  
 
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 A Fine Day for Reaping, written by James Webb. A Fine Day for Reaping was originally released as part of the 2007 Interactive Fiction Competition, where it took seventh place. It took first place in the InsideADRIFT Game of the Year Comp 2007, was nominated for a Best Individual PC Xyzzy Award, and won the Xyzzy for Best Story. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page. |
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| Jacqueline says, "Okay, let's begin." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load afdfr" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Loading game... Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A Fine Day For Reaping Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 1 : Read Me First Floyd | Floyd | 2 : Credits and Thanks Floyd | Floyd | 3 : Begin Reaping Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please Choose an Option. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ver 1.0 2007. Floyd | Written in ADRIFT by James Webb (aka revgiblet) Floyd | Please feel free to send any feedback to revgiblet@gmail.com Floyd | Any similarities to anything you have witnessed, written or anyone you Floyd | know is purely coincidental. Frankly I'd find it incredible if you've Floyd | ever witnessed any of the situations in this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | It's a fairly easy life being the Grim Reaper. People often make the Floyd | mistake of assuming that you appear at every death. Of course, that's Floyd | a mistake that they only tend to make once. The reality is quite Floyd | different. Death tends to happen to people whether you are there or Floyd | not, you actually only show up for the more unusual cases. Every now Floyd | or then someone will put up a fight and not take death lying down. Floyd | That's when you show up to make sure that they play by the rules. Floyd | Essentially, you're a high stakes baliff. Floyd | Floyd | Every day your Supervisors mail you a list of the difficult cases. Floyd | You have twelve hours to make sure that souls are reaped and the wages Floyd | of sin are paid. Welcome to a day in the life of Death. Floyd | Floyd | Useful Commands Floyd | Floyd | examine hourglass Floyd | This will tell you how long you have left before the day ends. You Floyd | don't want to know what happens if you don't finish reaping the Floyd | alloted souls within the time limit. Floyd | Floyd | say X to Horse Floyd | Where 'X' equals your destination. You own a skeletal horse, named Floyd | Horse (you are not known for your imagination). Tell him/her where Floyd | you want to go and he/she (it's difficult to sex skeletal horses) will Floyd | take you there. To return to your home then use the simple command Floyd | say home to horse Floyd | Floyd | Reap Soul | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | The ultimate command. Provided that you are holding your scythe and Floyd | can get to your client, this will send the death-shy soul to the Floyd | afterlife. You must utilise this command on all clients to complete Floyd | the game. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A Fine Day For Reaping Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 1 : Read Me First Floyd | Floyd | 2 : Credits and Thanks Floyd | Floyd | 3 : Begin Reaping Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please Choose an Option. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ver 1.0 2007. Floyd | Written in ADRIFT by James Webb (aka revgiblet) Floyd | Please feel free to send any feedback to revgiblet@gmail.com Floyd | Any similarities to anything you have witnessed, written or anyone you Floyd | know is purely coincidental. Frankly I'd find it incredible if you've Floyd | ever witnessed any of the situations in this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Shall we look at the credits?" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "floyd 2" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I owe the following people something, so I thought a 'Thank You' here Floyd | would do. Most of them will probably never read it anyway. Still, Floyd | it's the thought that counts. Floyd | Floyd | Thanks to... Floyd | Floyd | Campbell Wild for the ADRIFT generator. Now the stories in my head Floyd | can come to life. And is that your real name? It's kind of cool. Floyd | Floyd | The ADRIFT community at the official forum Floyd | ([LINK]) for making me feel Floyd | welcome and giving (mostly) good advice. Floyd | Floyd | David Whyld, de budding and Ren for beta testing my first game, The Floyd | Sisters. The advice they gave and changes they suggested made it ten Floyd | times better than it originally was (before it was only worth 0.5 out Floyd | of 10) Floyd | Floyd | All the people who played, reviewed and voted for The Sisters during Floyd | the 12th Annual IF Competition. The whole experience encouraged me to Floyd | keep writing. So this game is mostly your fault. Floyd | Floyd | rotter for Unauthorized Termination and inspiration for text Floyd | formatting. Floyd | Floyd | Lumin for beta testing this game and pointing out my clumsy Floyd | punctuation skillz. Floyd | Floyd | www.strange-facts.com for giving me some...err...strange facts. Floyd | | ||||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Terry Pratchett for the Discworld books. I could make a convincing Floyd | case for the fact that my anthropomorphic Death is very different from Floyd | his anthropomorphic Death, but seeing as I got the idea for this game Floyd | when I was reading Reaper Man it's a futile exercise. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A Fine Day For Reaping Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 1 : Read Me First Floyd | Floyd | 2 : Credits and Thanks Floyd | Floyd | 3 : Begin Reaping Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please Choose an Option. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ver 1.0 2007. Floyd | Written in ADRIFT by James Webb (aka revgiblet) Floyd | Please feel free to send any feedback to revgiblet@gmail.com Floyd | Any similarities to anything you have witnessed, written or anyone you Floyd | know is purely coincidental. Frankly I'd find it incredible if you've Floyd | ever witnessed any of the situations in this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'll have to check out that url." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Living Room of Death Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in your living room. It's quite small and cosy, with Floyd | panel flooring and painted walls (black, of course). A bookcase Floyd | stands against one wall. On another is a shelf, on which rests your Floyd | CD player and collection of CDs. A comfy, well-worn leather armchair Floyd | lies right bang in the centre of the room facing the only window. You Floyd | often like to sit on the chair staring out into the empty, black void Floyd | of time and space that your home backs on to. It's not a great view, Floyd | but it's something to look at. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ The Living Room of Death | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "not The Unliving Room?" | |||
| Doug says, "Death lives" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, fwiw, small email from James Webb this week:" | ||||
| Jacqueline | Thanks for posting the transcript at all - I enjoyed reading it and was glad that people seemed to enjoy the game.;:| I hope that you enjoy AFDFR, but you'll have to take it as you find it - it's nowhere near as polished as I'd like it to be.;:| Thanks for considering my games though! | ||||
| DavidW says, "Death Takes A Holiday in Antwerp" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's pretend I pasted that correctly. Oops." | ||||
| Touchy says, "aaalrighty then" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying the Golden Hourglass. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I hope we get to play chess with Max von Sydow" | |||
| Touchy says, "hi david and jacq" | ||||
| Touchy says, "hi other people" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hourglass" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The grains of sand tell you that you have twelve hours left to Floyd | complete your contract. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You are about six foot five inches tall, dressed in the blackest robes Floyd | anyone has ever seen. Your hairless, so-pale-it's-almost-translucent Floyd | skin is stretched across your skull like clingfilm on a billiard ball. Floyd | Your eyes are about the only thing in this reality that are darker Floyd | than your robes, and your spindly, gaunt hands protrude from your Floyd | sleeves like a bunch of chopsticks. You secretly think of yourself as Floyd | 'quite handsome'. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I guess we need to find our contract. Perhaps there's a mailbox?" | |||
| Touchy says, "It's a way to start." | ||||
| Touchy asks, "The explained abbreviations are a pecularity of the adrift terp I presume?" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x cds" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You're not sure if two CDs can rightly be called a collection, but if Floyd | they can then this is your CD collection. You have The Eagles: Floyd | Greatest Hits 1971-1975 and the CD single of Candle in the Wind 1997 Floyd | by Elton John. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "haha" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, if there is a mailbox, it's not in this room." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Touchy), "I don't know." | ||||
| Nitku says, "they are" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You pick up a diary at random and flick to a page. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Friday 13th May 1988 Floyd | When I saw that it was Friday the 13th I should have known that I was Floyd | in for a bad day. I accidentally materialised in the middle of the Floyd | ladies changing room at a swimming pool. People were throwing things Floyd | at me and screaming. It doesn't take much to discourage me. Perhaps Floyd | I'm not cut out for this job after all? Well, I'm sure something good Floyd | will come along soon. Chin up and all that! Floyd | Floyd | You put the book back on the shelf. You can see no need to take any Floyd | of them with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny arrives, full of fun and funk. | Touchy says, "hehe" | |||
| DavidW says, "It worries me that the terp is doing that because I can't trust it's always correct. The way ADRIFT handles commands, sometimes 'x' should not be replaced with 'examine'." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Living Room of Death Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in your living room. It's quite small and cosy, with Floyd | panel flooring and painted walls (black, of course). A bookcase Floyd | stands against one wall. On another is a shelf, on which rests your Floyd | CD player and collection of CDs. A comfy, well-worn leather armchair Floyd | lies right bang in the centre of the room facing the only window. You Floyd | often like to sit on the chair staring out into the empty, black void Floyd | of time and space that your home backs on to. It's not a great view, Floyd | but it's something to look at. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks (of DavidW), "It shouldn't?" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | The Hallway of Death Floyd | Floyd | The hallway has thick, plush red carpet which always tickles your toes Floyd | a little bit. It goes quite well with the black, pannelled walls. At Floyd | the south end is your imposing front door. There are a series of Floyd | hooks by the door on which you could hang your coat, if you wore a Floyd | coat that is. A small bin sits by the door. There is also a Floyd | full-length mirror on one wall. As you're the last sight some people Floyd | see, it's quite right that you check that you look presentable. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East, South and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see some mail. Floyd | Floyd | [ The Hallway of Death | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "read mail" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You bend down and scoop up your mail. It's one of life's great Floyd | mysteries. If you have any work that day your Supervisors mail it to Floyd | you in the morning. In all your time you have never once met the Floyd | postman. Sometimes you wonder if you should get a dog just to see Floyd | what would happen. Something big and evil. A hellhound or a pitbull. Floyd | Something like that. Floyd | Floyd | You have two letters today. The first is a white envelope addressed Floyd | to a "Mr. G. Raper" and bearing the stamp of "Blackbury Banking Floyd | Services". Puzzled, you tear it open and read. Floyd | Floyd | Dear Mr GRaper. Floyd | Have we got an offer for you!!?? You, and others in your specially Floyd | selected postcode region, have been chosen to take part in our Floyd | amazing, introductory offer! We're offering you a free - that's right Floyd | FREE - credit card with GBP10,000 limit*! ARE WE CRAZY?? Floyd | Floyd | At this point you throw the letter in the bin. You live in the Floyd | darkest, emptiest void of time and space in this reality; you are the Floyd | only living (using the term loosely) soul in this dimension and yet Floyd | you still get junk mail. It's enough to make you livid! You turn to Floyd | the other letter, which comes in the unmarked, large brown envelope Floyd | that your Supervisors use when they want to contact you. It looks Floyd | like you've got some work to do today. You open it and begin to read. Floyd | Floyd | You have five clients today. Four standard cases and one Floyd | administrative error... Floyd | Floyd | You roll your eyes. Administrative errors are the worst. It means Floyd | that the paperwork has got screwed up somewhere along the line and Floyd | some poor idiot is not where they should be when they're fated to die. Floyd | As usual, it's up to you to clear up somebody else's mess. You carry Floyd | on reading, though you know the words off by heart now. Floyd | Floyd | Please find attached the details of the clients. These clients will Floyd | die, as fated, but for some reason will refuse or be unable to Floyd | progress to their destination. Reap their souls to complete the Floyd | cycle. You must complete this task by the end of the day. Thank you. Floyd | Floyd | You discard the letter and read the attached list. Floyd | Floyd | Lord Nigel McWorthington - Himilayas, Nepal Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Busset - Manchester, England Floyd | Floyd | Jimiyu Wangai - Wajir, Kenya Floyd | Floyd | Agathe Laurent - Paris, France Floyd | Floyd | Splong5b - Nevada, USA Floyd | Floyd | You pocket the list. Let's go to work. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Splong5b, huh." | |||
| Touchy asks, "Number 5 dies?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "That must be the admin error." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Ah, good ol' Splongy" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We'll need our scythe before we can go, I bet." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x bin" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's a small, metal bin. Lying in the bin is a letter from Blackbury Floyd | Banking Services. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "look in mirror" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You'd be surprised, but being a very tall, very thin, apparition of Floyd | terror doesn't attract as much attention as you'd think. As most Floyd | people don't believe in you, the first thought that goes through their Floyd | heads doesn't tend to be "Is that the Grim Reaper? IT IS THE GRIM Floyd | REAPER! I'M GOING TO DIE! I'M GOING TO DIE!" but rather something Floyd | more mundane about a fancy dress party or the current government's lax Floyd | attitude to mental health care. You tend to move about the world of Floyd | mortals attracting hardly any attention at all. This perplexes you a Floyd | little bit. Floyd | Floyd | You give a grunt of approval as you check yourself in the mirror. Floyd | Looking good! Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "are we not seeing some font changes or something? it was a little confusing the way it mixed our thoughts with the read text" | |||
| Touchy asks, "huh?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "I didn't even notice." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Hallway of Death Floyd | Floyd | The hallway has thick, plush red carpet which always tickles your toes Floyd | a little bit. It goes quite well with the black, pannelled walls. At Floyd | the south end is your imposing front door. There are a series of Floyd | hooks by the door on which you could hang your coat, if you wore a Floyd | coat that is. A small bin sits by the door. There is also a Floyd | full-length mirror on one wall. As you're the last sight some people Floyd | see, it's quite right that you check that you look presentable. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East, South and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Doug), "possible." | |||
| Doug says, "not a big deal, I just would have expected it to be in quotes or italics or a blockquote or something." | ||||
| DavidW says, "East is probably the bedroom of Death." | ||||
| Touchy says, "I'm not sure why it would be east not south but go ahead..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "South is where the front door is." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | The Kitchen of Death Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in your kitchen. To this day you can't think why you Floyd | made this room into a kitchen. You don't actually eat. The back Floyd | window, over the kitchen sink, looks out into the void. The washing Floyd | machine sits against one wall and a wooden table in the centre of the Floyd | room. It has only a single chair. You don't get any visitors. On Floyd | one wall there is a cork pinboard in the shape of an elephant (with Floyd | the words Don't Forget! playfully inscribed on it). There are several Floyd | notes pinned to it. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ The Kitchen of Death | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Well, blessed is ye who can read." | |||
| DavidW asks, "ah. Kitchen of Death. We eat?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "in other words: m)" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh. We do not eat." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x washing machine" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You gave up trying to wash your own robes a long time ago. It's just Floyd | easier to take them to a dry cleaner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "open washing mashine" | ||||
Floyd | Open what? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x notes" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You scan the notes. - Remember Horse's birthday present!!! -, - Wrote Floyd | in wrong diary yesterday! Correct it! -, - Get more paper for Floyd | notes!!! - and - Out of cheese. - You don't remember writing that Floyd | last one. There is also a ticket pinned to the board from the dry Floyd | cleaners in San Fransisco. You left a robe with them for a clean. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "open washing machine" | ||||
Floyd | You can't open the washing machine! Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "haha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take ticket" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You unpin the ticket from the board and put it in your pocket. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "Well, maybe our scythe is in that robe?" | |||
| Doug says, "wonder what Horse wants for his/her birthday." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Carrot, Sugar, Apple." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "How does a skeletal horse get born, anyway?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "Maybe you pour acid on a normal horse." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Touchy), "oh, that's pleasant." | ||||
| Doug says, "well, first it gets born, then it dies..." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Sorry, got carried away." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't really need a window. A hole in the wall would have done Floyd | just as well. It's never too cold or too hot and you never get any Floyd | visitors. It just seemed like a good idea at the time... Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "then it undies..." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's a kitchen sink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in sink" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | It's a kitchen sink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read ticket" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | It's a small piece of paper informing you that Happy Go Lucky Dry Floyd | Clean in San Fransisco currently has a black dress belonging to a Mr. Floyd | G. Reaper. The ticket also says Please present ticket to collect Floyd | item. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take all but kitchen sink" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the kitchen sink! Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "darn" | |||
| Touchy says, "I like the "Exists: ..." part of this terp. It's convenient." | ||||
| DavidW says, "hm. maybe we leave the scythe with Horse. I dunno." | ||||
| Touchy says, "I say we go out and try." | ||||
| Touchy says, "We're trying to solve problems we're not even having yet." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | The Hallway of Death Floyd | Floyd | [ The Hallway of Death | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | The game is now in its verbose mode, which always gives long Floyd | descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | The Garden Path of Death Floyd | Floyd | You are standing on a garden path. You don't have a garden so Floyd | technically it should just be called 'a path'. The path leads through Floyd | the void of emptiness from your house to the stable where Horse lives. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North and South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ The Garden Path of Death | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x void" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special. In fact you don't see anything at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. An empty location." | |||
| Touchy says, "Do we have to use verbose? It just makes it harder to catch up." | ||||
| Touchy says, "And I doubt that it's easy to skip parts if you're using a screenreader.." | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, I miss the long descriptions sometimes when we play in groups. I don't notice everything I should." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | The Stable of Death Floyd | Floyd | You are in your stable. Despite your best efforts, the small, rough Floyd | wooden structure seems more homely than your own house. Horse doesn't Floyd | eat (or go to the toilet) but in accordance with universal laws the Floyd | floor is covered in hay and the place smells of horse poo. In one Floyd | corner is a large whetstone. Fixed to the north wall are the brackets Floyd | where you rest your scythe when you're not using it. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see The Grim Reaper's Scythe. Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ The Stable of Death | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Like, I didn't check out the armchair three rooms ago." | |||
| Nitku says, "I don't think anyone playing now is using a screenreader" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | That smells normal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scythe" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Wickedly sharp and imposing, this is your weapon of choice for reaping Floyd | souls. It's a metaphor for your ability to harvest people from the Floyd | land of the living, so it doesn't actually need to be a scythe but you Floyd | find that people expect it. It's the look of the thing. Your Floyd | Supervisors have gone to the trouble of making it invisible to mortal Floyd | eyes after that embarrasing incident at JFK airport six months ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "fine..." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||||
Floyd | [take The Grim Reaper's Scythe] Floyd | You pick up the Grim Reaper's Scythe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x horse" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Horse is a skeletal steed. S/He has been your faithful companion from Floyd | the beginning, whenever that was. It's hard to come across as being Floyd | noble when you're nothing but a collection of bones held together by Floyd | some unknown, mysterious force but Horse manages it quite well. An Floyd | equine skeleton is not something that most people would expect to see, Floyd | so they don't. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x whetstone" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's a large whetstone for sharpening blades. You use it to keep your Floyd | scythe sharp, though you don't really need to bother. It's always as Floyd | sharp as it needs to be. You just got into the habit of sharpening it Floyd | every now and then, and you tend to be a very habitual person. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "so, shall we go reap someone?" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x hourglass" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The grains of sand tell you that you have eleven and a half hours left Floyd | to complete your contract. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy exclaims, "himalaya!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I think sharpening the blade is a good thing, even if it doesn't need it, just so we can look sinister whilst sharpening it." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sharpen scythe" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You check your scythe. It's sharp enough as it is. No need to waste Floyd | time sharpening it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "I say we go to San Fransisco [sic] first?" | |||
| Doug says, "we might need our black dress. er, robe." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You are about six foot five inches tall, dressed in the blackest robes Floyd | anyone has ever seen. Your hairless, so-pale-it's-almost-translucent Floyd | skin is stretched across your skull like clingfilm on a billiard ball. Floyd | Your eyes are about the only thing in this reality that are darker Floyd | than your robes, and your spindly, gaunt hands protrude from your Floyd | sleeves like a bunch of chopsticks. You secretly think of yourself as Floyd | 'quite handsome'. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose the dress is for the drag portion of the game." | |||
| Touchy says, "Maybe we'll need it later after this one got messed up." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Yeah, and Himilayas [sic] after that" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps we get to be Death Nun." | ||||
| Touchy says, "[sic]" | ||||
| Doug | "You left a robe with them for a clean." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Doug), "yes, but the ticket said 'dress'." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x list" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The list of your clients for today. It reads... Floyd | Floyd | Lord Nigel McWorthington - Himilayas, Nepal Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Busset - Manchester, England Floyd | Floyd | Jimiyu Wangai - Wajir, Kenya Floyd | Floyd | Agathe Laurent - Paris, France Floyd | Floyd | Splong5b - Nevada, USA Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "my guess was that was their mistake" | |||
| DavidW says, "Apparently, the robe is dress-like." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "say nepal to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Mountain Pass (Himilayas) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing on a thin path that is winding through the snowy, Floyd | Himilayan mountain range. The view is lovely, but it isn't half Floyd | chilly here. Your feet are getting cold and the wind is whipping Floyd | right up your robe. Right in front of you is a huge snowdrift, under Floyd | which is buried the body of one of your clients - Lord Nigel Floyd | McWorthington. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: No Exits Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lord Nigel McWorthington gazed out over the crisp, snowy scene and Floyd | smiled. He was glad that he'd decided to do this; that he'd decided Floyd | to celebrate his sixtieth birthday by trekking through the Himilayas. Floyd | His family had insisted on a surprise party, despite the fact that his Floyd | doctor had warned them against giving him any sudden shocks. Then Floyd | again, his doctor had warned him against mountain climbing too. But Floyd | he wouldn't trade this for anything. The view was splendid and Floyd | stretched for miles, and it almost made him shake off the nagging Floyd | feeling that he really should have been at that surprise party. Sure, Floyd | the family would be disappointed when he didn't show up, but they Floyd | should have made a better effort to make sure that he wouldn't find Floyd | out. He wasn't stupid. Leaving the guest list out where he could Floyd | find it wasn't too clever for a start. But that didn't really explain Floyd | the feeling. It wasn't guilt but rather something else. Something he Floyd | couldn't quite put his finger on. Floyd | Floyd | He pushed the feeling back again and looked into the sunshine, lifting Floyd | his hands above his head. He felt so alive! He almost let out a cry Floyd | of triumph, but stopped just in time. There's no telling what might Floyd | cause an avalanche in this part of the world. Just then he heard a Floyd | rush of wind behind him, he turned and... Floyd | Floyd | ...found himself staring at a skeletal horse, ridden by a tall, Floyd | ghastly apparition of horror, who seemed to be reading a list... Floyd | Floyd | Lord Nigel McWorthington screamed at the top of his voice and gripped Floyd | his chest. The scream rebounded off the mountain walls and was Floyd | suddenly silenced by an ominous rumbling sound from above. He looked Floyd | up at the avalanche descending rapidly, turned once again to the Floyd | horrifying apparition and managed the words "You complete and Floyd | utter..." before he was buried under a crushing weight of snow. Floyd | Floyd | You shrug and climb off Horse. This was clearly Nigel McWorthington, Floyd | and you suspect that he is (you mean was) the administrative error. Floyd | Seems that death caught up with him after all. You smile at the Floyd | double entendre and turn your attention to the scene. To reap his Floyd | soul you have to get to the body, which is currently under thirty foot Floyd | of snow. You scratch your head in puzzlement. Why are these things Floyd | never easy? Floyd | Floyd | Mountain Pass (Himilayas) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing on a thin path that is winding through the snowy, Floyd | Himilayan mountain range. The view is lovely, but it isn't half Floyd | chilly here. Your feet are getting cold and the wind is whipping Floyd | right up your robe. Right in front of you is a huge snowdrift, under Floyd | which is buried the body of one of your clients - Lord Nigel Floyd | McWorthington. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: No Exits Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Mountain Pass (Himilayas) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Don't we need to get on Horse?!?" | |||
| Doug says, "whoa, a flashback" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig snowdrift" | Touchy says, "Death is smart enough to do get on the horse by himself it seems." | |||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Your bare hands? No way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter snowdrift" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the snowdrift. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says, "Hey Ellison" | Ellison says, "hey Johnny" | |||
| DavidW asks, "so, um. We need what? A shovel or a flamethrower?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat snowdrift" | ||||
Floyd | You are not holding the snowdrift. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oops, our bad. poor Nigel." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yell" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we need to find a tool somewhere. Which is weird." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "say homedepot to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | No-one pays any attention to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Perhaps we can pick up something useful at the site of one of our other clients." | |||
| Touchy says, "Yeah, let's try something else." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "dig snowdrift with scythe" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the snowdrift. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "A giant magnifying lens or something." | |||
| Touchy says, "I'll let somebody else take the reigns. hehe" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say manchester to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Cellar (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | This is a dark and dank cellar underneath a house in Manchester. The Floyd | tough, red brick did a good job of containing the blast from the Floyd | exploded time machine. The remains of said time machine sit in the Floyd | centre of the cellar, nothing more than a twisted pile of metal and Floyd | wires. In one corner of the room is a stairwell, in the other a Floyd | workbench and varied selection of tools and objects that look Floyd | suspiciously mechanical. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: Up Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see Ernest Busset's shoe. Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Thomas Brewer stands here, Floyd | looking around the cellar thoughtfully. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "If this works we'll be famous!" chattered Ernest Busset, excitedly. Floyd | Floyd | "That's understating it slightly, Ernest." said Thomas Brewer, Floyd | sardonically. Floyd | Floyd | "Just think of it, man! Time travel! We'll be...famous!" Ernest Floyd | Busset could barely contain his excitement. Floyd | Floyd | "Are you sure this will work? I'm not confident myself. I know we've Floyd | run through the figures a million times but...well, I've just got a Floyd | bad feeling about this. What if it doesn't work?" Thomas sounded Floyd | very, very worried. Floyd | Floyd | "Nonsense! This must work! As you said yourself, we've gone through Floyd | the figures a million times. Now. Stand back." Floyd | Floyd | Ernest sat himself into the contraption. It looked like the cockpit Floyd | of a glider, surrounded by a mass of wires and bits and pieces of Floyd | metal. Ernest fiddled with the controls in front of him. They looked Floyd | like they had been cobbled together from bits and pieces of old games Floyd | consoles. A digital readout flashed excitedly in front of his eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, yes. See, that's what I'm talking about. If you're so Floyd | confident it will work then why are you telling me to 'stand back'?" Floyd | Thomas did, however, take several large steps backwards as he said Floyd | this. Floyd | Floyd | "Just in case! Who knows what will happen? Who knows if the field Floyd | will be purely contained to the machine? I wouldn't want you getting Floyd | sucked back through time with me! You need to stay here and document Floyd | our success from this end!" Ernest was idly flipping a switch back and Floyd | forth. Floyd | Floyd | "See, you're doing it again. 'Who knows what will happen?' Is that Floyd | supposed to inspire confidence?" Floyd | Floyd | "Just relax, old boy. Think about what you're going to do when we are Floyd | no longer constrained by time! What will you do with this power?" Floyd | Floyd | "I'm going to go back in time and kill Hitler's parents." Thomas Floyd | looked grim, his lips set in a firm line. Ernest looked puzzled. Floyd | Floyd | "I wouldn't do that, old boy. That sort of thing would just make Floyd | Hitler really angry, wouldn't it? I wouldn't have thought he was the Floyd | sort of fellow you'd want to get on the bad side of." Floyd | Floyd | "No. You've misunderstood." 'Again' Thomas added mentally, "I would Floyd | kill them before he was born." Floyd | Floyd | "That doesn't make sense, man! I mean, how can they be Hitler's Floyd | parents until they have had a baby called Hitler? Stands to reason!" Floyd | said Ernest, cheerfully. Floyd | Floyd | "Never mind," Thomas muttered, "Look. Be careful" he added, surprised Floyd | at how much he meant it. Floyd | Floyd | "No problem! Just watch this!" Ernest cheered, as he reached out and Floyd | pushed a button. Floyd | Floyd | There was a whirring noise, which increased in intensity until it Floyd | ended abruptly in a rather large explosion. Thomas Brewer was thrown Floyd | back against the far wall, and crumpled to a heap on the floor. He Floyd | looked up from his prone position to see a tattered, charred shoe fall Floyd | in front of him. Floyd | "Oh dear." he said, with rather considerable constraint. Floyd | Floyd | He then climbed to his feet and turned to find you watching him from Floyd | the other end of the room. Floyd | "Oh dear oh dear." he trembles, "Look. Just tell me. Am I dead?" Floyd | You gaze at the List. Floyd | Floyd | "Ith your name Ernetht Buthet?" you intone. Floyd | Floyd | Thomas Brewer looks at you blankly. It's hard enough for a man to be Floyd | on the verge of humanity's greatest scientific breakthrough and then Floyd | to suddenly be confronted with the possibility that he might be dead, Floyd | let alone to find that the Gatekeeper of the Afterlife has a speech Floyd | impediment. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sorry, did you say 'Erneth Buffet'? Ummm...Do you mean Ernest Floyd | Busset?" Thomas brushed himself down. You nod irritably. You've had Floyd | a lisp for as long as you can remember and it's not your fault. It Floyd | certainly doesn't make your job any easier. "No. No. I'm Thomas Floyd | Brewer. Ernest Busset is...oh. Oh no! Oh no! Ernest is dead?" Floyd | Thomas exclaims, shocked. You nod again. Floyd | Floyd | "Where ith he then?" you ask, looking round the room in annoyance. Floyd | Thomas grins and points at the charred heap of metal in the centre of Floyd | the room. Floyd | Floyd | "I think the question really should be 'when is he?' We built a time Floyd | machine, he and I did. And as there's no sign of a corpse I'm Floyd | guessing that it worked! It worked! Do you realise what this means?" Floyd | Thomas was jubilant, forgetting the situation for a moment. Floyd | Floyd | You shrug. You personally suspect that it means that they won't be Floyd | selling anything other than one-way tickets but you say nothing. Floyd | Floyd | "Ha! He might have survived! You can't know for certain!" Floyd | Floyd | You sigh. You've had to recover your clients from some very strange Floyd | places in the past, but never a different time. There has to be a way Floyd | to solve this one. Floyd | Floyd | Cellar (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | This is a dark and dank cellar underneath a house in Manchester. The Floyd | tough, red brick did a good job of containing the blast from the Floyd | exploded time machine. The remains of said time machine sit in the Floyd | centre of the cellar, nothing more than a twisted pile of metal and Floyd | wires. In one corner of the room is a stairwell, in the other a Floyd | workbench and varied selection of tools and objects that look Floyd | suspiciously mechanical. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: Up Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see Ernest Busset's shoe. Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Thomas Brewer stands here, Floyd | looking around the cellar thoughtfully. Floyd | Floyd | [ Cellar (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "wow. textdump" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shoe" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | A single brown shoe. It's seen better days. Namely days when it Floyd | hasn't been at the heart of a large explosion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||||
Floyd | [take Ernest Busset's shoe] Floyd | You pick up Ernest Busset's shoe. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "hm...well you wanted tools" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask thomas about time machine" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | "It worked," Thomas smiles, manically "It really worked! Just like he Floyd | said it would! We will be famous...when he gets back that is. When Floyd | I've rebuilt the machine..." He looks worried, as if trying to figure Floyd | out if this task is beyond him. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tools" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You've never been one for DIY (other than in the scythe department) so Floyd | you don't have a clue what most of the tools here are even called, let Floyd | alone what they do. The only things you have any confidence about are Floyd | a large roll of masking tape and a small magnet. You decide that the Floyd | magnet might come in useful and slip it into your robe. As you'll Floyd | still exist when this building has rotted to ruins, all things - in a Floyd | metaphorical way - belong to you. At least that's what you tell Floyd | yourself whenever your rampant kleptomania overtakes you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take tape" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Normally you would, but you decide that stealing a magnet is bad Floyd | enough. You leave the masking tape where it is. If you ever need it Floyd | then you know where to find it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You move up. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | You've been in some impressive hallways in your time, but this isn't Floyd | one of them. It's positively dull, and from someone who has done the Floyd | same job day after day for millenia that's saying something. It's Floyd | walls are coated with pink paint, which is in serious need of Floyd | attention. The flooring is bare wooden boards. There is a telephone Floyd | table next to the front door, on which is a - shock! - telephone. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, West and Down Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Hallway (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "weird" | |||
| DavidW says, "Has everyone caught up? I feel I should pause." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x telephone" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's a cheap, black plastic telephone with little number buttons that Floyd | you push. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "I'm fine." | |||
| Touchy says, "Just clueless." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Do we bother to explore Manchester or go somewhere else?" | ||||
| Doug says, "yeah, no apparent reason to be here." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Let's look around some." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Maybe he'll call from the past or whatever..." | ||||
| Doug says, "but we can't go back in time yet. Unless our hourglass is a Time Turner." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Maybe we have to help rebuild the machine to get him." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | You have no need of a bathroom so you never feel comfortable about Floyd | what goes on in one. This means that you never feel comfortable Floyd | standing in one. The lino under your feet is worn and in need of Floyd | repair and the tiled walls are covered with mildew and mould. The Floyd | kindest thing that you could say about the mirror is that it isn't Floyd | broken, and the sink only has one tap. As for the bath - well, it's a Floyd | great advert for fitting a shower. And you daren't even look at the Floyd | toilet... Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Bathroom (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Doug asks, "do we dare?" | |||
| DavidW says, "of course" | ||||
