ClubFloyd Transcript:
Roofed by Jim Munroe and
Alien Abduction? by Charles Gerlach

As played on ifMUD on June 5, 2010

The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Below is a transcript of Roofed, written by Jim Munroe, and Alien Abduction?, written by Charles Gerlach. The first game of the day, Roofed, was originally released as part of the Casual Gameplay Design Competition 7, where it took fifth place. The second game of the day, Alien Abduction?, was originally released as part of the 1996 Interactive Fiction competition, where it took ninth place. You can learn more about these games, including how to download them, by visiting the the ifWiki sites for Roofed and Alien Abduction?, respectively.

If you'd like, you can skip straight to the Alien Abduction? transcript.

WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.


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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load roofed"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
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Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear it clear across the rooftop. Or more, you feel the cold metal
Floyd | sound in your chest, and it quickly drops down to settle in your
Floyd | belly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roofed
Floyd | A Karrento Brothers Adventure by Jim Munroe
Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 100223 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd | Type CREDITS for the full credits, HELP if you need it, and QUIT to
Floyd | exit the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, halfway up the chimney
Floyd | You're clinging to the side of the chimney. From here you can go down
Floyd | to the rooftop or attempt to climb further up the top of the chimney.
Floyd |
Floyd | And below you, looking up -- instead of standing by the access door to
Floyd | make sure it doesn't close, like you told him to about six times -- is
Floyd | your older brother Anton.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton notices your frozen posture halfway up the chimney. "What's the
Floyd | holdup?" he says. "Silk's not gonna collect itself, you know."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Emacs), "'f' abbreviates to ..floyd, also"
EmacsUser asks, "Silk?"
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | You're wearing a striped sleeveless top, identical to your brother's
Floyd | except for the bush of chest hair he has coming out the top of his.
Floyd | Your chin has also refused to sprout anything that isn't embarrassing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton yells some climbing tips from below, which you ignore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x chimney"
Floyd | The brick chimney looks to be the oldest part of the building. On the
Floyd | upper part of the chimney there's a faded graffiti tag -- a circle
Floyd | with a cross within it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down below you, Anton shades his eyes and watches you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to f), "x Anton"
Mick arrives, full of funk, but no fun. Gerynar says, "just type "f command" (without the quotes)"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x Anton"
Floyd | Your brother Anton is a broad shouldered, bearded fellow with long
Floyd | tangled brown hair and eyes with a tendency to wander. His features
Floyd | are relaxed and calm.  Like you, he's wearing the typical clothes of a
Floyd | silk collector, including the identical striped sleeveless top. He has
Floyd | the Claw and the containment unit.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down below you, Anton shades his eyes and watches you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy arrives, full of fun, but no funk. Mick asks, "Have I missed much?"
Gerynar says, "nope...just started...we're halfway up a chimney, appearently we are here to collect some silk"
EmacsUser says, "We're on a chimney looking for silk. All we've done is x stuff."
Mick says, "great"
Trumgottist arrives, full of fun, but no funk. Gerynar asks, "so, shall we try climbing up?"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd | You try to climb further up, but you can't find any more suitable
Floyd | finger and toe holds.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton looks up, arms folded and nodding approvingly like he's your
Floyd | supervisor or something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "anton, climb the chimney"
Floyd | You're not really close enough to Anton to do that. Might want to call
Floyd | him over first, or follow him.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton yells some climbing tips from below, which you ignore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "call Anton"
Floyd | Anton sees where you are and points to the ground, indicating that
Floyd | he'll be staying right where he is, thanks.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton slaps a drumbeat on the chimney that you find distracting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "x tag"
Floyd | You stare at it and realize it's the symbol the Bad Seeds use in their
Floyd | revolutionary communiques.
Floyd |
Floyd | Apparently this rooftop is their territory. One more reason to get the
Floyd | hell out of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down below you, Anton shades his eyes and watches you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x access door"
Floyd | The access door is across the rooftop. You can't tell for sure that
Floyd | it's closed from here, but that click sound does not make you hopeful.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton looks up, arms folded and nodding approvingly like he's your
Floyd | supervisor or something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x anton"
Floyd | Your brother Anton is a broad shouldered, bearded fellow with long
Floyd | tangled brown hair and eyes with a tendency to wander. His features
Floyd | are relaxed and calm.  Like you, he's wearing the typical clothes of a
Floyd | silk collector, including the identical striped sleeveless top. He has
Floyd | the Claw and the containment unit.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton slaps a drumbeat on the chimney that you find distracting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You're wearing a striped sleeveless top, identical to your brother's
Floyd | except for the bush of chest hair he has coming out the top of his.
Floyd | Your chin has also refused to sprout anything that isn't embarrassing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton yells some climbing tips from below, which you ignore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Ah, so were stuck on the roof as [LINK] predicts."
Gerynar says, "I think we ought to get the Claw from Anton"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "anton, give me claw"
Floyd | You're not really close enough to Anton to do that. Might want to call
Floyd | him over first, or follow him.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down below you, Anton shades his eyes and watches you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "climb down?"
Mick says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd | You climb down, dropping the last couple of feet to...
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, at the base of the chimney
Floyd | A brick chimney looms above you. You're at the southeast corner of the
Floyd | square rooftop -- the door you came out of is to the west, an
Floyd | overgrown garden patch is to the northwest. You can also go north,
Floyd | though there's nothing that interesting there.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your brother Anton is here, plucking at his red-and-white striped
Floyd | sleeveless top.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
olethros arrives, full of fun, but no funk.
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "anton, give me the claw" Mick asks, "Have we been here yet?"
djfletch says, "I wonder if it is spider silk or silkworm silk"
Floyd | Anton gives the Claw to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton mumbles something about exploring and sets off towards the
Floyd | garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x claw"
Floyd | An ingeniously crafted brass pole with pincers on one end, for those
Floyd | hard-to-get caches of spider silk, or as Anton insists on calling it,
Floyd | spizz. Adds another three feet to your reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over a bit, Anton pretends to shovel some dirt in his attempt at
Floyd | anti-farmer satire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says, "my question is answered"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x containment unit"
Floyd | A reinforced silk containment unit made by Harry's pal Rudi. It
Floyd | matches the Claw, which is a nice touch. It also has straps so you can
Floyd | wear it on your .
Floyd |
Floyd | Across the rooftop, Anton is kicking the foliage, making a mess.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick exclaims, "Wear it on your what?!"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "wear containment unit"
Floyd | Not from here, you can't.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton comes over, looking bored. "Remember, if you need any big
Floyd | brother advice on anything you can always ask Anton about silk or
Floyd | whatever."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "ask anton about silk"
Floyd | Anton nods. "Oh yeah, we should totally get some silk before we get
Floyd | out of here, otherwise we're gonna be awful hungry tonight." He points
Floyd | at the chimney. "And I bet you there's some in there. I can smell the
Floyd | sweet sweet spizz a mile off."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask anton about access door"
Floyd | Anton rolls his eyes. "Don't worry, Toph, I used the bag to prop the
Floyd | door open." He doesn't look over at the obviously closed door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "slap anton"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "anton, give me the containment unit"
Floyd | Anton gives the containment unit to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton is leaning against the chimney, trying to look cool.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "wear it"
Floyd | You put on the containment unit.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton is making a sad attempt to climb the chimney, but stops when he
Floyd | sees you watching.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "look down"
Floyd | (downward)
Floyd | There's nothing remarkable about the black surface of the rooftop. You
Floyd | just hope you don't end up having to sleep on it tonight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton is hiding behind the smokestack. Why, or from whom, you couldn't
Floyd | say.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick asks, "Should we explore the other parts of the roof first?"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Rooftop, at the base of the chimney
Floyd | A brick chimney looms above you. You're at the southeast corner of the
Floyd | square rooftop -- the door you came out of is to the west, an
Floyd | overgrown garden patch is to the northwest. You can also go north,
Floyd | though there's nothing that interesting there.
Floyd |
Floyd | Big brother Anton is here, his beefy arms crossed as he gazes at the
Floyd | city.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton mumbles something about exploring and sets off towards the
Floyd | northeast corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says, "I think we should try to get the silk first, we started halfway up"
EmacsUser says, "Ok."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd | Near the base, the cracked brick provides enough finger and toe holds
Floyd | to climb to...
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, halfway up the chimney
Floyd | Anton looks up, arms folded and nodding approvingly like he's your
Floyd | supervisor or something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take silk"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "what command to use the claw?"
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "look up"
Floyd | (upward)
Floyd | A darkish sky, a few clouds here and there.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton looks up, arms folded and nodding approvingly like he's your
Floyd | supervisor or something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x chimney"
Floyd | The brick chimney looks to be the oldest part of the building. On the
Floyd | upper part of the chimney there's a faded graffiti tag -- a circle
Floyd | with a cross within it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton yells some climbing tips from below, which you ignore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd | You try to climb further up, but you can't find any more suitable
Floyd | finger and toe holds.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down below you, Anton shades his eyes and watches you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "use claw"
Floyd | You will have to be more specific about what you want to use the Claw
Floyd | with.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton yells some climbing tips from below, which you ignore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "push tag"
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton looks up, arms folded and nodding approvingly like he's your
Floyd | supervisor or something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "erase tag"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius arrives, ready to play with the toys.
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "use claw on chimney"
Floyd | Your attempt to take the chimney with the Claw makes you look as silly
Floyd | as Anton.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down below you, Anton shades his eyes and watches you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius exclaims, "Oh, this one. Pretty fun!"
EmacsUser asks, "Exploring the roof then?"
Gerynar says, "sounds good to me"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd | You climb down, dropping the last couple of feet to...
