Touchy says, "hehe"
Fang says (to Floyd), "use wand on bin"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you witness the PUSH
Floyd | spell, which sends things to limbo.
Floyd |
Floyd | The equipment bin suddenly blinks out of existence!


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Benjor says, "man, we should disable undo, dhakajack"
Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" inky asks, "so push, balance, jigger, pop, freeze?"
Floyd | Tail Section
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "So...PUSH (limbo), BALANCE (evens out situations), JIGGER (un-jams things), POP (unlimbos things), FREEZE (holds things fixed in place)."
Jacqueline says, "Timing, yeah"
inky asks, "or is it not a straight cycle?"
Jacqueline growls at Benjor.
Fang says, "yeah, I was hoping it'd be a cycle"
DavidW says, "An equipment bin... doomed to be pushed out of a plane over and over again."
Fang asks, "does z increment it?"
Fang says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "No, I think just use increments it."
Touchy says (to Floyd), "use wand on sink"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Tail Section
Floyd | A cramped storage section in the rear of the plane, where, if you
Floyd | remember correctly, some emergency supplies are supposed to be stored.


Floyd | The floor slopes upward to the economy section. The emergency escape
Floyd | hatch is inset into the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a bathroom door and an equipment bin (closed) here.
Fang says (to Floyd), "use wand on bin"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you witness the PUSH
Floyd | spell, which sends things to limbo.
Floyd |


Floyd | The equipment bin suddenly blinks out of existence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Tail Section

Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says, "okay..."
Touchy shakes Fang violently.
Jacqueline says (to Fang), "It doesn't matter, because it comes back."
inky says, "so use it on two more things"
dhakajack says (to benjor), "I'm not sure about disabling undo. I think it helps the experimentation and may limit frustration." inky asks, "and then use it on the bin to jigger it?"
Fang says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Tail Section
Floyd | A cramped storage section in the rear of the plane, where, if you
Floyd | remember correctly, some emergency supplies are supposed to be stored.
Floyd | The floor slopes upward to the economy section. The emergency escape

Floyd | hatch is inset into the wall.
Floyd |

Floyd | You can see a bathroom door and an equipment bin (closed) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline smiles at Jack.
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on twinkie"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you witness the PUSH
Floyd | spell, which sends things to limbo.
Floyd |

Floyd | The twinkie suddenly blinks out of existence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on me"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you realize it's the

Floyd | BALANCE spell, which summons elements to even out a situation.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a strange tingling sound; a large cod fish suddenly

Floyd | materializes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on bin"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you discover it's
Floyd | the JIGGER spell, which un-jams things.

Floyd |
Floyd | The equipment bin vibrates for a moment, and suddenly comes unstuck!

Floyd |
Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says, "I wonder if we drown if we make the emergency hatch disappear."
inky says (to Floyd), "open bin"
Floyd | You open the equipment bin, revealing a memo.
Floyd |
Floyd | Salt water rolls down your cheek and into your mouth.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "read memo"
Floyd | Flight crew: please be sure that this compartment contains the
Floyd | following items prior to departure:

Floyd |

Floyd | * First Aid Kit
Floyd | * Flare Gun
Floyd | * Emergency Radio
Floyd | * Crustacean Repellent
Floyd | * Mountain Climbing Gear

Floyd | * Shark Defense Cage

Floyd | * Personal Jet Pack
Floyd | * Entertainment System, Mark V
Floyd |
Floyd | The smell of malevolent arthropods burns your nose.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "look in bin"
Floyd | In the equipment bin is a memo.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha"
Benjor says, "my favorite command is 'tree'"
Touchy says, "hehe"
Fang says, "maybe balance works here"
Fang says, "so that the items are actually there, I mean"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on me"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you watch the POP
Floyd | spell surface, which returns things from limbo.


Floyd |
Floyd | Out of nowhere, a twinkie suddenly appears!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on cod"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you quickly
Floyd | recognize the FREEZE spell, which magically holds things fixed in
Floyd | place.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bolt of icy-blue lightning shoots from the wand towards the cod,
Floyd | freezing him instantly.


Floyd |
Floyd | In response, the bathroom door thaws out.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "ha ha"
Benjor exclaims, "bug!"
Benjor files bug
Fang says (to Floyd), "use wand on memo"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you witness the PUSH
Floyd | spell, which sends things to limbo.
Floyd |
Floyd | The memo suddenly blinks out of existence!
Floyd |

Floyd | >

inky asks (of Benjor), "did you guys do this one as a transcript too?"
Fang says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Tail Section

Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Are there more rooms to this plane?"
inky says, "I think so"
Fang says (to Floyd), "use wand on door"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you witness the PUSH
Floyd | spell, which sends things to limbo.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bathroom door flickers a moment, but seems immune to the spell.

Floyd | You figure it's probably some sort of built-in safeguard.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "I'm not sure if we've even tried to get up to first class where I think it said he was sitting"
Benjor says (to inky), "no, no time. hence the chaos of it. :-)"
Fang says (to Floyd), "use wand on memo"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you realize it's the
Floyd | BALANCE spell, which summons elements to even out a situation.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cod sparks a bit, but nothing happens.

Floyd | You hear a strange tingling sound; a large cod fish suddenly
Floyd | materializes.

Floyd |
Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "We're not getting very far."
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Tail Section
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Let's go to first class."
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on bin"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you realize it's the

Floyd | BALANCE spell, which summons elements to even out a situation.
Floyd |

Floyd | The cod sparks a bit, but nothing happens.
Floyd | You hear a strange tingling sound; a large cod fish suddenly
Floyd | materializes.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |

Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | You can't go that way.

Floyd |
Floyd | Distant screams echo from elsewhere;  the cracking of human skulls by

Floyd | vorpal claws.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You can't go that way.

Floyd |
Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "look"
Floyd | Tail Section
Floyd | A cramped storage section in the rear of the plane, where, if you
Floyd | remember correctly, some emergency supplies are supposed to be stored.

Floyd | The floor slopes upward to the economy section. The emergency escape
Floyd | hatch is inset into the wall.
Floyd |

Floyd | You can see a cod, a twinkie, a bathroom door, and an equipment bin
Floyd | (in which is a memo) here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x hatch"
Floyd | A sturdy curved door mounted on heavy internal hinges. For emergency
Floyd | use only, as it says.
Floyd |

Floyd | You mumble to yourself.  How did the Forces of Banality located this
Floyd | plane so quickly?  This is definitely above your pay grade.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd |
Floyd | Economy
Floyd | Row after row of tightly packed seats, with minimal padding, sharp

Floyd | corners, and ratty seat belts. Back in the day, these seats would have
Floyd | come with heavy oars and leg irons. Well, nostalgia will have to wait.
Floyd | You have a plane full of lobsters to deal with, and a High Wizard to

Floyd | find.   A movie screen swings above one seat;  a closed overhead
Floyd | compartment limits the headroom in this section.  Various half-eaten
Floyd | corpses of economy passengers lay strewn about, with crustaceans

Floyd | crawling over many of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over in seat 31A, a schoolmarm-ish woman is attemping to scream in

Floyd | agony, but is too exhausted to make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a spiny lobster and a cart here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Benjor says, "I love that this is the first beta-testing, ever, that we're witnessing. :-)"
inky asks, "so what's next on the wand?"
Fang says, "just did balance"
Touchy says, "so jigger"
Jacqueline says, "HOORAY"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cart"
Floyd | A food cart, meant to be pushed Sisyphus-fashion up and down the
Floyd | aisles of this plane until your penance is complete. It appears to be

Floyd | tilted and solldly wedged against the seats, unmoving.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Ellison says, "aw, poor schoolmarm needs a nap"
Jacqueline | Various half-eaten corpses of economy passengers lay strewn about, with crustaceans crawling over many of them.
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on cart"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you discover it's
DavidW says (to Floyd), "use wand on cart"
Floyd | the JIGGER spell, which un-jams things.

Floyd |
Floyd | The cart vibrates for a moment, and suddenly comes unstuck!

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you watch the POP
Floyd | spell surface, which returns things from limbo.

Floyd |
Floyd | Nothing happens.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "That is the kind of IF writing I really like."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Economy

Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "whoops, sorry"
inky asks, "I guess pop something, and then freeze the lobster?"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "get cart"
Floyd | That's fixed in place.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull cart"
Floyd | It is fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some water drips onto your head from a ceiling leak somewhere.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "push cart"
Floyd | It is fixed in place.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cart"
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "x cart"
Fang says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | A food cart, meant to be pushed Sisyphus-fashion up and down the
Floyd | aisles of this plane until your penance is complete.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says, "Why did we just unstuck it then."
Touchy says, "Damn."
inky says, "got me, man"
Ellison says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd | You're stopped in your tracks by the pitiful moans of the schoolmarm
Floyd | being eaten alive.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on cart. use wand on lobster" Ellison asks, "freeze her?"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you watch the POP


Floyd | spell surface, which returns things from limbo.
Floyd |
Floyd | Nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you quickly
Floyd | recognize the FREEZE spell, which magically holds things fixed in


Floyd | place.
Floyd |
Floyd | Alas, this one is too big;  you recognize an antimagic aura glowing
Floyd | around it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lobsters scuttle and screetch in malicious glee.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "hunh"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on lobster"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you witness the PUSH


Floyd | spell, which sends things to limbo.
Floyd |
Floyd | Alas, this one is too big;  you recognize an antimagic aura glowing
Floyd | around it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on lobster"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you realize it's the
Floyd | BALANCE spell, which summons elements to even out a situation.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a strange tingling sound; a large cod fish suddenly


Floyd | materializes. The cod looks the spiny lobster over, and decides that
Floyd | its spiky carapace would not be a pleasant chew. In a suprisingly low
Floyd | and rich baritone, the cod says to you, "I can take care of some of
Floyd | the smaller ones -- I'm sure you can handle this one." Before you can
Floyd | fret, he swims under the seats in search of dinner.
Floyd |


Floyd | A wave of nausea hits you;  the smell of human blood and melted
Floyd | butter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha"
inky says (to Floyd), "x lobster"
Floyd | A three-foot long spiny lobster gnaws on the schoolmarm's shoulder
Floyd | with wild abandon.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x schoolmarm"
Floyd | Covered in blood and seawater, her eyes are shell-shocked.  She's
Floyd | barely alive.


Floyd |
Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the clickety-clack of angry claws somewhere nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Fang asks, "maybe we feed the lobster a cod?"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on schoolmarm" Fang says, "a frozen code"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you discover it's
Floyd | the JIGGER spell, which un-jams things.


Floyd |
Floyd | The schoolmarm vibrates a bit, but nothing else happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | Seriously. When this ordeal is over, you're definitely going to put in
Floyd | for that pay raise.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
Fang says, "er, code"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on schoolmarm"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you watch the POP
Floyd | spell surface, which returns things from limbo.


Floyd |
Floyd | Nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | Time is running out.  You can hear them splashing closer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW asks, "pop the schoolmarm?"
Jacqueline says, "For some reason, I always love his quality of squicky writing."
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on schoolmarm"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you quickly

Floyd | recognize the FREEZE spell, which magically holds things fixed in

Floyd | place.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bolt of icy-blue lightning shoots from the wand towards the
Floyd | schoolmarm, freezing her instantly.
Floyd |

Floyd | In response, the cod thaws out.

Floyd |
Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on schoolmarm"
Floyd | You can't do that;  the schoolmarm appears to be frozen, and thus
Floyd | impervious to all interaction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "er push, I mean."
inky says, "razza frazza"
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Economy
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]

Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Economy
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]

Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on cart"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you quickly
Floyd | recognize the FREEZE spell, which magically holds things fixed in

Floyd | place.

Floyd |
Floyd | A bolt of icy-blue lightning shoots from the wand towards the cart,
Floyd | freezing it instantly.
Floyd |
Floyd | In response, the cod thaws out.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on schoolmarm" Jacqueline says, "This is like Zero One all over again, but will spells and a female protagonist that makes me, as a female, more interested in the game."
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you witness the PUSH

Floyd | spell, which sends things to limbo.

Floyd |
Floyd | The schoolmarm suddenly blinks out of existence!
Floyd |
Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "s/will/with"
inky says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd | Your morals won't let you, you've got to save that pathetic woman

Floyd | first!
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Benjor says, "doh"
inky says, "ha ha"
inky says, "she is totally saved"
Benjor exclaims, "kill the lobster!!"
inky says (to Floyd), "x lobster"
Floyd | A three-foot long spiny lobster  clicks at you menacingly with huge

Floyd | claws.
Floyd |

Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill lobster" Fang asks (of jacq), "still more interested in the game?"
Touchy exclaims, "lob the killster!!"
Floyd | Your bare hands are no good here.  You need a decent weapon!
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Benjor says, "restrains himself"
inky says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Economy
Floyd | Row after row of tightly packed seats, with minimal padding, sharp

Floyd | corners, and ratty seat belts.   A movie screen swings above one seat;
Floyd | a closed overhead compartment limits the headroom in this section.

Floyd | Various half-eaten corpses of economy passengers lay strewn about,
Floyd | with crustaceans crawling over many of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a cod, a spiny lobster, and a cart here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "x screen"
Floyd | A dirty gray panel mounted on the overhead compartment. Movies are

Floyd | shown here to take people's minds off how very unpleasant it is to fly
Floyd | economy.
Floyd |

Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "open compartment"
Floyd | You open the overhead compartment, revealing a banjo.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x banjo"
Floyd | A Stelling Red Fox model, circa 2006.  It glows with bluegrass
Floyd | goodness. You wonder which unfortunate bloke it belonged to.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "get banjo"
Floyd | The spiny lobster looks fearfully at the banjo.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "hit lobster with banjo"
Floyd | You invoke the mighty power of Earl Scruggs, and rein the instrument
Floyd | down upon the creature with full 5-string fury!  Its exoskeleton
Floyd | crunches mightily, reverberating through the exquistitely crafted

Floyd | walnut-and-chrome resonator.  The banjo is now in pieces, but so is

Floyd | the spiny lobster.  The lobster vaporizes into a magical haze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says, "haha"
Ellison says, "squeal like a pig, lobster!"
DavidW says, "smite lobster with banjo"
inky says, "POWER CHORD"
Benjor says, "lol"
Benjor is relieved
Jacqueline says, "YAY CLAWHAMMER"
inky says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd |
Floyd | Galley

Floyd | A stainless steel compartment between the self-absorbed slobs in

Floyd | business class up ahead and the unwashed masses and screaming babies
Floyd | in economy down below.  Interestingly, whereas other parts of the
Floyd | plane are sloshing in a foot of water, this area remains totally dry.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the counter is a microwave (closed).

Floyd |

Floyd | >
Touchy says, "hrhr"
inky says (to Floyd), "open microwave" maga says, "okay, the sucking-up-to-Jacq is palpable now"
Floyd | A black cat darts out of the microwave, looks around uncertainly, and

Floyd | runs immediately through the wall of the plane.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "haha"
inky says, "buh"
Ellison says, "ha ha"
inky says (to Floyd), "x cat"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "turn on microwave"
Floyd | You switch the microwave on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "If this was all a buildup to the clawhammer joke, I am really impressed."
Fang says, "good thing we didn't turn the microwave on first"
DavidW asks, "I'm so lost. Microwave? Cat?"
Benjor bows
inky says (to DavidW), "I dunno, I walked into the galley"
inky says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd |
Floyd | Business
Floyd | Rows of seats that are spaced the way economy seats used to be spaced


Floyd | about five years ago. It is enough to make the gullible mortals feel
Floyd | superior to those in economy, while still stripping them subtly of
Floyd | their humanity. It is your favorite section of the plane.
Floyd |
Floyd | Northward, a narrow, staircase spirals toward to the first class
Floyd | section. Just above the business class is the bulkhead that leads to


Floyd | the cockpit.
Floyd |
Floyd | And clearly the vast mass of hungry lobsters have decided to make a
Floyd | final stand against you here.   They stop their flesh-feeding, teem
Floyd | and swarm, then all spin around to face you.  They take up battle
Floyd | positions along the central aisle.  You have no idea how you're going


Floyd | to get past the lobster mob.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lobster mob pulsates and wiggles threateningly at you, claws at
Floyd | the ready.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a staircase and a closed bulkhead here.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "You didn't even use the word clawhammer. I love the show don't tell thing."
DavidW asks, "Can't we microwave a baby first?"
Benjor asks, "wait, you guys got past the cart? how?"
Touchy says (to argh), "the cuteness on your blog is overwhelming ...gngngng"
Fang says (to Floyd), "x bulkhead"
Floyd | A security bulkhead that separates the business section from the
Floyd | flight deck. The bulkhead seems to be jammed shut.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
inky asks (of Benjor), "I dunno, we jiggered it?"
inky says, "it didn't seem to stop us at all"
dhakajack says, "right, they had unjiggered it."
Benjor says, "perfect."
inky says, "ok, I guess here is where the cod comes in"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on mob"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you realize it's the
Floyd | BALANCE spell, which summons elements to even out a situation.