| Doug asks, "err, daren't we?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "hehe" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | I said YOU DAREN'T EVEN LOOK AT THE TOILET! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "YAY" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | I said YOU DAREN'T EVEN LOOK AT THE TOILET! Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "aw" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Dude, he told you." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You look into the mirror. In this room, even your reflection looks Floyd | dirty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "break mirror" | ||||
Floyd | You might need the mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "Do we have an idea whether this is a search-for-random-stuff kind of game?" | |||
| DavidW says, "This seems to be a pointless room to explore." | ||||
| Doug asks, "or should we just take a quick pass until we find something clearly important?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Doug), "I think it is, a bit. At least, I think it might be." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | You've been in some impressive hallways in your time, but this isn't Floyd | one of them. It's positively dull, and from someone who has done the Floyd | same job day after day for millenia that's saying something. It's Floyd | walls are coated with pink paint, which is in serious need of Floyd | attention. The flooring is bare wooden boards. There is a telephone Floyd | table next to the front door, on which is a - shock! - telephone. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, West and Down Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Hallway (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We grabbed a magnet." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | The living room is as grotty as the rest of the house. The wallpaper Floyd | and carpets are clearly refugees from the era when flares were Floyd | fashionable the first time round. The floor is covered in scientific Floyd | papers and engineering sketches. Two sleeping bags lie, rolled out, Floyd | in the far corner of the room. A window, with one pane boarded up, Floyd | gazes out onto a Manchester high street. This is the kind of living Floyd | room where you could imagine someone sitting and saying "You call this Floyd | living?". Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Living Room (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Doug says, "I mean, are we likely to find something important if we search the bath, or whatever" | |||
| Doug says, "Well, 'tools' seemed pretty obvious" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ooh papers" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read papers" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x papers" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You shuffle through the pages. Some of the papers and drawings make Floyd | perfect sense to you (such as the angry red bill from the telephone Floyd | company threatening to cut off service, or the sketched picture of a Floyd | man with an arrow through his head) but most of them are gibberish. Floyd | There are equations and diagrams that you can't even begin to Floyd | understand. It takes you a few minutes but you eventually sort some Floyd | of the more important looking ones to one side. They form a small Floyd | pile of paperwork that seem to detail some of the most significant Floyd | facts concerning time travel. You include with them several detailed Floyd | drawings of the machine that Ernest and Thomas built. Having done Floyd | this you file your collection of paperwork into one of the pockets in Floyd | your robe. This stuff might help you get your scythe on Ernest's Floyd | soul. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x sleeping bags" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Sleeping bags that belonged, you guess, to Thomas and Ernest. They Floyd | don't look like they've been slept in much. They've obviously made a Floyd | lot of sacrifices in trying to build the machine. You shake your Floyd | head, wondering if this passion for knowledge was worth it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | You've been in some impressive hallways in your time, but this isn't Floyd | one of them. It's positively dull, and from someone who has done the Floyd | same job day after day for millenia that's saying something. It's Floyd | walls are coated with pink paint, which is in serious need of Floyd | attention. The flooring is bare wooden boards. There is a telephone Floyd | table next to the front door, on which is a - shock! - telephone. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, West and Down Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Hallway (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | It's a filthy kitchen, and vastly underequipped for it's purpose. Floyd | Your kitchen might be nothing special but at least you keep it clean, Floyd | and you don't even prepare food in it. The people who use this Floyd | kitchen are playing the odds. The worksurfaces are covered with dirt Floyd | and bits of food. There are three rusty old garden chairs against one Floyd | wall, a cooker and a cupboard against another. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Kitchen (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If we give the papers to Thomas, he might rebuild the damn machine." | |||
| Limax asks, "I'm an half hour late, aren't I?" | ||||
| Doug winces at half the "it's"es. | ||||
| Touchy says, "We could make hot water and melt the snow..." | ||||
| Limax arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You open the cupboard. Inside is a tin of beans, some rice and a Floyd | packet of After Eight mints. A varied diet, it seems. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks (of Limax), "are you on Newfoundland time?" | |||
| Limax says, "No" | ||||
| Touchy says, "Then you are." | ||||
| Limax says, "So I'm more than an half an hour late" | ||||
| Limax says, "I had 'noon' in my head... not '11:30'" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Limax), "Where's your wife? Why isn't she here for quality time?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We started at 2:15 today. We were scheduled for 2:00." | ||||
| Limax says, "Aha... so I'm 45 minutes late" | ||||
| Limax says, "11:00 here, not noon" | ||||
| Limax says, "I was working on my car at that time" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mints" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Compared to the other items in the cupboard, the still-sealed packet Floyd | of After Eights is a luxury item. You would feel bad about taking Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rice" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Although someone with your historical and geographical appreciation Floyd | can see the significance of rice in general, you don't see the need to Floyd | take interest in any right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take beans" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | A tin of economy beans. As tempting as it is, you resist the lure of Floyd | the tin. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "right. Let's give the papers to Thomas." | |||
| DavidW asks, "may I?" | ||||
| Doug asks, "let's see what's east first?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "East of where?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "The hallway is east of here." | ||||
| Doug says, "clubf oh, nevermind, there were only N,S,W from there." | ||||
| DavidW says, "We seem to be in a house without exits." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "so, can I move us?" | ||||
| Doug says, "anyway, yes, I think we're done here." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | You've been in some impressive hallways in your time, but this isn't Floyd | one of them. It's positively dull, and from someone who has done the Floyd | same job day after day for millenia that's saying something. It's Floyd | walls are coated with pink paint, which is in serious need of Floyd | attention. The flooring is bare wooden boards. There is a telephone Floyd | table next to the front door, on which is a - shock! - telephone. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, West and Down Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Hallway (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Touchy says, "hahaha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You move down. Floyd | Floyd | Cellar (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | This is a dark and dank cellar underneath a house in Manchester. The Floyd | tough, red brick did a good job of containing the blast from the Floyd | exploded time machine. The remains of said time machine sit in the Floyd | centre of the cellar, nothing more than a twisted pile of metal and Floyd | wires. In one corner of the room is a stairwell, in the other a Floyd | workbench and varied selection of tools and objects that look Floyd | suspiciously mechanical. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: Up Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Thomas Brewer stands here, Floyd | looking around the cellar thoughtfully. Floyd | Floyd | [ Cellar (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Touchy says, "descripe the word "banana" in one room" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give papers to thomas" | ||||
Floyd | Give what? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying the Golden Hourglass, The Grim Reaper's Scythe, The Floyd | List, the dry cleaning ticket, Ernest Busset's shoe, a small magnet Floyd | and the time machine plans. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give plans to thomas" | ||||
Floyd | Thomas Brewer doesn't seem interested in the time machine plans. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show plans to thomas" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the time machine plans. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "repair time machine" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think you can repair the time machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask thomas about plans" | ||||
Floyd | Thomas Brewer does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask thomas about repairs" | ||||
Floyd | Thomas Brewer does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "sheesh" | |||
| DavidW asks, "grr. Do we have to get someone ELSE to do it?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use plans" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the time machine plans. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Just club Thomas and move on" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask thomas about time machine" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | "It worked," Thomas smiles, manically "It really worked! Just like he Floyd | said it would! We will be famous...when he gets back that is. When Floyd | I've rebuilt the machine..." He looks worried, as if trying to figure Floyd | out if this task is beyond him. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show plans" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the time machine plans. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask thomas about plans" | ||||
Floyd | Thomas Brewer does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask thomas about ernest" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | "He's my mentor and friend." Thomas shrugs, "We've done something Floyd | amazing here. I can't believe he's dead. I won't believe it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying the Golden Hourglass, The Grim Reaper's Scythe, The Floyd | List, the dry cleaning ticket, Ernest Busset's shoe, a small magnet Floyd | and the time machine plans. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give time machine plans to thomas" | ||||
Floyd | Thomas Brewer doesn't seem interested in the time machine plans. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "next." | |||
| Ellison asks, "is this ADRIFT?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||||
| Touchy says, "yes" | ||||
| Touchy says, "Fine, let's try somebody else." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x list" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The list of your clients for today. It reads... Floyd | Floyd | Lord Nigel McWorthington - Himilayas, Nepal Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Busset - Manchester, England Floyd | Floyd | Jimiyu Wangai - Wajir, Kenya Floyd | Floyd | Agathe Laurent - Paris, France Floyd | Floyd | Splong5b - Nevada, USA Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay, sure." | |||
| Limax asks, "What's with the translations of our shorthand?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "We don't know." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "say nevada to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are crammed, almost bent double, into a small storage cupboard. Floyd | With your prefect night vision you can make out several shelves, Floyd | crammed full of pots and bottles of various fluids. There seems to be Floyd | a definite cleaning theme to this cupboard. Your foot clatters againt Floyd | more tins and boxes. Horse shuffles and kicks you in the knee. You Floyd | think you might have found a new frontrunner in the "Most Floyd | Uncomfortable I Have Ever Been" stakes. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see a shovel blade. Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Private Kline yawned. Guard duty was so unbelievably boring. He knew Floyd | that he wouldn't have normally pulled this duty for six days in a row Floyd | but recent events with the General's daughter had resulted in this Floyd | sorry state of affairs. He didn't regret a thing, but...this was Floyd | really boring. Nothing ever happened. He was guarding a single door Floyd | in the most heavily protected military faculty in the United States. Floyd | Floyd | He moved his rifle to the other shoulder and shrugged. Maybe he Floyd | should play The Game again. His time on guard duty had been spent Floyd | developing the rules to The Game. It helped pass the time. The Game Floyd | involved him seeing how many times he could spin his rifle above his Floyd | head in a minute. It couldn't be any old spin, however, as the rules Floyd | made quite clear. The gun had to be held a certain distance above his Floyd | head, at a certain angle. The spin had to be at a certain velocity. Floyd | It was pretty complicated, which probably explained why - after five Floyd | days - his personal best was only two. The rules were being reviewed Floyd | yet again. Maybe version 1.6 of The Game would see some major Floyd | changes. He didn't want a repeat of version 1.3, where he was very Floyd | lucky not to have shot himself in the face. Floyd | Floyd | CRASH! Floyd | Floyd | Private Kline stopped in mid-thought. What was that? Floyd | Floyd | CRUNCH! Floyd | Floyd | It sounded like it was coming from the storage cupboard just down the Floyd | corridor. Floyd | Floyd | "I jutht trod in paint or thomething!" a muffled (but raised) voice Floyd | sounded. It was definitely coming from the storage cupboard. Floyd | "Honethtly! You could land anywhere in the whole building and you Floyd | chooth to land in a cupboard! Thtupid animal!" Floyd | Floyd | "Who's in there!" shouted Kline, his rifle raised. The door opened Floyd | and out stepped an incredibly tall and gaunt figure... Floyd | Floyd | ..You turn and see the young soldier with his gun raised. Floyd | Floyd | "Excuth me, but thouldn't you be pointing the other end at me?" you Floyd | offer, helpfully. You have no need to be afraid of firearms. Floyd | Floyd | Private Kline hurridly turns his rifle the right way round and looks Floyd | at you, almost apologetically. Floyd | Floyd | "Identify yourself!" he barks. Floyd | Floyd | "Me? I'm the Grim Reaper," you explain, checking The List, "And you Floyd | wouldn't happen to be Thplong5b would you?" Floyd | Floyd | "Huh? What?" Private Kline tried to compose himself. He'd wanted Floyd | some excitement, but this was a lot more confusing than he'd thought Floyd | it would be. Floyd | Floyd | "No. I gueth not. You don't look like a Thplong5b. I think I need Floyd | to go through that door behind you." you look up from The List, Floyd | certain that your Client is in the room that this soldier is guarding. Floyd | Floyd | "The door behind me?" Kline's resolve hardens, "No. No I think not. Floyd | I've got one job in this place - guard this door. I don't care who Floyd | you are. You are not getting through." Floyd | Floyd | You sigh, but then look into Kline's face and realise that you've Floyd | never come across a man with such single-minded determination before. Floyd | Neither have you ever met someone with such total confidence that Floyd | whatever he happens to face he can solve it with his gun. Your own Floyd | conviction wavers. Most people, when faced with the Grim Reaper, Floyd | simply give up. This is new territory for you. Floyd | Floyd | As a creature formed and given shape by belief you begin to wonder if Floyd | Kline's faith in his gun is so great that it might actually cause you Floyd | a problem were you to try and force your way past him. You're not Floyd | certain, but neither are you prepared to take the risk. You didn't Floyd | get this far by taking risks. This really is very annoying, but Floyd | you're going to have to find a way past Private Kline. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | A very plain military corridor, lacking any redeeming features. It Floyd | seems that after having spent the budget on laser guns and mind Floyd | control devices there's only enough money left for "Hospital White" Floyd | paint. There is a door to the west labelled Storage, and the corridor Floyd | continues to the north. At the south end is a set of unmarked double Floyd | doors. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Private Kline stands in front of the double doors, blocking your way. Floyd | He looks determined to keep you out. Floyd | Floyd | [ Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Limax), "I don't know. I'm hoping inky will tell us someday." | |||
| Doug says, "heh 'prefect night vision'" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "We're in a cupboard with our HORSE?!?" | ||||
| Doug asks, "look, a shovel! ...blade?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I have to get some lunch. later!" | ||||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | DavidW says, "yes, let's get that blade." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are crammed, almost bent double, into a small storage cupboard. Floyd | With your prefect night vision you can make out several shelves, Floyd | crammed full of pots and bottles of various fluids. There seems to be Floyd | a definite cleaning theme to this cupboard. Your foot clatters againt Floyd | more tins and boxes. Horse shuffles and kicks you in the knee. You Floyd | think you might have found a new frontrunner in the "Most Floyd | Uncomfortable I Have Ever Been" stakes. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see a shovel blade. Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take blade" | ||||
Floyd | You pick up the shovel blade. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | [examine a shovel blade] Floyd | Floyd | This is the blade from a shovel. There's a clean break where the Floyd | handle has been snapped or sawn off, but the blade is dented as though Floyd | it's seen a fair amount of service. It's unusable in this state. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x bottles" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You read the labels of some of the objects in the cupboard. Cleaning Floyd | fluids, powders, plastic bags and all kinds of things to make sure Floyd | that this base is kept very, very clean. It's almost as if the most Floyd | terrible thing that the US Military could imagine was for the base to Floyd | be attacked and the invaders to say "Look at this place, will you. Floyd | It's disgusting!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pots" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You read the labels of some of the objects in the cupboard. Cleaning Floyd | fluids, powders, plastic bags and all kinds of things to make sure Floyd | that this base is kept very, very clean. It's almost as if the most Floyd | terrible thing that the US Military could imagine was for the base to Floyd | be attacked and the invaders to say "Look at this place, will you. Floyd | It's disgusting!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search pots" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the pots. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x boxes" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You read the labels of some of the objects in the cupboard. Cleaning Floyd | fluids, powders, plastic bags and all kinds of things to make sure Floyd | that this base is kept very, very clean. It's almost as if the most Floyd | terrible thing that the US Military could imagine was for the base to Floyd | be attacked and the invaders to say "Look at this place, will you. Floyd | It's disgusting!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | A very plain military corridor, lacking any redeeming features. It Floyd | seems that after having spent the budget on laser guns and mind Floyd | control devices there's only enough money left for "Hospital White" Floyd | paint. There is a door to the west labelled Storage, and the corridor Floyd | continues to the north. At the south end is a set of unmarked double Floyd | doors. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Private Kline stands in front of the double doors, blocking your way. Floyd | He looks determined to keep you out. Floyd | Floyd | [ Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | Another featureless military corridor. This time you really do see Floyd | nothing special. The corridor stretches back south, the way that you Floyd | came from. There are doors in the other walls. The north door has a Floyd | sign that reads Security, the east door reads Barracks and the west Floyd | door says Laboratory. Nice of them to label the doors for you. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask kline about doors" | ||||
Floyd | Use the format "ask [character] about [subject]". Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "sorry" | |||
| DavidW says, "I vote checking out the Lab first." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You try the door but it refuses to open. It's locked and you can't Floyd | see a lock or any obvious way of unlocking it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "I guess that's out" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Barracks (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are in a barracks. The room, despite being a place where people Floyd | are expected to relax and sleep, is as bleak and clinical as the rest Floyd | of the compound. At least an effort has been made and one wall is Floyd | covered with posters. Rows and rows of bunk beds fill the room, a few Floyd | of which are being used by off-duty and snoozing soliders. They seem Floyd | to be sleeping very well, despite the beeping noise coming from an air Floyd | duct in the corner of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Barracks (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Limax says, "You are in a barracks just sounds wrong to me" | |||
| DavidW says, "hm. Perhaps there's an ID badge that auto-opens it." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x duct" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The air duct is covered by a thick mesh which could be easily removed Floyd | by the right tool. It would be a tight squeeze but you could fit Floyd | inside it if you had to. A beeping noise emanates from the duct. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "take mesh" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the mesh! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "remove mesh" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You lack the right tool to open the air duct. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Screwdriver, I suppose." | |||
| Touchy says, "The mythical right tool." | ||||
| Doug asks, "could it be a little more specific?" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "use blade on mesh" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the shovel blade. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "of course it could" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is definitely a beeping coming from the air ducts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x men" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x beds" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You didn't know it was possible to make a bed look so functional and Floyd | unappealing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "But it's a mesh. They are not known for being specific in their demands." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under beds" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x posters" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | There are a variety of posters, only one of which catches your Floyd | attention (it would be more, but you lack some of the same basic urges Floyd | as the common military man). It's a large poster of the Golden Gate Floyd | Bridge, with a comment written beneath it. Floyd | Floyd | Stuck in a rut? Don't know what your next step should be? Simply Floyd | just bored? Floyd | Floyd | VISIT SAN FRANCISCO Floyd | Floyd | Some things will become a lot clearer... Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "hehe" | |||
| DavidW asks, "ah. The hint system is there?" | ||||
| Doug asks, "is that near San Fransisco?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "no that's next to San Franziscool" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | Another featureless military corridor. This time you really do see Floyd | nothing special. The corridor stretches back south, the way that you Floyd | came from. There are doors in the other walls. The north door has a Floyd | sign that reads Security, the east door reads Barracks and the west Floyd | door says Laboratory. Nice of them to label the doors for you. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Security Room (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a darkened room with one wall totally given over Floyd | to monitors, computers and various dials, switches and buttons. This Floyd | seems to be some kind of surveillance room. There is also a Floyd | noticeboard on another wall with pieces of paper stuck to it, a Floyd | variety of obviously important comments circled and underlined in red Floyd | pen. To the east of the room is a heavy door marked Armory. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South and East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see the cigarette lighter. Floyd | Floyd | [ Security Room (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Nitku says, "No, you're thinking about Sanfran Cisco" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x noticeboard" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | A very plain and unimpressive noticeboard. Not like the elephant one Floyd | in your kitchen. That's classy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take lighter" | ||||
Floyd | You pick up the cigarette lighter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Yeah, finally the flamethrower...." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x papers" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You skim through the papers. They seem to be an assortment of memos, Floyd | timetables and security announcements. There are a few pieces of Floyd | paper that are more unusual, and these are the ones that have been Floyd | marked with red ink. Floyd | Floyd | Two in particular attract your attention. The first is a memo warning Floyd | the security teams to be on the look out for a man known only as Floyd | "Agent Sunglasses". He seems to be a spy of some sort, last seen in Floyd | Paris. On this memo, written in red pen, are the words Codeword - Floyd | Blue Sparrow. Floyd | Floyd | The second piece of paper that catches your attention is a postcard Floyd | that says You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here but it Helps!!!!!. Floyd | You don't know why but you get depressed every time you see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take postcard" | ||||
Floyd | Take what? Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "Paris is on our list, conveniently" | |||
| DavidW says, "probably not a coincidence." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x monitors" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The displays flicker between a selection of images from security Floyd | cameras set up over the site. Big Brother is watching you indeed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x buttons" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | An assortment of things to turn, flick and press. You don't know what Floyd | any of them do, but they look tempting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You begin to fiddle with the various controls on the panel. Nothing Floyd | particularly interesting happens until you press one button and a Floyd | message flickers on one of the computer screens briefly - LABORATORY Floyd | DOOR UNLOCKED Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "flick" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Touchy), "woot" | |||
| Doug says, "okay then." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "We have an armory to check as well?" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The door is locked by a keypad, swipe card, fingerprint scanner and Floyd | deadbolt. You try it anyway. Nope. It's definitely locked. You'll Floyd | need a special key to get in here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "a *special* key" | |||
| DavidW says, "btw, I'm guessing 'Splong5b' is an E.T." | ||||
| Doug says, "me too" | ||||
| Doug asks, "to the lab?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "*Special* things can be found in San Francisco." | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes, go to lab" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | Another featureless military corridor. This time you really do see Floyd | nothing special. The corridor stretches back south, the way that you Floyd | came from. There are doors in the other walls. The north door has a Floyd | sign that reads Security, the east door reads Barracks and the west Floyd | door says Laboratory. Nice of them to label the doors for you. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a large spotless room. The first thing you notice Floyd | is a huge, strange, complex machine in the middle of the room. You've Floyd | never seen anything like it before. It's surrounded by a work Floyd | surface, on which are scattered various papers and notes. One wall is Floyd | lined with computer terminals. There are also shelves, loaded with Floyd | bottles and tools and around the room seem to be one or two unfinished Floyd | experiments. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Laboratory (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x experiments" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | There are a couple of basic looking experiments that, according to the Floyd | attached notes, seem to be releated to the mechanics of time travel. Floyd | Further paperwork seems to identify one other experiment that is Floyd | currently (and thankfully) only at the theoretical stage. It's seems Floyd | to be about finding out what would happen if you stapled a piece of Floyd | toast (butter side up) to the back of a cat and then threw it out of a Floyd | window. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We'll probably run out of time because we had to examine everything." | |||
| Doug says, "that's okay, we have time travel." | ||||
| Doug says, "well, we have plans." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take notes" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the papers! Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax exclaims, "Let's go screw with history!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You look at it. It seems to be all angles and gleaming metal surfaces Floyd | in the shape of a sphere. It looks like an orange that's been passed Floyd | through a pencil sharpener. You've never seen anything like it Floyd | before, but you instinctively recognise it as some kind of machine for Floyd | travelling through time. You shrug. It doesn't surprise you that an Floyd | eternal being would recognise that. Some wag has hung a sign over the Floyd | machine that says Out of Order. There is some kind of entrance in the Floyd | side. Maybe you could tell more about it from the inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "Where's the mad scientist to go with this lab?" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x hourglass" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The grains of sand tell you that you have ten hours left to complete Floyd | your contract. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "enter" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "enter time machine" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You awkwardly clamber inside the time machine. Floyd | Floyd | Inside Time Machine (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | The time machine is clearly meant for someone a lot shorter than you. Floyd | You feel like a pen in a matchbox. From the outside the machine Floyd | looked complicated, but from the inside the task of understanding Floyd | what's going on is positively herculean. You can see a large number Floyd | of lights and dials, none of which you can understand. It doesn't Floyd | help that any instructions written in the machine are in some kind of Floyd | alien dialect. The things that you think might be significant are a Floyd | digital readout which says '2007', the buttons next to this readout, Floyd | an open panel revealing a mix of wires and a pile of paper which is Floyd | chained to the inside of the machine, clearly to avoid theft. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: Exit Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Inside Time Machine (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Doug says, "some wag" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Papers can be 'chained'?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pile of paper" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | There are two sets of documents here. The first is entirely in an Floyd | alien language and you cannot read it, but it appears to be some kind Floyd | of set of instruction manual for using the time machine. You can Floyd | guess at this because the second set of papers appears to be an Floyd | unfinished English translation of the alien manual. They've been Floyd | chained to the machine to stop people walking off with them. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "do we know when Ernie was going to? he didn't seem to like Thomas's plans" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read paper" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You begin reading the translation... Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | CONGRATULATIONS ON PURCHASING THE CHRONOMATIC 3500! Floyd | Floyd | We are confident that you will not regret your purchase. Please take Floyd | the time to read this instruction manual and familiarise yourself with Floyd | all of the features offered by this new model of an old favourite. Floyd | Floyd | NEW FEATURES INCLUDE... Floyd | Floyd | - FREE 'and space' upgrade. That's right! Your Chronomatic 3500 is Floyd | able to move not just through time, but through time AND space! Floyd | Floyd | - Failsafe Homing Feature. Your Chronomatic will automatically return Floyd | you to your starting destination when you have finished your business Floyd | in other time zones Floyd | Floyd | - New Leather Interior. Time Travel in comfort! Floyd | Floyd | - 3 Year Warranty. Floyd | Floyd | (Please note - warranty immediately becomes invalid in the following Floyd | cases. Floyd | Floyd | - if the owner of the time machine attempts home repairs Floyd | Floyd | - If the owner tries to use an expired warranty machine to travel back Floyd | in time to a year when the warranty is valid. Floyd | Floyd | - If the owner allows this technology to fall into the hands of Floyd | humanity.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | QUICKSTART: Floyd | Floyd | For those of you who just want to get on with the fun business of time Floyd | travel you can simply begin your experience with the following simple Floyd | combination of instructions... Floyd | Floyd | Step 1) If appropriate select the time era you wish to visit using Floyd | the RED BUTTON. Floyd | Floyd | Step 2) Simply enter the year that you wish to visit (no need to use Floyd | any combination of commands such as 'type year' or 'enter year into Floyd | machine' - simply type the year that you wish to visit!) Floyd | Floyd | ...and that's it! The machine will do the rest! Floyd | Floyd | We hope that you have a GREAT time and many happy years with the Floyd | Chronomatic 3500. Remember - Have the time of your life! Floyd | Floyd | (and we really mean it about not letting the humans get their hands on Floyd | this technology. Seriously.) Floyd | Floyd | --------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | You also notice that someone has scrawled '5500 AD' at the bottom of Floyd | the translation. You put the manual down. The original has many, Floyd | many more pages but clearly the translators haven't got around to Floyd | working on that yet. Still, it seems that you have enough to actually Floyd | use the machine - if you can get it working. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| WeirdBeard arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Doug asks, "do we count as humanity?" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "5500 ad" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "5500" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens. The time machine isn't working. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "press red button" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens. The machine is not working properly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x wires" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't have a clue what all the inner workings of the time machine Floyd | are. The fact that there are at least twelve different colours of Floyd | wire is enough to make you break out into a cold sweat. Oh, all Floyd | right, make you think about breaking out into a cold sweat. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "are we clubfloyding, rpging, or crossdressing?" | |||
| olethros arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | DavidW says, "The machine. She is BROKEN." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying the Golden Hourglass, The Grim Reaper's Scythe, The Floyd | List, the dry cleaning ticket, Ernest Busset's shoe, a small magnet, Floyd | the time machine plans, a shovel blade and the cigarette lighter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Possibly we need to give the plans to Splong5b who'll tell us more." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | I admire your enthusiasm but that's not an option at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "exit time machine" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You manage, with some difficulty, to extract yourself from the time Floyd | machine. Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a large spotless room. The first thing you notice Floyd | is a huge, strange, complex machine in the middle of the room. You've Floyd | never seen anything like it before. It's surrounded by a work Floyd | surface, on which are scattered various papers and notes. One wall is Floyd | lined with computer terminals. There are also shelves, loaded with Floyd | bottles and tools and around the room seem to be one or two unfinished Floyd | experiments. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Laboratory (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | They haven't been dusted for ages. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tools" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | A variety of scientific instruments and tools are on the shelves. Floyd | Some of them have wires coming out of them and everything. You Floyd | haven't a clue what purposes they would serve. Floyd | Floyd | > | WeirdBeard says, "I'm too tired to crossdress today. I'll do it tomorrow." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bottles" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Chemical compounds and stuff like that. Your knowledge of science is Floyd | limited enough for you to lose interest quickly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Ha ha" | |||
| Touchy asks, "Should we talk to Kline?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Touchy), "We can try that, sure." | ||||
| Doug asks, "maybe if we tell Kline about the beeping he'll go investigate and leave his post?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Doug), "Somehow, I doubt that'll work." | ||||
| Touchy says, "We could also explore other reaping spots. See if we can find a screwdriver in Manchester or just give up and go home..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Let's talk to Kline." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | Another featureless military corridor. This time you really do see Floyd | nothing special. The corridor stretches back south, the way that you Floyd | came from. There are doors in the other walls. The north door has a Floyd | sign that reads Security, the east door reads Barracks and the west Floyd | door says Laboratory. Nice of them to label the doors for you. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | A very plain military corridor, lacking any redeeming features. It Floyd | seems that after having spent the budget on laser guns and mind Floyd | control devices there's only enough money left for "Hospital White" Floyd | paint. There is a door to the west labelled Storage, and the corridor Floyd | continues to the north. At the south end is a set of unmarked double Floyd | doors. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Private Kline stands in front of the double doors, blocking your way. Floyd | He looks determined to keep you out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x kline" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Private Kline is a young Hispanic man with a crew cut, dressed in Floyd | uniform and carrying an M-16 assault rifle. He has a look of Floyd | steely-eyed determination on his face, as though he's willing to give Floyd | up everything to make up for some past indiscretion. This would be Floyd | admirable were it not directed against you. That just makes it really Floyd | annoying. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "tell kline about beeping" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want to do with Private Kline. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask kline about game" | ||||
Floyd | Private Kline does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask kline about door" | ||||
Floyd | Private Kline does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to kline" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | No-one pays any attention to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask kline about alien" | ||||
Floyd | Private Kline does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take rifle" | ||||
Floyd | Take what? Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "We should have just let him shoot himself." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take kline's rifle" | ||||
Floyd | Take what? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask kline about lab" | ||||
Floyd | Private Kline does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Private Kline blocks your approach. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sorry but you may not pass." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't think the rifle is actually implemented." | |||
| Doug says, "well, that got him to takl" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Your considerable detective skills suggest to you that things are Floyd | stored behind this door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x doors" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The doors give no clue as to what lies beyond them. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "elementary" | |||
| Doug says, "show scythe to kline" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "show scythe to kline" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the Grim Reaper's Floyd | Scythe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "reap kline" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | No. You only usher the already dead into the next world. You are Floyd | forbidden to make new Clients. Besides, Kline is only doing his duty Floyd | and you can understand that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Had to try it." | |||