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, at the base of the chimney
Floyd | You can see Anton here, hitching up his pants.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton is hiding behind the smokestack. Why, or from whom, you couldn't
Floyd | say.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | The visible exits are north, northwest, west and up (to rooftop,
Floyd | halfway up the chimney).
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton is leaning against the chimney, trying to look cool.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, garden patch
Floyd | Like a lot of buildings renovated in the 1990s, it's got a small
Floyd | garden patch. Fifty years later, it's still doing its best to hide the
Floyd | grey concrete and metal beneath. But it comes off as a bit of a green
Floyd | toupee in comparison to the entirely organic, silk-lined wooden
Floyd | skyscrapers they're building today in Mumbai and Shanghai.
Floyd |
Floyd | Judging by the rows of unruly plants, it's been a while since this
Floyd | garden was actively farmed. The access door is to the south, the
Floyd | chimney is to the southeast and there's an empty corner to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Off in the distance, Anton is making a sad attempt to climb the
Floyd | chimney, but stops when he sees you watching.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x garden"
Floyd | You move some the dense foliage out of the way, revealing two rows of
Floyd | short, bulbous vegetables separated by a plank.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over a bit, Anton is leaning against the chimney, trying to look cool.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x vegetables"
Floyd | There's a lot of the squat shiny cucumbers.
Floyd |
Floyd | Across the rooftop, Anton is hiding behind the smokestack. Why, or
Floyd | from whom, you couldn't say.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "x plank"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take cucumbers"
Floyd | Half-submerged in the ground, the plank is about a dozen feet long.
Floyd |
Floyd | Off in the distance, Anton is making a sad attempt to climb the
Floyd | chimney, but stops when he sees you watching.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | You take one of the vegetables. It's heavier than you would have
Floyd | expected, and sits comfortably in the palm of your hand like it was
Floyd | designed to do so.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over a bit, Anton is leaning against the chimney, trying to look cool.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "take plank"
Floyd | You try, but the plank is stuck too solidly in the ground for your
Floyd | skinny arms to move.
Floyd |
Floyd | Across the rooftop, Anton is making a sad attempt to climb the
Floyd | chimney, but stops when he sees you watching.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "call anton"
Floyd | Anton hears you and trots over. "What? Did you find some silk?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "anton, take plank"
Floyd | Anton leans over and pulls at the edge of the plank. It moves a bit,
Floyd | but then he gives up with a shrug. It's irritating, because you know
Floyd | he's strong enough. When he's angry he's liable to break everything in
Floyd | sight -- you saw him uproot a tree once.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton looks at you like you're joking, but when you're not smiling he
Floyd | gets flustered.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g"
Floyd | Anton leans over and pulls at the edge of the plank. It moves a bit,
Floyd | but then he gives up with a shrug. It's irritating, because you know
Floyd | he's strong enough. When he's angry he's liable to break everything in
Floyd | sight -- you saw him uproot a tree once.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton looks at you like you're joking, but when you're not smiling he
Floyd | gets flustered.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Oh, no change."
olethros has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge.
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x cucumber"
Floyd | (the vegetable)
Floyd | It looks like a hand-sized football-shaped cucumber. The skin is a bit
Floyd | shiny, and as you tilt it in the light you see it's got a hologo of
Floyd | some sort -- a circle with a cross design --  you recognize it as
Floyd | being the same one from the chimney.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton's mouth is moving and his eyes are glassy. Suddenly he throws
Floyd | his arms into the air and runs in a victory circle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, northeast corner
Floyd | There's a great view of the city from here -- from this distance, if
Floyd | you squint, you can't really tell most of the buildings have been
Floyd | stripped and abandoned. You know that's why Anton's always trying to
Floyd | get you guys to collect up on the rooftops, even though they've mostly
Floyd | been picked clean years ago -- so he can stare at his precious Tower.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the northernmost edge of the building you can see the street below,
Floyd | which you recognize as the place where you entered the building. The
Floyd | garden patch is to the west, the chimney is to the south and the exit
Floyd | door is southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Off in the distance, Anton thinks he sees a bug in the dirt, but it's
Floyd | just a pebble.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "eat cucumber"
Floyd | You're about to, but at the last minute something stops you from
Floyd | biting into the taut green skin. There's something... weird about it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Across the rooftop, Anton pretends to shovel some dirt in his attempt
Floyd | at anti-farmer satire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x tower"
Floyd | The city looks prettier at twilight, when you can't see the busted
Floyd | windows and the fireblackened walls. The Tower, aside from the
Floyd | structural damage, is pretty well off, since the windows at the top
Floyd | are intact -- high enough to ward off the most determined looters. So
Floyd | far.
Floyd |
Floyd | For some reason, the arachnoids tended to nest in high areas, and
Floyd | there's nowhere higher than the Tower. Even twenty years after the
Floyd | giant mutant spiders died out silk collectors like your brother are
Floyd | still hell-bent on getting the legendary deposits they left on top of
Floyd | the pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "What does ``pod'' refer to?"
djfletch says, "seems like it must mean the Tower"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x pod"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Sound's like a good guess."
EmacsUser asks, "sw?"
Alex says (to EmacsUser), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that SW is Star Wars."
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, by the exit
Floyd | To the west you can see a nearby building, about the same height as
Floyd | the one you're on.
Floyd |
Floyd | The garden patch is north, the chimney is east and the empty corner is
Floyd | northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | The concrete stairwell exit is a rectangle protruding at least fifteen
Floyd | feet from the rooftop, its only feature a closed metal door.
Floyd |
Floyd | For (probably ill-advised) reasons of his own, Anton heads to the
Floyd | garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x door"
Floyd | It's a rectangular cube sticking up out of the tarmac like a big white
Floyd | robot tooth. It's featureless except for the outline of a door, and
Floyd | the door is handleless.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton comes by, patting his belly. He notices you looking at the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Don't worry, Toph," he says. "I put the bag --"
Floyd |
Floyd | His face falls when he looks at the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I..." He stares at the handleless door. "Toph, you gotta believe me,
Floyd | I wedged the bag in there real good. I don't..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Well we are in the territory of this group called ``Bad Seeds.''"
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "open door"
Floyd | There's no handle on this side.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton pounds the locked door and yells for help, even though the two
Floyd | of you had walked up the six flights of stairs without seeing another
Floyd | soul.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "x building"
Floyd | It's similar to the one you're on, except that the exit door is
Floyd | hanging off its hinges. Instead of a garden there's a faded billboard
Floyd | for a long forgotten movie. Given its alphanumeric website address
Floyd | it's a few decades old at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's probably a ten foot gap between the buildings.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I bet I could jump that," Anton says, doing some leg stretches.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You bet your life?" you say, pointing to the ground below.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton stops doing leg stretches.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton's slumped down on the ground. "OK. We need a plan." He looks at
Floyd | you hopefully.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "The building to the west sounds promising, especially since we have a plank available."
djfletch says, "yup"
Gerynar says, "good thinking"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "Anton take plank"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "Anton, take plank"
Floyd | Anton nods, but clearly he wasn't listening.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton's still nervous, his eyes wide and his nostrils occasionally
Floyd | flaring.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "You need a comma after Anton."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "Anton, follow"
Floyd | (the access door)
Floyd | Anton seems less freaked out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Oh."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "Anton, follow me"
Floyd | Anton punches the door and then immediately regrets it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, garden patch
Floyd | There's a plank between the rows of plants.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a row of vegetables here.
Floyd |
Floyd | For (probably ill-advised) reasons of his own, Anton heads to the exit
Floyd | door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "Anton, take plank"
Floyd | You're not really close enough to Anton to do that. Might want to call
Floyd | him over first, or follow him.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over a bit, Anton is sitting on the ground. He's discovered that the
Floyd | tarmac is slightly soft and is pressing his hand into it to make a
Floyd | print.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick asks, "Do you think it's important to get the silk first?"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "call Anton"
Floyd | Anton hears you and trots over. "What? Did you think of a plan?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "I don't know."
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "anton, get the plank"
Floyd | Anton leans over and pulls at the edge of the plank. It moves a bit,
Floyd | but then he gives up with a shrug. It's irritating, because you know
Floyd | he's strong enough. When he's angry he's liable to break everything in
Floyd | sight -- you saw him uproot a tree once.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton looks at you like you're joking, but when you're not smiling he
Floyd | gets flustered.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks (of Mick), "You want to give it a go?"
djfletch says (to Floyd), "tell anton about plank"
Floyd | "You thinking what I'm thinking?" Anton says. "We can chop it up and
Floyd | sell it on the chopstick market!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "My thoughts exactly."
Mick says, "Maybe we need to get him angry"
djfletch says (to Floyd), "dig"
Floyd | What do you want to dig?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "dig garden"
Floyd | What do you want to dig the plants with?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "dig plants with claw"
Floyd | That's a precision instrument -- you shudder to think what Harry would
Floyd | say if you got it all clogged up with dirt.
Floyd | Your attempt to dig the garden with the Claw makes Anton snicker.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton is kicking the foliage, making a mess.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x foliage"
Floyd | It makes you think about that girl at the market who's always
Floyd | encouraging you to come down to help out on their farm. But no, Anton
Floyd | would never go for that.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton's mouth is moving and his eyes are glassy. Suddenly he throws
Floyd | his arms into the air and runs in a victory circle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "ask anton aout victory"
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to ask Anton.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says, "So what do we know? We have a plank? a fruit, claw and container, possible silk (unreachable)"
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You're wearing a striped sleeveless top, identical to your brother's
Floyd | except for the bush of chest hair he has coming out the top of his.