Floyd |
Floyd | Your attempt to summon a creature, but the sheer quantity of radiant
Floyd | animal magic overpowers your wand.  There will be no summoning in
Floyd | Business class today.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "grrr"
Ellison says, "heh"
inky says (to Floyd), "open bulkhead"
Floyd | The crash must have slightly warped the heavy metal door. It appears

Floyd | to be jammed shut.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "poo"
Benjor says, "good instinct though"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on bulkhead"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you discover it's
Floyd | the JIGGER spell, which un-jams things.
Floyd |
Floyd | The closed bulkhead vibrates for a moment, and suddenly comes unstuck!

Floyd |
Floyd | The hull creaks and groans from stress.  You wonder how much time you

Floyd | have.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd | With the lobster mob there?  Are you kidding?

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "open bulkhead"
Floyd | You open the open bulkhead.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd | Not with the crusteacean army there, you won't.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "The twoohtonic emmissions are fluxcapasiting our engines, Captain."
inky says, "hmm"
Fang says (to Floyd), "x mob"
Floyd | A heinous conglomeration of angry arthropods ready to defend their
Floyd | territory.  And possibly devour your leg in the process.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "x bulkhead"
Floyd | A security bulkhead that separates the business section from the
Floyd | flight deck. The bulkhead is open.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on mob"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you watch the POP
Floyd | spell surface, which returns things from limbo.

Floyd |

Floyd | Out of nowhere, a schoolmarm suddenly appears!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha"
inky says, "sorry lady"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on mob" Ellison says, "yay"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you quickly
Floyd | recognize the FREEZE spell, which magically holds things fixed in

Floyd | place.

Floyd |
Floyd | There are just too many of them;  the freeze-spell can't handle them
Floyd | all and fizzles out.
Floyd | A bolt of icy-blue lightning shoots from the wand towards the lobster
Floyd | mob, freezing him instantly.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heehee"
Benjor says, "that's a bug. you shouldn't be able to open the bulkhead with the mob there."
Benjor files bug
inky says, "whoops"
trikiw goes flopbot inky asks, "so we can't go into the cockput or first class until we deal with the mob?"
Benjor says, "you're still blocked, though, so that's ok"
Benjor says, "you need a cod, as you said."
Fang says, "we can push and pop a cod"
Jacqueline says (to Benjor), "Release FOUR, baybee."
inky says (to Fang), "that makes sense"
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison says, "does FREEZE come before BALANCE? we can try the frozen cod idea, if we can pick it up"
inky says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd |
Floyd | Galley
Floyd | A stainless steel compartment between the self-absorbed slobs in
Floyd | business class up ahead and the unwashed masses and screaming babies
Floyd | in economy down below.  Interestingly, whereas other parts of the
Floyd | plane are sloshing in a foot of water, this area remains totally dry.


Floyd |
Floyd | On the counter is a microwave (empty).
Floyd |
Floyd | A wave of nausea hits you;  the smell of human blood and melted
Floyd | butter.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd |
Floyd | Economy
Floyd | Row after row of tightly packed seats, with minimal padding, sharp


Floyd | corners, and ratty seat belts.   A movie screen swings above one seat;
Floyd | an open overhead compartment limits the headroom in this section.
Floyd | Various half-eaten corpses of economy passengers lay strewn about,
Floyd | with crustaceans crawling over many of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a broken banjo, a cod, and a cart here.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "It's PUSH (limbo), BALANCE (evens out situations), JIGGER (un-jams things), POP (unlimbos things), FREEZE (holds things fixed in place)."
DavidW asks, "Can we put a cod on the cart and push it physically to Business class?"
inky says, "hmm, but balance comes after push"
inky says (to Floyd), "put cod on cart"
Floyd | You need to be holding the cod before you can put him on top of
Floyd | something else.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.


Floyd |
Floyd | The plane shudders, then angles downward just a bit more.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "get cod"
Floyd | You're sure it would snap your fingers off if you tried!
Floyd |
Floyd | Salt water rolls down your cheek and into your mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on cod"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you witness the PUSH
Floyd | spell, which sends things to limbo.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cod suddenly blinks out of existence!


Floyd |
Floyd | Seriously. When this ordeal is over, you're definitely going to put in
Floyd | for that pay raise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push cod up"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on cart"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you realize it's the
Floyd | BALANCE spell, which summons elements to even out a situation.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a strange tingling sound; a large cod fish suddenly
Floyd | materializes.
Floyd |


Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says, "just zap it at whatever"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on cod"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you discover it's
Floyd | the JIGGER spell, which un-jams things.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cod vibrates a bit, but nothing else happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says, "oh good"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on cod"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you watch the POP
Floyd | spell surface, which returns things from limbo.
Floyd |


Floyd | Nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on cod"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you quickly
Floyd | recognize the FREEZE spell, which magically holds things fixed in
Floyd | place.
Floyd |


Floyd | A bolt of icy-blue lightning shoots from the wand towards the cod,
Floyd | freezing him instantly.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hull creaks and groans from stress.  You wonder how much time you
Floyd | have.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "get cod"
Floyd | You can't do that;  the cod appears to be frozen, and thus impervious
Floyd | to all interaction.
Floyd |


Floyd | Some water drips onto your head from a ceiling leak somewhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "put cod on cart"
Floyd | You can't do that;  the cod appears to be frozen, and thus impervious


Floyd | to all interaction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says, "um"
inky says, "bah"
JayBot says, "You can't balance in business class"
Fang says, "push a cod, balance with the mob"
Touchy asks, "eh..what?"
DavidW asks, "oh. You're sending the cod to limbo?"
Fang says, "and then pop it there"
Jacqueline says, "oho"
inky says, "ok, yeah, that makes sense"
Ellison says, "ok, get it unfrozen. pop him to limbo and then go to business class and keep on doing stuff until he pops back"
Jacqueline says, "Yeah, try that."
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Economy
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Economy
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]

Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Economy

Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Fang says, "I just like saying pop a cod"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on cart"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you quickly
Floyd | recognize the FREEZE spell, which magically holds things fixed in
Floyd | place.

Floyd |
Floyd | A bolt of icy-blue lightning shoots from the wand towards the cart,
Floyd | freezing it instantly.

Floyd |
Floyd | The rather large cod swims around, looking for food.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I'll bet Uncle Benjor and Uncle Jack won't let us do that, but let's try."
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on cod"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you witness the PUSH
Floyd | spell, which sends things to limbo.

Floyd |
Floyd | The cod suddenly blinks out of existence!

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |
Floyd | Galley

Floyd | A stainless steel compartment between the self-absorbed slobs in
Floyd | business class up ahead and the unwashed masses and screaming babies
Floyd | in economy down below.  Interestingly, whereas other parts of the
Floyd | plane are sloshing in a foot of water, this area remains totally dry.

Floyd |
Floyd | On the counter is a microwave (empty).

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "u" Jacqueline says (to Fang), "heehee"
Floyd |

Floyd | Business
Floyd | Rows of seats that are spaced the way economy seats used to be spaced
Floyd | about five years ago. It is enough to make the gullible mortals feel
Floyd | superior to those in economy, while still stripping them subtly of

Floyd | their humanity. It is your favorite section of the plane.
Floyd |

Floyd | Northward, a narrow, staircase spirals toward to the first class
Floyd | section. Just above the business class is the bulkhead that leads to
Floyd | the cockpit.
Floyd |

Floyd | Over in seat 31A, a schoolmarm-ish woman is too exhausted to make a
Floyd | sound.

Floyd |
Floyd | The lobster mob pulsates and wiggles threateningly at you, claws at
Floyd | the ready.
Floyd |

Floyd | You can also see a staircase and an open bulkhead here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Touchy says, "so far so good"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on me"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you realize it's the
Floyd | BALANCE spell, which summons elements to even out a situation.

Floyd |
Floyd | Your attempt to summon a creature, but the sheer quantity of radiant
Floyd | animal magic overpowers your wand.  There will be no summoning in
Floyd | Business class today.

Floyd |
Floyd | You mumble to yourself.  How did the Forces of Banality located this

Floyd | plane so quickly?  This is definitely above your pay grade.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on me"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you discover it's
Floyd | the JIGGER spell, which un-jams things.
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfortunately, this spell is certainly not enough to get you out of

Floyd | this predicament.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on me"
Floyd | The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you watch the POP

Floyd | spell surface, which returns things from limbo.
Floyd |

Floyd | Out of nowhere, a cod suddenly appears!
Floyd |
Floyd | Fedora-brimmed lobster mobsters snear at the lone cod, like bullies on
Floyd | a playgroud. The mob boss, a three-and-a-half pounder with only one

Floyd | claw, steps forward, gesturing wildly with the Gl?ck in his good claw.
Floyd |

Floyd | "Well," he taunts, "if it ain't the natural enemy of the lobster,
Floyd | Gadus morhua, the Atlantic Cod." At the mention of his taxonomic
Floyd | classification, some of the younger lobsters looks worried, their
Floyd | antennae flitting back and forth in concern. The boss continues

Floyd | brashly, "Boys, I think tonight's main dish is... sushi!
Floyd |

Floyd | The boss looks back at his mob, and there is a murmur of agreement.
Floyd | Before the boss is done gloating, however, the  fish pulls a modified
Floyd | Kalashnikov assault rifle from its bulky trenchcoat.
Floyd |

Floyd | One of the hench-lobsters barely has time to say, "Boss, watch out for
Floyd | the cod piece!" before the silver-scaled avenger lets loose with a

Floyd | barrage of phosphor-tipped rounds, which both cook and mince the
Floyd | lobster meat into a tasty salad. The passengers in the business
Floyd | section, who are used to such things, merely assume it is the inflight
Floyd | meal, and quickly polish off the remains of the former gang.

Floyd |
Floyd | The cod, having rebalanced the karmic forces of the universe, happily

Floyd | blinks out of existence.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the clickety-clack of angry claws somewhere nearby.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Fang says, "there we go"
Jacqueline says, "HOORAY"
Benjor exclaims, "nice!!!!"
inky says, "ha ha ha"
inky says, "go team"
inky says, "cod piece indeed"
Touchy says, "haha"
Touchy says, "kalashnikov"
Benjor rim shots
inky says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Business
Floyd | Rows of seats that are spaced the way economy seats used to be spaced
Floyd | about five years ago. It is enough to make the gullible mortals feel

Floyd | superior to those in economy, while still stripping them subtly of

Floyd | their humanity. It is your favorite section of the plane.
Floyd |
Floyd | Northward, a narrow, staircase spirals toward to the first class
Floyd | section. Just above the business class is the bulkhead that leads to
Floyd | the cockpit.

Floyd |

Floyd | Over in seat 31A, a schoolmarm-ish woman is too exhausted to make a
Floyd | sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a staircase and an open bulkhead here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

dhakajack says, "kalashnikov = AK 47 assault rifle"
inky says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd |
Floyd | Cockpit

Floyd | A cone-shaped room bristling with those blinking lights and other

Floyd | technical knick-knacks that mortals consider fancy. You notice
Floyd | immediately that there isn't anyone in cockpit -- no pilot, no
Floyd | copilot, no navigator or engineer. Ironically, you realize that you
Floyd | are the most senior member of the crew, and you're not even a real
Floyd | stewardess.

Floyd |

Floyd | You can see an open bulkhead here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd |

Floyd | Business
Floyd | Rows of seats that are spaced the way economy seats used to be spaced
Floyd | about five years ago. It is enough to make the gullible mortals feel
Floyd | superior to those in economy, while still stripping them subtly of
Floyd | their humanity. It is your favorite section of the plane.

Floyd |

Floyd | Northward, a narrow, staircase spirals toward to the first class
Floyd | section. Just above the business class is the bulkhead that leads to
Floyd | the cockpit.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over in seat 31A, a schoolmarm-ish woman is too exhausted to make a

Floyd | sound.

Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an open bulkhead and a staircase here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | As you climb sideways into the First Class cabin, you are not
Floyd | surprised by the sight of its sole occupant: an unusually tall man in
Floyd | flamboyant chartreuse robes. He stands paradoxically upright despite
Floyd | the steep tilt of the deck. With an effortless wave of one hand, he

Floyd | dispels an attacking Arch Grue.
Floyd |

Floyd | Stunned by the realization that you are mere feet from High Wizard
Floyd | Steve Meretzky (on a carnivorous lobster-infested sinking plane), you
Floyd | are momentarily speechless.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Ellison says, "kalashnicod"
inky says (to Floyd), "talk to meretzky"
Floyd | The great wizard pauses a moment from smiting the lobsters near his
Floyd | ankles and takes notice of you for the first time.

Floyd |

Floyd | Fixed in his intense gaze, you stutter, "High Wizard Meretzky, your
Floyd | honor," your voice slips up an octave, and you hope you don't come
Floyd | across as too much of a fangirl. You make an effort to slow down and
Floyd | appear dignified, "I was sent by the Republic to see that you reach
Floyd | the Summit safely."

Floyd |

Floyd | Meretzky appears amused, "Yeah? And how's that going?" He deftly
Floyd | flicks his wand and the giant lobster that was sneaking up on you
Floyd | disappears in a puff of smoke. Becoming more serious, he explains,
Floyd | "I'm afraid we're surrounded by an antimagic shell. Not even I am
Floyd | powerful enough to penetrate it. Our only hope is to get a message out

Floyd | to the Republic... You lead, I'll take up the rear. You can never be

Floyd | too careful with grues and lobsters, you know."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | The High Wizard follows you silently.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Benjor says, "lol"
inky says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd | You burst into the cockpit, and Steve follows close behind you, laying

Floyd | down some magical suppressing fire with his wand. Shards of chitin fly
Floyd | through the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | You scan the control panel for anything that looks like a radio, but
Floyd | you are just not familiar with mortal technology. Steve sees your

Floyd | confusion and reaches over to a side panel, flipping a switch marked

Floyd | "IF Filter". There is a burst of static.
Floyd |
Floyd | The High Wizard points to the panel and says, "It should work now.
Floyd | Press the orange button to transmit. It won't help though," he remarks
Floyd | with a sigh, "it would take incredible power to penetrate the magical

Floyd | barrier around this plane. I'm sorry to say that beings that powerful

Floyd | have not existed since the Early Times. Not to put a damper on things,
Floyd | but -- we're doomed." With a hint of resignation, he adds, "well, at
Floyd | least you can say good-bye."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Fang says (to Floyd), "x wizard"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "hmm"
inky says, "presumably we could push him"
inky says, "I dunno if that would help"
Touchy says, "haha kalashnicod should be word of the year."
Fang asks, "what else was in limbo?"
DavidW asks, "Perhaps the twinkie would provide energy?"
PaulFurio arrives, ready to play with the toys.
PaulFurio says, "hello" DavidW says, "It might be from the Early Times too."
Fang asks, "where is it?"
inky says, "oho"
inky says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a pair of high-heeled shoes

Floyd |   a flight attendant uniform (being worn)

Floyd |   a magic wand
Floyd |
Floyd | Snap, crackle, pop!  The big ones are molting.  And advancing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Hi, Paul. We're still playing. :)("
DavidW says, "a few rooms below"
Jacqueline says, "er, :)"
inky asks, "hmm, I dropped it?"
Touchy says (to DavidW), "Very clever."
inky says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd | From behind you, you hear the sizzle of Meretzky's wand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Benjor says, "you guys are close"
inky says (to Floyd), "s" DavidW says, "I think we dropped it."
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |

Floyd | The lobsters scuttle and screetch in malicious glee.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd | The High Wizard follows you silently.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "look"
Floyd | Galley
Floyd | A stainless steel compartment between the self-absorbed slobs in

Floyd | business class up ahead and the unwashed masses and screaming babies

Floyd | in economy down below.  Interestingly, whereas other parts of the
Floyd | plane are sloshing in a foot of water, this area remains totally dry.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the counter is a microwave (empty).
Floyd |

Floyd | >

inky says, "weird, this totally chews up the room descriptions"
inky says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd | From behind you, you hear the sizzle of Meretzky's wand.