| Touchy says, "Yes, absolutely." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Let's leave." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "on to Wajir?" | ||||
| Doug says, "I think the only thing to do is find the right tool. elsewhere, probably. or elsewhen." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Sure." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Private Kline blocks your approach. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sorry but you may not pass." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are crammed, almost bent double, into a small storage cupboard. Floyd | With your prefect night vision you can make out several shelves, Floyd | crammed full of pots and bottles of various fluids. There seems to be Floyd | a definite cleaning theme to this cupboard. Your foot clatters againt Floyd | more tins and boxes. Horse shuffles and kicks you in the knee. You Floyd | think you might have found a new frontrunner in the "Most Floyd | Uncomfortable I Have Ever Been" stakes. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Touchy says, "This is quite an impressive horse. Looking majestic in a cupboard and all.." | |||
| DavidW says, "I know." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say wajir to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a cluster of buildings denoting this Floyd | to be a settlement of some kind. The ground under your feet is dry Floyd | and dusty. Children run through the streets, shouting and laughing. Floyd | Men go about their business. Women stand and gossip, occasionally Floyd | breaking into laughter. No-one pays you much attention. They're all Floyd | having too much fun to pay any mind to death at the moment. A path Floyd | winds east out of the village. You can see Jimiyu's hut to the north, Floyd | and to the west the open doorway of another hut invites you in. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Jimiyu Wangai sat at the table, a thoughtful look on his face. He was Floyd | dead. He wasn't surprised by this - in fact he'd been fairly certain Floyd | it was going to happen anytime soon. He enjoyed being proved right. Floyd | Well, he'd lived a long and full life but had no intention of giving Floyd | it up quite yet. His youngest granddaughter was getting married in Floyd | two weeks and he had been looking forward to that for ages. So he'd Floyd | decided that he wasn't going to go, and had made arrangements Floyd | accordingly. It had been surprisingly easy to work out. He'd found Floyd | the answer in a book in a library in Nairobi. He'd spent the past few Floyd | weeks at this table, waiting. Now he was nearly there. He looked at Floyd | the entrance to his hut... Floyd | Floyd | ...and as if right on cue, you stride in. Floyd | Floyd | "Jimiyu Wangai?" you ask Floyd | Floyd | Jimiyu laughs. "Do you really need to ask? Has anyone ever said, Floyd | 'No. That's someone else?'" Floyd | Floyd | You nod. "They do. It never workth." Floyd | Floyd | "I suppose not." Jimiyu laughs again. You're torn between two Floyd | emotions - gratitude that he has yet to point out that you have a Floyd | lisp, and confusion. Most people aren't really that happy to see you. Floyd | You sigh. Time to see what he's got up his sleeve. Floyd | Floyd | "Your time ith up, Jimiyu." Floyd | Floyd | "What's the rush? Haven't we time for a quick game first..." Jimiyu's Floyd | grin is really beginning to get on your nerves. He gestures at the Floyd | table in front of him. You notice, for the first time, that he is Floyd | sitting in front of a chess set. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh...bother," you mutter. Floyd | Floyd | It's the rules. If they challenge you, you have to play. If they win Floyd | then you've got to leave them alone. If you win they have to come Floyd | quietly. It's the rules. The universe likes rules. The problem is Floyd | that you're not actually much good at chess. It's never really been a Floyd | problem before. Most people don't even think of it, let alone being Floyd | foresighted enough to make sure that they die sitting at a chess set. Floyd | You possess a little more foresight however, and have a contingency Floyd | plan. You committed to memory a failsafe way of winning a chess Floyd | match, an unbeatable strategy, a foolproof way to victory. With just Floyd | one potential flaw... Floyd | Floyd | "Bagthy being white then," you offer, trying not to sound too nervous. Floyd | Floyd | "Ha! I'm sitting at the white pieces. I'm going first. You can play Floyd | as the black pieces." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh...bother." you mutter again. Your strategy all hinged on going Floyd | first. You knew that you should have asked Samuel Reshevsky more Floyd | questions when you met him. Floyd | Floyd | "Come on. I haven't got all day...oh wait. I have." Jimiyu laughs Floyd | again "I have two weeks actually! My granddaughter is due to get Floyd | married and I'm not missing it for anything - not even death." Floyd | Floyd | You don't have two weeks. You have until the end of the day. If you Floyd | lose, or if you don't play then it's all over. You'll have failed. Floyd | And you can't have that. Floyd | Floyd | Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | It's a fairly bare hut, lived in by someone who has learnt the hard Floyd | lesson that true happiness is not found in possessions. The bare, Floyd | dusty floor is going to leave its mark under your toenails for days. Floyd | Jimiyu Wangai sits on a rickety wicker chair, facing a squat, Floyd | uncomfortable-looking stool. Between the two seats is a frail table, Floyd | on which sits a chess board. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Jimiyu Wangai is grinning at you from his chair. Floyd | Floyd | [ Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says, "crb" | ||||
| Johnny is more fun than a box of crayons. | Doug says, "yay chess" | |||
| Doug asks, "bagthy?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jimiyu" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Jimiyu is an elderly, white-haired Kenyan man whose weather-beaten Floyd | face tells a story. Probably one about how some young fellow gets Floyd | tricked out of everything he owns by a wise, elderly man. The teeth Floyd | that aren't missing are crooked and yellow. You can tell this because Floyd | he's grinning at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x stool" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You look suspiciously at the uneven, wooden stool that Jiniyu intends Floyd | you to sit on. It looks like a sure way to get cramp in your back Floyd | muscles. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I suppose we ought to check out the rest of the village. Perhaps find someone to give us chess tips." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a cluster of buildings denoting this Floyd | to be a settlement of some kind. The ground under your feet is dry Floyd | and dusty. Children run through the streets, shouting and laughing. Floyd | Men go about their business. Women stand and gossip, occasionally Floyd | breaking into laughter. No-one pays you much attention. They're all Floyd | having too much fun to pay any mind to death at the moment. A path Floyd | winds east out of the village. You can see Jimiyu's hut to the north, Floyd | and to the west the open doorway of another hut invites you in. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, that stool seems a problem." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Large Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a large hut which seems to double as a place of Floyd | worship. There are mats on the floor, presumably for sitting on and Floyd | at the end of the hut is a lectern. A wooden cross is attached to one Floyd | of the walls. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Abuya Wangai is standing here, looking thoughtful. Floyd | Floyd | [ Large Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x abuya" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Abuya is a young women in, you would guess, her late teens or young Floyd | twenties. She wouldn't catch your attention if it weren't for the Floyd | sparkling eyes and cheeky grin that identifies her as Jimiyu's Floyd | granddaughter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "maybe we have to get her married today?" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Sneaky." | ||||
| Touchy says, "hehe" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask abuya about wedding" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abuya looks at you, perhaps wondering why such a strange-looking man Floyd | would show an interest in her wedding. Floyd | Floyd | "I would marry this very hour if only I could arrange two things. I Floyd | would want a beautiful wedding dress like the ones that I have seen in Floyd | the magazines. And I would want a gift for my future husband. He Floyd | doesn't like my cooking so perhaps I could give him something so that Floyd | he wouldn't have to eat it..." Floyd | Floyd | She has a twinkle in her eye, suggesting that perhaps she knows that Floyd | you have a vested interest in this wedding... Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Get J to leave his precious chess game." | |||
| Doug says, "check." | ||||
| Touchy asks, "Something so he wouldn't have to eat it?" | ||||
| Doug says, "we know where a 'dress' is" | ||||
| Touchy says, "What the..." | ||||
| Doug says, "except, uh, probably not a wedding dress." | ||||
| Doug says, "something so he wouldn't have to eat her cooking." | ||||
| Doug asks, "i.e. something else to eat?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask abuya about dress" | ||||
Floyd | Abuya Wangai does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "Yeah and what would that be? an IV?" | |||
| Alex says (to Touchy), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that IV is Isla Vista." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask abuya about magazines" | ||||
Floyd | Abuya Wangai does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | WeirdBeard asks, "So, she can get married if we get her a year's supply of Swansons?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lectern" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's a fragile wooden stand for the preacher to put his sermon notes Floyd | on. You wobble it back and forth, wondering if even the extra weight Floyd | of paper would be enough to topple it over. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask abuya about groom" | ||||
Floyd | Abuya Wangai does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask abuya about future husband" | ||||
Floyd | Abuya Wangai does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push lectern" | ||||
Floyd | You push the lectern, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x cross" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | A large, lovingly crafted wooden cross. It's nailed to the wall Floyd | opposite the doorway. It's been designed and placed to draw your Floyd | attention as soon as you enter the building. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under lectern" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "topple lectern" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the lectern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put plans on lectern" | ||||
Floyd | You can't put anything on the lectern! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe our robe was bleached at the cleaners." | |||
| Doug says, "heh." | ||||
| Doug asks, "let's look for the groom to see what he likes to eat?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask abuya about husband" | ||||
Floyd | Abuya Wangai does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "And if not we should be able to find some bleach in the cupboard or laboratory..." | |||
| Touchy says (to Doug), "Good idea." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a cluster of buildings denoting this Floyd | to be a settlement of some kind. The ground under your feet is dry Floyd | and dusty. Children run through the streets, shouting and laughing. Floyd | Men go about their business. Women stand and gossip, occasionally Floyd | breaking into laughter. No-one pays you much attention. They're all Floyd | having too much fun to pay any mind to death at the moment. A path Floyd | winds east out of the village. You can see Jimiyu's hut to the north, Floyd | and to the west the open doorway of another hut invites you in. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, hubby might be east." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | By a Lake (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a grassy clearing at the end of a winding path Floyd | that has climbed slowly out of the village. Right in front of you is Floyd | a large lake of dirty water. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see a sturdy branch. Floyd | Floyd | [ By a Lake (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x branch" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The branch has clearly been snapped from a tree. It's a good branch, Floyd | long and sturdy. A prince amongst tree flotsam. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "for our shovel1" | |||
| Touchy exclaims, "SHOVEL!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes indeed" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get branch" | ||||
Floyd | You pick up the sturdy branch. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy bounces up and down excitedly. | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "fix shovel" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't fix that here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The cellar. Tape is there." | |||
| Doug says, "ha, nice." | ||||
| Touchy says (to DavidW), "You sound like a terp." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x lake" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's water. You've seen plenty of it before. Usually when you meet Floyd | someone who really shouldn't have answered "Yes" to the question Floyd | "Fancy a swim?" This is not the cleanest water that you've seen but Floyd | it's far from the dirtiest either. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Grim Reaper? Go swimming? That's a good one! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Grim Reaper? Go swimming? That's a good one! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in lake" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | It's water. You've seen plenty of it before. Usually when you meet Floyd | someone who really shouldn't have answered "Yes" to the question Floyd | "Fancy a swim?" This is not the cleanest water that you've seen but Floyd | it's far from the dirtiest either. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "so, should we keep investigating the client list, or start working on goals we already know?" | |||
| WeirdBeard asks, "Ok, I came in late, but why is the Grim Reaper fixing shovels and arranging marriages?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I vote going to the cellar and fixing the shovel" | ||||
| Touchy says (to WeirdBeard), "Because it's our job." | ||||
| Doug says (to WeirdBeard), "so we can reap souls." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "say cellar to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | No-one pays any attention to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "'Cause Life is hard, Lunchtime and Death, doubly so." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "say manchester to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | No-one pays any attention to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Horse is west" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a cluster of buildings denoting this Floyd | to be a settlement of some kind. The ground under your feet is dry Floyd | and dusty. Children run through the streets, shouting and laughing. Floyd | Men go about their business. Women stand and gossip, occasionally Floyd | breaking into laughter. No-one pays you much attention. They're all Floyd | having too much fun to pay any mind to death at the moment. A path Floyd | winds east out of the village. You can see Jimiyu's hut to the north, Floyd | and to the west the open doorway of another hut invites you in. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Yeah, I wasn't sure if it was following us." | |||
| Doug says, "Kind of wondering what happens if we play chess." | ||||
| Doug asks, "is there an undo?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "yes, I think so. Why?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh. It would be prudent to save first." | ||||
| Doug says, "in case it says we spend two weeks playing chess and then our supervisor fires us" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Some ADRIFT games end without allowing undo when you die." | ||||
| Doug says, "well, want to try it? or should we get going" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "How do I clear the counter?" | |||
| DavidW says, "uh, we haven't cleared the counter yet" | ||||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay" | |||
| Touchy says, "How do I clear the counter? <-" | ||||
| DavidW says, "'clear save'" | ||||
| Touchy says, "Thanks." | ||||
| DavidW says, "So go play chess. It'll all end in tears, I know it." | ||||
| Johnny arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Large Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a large hut which seems to double as a place of Floyd | worship. There are mats on the floor, presumably for sitting on and Floyd | at the end of the hut is a lectern. A wooden cross is attached to one Floyd | of the walls. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Abuya Wangai is standing here, looking thoughtful. Floyd | Floyd | [ Large Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You're not going to sit on the ground. It's hard enough keeping these Floyd | robes clean as it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oops" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (Standing up first) Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a cluster of buildings denoting this Floyd | to be a settlement of some kind. The ground under your feet is dry Floyd | and dusty. Children run through the streets, shouting and laughing. Floyd | Men go about their business. Women stand and gossip, occasionally Floyd | breaking into laughter. No-one pays you much attention. They're all Floyd | having too much fun to pay any mind to death at the moment. A path Floyd | winds east out of the village. You can see Jimiyu's hut to the north, Floyd | and to the west the open doorway of another hut invites you in. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | It's a fairly bare hut, lived in by someone who has learnt the hard Floyd | lesson that true happiness is not found in possessions. The bare, Floyd | dusty floor is going to leave its mark under your toenails for days. Floyd | Jimiyu Wangai sits on a rickety wicker chair, facing a squat, Floyd | uncomfortable-looking stool. Between the two seats is a frail table, Floyd | on which sits a chess board. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Jimiyu Wangai is grinning at you from his chair. Floyd | Floyd | [ Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You're not going to sit on the ground. It's hard enough keeping these Floyd | robes clean as it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sit on stool" | ||||
Floyd | You can't sit on the stool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "play chess" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You really don't feel confident about winning. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh fine." | |||
| DavidW says, "lame" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask jimiyu about chess" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Do you want me to tell you the rules?" laughs Jimiyu. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take stool" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the stool! Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "nevermind." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (Standing up first) Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a cluster of buildings denoting this Floyd | to be a settlement of some kind. The ground under your feet is dry Floyd | and dusty. Children run through the streets, shouting and laughing. Floyd | Men go about their business. Women stand and gossip, occasionally Floyd | breaking into laughter. No-one pays you much attention. They're all Floyd | having too much fun to pay any mind to death at the moment. A path Floyd | winds east out of the village. You can see Jimiyu's hut to the north, Floyd | and to the west the open doorway of another hut invites you in. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say manchester to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Cellar (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | This is a dark and dank cellar underneath a house in Manchester. The Floyd | tough, red brick did a good job of containing the blast from the Floyd | exploded time machine. The remains of said time machine sit in the Floyd | centre of the cellar, nothing more than a twisted pile of metal and Floyd | wires. In one corner of the room is a stairwell, in the other a Floyd | workbench and varied selection of tools and objects that look Floyd | suspiciously mechanical. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: Up Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Thomas Brewer stands here, Floyd | looking around the cellar thoughtfully. Floyd | Floyd | [ Cellar (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "fix shovel" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have a crazy idea. They're often the best kind. Reaching into Floyd | your robe you pull out the shovel blade and the sturdy branch. Floyd | Placing the items on the workbench you grab the masking tape and begin Floyd | work. Floyd | Floyd | In a few minutes you have firmly attached the shovel blade to the Floyd | branch with masking tape. You examine your work and grunt in Floyd | approval. Not a bad job if you do say so yourself. Of course, it Floyd | looks like an ancient torture device but at least it should work. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say himalayas to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Mountain Pass (Himilayas) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing on a thin path that is winding through the snowy, Floyd | Himilayan mountain range. The view is lovely, but it isn't half Floyd | chilly here. Your feet are getting cold and the wind is whipping Floyd | right up your robe. Right in front of you is a huge snowdrift, under Floyd | which is buried the body of one of your clients - Lord Nigel Floyd | McWorthington. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: No Exits Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Mountain Pass (Himilayas) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh good" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Are we carrying the shovel?" | ||||
| Doug says, "was thinking I had to misspell it" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | DavidW asks, "Or did we leave it on the workbench?" | |||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying the Golden Hourglass, The Grim Reaper's Scythe, The Floyd | List, the dry cleaning ticket, Ernest Busset's shoe, a small magnet, Floyd | the time machine plans, the shovel and the cigarette lighter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You roll up your sleeves and grab your shovel. Floyd | Floyd | "Don't thay anything," you speak sternly to Horse, who you suspect is Floyd | laughing at you. Floyd | Floyd | After half an hour of hard work you've managed to pile away most of Floyd | the snow and revealed the body of Lord Nigel McWorthington. As an Floyd | administration error, Nigel is dead but needs to be reaped to ensure Floyd | that the passage of his soul continues. Floyd | Floyd | Mountain Pass (Himilayas) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing on a thin path that is winding through the snowy, Floyd | Himilayan mountain range. The view is lovely, but it isn't half Floyd | chilly here. Your feet are getting cold and the wind is whipping Floyd | right up your robe. In front of you is a snowdrift, most of which has Floyd | been dug away to reveal a body. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: No Exits Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Lord Nigel McWorthington is Floyd | here, lying on the rocky ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "reap nigel" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want to do with Lord Nigel McWorthington. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "reap soul" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swing your scythe in a downward arc, slicing through Lord Nigel Floyd | McWorthington. There is a tinkling noise in the background and the Floyd | departed soul of Lord McWorthington rises from his body. He stands Floyd | and looks down at his feet. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh. So you killed me then?" he asks. Floyd | Floyd | "Actually, the thnow killed you," you object, but the shade of Nigel Floyd | vanishes. It really annoys you when people blame you for their death. Floyd | Maybe in this case Lord McWorthington had a point, but still. You're Floyd | just doing your job. And now you're one soul closer to finishing for Floyd | the day. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | Your score is 0 out of a maximum of 0. (0%) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ah well" | |||
| Touchy says, "hm..." | ||||
| WeirdBeard asks, "0 out of 0?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "1 soul of 5, really." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Maybe score isn't implemented. He did say it wasn't polished." | ||||
| Doug asks, "so, continue exploring, or go to SF?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Nothing ot explore here, is there? I vote SF." | ||||
| Doug asks, "we haven't found any food, have we? or can we get the tin of beans now?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We don't want food." | ||||
| Doug says, "I meant explore the rest of the list" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "read list" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lord Nigel McWorthington - Himilayas, Nepal Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Busset - Manchester, England Floyd | Floyd | Jimiyu Wangai - Wajir, Kenya Floyd | Floyd | Agathe Laurent - Paris, France Floyd | Floyd | Splong5b - Nevada, USA Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "clubf we need food for the wedding gift" | |||
| DavidW says, "No, we don't." | ||||
| DavidW | And I would want a gift for my future husband. He doesn't like my cooking so perhaps I could give him something so that he wouldn't have to eat it..." | ||||
| Doug asks, "how else are you interpreting that?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "A gift that isn't food." | ||||
| Limax asks, "Splong5b? Does he live in a pineapple under the sea?" | ||||
| Doug says, "I guess." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Are you saying it *should* be food so he doesn't have to eat her cooking?" | ||||
| Doug says, "so we either need food or non-food. that doesn't narrow it down." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I guess it's confusing what the 'it' is refering to." | ||||
| Doug says, "yeah, I thought the 'it' meant 'her cooking', not 'the gift'. shrug." | ||||
| Limax says (to Jacqueline), "Of course, you may want to repeat that comment here, if you want Perry to log it" | ||||
| DavidW | he wouldn't have to eat [the gift]or[her cooking] | ||||
| DavidW says, "ok. If you find Chinatown in SF, feel free to buy what's there." | ||||
| Limax says, "Peking Duck" | ||||
| Limax says, "Leering Quail" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Peeping Chicken" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x body" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say san francisco to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | High Street (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | In front of you is a busy high street, swarming with citizens on a Floyd | shopping spree. Shops line the street on both sides, and were you Floyd | much of a consumer then you would be in paradise. You are, however, Floyd | not much of a consumer, so the only shop that really attracts your Floyd | attention is on the south side of the street and named Drop and Give Floyd | Me Fifty Dress Ups. Perhaps it's the Grim Reaper costume in the Floyd | window. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East and South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse touches down on a grubby San Francisco sidewalk, crowded with Floyd | people. That would be the sort of thing that usually draws attention Floyd | to itself but seeing as no-one particularly wants to be the first Floyd | person to say "Did you just see a flying horse?" it seems to pass by Floyd | unnoticed. Floyd | Floyd | As you clamber down from Horse you look from side to side, wary of all Floyd | the people milling about. No-one seems to be paying any attention to Floyd | you and once again you wonder how it's possible for humanity to be so Floyd | blatant about ignoring the issues of cosmic significance right on Floyd | their doorstep. Still, this is a commercial centre and that tends to Floyd | have a lot to do with it. Floyd | Floyd | You look at the various shops around you. There must be some here Floyd | that can help you with your task... Floyd | Floyd | High Street (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | In front of you is a busy high street, swarming with citizens on a Floyd | shopping spree. Shops line the street on both sides, and were you Floyd | much of a consumer then you would be in paradise. You are, however, Floyd | not much of a consumer, so the only shop that really attracts your Floyd | attention is on the south side of the street and named Drop and Give Floyd | Me Fifty Dress Ups. Perhaps it's the Grim Reaper costume in the Floyd | window. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East and South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ High Street (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Limax asks, "Horse?" | |||
| Alex says (to Limax), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that A horse is the most fascinating creature on this planet and should be help higher than most animals." | ||||
| Limax asks, "Help higher?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "I'm guessing we acquire an army uniform that outranks Private Kline?" | ||||
| WeirdBeard asks, "Or a dress?" | ||||
| Limax says, "Maybe Horse has one" | ||||
| DavidW says (to WB), "I think we also get the dress in SF." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Costume Shop (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a costume shop, knee deep in discarded masks, Floyd | costumes and various disguise related items. The walls are mostly Floyd | bare, except for a few items still hanging up on hooks and racks that Floyd | scatter the store. This shop is clearly undergoing some kind of stock Floyd | take, either that or the owner has strangely decided that the floor is Floyd | the best place to showcase his wares. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The owner of the shop is here, rummaging through various piles of Floyd | clothing and checking them against a list. Floyd | Floyd | [ Costume Shop (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Limax asks, "Bah. Everyone does the Bay to Breakers naked... why do we need to get dressed?" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask owner about list" | ||||
Floyd | The costume shop owner does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x list" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The list of your clients for today. It reads... Floyd | Floyd | Lord Nigel McWorthington - Himilayas, Nepal Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Busset - Manchester, England Floyd | Floyd | Jimiyu Wangai - Wajir, Kenya Floyd | Floyd | Agathe Laurent - Paris, France Floyd | Floyd | Splong5b - Nevada, USA Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x owner's list" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x costumes" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | There are only a few scattered costumes hanging from the walls and in Floyd | the shop window. Other than the Grim Reaper costume the only one that Floyd | catches your attention appears to be a simple brown courdroy suit Floyd | combination. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x suit" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | A plaque by the suit informs you that it's a genuine "Mad Professor Floyd | Outfit". You notice that one of the shoes is missing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "haha" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh geez" | ||||
| Doug asks, "do we need to impersonate Ernest?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I dunno!" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "buy suit" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think the brown courdroy suit is for sale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get suit" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the brown courdroy suit! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask owner about suit" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The man looks up from his stock taking and glances at a brown suit in Floyd | the wall. A look of annoyance crosses his face. Floyd | Floyd | "The last person to borrow that costume returned it with one shoe Floyd | missing! Can you believe the nerve of some people." Floyd | Floyd | You empathise with his anger. You often feel like your whole life is Floyd | spent chasing up shoes that someone else has lost. Floyd | Floyd | "I can't rent out the costume like that," the man continues "It was Floyd | highly popular as well. If only I could find a shoe that matched the Floyd | feel of the costume." Floyd | Floyd | He sighs and returns to his list. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give shoe" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Without saying a word you pull out the shoe that you found in Floyd | Manchester and offer it to the shop owner. He looks up from his list Floyd | and pauses. Slowly he reaches out and takes the shoe from you. Floyd | Floyd | "Why," he peers at the shoe over the top of his glasses "this shoe is Floyd | remarkable! " Floyd | Floyd | You smile and nod. Your smile freezes awkwardly as you watch the Floyd | owner smell the shoe. Floyd | Floyd | "This is incredible," a huge grin bursts on to his features "this even Floyd | smells like I'd expect a mad professor's shoe to smell! How did you Floyd | do it?" Floyd | Floyd | Before you can answer (which is good because you weren't sure how to Floyd | answer anyway) the shop owner wades through piles of costume items and Floyd | places the shoe very carefully by the brown suit hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, yes. This completes the costume once again!" he exclaims, Floyd | happily, "How can I repay you? I have a couple of surplus items that Floyd | I would be very happy to give you in exchange for the shoe." Floyd | Floyd | "Itemth?" you ask, interested despite yourself. Floyd | Floyd | "Why yes. I could let you have either...hmmm...here, this alien mask Floyd | or...or...aha...here we are. Yes, this lovely white wedding gown. Floyd | Would you like the mask or the gown?" the man asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "whaaa" | |||
| Doug says, "both please" | ||||
| Doug says, "but I guess the gown is more immediately relevant." | ||||
| DavidW says, "heh. He's not making it simple." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say gown" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The costume shop owner smiles and hands you a neatly folded wedding Floyd | dress. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x dress" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's a beautiful white wedding dress. There's lace and velvet and all Floyd | kinds of things. It seems an unlikely thing to find in a costume Floyd | shop, but in your experience unlikely things often turn up in the Floyd | unlikeliest of places. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax asks, "Does this game have unwinnable branches?" | |||
| Doug says, "not yet" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I dunno. I've never played it." | ||||
| Doug says, "as far as we know" | ||||
| Doug says, "we have a time deadline, though." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x hourglass" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The grains of sand tell you that you have eight hours left to complete Floyd | your contract. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "No, but there are at least two solutions to each puzzle" | |||
| DavidW says, "hm" | ||||
| Doug asks (of Nitku), "have you played it?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "yeah" | ||||
| Limax says, "Huh" | ||||
| DavidW says, "So by not getting the mask, we're probably obliged to solve Kline another way." | ||||
| Doug says, "sorry, should have saved it." | ||||
| DavidW says, "no, it's fine." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "trade gown for mask" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the wedding gown. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give gown to owner" | ||||
Floyd | The costume shop owner doesn't seem interested in the wedding gown. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "We do need a gown, don't we?" | |||
| Doug says, "ah well." | ||||
| Doug says, "just checking." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go in that direction, but you can move north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | High Street (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | In front of you is a busy high street, swarming with citizens on a Floyd | shopping spree. Shops line the street on both sides, and were you Floyd | much of a consumer then you would be in paradise. You are, however, Floyd | not much of a consumer, so the only shop that really attracts your Floyd | attention is on the south side of the street and named Drop and Give Floyd | Me Fifty Dress Ups. Perhaps it's the Grim Reaper costume in the Floyd | window. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East and South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ High Street (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Doug says, "helpful message" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say kenya to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a cluster of buildings denoting this Floyd | to be a settlement of some kind. The ground under your feet is dry Floyd | and dusty. Children run through the streets, shouting and laughing. Floyd | Men go about their business. Women stand and gossip, occasionally Floyd | breaking into laughter. No-one pays you much attention. They're all Floyd | having too much fun to pay any mind to death at the moment. A path Floyd | winds east out of the village. You can see Jimiyu's hut to the north, Floyd | and to the west the open doorway of another hut invites you in. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Large Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a large hut which seems to double as a place of Floyd | worship. There are mats on the floor, presumably for sitting on and Floyd | at the end of the hut is a lectern. A wooden cross is attached to one Floyd | of the walls. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Abuya Wangai is standing here, looking thoughtful. Floyd | Floyd | [ Large Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give gown to abuya" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abuya's eyes light up as you pass the wedding dress to her. Floyd | Floyd | "This is perfect! Just what I've always wanted! Thank you!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "um. I wasn't done in SF." | |||
| Doug says, "oh right!" | ||||
| Doug says, "good thing Horse is fast" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a cluster of buildings denoting this Floyd | to be a settlement of some kind. The ground under your feet is dry Floyd | and dusty. Children run through the streets, shouting and laughing. Floyd | Men go about their business. Women stand and gossip, occasionally Floyd | breaking into laughter. No-one pays you much attention. They're all Floyd | having too much fun to pay any mind to death at the moment. A path Floyd | winds east out of the village. You can see Jimiyu's hut to the north, Floyd | and to the west the open doorway of another hut invites you in. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "S'ok. We needed to do this too." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say SF to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | No-one pays any attention to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say san francisco to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | High Street (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | In front of you is a busy high street, swarming with citizens on a Floyd | shopping spree. Shops line the street on both sides, and were you Floyd | much of a consumer then you would be in paradise. You are, however, Floyd | not much of a consumer, so the only shop that really attracts your Floyd | attention is on the south side of the street and named Drop and Give Floyd | Me Fifty Dress Ups. Perhaps it's the Grim Reaper costume in the Floyd | window. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East and South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ High Street (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | Tale asks, "Sorry, I'm a wee bit late! Did I miss much?" | |||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | High Street (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | The street continues along, leading the weak-willed mortals to even Floyd | more ways to lose their money. Again, there is little here that Floyd | captures your interest. People swarm around you, the same oblivious Floyd | looks on their faces. To the north, almost swallowed up between huge Floyd | department stores, is a tiny hardware store called I Came, I Sawed, I Floyd | Conquered. The street veers sharply to the east and jutting out onto Floyd | the pavement is a book shop called Reader's Digestion. You are also Floyd | well aware of Happy Go Lucky Dry Clean to the south, as you've Floyd | recently started using their services. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East, West, South and North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes" | |||
| Doug says, "about 2 hours" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Tale), "just EVERYTHING" | ||||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Fang says, "Me too, I guess" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cleaners (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a very dirty looking dry cleaning shop, which is Floyd | somewhat ironic. The wallpaper is faded and the carpet badly worn. Floyd | Around the walls are various photos of famous people who have, Floyd | allegedly, had clothes dry-cleaned here in the past. There is a Floyd | counter at the wall furthest from the door. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | An elderly Chinese lady gives you a toothless grin and nods at you Floyd | from behind the counter. An attractive woman is reclining against the Floyd | counter, with a bored look in her eyes. She is clearly a customer, Floyd | waiting for an item. Floyd | Floyd | [ Dry Cleaners (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Tale says (to Ellison), "Dude, it's the first time I have web access in weeks and you are here? This sucks!" | |||
| WeirdBeard asks, "Readers Digestion? Cookbook maybe?" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "show ticket to lady" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the dry cleaning Floyd | ticket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give ticket" | ||||