Floyd | Your chin has also refused to sprout anything that isn't embarrassing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying a vegetable, the containment unit (being worn and
Floyd | empty) and the Claw.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton thinks he sees a bug in the dirt, but it's just a pebble.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says, "it does seem like it might be a hint about making Anton angry"
Mick says (to Floyd), "hit Anton"
Floyd | Knocking some sense into your brother is tempting, but you know from
Floyd | experience that it's a waste of time.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton pretends to shovel some dirt in his attempt at anti-farmer
Floyd | satire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "throw cucumber at anton"
Floyd | (the vegetable at Anton)
Floyd | Convincing yourself that an old fashioned food fight will let off some
Floyd | steam, you throw the veggie at Anton. It smashes into his chest, and
Floyd | -- disturbingly -- grey-green vines burst forth from the mess at a
Floyd | shocking speed to encircle your brother.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a moment where he's tied up as effectively as if with rope,
Floyd | and then his stunned expression starts to darken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton's arms strain. "No... trap... from a stupid FARMER," bursting
Floyd | through the tendrils, "...can hold a Karrento!"
Floyd |
Floyd | The vines fall off of him into a pile at his feet and begin to rot.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton's still mad, kicking at the tarmac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Nice."
djfletch says, "yikes"
Mick asks, "Maybe create vines on the chimney?"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "anton, get the plank"
Floyd | He funnels his rage into pulling the plank free of the dirt in a cloud
Floyd | of dust!
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton picks up the plank.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton seems to have cooled down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take cucumber"
Floyd | You grab another of the cucumbery vegetables.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton's mouth is moving and his eyes are glassy. Suddenly he throws
Floyd | his arms into the air and runs in a victory circle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "So will we ignore the silk or still try for it?"
Mick says, "I say we try my vine idea"
Cheddarius exclaims, "Dang, I would have never thought of throwing the cucumber at Anton. Genius!"
EmacsUser says (to Mick), "You drive."
Mick says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, at the base of the chimney
Floyd | Off in the distance, Anton is kicking the foliage, making a mess.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "throw cucumber at chimney"
Floyd | Leaving your hand like a green oblong snowball, it smacks into the
Floyd | chimney and sends out its viney tendrils around and around the
Floyd | structure until the tough vines cover the surface.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton strolls by and lets out a low whistle. "Those farmers are
Floyd | getting trickier every year."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd | Near the base, the cracked brick provides enough finger and toe holds
Floyd | to climb to...
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, halfway up the chimney
Floyd | Anton looks up, arms folded and nodding approvingly like he's your
Floyd | supervisor or something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd | The latticework of vines helps you scale the surface...
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, top of the chimney
Floyd | You're on the lip of the chimney, the inside of which has been mostly
Floyd | bricked up.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the whole rooftop from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside an alcove you spot a small amount of spider silk.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down below you, Anton shades his eyes and watches you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "x silk"
Floyd | It's white, with just a tiny bit of a shimmer in certain lights. Weird
Floyd | to think it'll end up in some organic skyscraper in Asia somewhere,
Floyd | reinforcing a wooden beam or strut.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down below you, Anton shades his eyes and watches you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "take it"
Floyd | Silk's reactive with organic substances, which is why it's so valuable
Floyd | for reinforcing building materials. If you're wondering how reactive,
Floyd | you only have to look at Harry's friend Two-Fingers Nancy.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Toph, you see any of the white stuff up there? We gotta get us some
Floyd | spizz..." Anton calls from below.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser exclaims, "Yay silk!"
Mick says (to Floyd), "take silk with claw"
Floyd | Carefully you pinch the silk with the Claw and gently wind the strands
Floyd | around. Harry gives you a slightly better price for it when it's in
Floyd | one piece and free of debris.
Floyd |
Floyd | You put it into the containment unit and engage the lock. Success!
Floyd |
Floyd | "Toph, you see any of the white stuff up there? We gotta get us some
Floyd | spizz..." Anton calls from below.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd | You take a moment to appreciate the view before you climb down, to
Floyd | appreciate the lack of Anton's inane chatter that fills every moment
Floyd | of every day.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something about the top of the access door cube across the rooftop
Floyd | catches your eye. It seems to have a bulge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down below you, Anton shades his eyes and watches you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "What's this bulge?"
Mick says (to Floyd), "x bulge"
Floyd | You have to squint to see it across the rooftop -- it's easy to miss,
Floyd | being white-on-white, but you realize that the top of the access door
Floyd | cube has a lump of spider silk.
Floyd |
Floyd | You've never seen a deposit that big. It's like, good-ol-days big.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down below you, Anton shades his eyes and watches you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, halfway up the chimney
Floyd | Anton looks up, arms folded and nodding approvingly like he's your
Floyd | supervisor or something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "More vine slinging?"
Mick says, "Might as well try"
Mick says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd | The visible exits are up (to rooftop, top of the chimney) and down (to
Floyd | rooftop, at the base of the chimney).
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton looks up, arms folded and nodding approvingly like he's your
Floyd | supervisor or something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd | You climb down, dropping the last couple of feet to...
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, at the base of the chimney
Floyd | Anton is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton is hiding behind the smokestack. Why, or from whom, you couldn't
Floyd | say.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, garden patch
Floyd | You can see a rotting mess and a row of vegetables here.
Floyd |
Floyd | For (probably ill-advised) reasons of his own, Anton heads to the exit
Floyd | door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "take cucumber"
Floyd | As you grab another veggie Anton gives you a poke in the bum and you
Floyd | drop it into the patch.
Floyd |
Floyd | It explodes, and the vegetable it hit explodes, and so on around the
Floyd | patch until all the vegetables are gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton shakes his head and wanders off. "Smooth as silk, Toph. Smooth.
Floyd | As. Silk."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says, "So much for that idea."
Mick says (to Floyd), "tell anton about bulge"
Floyd | You're not really close enough to Anton to do that. Might want to call
Floyd | him over first, or follow him.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over a bit, Anton is examining the exit door minutely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "call anton. Tell anton about bulge"
Floyd | Anton hears you and trots over. "What? Did you think of a plan?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton squeezes you on the shoulder. "Nice grab!" You go on to tell him
Floyd | about the much larger cache you've spotted. His eyes grow bigger and
Floyd | bigger until you think they might pop out of his head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You're wearing a striped sleeveless top, identical to your brother's
Floyd | except for the bush of chest hair he has coming out the top of his.
Floyd | Your chin has also refused to sprout anything that isn't embarrassing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying the Claw and the containment unit (being worn),
Floyd | inside which is a small amount of spider silk.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton points off to another point of the rooftop. "Gonna see what I
Floyd | can see," he says as he walks away. "Just give a call when you need
Floyd | me."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick asks, "Is Anton holding the plank?"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x Anton"
Floyd | Your brother Anton is a broad shouldered, bearded fellow with long
Floyd | tangled brown hair and eyes with a tendency to wander. His features
Floyd | are relaxed and calm.  Like you, he's wearing the typical clothes of a
Floyd | silk collector, including the identical striped sleeveless top. He has
Floyd | a plank.
Floyd |
Floyd | Across the rooftop, Anton appears to be negotiating with the door, but
Floyd | it doesn't seem to be going well.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x plank"
Floyd | It's about a dozen feet long.
Floyd |
Floyd | Off in the distance, Anton appears to be negotiating with the door,
Floyd | but it doesn't seem to be going well.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Not sure. But maybe we can climb this unaided."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, by the exit
Floyd | Anton is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The concrete stairwell exit is a rectangle protruding at least fifteen
Floyd | feet from the rooftop, its only feature a closed metal door.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton is examining the exit door minutely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd | It's too high to jump to, and the cube's surface has no climbable
Floyd | nooks and crannies.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton punches the door and then immediately regrets it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "nope"
djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask anton for plank"
Floyd | Anton gives the plank to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton is sitting on the ground. He's discovered that the tarmac is
Floyd | slightly soft and is pressing his hand into it to make a print.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "lean plank on cube"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "climb plank"
Floyd | You like climbing for climbing's sake, but even so you don't see the
Floyd | point of that.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton farts, pretends you did it, and then heads off, shooting back
Floyd | disgusted looks from the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "put plank on cube"
Floyd | You do your best, leaning the plank against the wall of the fifteen
Floyd | foot cube. Then Anton wanders by and notices what you're up to. "You
Floyd | could just climb me, Toph, I'm way more useful than that stupid
Floyd | farmer's plank."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says, "I don't think that would work anyway, the plank is only 12 feet long."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "climb anton"
Floyd | To free your hands for climbing a bit, you drop the plank.
Floyd | With ease that you've had since childhood, you scramble up your
Floyd | brother's body and end up standing on his shoulders. The body memory
Floyd | makes you recall, with a twinge, how proud your parents were of this
Floyd | ability when you were a toddler.
Floyd |
Floyd | The top of the exit cube is now only a few inches from your
Floyd | fingertips.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take silk with claw"
Floyd | You'd rather leave it in the containment unit, unless you have some
Floyd | specific idea of what you'd like to do with it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take bulge with claw"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "get on cube"
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton shifts and looks up with a pained look, and since you're not
Floyd | doing anything you decide to climb down off his shoulders.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "climb anton"
Floyd | You climb Anton, amazed at his pungent smell given that you'd bathed
Floyd | just yesterday. One of his many mysteries.
Floyd |
Floyd | The top of the exit cube is now only a few inches from your
Floyd | fingertips.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "jump"
Floyd | You bend your knees and with a jump you get your fingers hooked around
Floyd | the ridge of the roof. Anton goes sprawling, but a few seconds later
Floyd | you've pulled yourself up to...