Floyd |
Floyd | The hull creaks and groans from stress.  You wonder how much time you

Floyd | have.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "look"
Floyd | Economy

Floyd | Row after row of tightly packed seats, with minimal padding, sharp
Floyd | corners, and ratty seat belts.   A movie screen swings above one seat;
Floyd | an open overhead compartment limits the headroom in this section.

Floyd | Various half-eaten corpses of economy passengers lay strewn about,
Floyd | with crustaceans crawling over many of them.
Floyd |

Floyd | You can see a broken banjo and a cart here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Fang asks, "can we microwave the twinkie?"
inky says (to Floyd), "west"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "east"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Fang), "dunno"
inky says (to Floyd), "down"
Floyd | Meretzky follows you, taking pot shots at lobsters with his wand as he
Floyd | does so. Lobster pot shots.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "look"
Floyd | Tail Section
Floyd | A cramped storage section in the rear of the plane, where, if you
Floyd | remember correctly, some emergency supplies are supposed to be stored.

Floyd | The floor slopes upward to the economy section. The emergency escape
Floyd | hatch is inset into the wall.
Floyd |

Floyd | You can see a bathroom door, a twinkie, and an equipment bin (in which
Floyd | is a memo) here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "get twinkie"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Fang says, "or microwave the wand"
inky says (to Floyd), "give twinkie to meretzky"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "x meretzky"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x twinkie"
Floyd | Golden brown, and every bit as edible as the day it rolled off the

Floyd | assembly line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky asks, "is he not really following us?"
Fang says (to Floyd), "x twinkie"
Floyd | Golden brown, and every bit as edible as the day it rolled off the
Floyd | assembly line.
Floyd |

Floyd | Distant screams echo from elsewhere;  the cracking of human skulls by
Floyd | vorpal claws.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
maga fails to edit the wiki to give Steve an appearance credit
inky says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd | Steve follows closely behind you.
Floyd |

Floyd | A lobster scuttles towards your foot, but you quickly punt it back.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "look"
Floyd | Economy

Floyd | Row after row of tightly packed seats, with minimal padding, sharp
Floyd | corners, and ratty seat belts.   A movie screen swings above one seat;

Floyd | an open overhead compartment limits the headroom in this section.
Floyd | Various half-eaten corpses of economy passengers lay strewn about,
Floyd | with crustaceans crawling over many of them.
Floyd |

Floyd | You can see a broken banjo and a cart here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd | Meretzky follows you, taking pot shots at lobsters with his wand as he

Floyd | does so. Lobster pot shots.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd | The High Wizard follows you silently.

Floyd |
Floyd | The smell of malevolent arthropods burns your nose.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "look"
Floyd | Business
Floyd | Rows of seats that are spaced the way economy seats used to be spaced

Floyd | about five years ago. It is enough to make the gullible mortals feel
Floyd | superior to those in economy, while still stripping them subtly of
Floyd | their humanity. It is your favorite section of the plane.
Floyd |

Floyd | Northward, a narrow, staircase spirals toward to the first class
Floyd | section. Just above the business class is the bulkhead that leads to

Floyd | the cockpit.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over in seat 31A, a schoolmarm-ish woman is too exhausted to make a
Floyd | sound.

Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a staircase and an open bulkhead here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "up"
Fang says (to Floyd), "verbose"
Floyd | Steve looks suggestively at the orange button.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some water drips onto your head from a ceiling leak somewhere.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Lobsters On A Plane is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives

Floyd | long descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "look"
Floyd | Cockpit
Floyd | A cone-shaped room bristling with those blinking lights and other
Floyd | technical knick-knacks that mortals consider fancy.
Floyd |

Floyd | You can see an open bulkhead here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
inky says (to Floyd), "cf5"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Benjor asks, "wait, where's the button?"
inky clears the save counter. Alex says (to Benjor), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that button is buttons, which are tasty. Especially iVan's."
inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
inky says (to Floyd), "cf1"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "push orange button"
Floyd | There is a crackle, and then a familiar voice answers: it is Kevin
Floyd | Jackson-Mead, First Class Mage of the People's Republic of Interactive
Floyd | Fiction. He reports that the Repubic has locked onto your radio signal

Floyd | and that help is on the way.

Floyd |
Floyd | Before you can protest the direness of your situation, a whirling
Floyd | vortex of photopian colors forms in the cockpit. For once, High Wizard
Floyd | Meretzky himself is taken by surprise, and stares in amazement as the
Floyd | vortex enlarges to fill the flight deck to your west. He whispers,

Floyd | "That's impossible..." A strong wind whips papers around and the air

Floyd | crackles with electricity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heehee"
PaulFurio says (to Floyd), "version"
Floyd | Lobsters On A Plane
Floyd | Parboiled crustaceans at 30,000 feet by Ben and Jack
Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 100403 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib
Floyd | 6/12N) SD

Floyd | Type "help" for instructions.
Floyd |

Floyd | Identification number: //EAB921A9-E362-4AB7-9012-EBBB0AE80245 //
Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 (2N) / Library serial number 080126
Floyd | Standard Rules version 2/090402 by Graham Nelson
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "hee hee"
Doug says, ""repubic""
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Whirling Vortex
Floyd | The undulating spiral walls of the vortex rotate hypnotically, drawing

Floyd | you in. It crackles with actinic lightning flashes.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the far end of the tunnel a great figure holds the vortex open, his

Floyd | hands held above his head like Moses parting the Red Sea. His
Floyd | salt-and-pepper ponytail flaps behind him in arising maelstrom. You
Floyd | have only heard tell of him in legends, but there is no doubt in your

Floyd | mind that the figure is none other than Don Woods, one of the Fathers
Floyd | of the Genre.
Floyd |

Floyd | Even with his great power, Woods is struggling to hold the portal
Floyd | open. In each of his mighty fists, he has gathered bundles of ethernet
Floyd | cords, which lead away in every direction. Woods calls upon the power

Floyd | of the Internet itself, tapping into the raw flow of energy from the
Floyd | IFwiki, IFDb, IFMud, and Baf's guide, Brass Lantern, and R.A.I.F.  He
Floyd | reaches out through the thousands of works of interactive fiction in

Floyd | the repository, all the way back the original Adventure. He draws on
Floyd | the pleasure and sense of challenge felt by the millions who have ever
Floyd | played a text adventure, and channels it into the whirling vortex. As

Floyd | sweat pours from his brow, he beckons you forward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says, "wait ...what"
Jacqueline asks, "Wait, you guys had a vortex reference, too?"
Touchy asks, "did we use the twinky?"
inky says, "no, I think it may have been just a joke object"
dhakajack says, "Yes, vortexes are very common where I live."
Jacqueline says, "HAHAHAHA this is GREAT"
Jacqueline says, "I can now totally picture Don Woods doing this."
Benjor says, "lal"
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Tube
Floyd | An extradimensional wormhole which snakes back and forth chaotically.

Floyd | It connects the cockpit of the plane somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean
Floyd | with the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts. The end of
Floyd | the tube leading back to the plane is shrinking.
Floyd |

Floyd | Don Woods strains to maintain the wormhole through time and space.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Hynes Convention Center

Floyd | A large conference room, full of IF Fans and authors.
Floyd |

Floyd | As you emerge from the Vortex and step into the Hynes Convention
Floyd | Center, The Forces of Banality attack in unison. High Wizards Lebling,
Floyd | Moriarity and Meretzky reflexively move to equilateral positions
Floyd | around the gathering. The energy flows between them once more,

Floyd | creating a Trinity barrier between the IF community and the hordes of
Floyd | shambling Farmvillains.

Floyd |
Floyd | Market Forces conspire to bring down the defenses, but David Cornelson
Floyd | casts Textfyre Balls at them, driving them off.
Floyd |

Floyd | In the midst of it all, Zarf casts the elaborate Glkian Ritual of
Floyd | Unity (a ritual that, truth be told, no one else understands quite so

Floyd | well). Around him, people in the crowd hold each others' hands,
Floyd | contributing power to his spell. One word is repeated over and over,
Floyd | quietly at first, but soon building to a thunderous roar. Finally, the
Floyd | word can no longer be restrained. It breaks loose and reverberates,

Floyd | filling the room, and then flooding outward in every direction. It is
Floyd | an ancient word, of great power, the oldest of the spells: "xyzzy!"

Floyd |
Floyd | Banality is banished. The community is saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | And thus begins the Third Age of Interactive Fiction.

Floyd |
Floyd | Jason Scott, dressed in fine Victorian regalia, waves his hand and a

Floyd | silence falls over the crowd. The lights in the room fade, and you
Floyd | barely catch sight of a metallic glint before you are enveloped by
Floyd | darkness. Surrounded by friends, you have no worry about grues.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I hope Steve is following us."
Ellison says, "yay Third Age"
DavidW asks, "Top hats are Victorian?"
PaulFurio says, "anachronisms on a plane"
JayBot says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Hynes Convention Center
Floyd | It is pitch dark. The audience eagerly awaits the premier of a
Floyd | documentary, which will chronicle the history of interactive fiction.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x glint"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "watch movie"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "z"
inky says (to Floyd), "use wand on me"
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "get lamp"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are transported to a place of brightness and comraderie.
Floyd |
Floyd | Room 2305
Floyd | A room full of people who you have known from emails, usenet posts,


Floyd | forum discussions, chats on the IFmud, and of course, through their
Floyd | games. There are pockets of discussion about text adventures played in
Floyd | the past, and interactive fiction to be written in the future. The
Floyd | overall impression is one of warmth and welcomeness.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the desk is a laptop.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get lamp"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x laptop"
Floyd | A plain black laptop, its keys polished smooth with use. On the
Floyd | screen, a text adventure awaits you.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "play text adventure"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "use laptop"
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "play game"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "play game"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

dhakajack says, "guess verb..."
Benjor asks, "play laptop?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read laptop"
Floyd | The laptop screen looks odd -- smaller and smaller echoes of itself

Floyd | trailing off into the distance.
Floyd |

Floyd | The game banner prints. It's odd name (something about lobsters) is
Floyd | typical of hastily written speedIF. Still, it might be worth playing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You decide to give it the benefit of the doubt and start typing in

Floyd | commmands. Friends gather around you to see what you are doing, making
Floyd | occassional comments as you trip over your high-heels and learn to use

Floyd | your wand.
Floyd |
Floyd | Congratulations, player. You are home.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT?

Floyd | >
inky says, "hooray"
Benjor says, "damn, inky, you are a FAST player"
dhakajack says, "Actually, * laptop works. But you're right. Play laptop should be implemented."
PaulFurio asks, "how many games implemented a score?" Benjor asks, "how many games used Jim's Magic Extension?"
dhakajack says, "Scoring isn't rigged up yet for LOAP."
inky says, "me? this was mostly other people, I think"
Alex says (to inky), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that inky is #103."
Fang says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Room 2305
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Fang says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd | Unfortunately, you are too drained to cast this word of power.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
PaulFurio says, "just wondering. I totally didn't have time, or even consider it."
vaporware says (to Floyd), "plugh"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

vaporware says (to Floyd), "guncho"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "I guess strictly speaking I am a fast typer/reader so I push things along"
dhakajack says, "try the debug commands..."
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "version"
Floyd | Lobsters On A Plane
Floyd | Parboiled crustaceans at 30,000 feet by Ben and Jack

Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 100403 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib

Floyd | 6/12N) SD
Floyd | Type "help" for instructions.
Floyd |
Floyd | Identification number: //EAB921A9-E362-4AB7-9012-EBBB0AE80245 //
Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 (2N) / Library serial number 080126

Floyd | Standard Rules version 2/090402 by Graham Nelson

Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "tree"
Floyd | compass (6)

Floyd |  the north

Floyd |  the northeast
Floyd |  the northwest
Floyd |  the south
Floyd |  the southeast
Floyd |  the southwest

Floyd |  the east

Floyd |  the west
Floyd |  the up
Floyd |  the down
Floyd |  the inside
Floyd |  the outside

Floyd |  (LibraryMessages) (7)

Floyd |  (darkness object) (8)
Floyd |  (Inform Parser) (9)
Floyd |  (Inform Library) (10)
Floyd |  (property_numberspace_forcer) (11)
Floyd |  (ValuePropertyHolder) (31)

Floyd | Room 2305 (44)

Floyd |   people
Floyd |   floor
Floyd |   yourself
Floyd |     high-heeled shoes
Floyd |     flight attendant uniform

Floyd |     magic wand

Floyd |     twinkie
Floyd |     silver wings
Floyd |     name tag
Floyd |   desk
Floyd |     laptop

Floyd | Truck Stop (55)

Floyd |   triangle of canine obedience
Floyd |   barbeque tongs
Floyd |   escape pod
Floyd | Goblin's Lair (59)
Floyd |   fuzzy dice

Floyd |   Helmet of Total Information Awareness

Floyd |   fish tank tubing
Floyd | Ambulance (63)
Floyd |   goggles of alchemy
Floyd |   leather breeches of etiquette
Floyd |   bottle opener

Floyd | Aft Cargo Bay (67)

Floyd |   cocktail shaker
Floyd |   rune stones of recent acquaintance
Floyd |   Madagascar Dragon Tree
Floyd |   Orcish pie
Floyd |   wedding ring

Floyd | Sheriff's Office (73)

Floyd |   kitchen apron
Floyd |   diving helmet
Floyd |   can of beans
Floyd | Attic (77)
Floyd |   bobby pin

Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "hahaha"
Touchy says, "eh..what"
Benjor says, "try it again"
Fang says (to Floyd), "take off uniform"
Floyd | You take off the flight attendant uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Benjor says, "try tree multiple times"
Fang says (to Floyd), "x people"
Floyd | Members of the IF community. They are urging you to try out the game
DavidW says, "I don't remember those rooms and objects."
Floyd | on the laptop.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "tree"
Floyd | compass (6)
Floyd |  the north
Floyd |  the northeast


Floyd |  the northwest
Floyd |  the south
Floyd |  the southeast
Floyd |  the southwest
Floyd |  the east
Floyd |  the west


Floyd |  the up
Floyd |  the down
Floyd |  the inside
Floyd |  the outside
Floyd |  (LibraryMessages) (7)
Floyd |  (darkness object) (8)


Floyd |  (Inform Parser) (9)
Floyd |  (Inform Library) (10)
Floyd |  (property_numberspace_forcer) (11)
Floyd |  (ValuePropertyHolder) (31)
Floyd | Room 2305 (44)
Floyd |   people


Floyd |   floor
Floyd |   yourself
Floyd |     high-heeled shoes
Floyd |     flight attendant uniform
Floyd |     magic wand
Floyd |     twinkie


Floyd |     silver wings
Floyd |     name tag
Floyd |   desk
Floyd |     laptop
Floyd | Copying Room (55)
Floyd |   crowbar


Floyd |   wad of chewing gum
Floyd |   beanstalk seeds
Floyd |   unicycle
Floyd | Aix-la-Chapelle (60)
Floyd |   corn cob pipe
Floyd |   Paving Stone of Good Intention


Floyd |   kinky outfit
Floyd |   stovied totties
Floyd | Death Star, Command Deck (65)
Floyd |   earmuffs of stealth
Floyd |   can of depilatory cream (empty)
Floyd |   potion of chicken splendor


Floyd | Changing Room (69)
Floyd |   waffle iron
Floyd |   theatrical handcuffs
Floyd |   drink coasters
Floyd |   garden weasel
Floyd | The Khan's Pleasure Suite (74)


Floyd |   ballista
Floyd |   glockenspiel of prismatic monkey
Floyd |   caving gear
Floyd | Footbridge (78)
Floyd |   soap-on-a-rope
Floyd |   men at work sign


Floyd | Trash-strewn Alley (81)
Floyd |   escargot forks
Floyd |   accordion of gold
Floyd |   cantalope (half eaten)
Floyd |   irony detector
Floyd |


Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha ha"
dhakajack says, "the other debug commands are also implemented."
inky says, "presumably this is just a fake tree command to dick with the player"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "purloin earmuffs"
Floyd | You are too old-school for that -- purloining would offend your Lawful
Floyd | Good alignment. You resist the brief wave of kleptomania.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Benjor grins
inky asks, "what are the others? isn't there some kind of goto?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "gonear trophy"
Floyd | Your teleport spell fizzles.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "abstract caving gear to corn cob pipe"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | Four-hundred and eighty-six years, and you look like a supermodel
Floyd | (even more so, without your clothes). That's partly due to your

Floyd | inherently superior breeding, and partly attributable to the plastic
Floyd | surgery, cybernetic implants and magical enhancements all courtesy of

Floyd | The Republic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "showme me"
Floyd | Your powers of observation seem to have been affected by whatever

Floyd | spell hit the plane.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

dhakajack says, "We figured that given the context, most people playing this game would be pretty hard core."
PaulFurio says, "hello"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "showverb take"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "test"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Jack), "ITYM nerd core"
Benjor says (to paulfurio), "howdy"
dhakajack says, "ohhh... I like these other ones... definitely test and showverb...."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "win"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "sing"
Floyd | Your singing is abominable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "pray"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "swim"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
dhakajack says, "Well, we didn't do much in the way of library messages... that's going a bit far for speed if."
DavidW says, "sigh. pray and swim are no longer standard verbs."
Fang says (to Floyd), "diagnose"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says (to Floyd), "chant"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "rant"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Floyd), "pant"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "jump"
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
PaulFurio says, "it's a dry, godless world"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "darn"
Floyd | Quite.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
dhakajack says, "I was mainly thinking of I7 debugging verbs, like actions, rules, etc."
vaporware says (to Floyd), "actions"
Floyd | [the actions action - succeeded].
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "rules"
Floyd | Rules tracing now switched "on". Type "rules" to switch it off again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "look"
Floyd | Room 2305
Floyd | A room full of people who you have known from emails, usenet posts,
Floyd | forum discussions, chats on the IFmud, and of course, through their
Floyd | games. There are pockets of discussion about text adventures played in

Floyd | the past, and interactive fiction to be written in the future. The
Floyd | overall impression is one of warmth and welcomeness.