Floyd | Give the dry cleaning ticket to who? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give ticket to lady" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You hand over the dry cleaning ticket without a word. The elderly Floyd | lady squints at the ticket and shouts into the dark recesses of a back Floyd | room "Dress for Mr Reaper!" Floyd | Floyd | "It'th not a dreth!" you hiss loudly, conscious of the other Floyd | customer's amused glance in your direction, "It'th a robe!" Floyd | Floyd | The elderly lady looks at you, nods and grins, as though you had just Floyd | paid her a compliment. This is usually how this particular exchange Floyd | goes. Floyd | Floyd | After about a minute of awkward waiting a hand appears from the Floyd | doorway of darkness clutching a large plastic dry cleaning bag. The Floyd | elderly lady takes the bag, squints at the attached ticket and finally Floyd | passes the bag over the to the female customer. She takes the dry Floyd | cleaning, turns on her heels and marches out of the shop into the Floyd | crowd. Floyd | Floyd | A further minute passes before the hand appears again, this time Floyd | clutching a smaller dry cleaning bag, which the lady takes and offers Floyd | to you. It's with grim inevitability that you receive the bag. You Floyd | know how this goes. The universe is once again having a laugh with Floyd | you, it's own personal whipping boy. You sigh as, sure enough, you Floyd | look at the attached ticket and see that you have the dry cleaning Floyd | that belongs to a Ms. Victoria Salmon - probably the customer who had Floyd | just left. Floyd | Floyd | "You've given me the wrong item," you thunder at the lady behind the Floyd | counter. She grins and nods. Floyd | Floyd | "That lady hath my black robe. Thith ith herth!" You wave the plastic Floyd | bag in anger. The lady grins and nods. Floyd | Floyd | "I...I...I thall thmite you! Thmite you mightily!" you holler in Floyd | frustration. Grins and nods. Floyd | Floyd | This is going nowhere. With another sigh you open the bag to see what Floyd | items Victoria Salmon had been expecting to pick up. To your surprise Floyd | there is a full U.S. military uniform in the bag. You remove it from Floyd | the dry cleaning sack and give it the once over. It looks very clean. Floyd | Boy, is Ms. Salmon going to be angry when she opens her bag and finds Floyd | your black robe instead of her uniform. You look meaningfully at the Floyd | elderly lady behind the counter who surely now must see the mix up. Floyd | She just grins. And nods. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says (to Tales), "has it been weeks? it's been so dreamy, I figured that like, a dream, it was only the span of minutes" | |||
| WeirdBeard says, "Woot!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You two should get a room." | ||||
| Doug says, "wait what" | ||||
| Limax says, "Ha ha" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yay" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x uniform" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The uniform belonging to a female Captain in the United States Armed Floyd | Forces. A feeling of dread descends over you as you realise that, at Floyd | some point today, you're probably going to have to wear it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "Captain Salmon" | |||
| DavidW says, "Captain outranks Private, I'm sure." | ||||
| Doug asks, "ok, should we keep exploring SF, or go outrank Kline?" | ||||
| WeirdBeard says, "Readers Digestion" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Keep exploring SF, please." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I want to see the other two stores." | ||||
| Doug asks, "want to drive for a while?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ok" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | High Street (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | The street continues along, leading the weak-willed mortals to even Floyd | more ways to lose their money. Again, there is little here that Floyd | captures your interest. People swarm around you, the same oblivious Floyd | looks on their faces. To the north, almost swallowed up between huge Floyd | department stores, is a tiny hardware store called I Came, I Sawed, I Floyd | Conquered. The street veers sharply to the east and jutting out onto Floyd | the pavement is a book shop called Reader's Digestion. You are also Floyd | well aware of Happy Go Lucky Dry Clean to the south, as you've Floyd | recently started using their services. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East, West, South and North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ High Street (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Book Shop (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | You can tell from the books gathered around you that the book shop Floyd | obviously specialises in second-hand goods. It follows the basic laws Floyd | of second-hand bookshops in that shelves and shelves of books tower Floyd | over you, hemming you in and creating the impression that you are Floyd | actually standing at the entrance to a maze. You peer around but see Floyd | no sign of anything or anyone except dark corners and bookcases. You Floyd | dare not try and navigate this shop for fear of getting lost forever. Floyd | You'll have to be content with examining the books that you can see. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Book Shop (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can see countless old books scattered around the shelves. Some of Floyd | them, by their condition, seem to be just hanging in there as far as Floyd | this life is concerned. Others are in better condition, but there's Floyd | certainly nothing that you could class as new - or even nearly new. Floyd | The books are also dusty, suggesting that no-one has looked at them Floyd | for a long time, except for two. One is a thick encyclopedia, sitting Floyd | on one shelf. By the look of it it's been well-thumbed pretty Floyd | recently. The other book is a thin paperback called The Ombudsman Floyd | Guide to Chess Mastery (Sponsored by George W. Bush). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Limax says, "Ha ha" | |||
| WeirdBeard says, "Aha. Now we can win." | ||||
| DavidW says, "But we're solving that problem another way. We already gave the dress." | ||||
| Doug says, "aw, no maze." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x encyclopedia" | Limax asks, "You want mazes?" | |||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You reach out and pull the encylopedia from the shelf. Turning to a Floyd | random page you read... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In 2004 archaeologists found a strange set of human footprints outside Floyd | a cave in Follina, northern Italy. The footprints date back about Floyd | 12,000 years. What makes it strange is that the footprints seemed to Floyd | belong to a person who was wearing socks and only one shoe! The Floyd | prints led to a cave, the entrance blocked by a rockfall. The Floyd | archaeologists have yet to obtain permission to open the cave. Floyd | Imagine what you could find in there, eh? In the cave in Follina. Floyd | Floyd | Hmmm. Interesting. You return the book to the shelf. You don't want Floyd | to take it with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "not really." | |||
| Doug says, "so we have a date to go to" | ||||
| Limax says, "Woo woo" | ||||
| Doug says, "er, well, 'about 12,000 years ago'." | ||||
| DavidW says, "We already had a date. This is the location." | ||||
| Doug says, "oh, I missed the date" | ||||
| Doug says, "we had a date in the future" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I suppose we could still visit Follina in the present, of course." | ||||
| Doug says, "clubf or maybe we have to go to 2004." | ||||
| Doug says, "yeah" | ||||
| Doug says, "also I still haven't mastered ";"." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chess" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x guide" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You pick up the chess guide and flick through the pages. It only Floyd | takes about five minutes to read the entire pamphlet but after having Floyd | done so you feel that you've got a much better grasp of the game of Floyd | chess. You feel confident about your ability to play the game and Floyd | win, even as black... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | High Street (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | The street continues along, leading the weak-willed mortals to even Floyd | more ways to lose their money. Again, there is little here that Floyd | captures your interest. People swarm around you, the same oblivious Floyd | looks on their faces. To the north, almost swallowed up between huge Floyd | department stores, is a tiny hardware store called I Came, I Sawed, I Floyd | Conquered. The street veers sharply to the east and jutting out onto Floyd | the pavement is a book shop called Reader's Digestion. You are also Floyd | well aware of Happy Go Lucky Dry Clean to the south, as you've Floyd | recently started using their services. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East, West, South and North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ High Street (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Hardware Store (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | You enter the hardware shop, your feet thudding against the cold tiled Floyd | floor. The store is divided into different sections, each section Floyd | containing a display of appropriate tools. You feel lost. In the Floyd | middle of the store is a large drum which appears to be full of Floyd | thousands of the tiny polystyrene chips that breed in appliance boxes. Floyd | Written on the drum in large red letters is "Lucky Dip. Ask a staff Floyd | member for details". At the far end of the store is a counter. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Standing behind the counter is a fat bearded man wearing overalls. Floyd | Floyd | [ Hardware Store (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about lucky dip" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The hardware store owner explains that all customers are allowed one Floyd | free turn at the lucky dip. He invites you to go ahead and have a go. Floyd | Floyd | > | WeirdBeard asks, "Save?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in drum" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | A large, old oil drum that has been roped into service as a makeshift Floyd | lucky dip. It seems to be a bit rusty and might contain the odd sharp Floyd | edge inside. It certainly seems like a proper lucky dip, as in "You Floyd | put your hand in that? My goodness, you were lucky not to get Floyd | tetanus!". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "reach in drum" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the drum. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lucky dip" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the drum. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dip in drum" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the drum. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take from drum" | ||||
Floyd | Take what? Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "I remember this was a major guess-the-verb" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "dip" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the drum. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "reach into drum" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the drum. Floyd | Floyd | > | WeirdBeard asks, "Play lucky dip?" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "search drum" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the drum. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play lucky dip" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the drum. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use drum" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You wander over to the drum and roll-up your sleeve, trying not to Floyd | look too excited about the prospect. After a second composing Floyd | yourself you reach into the drum and begin feeling around. Floyd | Floyd | "Hmmmmm," you mutter. It's at times like this that your unusually Floyd | long arms come into their own. After all, everyone knows the Floyd | universal law of the lucky dip. The best prizes are at the bottom. Floyd | Floyd | After about thirty seconds of scraping around your fingertips reach Floyd | the bottom of the drum and you begin sweeping left and right. You Floyd | glance over at the counter to see the store owner looking at you as Floyd | though you were some kind of lunatic. Ignoring him you turn your Floyd | attention back to the task at hand, and are rewarded by coming across Floyd | a reasonably sized wrapped parcel. After a second's reflection on Floyd | whether or not to continue searching you decide to take what you've Floyd | found and you haul the package out of the drum, sending polystyrene Floyd | chips all over the floor. The store owner tuts loudly. Floyd | Floyd | "Thory," you apologise before examining your prize. With a thrill of Floyd | anticipation you tear the paper off the parcel to reveal...a blunt Floyd | saw. Floyd | Floyd | "Ith thith it?" you turn to the man behind the counter. "Thith thaw Floyd | ith blunt," you exclaim, wondering if there was a way of making that Floyd | statement without using so many 's'es. Floyd | Floyd | "That's why it's called a lucky dip, sir," the man shrugs. "Luck as in Floyd | 'bad'." Floyd | Floyd | Yes. Of course. For you there is no other type of luck. You sigh as Floyd | you put the blunt saw away in your robe. Maybe it will come in use Floyd | somewhere down the line. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "haha" | |||
| Doug says, "we have a whetstone at home" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes. We can sharpen it there, easily." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "but, um, where do we need a saw?" | ||||
| Doug says, "maybe it's the right tool." | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh, maybe." | ||||
| Doug says, "probably not." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about san francisco" | ||||
Floyd | The Hardware Shop Owner does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so, no Chinatown or food." | |||
| WeirdBeard asks, "How about in Italy?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Wear the uniform and get past Kline next?" | ||||
| WeirdBeard says, "Yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says, "We still haven't been to Paris." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | High Street (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | The street continues along, leading the weak-willed mortals to even Floyd | more ways to lose their money. Again, there is little here that Floyd | captures your interest. People swarm around you, the same oblivious Floyd | looks on their faces. To the north, almost swallowed up between huge Floyd | department stores, is a tiny hardware store called I Came, I Sawed, I Floyd | Conquered. The street veers sharply to the east and jutting out onto Floyd | the pavement is a book shop called Reader's Digestion. You are also Floyd | well aware of Happy Go Lucky Dry Clean to the south, as you've Floyd | recently started using their services. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East, West, South and North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ High Street (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | High Street (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | In front of you is a busy high street, swarming with citizens on a Floyd | shopping spree. Shops line the street on both sides, and were you Floyd | much of a consumer then you would be in paradise. You are, however, Floyd | not much of a consumer, so the only shop that really attracts your Floyd | attention is on the south side of the street and named Drop and Give Floyd | Me Fifty Dress Ups. Perhaps it's the Grim Reaper costume in the Floyd | window. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East and South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say nevada to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are crammed, almost bent double, into a small storage cupboard. Floyd | With your prefect night vision you can make out several shelves, Floyd | crammed full of pots and bottles of various fluids. There seems to be Floyd | a definite cleaning theme to this cupboard. Your foot clatters againt Floyd | more tins and boxes. Horse shuffles and kicks you in the knee. You Floyd | think you might have found a new frontrunner in the "Most Floyd | Uncomfortable I Have Ever Been" stakes. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear uniform" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You take a look at the uniform. You come to the conclusion that it's Floyd | just not enough by itself. If you want to use it as a disguise you'll Floyd | need something form of identification to go with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oy." | |||
| DavidW says, "curses" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | A very plain military corridor, lacking any redeeming features. It Floyd | seems that after having spent the budget on laser guns and mind Floyd | control devices there's only enough money left for "Hospital White" Floyd | paint. There is a door to the west labelled Storage, and the corridor Floyd | continues to the north. At the south end is a set of unmarked double Floyd | doors. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Private Kline stands in front of the double doors, blocking your way. Floyd | He looks determined to keep you out. Floyd | Floyd | [ Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | Another featureless military corridor. This time you really do see Floyd | nothing special. The corridor stretches back south, the way that you Floyd | came from. There are doors in the other walls. The north door has a Floyd | sign that reads Security, the east door reads Barracks and the west Floyd | door says Laboratory. Nice of them to label the doors for you. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Barracks (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are in a barracks. The room, despite being a place where people Floyd | are expected to relax and sleep, is as bleak and clinical as the rest Floyd | of the compound. At least an effort has been made and one wall is Floyd | covered with posters. Rows and rows of bunk beds fill the room, a few Floyd | of which are being used by off-duty and snoozing soliders. They seem Floyd | to be sleeping very well, despite the beeping noise coming from an air Floyd | duct in the corner of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Barracks (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open duct" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You lack the right tool to open the air duct. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh wait. Need to sharpen it." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Barracks (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | [The previous turn has been undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | [The previous turn has been undone.] Floyd | Floyd | [ Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | [The previous turn has been undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | [The previous turn has been undone.] Floyd | Floyd | [ Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | [The previous turn has been undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | High Street (San Francisco) Floyd | [The previous turn has been undone.] Floyd | Floyd | [ High Street (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say home to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb onto Horse's back and mutter the words. Horse stamps Floyd | his/her foot and then, without a sound, leaps into the air. There is Floyd | a rush of air, a moment of dizziness and then with a bump Horse lands Floyd | in the stable. You climb down. Floyd | Floyd | The Stable of Death Floyd | Floyd | You are in your stable. Despite your best efforts, the small, rough Floyd | wooden structure seems more homely than your own house. Horse doesn't Floyd | eat (or go to the toilet) but in accordance with universal laws the Floyd | floor is covered in hay and the place smells of horse poo. In one Floyd | corner is a large whetstone. Fixed to the north wall are the brackets Floyd | where you rest your scythe when you're not using it. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ The Stable of Death | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sharpen saw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You try the blunt saw against the whetstone. As you know what you are Floyd | doing, (and are using the finest whetstone in existence) it only takes Floyd | about a minute to wear the saw blades to extreme sharpness. Nicely Floyd | done. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "A man named Horse" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x saw" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The blades on this saw have been sharpened on the whetstone of Death. Floyd | As a result it's pretty sharp. OK. It's really sharp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say nevada to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are crammed, almost bent double, into a small storage cupboard. Floyd | With your prefect night vision you can make out several shelves, Floyd | crammed full of pots and bottles of various fluids. There seems to be Floyd | a definite cleaning theme to this cupboard. Your foot clatters againt Floyd | more tins and boxes. Horse shuffles and kicks you in the knee. You Floyd | think you might have found a new frontrunner in the "Most Floyd | Uncomfortable I Have Ever Been" stakes. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e.n.e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | A very plain military corridor, lacking any redeeming features. It Floyd | seems that after having spent the budget on laser guns and mind Floyd | control devices there's only enough money left for "Hospital White" Floyd | paint. There is a door to the west labelled Storage, and the corridor Floyd | continues to the north. At the south end is a set of unmarked double Floyd | doors. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Private Kline stands in front of the double doors, blocking your way. Floyd | He looks determined to keep you out. Floyd | Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | Another featureless military corridor. This time you really do see Floyd | nothing special. The corridor stretches back south, the way that you Floyd | came from. There are doors in the other walls. The north door has a Floyd | sign that reads Security, the east door reads Barracks and the west Floyd | door says Laboratory. Nice of them to label the doors for you. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Barracks (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are in a barracks. The room, despite being a place where people Floyd | are expected to relax and sleep, is as bleak and clinical as the rest Floyd | of the compound. At least an effort has been made and one wall is Floyd | covered with posters. Rows and rows of bunk beds fill the room, a few Floyd | of which are being used by off-duty and snoozing soliders. They seem Floyd | to be sleeping very well, despite the beeping noise coming from an air Floyd | duct in the corner of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Barracks (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open duct" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You lack the right tool to open the air duct. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "yeah." | |||
| Limax says, "We haven't scored anywhere" | ||||
| Doug says, "max score is 0" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "saw mesh" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the mesh. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax asks, "What's the point in playing, then?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut duct" | ||||
Floyd | You can't cut the air duct. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Paris?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Limax), "You. In the corner. Now." | ||||
| Limax asks, "Cut mesh didn't work?" | ||||
| Limax stands in the corner | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut mesh" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You lack the right tool to open the air duct. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It does not." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Good." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w.s.w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | Another featureless military corridor. This time you really do see Floyd | nothing special. The corridor stretches back south, the way that you Floyd | came from. There are doors in the other walls. The north door has a Floyd | sign that reads Security, the east door reads Barracks and the west Floyd | door says Laboratory. Nice of them to label the doors for you. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | A very plain military corridor, lacking any redeeming features. It Floyd | seems that after having spent the budget on laser guns and mind Floyd | control devices there's only enough money left for "Hospital White" Floyd | paint. There is a door to the west labelled Storage, and the corridor Floyd | continues to the north. At the south end is a set of unmarked double Floyd | doors. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Private Kline stands in front of the double doors, blocking your way. Floyd | He looks determined to keep you out. Floyd | Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are crammed, almost bent double, into a small storage cupboard. Floyd | With your prefect night vision you can make out several shelves, Floyd | crammed full of pots and bottles of various fluids. There seems to be Floyd | a definite cleaning theme to this cupboard. Your foot clatters againt Floyd | more tins and boxes. Horse shuffles and kicks you in the knee. You Floyd | think you might have found a new frontrunner in the "Most Floyd | Uncomfortable I Have Ever Been" stakes. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say paris to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Second Floor Corridor (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing outside room 247 in a well-lit corridor on the second Floyd | floor of a high-class Parisian hotel. Light fittings line the Floyd | ceiling. Splendid looking doors are scattered along both sides of the Floyd | wall to the north and to the south. The fluffy beige carpet tickles Floyd | your feet. There is a button on the east wall, next to which is a Floyd | opening where the lift arrives. Imposing, closed metallic doors Floyd | inform you that the lift is at a different floor. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Agathe Laurent lay on the bed, smiling to herself. Death hadn't been Floyd | as unpleasant as she'd feared, but she would still rather cling on to Floyd | life. She knew where she was with life. If there was one thing that Floyd | Agathe had always been afraid of it was the unknown. Well, perhaps Floyd | afraid was too strong a word. Agathe was loathe to admit that Floyd | anything frightened her, but she was sufficiently troubled to be moved Floyd | to action. Floyd | Floyd | It had cost her a lot to get to this stage, but she thought it would Floyd | all be worth it if it worked. She'd have done something that - as far Floyd | as she knew - no-one had ever done before. She'd have cheated death. Floyd | Floyd | Standing in the doorway was an impossibly tall and lanky figure, Floyd | wreathed in black and as pale as boiled rice. Floyd | Floyd | "Come in," said Agathe... Floyd | Floyd | ..you enter the hotel room, bending to get through the door as you go. Floyd | You give Agathe a nod out of professional courtesy and stride forward Floyd | towards her. She is still smiling. You wish that people wouldn't do Floyd | that. It really unnerves you. You are a few feet from the bed when Floyd | THUD! You stagger back, rubbing your nose. Floyd | Floyd | "Ouch!" you exclaim. That hurt! Gingerly, you reach out and find Floyd | your hand pressing against some kind of invisible barrier. Floyd | Floyd | "It works! Ha!" Agathe gives a delighted little squeal and claps her Floyd | hands together. You gaze down to the floor and see, etched on the Floyd | wooden floor in a circle around the bed, a white chalk line. It seems Floyd | to mark the location of the transparent wall. Floyd | Floyd | "What the Dickenth ith thith?" you demand, gesturing at the floor. Floyd | Floyd | "Pardon? I'm sorry? What did you say?" Agathe screams, staring at Floyd | you with wide mouth. You stay silent, your face burning with Floyd | embarrassment (or at least it would be if your body had the Floyd | circulation and blood to perform such a function). Floyd | Floyd | "I demand to know what thi...what i...what you have done." Floyd | Floyd | "You have a lisp?" Agathe cackles, "Oh this is just wonderful! It Floyd | gets better and better! Death has a lisp! The Grim Reaper has a Floyd | speech impediment! How perfect!" Floyd | Floyd | "I haven't got all day, you know." Floyd | Floyd | "Is that your horse?" Agathe is leaning off the bed, peering through Floyd | the doorway into the corridor outside, where Horse stands to Floyd | attention. You stay silent. She'll explain eventually. They always Floyd | do. When people think they've actually got one over you they can't Floyd | help but crow about it. Floyd | Floyd | "You've got a proper skeletal horse. That's amazing. A skeletal Floyd | steed. Can you say that? Skeletal steed. Let me hear you say that." Floyd | There is a glint in her eye. Floyd | Floyd | This is not going well. In fact, you think that this is one of the Floyd | the worst things that's ever happened to you, and you've got a long Floyd | memory. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, I may as well tell you. It took me long enough to find out Floyd | about it, after all." Agathe shrugs "I've spent most of my time and Floyd | not inconsiderable fortune trying to find out how to cheat you. I Floyd | built up a library of old, forgotten and - in at least two cases - Floyd | forbidden books, pooling the knowledge of the centuries. I pieced Floyd | together in several tomes the answer. Have you ever met Andre Theras, Floyd | the man who wrote How to Avoid Death?" Floyd | Floyd | "That joker?" You roll your eyes "Jutht the onth. He got it wrong it Floyd | seemth." You don't take much pleasure in your work but you'd quite Floyd | enjoyed that day. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, it turns out that he was partly right. And so was Dr. Ulan Floyd | Buntil. And so was Madame Elizabeth Fairy. They all had bits and Floyd | pieces of it right. I put it together and voila! I have created a Floyd | barrier around myself that you cannot pass! And it works! So you can Floyd | just sit on your skeletal steed and scram, sir!" Agathe is enjoying Floyd | herself immensely. Floyd | Floyd | "Are you planning to thi...thpen...wait here on your bed for Floyd | eternity?" Floyd | Floyd | "I can think of worse places to be." Agathe twinkles, winking at you. Floyd | Floyd | So. What now? You can't reap her soul until you can get past the Floyd | invisible barrier - or convince her to leave it. This is definitely Floyd | one of your worst days ever. Floyd | Floyd | Room 247 (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are in a hotel room in a luxurious Parisian hotel. The decor is Floyd | of the usual standard expected by those who have plenty of money but Floyd | no class. Gold trim and regal, red wallpaper with extravagant, Floyd | crystal light fittings and a white smoke alarm that looks out of Floyd | place. The floor is polished oak, or some other kind of luxury wood. Floyd | There is a four-poster double bed against the far wall, which is Floyd | circumferenced by a thick, chalk line. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Agathe Laurent lounges on the bed, pouting playfully at you. Floyd | Floyd | [ Room 247 (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Doug says, "no sign of Agent Sunglasses." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "erase chalk" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Even if you had something with which to remove the line the barrier it Floyd | creates won't let you close enough to touch it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, Paris isn't just this one room." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x alarm" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | A bulky white box that clashes with the room decor. The alarm has a Floyd | blinking red light which lets you know that it's fully functioning. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "You want to burn the place down?" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get alarm" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the smoke alarm! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We have a lighter." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "burn alarm" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the smoke alarm. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I'm wondering if it has somehting to do with the beeping noise. probably not." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying the Golden Hourglass, The Grim Reaper's Scythe, The Floyd | List, a small magnet, the time machine plans, the military uniform, Floyd | the shovel, the cigarette lighter and the saw. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "light alarm" | ||||
Floyd | You can't light the smoke alarm. Floyd | Floyd | > | WeirdBeard says, "Start a fire. Sprinklers turn on and wash away the chalk, maybe." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "burn wallpaper" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the decor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "light lighter" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You casually move over to the smoke alarm while Agathe watches you Floyd | like a hawk. Floyd | Floyd | "What are you doing?" she asks, but you don't answer. Floyd | Floyd | You reach out for a wad of tissues from a desk and then use the Floyd | lighter to set them on fire. Within seconds smoke is billowing into Floyd | the alarm, which a few moments later is beeping like R2-D2 trapped in Floyd | a washing machine spin cycle. Floyd | Floyd | "What? WHAT?" Agathe screams as the sprinkler system in the room Floyd | kicks into life. Water gushes from the ceiling in thick streams and Floyd | splatters all over the room - including the chalk circle around the Floyd | bed. Floyd | Floyd | Agathe realises with horror that her work is being washed away and she Floyd | screams in frustration as you discard the lighter. Floyd | Floyd | It doesn't take long for the chalk circle to be totally erased, and as Floyd | the sprinkler suddenly ceases its job Agathe looks terrified. You are Floyd | grinning. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "reap soul" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swing your scythe through the screaming Agathe Laurent. Her Floyd | lifeless body falls back onto the bed and leaves her departed soul Floyd | standing behind. She looks at you in terror as she vanishes. Floyd | Floyd | Another soul reaped and one step closer to the end of the job. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "haha" | |||
| Doug says, "ding." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hee hee" | |||
| Doug says, "2 down, 3 to go" | ||||
| DavidW says, "That was excellent" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Agent Sunglasses might have the ID we need." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Second Floor Corridor (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing outside room 247 in a well-lit corridor on the second Floyd | floor of a high-class Parisian hotel. Light fittings line the Floyd | ceiling. Splendid looking doors are scattered along both sides of the Floyd | wall to the north and to the south. The fluffy beige carpet tickles Floyd | your feet. There is a button on the east wall, next to which is a Floyd | opening where the lift arrives. Imposing, closed metallic doors Floyd | inform you that the lift is at a different floor. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Second Floor Corridor (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the silver button, which yields gently under your finger. Floyd | Floyd | After a few seconds the doors slide open to reveal a stunningly Floyd | attractive woman in a red dress. She smiles at you as she leaves the Floyd | lift and slinks past. With a wistful sigh you step inside the now Floyd | empty lift. Floyd | Floyd | Lift (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a claustrophobic metal box, each and every surface Floyd | is shining unmarked silver. The doors have shut in front of you and, Floyd | adjacent to them, is a panel at waist height on which you can see four Floyd | buttons. Three of the buttons are marked for the second, first and Floyd | ground floor. The fourth button displays two arrows heading away from Floyd | each other, suggesting that pressing this might either split the lift Floyd | in half or open the doors. You'd wager it's the second. Floyd | Floyd | The lift is currently on the second floor. Floyd | Floyd | [ Lift (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "press first" | ||||
Floyd | You press, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push ground" | ||||
Floyd | You push, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "press close" | ||||
Floyd | You press, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Type either 0,1,2 or 3 depending on whether you want to go to the Floyd | lobby, first or second floor or simply exit the lift at the floor you Floyd | are already on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the button to move to the first floor. The lift jolts and Floyd | moves down. Floyd | Floyd | The lift stops, the doors open and you step out on to the first floor. Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Corridor (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing outside room 147 in a well-lit corridor on the first Floyd | floor of a high-class Parisian hotel. Light fittings line the Floyd | ceiling. Splendid looking doors are scattered along both sides of the Floyd | wall to the north and to the south. The fluffy beige carpet tickles Floyd | your feet. There is a button on the east wall, next to which is a Floyd | opening where the lift arrives. Imposing, closed metallic doors Floyd | inform you that the lift is at a different floor. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ First Floor Corridor (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "er, why here?" | |||
| Doug asks, "it's closer?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Lobby is even closer, no?" | ||||
| Doug asks, "from the 2nd floor?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You try the handle but the door is locked. You need a keycard to get Floyd | in. People are so suspicious these days. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the silver button, which yields gently under your finger. Floyd | Floyd | After a few seconds the doors slide open and you are standing in front Floyd | of an empty lift. You step inside. Floyd | Floyd | Lift (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a claustrophobic metal box, each and every surface Floyd | is shining unmarked silver. The doors have shut in front of you and, Floyd | adjacent to them, is a panel at waist height on which you can see four Floyd | buttons. Three of the buttons are marked for the second, first and Floyd | ground floor. The fourth button displays two arrows heading away from Floyd | each other, suggesting that pressing this might either split the lift Floyd | in half or open the doors. You'd wager it's the second. Floyd | Floyd | The lift is currently on the first floor. Floyd | Floyd | [ Lift (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x 147" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 0" | ||||
Floyd | You push, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "0" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the button to move to the ground floor. The lift jolts and Floyd | moves down. Floyd | Floyd | The lift stops, the doors open and you step out in to the lobby. Floyd | Floyd | Hotel Lobby (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a busy, very expensive looking hotel lobby. It's Floyd | a large room, with pillars propping up the high ceiling every few Floyd | metres. One wall is lined with decorative plaques detailing awards Floyd | and commendations, and right in the middle of the lobby is a selection Floyd | of comfy-looking chairs. Everything is made out of marble or some Floyd | other very shiny rock. In the distance you see large revolving doors Floyd | leading out onto the streets of Paris and by the doors is a reception Floyd | desk, manned by a person wearing a garish uniform seemingly pieced Floyd | together from individual items salvaged from a fight between a cinema Floyd | usher and an ice cream salesman. A lot of people seem to be milling Floyd | about aimlessly. There is an archway to the south. The only other Floyd | way out of here is to press the button that summons the lift. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see the hotel receptionist, his hawk-like gaze asserting his Floyd | authority over everything that he can see. Floyd | Floyd | [ Hotel Lobby (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x receptionist" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | A young man with short black hair, small glasses, a thin moustache and Floyd | a severe look gazes out over the hotel lobby looking for trouble like Floyd | an old-time sheriff. His almost-militaristic features are in total Floyd | contrast to his hideous fluorescent uniform, making him look like the Floyd | grim veteran from several campaigns of leading a circus clown militia. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Trouble" | |||
| DavidW says, "Insult his moustache. Make him cry,." | ||||
| Doug says, "x plaques" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x plaques" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The plaques tell you that this hotel has won awards for being Floyd | generally excellent and has provided a bed for many different famous Floyd | people and members of various royal families. People all end up the Floyd | same way to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Doug), "I'm letting you have the driver's seat." | |||
| Doug says, "shrug." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | An elegant room is spread before you. A large mirror fills one entire Floyd | wall, creating the impression of a room twice as big as it actually Floyd | is. Soft, plush scarlet carpet softens the floor, and the high Floyd | ceiling is painted black with white specks to resemble a night sky. Floyd | Dining tables laid for use fill the room. A few kitchen staff are Floyd | milling around, but other than that the room is very quiet compared to Floyd | the relative busyness of the lobby. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Dining Room (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You're doing well." | |||
| Doug asks, "oh hm, the revolving doors are not actually an exit?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh. I bet I know what we need to do next. Try 'say blue sparrow to receptionist'." | ||||
| DavidW says, "He might give us a keycard for room 147." | ||||
| Doug asks, "you think he's Agent Sunglasses?" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x tables" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | A cursory glance shows you that tables are all each laid with Floyd | gleaming, silver cutlery and a menu bound in red leather with gold Floyd | writing on the front. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get cutlery" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You never cease to be surprised by how many of your Clients, when Floyd | faced with the news of their own demise, find nothing more pressing Floyd | than their concern about which relative is going to steal their Floyd | silverware. Since having heard such vitriol directed at family Floyd | members you've taken a personal vow never to steal cutlery. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "No, I think Agent Sunglasses would give the code phrase to him to pass to the contact." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x menu" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You risk flicking through the menu (and attached wine list). As the Floyd | living embodyment of entropy you don't have a need for food, but this Floyd | menu looks so good that even you feel a little hungry. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "hm, maybe this is where we get food" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh. Thinking of getting food for the bride." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You're not going to sit on the ground. It's hard enough keeping these Floyd | robes clean as it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sit at table" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "order food" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the dining tables. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask staff for food" | ||||