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, on top of the exit cube
Floyd | The top of the access door structure is a bit weathered but solid,
Floyd | holding you easily. You can go down from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You half-think the silk is a trick of the light, but no. Here it is. A
Floyd | big sticky lump of spider silk.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down below you, Anton shades his eyes and watches you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take silk with claw"
Floyd | (the large amount of spider silk with the Claw)
Floyd | You use the Claw to stuff the container full of silk. You've never
Floyd | filled the container before. You can't wait to see the look on Harry's
Floyd | face -- you'll be able to eat for weeks on this. You close the
Floyd | container.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton looks up, arms folded and nodding approvingly like he's your
Floyd | supervisor or something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "Now to make our getaway?"
Mick says, "This seems TOO easy"
Mick says, "Yes, let's"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, by the exit
Floyd | Anton is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The concrete stairwell exit is a rectangle protruding at least fifteen
Floyd | feet from the rooftop, its only feature a closed metal door.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a plank here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton appears to be negotiating with the door, but it doesn't seem to
Floyd | be going well.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take plank"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton is examining the exit door minutely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "Was it here or the corner north of us that the building could be seen from?"
Mick says, "I thought it was here"
Mick says (to Floyd), "x building"
Floyd | It's similar to the one you're on, except that the exit door is
Floyd | hanging off its hinges. Instead of a garden there's a faded billboard
Floyd | for a long forgotten movie. Given its alphanumeric website address
Floyd | it's a few decades old at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's probably a ten foot gap between the buildings.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton wanders off to the northeast corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "put plank on gap"
Floyd | The plank now provides a very narrow escape route to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Off in the distance, Anton is staring at the sky, a goofy grin on his
Floyd | face.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "I say we make Anton go first."
Mick says, "good call"
Mick says (to Floyd), "anton, go west"
Floyd | Anton arrives at Rooftop, garden patch from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Channelling your tightrope-walking ancestors, you place one foot in
Floyd | front of the other, trying not to think about--
Floyd |
Floyd | CRACK
Floyd |
Floyd | --you've never backstepped this fast but it might not be fast enough
Floyd | but then Anton grabs you in a big bear hug and pulls you to safety.
Floyd |
Floyd | Rooftop, by the exit (in Anton's bear hug)
Floyd | To the west you can see a nearby building, about the same height as
Floyd | the one you're on.
Floyd |
Floyd | The garden patch is north, the chimney is east and the empty corner is
Floyd | northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the nearby building is a plank.
Floyd |
Floyd | The concrete stairwell exit is a rectangle protruding at least fifteen
Floyd | feet from the rooftop, its only feature a closed metal door.
Floyd |
Floyd | "TOPH!" At first you think you're shaking, but then you realize it's
Floyd | Anton.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "Huh?"
Mick asks, "How is the plank over there?"
Mick says (to Floyd), "x plank"
Floyd | It's about a dozen feet long with a crack in the middle.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton's eyes are darting around fearfully, he's muttering "Careful,
Floyd | careful careful..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "I guess Anton wasn't supposed to go first."
Mick says, "He didn't go first"
Mick says, "When I gave the command, he wasn't in the area."
EmacsUser says, "Ah, I didn't read carefully."
Mick says, "I'm trying to figure out how the plank breaks, but then ends up on the other side."
EmacsUser asks, "Undo and try again, or keep this situation?"
Mick says, "I think this situation is fine."
Mick says (to Floyd), "x billboard"
Floyd | What hasn't been bleached by the sun has been soaked through by the
Floyd | rain. But you can just make out the URL: www.ghostswithshitjobs.com.
Floyd |
Floyd | You give your brother a squeeze and a pat on the back and the
Floyd | catatonic look leaves his face. He looks at you happily and then
Floyd | shakes you, pushes you away.
Floyd |
Floyd | The plank is still in one piece, barely. You lean over to pull it in
Floyd | but seeing the pavement below gives you a sick fantasy of having your
Floyd | brains spread over them. You take a few stumbling steps back from the
Floyd | edge and sit on the tarmac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says, "Maybe I'm just dense, but I'm really not understanding the physics of this plank."
Gerynar says, "are there any vine-cucumbers left, maybe throw one of them on the plank to have it tied together"
Mick says, "Anton destroyed them all."
Gerynar says, "that's right"
EmacsUser asks, "Claw?"
Mick says (to Floyd), "pull plank with claw"
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to pull the plank.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "get plank with claw"
Floyd | It's too lightweight a tool for that.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton sees what you're trying to do and pulls in the plank himself.
Floyd |
Floyd | "That was a close one, Toph. Geez. The closest."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says, "hah"
Mick says (to Floyd), "anton, w"
Floyd | Anton nods. "I could make that jump easy, Toph. But then where would
Floyd | that leave you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton looks at you like you're joking, but when you're not smiling he
Floyd | gets flustered.
Floyd |
Floyd | The plank sticks up where it's cracked and Anton stomps it flat.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You shoulda tied off. Collectors die every day from being stupid."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Tied off?" you say, "With the rope in the bag YOU LOST?!" The
Floyd | familiar rage you feel at your brother burns away the last of nausea
Floyd | in your belly.
Floyd |
Floyd | "No," he says with a sullen kick at the tarmac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says, "maybe Anton can throw us across"
Mick exclaims, "We need to bind it using the silk!"
EmacsUser!
EmacsUser. o O (!)
djfletch says, "yeah, I bet that's it"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "open containment unit"
Floyd | Don't fiddle about with the SCU. It's for spider silk-related things
Floyd | only.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton's still nervous, his eyes wide and his nostrils occasionally
Floyd | flaring.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "put silk on plate"
Floyd | Which do you mean, the large amount of spider silk or the small amount
Floyd | of spider silk?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "put small amount of silk on plank"
Floyd | You lay it over the length of the wood, making sure to cover the
Floyd | crack. It hisses and smokes dramatically, the wood blackening wherever
Floyd | the white fibre makes contact.
Floyd |
Floyd | Blinking the smoke from your eyes, you panic that it's the wrong kind
Floyd | of wood -- but the hissing has stopped.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton looks at the board and at you with a baffled look on his face.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton seems less freaked out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x Anton"
Floyd | Your brother Anton is a broad shouldered, bearded fellow with long
Floyd | tangled brown hair and eyes with a tendency to wander. His features
Floyd | are relaxed and calm.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton punches the door and then immediately regrets it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x plank"
Floyd | It's about a dozen feet long with a crack in the middle and shiny
Floyd | black veins where the silk has reacted with it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton wanders off to the exit door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | There's a ten foot gap. You could always climb pretty much anything,
Floyd | but long jump was never your strong suit.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton is sitting on the ground. He's discovered that the tarmac is
Floyd | slightly soft and is pressing his hand into it to make a print.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "put plank on gap"
Floyd | You need to be holding the plank before you can put it on top of
Floyd | something else.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton appears to be negotiating with the door, but it doesn't seem to
Floyd | be going well.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "take plank"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton is sitting on the ground. He's discovered that the tarmac is
Floyd | slightly soft and is pressing his hand into it to make a print.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "put plank on gap"
Floyd | The plank now provides a very narrow escape route to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton is examining the exit door minutely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You look back at your brother. "OK, Anton. I'll go across first to
Floyd | make sure it's safe. Then you."
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton looks anxious. "I don't think so, Toph. I mean, you almost got
Floyd | turned into sidewalk jam the last time. Can't you just go down and
Floyd | open the the door from the inside?"
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a bad idea to leave your brother alone. The last time you left
Floyd | Anton by himself he got his pinky finger stuck in a pipe so bad he
Floyd | ended up sleeping with it for a week. But it's obvious he's not going
Floyd | to go across in this nervous state. You need to get his mind off the
Floyd | danger.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton punches the door and then immediately regrets it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" Mick asks, "So we have to calm him down?"
Floyd | You've gotta show Anton something that'll take his mind off the very
Floyd | real chance of death first.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton farts, pretends you did it, and then heads off, shooting back
Floyd | disgusted looks from the northeast corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "show silk to anton"
Floyd | Which do you mean, the large amount of spider silk or the small amount
Floyd | of spider silk?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "large amount"
Floyd | Anton flips open the container and his eyes bug out of his head when
Floyd | he sees how much silk there is. "Wha--"
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton is blazing with excitement, all anxieties forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Before you step out onto the plank, you look back at your brother.
Floyd | "Now we gotta be extremely careful with--"
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton makes a contemptuous sound. "Careful!?! If we were careful we
Floyd | never would have gotten trapped on a roof and made the score of the
Floyd | century," Anton raves, his face beaming. "Let's go! I can't wait to
Floyd | see Harry's face!"
Floyd |
Floyd | He pushes you to the side and strides out onto the plank.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Good move."
Mick says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half way across, right on the crack, he turns around and looks at you
Floyd | with his big, puppy-dog eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd | He raises his arms in the air. "Take that, Pachenkos! You can't trap
Floyd | the Karrento Brothers!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Not wanting to draw attention to the incredible danger he's in, you
Floyd | just raise your arms and try to smile.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anton throws his head back and guffaws, then walks safely to the other
Floyd | end of the plank.
Floyd |
Floyd | "C'mon Toph, let's go blow Harry's mind!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You cross the plank -- still totally stable, the spizz really works --
Floyd | and join your brother.
Floyd |
Floyd | Arm in arm, you head down the stairs, chanting "KAR-REN-TO!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Heading to Harry's to cash in your silk, you pass the alley between
Floyd | the buildings where you could have fallen to your death. You look
Floyd | away, not willing to face what could have happened, and instead
Floyd | clamber up on your brother's shoulders. You grab his thick mane of
Floyd | hair as he starts to gallop like a horse, just like when you were
Floyd | kids.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have won ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >
Mick says, "wow"
Gerynar says, "yay"
djfletch says, "hurrah"
Jacqueline says, "Well done."