Floyd |
Floyd | On the desk is a laptop.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Rule "offer to write a paragraph about something, but don't really

Floyd | mean it" applies.]
Floyd | [Rule "things that man should not know" applies.]

Floyd | [Rule "Heisenburg uncertainty principle for objects other than cats"
Floyd | applies.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "look"
Floyd | Room 2305
Floyd | A room full of people who you have known from emails, usenet posts,
Floyd | forum discussions, chats on the IFmud, and of course, through their
Floyd | games. There are pockets of discussion about text adventures played in

Floyd | the past, and interactive fiction to be written in the future. The
Floyd | overall impression is one of warmth and welcomeness.

Floyd |
Jacqueline asks, "So... if we're going to try them all today, shall we move on?"
Floyd | On the desk is a laptop.

Floyd |
Floyd | [Rule "set pronouns to vaporize" applies.]

Floyd | [Rule "ignite flammable liquids" applies.]
Floyd | [Rule "conservation of energy" applies.]
Floyd | [Rule "don't mention things that haven't happened or aren't really
Floyd | likely to happen" applies.]

Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "ha ha ha"
vaporware says, "hee"
Benjor says, "LOL"
Fang asks, "what's next?"
Benjor says, "kids are pulling at me, I gotta run. thanks for the awesome testing."
Jacqueline says, "I think vortex."
inky says, "thanks for the game!"
Benjor will read transcripts later
Benjor When I need to kick back after a long day of changing 1???s into 0???s and 0???s into 1???s, nothing satisfies me more than a can of tuna. inky says, "ok, onwards!"
inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
inky says (to Floyd), "cf2" dhakajack exclaims, "OK, fire up the vortex!"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit"
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
inky says (to Floyd), "quit"
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>

inky says (to Floyd), "yes"
Floyd |

Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" inky says, "ha ha, whoops"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxvortex"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | PAX East, your first ever gaming convention!

Floyd | You've been psyched about this for months, and now here you are.  Wow.
Floyd |
Floyd | Granted, things didn't exactly get off to the best start... you showed
Floyd | up promptly at 2:00 (that's when they said the doors would open), but

Floyd | even at that point the queue was winding its way down three flights of
Floyd | stairs, out the front door, and a good ways down the block.  Needless

Floyd | to say, you didn't end up getting in to see Wil Wheaton give his
Floyd | keynote address, and you didn't end up with a wristband for the MC
Floyd | Frontalot concert.
Floyd |

Floyd | Oh well.  At least there won't be much competition to get into the
Floyd | 5:30 panel on Storytelling in the World of Interactive Fiction...

Floyd |
Floyd | Vortex 2305
Floyd | A PAXeast Speed IF by Jacqueline A. Lott
Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 100327 / Inform 7 build 5U92 (I6/v6.31 lib

Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd | A creation conceived in the People's Republik of Interactive Fiction,

Floyd | within a stone's throw of PAX East, March 27, 2010.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Handheld Lounge
Floyd | The "Handheld Lounge" (as it's labeled on your map) is just a long

Floyd | hallway, really.  There are bean bag bed things lining one side, upon
Floyd | which recline a variety of geeks.  Along the other side of the

Floyd | corridor is a line of queueing people... Gosh, what all those folks
Floyd | are in line to see?
Floyd |
Floyd | "Excuse me," you say to a random dude wearing one of the red ENFORCER

Floyd | t-shirts which helps him stand out as a PAX East volunteer. "What're
Floyd | all these people lining up for?"

Floyd |
Floyd | "Um, Storytelling in Interactive Fiction." he replies.
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel some slight resistance from your fake beard as your jaw

Floyd | practically hits the floor... all these people are in line for the IF
Floyd | panel?  Like, for reals?

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Limax exclaims, "To infinity and beyon!"
Limax says, "Dang... where's my d"
Jacqueline says, "This one should go pretty quickly."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a wizardhat (being worn)

Floyd |   a fakebeard (being worn)
Floyd |   a cloak (being worn)

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hat"
Floyd | It's a high pointed hat embroidered with astrological signs.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "heyyyy this one is by jacqueline"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "x fakebeard"
Floyd | It's a long, stringy, unkempt (and fake) beard.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
PaulFurio says, "gotta run"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cloak"
Floyd | It's a long cloak, just like the one worn by the Wizard of Frobozz.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
PaulFurio goes home. Limax asks (of inky), "Who's that?"
Jacqueline sticks her tongue out at Limax.
vaporware says, "aight, we need a robe to go with this wizard hat"
inky says, "well, she's a female author, so presumably imaginary"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "in"
Floyd | Leave?  Don't give up, get in line!
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Limax says, "Aha"
inky says (to Floyd), "cast magic missile at darkness"
Floyd | I don't know that spell.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get in line"
Floyd | The Handheld Lounge (in the great big line)
Floyd | Okay, you're in the line.  Little good it'll do you, though.  Doesn't

Floyd | look like you have a prayer of getting in to enjoy this panel
Floyd | discussion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "get in line"
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Limax asks, "A pseudonym, then?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x line"
Floyd | You're in the line to nowhere, probably.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sexy, tall chick in tight leather pants suddenly walks up to you.

Floyd | She is unlike any of the mere mortals in the line with you.  Her skin
Floyd | glows actinically. Her hair is thick, flowing over her shoulders and

Floyd | down her back like glorious strands of ebony-colored fettuccine.
Floyd | "Greetings, my brave wizard," she says to you, nodding in appreciation
Floyd | of your wardrobe choices.  "I honor your courage in having made the
Floyd | journey here.  You have travelled from afar, braving jetlag to join us

Floyd | for the time of reckoning.  The rest of the gaming community will come
Floyd | to appreciate the glory of interactive fiction... and you shall be a

Floyd | part of that."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Bu... but... the line!  I'll never make it to the head of the queue.
Floyd | It all begins here, and I haven't a prayer of getting in."

Floyd |
Floyd | She leans down, her lobster red lips only inches from your own, and

Floyd | for a moment you find it difficult to breathe... but then you do
Floyd | breathe, and you think you can smell mango on her breath.  "Hush,
Floyd | handsome sorcerer," she says.  "You are in Boston.  Has not Boston
Floyd | been the site of many adversities?  When America desired freedom, was

Floyd | Boston not the site of so many events that led up to the historic
Floyd | break from Britain? When the people of Ireland suffered from famine,

Floyd | was it not Boston who took in the hungry, and filled them with hope
Floyd | and determination?"  Her gaze seems to penetrate into your very soul,
Floyd | and you are unable to speak.  "Yes," she continues, "And so too shall
Floyd | Boston be the site where the greater world rediscovered interactive

Floyd | fiction.  And you, my dear wizard, you shall be a part of that.  Take
Floyd | this," she says, "...and don't forget to catch the >Get Lamp premier

Floyd | this evening."
Floyd |
Floyd | The mysterious woman hads you a slip of paper, then floats off down
Floyd | the hallway, a lightness in her step that seems to defy gravity.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Fang says (to Floyd), "pray" inky says, "I like that the names in your inventory have no spaces"
Floyd | Having abandoned church for gaming long ago, nothing useful results

Floyd | from your prayer.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Touchy says, "I have to go."
inky says (to Floyd), "x paper"
Floyd | It's a small piece of parchment, upon which is written a single word:
Floyd | XYZZY.  You knew of the word, of course, knew it to be a word of

Floyd | power, but now, in reading it, you are imbued with new knowledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Perhaps you'll make that Storytelling in Interactive Fiction panel
Floyd | after all.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Touchy says, "But I'll be back at midnight and try to convince you guys to play werewolf."
inky says (to Touchy), "byebye"
Touchy says, "So await me ready and convincable."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd | At the mere thougt of uttering the word aloud, a power begins to flow
Floyd | through you. "XYZZY!" you cry, and you are suddenly transported...
DavidW presses the yellow enter button.
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | This is it!  The panel!  You settle in to a chair in the front row,
Floyd | and a delighted to watch the room fill to capacity... so many people
Floyd | interested in interactive fiction... who knew?
Floyd |

Floyd | The speakers arrive, the panel begins, and it turns out to be the
Floyd | beinning of what turns out to be an amazing, unbelievable weekend.

Floyd | You are swept away in the vortex of rediscovery, find yourself
Floyd | immersed in many thought-provoking and inspiring conversations in the
Floyd | IF Hospitality Suite in room 2305 of the Hilton.  Even when you return
Floyd | to your Real Life, the wizard garb neatly tucked away, you keep a bit

Floyd | of that empowerment within you, and begin churning out miniepisodic IF
Floyd | that generates enough income for you to write interactive fiction full

Floyd | time.  In the years to come, your ability to concentrate exclusively
Floyd | on the art takes IF in amazing new directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...and all because you dared to dress up in a Wizard of Frobozz

Floyd | costume when you went to PAX East!
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have changed history! ***
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT?
Floyd | >
DavidW presses the yellow enter button.
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |

Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT?
Floyd | >
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |

Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT?
Floyd | >
Ellison says, "woo"
Fang says, "wow, that was shourt"
Jacqueline says, "You did miss some scenery and a semi-pseudo-easter-egg"
DavidW asks, "Where was the Vortex?"
Limax asks, "Truly a speed if?"
inky asks, "wait, that was the whole game?"
Fang says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Fang says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |

Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT?
Floyd | >
Jacqueline | You are swept away in the vortex of rediscovery, find yourself immersed in many thought-provoking and inspiring conversations in the IF Hospitality Suite in room 2305 of the Hilton.
Jacqueline says (to inky), "Yeah, you guys just did the two commands that win it very quickly."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | PAX East, your first ever gaming convention!

Floyd | You've been psyched about this for months, and now here you are.  Wow.
Floyd |
Floyd | Granted, things didn't exactly get off to the best start... you showed

Floyd | up promptly at 2:00 (that's when they said the doors would open), but
Floyd | even at that point the queue was winding its way down three flights of
Floyd | stairs, out the front door, and a good ways down the block.  Needless

Floyd | to say, you didn't end up getting in to see Wil Wheaton give his
Floyd | keynote address, and you didn't end up with a wristband for the MC
Floyd | Frontalot concert.

Floyd |
Floyd | Oh well.  At least there won't be much competition to get into the
Floyd | 5:30 panel on Storytelling in the World of Interactive Fiction...

Floyd |
Floyd | Vortex 2305
Floyd | A PAXeast Speed IF by Jacqueline A. Lott

Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 100327 / Inform 7 build 5U92 (I6/v6.31 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd | A creation conceived in the People's Republik of Interactive Fiction,

Floyd | within a stone's throw of PAX East, March 27, 2010.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Handheld Lounge

Floyd | The "Handheld Lounge" (as it's labeled on your map) is just a long
Floyd | hallway, really.  There are bean bag bed things lining one side, upon
Floyd | which recline a variety of geeks.  Along the other side of the

Floyd | corridor is a line of queueing people... Gosh, what all those folks
Floyd | are in line to see?
Floyd |

Floyd | "Excuse me," you say to a random dude wearing one of the red ENFORCER
Floyd | t-shirts which helps him stand out as a PAX East volunteer. "What're
Floyd | all these people lining up for?"

Floyd |
Floyd | "Um, Storytelling in Interactive Fiction." he replies.
Floyd |

Floyd | You feel some slight resistance from your fake beard as your jaw
Floyd | practically hits the floor... all these people are in line for the IF
Floyd | panel?  Like, for reals?

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | You adjust your fake beard, hoping that you don't look too silly...
Floyd | It's a gaming con, so you figured there'd be lots of dressed up

Floyd | people, but you seem to be in the minority.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x enforcer"
Floyd | He may be wearing a bright red shirt that says ENFORCER on the back,

Floyd | but you know that deep down he is a geek, just like you.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "line"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd | You've heard that word before, you know it from the games you've
Floyd | enjoyed over the years, but it's just a made-up word.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x line"
inky says (to Floyd), "remove beard"
Floyd | There's a ton of people in a very lengthy line... apparently the line
Floyd | for the 5:30 panel on Storytelling in the World of Interactive

Floyd | Fiction.
Floyd |
Floyd | Crap, your chances of getting in to see Andrew Plotkin are dwindling
Floyd | fast.  You'd better get in the queue.

Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss enforcer"
Floyd | >
Floyd | You take off the fakebeard.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Keep your mind on the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "remove hat"
Floyd | You can't remove any part of your costume... you're feeling pretty

Floyd | silly, but at least no one can recognize you.  You're sort of
Floyd | committed now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "ACK! You shouldn't be able to remove the beard. Huh."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to geek"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

vaporware says (to Floyd), "doff cloak"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x geek"
Floyd | You take off the cloak.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You pick one of them out of the crowd and size him up: white t-shirt
Floyd | which reads "I'm only here because my server is down".  Yep, this is
Floyd | PAX, and these are your people.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

dhakajack says (to Floyd), "put beard on enforcer"
Floyd | Putting things on the Enforcer would achieve nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x line"
Floyd | There's a ton of people in a very lengthy line... apparently the line
Floyd | for the 5:30 panel on Storytelling in the World of Interactive
Floyd | Fiction.
Floyd |

Floyd | Crap, your chances of getting in to see Robb Sherwin are dwindling

Floyd | fast.  You'd better get in the queue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "put on my robe and wizard hat"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "kiss enforcer"
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x geek"
Floyd | You pick one of them out of the crowd and size her up: black t-shirt

Floyd | which reads "This is just my avatar".  Yep, this is PAX, and these are
Floyd | your people.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask geek about line"
Floyd | "Um, dude, I just got here, and I don't have a clue about any of this
Floyd | stuff."
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask geek about line"
Floyd | "I'm having trouble taking someone like you seriously... check out
Floyd | your stupid wizard costume!"
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask geek about line"
Floyd | "Sorry, man, I'm really just scenery."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "And then the only other thing is..."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask geek about interactive fiction"
Floyd | "Um, dude, I just got here, and I don't have a clue about any of this
Floyd | stuff."
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "filch"
Floyd | You wrinkle your eyebrows, put on your best Wizard of Frobozz voice,
Floyd | and shout the magic word.  Unfortunately, your costume is fake, you
Floyd | are a fake, and the spell does nothing.  You are still stuck in line.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "awww"
Jacqueline says, "And that is implemented for all the original Zork II spells."
vaporware says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd | You've heard that word before, you know it from the games you've
Floyd | enjoyed over the years, but it's just a made-up word.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "plugh"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "guncho"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Okay, that is all there is to my little shadow of a game."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "freeze"
Floyd | You wrinkle your eyebrows, put on your best Wizard of Frobozz voice,
Floyd | and shout the magic word.  Unfortunately, your costume is fake, you
Floyd | are a fake, and the spell does nothing.  You are still stuck in line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "There are, like, 14 of them. Though I can't seem to recall them all."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "fence"
Floyd | You wrinkle your eyebrows, put on your best Wizard of Frobozz voice,
Floyd | and shout the magic word.  Unfortunately, your costume is fake, you
Floyd | are a fake, and the spell does nothing.  You are still stuck in line.