Floyd | You get no reply from the kitchen staff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask staff about dinner" | ||||
Floyd | You get no reply from the kitchen staff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask staff about menu" | ||||
Floyd | You get no reply from the kitchen staff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read menu" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You risk flicking through the menu (and attached wine list). As the Floyd | living embodyment of entropy you don't have a need for food, but this Floyd | menu looks so good that even you feel a little hungry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get menu" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You take one of the table menus. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read wine list" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah" | |||
| Doug says, "maybe the menu is the gift? weird" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I dunno." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (Standing up first) Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Hotel Lobby (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a busy, very expensive looking hotel lobby. It's Floyd | a large room, with pillars propping up the high ceiling every few Floyd | metres. One wall is lined with decorative plaques detailing awards Floyd | and commendations, and right in the middle of the lobby is a selection Floyd | of comfy-looking chairs. Everything is made out of marble or some Floyd | other very shiny rock. In the distance you see large revolving doors Floyd | leading out onto the streets of Paris and by the doors is a reception Floyd | desk, manned by a person wearing a garish uniform seemingly pieced Floyd | together from individual items salvaged from a fight between a cinema Floyd | usher and an ice cream salesman. A lot of people seem to be milling Floyd | about aimlessly. There is an archway to the south. The only other Floyd | way out of here is to press the button that summons the lift. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see the hotel receptionist, his hawk-like gaze asserting his Floyd | authority over everything that he can see. Floyd | Floyd | [ Hotel Lobby (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say Blue Sparrow" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | No-one pays any attention to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe the aliens have a turn-food-item-picture-into-real-food machine." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say Blue Sparrow to receptionist" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | No-one pays any attention to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "blue sparrow" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask receptionist about Agent Sunglasses" | ||||
Floyd | The hotel receptionist does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask receptionist about room 147" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The receptionist looks at you with disgust. Floyd | Floyd | "As much as we'd love to have you as a guest at this hotel, sir, we Floyd | only have one room available - room 147 - and I am not sure that you Floyd | have the resources to meet our exclusive prices. In fact...yes...yes, Floyd | while I have been talking to you the price of one night in room 147 Floyd | has just tripled. Have a nice day." Floyd | Floyd | The man's gaze moves beyond you to the lobby behind you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask receptionist about blue sparrow" | ||||
Floyd | The hotel receptionist does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask receptionist about room 247" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The receptionist looks at you with disgust. Floyd | Floyd | "As much as we'd love to have you as a guest at this hotel, sir, we Floyd | only have one room available - room 147 - and I am not sure that you Floyd | have the resources to meet our exclusive prices. In fact...yes...yes, Floyd | while I have been talking to you the price of one night in room 147 Floyd | has just tripled. Have a nice day." Floyd | Floyd | The man's gaze moves beyond you to the lobby behind you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x revolving doors" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You have only ever used revolving doors once before. It had pretty Floyd | much the same effect as trying to use a whisk on a chopstick. They Floyd | had to call the fire brigade to get you out. These are certainly very Floyd | fine revolving doors but you have no intention of using them. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess we don't look right." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x people" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Young and old, male and female. Much like everywhere that you go, Floyd | these people seem to be willing to do anything to ignore you. More so Floyd | than usual, because these people are clearly from the higher echelons Floyd | of society and have much more to lose. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "ah, maybe we need to impersonate Agent Sunglasses?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I dunno." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Possible, I suppose." | ||||
| Doug asks, "well anyway, should we go back to Kenya? or is there something else here to to try?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I was thinking we should visit Follina." | ||||
| Doug says, "ah yes." | ||||
| Doug asks, "is anyone else still playing?" | ||||
| WeirdBeard says, "Yeah." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the silver button, which yields gently under your finger. Floyd | Floyd | After a few seconds the doors slide open and you are standing in front Floyd | of an empty lift. You step inside. Floyd | Floyd | Lift (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a claustrophobic metal box, each and every surface Floyd | is shining unmarked silver. The doors have shut in front of you and, Floyd | adjacent to them, is a panel at waist height on which you can see four Floyd | buttons. Three of the buttons are marked for the second, first and Floyd | ground floor. The fourth button displays two arrows heading away from Floyd | each other, suggesting that pressing this might either split the lift Floyd | in half or open the doors. You'd wager it's the second. Floyd | Floyd | The lift is currently on the ground floor. Floyd | Floyd | [ Lift (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the button to move to the second floor. The lift jolts and Floyd | moves up. Floyd | Floyd | The lift stops, the doors open and you step out on to the second Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | Second Floor Corridor (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing outside room 247 in a well-lit corridor on the second Floyd | floor of a high-class Parisian hotel. Light fittings line the Floyd | ceiling. Splendid looking doors are scattered along both sides of the Floyd | wall to the north and to the south. The fluffy beige carpet tickles Floyd | your feet. There is a button on the east wall, next to which is a Floyd | opening where the lift arrives. Imposing, closed metallic doors Floyd | inform you that the lift is at a different floor. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Second Floor Corridor (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I wonder. If that credit card offer at the beginning would sway the hotel receptionist or not." | |||
| Doug says, "hm, I assumed it wouldn't let us take it. but we never tried." | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, maybe we can take it now. I dunno." | ||||
| Doug asks, "what is the point of button #3?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Nitku), "Did you finish this?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "I did" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lift (Paris) Floyd | [The previous turn has been undone.] Floyd | Floyd | [ Lift (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Although I've forgotten most of it" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the button to open to the door and step out in to the lobby. Floyd | Floyd | Hotel Lobby (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a busy, very expensive looking hotel lobby. It's Floyd | a large room, with pillars propping up the high ceiling every few Floyd | metres. One wall is lined with decorative plaques detailing awards Floyd | and commendations, and right in the middle of the lobby is a selection Floyd | of comfy-looking chairs. Everything is made out of marble or some Floyd | other very shiny rock. In the distance you see large revolving doors Floyd | leading out onto the streets of Paris and by the doors is a reception Floyd | desk, manned by a person wearing a garish uniform seemingly pieced Floyd | together from individual items salvaged from a fight between a cinema Floyd | usher and an ice cream salesman. A lot of people seem to be milling Floyd | about aimlessly. There is an archway to the south. The only other Floyd | way out of here is to press the button that summons the lift. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see the hotel receptionist, his hawk-like gaze asserting his Floyd | authority over everything that he can see. Floyd | Floyd | [ Hotel Lobby (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of Nitku), "I never finished it, but I only played for the two hours allotted to Comp Time. We're at nearly three hours now. How long did it take you?" | |||
| Doug says, "I guess if you forget what floor you're on" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lift (Paris) Floyd | [The previous turn has been undone.] Floyd | Floyd | [ Lift (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the button to move to the second floor. The lift jolts and Floyd | moves up. Floyd | Floyd | The lift stops, the doors open and you step out on to the second Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | Second Floor Corridor (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing outside room 247 in a well-lit corridor on the second Floyd | floor of a high-class Parisian hotel. Light fittings line the Floyd | ceiling. Splendid looking doors are scattered along both sides of the Floyd | wall to the north and to the south. The fluffy beige carpet tickles Floyd | your feet. There is a button on the east wall, next to which is a Floyd | opening where the lift arrives. Imposing, closed metallic doors Floyd | inform you that the lift is at a different floor. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Second Floor Corridor (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say follina to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Outside a Cave (Follina, Italy) Floyd | Floyd | Around you, in every direction, stretches fields, hills and beautiful Floyd | countryside. In the distance you can see picturesque red brick walls Floyd | and a farmhouse. Right beside you, however, is a large pile of rocks Floyd | rolled up against the side of a hill. It looks like the rocks are Floyd | blocking the entrance to a cave. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: No Exits Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse skids to a halt on a rocky field, his boney hooves churning up Floyd | small stones and pebbles. One hits you on the side of the head, which Floyd | makes you curse. Horse neighs in apology or so you guess. Floyd | Floyd | You climb down from Horse and check your surroundings. It doesn't Floyd | take too long. You're standing in a barren Italian field, the nice Floyd | view spoilt by the huge pile of rocks right in front of you. Floyd | Floyd | Outside a Cave (Follina, Italy) Floyd | Floyd | Around you, in every direction, stretches fields, hills and beautiful Floyd | countryside. In the distance you can see picturesque red brick walls Floyd | and a farmhouse. Right beside you, however, is a large pile of rocks Floyd | rolled up against the side of a hill. It looks like the rocks are Floyd | blocking the entrance to a cave. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: No Exits Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Outside a Cave (Follina, Italy) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Nitku says, "I assume it was within the 2 hours, but I'm not sure" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||||
| Nitku says, "I may have used hints" | ||||
| Doug says, "we've been going slower than a solo play would go" | ||||
| Limax asks, "It has a timer outside of the turn counter?" | ||||
| Doug says, "no, just people's patience." | ||||
| Limax says, "Oh" | ||||
| Nitku says, "We're talking about the IFComp 2 hour rule" | ||||
| Doug says, "and the ifcomp time suggestion" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "did the archaelogists put all the rocks back?" | |||
| Doug says, "oh, they have yet to obtain permission." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x rocks" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Hundreds of mishapen rocks form a pile by the hill. They were clearly Floyd | formed by some kind of rockfall and it's going to take more than a Floyd | rock..err...rise to clear them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x footprints" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I assume we need dynamite or a bomb or something like it." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x farmhouse" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You're not known for your appreciation of culture, but even you can Floyd | see that this is the kind of scenery that makes it on to oil Floyd | paintings. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move rocks" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Maybe, just maybe, if you had an unlimited army of trained monkeys you Floyd | could clear this cave before the end of the day. But you don't. So Floyd | there. You'll have to think of something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | WeirdBeard asks, "Can we enter the house?" | |||
| DavidW says, "ooh, unlimited army of trained monkeys. Let's put *that* in a game someday." | ||||
| DavidW says, "The house is in the distance, so... no." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get rock" | ||||
Floyd | Take what? Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says (to WeirdBeard), "Only if it's white and has a window" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get rocks" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the rocks! Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Ha ha... Doug got yelled at" | |||
| WeirdBeard says, "Unlimited armies of trained monkeys always waste their time writing plays." | ||||
| DavidW says, "hm. I'm not sure what to try next. Maybe give the menu to the bride." | ||||
| Doug says, "and/or play chess" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, or that." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say kenya to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a cluster of buildings denoting this Floyd | to be a settlement of some kind. The ground under your feet is dry Floyd | and dusty. Children run through the streets, shouting and laughing. Floyd | Men go about their business. Women stand and gossip, occasionally Floyd | breaking into laughter. No-one pays you much attention. They're all Floyd | having too much fun to pay any mind to death at the moment. A path Floyd | winds east out of the village. You can see Jimiyu's hut to the north, Floyd | and to the west the open doorway of another hut invites you in. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Large Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a large hut which seems to double as a place of Floyd | worship. There are mats on the floor, presumably for sitting on and Floyd | at the end of the hut is a lectern. A wooden cross is attached to one Floyd | of the walls. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Abuya Wangai is standing here, looking thoughtful. Floyd | Floyd | [ Large Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give menu" | ||||
Floyd | Give the hotel menu to who? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give menu to abuya" | ||||
Floyd | Abuya Wangai doesn't seem interested in the hotel menu. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask abuya about gift" | ||||
Floyd | Abuya Wangai does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask abuya about wedding" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abuya looks at you, perhaps wondering why such a strange-looking man Floyd | would show an interest in her wedding. Floyd | Floyd | "I would marry this very hour if only I could arrange two things. I Floyd | would want a beautiful wedding dress like the ones that I have seen in Floyd | the magazines. And I would want a gift for my future husband. He Floyd | doesn't like my cooking so perhaps I could give him something so that Floyd | he wouldn't have to eat it..." Floyd | Floyd | She has a twinkle in her eye, suggesting that perhaps she knows that Floyd | you have a vested interest in this wedding... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x abuya" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Abuya is a young women in, you would guess, her late teens or young Floyd | twenties. She wouldn't catch your attention if it weren't for the Floyd | sparkling eyes and cheeky grin that identifies her as Jimiyu's Floyd | granddaughter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "hope she still has the gown." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a cluster of buildings denoting this Floyd | to be a settlement of some kind. The ground under your feet is dry Floyd | and dusty. Children run through the streets, shouting and laughing. Floyd | Men go about their business. Women stand and gossip, occasionally Floyd | breaking into laughter. No-one pays you much attention. They're all Floyd | having too much fun to pay any mind to death at the moment. A path Floyd | winds east out of the village. You can see Jimiyu's hut to the north, Floyd | and to the west the open doorway of another hut invites you in. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | It's a fairly bare hut, lived in by someone who has learnt the hard Floyd | lesson that true happiness is not found in possessions. The bare, Floyd | dusty floor is going to leave its mark under your toenails for days. Floyd | Jimiyu Wangai sits on a rickety wicker chair, facing a squat, Floyd | uncomfortable-looking stool. Between the two seats is a frail table, Floyd | on which sits a chess board. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Jimiyu Wangai is grinning at you from his chair. Floyd | Floyd | [ Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "play chess" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "I'm ready. Let'th play," you take your seat behind the black pieces. Floyd | Floyd | Jimiyu makes his first move. You mentally cycle through the pages of Floyd | the chess guide in your head and the respond. Jimiyu nods and makes Floyd | his second move. Once again you recall what you have read and make a Floyd | move. A frown crosses Jimiyu's face as he makes a third move. You Floyd | respond appropriately. This is going well... Floyd | Floyd | Half an hour later the game moves to its completion. As Jimiyu knocks Floyd | his king over he looks up at you. Then in a split second his frown Floyd | transforms into a huge grin. Floyd | Floyd | "I really thought that would work," he laughs. Floyd | Floyd | "If it'th any contholation, you're the betht opponent that I've ever Floyd | had," you say graciously, hoping that he doesn't ask you how many Floyd | opponents you've ever had. Floyd | Floyd | "I've been ready for you for a while," he sighs, "It was just a shame Floyd | that I couldn't see my granddaughter finally wed." Floyd | Floyd | You nod in sympathy but say nothing. You've never really understood Floyd | human affection for these rites of passage, but you like to make Floyd | people feel like you care. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm ready then. Let us do this." Jimiyu smiles again. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think so. The way topics are encoded in Adrift makes it awkward to make them variant." | |||
| Doug says, "aw" | ||||
| Doug says, "now I want to finish the bride quest" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | ||||
| Limax says, "No restarts allowed" | ||||
| Doug says, "I guess we can wait to reap his soul until later" | ||||
| WeirdBeard asks, "Can't we wait to reap until then?" | ||||
| Doug says, "since reaping doesn't get us anything" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we can reap him later, sure." | ||||
| WeirdBeard asks, "Have we figured where to use the saw yet?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "no" | ||||
| Doug says, "nope. nor the magnet." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x magnet" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's a small metal magnet. Floyd | Floyd | > | WeirdBeard asks, "What about thios credit card offer you were mentioning?" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, it was an offer in the mail." | ||||
| DavidW says, "We chucked it into a bin." | ||||
| WeirdBeard asks, "Can we get it back out?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Also, we could try to grab the mints again, I suppose." | ||||
| Doug asks, "is there any place we haven't been yet?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "The past. The armory. South of Kline. Room 124." | ||||
| WeirdBeard says, "Armory doesn't ring a bell" | ||||
| DavidW says, "The armory is part of the Nevada setup." | ||||
| DavidW says, "We need a 'special key'." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I wonder if one of the NPCs wore sunglasses and we didn't notice." | ||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying the Golden Hourglass, The Grim Reaper's Scythe, The Floyd | List, a small magnet, the time machine plans, the hotel menu, the Floyd | military uniform, the shovel and the saw. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "I can't stay around any longer today. Have a good time finishing." | |||
| Limax walks slowly out of the room and into the sunset. | Doug asks, "hey, what about the stunningly attractive woman?" | |||
| Doug asks, "would she still be around on the 2nd floor?" | ||||
| WeirdBeard asks, "Did we try giving the menu to the girl?" | ||||
| Doug says, "yeah" | ||||
| DavidW says (to WB), "yes, we tried" | ||||
| Doug says, "not interested" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Doug), "I assumed the woman went into one of the other rooms on the 2nd floor." | ||||
| Doug asks, "was it just flavor text? or are we supposed to find her?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I thought it was flavour text." | ||||
| Doug asks, "did we try the magnet on the beeping noise?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "no, we didn't try that" | ||||
| WeirdBeard says, "Not that I know" | ||||
| Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a cluster of buildings denoting this Floyd | to be a settlement of some kind. The ground under your feet is dry Floyd | and dusty. Children run through the streets, shouting and laughing. Floyd | Men go about their business. Women stand and gossip, occasionally Floyd | breaking into laughter. No-one pays you much attention. They're all Floyd | having too much fun to pay any mind to death at the moment. A path Floyd | winds east out of the village. You can see Jimiyu's hut to the north, Floyd | and to the west the open doorway of another hut invites you in. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say nevada to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are crammed, almost bent double, into a small storage cupboard. Floyd | With your prefect night vision you can make out several shelves, Floyd | crammed full of pots and bottles of various fluids. There seems to be Floyd | a definite cleaning theme to this cupboard. Your foot clatters againt Floyd | more tins and boxes. Horse shuffles and kicks you in the knee. You Floyd | think you might have found a new frontrunner in the "Most Floyd | Uncomfortable I Have Ever Been" stakes. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go in that direction, but you can move east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | A very plain military corridor, lacking any redeeming features. It Floyd | seems that after having spent the budget on laser guns and mind Floyd | control devices there's only enough money left for "Hospital White" Floyd | paint. There is a door to the west labelled Storage, and the corridor Floyd | continues to the north. At the south end is a set of unmarked double Floyd | doors. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Private Kline stands in front of the double doors, blocking your way. Floyd | He looks determined to keep you out. Floyd | Floyd | [ Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), ">n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | Another featureless military corridor. This time you really do see Floyd | nothing special. The corridor stretches back south, the way that you Floyd | came from. There are doors in the other walls. The north door has a Floyd | sign that reads Security, the east door reads Barracks and the west Floyd | door says Laboratory. Nice of them to label the doors for you. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Barracks (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are in a barracks. The room, despite being a place where people Floyd | are expected to relax and sleep, is as bleak and clinical as the rest Floyd | of the compound. At least an effort has been made and one wall is Floyd | covered with posters. Rows and rows of bunk beds fill the room, a few Floyd | of which are being used by off-duty and snoozing soliders. They seem Floyd | to be sleeping very well, despite the beeping noise coming from an air Floyd | duct in the corner of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Barracks (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "use magnet" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the small magnet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "use magnet on duct" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the small magnet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x posters" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | There are a variety of posters, only one of which catches your Floyd | attention (it would be more, but you lack some of the same basic urges Floyd | as the common military man). It's a large poster of the Golden Gate Floyd | Bridge, with a comment written beneath it. Floyd | Floyd | Stuck in a rut? Don't know what your next step should be? Simply Floyd | just bored? Floyd | Floyd | VISIT SAN FRANCISCO Floyd | Floyd | Some things will become a lot clearer... Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "heh." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "visit san francisco" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "well it is in caps." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x duct" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The air duct is covered by a thick mesh which could be easily removed Floyd | by the right tool. It would be a tight squeeze but you could fit Floyd | inside it if you had to. A beeping noise emanates from the duct. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x beping" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x beeping" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's a repeating beeping noise, and it's definitely coming from the Floyd | ducts. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh! We can try to saw the chain holding the papers in the time machine, I bet." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | Another featureless military corridor. This time you really do see Floyd | nothing special. The corridor stretches back south, the way that you Floyd | came from. There are doors in the other walls. The north door has a Floyd | sign that reads Security, the east door reads Barracks and the west Floyd | door says Laboratory. Nice of them to label the doors for you. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a large spotless room. The first thing you notice Floyd | is a huge, strange, complex machine in the middle of the room. You've Floyd | never seen anything like it before. It's surrounded by a work Floyd | surface, on which are scattered various papers and notes. One wall is Floyd | lined with computer terminals. There are also shelves, loaded with Floyd | bottles and tools and around the room seem to be one or two unfinished Floyd | experiments. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Laboratory (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x papers" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You sift through the various papers. It appears that they all relate Floyd | to the curious machine in the middle of the room. It seems that it's Floyd | some kind of time travel device salvaged from alien technology. There Floyd | are pencil notes in the margins and everything. The hand-writing Floyd | seems to be that of someone who is intensely frustrated, and you can Floyd | see why. The notes tell you that no-one can seem to get the machine Floyd | working. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no, inside" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "enter machine" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You awkwardly clamber inside the time machine. Floyd | Floyd | Inside Time Machine (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | The time machine is clearly meant for someone a lot shorter than you. Floyd | You feel like a pen in a matchbox. From the outside the machine Floyd | looked complicated, but from the inside the task of understanding Floyd | what's going on is positively herculean. You can see a large number Floyd | of lights and dials, none of which you can understand. It doesn't Floyd | help that any instructions written in the machine are in some kind of Floyd | alien dialect. The things that you think might be significant are a Floyd | digital readout which says '2007', the buttons next to this readout, Floyd | an open panel revealing a mix of wires and a pile of paper which is Floyd | chained to the inside of the machine, clearly to avoid theft. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: Exit Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Inside Time Machine (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "saw chain" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the chain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut chain" | ||||
Floyd | You can't cut the chain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut chain with saw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't cut the chain. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "bah" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "use saw on chain" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the saw. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "use saw" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the saw. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut paper" | ||||
Floyd | You can't cut the paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm getting rather peckish." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "read papers" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You begin reading the translation... Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | CONGRATULATIONS ON PURCHASING THE CHRONOMATIC 3500! Floyd | Floyd | We are confident that you will not regret your purchase. Please take Floyd | the time to read this instruction manual and familiarise yourself with Floyd | all of the features offered by this new model of an old favourite. Floyd | Floyd | NEW FEATURES INCLUDE... Floyd | Floyd | - FREE 'and space' upgrade. That's right! Your Chronomatic 3500 is Floyd | able to move not just through time, but through time AND space! Floyd | Floyd | - Failsafe Homing Feature. Your Chronomatic will automatically return Floyd | you to your starting destination when you have finished your business Floyd | in other time zones Floyd | Floyd | - New Leather Interior. Time Travel in comfort! Floyd | Floyd | - 3 Year Warranty. Floyd | Floyd | (Please note - warranty immediately becomes invalid in the following Floyd | cases. Floyd | Floyd | - if the owner of the time machine attempts home repairs Floyd | Floyd | - If the owner tries to use an expired warranty machine to travel back Floyd | in time to a year when the warranty is valid. Floyd | Floyd | - If the owner allows this technology to fall into the hands of Floyd | humanity.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | QUICKSTART: Floyd | Floyd | For those of you who just want to get on with the fun business of time Floyd | travel you can simply begin your experience with the following simple Floyd | combination of instructions... Floyd | Floyd | Step 1) If appropriate select the time era you wish to visit using Floyd | the RED BUTTON. Floyd | Floyd | Step 2) Simply enter the year that you wish to visit (no need to use Floyd | any combination of commands such as 'type year' or 'enter year into Floyd | machine' - simply type the year that you wish to visit!) Floyd | Floyd | ...and that's it! The machine will do the rest! Floyd | Floyd | We hope that you have a GREAT time and many happy years with the Floyd | Chronomatic 3500. Remember - Have the time of your life! Floyd | Floyd | (and we really mean it about not letting the humans get their hands on Floyd | this technology. Seriously.) Floyd | Floyd | --------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | You also notice that someone has scrawled '5500 AD' at the bottom of Floyd | the translation. You put the manual down. The original has many, Floyd | many more pages but clearly the translators haven't got around to Floyd | working on that yet. Still, it seems that you have enough to actually Floyd | use the machine - if you can get it working. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "why would we need to remove the papers?" | |||
| Doug says, "why are they chained? that's just weird." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I was thinking that they might help Thomas fix his machine." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens. The machine is not working properly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You look behind the panel. You then pull out the wad of papers you Floyd | borrowed from the house in Manchester. A quick comparison between the Floyd | papers and the workings behind the panel tells you that there's Floyd | something missing from the time machine - which is probably why it Floyd | isn't working. You think there's a gap in here where a small coil of Floyd | wire should be inserted. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oho" | |||
| Doug asks, "have we seen a coil?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Not that I recall." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x readout" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Either the aliens lack imagination or the local scientists here have Floyd | rewired this readout to display numeric characters. Either way, you Floyd | feel confident about guessing that this tells you what year you are in Floyd | or are planning to visit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "But maybe rechecking the lab or the cellar will reveal a coil of wire." | |||
| Doug asks, "was this game written in 2007?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Maybe the armchair in our home has a loose spring." | ||||
| Doug says, "oy vey." | ||||
| DavidW says, "We never looked at the armchair." | ||||
| Doug asks, "shall we go back home? and get the credit card offer?" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "exit" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You manage, with some difficulty, to extract yourself from the time Floyd | machine. Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a large spotless room. The first thing you notice Floyd | is a huge, strange, complex machine in the middle of the room. You've Floyd | never seen anything like it before. It's surrounded by a work Floyd | surface, on which are scattered various papers and notes. One wall is Floyd | lined with computer terminals. There are also shelves, loaded with Floyd | bottles and tools and around the room seem to be one or two unfinished Floyd | experiments. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Laboratory (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x surface" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's a plain, metallic surface for carrying out experiments on. Easy Floyd | to wipe clean. At the moment it's covered in papers, notes and Floyd | diagrams. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wipe surface" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the work surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x terminals" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The machines are all switched off, except one - which seems to be Floyd | running a game of Adventure. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "type get lamp" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play game" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oh wouldn't that be very post-modern and ironic. One game at a time Floyd | please. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "hah" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | I'm sorry, but XYZZY doesn't do anything special in this game! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | They haven't been dusted for ages. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x tools" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | A variety of scientific instruments and tools are on the shelves. Floyd | Some of them have wires coming out of them and everything. You Floyd | haven't a clue what purposes they would serve. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get tools" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the tools! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wires" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the wires! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | There is nothing to pick up here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wire" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the wires! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut wire" | ||||
Floyd | You can't cut the wires. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so, the coil of wire isn't here, I guess." | |||
| Doug asks, "ok, back home?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Please" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | Another featureless military corridor. This time you really do see Floyd | nothing special. The corridor stretches back south, the way that you Floyd | came from. There are doors in the other walls. The north door has a Floyd | sign that reads Security, the east door reads Barracks and the west Floyd | door says Laboratory. Nice of them to label the doors for you. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s. w." | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | A very plain military corridor, lacking any redeeming features. It Floyd | seems that after having spent the budget on laser guns and mind Floyd | control devices there's only enough money left for "Hospital White" Floyd | paint. There is a door to the west labelled Storage, and the corridor Floyd | continues to the north. At the south end is a set of unmarked double Floyd | doors. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Private Kline stands in front of the double doors, blocking your way. Floyd | He looks determined to keep you out. Floyd | Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are crammed, almost bent double, into a small storage cupboard. Floyd | With your prefect night vision you can make out several shelves, Floyd | crammed full of pots and bottles of various fluids. There seems to be Floyd | a definite cleaning theme to this cupboard. Your foot clatters againt Floyd | more tins and boxes. Horse shuffles and kicks you in the knee. You Floyd | think you might have found a new frontrunner in the "Most Floyd | Uncomfortable I Have Ever Been" stakes. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say home to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb onto Horse's back and mutter the words. Horse stamps Floyd | his/her foot and then, without a sound, leaps into the air. There is Floyd | a rush of air, a moment of dizziness and then with a bump Horse lands Floyd | in the stable. You climb down. Floyd | Floyd | The Stable of Death Floyd | Floyd | You are in your stable. Despite your best efforts, the small, rough Floyd | wooden structure seems more homely than your own house. Horse doesn't Floyd | eat (or go to the toilet) but in accordance with universal laws the Floyd | floor is covered in hay and the place smells of horse poo. In one Floyd | corner is a large whetstone. Fixed to the north wall are the brackets Floyd | where you rest your scythe when you're not using it. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ The Stable of Death | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search hay" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the hay. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | The Garden Path of Death Floyd | Floyd | You are standing on a garden path. You don't have a garden so Floyd | technically it should just be called 'a path'. The path leads through Floyd | the void of emptiness from your house to the stable where Horse lives. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North and South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ The Garden Path of Death | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | The Hallway of Death Floyd | Floyd | The hallway has thick, plush red carpet which always tickles your toes Floyd | a little bit. It goes quite well with the black, pannelled walls. At Floyd | the south end is your imposing front door. There are a series of Floyd | hooks by the door on which you could hang your coat, if you wore a Floyd | coat that is. A small bin sits by the door. There is also a Floyd | full-length mirror on one wall. As you're the last sight some people Floyd | see, it's quite right that you check that you look presentable. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East, South and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ The Hallway of Death | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x bin" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's a small, metal bin. Lying in the bin is a letter from Blackbury Floyd | Banking Services. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get letter" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You bend down and scoop the letter from Blackbury Banking Services out Floyd | of the bin. This might come in useful. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "sh*t" | |||
| Doug says, "wonder if that's an intentional reference to the junk mail from HHGTTG" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I don't think so." | ||||
| Doug says, "I mean, not that message, but just generally being junk mail at the beginning of the game that is useful later." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | The Living Room of Death Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in your living room. It's quite small and cosy, with Floyd | panel flooring and painted walls (black, of course). A bookcase Floyd | stands against one wall. On another is a shelf, on which rests your Floyd | CD player and collection of CDs. A comfy, well-worn leather armchair Floyd | lies right bang in the centre of the room facing the only window. You Floyd | often like to sit on the chair staring out into the empty, black void Floyd | of time and space that your home backs on to. It's not a great view, Floyd | but it's something to look at. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ The Living Room of Death | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You're not going to sit on the ground. It's hard enough keeping these Floyd | robes clean as it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sit in armchair" | ||||