Mick says, "I didn't expect it to end there"
EmacsUser says, "Me neither."
Touchy says, "now I neither played nor watched the song contest"
Touchy says, "tsk"
Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "heh"
djfletch says, "I was sure we were going to get attacked by giant spiders sometime."
Mick says, "I liked it"
djfletch says, "The game said they were extinct but I didn't believe it."
Jacqueline says (to djf), "heh"
Jacqueline says, "Well, wow. That was quick."
Jacqueline asks, "Anything else you guys want to try, or shall I wrap up the transcript?"
Mick says, "I'm game for something else."
EmacsUser wouldn't mind another.
Gerynar says, "I'll watch, but I'm gonna work on my "wrist speed-if" version of my WIP, it should be (hopefully) done by this evening"
Jacqueline says, "Well, hrm. I like to invite authors of newer games. But if you have something older you want to play..."
Jacqueline says, "(ie I hate to play something new quite unexpectedly in case the author would have liked to have had the opportunity to come watch.)"
Mick asks, "Hmm, well what's something old and shortish?"
EmacsUser says, "racks his brain for titles that ClubFloyd hasn't played yet."
Jacqueline says, "Well, we could have a look at the suggestions list (what hasn't been updated in forever, but still)"
Jacqueline says, "The other option would be to play something by an author who's here right now, because we could give that person the instant heads up."
EmacsUser asks, "Has the club ever played All Roads?"
Jacqueline asks, "No, not yet. That's kind of longish, though, isn't it?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q"
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >
Mick says, "It's not too long, It's kinda on rails."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit"
Floyd |
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" Jacqueline asks, "That's by ... Jon?"
EmacsUser says, "We can choose something else too. It's just one that came to mind."
Jacqueline asks, "Is that right? Jon Ingold?"
EmacsUser says, "Yes."
Mick says, "Yes"
Jacqueline says, "Or am I misr- oh, okay."
Jacqueline says, "I kinda doubt Jon would show up even if we invited him."
Cheddarius says, "I'm up for another game"
Jacqueline says, "So yeah, I'd be okay with that."
Jacqueline says, "I've played that one as well, way back, but sure, why not play that? (I'm reading the new edition of SPAG right now, anyway...)"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load allroads" Mick says, "I've played it, but I don't mind watching"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
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Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | [pausing to show unread error message]
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd |
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Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |                Display Help Menu           :     M
Floyd |                Start Game -                :   [SPACE]
Floyd |                           - from Saved     :     R
Floyd |                Exit Game                   :     Q
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "hm"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Conciousness is slowly returning...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd | Something inside is telling you to wake up. Part of your mind says
Floyd | "Sunrise approaches."
Floyd |
Floyd | Underneath your dream you feel a deep shiver... It is a chime, the
Floyd | bell of a clock-tower. Another follows, and another. You count them,
Floyd | fully awake suddenly, counting them down. Six. Five. Four. Three.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your eyes close, and your stomach tightens in anticipation. The sheets
Floyd | around you feel very safe.
Floyd |
Floyd | Two. One.
Floyd |
Floyd | The first ray of sunlight lances through the slats in the
Floyd | window-blind. It strikes your eyes, and you feel yourself go.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Jacqueline says, "Oh, okay."
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd | [Press any key]
Floyd |
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Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |                     [Please press SPACE to begin.]
Mick says, "I think there is a lot of space-pressing in this."
Jacqueline says, "Man, I'll let you guys press space once you're done reading."
EmacsUser asks, "Just to check, is there anyone who hasn't played?"
Cheddarius says, "Me"
Cheddarius says, "Wait, you mean this game? I haven't played Allroads before"
Touchy says, "DavidW and I started alien abduction last week or so"
EmacsUser says (to Cheddarius), "You'd better be the driver then."
Touchy says, "That seemed like fun..."
Cheddarius asks, "Is it possible to load ClubFloyd from MUSHclient? If so, how?"
EmacsUser waits for a consensus on All Roads/Alien Abduction, as he is notoriously indecisive.
Cheddarius says, "Never mind, got it"
Touchy says, "Or replay something CF has played before, like escapades or whatever..."
Jacqueline says, "Wait, sorry, I had to step away."
Jacqueline says, "I had to sign for a package."
Jacqueline asks, "We've decided not to play All Roads?"
Jacqueline says (to Cheddarius), "And yes, I'm mudding from a MUSHclient."
EmacsUser says, "Maybe. It's up for debate again."
Mick says, "People seem pretty indifferent about All Roads."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd |
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Floyd |
Floyd | Standing on tip-toes.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Scaffold in the City Square
Floyd | Your head is pulled back, held by the rope pressing on your throat.
Floyd | Your toes pivot on a rickety stool, which shakes as your legs shake.
Floyd | The crowd filling the square are chattering like monkeys, but they are
Floyd | just flits of colour in the corners of your eyes. You cannot look
Floyd | round - instead you gaze straight across the Square, to the great dial
Floyd | of the Clock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit"
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd |
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" Cheddarius says, "I don't know what Allroads is, but I'm fine with it, being that I haven't played it"
EmacsUser softly chants: @switch(@rand("3"),"0","All Roads","1",Alien Abduction","Other").
A booming voice does not reply. EmacsUser looks a little embarassed.
EmacsUser softly chants: @switch(@rand("3"),"0","All Roads","1","Alien Abduction","Other").
A booming voice replies: Alien Abduction.
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "list al"
Floyd says (to EmacsUser), "aisle curses ditch down f209 fourin1 frozen gna ground gumshoe i-0 kirby kissing kitchen kooku library limp lostny14 memory mulldoon muse night ofd parade pcu pesach photopia promoted pspy5 reverb savannah saveprinceton20 slackerx sludge speed5 spypants sutwin the_one tow11 tube under underoos veritas22 vindaloo wedding" Jacqueline asks, "So, um, you want to load which one?"
Jacqueline asks, "Alien Abduction?"
EmacsUser decides to be decisive and say ``Sure.''
Jacqueline asks, "Others? Same opinion?"
Cheddarius says, "Alien Abduction sounds nice"
djfletch says, "ok by me"
Cheddarius says, "But I haven't played either, so I don't know"
Mick says, "Sounds good"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load alienabduct"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd | tadsr - A text-only TADS 2.5.10 Interpreter.
Floyd | Copyright (c) 1993, 2006 by Michael J. Roberts.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Useful information about the game is contained in the "hint" menu.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |    Coming over the crest of the thickly wooded hill, you see the
Floyd | decrepit shack that has always been your home.  Your long walks
Floyd | through the Appalachian hills usually help clear your mind.  You had
Floyd | hoped that the throbbing, insistent pain behind your eyes would go
Floyd | away with this one.  You still don't want to admit it, but this pain
Floyd | is exactly how it felt the last two times.  You better get your
Floyd | camera.  After all, this is why you bought it.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, standing
Floyd | ankle deep in autumn leaves.  The path you are walking on leads to the
Floyd | south.  Your trusty thinking stump is right beside the path here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy says (to Jacq), "There is an abductv2."
Touchy says, "Not sure if that's necessary though."
Trumgottist goes home. Cheddarius says, "I think we should examine that stump."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x stump"
Floyd | You have many fond memories of sitting on this stump in the dappled
Floyd | shade and contemplating life.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "sit on stump"
Floyd | You sit, but all of your thoughts focus on the pain in your head and
Floyd | how much worse that pain will get if you don't get out to the clearing
Floyd | soon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take valium"
Floyd | I don't know the word "valium".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says (to Floyd), "count leaves"
Floyd | I don't know the word "count".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Like ``count keys?''"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are empty-handed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "think about camera"
Floyd | I don't know the word "think".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh, poo - I didn't notice the v2."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "get camera"
Floyd | I don't see any camera here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You're not going anywhere until you get off of the stump.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "stand"
Floyd | You push to your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Back Door
Floyd |    The peeling paint reveals the low quality lumber used to build this
Floyd | house.  You've noticed that the house groans and protests more every
Floyd | winter.  In many ways, you're amazed it has survived this long.  The
Floyd | screen door leans against the house, having pulled free of the rotting
Floyd | door frame several months ago.  There is a huge patch of weeds to the
Floyd | northwest that used to be a garden.  The back door is to the north,
Floyd | and the path back over the hill leads south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Are you guys cool with this v?"
EmacsUser asks, "We've not gone far; can we load v2?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "pull weeds"
Floyd | It's too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy asks (of Jacq), ""poo" Seriously?"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "quit"
Floyd | In a total of 7 turns, you have achieved a score of 0 points out of a
Floyd | possible 200.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you really want to quit?  (YES or NO) >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "YES"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Watch the skies!
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "What"
Floyd says (to Cheddarius), "Floyd doesn't know that trick."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "load abductv2"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd | tadsr - A text-only TADS 2.5.10 Interpreter.
Floyd | Copyright (c) 1993, 2006 by Michael J. Roberts.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Useful information about the game is contained in the "hint" menu.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |    Coming over the crest of the thickly wooded hill, you see the
Floyd | decrepit shack that has always been your home.  Your long walks
Floyd | through the Appalachian hills usually help clear your mind.  You had
Floyd | hoped that the throbbing, insistent pain behind your eyes would go
Floyd | away with this one.  You still don't want to admit it, but this pain
Floyd | is exactly how it felt the last two times.  You better get your
Floyd | camera.  After all, this is why you bought it.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, standing
Floyd | ankle deep in autumn leaves.  The path you are walking on leads to the
Floyd | south.  Your trusty thinking stump is right beside the path here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "What"
Cheddarius says, "Oh."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Back Door
Floyd |    The peeling paint reveals the low quality lumber used to build this
Floyd | house.  You've noticed that the house groans and protests more every
Floyd | winter.  In many ways, you're amazed it has survived this long.  The
Floyd | screen door leans against the house, having pulled free of the rotting
Floyd | door frame several months ago.  There is a huge patch of weeds to the
Floyd | northwest that used to be a garden.  The back door is to the north,
Floyd | and the path back over the hill leads south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd | You dread going past what's left of your garden in order to get to
Floyd | your well.  The weeds stand tall in the cool fall air, mocking you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The pain in your head gets much worse, whether from getting a closer
Floyd | look at you garden or from the impending 'visit', you aren't sure.  It
Floyd | goes away when you return to the back door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "Pull weeds"
Floyd | It's too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Belated, you guys feel free to load up whatever version you want."