DavidW says (to Floyd), "frobozz"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "fierce"
Floyd | You wrinkle your eyebrows, put on your best Wizard of Frobozz voice,
Floyd | and shout the magic word.  Unfortunately, your costume is fake, you
Floyd | are a fake, and the spell does nothing.  You are still stuck in line.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "fudge"
Floyd | You wrinkle your eyebrows, put on your best Wizard of Frobozz voice,
Floyd | and shout the magic word.  Unfortunately, your costume is fake, you


Floyd | are a fake, and the spell does nothing.  You are still stuck in line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to DW), "yay"
Jacqueline says, "So... next? (I told you mine was quick!)"
JayBot asks, "What's next?"
Jacqueline says, "I got wrapped up in conversations isntead of coding that day, obviously."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q"
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd |
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" inky says, "go for it"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxvwspeedif"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |


Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bags are shipped ahead, you've got your ticket, and you're ready


Floyd | to head off to the 1846 Better Living Through Wizardry convention in
Floyd | Boston. Now you just have to get there...
Floyd |
Floyd | PAX East 2010 Speed-IF
Floyd | by Jesse McGrew & Kate Matthews
Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 100403


Floyd |
Floyd | Broom Station Lobby
Floyd | The broken-down brooms scattered around the lobby suggest that this
Floyd | broom station hasn't been well maintained. A musty smell wafts in from
Floyd | the platforms, one to the east and one to the west.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "smell"
Floyd | I don't know the word "smell".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky asks, "this one is in zil, right?"
inky says (to Floyd), "version"
Floyd | PAX East 2010 Speed-IF
Floyd | by Jesse McGrew & Kate Matthews

Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 100403

Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says, "yeah"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" Jacqueline says, "z3"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    ticket
Floyd | You haven't learned any spells.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "awesome"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ticket"
Floyd | This ticket is valid for one round trip on any broom route.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | You look like you're up for an adventure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "so, we need a broom, I guess."
DavidW asks, "west or east?"
Jacqueline says, "Or to visit the platforms"
Jacqueline asks, "Right. Um, west?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | West Platform
Floyd | A sign above the platform reads: 'Broom 431 to Boston'. The lobby is
Floyd | back to the east.
Floyd | A broom hovers on the platform, ready to be boarded.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x broom"
Floyd | This broom is crafted from smooth cherry wood and bears the
Floyd | inscription '431'. To board it, you'll need to insert a ticket in the

Floyd | slot.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Eep. Should we?"
dhakajack says, "Sure"
DavidW says, "I guess so. We can restart if we goof up."
Jacqueline says, "True enough."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "board broom"
Floyd | The broom bucks you off! You'll need to insert a ticket first.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "insert ticket"
Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put ticket in broom"
Floyd | You slide the ticket into the broom's ticket slot, and the broom
Floyd | shakes in a welcoming fashion. You climb aboard, and the broom tilts

Floyd | back and rockets up through the stratosphere.
Floyd |

Floyd | As you learned back in wizard academy, long-distance broom travel
Floyd | relies on the low gravity of outer space, and only became practical
Floyd | when the lesoch spell was invented to allow travelers to breathe on
Floyd | the journey. Luckily, you had the foresight to add the lesoch option

Floyd | to your ticket!
Floyd |

Floyd | After a few short minutes, the broom falls back to earth, and you step
Floyd | off on the roof of the Boston Convention Center.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof of the Boston Convention Center

Floyd | A cold, blustery wind blows past you. The stairs leading down to the
Floyd | lobby are behind a doorway.

Floyd | There is a bowl of fettucini and a scroll here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd | I didn't expect the word "all" there.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take fettucini"
Floyd | You pick up the bowl of fettucini.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take scroll"
Floyd | You pick up the scroll.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it"
Floyd | As you read the scroll, the malyon spell burns itself into your mind.
Floyd | The scroll turns to dust.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x scroll"
Floyd | You don't see that here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oops."
Jacqueline says, "That's okay."
DavidW says, "Hope we don't need a spellbook."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "spells"
Floyd | I don't know the word "spells".

Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I think we have our brain"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x brain"
Floyd | I don't know the word "brain".

Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x memory"
Floyd | I don't know the word "memory".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:

Floyd |    bowl of fettucini

Floyd | You have learned the spells:
Floyd |    malyon (animate)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
dhakajack says, "Mmmm... braaainnss."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x malyon"
Floyd | I didn't expect the word "malyon" there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "malyon fettucini"
Floyd | You cast malyon at the bowl of fettucini, and the noodles turn into
Floyd | snakes! The snakes slither under the door, and perhaps to thank you
Floyd | for granting them life, they unlock it for you. You climb downstairs
Floyd | to the lobby.


Floyd |
Floyd | Convention Center Lobby
Floyd | Many things are going on at this convention, but the one you're
Floyd | interested in right now is the Transubstantiation panel, through a
Floyd | maze of queue barriers to the north.
Floyd | There is a fuzz, a crud, and a lamp here.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "haha"
inky says, "ha ha"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fuzz"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take fuzz"
Floyd | It's a worthless piece of fuzz.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | You pick up the fuzz.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crud"
Floyd | It's a worthless piece of crud.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
Jacqueline steps back.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take crud"
Floyd | You pick up the crud.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lamp"
Floyd | It's made of brass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "get lamp"
Floyd | You pick up the lamp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on lamp"
Floyd | That's not something you can switch on and off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub lamp"
Floyd | I don't know the word "rub".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "malyon fuzz"
Floyd | Nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "malyon crud"
Floyd | Nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:

Floyd |    lamp (providing light)
Floyd |    crud
Floyd |    fuzz

Floyd |    bowl of fettucini
Floyd | You have learned the spells:
Floyd |    malyon (animate)

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | Undo only works in games of zcode version 5 and higher.
Floyd | >

dhakajack says (to Floyd), "malyon barriers"
Floyd | I don't know the word "barriers".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "malyon bowl"
Floyd | You cast malyon at the bowl of fettucini, and the noodles turn into
Floyd | snakes! The snakes slither under the door, and perhaps to thank you
Floyd | for granting them life, they unlock it for you. You climb downstairs
Floyd | to the lobby.

Floyd |
Floyd | Convention Center Lobby

Floyd | Many things are going on at this convention, but the one you're
Floyd | interested in right now is the Transubstantiation panel, through a
Floyd | maze of queue barriers to the north.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks (of DW), "/undo?"
Jacqueline says, "Though, perhaps not at all."
inky says, "ha ha"
Jacqueline says, "Smoke and mirrors. I like,"
vaporware says, "heh, oops"
DavidW says, "well, I found a bug backdoor back to the start of the maze."
DavidW asks, "so, do we brave the maze or return to the broom station?"
JayBot exclaims (at vaporware), "ZIL speak here, but IMHO holding the bowl when you malyon it should cause an immediate JIGS-UP!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Convention Center Lobby
Floyd | Many things are going on at this convention, but the one you're
Floyd | interested in right now is the Transubstantiation panel, through a
Floyd | maze of queue barriers to the north.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop fuzz"
Floyd | You drop the fuzz.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

vaporware says (to JayBot), "They're friendly snakes!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop crud"
Floyd | You drop the crud.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    lamp (providing light)
Floyd |    bowl of fettucini
Floyd | You have learned the spells:


Floyd |    malyon (animate)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "fly"
Floyd | I don't know the word "fly".


Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.


Floyd | There is a crud here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Queue


Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd | There is a scroll here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take scroll"
Floyd | You pick up the scroll.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" Jacqueline says, "ooh"
Floyd | The scroll has the spuddo ("transmute fruit into tubers") spell
Floyd | inscribed on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "ha"
inky says, "ha ha"
Jacqueline says, "read it!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read scroll"
Floyd | As you read the scroll, the spuddo spell burns itself into your mind.
Floyd | The scroll turns to dust.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
dhakajack says, "I sense a Mango in our future...."
Limax says, "I've never heard of mangoes in Boston"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd | There is a fuzz here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd | There is a crud here.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
Fang asks, "anyone mapping this place?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
DavidW says, "nope"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "IRTA tapirs, not tubers. I must admit some slight disappointment. Though perhaps the tubers can be malyonned into tapirs."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd | There is a fuzz here.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I like tapirs."
RootShell says, "Hello All :)"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd | There is a fuzz here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Convention Center Lobby
Floyd | Many things are going on at this convention, but the one you're
Floyd | interested in right now is the Transubstantiation panel, through a
Floyd | maze of queue barriers to the north.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to RootShell), "Bom dia!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd | There is a crud here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd | There is a fuzz here.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Convention Center Lobby
Floyd | Many things are going on at this convention, but the one you're
Floyd | interested in right now is the Transubstantiation panel, through a


Floyd | maze of queue barriers to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says, "I'm actually amazed that when I played this, I got through the maze"
DavidW asks, "Perhaps we should find more junk to help map it?"
JayBot says, "I think I can get us through this one if you want"
JayBot says, "This maze, that is"
JayBot says, "We have the bowl"
DavidW asks, "yeah, but is that enough?"
dhakajack says, "If only there were one long strand of fettucine, we could use it to find our way through the maze..."
RootShell says, "Jacqueline: It's "Boa Noite!" It's already 22:26 here"
DavidW says, "I'm guessing there's at least six rooms to this."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue

Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue

Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd | There is a fuzz here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd | There is a crud here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
RootShell says, "Jacqueline: It's 'Boa Noite!' It's already 22:26 here"
Jacqueline says (to RS), "Ah, right. I keep thinking you're in Brazil!"
Jacqueline says, "I do not know why I think this!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Queue

Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Limax asks (of RootShell), "How about I just say 'hello'?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop bowl"
Floyd | You drop the bowl of fettucini.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "I guess because I took Portuguese from a Brazillian, and this associate the two."
Jacqueline says, "er, s/this/thus"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.

Floyd | There is a fuzz here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "But I did know you were in Portugal."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | As you enter the panel room, a man hands you a mango.
Floyd | Transubstantiation Panel Hall

Floyd | The room is filled with people holding mangoes, gazing intently at the
Floyd | chalkboard at the front of the room, but the speaker seems to have
Floyd | left. Guess you arrived late.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
RootShell says, "Once again i forgot the Ifmud commands for the chat... will be right back (looking it up again)"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mango"
Floyd | It's yellowish orange, with a bruise on it, and a little squishy.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "x board"
Floyd | The chalkboard reads: 'Exercise 1: Ireland is experiencing severe

Floyd | famine due to the potato blight. How can magic solve this problem?'
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "spuddo mango"
Floyd | You cast spuddo at the mango, and it turns into a potato!
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly, the door opens behind you and a grey-haired wizard bursts
Floyd | in. "Yes, you've got it!" he says. Addressing the rest of the room, he

Floyd | says, "You louts had better take a long look at yourselves. I've been
Floyd | gone for 45 minutes and none of you figured that out? Shameful! Get

Floyd | out of this convention--no, get out of Boston!"
Floyd |
Floyd | He wiggles his fingers, and the other attendees vanish with an actinic
Floyd | flash of light. The wizard turns back to you. "Now, maybe you can help

Floyd | me with the other panel I'm running. These horrible sea bugs just
Floyd | aren't as lively as the guy at the store said they'd be."

Floyd |
Floyd | He wiggles his fingers again and a new door appears in the wall; you
Floyd | follow him through.
Floyd |

Floyd | Magic in Education Panel Hall
Floyd | A banner hanging from the ceiling reads: 'Battle of Bunker Hill'. A

Floyd | crowd of spectators is gathered around a small pit in the center of
Floyd | the room. In the pit are a dozen lethargic lobsters, barely moving.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "TransMUTE. TransMUTE!"
Limax exclaims, "Reboot reboot!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lobsters"
Floyd | Some of them are dressed as redcoats, others as revolutionary
Floyd | soldiers. But none of them are moving very much.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    potato

Floyd |    lamp (providing light)

Floyd | You have learned the spells:
Floyd |    malyon (animate)
Floyd |    spuddo (transmute fruit into tubers)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "malyon lobsters"
Floyd | You cast malyon at the pit of lobsters, and suddenly they spring to
Floyd | life! They raise their pincers and scuttle towards each other...
Floyd |
Floyd | After several minutes of fevered pincing, the revolutionary lobsters


Floyd | scurry away. The redcoat lobsters are victorious, but at great cost:
Floyd | most of them are lying stunned, pinced into unconsciousness. A Pyrrhic
Floyd | victory.
Floyd |
Floyd | The wizard slaps you on the back. "Fantastic! I knew there was a spell
Floyd | that would help here, but I must have dropped the scroll when I got


Floyd | off my broom this morning. You've saved my panel! Take this as a token
Floyd | of my appreciation."
Floyd |
Floyd | He pulls a diamond-encrusted wizard hat from his robe and hands it to
Floyd | you.
Floyd | Best swag ever. You win!


Floyd | ***** The game is over *****
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART or QUIT? >
DavidW says, "yay, we won. But I wonder what was east of the broom station."
Fang asks, "he was wearing a wizard hat on his robe?"
Limax says, "An easter egg"
Ellison says, "the station to Miami"
JayBot asks, "Uh, no restore?"
Jacqueline says, "Not in zil"
inky says, "huurah"
inky says, "er, hurrah"
JayBot asks (of vaporware), "Does it remember that we never saved?"
vaporware says, "Yeah, there are one or two easter eggs."
Jacqueline says (to inky), "hurr hurr hurr"
DavidW says, "We never malyon'ed the potato."
Jacqueline says, "I want it to turn into a tapir."
JayBot says (to vaporware), "i just knew someone was gonna try take all, and I knew it wouldn't work."
DavidW asks, "That's a tall thin candle, right?"
JayBot exclaims, "I can show you a few easter eggs. Hey, it's almost Easter anyway!"
DavidW says (to JayBot), "fine by me."
JayBot says (to Floyd), "restart"
Floyd |

Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |

Floyd | Your bags are shipped ahead, you've got your ticket, and you're ready
Floyd | to head off to the 1846 Better Living Through Wizardry convention in
Floyd | Boston. Now you just have to get there...
Floyd |
Floyd | PAX East 2010 Speed-IF

Floyd | by Jesse McGrew & Kate Matthews

Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 100403
Floyd |
Floyd | Broom Station Lobby
Floyd | The broken-down brooms scattered around the lobby suggest that this
Floyd | broom station hasn't been well maintained. A musty smell wafts in from

Floyd | the platforms, one to the east and one to the west.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | East Platform

Floyd | A sign above the platform reads: 'Broom 692 to Tampa'. The lobby is

Floyd | back to the west.
Floyd | A broom hovers on the platform, ready to be boarded.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "put ticket in slot"
Floyd | You slide the ticket into the broom's ticket slot, and the broom
Floyd | shakes in a welcoming fashion. You climb aboard, and the broom tilts
Floyd | back and rockets up through the stratosphere.
Floyd |

Floyd | As you learned back in wizard academy, long-distance broom travel
Floyd | relies on the low gravity of outer space, and only became practical

Floyd | when the lesoch spell was invented to allow travelers to breathe on
Floyd | the journey. Luckily, you had the foresight to add the lesoch option
Floyd | to your ticket!
Floyd |

Floyd | After a few short minutes, the broom falls back to earth, and you step
Floyd | off in the middle of the Tampa Feminist Witches' Retreat.

Floyd | Unfortunately, the convention is in Boston, and you spent your last
Floyd | wizbuck on that ticket!
Floyd | ***** The game is over *****
Floyd |

Floyd | Would you like to RESTART or QUIT? >
DavidW says, "'wizbuck'"
JayBot says (to Floyd), "/undo"
Floyd |

JayBot says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Broom Station Lobby
Floyd | The broken-down brooms scattered around the lobby suggest that this
Floyd | broom station hasn't been well maintained. A musty smell wafts in from
Floyd | the platforms, one to the east and one to the west.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | West Platform

Floyd | A sign above the platform reads: 'Broom 431 to Boston'. The lobby is
Floyd | back to the east.
Floyd | A broom hovers on the platform, ready to be boarded.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "put ticket in slot"
Floyd | You slide the ticket into the broom's ticket slot, and the broom
Floyd | shakes in a welcoming fashion. You climb aboard, and the broom tilts

Floyd | back and rockets up through the stratosphere.
Floyd |

Floyd | As you learned back in wizard academy, long-distance broom travel
Floyd | relies on the low gravity of outer space, and only became practical
Floyd | when the lesoch spell was invented to allow travelers to breathe on
Floyd | the journey. Luckily, you had the foresight to add the lesoch option

Floyd | to your ticket!
Floyd |

Floyd | After a few short minutes, the broom falls back to earth, and you step
Floyd | off on the roof of the Boston Convention Center.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof of the Boston Convention Center

Floyd | A cold, blustery wind blows past you. The stairs leading down to the
Floyd | lobby are behind a doorway.