Floyd | You sit down on your leather armchair. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The junk mail in HHGTTG was never described as 'useful'." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x armchair" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You've had this for about forty years. It is, without a shadow of a Floyd | doubt, the comfiest chair that you have ever owned. And you should Floyd | know. You had to sit on the floor until someone got around to Floyd | inventing the chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stare" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x void" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special. In fact you don't see anything at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok, armchair is useless" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "search armchair" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with your leather armchair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look under armchair" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get CDs" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | If you wanted to listen to music on the go you would have bought Floyd | yourself an iPod. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get armchair" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take your leather armchair! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "afk for a couple" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x bookcase" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The bookcase is full of diaries. Your diaries. Early on you decided Floyd | that you would keep a record of your duties. There are hundreds of Floyd | volumes here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "was there something about writing in the wrong diary?" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get diary" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You pick up a diary at random and flick to a page. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Monday 1st May 1967 Floyd | Materialised at a fancy dress party today. It hardly ever happens but Floyd | it's really nice when it does. I'd only been there three seconds Floyd | before someone pushed a drink into my hand and a girl tried to kiss Floyd | me. It was a shame that I was only there because the host was due to Floyd | fall out of a window. Floyd | Floyd | You put the book back on the shelf. You can see no need to take any Floyd | of them with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get diary" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You pick up a diary at random and flick to a page. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Thursday 18th July 956 (BC) Floyd | Horse's birthday. I had two jobs to do. On the way home I accidently Floyd | dropped my scythe into the sea. Have to get a new one now, which Floyd | means filling out the relevant forms. I was so annoyed about it that Floyd | I forgot to wish Horse a happy birthday until the evening, and now I Floyd | feel really guilty. Will apologise tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | You put the book back on the shelf. You can see no need to take any Floyd | of them with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "what day is today?" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x hourg" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x hourglass" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The grains of sand tell you that you have four and a half hours left Floyd | to complete your contract. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "eep" | |||
| WeirdBeard asks, "How many moves are there per half hour?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "You started with 12, right?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "12 hours, that is?" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x player" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Your CD player. It's fully working despite not being plugged in. The Floyd | flashing LED display blinks '----' at you. You've lost the Floyd | instruction manual and have no idea how to set the time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "play cd" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are not in the mood for music right now. You tend to listen to it Floyd | at the end of the day, when you want to unwind a bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "plug in player" | DavidW says, "try: say happy birthday to horse" | |||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with your CD player. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (Getting off your leather armchair first) Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | The Hallway of Death Floyd | Floyd | The hallway has thick, plush red carpet which always tickles your toes Floyd | a little bit. It goes quite well with the black, pannelled walls. At Floyd | the south end is your imposing front door. There are a series of Floyd | hooks by the door on which you could hang your coat, if you wore a Floyd | coat that is. A small bin sits by the door. There is also a Floyd | full-length mirror on one wall. As you're the last sight some people Floyd | see, it's quite right that you check that you look presentable. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East, South and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ The Hallway of Death | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | The Garden Path of Death Floyd | Floyd | You are standing on a garden path. You don't have a garden so Floyd | technically it should just be called 'a path'. The path leads through Floyd | the void of emptiness from your house to the stable where Horse lives. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North and South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ The Garden Path of Death | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | The Stable of Death Floyd | Floyd | You are in your stable. Despite your best efforts, the small, rough Floyd | wooden structure seems more homely than your own house. Horse doesn't Floyd | eat (or go to the toilet) but in accordance with universal laws the Floyd | floor is covered in hay and the place smells of horse poo. In one Floyd | corner is a large whetstone. Fixed to the north wall are the brackets Floyd | where you rest your scythe when you're not using it. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ The Stable of Death | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say happy birthday to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | No-one pays any attention to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying the Golden Hourglass, The Grim Reaper's Scythe, The Floyd | List, the credit card letter, a small magnet, the time machine plans, Floyd | the hotel menu, the military uniform, the shovel and the saw. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hay" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | No. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read letter" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dear Mr GRaper. Floyd | Have we got an offer for you!!?? You, and others in your specially Floyd | selected postcode region, have been chosen to take part in our Floyd | amazing, introductory offer! We're offering you a free - that's right Floyd | FREE - credit card with GBP10,000 limit*! ARE WE CRAZY?? To claim Floyd | your FREE Credit Card simply turn up at our NEW Swindon branch and Floyd | present this letter! That's it! That's all you have to do! No Floyd | strings attached!** Floyd | Floyd | We look forward to meeting you! Floyd | Floyd | Mr. B. Jones (Manager) Floyd | Floyd | * 67.5% APR may apply Floyd | Floyd | ** Strings attached Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says (to Jacqueline), "yep, 12 hours." | |||
| Doug says, "aha!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "say swindon to horse" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say swindon to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Outside Blackbury Bank (Swindon) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a brand new but mostly empty carpark outside Floyd | Blackbury Bank (Swindon Branch). Horse has settled in to a carparking Floyd | space beside a black BMW and a red Mazda. As Horse shifts slightly Floyd | you can see the word 'MANAGER' written in white paint beneath his/her Floyd | feet. Over to your left, sitting on a brick wall, you can see two Floyd | employees who are busy smoking cigarettes and trying to pretend that Floyd | you are not there. To your north you can see a few steps, which lead Floyd | right up to and inside Blackbury Bank. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse descends from the clouds and makes a perfect landing in the Floyd | carpark of the new Blackbury Bank in Swindon, attracting brief Floyd | attention from two employees who are on a smoking break. The human Floyd | survival instinct kicks in and they soon turn their focus back to Floyd | happier things, such as filling their lungs with tar. You clamber Floyd | down from Horse, accidently kicking the door of a black BMW in the Floyd | process. It hurts a lot, but if people don't pay much attention to Floyd | the sight of a skeletal horse descending from the heavens then they're Floyd | not likely to care at all if they happen to see the Grim Reaper Floyd | hopping on one foot and cursing like a trooper. Floyd | Floyd | After taking a few deep breaths you compose yourself and turn your Floyd | attention to the task at hand. Floyd | Floyd | Outside Blackbury Bank (Swindon) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a brand new but mostly empty carpark outside Floyd | Blackbury Bank (Swindon Branch). Horse has settled in to a carparking Floyd | space beside a black BMW and a red Mazda. As Horse shifts slightly Floyd | you can see the word 'MANAGER' written in white paint beneath his/her Floyd | feet. Over to your left, sitting on a brick wall, you can see two Floyd | employees who are busy smoking cigarettes and trying to pretend that Floyd | you are not there. To your north you can see a few steps, which lead Floyd | right up to and inside Blackbury Bank. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Outside Blackbury Bank (Swindon) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Huzzah!" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Inside Blackbury Bank (Swindon) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing inside the brand new Blackbury Bank branch. The Floyd | plush red carpet tickles your feet and the air conditioning makes you Floyd | feel cold even under your robe. You don't often get to visit the Floyd | bank, so there's not much here that interests you. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A female bank clerk stares at you from behind a counter, shielded by Floyd | protective glass. Floyd | Floyd | [ Inside Blackbury Bank (Swindon) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give letter to clerk" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The bank clerk's face lights up as she sees the letter. You slide it Floyd | under the glass and she reads it. Floyd | Floyd | "That's fine, Mr...Raper." she says. Floyd | Floyd | "Reaper." you correct her, "Grim Reaper." Floyd | Floyd | She looks at you for a second and then grabs a pen, with which she Floyd | makes a note on the letter that you received. She then slides you a Floyd | form and the pen. Floyd | Floyd | "Please fill this in, Mr. Reaper." she smiles at you. Floyd | Floyd | You stare at the form for a minute. It simply asks you to sign if you Floyd | are happy with the terms and conditions. The terms and conditions Floyd | include graphic threats about what Blackbury Bank will do to you if Floyd | you don't keep up with the card repayments, but seeing as pretty much Floyd | all of the threats don't affect you (except possibly the one about the Floyd | branding iron and the glue) you feel no reason to be concerned. You Floyd | sign the form and slide it back under the glass. Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you Mr..." the bank clerk studies your signature for a second, Floyd | "Mr. Groper?" Floyd | Floyd | "Reaper!" you state again, more firmly this time Floyd | Floyd | "But you've signed it..." the woman shows you the form through the Floyd | glass. Floyd | Floyd | "No! That thayth Mr. G. Reaper, not Mr. Groper!" Floyd | Floyd | The bank clerk looks at you as though you're the crazy one and then Floyd | taps away on her computer for a second. A few minutes later she Floyd | presents you with a credit card in your name. She passes you the pen Floyd | and the sign the back of the card, feeling a wave of pride in your new Floyd | possession and statue as bank customer. Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you." you say, turning to leave. Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, Mr. Reaper?" the bank clerk waves her hand at you, "My pen?" Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, thorry." you respond meekly, returning her pen to her. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x clerk" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The young, spectacled woman looks a little nervous. I imagine that Floyd | you're not the usual type of customer that she deals with. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x card" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The credit card is marked BLACKBURY TITANIUM CUSTOMER CARD. There is Floyd | a hologram on the bottom which informs you that you have a ten Floyd | thousand pound credit limit. You have signed the rear of the card Floyd | with your name. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x signature" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Outside Blackbury Bank (Swindon) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a brand new but mostly empty carpark outside Floyd | Blackbury Bank (Swindon Branch). Horse has settled in to a carparking Floyd | space beside a black BMW and a red Mazda. As Horse shifts slightly Floyd | you can see the word 'MANAGER' written in white paint beneath his/her Floyd | feet. Over to your left, sitting on a brick wall, you can see two Floyd | employees who are busy smoking cigarettes and trying to pretend that Floyd | you are not there. To your north you can see a few steps, which lead Floyd | right up to and inside Blackbury Bank. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Outside Blackbury Bank (Swindon) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That card should impress the Paris guy." | |||
| Doug says, "yep" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x employees" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | There is a smartly-dressed man sitting on the wall with a cigarette in Floyd | his hand, trying to look casual. A business woman stands next to him, Floyd | standing and sitting as though she cannot decide what to do. She is Floyd | smoking too. Neither of them pay you any notice. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to employees" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | No-one pays any attention to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bmw" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The red Mazda looks pretty new and shiny. The license plate says Floyd | "BANK 1". The black BMW also looks impressive, but one of the doors Floyd | has a dent from where something struck it hard. Coincidentally, your Floyd | foot also has a dent in it from where it struck something hard. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "haha" | |||
| Doug says, "enter mazda" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "enter mazda" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the black BMW. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think there's but a single 'cars' object here." | |||
| Doug says, "yeah." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say paris to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Second Floor Corridor (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing outside room 247 in a well-lit corridor on the second Floyd | floor of a high-class Parisian hotel. Light fittings line the Floyd | ceiling. Splendid looking doors are scattered along both sides of the Floyd | wall to the north and to the south. The fluffy beige carpet tickles Floyd | your feet. There is a button on the east wall, next to which is a Floyd | opening where the lift arrives. Imposing, closed metallic doors Floyd | inform you that the lift is at a different floor. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Second Floor Corridor (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Room 247 (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are in a hotel room in a luxurious Parisian hotel. The decor is Floyd | of the usual standard expected by those who have plenty of money but Floyd | no class. Gold trim and regal, red wallpaper with extravagant, Floyd | crystal light fittings and a white smoke alarm that looks out of Floyd | place. The floor is polished oak, or some other kind of luxury wood. Floyd | There is a four-poster double bed against the far wall. Everything is Floyd | very wet from the sprinkler, and the chalk-line has been erased. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Agathe Laurent's corpse lies on the bed. Floyd | Floyd | [ Room 247 (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x corpse" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Now that life has left her she looks like she died a long time ago and Floyd | was only holding on to this life through sheer willpower. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You mean 'push button'" | |||
| Doug says, "yeah, just looking for the woman." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Second Floor Corridor (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing outside room 247 in a well-lit corridor on the second Floyd | floor of a high-class Parisian hotel. Light fittings line the Floyd | ceiling. Splendid looking doors are scattered along both sides of the Floyd | wall to the north and to the south. The fluffy beige carpet tickles Floyd | your feet. There is a button on the east wall, next to which is a Floyd | opening where the lift arrives. Imposing, closed metallic doors Floyd | inform you that the lift is at a different floor. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Second Floor Corridor (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the silver button, which yields gently under your finger. Floyd | Floyd | After a few seconds the doors slide open and you are standing in front Floyd | of an empty lift. You step inside. Floyd | Floyd | Lift (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a claustrophobic metal box, each and every surface Floyd | is shining unmarked silver. The doors have shut in front of you and, Floyd | adjacent to them, is a panel at waist height on which you can see four Floyd | buttons. Three of the buttons are marked for the second, first and Floyd | ground floor. The fourth button displays two arrows heading away from Floyd | each other, suggesting that pressing this might either split the lift Floyd | in half or open the doors. You'd wager it's the second. Floyd | Floyd | The lift is currently on the second floor. Floyd | Floyd | [ Lift (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "0" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the button to move to the ground floor. The lift jolts and Floyd | moves down. Floyd | Floyd | The lift stops, the doors open and you step out in to the lobby. Floyd | Floyd | Hotel Lobby (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a busy, very expensive looking hotel lobby. It's Floyd | a large room, with pillars propping up the high ceiling every few Floyd | metres. One wall is lined with decorative plaques detailing awards Floyd | and commendations, and right in the middle of the lobby is a selection Floyd | of comfy-looking chairs. Everything is made out of marble or some Floyd | other very shiny rock. In the distance you see large revolving doors Floyd | leading out onto the streets of Paris and by the doors is a reception Floyd | desk, manned by a person wearing a garish uniform seemingly pieced Floyd | together from individual items salvaged from a fight between a cinema Floyd | usher and an ice cream salesman. A lot of people seem to be milling Floyd | about aimlessly. There is an archway to the south. The only other Floyd | way out of here is to press the button that summons the lift. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see the hotel receptionist, his hawk-like gaze asserting his Floyd | authority over everything that he can see. Floyd | Floyd | [ Hotel Lobby (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "show credit card to receptionist" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the credit card. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give credit card to receptionist" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The receptionist looks at you with disgust. Floyd | Floyd | "As much as we'd love to have you as a guest at this hotel, sir, we Floyd | only have one room available - room 147 - and I am not sure that you Floyd | have the resources to meet our exclusive prices. In fact...yes...yes, Floyd | while I have been talking to you the price of one night in room 147 Floyd | has just tripled. Have a nice day." Floyd | Floyd | The man's gaze moves beyond you to the lobby behind you. Floyd | Floyd | You cough to get his attention and place your credit card on the desk. Floyd | The receptionist glances down at the shiny silver plastic and almost Floyd | instantly a smile breaks onto his face. He scoops up the card with Floyd | alarming speed. Floyd | Floyd | "That should do nicely sir." the man's attitude has totally changed. Floyd | He runs your card through a machine, gets you to sign a slip of paper Floyd | without letting you read it and then slides both your credit card and Floyd | a keycard for room 147 over the desk to you. Floyd | Floyd | You pick both cards up, give the receptionist a polite nod and step Floyd | away from the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "Enjoy your stay with us, sir." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the silver button, which yields gently under your finger. Floyd | Floyd | After a few seconds the doors slide open and you are standing in front Floyd | of a bald man wearing a long, black jacket and sunglasses. He conveys Floyd | the air of one who is desperately trying to avoid looking suspicious Floyd | and failing miserably. He nods at you in greeting as you step inside Floyd | the lift. Floyd | Floyd | Lift (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a claustrophobic metal box, each and every surface Floyd | is shining unmarked silver. The doors have shut in front of you and, Floyd | adjacent to them, is a panel at waist height on which you can see four Floyd | buttons. Three of the buttons are marked for the second, first and Floyd | ground floor. The fourth button displays two arrows heading away from Floyd | each other, suggesting that pressing this might either split the lift Floyd | in half or open the doors. You'd wager it's the second. Floyd | Floyd | The lift is currently on the ground floor. Floyd | Floyd | There is a bald man in a black coat and sunglasses in the lift with Floyd | you. He hops from foot to foot nervously. Floyd | Floyd | [ Lift (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hooray" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the button to move to the first floor. The lift jolts and Floyd | moves up. Floyd | Floyd | The lift stops, the doors open and you step out on to the first floor. Floyd | Floyd | The man nods at you as you leave the lift. Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Corridor (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing outside room 147 in a well-lit corridor on the first Floyd | floor of a high-class Parisian hotel. Light fittings line the Floyd | ceiling. Splendid looking doors are scattered along both sides of the Floyd | wall to the north and to the south. The fluffy beige carpet tickles Floyd | your feet. There is a button on the east wall, next to which is a Floyd | opening where the lift arrives. Imposing, closed metallic doors Floyd | inform you that the lift is at a different floor. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ First Floor Corridor (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "SUNGLASSES GUY" | |||
| Doug says, "hey whoa" | ||||
| DavidW says, "undo" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the silver button, which yields gently under your finger. Floyd | Floyd | After a few seconds the doors slide open and you are standing in front Floyd | of an empty lift. You step inside. Floyd | Floyd | Lift (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a claustrophobic metal box, each and every surface Floyd | is shining unmarked silver. The doors have shut in front of you and, Floyd | adjacent to them, is a panel at waist height on which you can see four Floyd | buttons. Three of the buttons are marked for the second, first and Floyd | ground floor. The fourth button displays two arrows heading away from Floyd | each other, suggesting that pressing this might either split the lift Floyd | in half or open the doors. You'd wager it's the second. Floyd | Floyd | The lift is currently on the first floor. Floyd | Floyd | [ Lift (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Corridor (Paris) Floyd | [The previous turn has been undone.] Floyd | Floyd | [ First Floor Corridor (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lift (Paris) Floyd | [The previous turn has been undone.] Floyd | Floyd | [ Lift (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x sunglasses" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lift (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a claustrophobic metal box, each and every surface Floyd | is shining unmarked silver. The doors have shut in front of you and, Floyd | adjacent to them, is a panel at waist height on which you can see four Floyd | buttons. Three of the buttons are marked for the second, first and Floyd | ground floor. The fourth button displays two arrows heading away from Floyd | each other, suggesting that pressing this might either split the lift Floyd | in half or open the doors. You'd wager it's the second. Floyd | Floyd | The lift is currently on the ground floor. Floyd | Floyd | There is a bald man in a black coat and sunglasses in the lift with Floyd | you. He hops from foot to foot nervously. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | He looks about mid-thirties and seems to be very self-conscious. He's Floyd | clearly worried but trying not to look like he's worried. Also, he's Floyd | wearing a black trenchcoat and sunglasses indoors so he's clearly an Floyd | idiot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say Blue Sparrow" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The man looks at you, scrutinising your face. He nods, seeming Floyd | satisfied. Floyd | Floyd | "You are thinner and taller than I remember. And you were wearing Floyd | shoes last time we met. Still, it's good to meet you again Agent Floyd | Fellows." Floyd | Floyd | "Ummm..." you say Floyd | Floyd | "This should be all that you need to get into the base. You know what Floyd | to do," the man explains, thrusting a brown envelope into your hand. Floyd | Floyd | You slowly open the envelope and peer inside. It appears to be full Floyd | of false identification documents. The man nods. Floyd | Floyd | "It should all be there. I will see you again when the time is right. Floyd | Perhaps we could go on another date?" Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you," you say. There is not much else to be said. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "yay" | |||
| Doug asks, "another date? whaa?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "yes. Now what could be in the room now?" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the button to move to the first floor. The lift jolts and Floyd | moves up. Floyd | Floyd | The lift stops, the doors open and you step out on to the first floor. Floyd | Floyd | The man nods at you as you leave the lift. Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Corridor (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing outside room 147 in a well-lit corridor on the first Floyd | floor of a high-class Parisian hotel. Light fittings line the Floyd | ceiling. Splendid looking doors are scattered along both sides of the Floyd | wall to the north and to the south. The fluffy beige carpet tickles Floyd | your feet. There is a button on the east wall, next to which is a Floyd | opening where the lift arrives. Imposing, closed metallic doors Floyd | inform you that the lift is at a different floor. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ First Floor Corridor (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You use your key to open the door and enter room 147. Floyd | Floyd | Room 147 (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing inside a hotel room. This room is identical to room Floyd | 247. So identical, in fact, that you might as well reuse the room Floyd | description. You are in a hotel room in a luxurious Parisian hotel. Floyd | The decor is of the usual standard expected by those who have plenty Floyd | of money but no class. Gold trim and regal, red wallpaper with Floyd | extravagant, crystal light fittings and a white smoke alarm that looks Floyd | out of place. The floor is polished oak, or some other kind of luxury Floyd | wood. There are two large single beds against one wall. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Room 147 (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "search beds" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the single beds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "lie on beds" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | They're immaculately made. You can't bring yourself to disturb that - Floyd | you'd feel like you were walking over someone's grave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x alrm" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x alarm" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | A bulky white box that clashes with the room decor. The alarm has a Floyd | small dull red bulb that isn't doing anything. This alarm isn't Floyd | working. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | [open the smoke alarm] Floyd | You can't open the smoke alarm! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "fix it" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unscrew bulb" | ||||
Floyd | [fix the smoke alarm] Floyd | I don't think you can fix the smoke alarm. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bulb" | ||||
Floyd | Take what? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x bulb" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "break alarm" | ||||
Floyd | You might need the smoke alarm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut alarm" | ||||
Floyd | You can't cut the smoke alarm. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm" | |||
| Doug says, "strange" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Was the point of the room just to meet the agent?" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x fittings" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Hideous. And seeing as how you've got the taste of a smoked mackeral Floyd | that's saying something. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "that seems odd" | |||
| Doug says, "the agent didn't seem to have anything to do with us getting the room" | ||||
| Doug says, "I mean, that's probably what caused him to appear, but story-wise I dunno" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Except maybe he was watching to see who would rent the room." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying the Golden Hourglass, The Grim Reaper's Scythe, The Floyd | List, a small magnet, the time machine plans, some false ID papers, Floyd | the keycard for room 147, a credit card, the hotel menu, the military Floyd | uniform, the shovel and the saw. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "well, should we go use the ID?" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x keycard" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | A keycard with a magnetic strip that allows you access to room 147. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Is there really nothing in this room?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wallpaper" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Hideous. And seeing as how you've got the taste of a hatstand that's Floyd | saying something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "taste wallpaper" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the decor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Room 147 (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing inside a hotel room. This room is identical to room Floyd | 247. So identical, in fact, that you might as well reuse the room Floyd | description. You are in a hotel room in a luxurious Parisian hotel. Floyd | The decor is of the usual standard expected by those who have plenty Floyd | of money but no class. Gold trim and regal, red wallpaper with Floyd | extravagant, crystal light fittings and a white smoke alarm that looks Floyd | out of place. The floor is polished oak, or some other kind of luxury Floyd | wood. There are two large single beds against one wall. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x beds" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The beds are well-made and in pristine condition. This room is Floyd | waiting for a guest (or two). Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I guess we go use the ID, sure." | |||
| Doug says, "shrug." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Corridor (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing outside room 147 in a well-lit corridor on the first Floyd | floor of a high-class Parisian hotel. Light fittings line the Floyd | ceiling. Splendid looking doors are scattered along both sides of the Floyd | wall to the north and to the south. The fluffy beige carpet tickles Floyd | your feet. There is a button on the east wall, next to which is a Floyd | opening where the lift arrives. Imposing, closed metallic doors Floyd | inform you that the lift is at a different floor. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ First Floor Corridor (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the silver button, which yields gently under your finger. Floyd | Floyd | After a few seconds the doors slide open and you are standing in front Floyd | of an empty lift. You step inside. Floyd | Floyd | Lift (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a claustrophobic metal box, each and every surface Floyd | is shining unmarked silver. The doors have shut in front of you and, Floyd | adjacent to them, is a panel at waist height on which you can see four Floyd | buttons. Three of the buttons are marked for the second, first and Floyd | ground floor. The fourth button displays two arrows heading away from Floyd | each other, suggesting that pressing this might either split the lift Floyd | in half or open the doors. You'd wager it's the second. Floyd | Floyd | The lift is currently on the first floor. Floyd | Floyd | [ Lift (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Doug says, "0" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "0" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the button to move to the ground floor. The lift jolts and Floyd | moves down. Floyd | Floyd | The lift stops, the doors open and you step out in to the lobby. Floyd | Floyd | Hotel Lobby (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a busy, very expensive looking hotel lobby. It's Floyd | a large room, with pillars propping up the high ceiling every few Floyd | metres. One wall is lined with decorative plaques detailing awards Floyd | and commendations, and right in the middle of the lobby is a selection Floyd | of comfy-looking chairs. Everything is made out of marble or some Floyd | other very shiny rock. In the distance you see large revolving doors Floyd | leading out onto the streets of Paris and by the doors is a reception Floyd | desk, manned by a person wearing a garish uniform seemingly pieced Floyd | together from individual items salvaged from a fight between a cinema Floyd | usher and an ice cream salesman. A lot of people seem to be milling Floyd | about aimlessly. There is an archway to the south. The only other Floyd | way out of here is to press the button that summons the lift. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see the hotel receptionist, his hawk-like gaze asserting his Floyd | authority over everything that he can see. Floyd | Floyd | [ Hotel Lobby (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Doug says, "sorry" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lift (Paris) Floyd | [The previous turn has been undone.] Floyd | Floyd | [ Lift (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the button to move to the second floor. The lift jolts and Floyd | moves up. Floyd | Floyd | The lift stops, the doors open and you step out on to the second Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | Second Floor Corridor (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing outside room 247 in a well-lit corridor on the second Floyd | floor of a high-class Parisian hotel. Light fittings line the Floyd | ceiling. Splendid looking doors are scattered along both sides of the Floyd | wall to the north and to the south. The fluffy beige carpet tickles Floyd | your feet. There is a button on the east wall, next to which is a Floyd | opening where the lift arrives. Imposing, closed metallic doors Floyd | inform you that the lift is at a different floor. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Second Floor Corridor (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "what's wrong?" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh, right" | ||||
| Doug says, "forgot where Horse was" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say nevada to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are crammed, almost bent double, into a small storage cupboard. Floyd | With your prefect night vision you can make out several shelves, Floyd | crammed full of pots and bottles of various fluids. There seems to be Floyd | a definite cleaning theme to this cupboard. Your foot clatters againt Floyd | more tins and boxes. Horse shuffles and kicks you in the knee. You Floyd | think you might have found a new frontrunner in the "Most Floyd | Uncomfortable I Have Ever Been" stakes. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wear uniform" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dress yourself in the military uniform. It doesn't even pretend Floyd | to fit, but you're hoping that this - coupled with the identity papers Floyd | that you have - will be enough to fool Private Kline. Floyd | Floyd | After taking a few deep breaths you stroll casually along the corridor Floyd | and end up outside the autopsy room with Private Kline. He looks at Floyd | you, as though he can't believe what he's seeing. Floyd | Floyd | "At eath...I mean at eath private," you try to sound like a female Floyd | captain in the United States Army. Your impression isn't bad, even if Floyd | you do so yourself. Floyd | Floyd | "Captain?" Kline seems a little unsure. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeth. Ahem. Private Kline, why don't you take a break. You've been Floyd | doing a good job at...what ith it you're doing?" Floyd | Floyd | "Guarding this door, ma'am." Kline stands to attention. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeth. Guarding thith door. You've done a good job. Take a break Floyd | for the retht of the day." Floyd | Floyd | "Are you sure that you're Captain Salmon?" Kline seems unconvinced. Floyd | Floyd | You pull out the false ID papers and wave them at him. Private Kline Floyd | takes one look and his eyes open wide. You can see the process of the Floyd | military brain behind his stare. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes ma'am," he eventually says, "Thank you." Floyd | Floyd | He casually strolls off, probably thinking of ways to improve on The Floyd | Game as he goes. You wait for him to disappear out of view before you Floyd | hastily remove the uniform (which was really uncomfortable) and Floyd | discard it and the papers. Floyd | Floyd | [ Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I wonder, now that we have a room, if the Dining Room is open for business?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Are we a girl Death?" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | A very plain military corridor, lacking any redeeming features. It Floyd | seems that after having spent the budget on laser guns and mind Floyd | control devices there's only enough money left for "Hospital White" Floyd | paint. There is a door to the west labelled Storage, and the corridor Floyd | continues to the north. At the south end is a set of unmarked double Floyd | doors. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I don't think our gender has been established." | |||
| DavidW says, "Both the agent and Kline think we're female." | ||||
| maga says, ">X BROW RIDGES" | ||||
| Doug asks, "oh is that why the agent asked about a date?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You are about six foot five inches tall, dressed in the blackest robes Floyd | anyone has ever seen. Your hairless, so-pale-it's-almost-translucent Floyd | skin is stretched across your skull like clingfilm on a billiard ball. Floyd | Your eyes are about the only thing in this reality that are darker Floyd | than your robes, and your spindly, gaunt hands protrude from your Floyd | sleeves like a bunch of chopsticks. You secretly think of yourself as Floyd | 'quite handsome'. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "He must like 'em skinny." | |||
| Doug says, "hm, 'handsome'" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I know." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Autopsy Room (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are in a gleaming metallic room. Various computers and pieces of Floyd | equipment beep loudly at you, as if they were offended by your Floyd | presence. Low, subdued light flows from a single, large fitting in Floyd | the middle of the ceiling. In the middle of the room is a single low Floyd | metal table, beside which is a trolley on which lie a selection of Floyd | medical instruments. High in the ceiling you can see the opening of Floyd | an air duct. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Splong5b lies on the table in a pool of yellow blood, totally still. Floyd | Floyd | [ Autopsy Room (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose some people see us as female regardless." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x splong" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x splong5b" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | There's something unusual about Splong5b. It's not the fact that he's Floyd | lying on a table with a single incision from chin to groin, his Floyd | internal organs exposed for all to see - you've seen some ripe old Floyd | things in your days. It's something else. Maybe it's the yellow Floyd | blood, the pale grey skin, stumpy body, big black bulbous eyes, Floyd | elongated head or the fact that he seems to have at least three hearts Floyd | (as well as a whole bunch of organs that you don't recognise). Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "anything to do but reap soul?" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes. x instruments" | ||||
| Doug says, "x instruments" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x instruments" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | A selection of stainless steel medical instruments. There are items Floyd | for grabbing, prodding and pointing but there definitely seems to be a Floyd | bias towards 'cutting'. Most of the instruments are coated with Floyd | thick, yellow blood. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take them" | ||||
Floyd | [take the medical instruments] Floyd | You can't take the medical instruments! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search instruments" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the medical Floyd | instruments. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "clean them" | ||||