Jacqueline says, "And yes, I said 'poo'"
Cheddarius says, "Pffft, fine, we'll get the camera then"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x weeds"
Floyd | You and Maybel planted the garden together in the spring, before your
Floyd | headaches started.  After the headaches and the visits started, you
Floyd | picked what you could and let the rest go to seed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "mock weeds"
Floyd | I don't know the word "mock".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd | Your house is to the north, and the path is to the south.  There's no
Floyd | sense in plundering through the woods until it's absolutely necessary.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Anyone else playing?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | As you grab the doorknob, the pain in your head gets worse.  You rub
Floyd | the bridge of your nose, hoping that will help.  It doesn't.  You
Floyd | don't have much time now, so you press into the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Is your headache gone?"  Maybel turns from the sink to look at you.
Floyd | Soapy water drips from the ends of her fingers as she looks at you
Floyd | carefully, taking in your shaking hands, the wild look in your eyes.
Floyd | Her fingers clench.  "When you asked me to move in with you, we made
Floyd | some ground rules.  I don't talk about your dad, and you don't act
Floyd | like him.  No you-ef-ohs and no skits-o-frenia, right?  I've been
Floyd | holdin' up my end.  Where the hell is yours?" She swears and turns
Floyd | back to the sink.
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    Your tiny kitchen barely has room for you and Maybel, let alone
Floyd | your small appliances.  The living room is to the north, and the back
Floyd | door is south.
Floyd |    Maybel is washing dishes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    This is really the only room in your house that seems somewhat
Floyd | homey.  The plywood floor is mostly covered by a large throw rug.  The
Floyd | wood-burning stove casts a cheery glow on the sagging couch and the
Floyd | coffee table overflowing with books.  The front door leads north, your
Floyd | bedroom is to the west, and the kitchen is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd |    This is the only bedroom in the house.  Once you shared it with
Floyd | your parents.  Then you had it to yourself when your mom moved out and
Floyd | your dad went to the asylum.  Now you share it with Maybel.  Clothes
Floyd | and the old mattress that you use as a bed mostly cover the dirty
Floyd | plywood floor.  There is one meticulously clean spot near the bed,
Floyd | reserved for the camera and the pictures. The living room is back
Floyd | east.
Floyd |    You see a Polaroid camera, a photo, and a set of grainy pictures
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Yeah, I'm playing, but slow at the reading."
djfletch says, "yeah just catching up"
Cheddarius says, "Oh, okay then. I'll wait, sorry"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "camera GET!!!!!"
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius exclaims, "Fecal matter!"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "get camera"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x photo"
Floyd | This is the one photo that you managed to take the last time this
Floyd | happened.  You couldn't take pictures when "it" was overhead because
Floyd | of all of the wild, incomprehensible thoughts they sent screaming
Floyd | through your brain.  They let go of your mind only when you were
Floyd | almost unconscious.  The ship started moving off over the tree-tops.
Floyd | You managed to get the polaroid up to snap a picture of the receding
Floyd | light through the branches of the trees.  It's not enough to convince
Floyd | anyone else, but it might be enough for you.  Something to help you
Floyd | believe that you're not as crazy as your father-- if your father
Floyd | really is crazy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x pictures"
Floyd | Every time you look at these pictures you think of your father giving
Floyd | the film to you.  He was home just to pick up some clothes before the
Floyd | sheriff drove him out to the asylum.  He pulled the undeveloped roll
Floyd | out from under the mattress and pressed it into your hand, saying,
Floyd | "Believe.  You're my son.  They'll come for you too."  That was ten
Floyd | years ago.  The developed pictures are blurred and grainy, but
Floyd | unmistakably the same thing that has already visited you twice.
Floyd | Judging from the pain in your head, a third visit is on the way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Mick says, "I'm a bit too distracted to participate at the moment, so I'm going to bail. Have fun everyone."
Cheddarius asks, "How about we give the camera to Maybel?"
Cheddarius says, "She can photograph the aliens without being mind-blasted"
djfletch says, "makes sense"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    Maybel is washing dishes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Anyone mind if I put verbose on?"
EmacsUser says, "nope"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "verbose"
Floyd | Okay, now in VERBOSE mode.
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    Your tiny kitchen barely has room for you and Maybel, let alone
Floyd | your small appliances.  The living room is to the north, and the back
Floyd | door is south.
Floyd |    Maybel is washing dishes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "give camera to maybel"
Floyd | "Oh, go take yer pictures in the woods," Mabel spits the words at you,
Floyd | "Maybe you can sell 'em to the Nah-shun-el En-choir-er!"  She snorts.
Floyd | "Wouldn't that be funny.  You makin' money off this.  Ha!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Drat."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | Assuming you haven't lost your grip on reality, you are Isaiah Knott,
Floyd | a twenty-seven year old man from the Appalachian mountains.  You are
Floyd | wearing your comfortable jeans, a thick flannel shirt, and hiking
Floyd | boots.
Floyd |
Floyd | You have a hellishly bad headache that's threatening to get worse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x camera"
Floyd | This is your treasured camera, the thing that will (hopefully) prove
Floyd | your sanity-- at least to yourself.  You had to save up for a month
Floyd | before you could buy it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "Mind if we go look at those books?"
Cheddarius asks, "Or... maybe put a timer on the camera?"
Cheddarius says, "Go ahead"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    This is really the only room in your house that seems somewhat
Floyd | homey.  The plywood floor is mostly covered by a large throw rug.  The
Floyd | wood-burning stove casts a cheery glow on the sagging couch and the
Floyd | coffee table overflowing with books.  The front door leads north, your
Floyd | bedroom is to the west, and the kitchen is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x books"
Floyd | Looking at the books reminds you of meeting Maybel at the library.
Floyd | When you first started dating her you were both reading every trashy
Floyd | thriller and spy novel you could get your hands on, often over the
Floyd | other's shoulder.  Recently, though, you've started getting more and
Floyd | more books about UFO's and mental health.  Your reading material has
Floyd | slowly diverged until now you have two completely separate piles of
Floyd | books, encamped on opposite ends of the coffee table.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "read books"
Floyd | You pick up one of the mental health books and open it.  The letters
Floyd | are blurred, and trying to push your eyes into focus aggravates the
Floyd | pain behind your nose.  The best thing for your mental health right
Floyd | now is to get you camera and get out to the clearing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take books"
Floyd | You pick up one of the mental health books and open it.  The letters
Floyd | are blurred, and trying to push your eyes into focus aggravates the
Floyd | pain behind your nose.  The best thing for your mental health right
Floyd | now is to get you camera and get out to the clearing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "Out to the clearing then?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "Yup"
Floyd | I don't know the word "yup".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Yup"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    Your tiny kitchen barely has room for you and Maybel, let alone
Floyd | your small appliances.  The living room is to the north, and the back
Floyd | door is south.
Floyd |    Maybel is washing dishes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Back Door
Floyd |    The peeling paint reveals the low quality lumber used to build this
Floyd | house.  You've noticed that the house groans and protests more every
Floyd | winter.  In many ways, you're amazed it has survived this long.  The
Floyd | screen door leans against the house, having pulled free of the rotting
Floyd | door frame several months ago.  There is a huge patch of weeds to the
Floyd | northwest that used to be a garden.  The back door is to the north,
Floyd | and the path back over the hill leads south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, standing
Floyd | ankle deep in autumn leaves.  The path you are walking on leads to the
Floyd | south.  Your trusty thinking stump is right beside the path here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Path
Floyd |    This is the path that most of your walks follow.  In general, your
Floyd | walks are more pleasant than this one is turning out to be.  The path
Floyd | curves off to the southwest, but you know that if you don't head for
Floyd | the clearing to the southeast, the pain will start making you throw
Floyd | up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Southeast"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd |
Floyd |    You plunge off of the beaten path through the underbrush.  The pain
Floyd | in your head pushes you through a blur of brambles and branches.  Your
Floyd | body presses on even after your will has given up, as if it were
Floyd | possible to outrun this spike of pain.  Droplets of water spattering
Floyd | your face bring you around long enough to realize that you've just
Floyd | splashed through a wide, shallow stream.  There isn't one within miles
Floyd | of your house.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's only when your legs give out completely and you end up
Floyd | sprawled on a grassy clearing that you realize the pain has stopped:
Floyd | you've arrived.  The "ship" is already here, hovering about 30 feet up
Floyd | and quietly humming.  Amazingly, they aren't clouding your thoughts
Floyd | like they did the last two times. You roll onto your back, bring the
Floyd | polaroid up, and start photographing the ship between labored breaths.
Floyd | The mechanical whine of your Polaroid drowns out the gentle hum of the
Floyd | ship.  Picture after picture comes spewing out of the camera's mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The fatigue from running catches up with you, forcing your head
Floyd | back into the thick grass.  Once your head is relaxed, there isn't
Floyd | much keeping your eyelids open.  You find yourself relaxing into
Floyd | darkness.  As your conciousness recedes, you start to feel things
Floyd | crawling into your hair, crawling in and you need to lift your head,
Floyd | lift your head up right now and push out of the darkness, get away
Floyd | from the things crawling in your hair, lift your head and
Floyd |
Floyd | wake up.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You blink your eyes, and see that you're in a hospital ward.  Even
Floyd | after getting up, it takes you several moments to realize that this
Floyd | can't possibly be a hospital.  There's no bed, no instruments-- no
Floyd | doors, for that matter.  There is only blinding whiteness and
Floyd | sterility all around you.