Floyd | There is a bowl of fettucini and a scroll here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "door"
Floyd | That sentence has no verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says, "A Witches' retreat in Tampa? That wouldn't be cold at all!"
JayBot says (to Floyd), "x door"
Floyd | The door is locked, but there's a gap underneath.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "x gap"
Floyd | It's just big enough for a snake to crawl through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd | You don't know that spell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look through keyhole"
Floyd | I don't know the word "through".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Sorry, had to step away. People inviting me to supper."
JayBot says (to Floyd), "plugh"
Floyd | You don't know that spell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x keyhole"
Floyd | I don't know the word "keyhole".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "guncho"
Floyd | You feel the overwhelming urge to visit Guncho online at

Floyd | www.guncho.com or connect to game.guncho.com port 4108.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot exclaims, "Hahahahahaa!"
JayBot says (to Floyd), "ifmud"
Floyd | I don't know the word "ifmud".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "zilf"
Floyd | I don't know the word "zilf".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "zil"
Floyd | I don't know the word "zil".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "read scroll"
Floyd | As you read the scroll, the malyon spell burns itself into your mind.
Floyd | The scroll turns to dust.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison says, "yay guncho"
JayBot says (to Floyd), "malyon bowl"
Floyd | You cast malyon at the bowl of fettucini, and the noodles turn into

Floyd | snakes! The snakes slither under the door, and perhaps to thank you
Floyd | for granting them life, they unlock it for you. You climb downstairs
Floyd | to the lobby.

Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "gnusto"
Floyd | Convention Center Lobby
Floyd | Many things are going on at this convention, but the one you're
Floyd | interested in right now is the Transubstantiation panel, through a

Floyd | maze of queue barriers to the north.
Floyd | There is a fuzz, a crud, and a lamp here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | I don't know the word "gnusto".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Belatedly, this is a tapir: [LINK]"
Jacqueline says, "It is not a candle."
JayBot says (to Floyd), "get fuzz"
Floyd | You pick up the fuzz.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "get crud"
Floyd | You pick up the crud.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Darkness
Floyd | It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Darkness
Floyd | It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Darkness
Floyd | It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "tres weird."
Jacqueline says, "Ha. I picked up the crud while I was at the convention, too."
JayBot says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Convention Center Lobby

Floyd | Many things are going on at this convention, but the one you're

Floyd | interested in right now is the Transubstantiation panel, through a
Floyd | maze of queue barriers to the north.
Floyd | There is a lamp here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "get lamp"
Floyd | You pick up the lamp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd | There is a scroll here.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "read scroll"
Floyd | As you read the scroll, the spuddo spell burns itself into your mind.
Floyd | The scroll turns to dust.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Convention Center Lobby
Floyd | Many things are going on at this convention, but the one you're
Floyd | interested in right now is the Transubstantiation panel, through a


Floyd | maze of queue barriers to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue


Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Queue


Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You can't go that way.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Convention Center Lobby
Floyd | Many things are going on at this convention, but the one you're
Floyd | interested in right now is the Transubstantiation panel, through a
Floyd | maze of queue barriers to the north.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.


Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "drop fuzz"
Floyd | You drop the fuzz.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "drop crud"
Floyd | You drop the crud.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

JayBot says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | As you enter the panel room, a man hands you a mango.
Floyd | Transubstantiation Panel Hall
Floyd | The room is filled with people holding mangoes, gazing intently at the
Floyd | chalkboard at the front of the room, but the speaker seems to have


Floyd | left. Guess you arrived late.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says, "Here's another one"
JayBot says (to Floyd), "eat mango"
Floyd | Ugh! That was a mealy one. Bad season for mangoes.
Floyd | Someone taps you on the shoulder and hands you another mango.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Queue
Floyd | You are in a twisting path of queue barriers, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "eat manog"
Floyd | I don't know the word "manog".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heehee"
JayBot says (to Floyd), "eat mango"
Floyd | Ugh! That was a mealy one. Bad season for mangoes.
Floyd | Someone throws you another mango from further down in the queue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JayBot says (to Floyd), "spuddo mango"
Floyd | You cast spuddo at the mango, and it turns into a potato!
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly, a grey-haired wizard appears from the queue. "Yes, you've
Floyd | got it!" he says, leading you back to the Transubstantiation Panel
Floyd | Hall. Addressing the rest of the room, he says, "You louts had better
Floyd | take a long look at yourselves. I've been gone for 45 minutes and none


Floyd | of you figured that out? Shameful! Get out of this convention--no, get
Floyd | out of Boston!"
Floyd |
Floyd | He wiggles his fingers, and the other attendees vanish with an actinic
Floyd | flash of light. The wizard turns back to you. "Now, maybe you can help
Floyd | me with the other panel I'm running. These horrible sea bugs just


Floyd | aren't as lively as the guy at the store said they'd be."
Floyd |
Floyd | He wiggles his fingers again and a new door appears in the wall; you
Floyd | follow him through.
Floyd |
Floyd | Magic in Education Panel Hall


Floyd | A banner hanging from the ceiling reads: 'Battle of Bunker Hill'. A
Floyd | crowd of spectators is gathered around a small pit in the center of
Floyd | the room. In the pit are a dozen lethargic lobsters, barely moving.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Limax says, "My kids love frozen mangoes"
Fang asks, "that works?"
JayBot says (to Floyd), "malyon bugs"
Floyd | You cast malyon at the pit of lobsters, and suddenly they spring to
Floyd | life! They raise their pincers and scuttle towards each other...


Floyd |
Floyd | After several minutes of fevered pincing, the revolutionary lobsters
Floyd | scurry away. The redcoat lobsters are victorious, but at great cost:
Floyd | most of them are lying stunned, pinced into unconsciousness. A Pyrrhic
Floyd | victory.
Floyd |


Floyd | The wizard slaps you on the back. "Fantastic! I knew there was a spell
Floyd | that would help here, but I must have dropped the scroll when I got
Floyd | off my broom this morning. You've saved my panel! Take this as a token
Floyd | of my appreciation."
Floyd |
Floyd | He pulls a diamond-encrusted wizard hat from his robe and hands it to


Floyd | you.
Floyd | Best swag ever. You win!
Floyd | ***** The game is over *****
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART or QUIT? >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "/undo"
Floyd |
JayBot asks (of vaporware), "Did I miss anything?"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "eat potato"
Floyd | Ugh! That was a mealy one. Bad season for potatoes, too.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heehee"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "restart"
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart?
Floyd |  (y/n) >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | Your bags are shipped ahead, you've got your ticket, and you're ready
Floyd | to head off to the 1846 Better Living Through Wizardry convention in
Floyd | Boston. Now you just have to get there...
Floyd |

Floyd | PAX East 2010 Speed-IF

Floyd | by Jesse McGrew & Kate Matthews
Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 100403
Floyd |
Floyd | Broom Station Lobby
Floyd | The broken-down brooms scattered around the lobby suggest that this

Floyd | broom station hasn't been well maintained. A musty smell wafts in from

Floyd | the platforms, one to the east and one to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:

Floyd |    ticket
Floyd | You haven't learned any spells.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

vaporware says (to Floyd), "eat ticket"
Floyd | Come to think of it, you are pretty hungry. The ticket tastes like a
Floyd | Domino's pizza, but you manage to scarf it down. Of course, now you
Floyd | have no way to get to the convention.
Floyd | ***** The game is over *****

Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART or QUIT? >

DavidW says, "ha"
Jacqueline says, "heehee"
dhakajack says, "That was the unconventional ending..."
Jacqueline says, "Nice."
vaporware says (to Floyd), "restart"
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | Your bags are shipped ahead, you've got your ticket, and you're ready
Floyd | to head off to the 1846 Better Living Through Wizardry convention in
Floyd | Boston. Now you just have to get there...

Floyd |
Floyd | PAX East 2010 Speed-IF
Floyd | by Jesse McGrew & Kate Matthews

Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 100403
Floyd |
Floyd | Broom Station Lobby

Floyd | The broken-down brooms scattered around the lobby suggest that this
Floyd | broom station hasn't been well maintained. A musty smell wafts in from
Floyd | the platforms, one to the east and one to the west.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd | I don't know the word "y".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | West Platform

Floyd | A sign above the platform reads: 'Broom 431 to Boston'. The lobby is
Floyd | back to the east.
Floyd | A broom hovers on the platform, ready to be boarded.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "put me in slot"
Floyd | It's a ticket slot, not a you slot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Fang says (to Floyd), "eat broom"
Floyd | That's hardly edible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "put ticket in slot"
Floyd | You slide the ticket into the broom's ticket slot, and the broom
Floyd | shakes in a welcoming fashion. You climb aboard, and the broom tilts
Floyd | back and rockets up through the stratosphere.
Floyd |


Floyd | As you learned back in wizard academy, long-distance broom travel
Floyd | relies on the low gravity of outer space, and only became practical
Floyd | when the lesoch spell was invented to allow travelers to breathe on
Floyd | the journey. Luckily, you had the foresight to add the lesoch option
Floyd | to your ticket!
Floyd |


Floyd | After a few short minutes, the broom falls back to earth, and you step
Floyd | off on the roof of the Boston Convention Center.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof of the Boston Convention Center
Floyd | A cold, blustery wind blows past you. The stairs leading down to the
Floyd | lobby are behind a doorway.


Floyd | There is a bowl of fettucini and a scroll here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "read scroll"
Floyd | As you read the scroll, the malyon spell burns itself into your mind.


Floyd | The scroll turns to dust.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "eat fettucini"
Floyd | You slurp down the fettucini. Delicious! But you're still stuck on the


Floyd | roof, and eventually you starve to death. How ironic.
Floyd | ***** The game is over *****
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART or QUIT? >
inky says, "ha ha"
RootShell asks, "any linuxers here care to tell me the best (aka working perfectly well) iFmd client they use?"
vaporware says, "Those are all the endings."
Jacqueline says, "That was the best one, yeah."
Jacqueline says, "Okay... one more, methinks."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit"
Floyd | Thanks for playing.
Floyd |
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxwizshop"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Your partner is going to prepare dinner tonight. In exchange, you
Floyd | agreed to go on a shopping trip. You don't expect to need to cast any

Floyd | spells while you shop, but you've brought your trusty spell book just

Floyd | in case.
Floyd |
Floyd | A Wizard Goes Shopping
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Kevin Jackson-Mead
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 100327 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib

Floyd | 6/12N)

Floyd |
Floyd | Minuteman Foods
Floyd | This is the entrance of Minuteman Foods. A vast array of aisles spread
Floyd | out in either direction.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | You're a harried wizard, trying to get the ingredients for dinner.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" schep says (to RootShell), "tf, and see bb #tf"
Floyd | You are carrying:

Floyd |   a spell book
Floyd |   a shopping list

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Doug says, "yay Kevin's game"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x list"
Floyd | This is your shopping list for dinner. You're a little afraid of what

Floyd | the lobster-mango fettuccine will taste like, but you're more afraid
Floyd | of not bringing back the ingredients:
Floyd |  a lobster

Floyd |  a mango
Floyd |  a box of fettuccine
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "There was a lot of lobster mango fettuccine in this comp, wasn't there?"
dhakajack says, "It sounds more reasonable everytime I read it."
Jacqueline asks, "Also, wait... no cream sauce?"
Jacqueline says (to Jack), "ha"
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x aisles"
Floyd | The aisles are labeled "Seafood," "Produce," "Pasta," and "Clothing."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x book"
Floyd | Your grimoire. You can check what SPELLS you know.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x book"
Floyd | Your grimoire. You can check what SPELLS you know.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "spells"
Floyd | You are the master of the following spells:
Floyd | newton:   The newton spell toggles gravity.
Floyd | dye:   The dye spell changes the color of things.
Floyd | pasto:   The pesto spell pulls a noodle out of a haystack.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spells"
Floyd | You are the master of the following spells:
Floyd | newton:   The newton spell toggles gravity.
Floyd | dye:   The dye spell changes the color of things.

Floyd | pasto:   The pesto spell pulls a noodle out of a haystack.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline steps back again.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter seafood"
Floyd | You wander over to the seafood aisle. Your feet clank on the floor as

Floyd | you do.
Floyd |
Floyd | Seafood Aisle
Floyd | This is the seafood aisle. You can get all sorts of seafood here.
Floyd | There's a lobster tank at the end of the aisle, but there's a huge

Floyd | line.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floor"
Floyd | This is a particularly odd supermarket floor. It is made of metal. You

Floyd | can't think of how this could be useful.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x link"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x line"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tank"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
RootShell arrives, full of neither funk nor fun.
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "newton me"
Floyd | You cast the newton spell at yourself, but nothing happens.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

dhakajack says (to Floyd), "newton"
Floyd | "NEWTON," you shout.
Floyd | Everything in the seafod aisle falls to the ceiling. Including you.

Floyd | You sheepishly say "newton" again, and you all fall back to the floor.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Seafood Aisle

Floyd | This is the seafood aisle. You can get all sorts of seafood here.
Floyd | There's a lobster tank at the end of the aisle, but there's a huge

Floyd | line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd |
Floyd | Minuteman Foods
Floyd | This is the entrance of Minuteman Foods. A vast array of aisles spread
Floyd | out in either direction.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x aisles"
Floyd | The aisles are labeled "Seafood," "Produce," "Pasta," and "Clothing."
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to produce"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter produce"
Floyd | You wander over to the produce aisle. Your feet clank on the floor as
Floyd | you do.
Floyd |
Floyd | Produce Aisle


Floyd | This is the produce aisle. All sorts of produce is here. Even mangoes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a juggler and a red apple here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
RootShell www.ifreviews.org
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mangoes"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x juggler"
Floyd | The juggler is expertly juggling three mangoes. Unfortunately, they
Floyd | are the last three mangoes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "apple"
vaporware says (to Floyd), "take mango"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Kill him."
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "take apple"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Violence is the answer!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw apple at juggler"
Floyd | You lack the nerve when it comes to the crucial moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "spells"
Floyd | You are the master of the following spells:
Floyd | newton:   The newton spell toggles gravity.
Floyd | dye:   The dye spell changes the color of things.
Floyd | pasto:   The pesto spell pulls a noodle out of a haystack.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "newton" Jacqueline says, "Or maybe swapping his fruit."
Floyd | You're in the wrong place to do that.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
vaporware says (to Floyd), "attack juggler"
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "dye apple"
Floyd | You cast the dye spell at the red apple, but nothing happens.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "throw apple at juggler"
Floyd | You lack the nerve when it comes to the crucial moment.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give apple to juggler"
Floyd | You give the red apple to the juggler.
Floyd |

Floyd | The juggler notices you trying to slip hime something of the wrong
Floyd | color. He lets the red apple fall to the ground.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "aw"
DavidW says, "I *tried* dye"
Jacqueline says, "I was hoping he would catch out apple."
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "dye apple"
Floyd | You cast the dye spell at the red apple, but nothing happens.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "dye mango"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
dhakajack says (to Floyd), "wesleycrusher.die.die.die"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dye"
Floyd | "DYE," you shout and hope that you're not misunderstood. The red apple

Floyd | becomes mango-colored.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Ellison says, "ha ha"
DavidW says, "ah. Verbs only. No objects."
Jacqueline says, "haha"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give apple to juggler"
Floyd | (first taking the mango-colored apple)
Floyd | You give the mango-colored apple to the juggler.
Floyd |

Floyd | He doesn't seem to notice you doing it, but he does seem to notice
Floyd | that he's now juggling four object instead of three. He drops one of

Floyd | them.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mango"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd |
Floyd | Minuteman Foods
Floyd | This is the entrance of Minuteman Foods. A vast array of aisles spread
Floyd | out in either direction.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x aisles"
Floyd | The aisles are labeled "Seafood," "Produce," "Pasta," and "Clothing."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter pasta"
Floyd | You wander over to the pasta aisle. Your feet clank on the floor as
Floyd | you do.
Floyd |
Floyd | Pasta Aisle


Floyd | This is the pasta aisle. Many types of pasta. Even fettuccine.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a pile of pasta here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pesto"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x book"
Floyd | Your grimoire. You can check what SPELLS you know.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "spells"
Floyd | You are the master of the following spells:
Floyd | newton:   The newton spell toggles gravity.
Floyd | dye:   The dye spell changes the color of things.
Floyd | pasto:   The pesto spell pulls a noodle out of a haystack.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "pasto"
Floyd | "PASTO," you shout. The pile of pasta boxes flies away, and only a

Floyd | single box is left.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Pasta Aisle
Floyd | This is the pasta aisle. Many types of pasta. Even fettuccine.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a fettuccine here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "take fettuccine"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd |
Floyd | Minuteman Foods
Floyd | This is the entrance of Minuteman Foods. A vast array of aisles spread

Floyd | out in either direction.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter clothing"
Floyd | You wander over to the clothing aisle. Your feet clank on the floor as

Floyd | you do.