Floyd | [clean the medical instruments] Floyd | You can't clean the medical instruments. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x trolley" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | A gleaming metal trolley which can be wheeled around the room at will. Floyd | It's much like an air hostess' trolley, but a little more macabre. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay, the instruments are just scenery, I guess." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "push trolley" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | It's probably best if you don't start messing around with the trolley. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wheel trolley" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | It's probably best if you don't start messing around with the trolley. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "shall we reap?" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes please" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "reap soul" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You bring your Scythe round in a sweep and slice through Splong5b's Floyd | corpse. There is the usual tinkling sound that you associate with the Floyd | task, and then silence. Floyd | Floyd | Turning round you see the shade of Splong5b standing behind you. You Floyd | give him a friendly nod. He waves back. Floyd | Floyd | "Cheers mate," he says, before vanishing into the ether. Floyd | Floyd | Another name to be crossed off the list. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ookay." | |||
| DavidW says, "hm." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Autopsy Room (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are in a gleaming metallic room. Various computers and pieces of Floyd | equipment beep loudly at you, as if they were offended by your Floyd | presence. Low, subdued light flows from a single, large fitting in Floyd | the middle of the ceiling. In the middle of the room is a single low Floyd | metal table, beside which is a trolley on which lie a selection of Floyd | medical instruments. High in the ceiling you can see the opening of Floyd | an air duct. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Splong5b's corpse lies on the medical table, his soul having departed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "thought there'd be something more to him." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x equipment" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You've never really got on with technology. They seem to be Floyd | processing biochemical data. You press a couple of buttons at random Floyd | but all you succeed in doing is making the room light change in Floyd | intensity for a few seconds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fitting" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The light seems to be able to fluctuate between intense and dim. I Floyd | guess it depends on whether you really want to see what's happening on Floyd | the table or not. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x duct" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The opening in the ceiling leads into an air duct. It's too high up Floyd | for you to reach, so don't even try. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on table" | ||||
Floyd | You can't stand on the table. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "so, now we just have to get into the cave in Follina." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put magnet in duct" | ||||
Floyd | You can't put anything inside the air duct! Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "perhaps by time travel." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "reach duct" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the air duct. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "stand on trolley" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on trolley" | ||||
Floyd | You can't stand on the trolley. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "move trolley under duct" | ||||
Floyd | You can't move the trolley. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, we never reaped Jimiya or whatever his name was." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x splong5b" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Splong5b's soul is no longer in this body. It's just a corpse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "want to go back and see if we can order dinner?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I suppose, sure." | ||||
| Doug asks, "oh, what about the armory?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "But we obviously need a coil of wire from somewhere." | ||||
| Doug says, "and a special key" | ||||
| Doug says, "and the right tool." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I dunno what to do about the armory or duct beeping yet." | ||||
| DavidW says, "but sure, let's retry the dining room." | ||||
| Doug says, "hey, maybe we can use the magnet to change the hotel keycard to work on the armory door." | ||||
| DavidW says, "That'd be a godawful long shot." | ||||
| Doug says, "not that that would really work IRL" | ||||
| Nitku leaves. | Doug says, "but somehow it makes sense to me in IF logic :)" | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah, perhaps." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | A very plain military corridor, lacking any redeeming features. It Floyd | seems that after having spent the budget on laser guns and mind Floyd | control devices there's only enough money left for "Hospital White" Floyd | paint. There is a door to the west labelled Storage, and the corridor Floyd | continues to the north. At the south end is a set of unmarked double Floyd | doors. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If the armory electric password is 000000." | |||
| Doug n | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | Another featureless military corridor. This time you really do see Floyd | nothing special. The corridor stretches back south, the way that you Floyd | came from. There are doors in the other walls. The north door has a Floyd | sign that reads Security, the east door reads Barracks and the west Floyd | door says Laboratory. Nice of them to label the doors for you. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Security Room (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a darkened room with one wall totally given over Floyd | to monitors, computers and various dials, switches and buttons. This Floyd | seems to be some kind of surveillance room. There is also a Floyd | noticeboard on another wall with pieces of paper stuck to it, a Floyd | variety of obviously important comments circled and underlined in red Floyd | pen. To the east of the room is a heavy door marked Armory. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South and East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Security Room (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The door is locked by a keypad, swipe card, fingerprint scanner and Floyd | deadbolt. You try it anyway. Nope. It's definitely locked. You'll Floyd | need a special key to get in here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "use keycard" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the keycard for room Floyd | 147. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "use keycard on door" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the keycard for room Floyd | 147. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use magnet on door" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the small magnet. | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put keycard in door" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't put anything inside the door! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "use magnet on keycard" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swipe keycard" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the small magnet. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the keycard for room Floyd | 147. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x keypad" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x east" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "sigh" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "make special key" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You knew it was really unlikely." | |||
| Doug says, "the "special key" thing is weird to me. whatever." | ||||
| Doug says, "a "special key" would have to include fake fingerprints" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "well, who knows what the beeping thing is in the duct?" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | Another featureless military corridor. This time you really do see Floyd | nothing special. The corridor stretches back south, the way that you Floyd | came from. There are doors in the other walls. The north door has a Floyd | sign that reads Security, the east door reads Barracks and the west Floyd | door says Laboratory. Nice of them to label the doors for you. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Barracks (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are in a barracks. The room, despite being a place where people Floyd | are expected to relax and sleep, is as bleak and clinical as the rest Floyd | of the compound. At least an effort has been made and one wall is Floyd | covered with posters. Rows and rows of bunk beds fill the room, a few Floyd | of which are being used by off-duty and snoozing soliders. They seem Floyd | to be sleeping very well, despite the beeping noise coming from an air Floyd | duct in the corner of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Barracks (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wake soldier" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | No. That wouldn't be a good idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x soldier" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Several men are sleeping soundly. It would probably be in your best Floyd | interest to not wake them, Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x beds" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You didn't know it was possible to make a bed look so functional and Floyd | unappealing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get poster" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the posters! Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ok, sorry." | |||
| Doug asks, "so, dining room? any better ideas?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Not really. The lake might hide something, I suppose. Try the magnet there." | ||||
| Doug says, "we haven't been back to Manchester in a while" | ||||
| DavidW says, "The mints might be takeable. Or give the menu to Thomas for all I know." | ||||
| Doug says, "yeah" | ||||
| Doug says, "let's try paris then manchester" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "And then lake?" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w. s. w." | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | Another featureless military corridor. This time you really do see Floyd | nothing special. The corridor stretches back south, the way that you Floyd | came from. There are doors in the other walls. The north door has a Floyd | sign that reads Security, the east door reads Barracks and the west Floyd | door says Laboratory. Nice of them to label the doors for you. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | A very plain military corridor, lacking any redeeming features. It Floyd | seems that after having spent the budget on laser guns and mind Floyd | control devices there's only enough money left for "Hospital White" Floyd | paint. There is a door to the west labelled Storage, and the corridor Floyd | continues to the north. At the south end is a set of unmarked double Floyd | doors. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are crammed, almost bent double, into a small storage cupboard. Floyd | With your prefect night vision you can make out several shelves, Floyd | crammed full of pots and bottles of various fluids. There seems to be Floyd | a definite cleaning theme to this cupboard. Your foot clatters againt Floyd | more tins and boxes. Horse shuffles and kicks you in the knee. You Floyd | think you might have found a new frontrunner in the "Most Floyd | Uncomfortable I Have Ever Been" stakes. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say paris to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Second Floor Corridor (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing outside room 247 in a well-lit corridor on the second Floyd | floor of a high-class Parisian hotel. Light fittings line the Floyd | ceiling. Splendid looking doors are scattered along both sides of the Floyd | wall to the north and to the south. The fluffy beige carpet tickles Floyd | your feet. There is a button on the east wall, next to which is a Floyd | opening where the lift arrives. Imposing, closed metallic doors Floyd | inform you that the lift is at a different floor. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Second Floor Corridor (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "brief" | ||||
Floyd | The game is now in its brief mode, which gives long descriptions of Floyd | places never before visited and short descriptions otherwise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the silver button, which yields gently under your finger. Floyd | Floyd | After a few seconds the doors slide open and you are standing in front Floyd | of an empty lift. You step inside. Floyd | Floyd | Lift (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a claustrophobic metal box, each and every surface Floyd | is shining unmarked silver. The doors have shut in front of you and, Floyd | adjacent to them, is a panel at waist height on which you can see four Floyd | buttons. Three of the buttons are marked for the second, first and Floyd | ground floor. The fourth button displays two arrows heading away from Floyd | each other, suggesting that pressing this might either split the lift Floyd | in half or open the doors. You'd wager it's the second. Floyd | Floyd | The lift is currently on the second floor. Floyd | Floyd | [ Lift (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "0" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the button to move to the ground floor. The lift jolts and Floyd | moves down. Floyd | Floyd | The lift stops, the doors open and you step out in to the lobby. Floyd | Floyd | Hotel Lobby (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a busy, very expensive looking hotel lobby. It's Floyd | a large room, with pillars propping up the high ceiling every few Floyd | metres. One wall is lined with decorative plaques detailing awards Floyd | and commendations, and right in the middle of the lobby is a selection Floyd | of comfy-looking chairs. Everything is made out of marble or some Floyd | other very shiny rock. In the distance you see large revolving doors Floyd | leading out onto the streets of Paris and by the doors is a reception Floyd | desk, manned by a person wearing a garish uniform seemingly pieced Floyd | together from individual items salvaged from a fight between a cinema Floyd | usher and an ice cream salesman. A lot of people seem to be milling Floyd | about aimlessly. There is an archway to the south. The only other Floyd | way out of here is to press the button that summons the lift. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see the hotel receptionist, his hawk-like gaze asserting his Floyd | authority over everything that he can see. Floyd | Floyd | [ Hotel Lobby (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | [ Dining Room (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "order food" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | An elegant room is spread before you. A large mirror fills one entire Floyd | wall, creating the impression of a room twice as big as it actually Floyd | is. Soft, plush scarlet carpet softens the floor, and the high Floyd | ceiling is painted black with white specks to resemble a night sky. Floyd | Dining tables laid for use fill the room. A few kitchen staff are Floyd | milling around, but other than that the room is very quiet compared to Floyd | the relative busyness of the lobby. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sit at table" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the dining tables. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x tables" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | A cursory glance shows you that tables are all each laid with Floyd | gleaming, silver cutlery and a menu bound in red leather with gold Floyd | writing on the front. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on chair" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get menu" | ||||
Floyd | You can't sit on that. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You've already got the hotel menu! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read menu" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You risk flicking through the menu (and attached wine list). As the Floyd | living embodyment of entropy you don't have a need for food, but this Floyd | menu looks so good that even you feel a little hungry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask staff for food" | ||||
Floyd | You get no reply from the kitchen staff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask staff about food" | ||||
Floyd | You get no reply from the kitchen staff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy meal" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x staff" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think that is for sale. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | A handful of smartly dressed men and women are scurrying around making Floyd | sure that this room is presentable and that the cutlery and tables are Floyd | spotless. They're too busy to pay much attention to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "meh." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave menu" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the hotel menu. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "haha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give credit card to staff" | ||||
Floyd | Give the credit card to who? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You're not going to sit on the ground. It's hard enough keeping these Floyd | robes clean as it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "maybe we should go ahead and reap the old guy, see if anything else happens." | |||
| DavidW says, "hmph. This isn't working." | ||||
| Doug says, "and check the lake." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I guess." | ||||
| Doug says, "I have a feeling we'll need to replay this anyway, if we run out of time." | ||||
| Doug says, "we can try to find a gift then. or whatever." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I do wonder what would've happened if we took the alien mask instead of the dress." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (Standing up first) Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Hotel Lobby (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | [ Hotel Lobby (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "press button. 2." | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the silver button, which yields gently under your finger. Floyd | Floyd | After a few seconds the doors slide open and you are standing in front Floyd | of an empty lift. You step inside. Floyd | Floyd | Lift (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a claustrophobic metal box, each and every surface Floyd | is shining unmarked silver. The doors have shut in front of you and, Floyd | adjacent to them, is a panel at waist height on which you can see four Floyd | buttons. Three of the buttons are marked for the second, first and Floyd | ground floor. The fourth button displays two arrows heading away from Floyd | each other, suggesting that pressing this might either split the lift Floyd | in half or open the doors. You'd wager it's the second. Floyd | Floyd | The lift is currently on the ground floor. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You press the button to move to the second floor. The lift jolts and Floyd | moves up. Floyd | Floyd | The lift stops, the doors open and you step out on to the second Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | Second Floor Corridor (Paris) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing outside room 247 in a well-lit corridor on the second Floyd | floor of a high-class Parisian hotel. Light fittings line the Floyd | ceiling. Splendid looking doors are scattered along both sides of the Floyd | wall to the north and to the south. The fluffy beige carpet tickles Floyd | your feet. There is a button on the east wall, next to which is a Floyd | opening where the lift arrives. Imposing, closed metallic doors Floyd | inform you that the lift is at a different floor. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Second Floor Corridor (Paris) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say manchester to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Cellar (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | This is a dark and dank cellar underneath a house in Manchester. The Floyd | tough, red brick did a good job of containing the blast from the Floyd | exploded time machine. The remains of said time machine sit in the Floyd | centre of the cellar, nothing more than a twisted pile of metal and Floyd | wires. In one corner of the room is a stairwell, in the other a Floyd | workbench and varied selection of tools and objects that look Floyd | suspiciously mechanical. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: Up Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Thomas Brewer stands here, Floyd | looking around the cellar thoughtfully. Floyd | Floyd | [ Cellar (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x wires" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You rummage through the destroyed time machine. The only thing of Floyd | note that turns up is the digital readout, which remains - Floyd | surprisingly - undamaged. It is blinking 10,097 BC at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oho" | |||
| DavidW says, "we missed that." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "heh, so it was not exactly 12,000 years." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take readout" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Take what? Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "heh, so it was not exactly 12,000 years." | |||
| Doug says, "12,100 years ago" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet horse" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want to do with Horse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask thomas about coil" | ||||
Floyd | Thomas Brewer does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask thomas about wire" | ||||
Floyd | Thomas Brewer does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x workbench" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You've never been one for DIY (other than in the scythe department) so Floyd | you don't have a clue what most of the tools here are even called, let Floyd | alone what they do. You guess that these were used to build the time Floyd | machine. There's a large roll of masking tape here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "no, 12,104 years ago. hm." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give menu to thomas" | ||||
Floyd | Thomas Brewer doesn't seem interested in the hotel menu. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get wire" | ||||
Floyd | Take what? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You move up. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | [ Hallway (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | You've been in some impressive hallways in your time, but this isn't Floyd | one of them. It's positively dull, and from someone who has done the Floyd | same job day after day for millenia that's saying something. It's Floyd | walls are coated with pink paint, which is in serious need of Floyd | attention. The flooring is bare wooden boards. There is a telephone Floyd | table next to the front door, on which is a - shock! - telephone. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, West and Down Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess 'brief' was a poor idea." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | The game is now in its verbose mode, which always gives long Floyd | descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "have we seen any telephone numbers?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't think so." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Unless there was one on the bank letter." | ||||
| WeirdBeard asks, "How long has the game been in brief mode?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Briefly" | ||||
| Doug says, "nope." | ||||
| Doug asks, "is there a british equivalent of 911?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "I thought the telephone was out of service though, no?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use telephone" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x telephone" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You lift the phone and listen for a dialing tone. There isn't one. Floyd | Either the phone is broken or it's been cut off. Either way it's Floyd | useless to you, so you put it back on the table. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's a cheap, black plastic telephone with little number buttons that Floyd | you push. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "open telephone" | ||||
Floyd | You can't open the telephone! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get telephone" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You lift the phone and listen for a dialing tone. There isn't one. Floyd | Either the phone is broken or it's been cut off. Either way it's Floyd | useless to you, so you put it back on the table. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "weird." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut telephone" | ||||
Floyd | You can't cut the telephone. Floyd | Floyd | > | WeirdBeard asks, "Yes?" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's a small, sturdy table. It has no purpose in life other than to Floyd | provide a place for you to put a telephone, but it does that very Floyd | well. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says (to WeirdBeard), "not you" | |||
| Doug says, "seems like a lot of useless objects in this game." | ||||
| Doug says, "but we're not done yet." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | It's a filthy kitchen, and vastly underequipped for it's purpose. Floyd | Your kitchen might be nothing special but at least you keep it clean, Floyd | and you don't even prepare food in it. The people who use this Floyd | kitchen are playing the odds. The worksurfaces are covered with dirt Floyd | and bits of food. There are three rusty old garden chairs against one Floyd | wall, a cooker and a cupboard against another. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Kitchen (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You open the cupboard. Inside is a tin of beans, some rice and a Floyd | packet of After Eight mints. A varied diet, it seems. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | There is nothing to pick up here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We tried to get the food earlier, but that was before we saw the bride." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get tin" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | A tin of economy beans. As tempting as it is, you resist the lure of Floyd | the tin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "yeah, oh well." | |||
| Doug says, "not exactly wedding gift quality anyway." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get mints" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Compared to the other items in the cupboard, the still-sealed packet Floyd | of After Eights is a luxury item. You would feel bad about taking Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cook" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x cooker" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | An old gas cooker. A quick check of the oven reveals it to be empty. Floyd | You are thankful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x chairs" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The material that forms the seat of these chairs is dirty and almost Floyd | worn through. At some time in their distant past you used to be able Floyd | to fold these chairs up for easy storage. The accumulated rust looks Floyd | like it would make that a herculean task now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "fold chairs" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the rusty garden chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "clean worksurfaces" | ||||
Floyd | You can't clean the kitchen worksurfaces. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x worksurfaces" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't want to touch them so you look at them from a distance. Floyd | It's probably a nice worksurface, but you can't tell under the stains Floyd | and crumbs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get crumbs" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the stains! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're striking out." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x stains" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The worksurfaces are covered with the ghosts of old food. You feel Floyd | quesy just looking at them - and you don't even know what it's like to Floyd | feel quesy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "is there a point to any of this house?" | |||
| WeirdBeard says, "Why don't we try somewhere else for a while." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | You've been in some impressive hallways in your time, but this isn't Floyd | one of them. It's positively dull, and from someone who has done the Floyd | same job day after day for millenia that's saying something. It's Floyd | walls are coated with pink paint, which is in serious need of Floyd | attention. The flooring is bare wooden boards. There is a telephone Floyd | table next to the front door, on which is a - shock! - telephone. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, West and Down Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Hallway (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go in that direction, but you can move north, south, west Floyd | and down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | You have no need of a bathroom so you never feel comfortable about Floyd | what goes on in one. This means that you never feel comfortable Floyd | standing in one. The lino under your feet is worn and in need of Floyd | repair and the tiled walls are covered with mildew and mould. The Floyd | kindest thing that you could say about the mirror is that it isn't Floyd | broken, and the sink only has one tap. As for the bath - well, it's a Floyd | great advert for fitting a shower. And you daren't even look at the Floyd | toilet... Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Bathroom (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "What's south of the hallway?" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The sink is actually hanging away from the wall slightly. A stream of Floyd | limescale marks the path of water from the dripping tap. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "move sink" | ||||
Floyd | You can't move the sink. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "does the fact that it's hanging away mean anything?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Just that they live in sh*tsville, I think." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look behind sink" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look under sink" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | You've been in some impressive hallways in your time, but this isn't Floyd | one of them. It's positively dull, and from someone who has done the Floyd | same job day after day for millenia that's saying something. It's Floyd | walls are coated with pink paint, which is in serious need of Floyd | attention. The flooring is bare wooden boards. There is a telephone Floyd | table next to the front door, on which is a - shock! - telephone. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, West and Down Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Hallway (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | The living room is as grotty as the rest of the house. The wallpaper Floyd | and carpets are clearly refugees from the era when flares were Floyd | fashionable the first time round. The floor is covered in scientific Floyd | papers and engineering sketches. Two sleeping bags lie, rolled out, Floyd | in the far corner of the room. A window, with one pane boarded up, Floyd | gazes out onto a Manchester high street. This is the kind of living Floyd | room where you could imagine someone sitting and saying "You call this Floyd | living?". Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Living Room (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Doug says, "right, we needed the plans" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look out window" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "to notice the missing coil in the time machine" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bags" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Sleeping bags that belonged, you guess, to Thomas and Ernest. They Floyd | don't look like they've been slept in much. They've obviously made a Floyd | lot of sacrifices in trying to build the machine. You shake your Floyd | head, wondering if this passion for knowledge was worth it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bags" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is no puzzle in the world that could convince you to take either Floyd | of the sleeping bags. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "haha" | |||
| DavidW says, "ha ha ha" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Hurry up and win. I'm starving." | ||||
| WeirdBeard asks, "You mean that or not?" | ||||
| Doug says, "sorry." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | You've been in some impressive hallways in your time, but this isn't Floyd | one of them. It's positively dull, and from someone who has done the Floyd | same job day after day for millenia that's saying something. It's Floyd | walls are coated with pink paint, which is in serious need of Floyd | attention. The flooring is bare wooden boards. There is a telephone Floyd | table next to the front door, on which is a - shock! - telephone. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, West and Down Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Hallway (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You move down. Floyd | Floyd | Cellar (Manchester) Floyd | Floyd | This is a dark and dank cellar underneath a house in Manchester. The Floyd | tough, red brick did a good job of containing the blast from the Floyd | exploded time machine. The remains of said time machine sit in the Floyd | centre of the cellar, nothing more than a twisted pile of metal and Floyd | wires. In one corner of the room is a stairwell, in the other a Floyd | workbench and varied selection of tools and objects that look Floyd | suspiciously mechanical. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: Up Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Thomas Brewer stands here, Floyd | looking around the cellar thoughtfully. Floyd | Floyd | [ Cellar (Manchester) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say kenya to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a cluster of buildings denoting this Floyd | to be a settlement of some kind. The ground under your feet is dry Floyd | and dusty. Children run through the streets, shouting and laughing. Floyd | Men go about their business. Women stand and gossip, occasionally Floyd | breaking into laughter. No-one pays you much attention. They're all Floyd | having too much fun to pay any mind to death at the moment. A path Floyd | winds east out of the village. You can see Jimiyu's hut to the north, Floyd | and to the west the open doorway of another hut invites you in. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | By a Lake (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a grassy clearing at the end of a winding path Floyd | that has climbed slowly out of the village. Right in front of you is Floyd | a large lake of dirty water. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ By a Lake (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x lake" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's water. You've seen plenty of it before. Usually when you meet Floyd | someone who really shouldn't have answered "Yes" to the question Floyd | "Fancy a swim?" This is not the cleanest water that you've seen but Floyd | it's far from the dirtiest either. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to WeirdBeard), "well, I am hungry, but I suspect I won't die." | |||
| Doug says, "what did you want to do with the lake?>" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use magnet" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the small magnet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "search lake" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the lake. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put magnet in lake" | ||||
Floyd | You can't put anything inside the lake! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "skip magnet" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the small magnet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search lake with magnet" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the lake. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw magnet" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the small magnet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "have we used the saw yet either?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Nope" | ||||
| Doug asks, "oh well. should we reap old guy now?" | ||||
| WeirdBeard says, "No, and we haven't found a wire for the machine, either." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a cluster of buildings denoting this Floyd | to be a settlement of some kind. The ground under your feet is dry Floyd | and dusty. Children run through the streets, shouting and laughing. Floyd | Men go about their business. Women stand and gossip, occasionally Floyd | breaking into laughter. No-one pays you much attention. They're all Floyd | having too much fun to pay any mind to death at the moment. A path Floyd | winds east out of the village. You can see Jimiyu's hut to the north, Floyd | and to the west the open doorway of another hut invites you in. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Large Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a large hut which seems to double as a place of Floyd | worship. There are mats on the floor, presumably for sitting on and Floyd | at the end of the hut is a lectern. A wooden cross is attached to one Floyd | of the walls. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Abuya Wangai is standing here, looking thoughtful. Floyd | Floyd | [ Large Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a cluster of buildings denoting this Floyd | to be a settlement of some kind. The ground under your feet is dry Floyd | and dusty. Children run through the streets, shouting and laughing. Floyd | Men go about their business. Women stand and gossip, occasionally Floyd | breaking into laughter. No-one pays you much attention. They're all Floyd | having too much fun to pay any mind to death at the moment. A path Floyd | winds east out of the village. You can see Jimiyu's hut to the north, Floyd | and to the west the open doorway of another hut invites you in. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | It's a fairly bare hut, lived in by someone who has learnt the hard Floyd | lesson that true happiness is not found in possessions. The bare, Floyd | dusty floor is going to leave its mark under your toenails for days. Floyd | Jimiyu Wangai sits on a rickety wicker chair, facing a squat, Floyd | uncomfortable-looking stool. Between the two seats is a frail table, Floyd | on which sits a chess board. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Jimiyu Wangai is sitting on a chair, looking thoughtfully at you. Floyd | Floyd | [ Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Doug asks, "want to save?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "reap soul" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swing the scythe and it cleaves through Jimiyu Wangai. He is Floyd | still smiling as his body crumples to the floor, leaving behind the Floyd | shade of his soul. Floyd | Floyd | "Is that it?" he asks. Floyd | Floyd | You nod. Floyd | Floyd | He begins to fade out of sight, gives one last laugh and waves at you. Floyd | You wave back. Another soul reaped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x body" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Now that Jimyu is divested of his vigour he seems very, very old Floyd | indeed. There is a smile on his face. You appreciate that. You Floyd | don't meet too many people who leave you with a smile on their faces. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | It's a fairly bare hut, lived in by someone who has learnt the hard Floyd | lesson that true happiness is not found in possessions. The bare, Floyd | dusty floor is going to leave its mark under your toenails for days. Floyd | Jimiyu Wangai sits on a rickety wicker chair, facing a squat, Floyd | uncomfortable-looking stool. Between the two seats is a frail table, Floyd | on which sits a chess board. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Jimiyu Wangai's empty body is lying on the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get chess" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the chess board! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chess" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The board is old and has clearly seen a lot of use. The pieces have Floyd | all been lovingly carved from wood by someone of moderate skill. It's Floyd | far from polished or elaborate, but it has in abundance the charm Floyd | possessed by such hand-carved object d'art. None of this information Floyd | is going to prevent you from getting your bottom kicked though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x wicker" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a cluster of buildings denoting this Floyd | to be a settlement of some kind. The ground under your feet is dry Floyd | and dusty. Children run through the streets, shouting and laughing. Floyd | Men go about their business. Women stand and gossip, occasionally Floyd | breaking into laughter. No-one pays you much attention. They're all Floyd | having too much fun to pay any mind to death at the moment. A path Floyd | winds east out of the village. You can see Jimiyu's hut to the north, Floyd | and to the west the open doorway of another hut invites you in. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put magnet under table" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the small magnet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | Large Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a large hut which seems to double as a place of Floyd | worship. There are mats on the floor, presumably for sitting on and Floyd | at the end of the hut is a lectern. A wooden cross is attached to one Floyd | of the walls. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Abuya Wangai is standing here, looking thoughtful. Floyd | Floyd | [ Large Hut (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "They have lions in Kenya." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "tell abuya about jimiyu" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want to do with Abuya Wangai. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask abuya about jimiyu" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | "You know Grandfather Wangai? He is ill and I am not sure that he Floyd | will live to see my wedding," she seems crestfallen. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh well" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell abuya about jimiyu" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want to do with Abuya Wangai. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "talk to abuya" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | No-one pays any attention to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "hug abuya" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick lectern" | ||||
Floyd | You kick the lectern, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "hug abuya" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want to do with Abuya Wangai. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put menu on lectern" | ||||
Floyd | You can't put anything on the lectern! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask abuya about death" | ||||
Floyd | Abuya Wangai does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask abuya about hut" | ||||
Floyd | Abuya Wangai does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask abuya about chass" | ||||
Floyd | Abuya Wangai does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask abuya about chess" | ||||