Floyd |
Floyd | White Room
Floyd |    The room is of uniform whiteness, and far too bright.  The air
Floyd | tastes odd; perhaps it is the lack of any detectable odors that makes
Floyd | it strange.
Floyd |
Floyd | A deep breath brings in a faint hint of nervous sweat-- your own.  At
Floyd | least you can smell something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "do eet"
Mick disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. EmacsUser exclaims, ""Aah! Text!"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "smell me"
Floyd | There is just the faintest hint of nervous sweat about you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "exits"
Floyd | I don't know the word "exits".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are empty-handed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Dangit they took our photos"
EmacsUser says, "Or we dropped them, or they weren't teleported with us."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "stand"
Floyd | You're already standing!
Floyd |
Floyd | A section of one wall turns to a thick white mist.  An alien steps
Floyd | through the mist, which becomes seamless wall again.  The alien raises
Floyd | its slender hand, palm toward you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, ""Shall we make the ``live long and prosper'' sign?"
Cheddarius says, "That's what the government wants you to think, Emacs"
Cheddarius says, "Re: photos, I mean"
EmacsUser says, "Yes."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "raise hand"
Floyd | I don't know the word "raise".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "I say we punch the alien menace"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "hit alien"
Floyd | You strike at the alien, but your blows are stopped by an invisible
Floyd | force.  The alien shakes its head and steps through the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | White Room
Floyd |    The room is of uniform whiteness, and far too bright.  The air
Floyd | tastes odd; perhaps it is the lack of any detectable odors that makes
Floyd | it strange.
Floyd |
Floyd |    An alien is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "wave"
Floyd | I don't know the word "wave".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "scream in rage"
Floyd | I don't know the word "scream".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "say live long and prosper"
Floyd | I don't know the word "live".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "alien, hello"
Floyd | The alien stands and blinks its large eyes for a few seconds.  Finally
Floyd | you see its mouth curl into a tiny smile and its head bobs politely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The alien gestures to its right, and a yellow square slides out of the
Floyd | wall and hovers by its hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x square"
Floyd | If ever there were a perfectly two dimensional object, this would be
Floyd | it.  It looks like someone has found a way to apply yellow paint
Floyd | directly onto a square swatch of thin air.
Floyd |
Floyd | The alien is repeatedly opening and closing its tiny mouth and
Floyd | patiently gesturing with its delicate arms.  First it points to the
Floyd | yellow square, then it points to its own mouth, and repeats.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "eat square?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "eat square"
Floyd | The yellow square doesn't appear appetizing.
Floyd |
Floyd | The alien is repeatedly opening and closing its tiny mouth and
Floyd | patiently gesturing with its delicate arms.  First it points to the
Floyd | yellow square, then it points to its own mouth, and repeats.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "feed alien with square"
Floyd | I don't know the word "feed".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "say "Hello" to square"
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "alien, square"
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "lick square"
Floyd | I don't know the word "lick".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "kiss square"
djfletch says (to Floyd), "say square"
Floyd | You should say what you want to say in double quotes, for example, SAY
Floyd | "HELLO".
Floyd |
Floyd | The alien moves toward you and gently pushes your jaw up and down
Floyd | before retreating again and pointing at the square.  It seems the
Floyd | alien wants you to say something.  Something about the square,
Floyd | probably.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "talk to square"
Floyd | I suppose you can talk to it, but it can't hear you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The alien is repeatedly opening and closing its tiny mouth and
Floyd | patiently gesturing with its delicate arms.  First it points to the
Floyd | yellow square, then it points to its own mouth, and repeats.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "say "yellow""
Floyd | As soon as the word 'yellow' leaves your mouth, you can feel the flesh
Floyd | on your scalp tingle and crawl in lazy waves down to the nape of your
Floyd | neck.  The alien gently turns the yellow square around an invisible
Floyd | vertical axis.  The other side is red.
Floyd |
Floyd | The alien is repeatedly opening and closing its tiny mouth and
Floyd | patiently gesturing with its delicate arms.  First it points to the
Floyd | red square, then it points to its own mouth, and repeats.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "say "SQUARE""
Floyd | The alien cocks its head as though listening.  It shakes its head.
Floyd | Apparently, you didn't say what it wanted to hear.
Floyd |
Floyd | The alien is repeatedly opening and closing its tiny mouth and
Floyd | patiently gesturing with its delicate arms.  First it points to the
Floyd | red square, then it points to its own mouth, and repeats.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "say "red""
Floyd | The same tingling sensation washes over your head.  The alien turns
Floyd | the square again, but now the other side is blue.  Odd.
Floyd |
Floyd | The alien is repeatedly opening and closing its tiny mouth and
Floyd | patiently gesturing with its delicate arms.  First it points to the
Floyd | blue square, then it points to its own mouth, and repeats.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius exclaims, "Eureka!"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "say "blue""
Floyd | It feels like an army of millipedes is wending through your hair.  The
Floyd | colored square slips silently back into the wall, and a gray sphere
Floyd | slides out in its place.
Floyd |
Floyd | The alien is repeatedly opening and closing its tiny mouth and
Floyd | patiently gesturing with its delicate arms.  First it points to the
Floyd | gray sphere, then it points to its own mouth, and repeats.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch asks, "man, can't they work this stuff out from our radio transmissions?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "say "sphere""
Floyd | You can't decide whether the tingling on your scalp is relaxing or
Floyd | annoying.  It certainly makes you think that there's something on your
Floyd | head besides your hair.  The alien pushes down on the sphere, which
Floyd | sprouts points and becomes a pyramid.
Floyd |
Floyd | The alien is repeatedly opening and closing its tiny mouth and
Floyd | patiently gesturing with its delicate arms.  First it points to the
Floyd | gray pyramid, then it points to its own mouth, and repeats.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "say "pyramid""
Floyd | The prickles spread out on your head.  The alien pushes on the
Floyd | pyramid, causing its top point to flattens and spread, turning it into
Floyd | a cube.
Floyd |
Floyd | The alien is repeatedly opening and closing its tiny mouth and
Floyd | patiently gesturing with its delicate arms.  First it points to the
Floyd | gray cube, then it points to its own mouth, and repeats.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "say "your mother""
Floyd | The alien cocks its head as though listening.  It shakes its head.
Floyd | Apparently, you didn't say what it wanted to hear.
Floyd |
Floyd | The alien is repeatedly opening and closing its tiny mouth and
Floyd | patiently gesturing with its delicate arms.  First it points to the
Floyd | gray cube, then it points to its own mouth, and repeats.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "say "cube""
Floyd | As the final mass of tingles complete their journey across your scalp,
Floyd | the alien politely bows toward you.  The gray shape vanishes the same
Floyd | way that it came.
Floyd |
Floyd | Three colored shapes rise up out of the floor and hover in front of
Floyd | you.  A large green button blossoms at your feet.  The alien holds up
Floyd | its hand, as if to say 'Patience'.  It presses the green button, and
Floyd | looks at the three multi-colored spots that briefly spin around its
Floyd | head.  Then the alien gets lost in a bizarre sequence of pushing and
Floyd | turning the shapes, making them change shape and color.  Every now and
Floyd | then it presses the green button again and looks thoughtfully at the
Floyd | spots that momentarily appear.
Floyd |
Floyd | It turns one last shape with a decisive flair, and pushes the green
Floyd | button.  The three spots that appear are all green, and a part of the
Floyd | wall dissolves into mist.  The alien makes a final bow towards you and
Floyd | walks through the misty doorway, which solidifies behind it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The three shapes buck and spin, resetting themselves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "sapes"
Floyd | I don't know the word "sapes".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x shapes"
Floyd | Which shapes do you mean, the red cube on the left, the yellow sphere
Floyd | in the middle, or the blue pyramid on the right?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x cube"
Floyd | A soft red light effuses from the floating cube.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | White Room
Floyd |    The room is of uniform whiteness, and far too bright.  The air
Floyd | tastes odd; perhaps it is the lack of any detectable odors that makes
Floyd | it strange.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are three floating shapes and a large green button in the floor.
Floyd |    You see a red cube on the left, a yellow sphere in the middle, and
Floyd | a blue pyramid on the right here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x button"
Floyd | It is a sturdy green button set in the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "press button"
Floyd | A green spot, a yellow spot and a black spot twirl into existence.
Floyd | They dance about your head for a moment, and then spin out of sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "feel square"
Floyd | I don't see any square here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "f poke cube"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "feel cube"
Floyd | You tug on the cube, trying to pull it out of its appointed spot.  It
Floyd | refuses to budge, although it seems like you could turn it or push it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "poke cube"
Floyd | Poking the red cube on the left doesn't seem to have any effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "push cube"
Floyd | As you push down on the cube, its sides bulge and its corners vanish.
Floyd | When you let up it settles back into place as a sphere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "turn sphere" Cheddarius says, "Trippy."
Floyd | Which sphere do you mean, the red sphere on the left, or the yellow
Floyd | sphere in the middle?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "red"
Floyd | You grab the floating sphere and turn it.  It seems to click into
Floyd | place, changing the color from red to yellow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Hey, I think I've got it?"
EmacsUser says, "Okay, we can change shape and color."
Cheddarius says, "We have to turn it so it's the colors needed"
EmacsUser asks, "Do we match the key from the botton?"