Floyd |
Floyd | Clothing Aisle
Floyd | This is the clothing aisle. Many articles of clothing. Even magnetic
Floyd | boots.
Floyd |

Floyd | You can see a pair of magnetic boots here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take boots"
Floyd | Taken.

Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha"
inky says, "heavy boots"
Jacqueline says, "ooh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear boots"
Floyd | You put on the pair of magnetic boots.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd |
Floyd | Minuteman Foods
Floyd | This is the entrance of Minuteman Foods. A vast array of aisles spread
Floyd | out in either direction.
Floyd |


Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter seafood"
Floyd | You wander over to the seafood aisle. Your feet clank on the floor as
Floyd | you do.
Floyd |


Floyd | Seafood Aisle
Floyd | This is the seafood aisle. You can get all sorts of seafood here.
Floyd | There's a lobster tank at the end of the aisle, but there's a huge
Floyd | line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x boots"
Floyd | The boots will stick to metal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "newton"
Floyd | "NEWTON," you shout.
Floyd | Everything in the seafod aisle falls to the ceiling. Your magnetic
Floyd | boots keep you firmly fixed to the metal floor. You walk over to the
Floyd | lobster tank, which is bolted to the floor and has a cover, and


Floyd | carefully extract a lobster. You're feeling nice, so you say "NEWTON"
Floyd | again, and everyone falls back to the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | All the ingredients in hand, you make it through the checkout line
Floyd | without having to resort to magic any further.
Floyd |


Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You are surprised at how good lobster-mango fettuccine is. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |


Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "yay"
DavidW says, "That was straightforward."
Doug says, "surprise!"
dhakajack says, "See -- I knew it would be tasty..."
DavidW says, "I'm sure it is tasty."
Jacqueline says (to JackNotJacq), "heehee"
DavidW says, "Are we done for today? It might be nice to eat food for reals."
Jacqueline says, "So, huzzah! That is all of them!"
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Timing, yes."
inky asks, "wow, really?"
inky says, "go us"
Jacqueline says, "Thank everyone so much for coming!"
HOURS LATER, AFTER WE HAD ALL GONE OUR
MERRY WAYS, A NEW CHALLENGER APPEARED!
Benjor exclaims, "howdi!"
Jacqueline says, "Wow, Benjor's ClubFloyd sense was tingling."
Jacqueline says, "We are playing the sekrit eleventh game!"
Benjor raises his eyebrows mysteriously
Doug says, "bonus round"
Jacqueline says, "Well, it wasn't finished earlier today, that's all."
Limax says, "The hidden bonus track"
baf says, "Bonus round"
inky says (to Floyd), "load paxless"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | Verbose descriptions.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Well, here you are, sitting in geosychronous orbit above Indianapolis,
Floyd | Indiana. You're stuck here, when you'd much rather be down in Boston,

Floyd | attending PAX-East and meeting the fine folks you chat with on the
Floyd | ifMUD.
Floyd | Suddenly, you remember the remote-bot. You can send it in your place.
Floyd | You run over to the computer and program the bot for it's adventure.
Floyd | You stuff your PAX-East ticket in its carrier and send it off on its
Floyd | way.

Floyd | You watch the fiery descent and its violent crash through the roof of
Floyd | the center.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | PAXLess
Floyd | A quest to the IF Suite

Floyd |
Floyd | Hugo v3.1 / Library 31031
Floyd | IFID: 9ef171ed-c598-4742-971b-5c03a19fdef2
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd |   Bits of the roof and ceiling are on the floor around you. To the

Floyd | south you see the entrance to the line for the IF Suite.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Limax says, "Woo"
Limax says, "So it's Gerynar's compiler that sucks"
baf says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | The Queue starts here
Floyd |   In the spirit of Interactive Fiction, the entrance to the Secrets of
Floyd | Great IF panel is a maze. Oh, this looks like it'll be fun.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
baf says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You're not carrying anything.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | Running self-diagnostic:
Floyd | LOCOMOTION: Good
Floyd | SENSORS:

Floyd | +  VISUAL: Good
Floyd | +  AUDIO: Good
Floyd | +  CHEM: OFFLINE
Floyd | MANIPULATORS: Good
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Limax exclaims, "X me!"
Limax says, "Dangit... you beat me to it"
Jacqueline says, "Nice."
Limax asks, "DId someone do xyzzy yet?"
Jacqueline says, "It's like a Suspended flashback."
Gerynar says, "put that in because i've been told it's a good idea to do so"
inky says (to Floyd), "chem"
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "chem".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd | You are enveloped by orange smoke. When it clears, you see that you're
Floyd | back at the beginning of the maze.

Floyd |
Floyd | Start of the maze
Floyd |   A promising start to a rather well-made, indoor maze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "smell"
Floyd | Chemical Anylizers are offline, therefore you cannot "smell" anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "turn on chem"
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "chem".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "activate analyzers"
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "analyzers".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says, "there's a sign here, forgot to mention it in the text"
inky says (to Floyd), "activate Anylizers"
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "anylizers".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says, "didn't want to implement smell"
Fang says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Start of the maze
Floyd |   A promising start to a rather well-made, indoor maze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Fang says (to Floyd), "verbose"
Floyd | Verbose descriptions.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "read sign"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "no lizers. not any lizers at all."
Jacqueline says, "See folks? See what you get out of ClubFloyd? We wouldn't know about that sign if the author weren't here, communicating with us in real time!"
Gerynar says, "oh...it's in the next room (to the south)"
Johnny says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd | Nothing to take.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You're not carrying anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Johnny says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Breaking through the wall is frowned upon by management, might as well
Floyd | get into the spirit of things and solve the maze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "yeah, I teleported us into the maze by accident"
Johnny asks, "restart?"
Johnny says (to Floyd), "restart"
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart (YES or NO)?
Johnny says (to Floyd), "yes"
Floyd | Verbose descriptions.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Well, here you are, sitting in geosychronous orbit above Indianapolis,

Floyd | Indiana. You're stuck here, when you'd much rather be down in Boston,
Floyd | attending PAX-East and meeting the fine folks you chat with on the
Floyd | ifMUD.
Floyd | Suddenly, you remember the remote-bot. You can send it in your place.
Floyd | You run over to the computer and program the bot for it's adventure.
Floyd | You stuff your PAX-East ticket in its carrier and send it off on its

Floyd | way.
Floyd | You watch the fiery descent and its violent crash through the roof of
Floyd | the center.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | PAXLess

Floyd | A quest to the IF Suite
Floyd |
Floyd | Hugo v3.1 / Library 31031
Floyd | IFID: 9ef171ed-c598-4742-971b-5c03a19fdef2
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer

Floyd |   Bits of the roof and ceiling are on the floor around you. To the
Floyd | south you see the entrance to the line for the IF Suite.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Limax says, "I had th... yes"
Fang says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd |   Bits of the roof and ceiling are on the floor around you. To the
Floyd | south you see the entrance to the line for the IF Suite.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "verbose"
Floyd | Verbose descriptions.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | The Queue starts here
Floyd |   In the spirit of Interactive Fiction, the entrance to the Secrets of

Floyd | Great IF panel is a maze. Oh, this looks like it'll be fun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You can't go that way.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "w"
Johnny says (to Floyd), "x sign"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Fang says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd |   Bits of the roof and ceiling are on the floor around you. To the
Floyd | south you see the entrance to the line for the IF Suite.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha"
Fang says (to Floyd), "x sign"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says, "...."
Fang says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |

Floyd | The Queue starts here
Floyd |   In the spirit of Interactive Fiction, the entrance to the Secrets of
Floyd | Great IF panel is a maze. Oh, this looks like it'll be fun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Start of the maze
Floyd |   A promising start to a rather well-made, indoor maze.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Gerynar says, "sorry, the sign mentions that if you get lost, xyzzy will bring you to the beginning of the maze"
Fang says (to Floyd), "x sign"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Johnny says, "Ha ha ha"
Fang says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Breaking through the wall is frowned upon by management, might as well
Floyd | get into the spirit of things and solve the maze.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "exits"
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "exits".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Breaking through the wall is frowned upon by management, might as well
Floyd | get into the spirit of things and solve the maze.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "look north"
Floyd | You see nothing special to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Fang says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Part of the maze
Floyd |   This part of the maze seems easy enough, only three possible
Floyd | directions to go; west, south or east.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang asks, "so, hug the left wall?"
Jacqueline says, "Wow. I love a good old fashioned, old skool maze."
Fang says (to Floyd), "e" Limax says, "Let's break with tradition and hugh the right wall"
Floyd |
Floyd | Galatea's room
Floyd |   A mostly featureless, white room. There's a pedestal with a
Floyd | spotlight in the center. The only way out is back to the west.
Floyd |   Sitting on White Pedestal is a Galatea Doll.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "oh cool"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x doll"
Floyd | It's a small doll with yellow hair and a green dress. Sticking out of

Floyd | the back of the doll is a pull-string.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "x doll"
Floyd | It's a small doll with yellow hair and a green dress. Sticking out of

Floyd | the back of the doll is a pull-string.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "oh dear"
Fang says (to Floyd), "pull string"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pull string"
Floyd | The Galatea Doll says:
Floyd | "!slled aetalaG gnikam ,deppart em tog s'ylimE !!PLEH"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Johnny says (to Floyd), "pull string"
Floyd | The Galatea Doll says:
Floyd | "A small portion of the procedes from my sale go
Floyd | towards the 'Save the Alaskan Wilderness' fund."
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | The Galatea Doll says:
Floyd | "It's a huge rock in the sky, or so I'm told."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "yay"
inky asks, "galatea dells?"
inky says, "oh, dolls"
Fang says (to Floyd), "pull string"
Floyd | The Galatea Doll says:
Floyd | "I don't know what you call them."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "pull string"
Floyd | The Galatea Doll says:
Floyd | "It was full of sunshine."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "take doll"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "x pedestal"
Floyd | A white pedestal standing about four feet high.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |

Floyd | Part of the maze
Floyd |   This part of the maze seems easy enough, only three possible
Floyd | directions to go; west, south or east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "take pedestal"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang asks, "so, hug left wall, or right wall?"
inky says, "the left wall is huggier"
Jacqueline asks, "I'd never thought about doing it that way. Does that work even in IF mazes?"
Fang says, "I dunno"
Gerynar says, "probably not in a twisty maze"
Fang says, "it should..."
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Start of the maze
Floyd |   A promising start to a rather well-made, indoor maze.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Part of the maze

Floyd |   This part of the maze seems easy enough, only three possible
Floyd | directions to go; west, south or east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Part of the maze
Floyd |   Not too bad, at least it's not a twisty maze, all passages alike. On
Floyd | one of the walls is a piece of wiki-art.* Exits lead to the north,
Floyd | south and west.
Floyd |

Floyd | *NOTE: wiki-art was a short-lived [citation needed] art-form where
Floyd | people printed out wiki pages poster sized and sold them. It didn't
Floyd | last very long.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says, "gridded mazes anyway"
inky says (to Floyd), "x art"
Floyd | You study the wiki-art. It seems to be an article about the Great
Floyd | Potato Famine in Ireland. You are, however, pretty sure the part about
Floyd | Kathy Ireland has nothing to do with the rest of it.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "get art"
Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "read art"
Floyd | You can't do that with Wiki-Art.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Limax says, "Wow... Kathy Ireland... there's a name out of the past"
Gerynar is old
Fang says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Maze Turning Point

Floyd |   A twist, but not a twisty twist, only two directions to go: north or
Floyd | east.
Floyd |   A Potato is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "get potato"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "x it"
Floyd | (assuming you mean the Potato)
Floyd | A brown, bumpy potato. Curiously, there's a lamp carved into the side
Floyd | of the potato.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "so far this maze isn't very mazy"
Limax says (to Gerynar), "So am I. The first SI swimsuit issue I bought had her on the cover, though"
Fang says (to Floyd), "get lamp"
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "lamp".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Fang says, "aw"
Allen asks, "wow, really?"
Johnny says (to Floyd), "turn on potato"
Floyd | You can't do that with the Potato.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |

Floyd | Allways
Floyd |   This is the one room that all four cardinal directions are open to
Floyd | you. There is a panel on a pedestal with a red switch on it.
Floyd |   Control Panel is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Gerynar says, "think magic"
Fang says (to Floyd), "plugh"
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "plugh".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "x panel"
Floyd | A black pedestal with a red switch on it. It stands about chest high
Floyd | right in the center of the room. Currently it is switched off.
Floyd | >
Allen asks, "didn't the first SI swimsuit issue date to the 1840s?"
Johnny says (to Floyd), "frotz panel"
inky says (to Floyd), "turn on panel"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | An over-sized mallet appears above your head and bonks you. You're
Floyd | feeling a little disoriented at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "buh"
Limax says, "Ouch"
baf says (to Floyd), "spells"
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "spells".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Gerynar says, "there's two spells, and an unimplemented spell-lister (xyzzy and frotz)"
Johnny says, "i"
Johnny says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying a Galatea Doll and a Potato.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "frotz potato"
Floyd | A puff of green smoke swirls around the potato and dissapates.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Fang says (to Floyd), "frotz"
Floyd | Be a little more specific about what you'd like to frotz.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heehee There's an unimplemented spell-lister."
Fang says (to Floyd), "x potato"
Floyd | A brown, bumpy potato. Curiously, there's a lamp carved into the side
Floyd | of the potato. And it's glowing faintly.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "frotz doll"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Fang says (to Floyd), "x doll"
Floyd | It's a small doll with yellow hair and a green dress. Sticking out of
Floyd | the back of the doll is a pull-string.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "oho"
Fang says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Fettucini Exhibit
Floyd |   Three of the walls are covered with Fettucini art. In the middle is

Floyd | a pedestal with a box on top.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Limax asks (of Jacqueline), "PAX inside joke?"
Fang says (to Floyd), "x art"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "wall"
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "wall".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "rub potato"
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "rub".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "x box"
Floyd | A dark, ebony-esque box that is slightly larger than a bread box.
Floyd | currently, it is currently closed.

Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks (of Limax), "Which? The unimplemented spell lister?"
Fang says, "currently"
DavidW says, "Uneasily, I uneasily open it."
Fang says (to Floyd), "open box"
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "x box"
Floyd | A dark, ebony-esque box that is slightly larger than a bread box.
Floyd | currently, it is currently open.
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I just mean haha he didn't implement it, but that's okay 'cause he's here to tell us."
Fang says (to Floyd), "look in box"
Floyd | Inside Ebony-esque Box is A bowl of fettucini.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "x fettucini"
Floyd | A bowl of well preserved fettucini.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "x bowl"
Floyd | A bowl of well preserved fettucini.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "smell bowl"
Floyd | Chemical Anylizers are offline, therefore you cannot "smell" anything.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Fang asks, "what is fettucini anyway?"
Limax says, ".Oh, okay"
DavidW says, "Long flat noodles."
Jacqueline says (to Fang), "It's a - yeah, what David said. A type of pasta."
Limax says, "Yummy long flat noodles"
Jacqueline says, "Usually with alfredo sause."
Jacqueline says, "er, sauce"
DavidW says, "well, you can also do a red meat sauce. I forget the name, though."
Gerynar asks, "marinara?"
DavidW says, "That sounds right."
inky says (to Floyd), "get bowl"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Breaking through the wall is frowned upon by management, might as well
Floyd | get into the spirit of things and solve the maze.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Breaking through the wall is frowned upon by management, might as well
Floyd | get into the spirit of things and solve the maze.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "hmm"
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Perhaps you ought to close the box before leaving.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "close box"
Floyd | Closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Part of the maze
Floyd |   Not too bad, at least it's not a twisty maze, all passages alike. On
Floyd | one of the walls is a piece of wiki-art.* Exits lead to the north,

Floyd | south and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | *NOTE: wiki-art was a short-lived [citation needed] art-form where
Floyd | people printed out wiki pages poster sized and sold them. It didn't
Floyd | last very long.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Maze Turning Point
Floyd |   A twist, but not a twisty twist, only two directions to go: north or

Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |

Floyd | Allways
Floyd |   This is the one room that all four cardinal directions are open to
Floyd | you. There is a panel on a pedestal with a red switch on it.
Floyd |   Control Panel is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Galatea's room
Floyd |   A mostly featureless, white room. There's a pedestal with a
Floyd | spotlight in the center. The only way out is back to the west.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Was there really wiki art?"
Gerynar says, "not that I'm aware of"
Jacqueline says, "phew"
Limax says, "I hear it's like ascii art"
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Part of the maze
Floyd |   This part of the maze seems easy enough, only three possible

Floyd | directions to go; west, south or east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |

Floyd | Part of the maze
Floyd |   Not too bad, at least it's not a twisty maze, all passages alike. On
Floyd | one of the walls is a piece of wiki-art.* Exits lead to the north,
Floyd | south and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | *NOTE: wiki-art was a short-lived [citation needed] art-form where

Floyd | people printed out wiki pages poster sized and sold them. It didn't
Floyd | last very long.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Maze Turning Point
Floyd |   A twist, but not a twisty twist, only two directions to go: north or
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Limax says, "Huh. That almost rhymes"
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Allways
Floyd |   This is the one room that all four cardinal directions are open to

Floyd | you. There is a panel on a pedestal with a red switch on it.
Floyd |   Control Panel is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x switch"
Floyd | A black pedestal with a red switch on it. It stands about chest high
Floyd | right in the center of the room. Currently it is switched on.
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "turn off switch"
Floyd | A buffered analgesic appears on the control panel. You gratefully take
Floyd | it then swallow it. Ahh, now you feel much better.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha"
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Nearing the end, or are you?
Floyd |   This room looks a little unfinished, as if those putting this maze
Floyd | together were running out of steam. Which means you're probably

Floyd | getting near the end.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |

Floyd | The last room
Floyd |   This is it! The final room of the maze. To the east, you can see the
Floyd | entrance to the IF Suite. There is an intriguing sign on one of the
Floyd | walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Limax asks, "Thats' out of HHG, isn't it?"
Gerynar says, "yes"
inky says (to Floyd), "read sign"
Floyd | Guvf fvta vf urer whfg gb naabl lbh.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha"
Limax asks, "rot13?"
Gerynar says, "yes"
inky says, "(on the mud you can type rot13 text to get a translation)"
Jacqueline says, "heehee"
Limax says, "That saves trying to figure it out by hnad"
Limax says, "HA ha"
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | The entrance to the Interactive Fiction Suite.
Floyd |   To the east, you can see the IF Suite, with many of the people you'd
Floyd | like to meet. (you hope, you only know what a couple of them actually
Floyd | look like.
Floyd |   The Generic Enforcer is here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x enforcer"
Floyd | Red shirt, pants, face, etc...
Floyd | All in all, rather unremarkable looking.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | The enforcer steps in your path and says "Sorry robot dude, you can't
Floyd | go there."

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "cry"
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "cry".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "pull cord"
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "cord".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

baf asks, "What, pants? No kilt?"
inky says (to Floyd), "pull string"
Floyd | The Galatea Doll says:
Floyd | "What kind of exhibition? It's an art exhibition."
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Fang says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying a Galatea Doll, a Potato (providing light), and A
Floyd | bowl of fettucini.
Floyd | The guards stomach rumbles

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "give potato to enforcer"
Floyd | The Generic Enforcer politely refuses.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "give fettucini to enforcer"
Floyd | Thanks, I was getting really hungry.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | The End
Floyd |   This is it, the Interactive Fiction Suite. You've made it and now
Floyd | you get to mingle with the hoi-palloi if IFdom. Seems a bit quiet, you

Floyd | look around and realize that you're late and missed all the fun.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU'VE WON THE GAME! ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?

inky says, "hurrah"
inky says, "wait, this is a tragic ending"
inky asks, "was there a time limit?"
Johnny says (to Gerynar), "Nice."
Gerynar says, "no, the game itself was late, and so was the robot when you sent it"
Jacqueline says, "huzzah"
Limax says, "Yay and tragic"
Jacqueline says, "Thank you, Garynar. :)"
Gerynar says, "there was a grue room and a false end to the maze"
Limax says, "And we missed them both"
inky says, "cunning"
Jacqueline asks, "A grue room?"
Jacqueline says, "We really should see the grue room."
DavidW says, "Between the green room and the blue room."
Jacqueline says, "Is that what happens if we hug the right wall."
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Oh man"
Johnny says, "Dammit. I shouldn't have frotzed that potato."
Gerynar says, "you can frotz the potato many times"
Gerynar says, "it turns it on and off"
Allen says, "as long as you don't frotz yourself"
Allen arrives, full of funk, but no fun. inky says (to Johnny), "how often in life we say that"
Gerynar says, "can only frotz the potato, and one other thing"
inky says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |
Floyd | The entrance to the Interactive Fiction Suite.
Floyd |   To the east, you can see the IF Suite, with many of the people you'd
Floyd | like to meet. (you hope, you only know what a couple of them actually

Floyd | look like.
Floyd |   The Generic Enforcer is here.  The Generic Enforcer has A bowl of
Floyd | fettucini.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" inky says, "whoops!"
Johnny says (to inky), "haha"
inky says (to Floyd), "load paxless"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Verbose descriptions.
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | Well, here you are, sitting in geosychronous orbit above Indianapolis,
Floyd | Indiana. You're stuck here, when you'd much rather be down in Boston,
Floyd | attending PAX-East and meeting the fine folks you chat with on the
Floyd | ifMUD.
Floyd | Suddenly, you remember the remote-bot. You can send it in your place.
Floyd | You run over to the computer and program the bot for it's adventure.

Floyd | You stuff your PAX-East ticket in its carrier and send it off on its
Floyd | way.
Floyd | You watch the fiery descent and its violent crash through the roof of
Floyd | the center.
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | PAXLess
Floyd | A quest to the IF Suite
Floyd |
Floyd | Hugo v3.1 / Library 31031
Floyd | IFID: 9ef171ed-c598-4742-971b-5c03a19fdef2
Floyd |

Floyd | Foyer
Floyd |   Bits of the roof and ceiling are on the floor around you. To the
Floyd | south you see the entrance to the line for the IF Suite.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "s" Gerynar says, "verbose is on automatically"
Floyd |
Floyd | The Queue starts here
Floyd |   In the spirit of Interactive Fiction, the entrance to the Secrets of

Floyd | Great IF panel is a maze. Oh, this looks like it'll be fun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |

Floyd | Start of the maze
Floyd |   A promising start to a rather well-made, indoor maze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Breaking through the wall is frowned upon by management, might as well
Floyd | get into the spirit of things and solve the maze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Part of the maze
Floyd |   This part of the maze seems easy enough, only three possible
Floyd | directions to go; west, south or east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Gerynar says (to Floyd), "read poster"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Galatea's room
Floyd |   A mostly featureless, white room. There's a pedestal with a
Floyd | spotlight in the center. The only way out is back to the west.

Floyd |   Sitting on White Pedestal is a Galatea Doll.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "get doll"
Floyd | Taken.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Part of the maze

Floyd |   This part of the maze seems easy enough, only three possible
Floyd | directions to go; west, south or east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Part of the maze
Floyd |   Not too bad, at least it's not a twisty maze, all passages alike. On
Floyd | one of the walls is a piece of wiki-art.* Exits lead to the north,
Floyd | south and west.
Floyd |

Floyd | *NOTE: wiki-art was a short-lived [citation needed] art-form where
Floyd | people printed out wiki pages poster sized and sold them. It didn't
Floyd | last very long.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "read poster"
Floyd | You can't do that with Wiki-Art.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Fettucini Exhibit
Floyd |   Three of the walls are covered with Fettucini art. In the middle is
Floyd | a pedestal with a box on top.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "open box"
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "get bowl"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "look in box"
Floyd | Inside Ebony-esque Box is A bowl of fettucini.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "get bowl"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Perhaps you ought to close the box before leaving.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "close box"
Floyd | Closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |

Floyd | Part of the maze
Floyd |   Not too bad, at least it's not a twisty maze, all passages alike. On
Floyd | one of the walls is a piece of wiki-art.* Exits lead to the north,
Floyd | south and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | *NOTE: wiki-art was a short-lived [citation needed] art-form where

Floyd | people printed out wiki pages poster sized and sold them. It didn't
Floyd | last very long.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Maze Turning Point
Floyd |   A twist, but not a twisty twist, only two directions to go: north or
Floyd | east.
Floyd |   A Potato is here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "get potato"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Allways
Floyd |   This is the one room that all four cardinal directions are open to
Floyd | you. There is a panel on a pedestal with a red switch on it.

Floyd |   Control Panel is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |

Floyd | C4
Floyd |   Yet another boring room with only two exits; north and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | E/W Corridor in Maze
Floyd |   A plain, featureless hallway that leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "we"
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "we".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Part of the maze
Floyd |   An undecorated corner in the maze, seems you can only go either
Floyd | north, or east.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You stumble around in the dark.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "look"
Floyd | It's too dark to see anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Breaking through the wall is frowned upon by management, might as well
Floyd | get into the spirit of things and solve the maze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Breaking through the wall is frowned upon by management, might as well
Floyd | get into the spirit of things and solve the maze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "This is promising... it's dark."
inky asks, "is there a grue here somewhere?"
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Breaking through the wall is frowned upon by management, might as well
Floyd | get into the spirit of things and solve the maze.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "oh"
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |

Floyd | Part of the maze
Floyd |   An undecorated corner in the maze, seems you can only go either
Floyd | north, or east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "frotz potato"
Floyd | A puff of green smoke swirls around the potato and dissapates.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "frotz potato"
Floyd | A puff of green smoke swirls around the potato and dissapates.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "frotz potato"
Floyd | A puff of green smoke swirls around the potato and dissapates.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Dark Room
Floyd |   A Grue exhibit. Posters line the walls, depicting various artists'
Floyd | depiction of what a grue might look like.
Floyd |   Poster 1, Poster 2, and Poster 3 are here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x poster 1"
Floyd | This poster must have used at least three black crayons, as there is
Floyd | nothing but blackness and a waxy residue. Below the poster is a small
Floyd | inscription that reads 'Grue that ate my dad' by: Jimmy F., aged 8.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x poster 2"
Floyd | This poster is reproduction of the famous oil on canvas 'Grue attack'
Floyd | by Emmenly Small. There are two, small yellow-green eyes barely

Floyd | visible in the bottom right third of the image.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x poster 3"
Floyd | A reprint of the only known, authenticted photo of a grue. It was

Floyd | found by the bones of the famous, cave-crawler J. Lottie. All that's
Floyd | really visible are slavering fangs, closing around the lens of the
Floyd | camera.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky asks, "who is J Lottie? Lucea?"
Alex says (to inky), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that Lucea is Sarah."
Jacqueline says, "Gosh, maybe it's me."
inky says, "oh, of course"
Gerynar says, "made up names that sounded vaguely muddish"
inky says, "I was thinking Jimmy F was the spag guy, but I guess that would be Jimmy M"
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Part of the maze
Floyd |   An undecorated corner in the maze, seems you can only go either

Floyd | north, or east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |

Floyd | E/W Corridor in Maze
Floyd |   A plain, featureless hallway that leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky asks, "where is the fake ending?"
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | C4
Floyd |   Yet another boring room with only two exits; north and west.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Allways
Floyd |   This is the one room that all four cardinal directions are open to

Floyd | you. There is a panel on a pedestal with a red switch on it.
Floyd |   Control Panel is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Generic Corner
Floyd |   A featureless, white room with two exits: east and south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Gerynar says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Pig Sty
Floyd |   A stuffed pig in a sty sits in the corner of the room. The pig looks
Floyd | more intelligent than it has a right to. On the wall behind the

Floyd | display is a sign. Exits lead to the north and to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "read sign"
Floyd | Dis is da famous pig dat Grunk lost all dem years ago (Tweee.).

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heehee"
Johnny says (to Floyd), "x pig"
Floyd | He's pink, fat and stuffed.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "kiss pig"
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "kiss".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Limax says, "Ha ha"
Johnny | You'd rather kiss a... Um. Just no.
Jacqueline says (to Johnny), "Keep your mind on the game."
Limax says, "Ha ha again"
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | False Hope
Floyd |   There is a door here with a sign taped to it. Obvious exits are

Floyd | well, only one...south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "read sign"
Floyd | Sorry, but the IF Suite has been moved to the other room.

Floyd | Someone has fallen asleep under one of the tables and we can't
Floyd | wake him up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "haha"
Johnny says, "heh"
Jacqueline says, "Rob is immortalized in IF!"
inky says, "ha ha"
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "s.w.s.e.s.e."
Floyd |
Floyd | Pig Sty
Floyd |   A stuffed pig in a sty sits in the corner of the room. The pig looks
Floyd | more intelligent than it has a right to. On the wall behind the
Floyd | display is a sign. Exits lead to the north and to the west.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | Generic Corner
Floyd |   A featureless, white room with two exits: east and south.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Allways

Floyd |   This is the one room that all four cardinal directions are open to
Floyd | you. There is a panel on a pedestal with a red switch on it.
Floyd |   Control Panel is here.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Nearing the end, or are you?

Floyd |   This room looks a little unfinished, as if those putting this maze
Floyd | together were running out of steam. Which means you're probably
Floyd | getting near the end.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The last room

Floyd |   This is it! The final room of the maze. To the east, you can see the
Floyd | entrance to the IF Suite. There is an intriguing sign on one of the
Floyd | walls.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The entrance to the Interactive Fiction Suite.

Floyd |   To the east, you can see the IF Suite, with many of the people you'd
Floyd | like to meet. (you hope, you only know what a couple of them actually
Floyd | look like.
Floyd |   The Generic Enforcer is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Gerynar says (to Floyd), "show potato to enforcer"
Floyd | Whoa...it's glowing. Is it.. is it.. radioactive?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "What happens if we eat the glowing potato, again?"
Lucea arrives, full of fun and funk. Jacqueline asks, "Do we glow like ET?"
Limax says, "You might want to find out"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat potato"
Floyd | Eating found food at a big convention really doesn't make sense, now
Floyd | does it?
Floyd | The guards stomach rumbles
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Gerynar says (to Floyd), "ask enforcer about galatea"
Floyd | Cute doll, but there wasn't much action in the game that inspired her.
Floyd | The guards stomach rumbles
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give potato to guard"
Floyd | The Generic Enforcer politely refuses.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "frotz enforcer"
Floyd | The enforcer's eyes widen as he starts to glow with a pale blue nimbus
Floyd | of light.
Floyd | "Wha..what did you do to me? I'm glowing!"
Floyd | The enforcer runs off, screaming the whole way.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heehee"
Jacqueline says, "yay"
Jacqueline says, "Although we should not make fun of those volunteers."
Jacqueline says, "They mostly did a very good job."
Limax says, "Hee hee"
Gerynar says, "it was more to practice multiple ways to defeat a puzzle"
Jacqueline nods.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter"
Floyd | Be a little more specific about what you'd like to enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | The End
Floyd |   This is it, the Interactive Fiction Suite. You've made it and now
Floyd | you get to mingle with the hoi-palloi if IFdom. Seems a bit quiet, you
Floyd | look around and realize that you're late and missed all the fun.
Floyd |

Floyd | *** YOU'VE WON THE GAME! ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Jacqueline says, "Good deal. Thanks, Gerynar."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q"
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" Gerynar says, "the switch was a bit to debug, when it's on, the exits from Allways are randomish"
Johnny says (to Floyd), "f no"
Floyd says (to Johnny), "Floyd doesn't know that trick."
Johnny says (to Floyd), "no"
Floyd says (to Johnny), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." Gerynar says, "but I got mixed up coding if on/off directions"
Jacqueline says, "yikes"
inky says, "hurrah"



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