Floyd | Abuya Wangai does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x hourglass" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The grains of sand tell you that you have just over one hour left to Floyd | complete your contract. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "pshaw" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask abuya about wedding" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abuya looks at you, perhaps wondering why such a strange-looking man Floyd | would show an interest in her wedding. Floyd | Floyd | "I would marry this very hour if only I could arrange two things. I Floyd | would want a beautiful wedding dress like the ones that I have seen in Floyd | the magazines. And I would want a gift for my future husband. He Floyd | doesn't like my cooking so perhaps I could give him something so that Floyd | he wouldn't have to eat it..." Floyd | Floyd | She has a twinkle in her eye, suggesting that perhaps she knows that Floyd | you have a vested interest in this wedding... Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "see, we're a strange-looking man." | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I see that." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps we're always opposite gender to everyone." | ||||
| Doug says, "Agent Sunglasses was just confused." | ||||
| WeirdBeard says, "It's like Discworld. When you talk to Death before it's your time you see what your brain tells you to see." | ||||
| Doug asks, "do you think we still have to get her to marry today?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "no, not now" | ||||
| Doug asks, "or was that just the alternate way to solve it?" | ||||
| inky says, "this game has a bunch of alternate solutions" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We seem to be stuck, nonetheless." | ||||
| Doug asks, "So, we need a coil of wire to fix the time machine. The right tool to open the mesh duct. A special key to get into the armory. anything else?" | ||||
| Doug says, "and we haven't used the saw, the magnet, or the menu." | ||||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "That seems a fair summary. We never got in the cave either." | |||
| Doug says, "yeah, I'm guessing we either need to go back in time to get itno the cave, or something in the armory will let us blow up the rocks" | ||||
| Doug says, "no clue about the beeping noise though." | ||||
| DavidW says, "hm. Try buying the reaper outfit at the costume shop." | ||||
| Doug says, "ok" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a cluster of buildings denoting this Floyd | to be a settlement of some kind. The ground under your feet is dry Floyd | and dusty. Children run through the streets, shouting and laughing. Floyd | Men go about their business. Women stand and gossip, occasionally Floyd | breaking into laughter. No-one pays you much attention. They're all Floyd | having too much fun to pay any mind to death at the moment. A path Floyd | winds east out of the village. You can see Jimiyu's hut to the north, Floyd | and to the west the open doorway of another hut invites you in. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Village (Near Wajir, Kenya) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say san francisco to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | High Street (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | In front of you is a busy high street, swarming with citizens on a Floyd | shopping spree. Shops line the street on both sides, and were you Floyd | much of a consumer then you would be in paradise. You are, however, Floyd | not much of a consumer, so the only shop that really attracts your Floyd | attention is on the south side of the street and named Drop and Give Floyd | Me Fifty Dress Ups. Perhaps it's the Grim Reaper costume in the Floyd | window. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East and South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ High Street (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Costume Shop (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a costume shop, knee deep in discarded masks, Floyd | costumes and various disguise related items. The walls are mostly Floyd | bare, except for a few items still hanging up on hooks and racks that Floyd | scatter the store. This shop is clearly undergoing some kind of stock Floyd | take, either that or the owner has strangely decided that the floor is Floyd | the best place to showcase his wares. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The owner of the shop is here, rummaging through various piles of Floyd | clothing and checking them against a list. Floyd | Floyd | [ Costume Shop (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x costume" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's not very realistic. You have never, for example, needed to wear Floyd | a mask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get costume" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the grim reaper costume! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "buy costume" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think the grim reaper costume is for sale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mask" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask owner about costume" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything that will help you. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The costume shop owner does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm, not that." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get mask" | ||||
Floyd | Take what? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Was there more to the dry cleaners?" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | High Street (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | In front of you is a busy high street, swarming with citizens on a Floyd | shopping spree. Shops line the street on both sides, and were you Floyd | much of a consumer then you would be in paradise. You are, however, Floyd | not much of a consumer, so the only shop that really attracts your Floyd | attention is on the south side of the street and named Drop and Give Floyd | Me Fifty Dress Ups. Perhaps it's the Grim Reaper costume in the Floyd | window. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East and South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ High Street (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | High Street (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | The street continues along, leading the weak-willed mortals to even Floyd | more ways to lose their money. Again, there is little here that Floyd | captures your interest. People swarm around you, the same oblivious Floyd | looks on their faces. To the north, almost swallowed up between huge Floyd | department stores, is a tiny hardware store called I Came, I Sawed, I Floyd | Conquered. The street veers sharply to the east and jutting out onto Floyd | the pavement is a book shop called Reader's Digestion. You are also Floyd | well aware of Happy Go Lucky Dry Clean to the south, as you've Floyd | recently started using their services. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East, West, South and North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm ready to try giving the menu to every NPC that's still around." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cleaners (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a very dirty looking dry cleaning shop, which is Floyd | somewhat ironic. The wallpaper is faded and the carpet badly worn. Floyd | Around the walls are various photos of famous people who have, Floyd | allegedly, had clothes dry-cleaned here in the past. There is a Floyd | counter at the wall furthest from the door. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | An elderly Chinese lady gives you a toothless grin and nods at you Floyd | from behind the counter. Floyd | Floyd | [ Dry Cleaners (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x counter" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | On the counter sits a till and a notepad. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x photos" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You look at the various photos somewhat dubiously. At first you were Floyd | really impressed by the photo wall, and it was one of the reasons why Floyd | you decided to give this dry cleaners a try in the past. On Floyd | reflection you have come to the conclusion that you would be very Floyd | surprised if, for example, Tom Hanks really had had some dry cleaning Floyd | done here. You are, however, prepared to believe that maybe, just Floyd | maybe Tom Selleck has. Floyd | Floyd | You feel a pang of annoyance that the owners have never asked to put a Floyd | photo of you on the wall, despite the fact that every single man, Floyd | woman and child in the world has been told all about you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "notepad!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x notepad" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The notepad is a collection of dry cleaning tickets. You give your Floyd | order, someone writes it down on the pad and then hands you the Floyd | ticket. This high-tech system is supposed to limit the chances of you Floyd | picking up someone else's laundry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take ticket" | ||||
Floyd | Take what? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get notepad" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have no reason to take the notepad or any of the individual Floyd | tickets. So you don't. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x till" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | A till, which probably contains some money or something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open till" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You aren't really interested in the till or its contents. It's bad Floyd | enough that you go around ensuring that people die at the right time, Floyd | you wouldn't want to start depriving people of their livliehood as Floyd | well. Your reputation is poor enough as it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "sheesh," | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give menu to lady" | ||||
Floyd | The Dry Cleaning Lady doesn't seem interested in the hotel menu. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask lady about woman" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dry cleaning lady grins at you, nods, ignores your question and Floyd | says "You got ticket? You got item?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove cloak" | ||||
Floyd | Remove what? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying the Golden Hourglass, The Grim Reaper's Scythe, The Floyd | List, a small magnet, the time machine plans, the keycard for room Floyd | 147, a credit card, the hotel menu, the shovel and the saw. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no clothing to give her." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x scythe" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Wickedly sharp and imposing, this is your weapon of choice for reaping Floyd | souls. It's a metaphor for your ability to harvest people from the Floyd | land of the living, so it doesn't actually need to be a scythe but you Floyd | find that people expect it. It's the look of the thing. Your Floyd | Supervisors have gone to the trouble of making it invisible to mortal Floyd | eyes after that embarrasing incident at JFK airport six months ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | "Untitled", 18 Sep 2007, James Webb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "hints" | ||||
Floyd | There are no hints available for this adventure. Floyd | You're just going to have to work it out for yourself... Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Try asking inky or Nitku for hints. :)" | |||
| Doug says (to Jacqueline), "hints" | Doug says, "I'm guessing we just forgot to examine something. bleh." | |||
| WeirdBeard says, "Try the hardware store." | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, not sure what we missing. Sometimes it's really easy to overlook something in the ClubFloyd session." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | High Street (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | The street continues along, leading the weak-willed mortals to even Floyd | more ways to lose their money. Again, there is little here that Floyd | captures your interest. People swarm around you, the same oblivious Floyd | looks on their faces. To the north, almost swallowed up between huge Floyd | department stores, is a tiny hardware store called I Came, I Sawed, I Floyd | Conquered. The street veers sharply to the east and jutting out onto Floyd | the pavement is a book shop called Reader's Digestion. You are also Floyd | well aware of Happy Go Lucky Dry Clean to the south, as you've Floyd | recently started using their services. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East, West, South and North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ High Street (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Hardware Store (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | You enter the hardware shop, your feet thudding against the cold tiled Floyd | floor. The store is divided into different sections, each section Floyd | containing a display of appropriate tools. You feel lost. In the Floyd | middle of the store is a large drum which appears to be full of Floyd | thousands of the tiny polystyrene chips that breed in appliance boxes. Floyd | Written on the drum in large red letters is "Lucky Dip. Ask a staff Floyd | member for details". At the far end of the store is a counter. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Standing behind the counter is a fat bearded man wearing overalls. Floyd | Floyd | [ Hardware Store (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get wire" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | For some reason you feel a strong urge to take the coil of wire, as Floyd | though some sixth sense is warning you that you might need it later Floyd | on. A cunning plan formulates in your mind. Floyd | Floyd | "What'th that? Over there?" You point to a random space behind the Floyd | counter, relying on the fact that everyone is always telling you that Floyd | the old ones are the best, Floyd | Floyd | "What?" says the store owner, turning round and proving once again Floyd | that people can be really stupid. Floyd | Floyd | Whilst the store owner is turned you scoop up the coil of wire and put Floyd | it in your robe. Floyd | Floyd | "I don't see anything." says the man, turning back. He doesn't even Floyd | notice that the wire is gone. Floyd | Floyd | "Never mind. It wath nothing." You feel very pleased with yourself. Floyd | You shouldn't. That whole thing was lame. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "HAH" | |||
| DavidW asks, "where was the coil mentioned?" | ||||
| Doug says, "it wasn't." | ||||
| Doug says, "I just took a shot in the dark" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tools" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | One part of the shop is given over to paint, another to tools and so Floyd | on. You can't really be bothered to spend too much time looking Floyd | through the items in the store, especially as you have no money. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x counter" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The counter, like all counters everywhere, is home to a till. As well Floyd | as the till you can see a sign which says "CASH ONLY. NO CREDIT CARDS Floyd | OR OTHER FORMS OF ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS ACCEPTED". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Doug), "wow" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, hurry and use our prize before time runs out." | ||||
| Doug says, "I'm awesome" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move south. Floyd | Floyd | High Street (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | The street continues along, leading the weak-willed mortals to even Floyd | more ways to lose their money. Again, there is little here that Floyd | captures your interest. People swarm around you, the same oblivious Floyd | looks on their faces. To the north, almost swallowed up between huge Floyd | department stores, is a tiny hardware store called I Came, I Sawed, I Floyd | Conquered. The street veers sharply to the east and jutting out onto Floyd | the pavement is a book shop called Reader's Digestion. You are also Floyd | well aware of Happy Go Lucky Dry Clean to the south, as you've Floyd | recently started using their services. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East, West, South and North Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ High Street (San Francisco) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You move west. Floyd | Floyd | High Street (San Francisco) Floyd | Floyd | In front of you is a busy high street, swarming with citizens on a Floyd | shopping spree. Shops line the street on both sides, and were you Floyd | much of a consumer then you would be in paradise. You are, however, Floyd | not much of a consumer, so the only shop that really attracts your Floyd | attention is on the south side of the street and named Drop and Give Floyd | Me Fifty Dress Ups. Perhaps it's the Grim Reaper costume in the Floyd | window. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East and South Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say nevada to horse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you Floyd | travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination. Floyd | Floyd | Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are crammed, almost bent double, into a small storage cupboard. Floyd | With your prefect night vision you can make out several shelves, Floyd | crammed full of pots and bottles of various fluids. There seems to be Floyd | a definite cleaning theme to this cupboard. Your foot clatters againt Floyd | more tins and boxes. Horse shuffles and kicks you in the knee. You Floyd | think you might have found a new frontrunner in the "Most Floyd | Uncomfortable I Have Ever Been" stakes. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Horse waits here, looking quite majestic. Floyd | Floyd | [ Storage Cupboard (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You move east. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | A very plain military corridor, lacking any redeeming features. It Floyd | seems that after having spent the budget on laser guns and mind Floyd | control devices there's only enough money left for "Hospital White" Floyd | paint. There is a door to the west labelled Storage, and the corridor Floyd | continues to the north. At the south end is a set of unmarked double Floyd | doors. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move north. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | Another featureless military corridor. This time you really do see Floyd | nothing special. The corridor stretches back south, the way that you Floyd | came from. There are doors in the other walls. The north door has a Floyd | sign that reads Security, the east door reads Barracks and the west Floyd | door says Laboratory. Nice of them to label the doors for you. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: North, South, East and West Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | You are standing in a large spotless room. The first thing you notice Floyd | is a huge, strange, complex machine in the middle of the room. You've Floyd | never seen anything like it before. It's surrounded by a work Floyd | surface, on which are scattered various papers and notes. One wall is Floyd | lined with computer terminals. There are also shelves, loaded with Floyd | bottles and tools and around the room seem to be one or two unfinished Floyd | experiments. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Laboratory (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "fix machine" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think you can fix the time machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Enter machine. Put coil in panel." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "enter machine. put coil in panel." | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You awkwardly clamber inside the time machine. Floyd | Floyd | Inside Time Machine (Area 51, Nevada) Floyd | Floyd | The time machine is clearly meant for someone a lot shorter than you. Floyd | You feel like a pen in a matchbox. From the outside the machine Floyd | looked complicated, but from the inside the task of understanding Floyd | what's going on is positively herculean. You can see a large number Floyd | of lights and dials, none of which you can understand. It doesn't Floyd | help that any instructions written in the machine are in some kind of Floyd | alien dialect. The things that you think might be significant are a Floyd | digital readout which says '2007', the buttons next to this readout, Floyd | an open panel revealing a mix of wires and a pile of paper which is Floyd | chained to the inside of the machine, clearly to avoid theft. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: Exit Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | After checking the time machine plans you manage to fit the small coil Floyd | of wire where you believe it should go. As if to confirm your action, Floyd | there is a humming noise and a few extra lights go on. It looks as if Floyd | you have managed to repair the time machine... Floyd | Floyd | [ Inside Time Machine (Area 51, Nevada) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Doug says, "yay" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x buttons" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The buttons next to the digital readout are all blue except for the Floyd | red one. Above the red one are two lights, one lit and one not. Next Floyd | to the lights are, scrawled in biro on the machine itself, are the Floyd | initials 'BC' and 'AD'. The light that is currently lit is the one Floyd | next to 'AD'. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "10097 BC" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "10097 BC" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "10,097 BC" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "press blue" | ||||
Floyd | You press, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "BC" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "10097" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time machine hums but nothing happens. You must have selected the Floyd | wrong era. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "select BC" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "10097BC" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | That didn't make any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push BC" | ||||
Floyd | You push, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x buttons" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The buttons next to the digital readout are all blue except for the Floyd | red one. Above the red one are two lights, one lit and one not. Next Floyd | to the lights are, scrawled in biro on the machine itself, are the Floyd | initials 'BC' and 'AD'. The light that is currently lit is the one Floyd | next to 'AD'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You press the red button. The light next to AD flickers and goes off, Floyd | while the light next to BC glows. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh." | |||
| Doug says, "I thought the red button was what activated the time jump." | ||||
| DavidW says, "okay, now do the year." | ||||
| Doug says, "yeah, reading fail. the instructions explained the red button pretty clearly." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "10097" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The lights inside the machine dim, the door slides closed and Floyd | something inside the machine begins to hum. There is a flash of Floyd | light, a momentary sensation of movement and then silence. The door Floyd | slides open and you step out of the time machine into the past... Floyd | Floyd | 10,097 BC (A jungle or something somewhere) Floyd | Floyd | In the distance you hear the roar of some angry beast. Flies buzz Floyd | around you. Thick jungle threatens to crush you from every side. Floyd | Still, it could be worse. The time machine sits in a pile of crushed Floyd | vegetation beside you, and a man appears to be examining some of the Floyd | native plant life just in front of you. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: No Exits Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Busset is standing, marvelling at the sights and sounds around Floyd | him. He doesn't seem at all worried. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You clamber from the time machine, feeling like a stick insect Floyd | escaping from a tennis ball. Only when you've stretched and composed Floyd | yourself do you look at where the machine has sent you. You appear to Floyd | be in the middle of a sweltering jungle somewhere. You're no expert Floyd | on time travel but you think that this probably is about 10,097 BC. Floyd | Floyd | 10,097 BC (A jungle or something somewhere) Floyd | Floyd | In the distance you hear the roar of some angry beast. Flies buzz Floyd | around you. Thick jungle threatens to crush you from every side. Floyd | Still, it could be worse. The time machine sits in a pile of crushed Floyd | vegetation beside you, and a man appears to be examining some of the Floyd | native plant life just in front of you. Floyd | Floyd | Exits: No Exits Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Busset is standing, marvelling at the sights and sounds around Floyd | him. He doesn't seem at all worried. Floyd | Floyd | [ 10,097 BC (A jungle or something somewhere) | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, we read the instructions several hours ago." | |||
| Doug says, "I guess it figured out to go to Follina." | ||||
| DavidW says, "That might be an alternate answer." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask ernest about cave" | ||||
Floyd | Ernest Busset does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask ernest about time machine" | ||||
Floyd | Ernest Busset does not respond to your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "just reap him" | |||
| Doug says, "he's not dead" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "reap soul" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swing the scythe in a circular motion, slicing right through Floyd | Ernest Busset. He looks down at himself and then crumples to the Floyd | ground in a heap. The shade of Ernest Busset remains behind, looking Floyd | first down at his body and then at you. Floyd | Floyd | "At least I saw my time machine work before I died," he reasons, "Not Floyd | many men get to see the result of their life's work." Floyd | Floyd | "On the contrary," you state. "Everyone theeth the rethulth of their Floyd | life before they die." Floyd | Floyd | "Good point," says the ghost of Ernest, thoughtfully, as he vanishes Floyd | before your eyes. Floyd | Floyd | Another soul reaped. Another soul closer to finishing work. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sir Allan Jones looked at the document again and coughed nervously. Floyd | Floyd | "Um, yes, Lady McWorthington I have the final report on your husband's Floyd | death right here. It's been compiled from all of the evidence we Floyd | found at the scene and...ummm...it makes for interesting reading. I'm Floyd | not sure if it would help for you to know what it says." Floyd | Floyd | "Please. I have to know," says Lady McWorthington. Floyd | Floyd | "Well. OK." Sir Allan Jones coughed again, wishing he could be Floyd | anything other than the British diplomat to Nepal right now. "We've Floyd | constructed the last moments of your husband and it seems Floyd | that...that...that he was climbing the mountain and had reached the Floyd | pass. And he died there." Floyd | Floyd | "I know this," Lady McWorthington is annoyed, "Tell me what happened!" Floyd | Floyd | "From what we can tell, he...he...appeared to have taken off his boots Floyd | and socks and wondered around in bare, size fifteen feet. Then...then Floyd | a horse came along and stood for a while near him. Then it appears Floyd | that he put his socks and boots back on and there was an avalanche. Floyd | Which killed your husband..." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh." Lady McWorthington gasps, "Wait. What was that about his size Floyd | fifteen feet?" Floyd | Floyd | "Ummm. It doesn't quite finish there. It appears that after Floyd | that...he...he...he dug himself out of the snowdrift and then lay down Floyd | again. Errrrr. So. That's what happened." Floyd | Floyd | There is silence. A clock ticks in the background. Sir Allan coughs Floyd | again and waits. Suddenly Lady McWorthington breaks the silence. Floyd | | ||||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | WeirdBeard asks, "Did we win?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Not sure yet" | ||||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | "Size fifteen feet?" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Thomas Brewer sat in the office of the university, his palms sweating Floyd | nervously. Professor Johnson peered at him over the rim of his Floyd | glasses. Floyd | Floyd | "You must understand that while we are all very sorry to hear about Floyd | the death..." Floyd | Floyd | "He's simply missing at this point." Thomas stressed. Floyd | Floyd | "...death of Doctor Busset," stressed Johnson "I must insist that you Floyd | return to the university and resume teaching. This whole notion of a Floyd | time machine must be put behind you." Floyd | Floyd | "It works! I was there! And so was..." Brewer stood and gestured Floyd | wildly. Floyd | Floyd | "And so was who?" Professor Johnson sounded curious. Floyd | Floyd | "Ummm..." Thomas sat down again, remembering the tall stranger who had Floyd | appeared at the cellar "Nobody. No. It was just me." Floyd | Floyd | "Hmmmm..." said Johnson, unconvinced "Still. I must insist..." Floyd | Floyd | At that moment they were interrupted by a student barging into the Floyd | office. Floyd | Floyd | "Professor Johnson! Professor Johnson! Quick! Turn on the Floyd | television!" the young man shouted, breathless. Floyd | Floyd | "What is the meaning of this?" Professor Johnson intoned. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh...let me!" the student stumbled across the room and flicked on the Floyd | television sitting on a shelf. The 'BBC' news logo flashed across the Floyd | bottom of the screen along with the scrolling words BREAKING NEWS. Floyd | Floyd | The reported was speaking animatedly, his microphone shaking with Floyd | barely contained excitement. Floyd | Floyd | "...the most amazing thing is, despite these human bones being over Floyd | ten thousand years old, the fact that this man had glass ionomer Floyd | cement fillings in his teeth! Scientists are baffled by modern Floyd | composite being found in ancient teeth and have refused to make any Floyd | further comment at the moment - other than to confirm that the Floyd | skeleton has been christened 'Ernest'..." Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Professor Johnson turned and simply stared at Thomas Brewer, who was Floyd | grinning from ear to ear... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "So how's it going?" the girl asked. Floyd | Floyd | "Pretty good. Pretty good." the man replied, looking up from his Floyd | laptop computer. Floyd | Floyd | "So what are you writing now?" the girl responded after a pause which Floyd | suggested that she was going to have do all the work in this Floyd | conversation. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm writing a guide to Battleships." the man didn't even look up from Floyd | the screen. Floyd | Floyd | "What, like warships you mean?" Floyd | Floyd | "No, the game 'Battleships'. Oh no! You sunk my battleship. That Floyd | kind of thing." Floyd | Floyd | "Is there strategy for that game? I thought it was just random Floyd | guessing until you got lucky." the girl didn't really seem that Floyd | interested. Floyd | Floyd | "Luck?" the man looked up from his computer for the first time in the Floyd | conversation "Luck doesn't come into it. It's all about the strategy. Floyd | Do I pick this coordinate, do I pick that coordinate? It's the Floyd | ultimate game of cat and mouse." Floyd | Floyd | "That's what you said about chess when you were writing your chess Floyd | guide," the girl objected, examining her fingernails. Floyd | Floyd | "So. What's your point?" Floyd | Floyd | "Are you going to pretend that it's sponsored by the President again?" Floyd | the girl looked out of the window. Floyd | Floyd | "What? I never said it was sponsored by the President," the man Floyd | seemed offended by the suggestion. Floyd | Floyd | "It's kind of misleading though. You definitely imply that the Floyd | President is behind your guides," the girl sounded disapproving. Floyd | Floyd | "It's all totally above board. I'm not breaking any laws," said the Floyd | man, who happened to be called George W. Bush. Floyd | Floyd | "Still, I suppose this one's different anyway," the girl looked at Floyd | him. Floyd | Floyd | "Why?" the man had gone back to typing away. Floyd | Floyd | "At least you actually know the rules of 'Battleship'." Floyd | | WeirdBeard asks, "Did we reap the chess guy? I wasn't watchinjg?" | |||
| Doug says, "yep" | ||||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | "As long as people keep buying my guides, I'm happy baby," the man Floyd | concluded, as he switched his laptop off. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "One of your systems went off and contacted us." the fire officer Floyd | explained again to the manager of the hotel. Floyd | Floyd | "A malfunction. Nothing more." the manager assured the fireman, Floyd | escorting him to the door. This was not going so well. It was only Floyd | the sprinkler going off that had alerted him to the fact that one of Floyd | his guests had died in the room. It was going to take ages to clean Floyd | up the mess and deal with this unfortunate incident. And he had Floyd | absolutely no clue why the corridor outside room 247 smelt of horses. Floyd | Floyd | "Can we at least check?" the fireman objected as he was pushed through Floyd | the revolving door. Floyd | Floyd | "No need, I assure you." the manager grinned and waved at the firemen Floyd | gathered outside the hotel. One of them gave him a two-fingered wave Floyd | back. Passers-by were stopping to look at the fire engine. The Floyd | manager clicked his fingers and one of the staff came running. Floyd | Floyd | "I need you to clear up room 247." he barked. Floyd | Floyd | "...yes sir." said the staff member without much enthusiasm. He had Floyd | seen what had happened in room 247. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm going to call the police. Ms. Laurent was a valued customer." he Floyd | sounded almost sad, which he was - especially because the bit of Ms. Floyd | Laurent that he valued most was her seemingly limitless credit card. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes sir." sighed the staff member, shuffling off to undertake the Floyd | thankless task. To think that he'd given up a promising career at Floyd | McDonald's for this... Floyd | Floyd | The manager turned his attention back to the situation outside the Floyd | hotel. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | "At least the sprinklers work." he mused, waving again to the firemen Floyd | - who seemed to be arguing amongst themselves. Honestly. Who'd be a Floyd | hotel manager? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Victoria Salmon stood in front of the Major, inwardly seething. Floyd | Floyd | "There is no doubt that the uniform found was yours, Captain, and the Floyd | papers - though a forgery - were very convincing." the Major was Floyd | reading from a report. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes sir," snarled Salmon. Floyd | Floyd | "The papers seem to bear all the hallmarks of being a forgery by Agent Floyd | Sunglasses and the uniform...you say that there was a mix-up at the Floyd | dry cleaners?" Floyd | Floyd | "That's right sir." Salmon snapped. Floyd | Floyd | 'Well. I think that the combination of uniform and papers would Floyd | clearly have been enough to fool Private Kline - he's hardly the Floyd | sharpest tool in the box, is he?" the Major chuckled. Salmon said Floyd | nothing. Floyd | Floyd | "So, I think that wraps it up. It appears that nothing was sabotaged Floyd | or stolen, so I assume that the only reason the spy was here was to Floyd | find out what was in the autopsy room. No surprise there - you can Floyd | read all about what we're up to here on the Internet anyway can't you, Floyd | Captain?" the Major smiled. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes sir." growled Victoria. Floyd | Floyd | "You're dismissed Captain. Thank you for your time." Floyd | Floyd | Victoria Salmon didn't move. The Major didn't notice for a minute or Floyd | two, but he eventually did. He looked up and read the look on Captain Floyd | Salmon's face. Floyd | Floyd | "Is something wrong Captain?" he asked. Floyd | Floyd | "Sir. I read Private Kline's report. How could he think that it was Floyd | me?" she fumed. Floyd | Floyd | "I thought we'd cleared that up, Captain. The spy was in your uniform Floyd | and with some convincing papers." Floyd | Floyd | 'It's not that sir. His report..." she recalled from memory Floyd | "...described the person he spoke to as a ghastly apparition from the Floyd | pits of hell Freakishly sized, terrifyingly pale and with the breath Floyd | of a hellhound. How can he confuse me with that?" Floyd | Floyd | The Major thought for a while. Floyd | Floyd | "Maybe he thought you'd forgotten to put your make-up on?" he Floyd | ventured. Floyd | Floyd | Victoria Salmon screamed, turned on her heels and stormed out of the Floyd | room. The Major waited for a minute and then picked up the phone and Floyd | made a call. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, yes. Hello. Yes. It's me. Look - you need to be more Floyd | careful. You gave the papers to the wrong person it seems. Yes. Floyd | Yes. No. I managed to clear it all up. OK. Goodbye." the Major put Floyd | the phone down. Honestly, he had enough on his plate without clearing Floyd | up other people's mess. Who'd be a double agent? Floyd | | Doug says, "I guess this is the 'where are they now' montage at the end" | |||
| inky arrives, full of fun and funk. | inky asks, "what, still?" | |||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | "There's no future in it," he muttered under his breath. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You stare at the void outside, relaxing in your favourite armchair. Floyd | In the background The Eagles are instructing you to Take it to the Floyd | Limit One More Time. You sigh. Today has been an interesting day, no Floyd | doubt about that, but not one that you'd wish to repeat. Floyd | Floyd | You slowly stand up and wander over to the bookcase, where you pull Floyd | out your current diary and think about how to record today's events. Floyd | You smile as you recall some of the situations that today brought you Floyd | face-to-face with. You suppose that it wasn't the worst day that Floyd | you've ever had - not by a long shot - and it's only going to make Floyd | tomorrow's jobs seem that bit easier. The more you think about it, Floyd | the more pride you feel in a job well done and the less and less Floyd | terrible today seems to be. You sit back down in the armchair and Floyd | turn to a blank page. Floyd | Floyd | Life is good for Death. Today has, all things considered, been a fine Floyd | day for reaping. Floyd | Floyd | Thank you for playing. Floyd | Congratulations! Floyd | | ||||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | Jacqueline says (to inky), "Only just." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hooray" | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x hourglass" | inky says, "wow" | |||
| Doug says, "wonder how much time we had left" | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | Doug says, "and what would have happened if we ran out." | |||
| DavidW says, "So we won, but there are still mysteries we didn't solve." | ||||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | Jacqueline asks, "Did he go poof?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think no, there's a prompt we just don't see." | ||||
| DavidW says, "We're probably being asked to restart, restore, undo, or quit." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, like quit/restart - right" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, UNDO a turn, or QUIT? Undo Floyd | The previous turn has been undone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Do you really want to restore? | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | No Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x hourglass" | ||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x hourglass" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The grains of sand tell you that you have half an hour left to Floyd | complete your contract. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The grains of sand tell you that you have half an hour left to Floyd | complete your contract. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Timing." | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | You wait. Time passes. It's what time does. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Do you want to try and run it - yeah" | |||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | You wait. Time passes. It's what time does. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "z. z. z. z." | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You wait. Time passes. It's what time does. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You wait. Time passes. It's what time does. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You wait. Time passes. It's what time does. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You wait. Time passes. It's what time does. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You stare in horror as the last grains of sand run from the Golden Floyd | Hourglass. There is a sudden whooshing noise and everything around Floyd | you grinds to a halt. Floyd | Floyd | Someone did not die on the day that was appointed for them, and that Floyd | leaves a loose thread. The universe doesn't like loose threads. It Floyd | tends to panic and tie them to something. Floyd | Floyd | Someone was supposed to die and they didn't, the reasoning goes, Floyd | therefore death doesn't exist (it doesn't have to be coherent Floyd | reasoning). If death doesn't exist then there's no need for you, and Floyd | if there's no need for you then you become a loose end that needs Floyd | tying up. In this case it gets tied into a noose, and you cease to Floyd | exist. With a sound like the screeching of car brakes you vanish. Floyd | Floyd | As you drift through space and time, not existing, you ponder on this Floyd | state of affairs. It's a blow, of that there's no doubt, but still. Floyd | Best to look on the bright side, eh? Something's bound to come along Floyd | sooner or later. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | GAME OVER Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | Doug says, "but, Ernest didn't die on the same day as everyone else" | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah, but universe knows." | ||||
| Doug asks, "anyway, do we care about the other puzzles?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wowza." | ||||
| Doug asks, "or rather, do we have any ideas?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Doug), "I care, but I don't want to worry about them right now." | ||||
| Doug says, "or we could try another date in the time machine, like the one in the future" | ||||
| WeirdBeard says, "No. I'll just read a walkthrough if I want to know." | ||||
| Doug says, "but yeah, DavidW should go eat." | ||||
| DavidW says, "It's possible that when we opted for the wedding dress, lots of things changed." | ||||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Doug says, "anyway, fun! thanks all!" | |||
| Doug says, "now I'll go back to reading the ZIL manual." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps the dry cleaners might've given us a wedding dress instead of a uniform. And then the agent might've given us a bomb instead of ID." | ||||
| Doug says, "could be" | ||||
| DavidW says, "or a lockpick for the armory." | ||||
| Doug says, "maybe we could get a screwdriver from the hardware store." | ||||
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