Cheddarius says, "green, yellow, black"
Cheddarius says, "I think so"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | White Room
Floyd |    The room is of uniform whiteness, and far too bright.  The air
Floyd | tastes odd; perhaps it is the lack of any detectable odors that makes
Floyd | it strange.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are three floating shapes and a large green button in the floor.
Floyd |    You see a yellow sphere on the left, a yellow sphere in the middle,
Floyd | and a blue pyramid on the right here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Might be spheres, because they were spots"
djfletch asks, "do the spots stay the same?"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "turn yellow on left"
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "turn left"
Floyd | You grab the floating sphere and turn it.  It seems to click into
Floyd | place, changing the color from yellow to blue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "turn left"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "turn left"
Floyd | You grab the floating sphere and turn it.  It seems to click into
Floyd | place, changing the color from blue to red.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | You grab the floating sphere and turn it.  It seems to click into
Floyd | place, changing the color from red to yellow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "We need a driver"
EmacsUser says, "You drive."
Cheddarius says, "Okay"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "turn left"
Floyd | You grab the floating sphere and turn it.  It seems to click into
Floyd | place, changing the color from yellow to blue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "turn left"
Floyd | You grab the floating sphere and turn it.  It seems to click into
Floyd | place, changing the color from blue to red.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Uh..."
EmacsUser says, "My thought also."
Cheddarius asks, "Now what?"
EmacsUser says, "Look around some more."
Cheddarius asks, "Maybe blend?"
djfletch says, "try pressing the button - I think the spots may change"
Cheddarius says, "Green = yellow + blue"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "press button"
Floyd | A green spot, a red spot, and a black spot twirl into existence.  They
Floyd | dance about your head for a moment, and then spin out of sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g"
Floyd | A green spot, a red spot, and a black spot twirl into existence.  They
Floyd | dance about your head for a moment, and then spin out of sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says, "the alien made all the spots green"
Touchy says, "bah"
Touchy says, "took david and me a million years to figure out we could turn them"
Cheddarius says, "So this is what I'm thinking"
Cheddarius asks, "Green-yellow-black: Green is yellow plus blue, and yellow is just yellow, right?"
Cheddarius says, "So, the things would be blue, yellow, something or other"
EmacsUser says, "Depends if it's addative or subtractive..."
Cheddarius says, "Yeah"
Cheddarius says, "But I don't know how to get black"
Cheddarius asks, "Maybe it's cumulative?"
djfletch asks, "maybe green just means correct?"
Cheddarius exclaims, "Genius!"
Cheddarius asks, "It's a game of Mastermind, maybe?"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x shape"
Floyd | Which shape do you mean, the red sphere on the left, the yellow sphere
Floyd | in the middle, or the blue pyramid on the right?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "k, I'm taking notes now."
Cheddarius says, "Green = correct, red = correct shape/color but not other, black = wrongity wrong, you fail"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "turn blue"
Floyd | You grab the floating pyramid and turn it.  It seems to click into
Floyd | place, changing the color from blue to red.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd | A green spot and two yellow spots twirl into existence.  They dance
Floyd | about your head for a moment, and then spin out of sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Oho! Yellow = right color, red = right shape"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "turn mid"
Floyd | I don't know the word "mid".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "turn middle"
Floyd | You grab the floating sphere and turn it.  It seems to click into
Floyd | place, changing the color from yellow to blue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd | A yellow spot, a red spot, and a black spot twirl into existence.
Floyd | They dance about your head for a moment, and then spin out of sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "turn middle"
Floyd | You grab the floating sphere and turn it.  It seems to click into
Floyd | place, changing the color from blue to red.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "turn middle"
Floyd | You grab the floating sphere and turn it.  It seems to click into
Floyd | place, changing the color from red to yellow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Okay, the middle one is correct, I think. Now to change the shapes of the other ones"
Cheddarius asks, "Everyone fine with this?"
djfletch says, "push the button to check it"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd | A green spot and two yellow spots twirl into existence.  They dance
Floyd | about your head for a moment, and then spin out of sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Yep, middle seems to be right; that's the only time we get a green spot"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "push left"
Floyd | As you push down on the sphere, four points start growing out of its
Floyd | smooth surface.  When you let up it settles back into place as a
Floyd | pyramid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd | Two green spots and a red spot twirl into existence.  They dance about
Floyd | your head for a moment, and then spin out of sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius exclaims, "Excellent!"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "push right"
Floyd | As you push down on the pyramid, its edges begin to flow and multiply.
Floyd | When you let up it settles back into place as a cube.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd | Three green spots twirl into existence.  They dance about your head
Floyd | for a moment, and then spin out of sight.  The tingles are
Floyd | particularly intense and cover your entire skull before fading.  A
Floyd | part of the wall dissolves into mist, forming a doorway out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "say "O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!""
Floyd | Okay, "O frabjous day!  Callooh!  Callay!".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "exit"
Floyd | You step through the door, which promptly disappears.  It takes you a
Floyd | few seconds to adjust to the scene around you.  Eventually, the
Floyd | message gets through to your brain that something is terribly,
Floyd | terribly wrong.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.
Floyd | There's something subtly wrong with the whole situation, but you can't
Floyd | quite put your finger on it-- something about the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says, "hurrah"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x trees"
Floyd | You stare at the trees for a long time before you realize what's
Floyd | wrong.  Even though the surface of the trees looks rough, their edges
Floyd | are perfectly smooth.  It's as though someone took a smooth cylinder
Floyd | and pasted a picture of rough bark on top of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you get caught up in this discovery, you almost fail to notice the
Floyd | initials carved into one of the prominent trees near the path.  A tree
Floyd | that you don't remember at all.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x initials"
Floyd | This tree stands precisely on the spot where your thinking stump
Floyd | should be.  As you look at the tree, and the initials carved in it,
Floyd | you can almost feel a glimmer of recognition in the back of your mind,
Floyd | but you're still too befuddled by the loss of your stump.  Worse yet,
Floyd | there's no good place to sit and think about this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "lean on tree"
Floyd | I don't know the word "lean".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius exclaims, "We have lost our thinking stump!"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "read initials"
Floyd | The initials are the classic lovers pair, wrapped in a heart:
Floyd |
Floyd |            P. K.
Floyd |              +
Floyd |            E. M.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Peter Knott and Esther Minnow.  Mom and Dad.  The ten year old memory
Floyd | pushes its way to the front of your mind:  Mom tearfully packing her
Floyd | few things, Dad alternately yelling at her and pleading with her.  It
Floyd | wasn't until Aunt Betty picked her up and they drove out of sight that
Floyd | it really hit Dad.  He took an axe out the back door and attacked the
Floyd | tree that had witnessed his proposal to her.  It was a thick tree.
Floyd | Curses and saliva kept flying out of his mouth in an almost constant
Floyd | stream as he kept chopping.  You couldn't bear to watch him and took a
Floyd | long walk through the woods, but it didn't help.  The relentless
Floyd | chopping echoed off of the hilltop like rifle fire.  It was a couple
Floyd | hours later that you heard the tree fall.
Floyd |
Floyd | After he went to the asylum, you sawed off all of the splinters and
Floyd | turned the stump into a seat.  Now, amazingly, it's a tree once
Floyd | again-- initials and all.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "WE'RE DOOMED"
djfletch says, "damn you, aliens"
Cheddarius asks, "Okay, so... the aliens sent us into a poor reconstruction of the past?"
EmacsUser says, "I think so."
Ellison asks, "what is this- Janitor?"
EmacsUser asks, "Why did mom leave? A UFO-crazed dad?"
Cheddarius says, "Yeah"
Cheddarius says, "Alien Abduction"
EmacsUser says, "Or did the UFOs come later"
EmacsUser asks, "?"
Cheddarius says, "I think she left him because of the UFOs"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "remember dad"
Floyd | I don't know the word "remember".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "weep tearfully"
Floyd | I don't know the word "weep".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd | You stand still and carefully listen to the woods.  No birds are
Floyd | singing, no leaves are rustling.  The trees are still and silent.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Well, might as well look around, eh?"
EmacsUser says, "Go for it."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd | Garden
Floyd |    The garden that you let go to weed is flourishing here.  Tulips add
Floyd | color to the first greens of the vegetables pushing up through the
Floyd | ground.  The well is here, surrounded by flowers.  The front of the
Floyd | house is to the northeast and the back is to the southeast.
Floyd |    You see a broken hoe here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "pick flowers"
Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x hoe"
Floyd | It is painfully obvious that the hoe is broken beyond repair.  The
Floyd | break in the middle of the handle is completely smooth; it looks sawed
Floyd | through, not broken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take flowers"
Floyd | You can't have the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "tke hoe"
Floyd | I don't know the word "tke".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take hoe"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius exclaims, "You're not the boss of me!"
Cheddarius exclaims, "I'll take the garden if I feel like it, darnit!"
Cheddarius exclaims, "You're not my real dad!"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | The screen door doesn't even squeak.  Amazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Your eyes try to take stock of the familiar-yet-not living room, but
Floyd | they are instead immediately drawn to the figure on the couch, who
Floyd | rises and walks toward you, hand extended.  "Isaiah!  You're here!
Floyd | Let me have a look at you!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Your brain reels.  It's your father, looking exactly like he did
Floyd | before he went insane ten years ago.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You've really grown up, huh?  Having to take care of your mom these
Floyd | past couple months?  Well, now that they've got you too, maybe this
Floyd | testing will go faster.  They'll take us home soon.  Have a seat."  He
Floyd | resumes his place on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "So, not quite the past?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "talk to dad"
Floyd | You try to make a little polite conversation, but with a ten-year gulf
Floyd | and who knows what else between you, awkward silences dominate your
Floyd | conversation.  Soon you give up.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Indeed"
Cheddarius asks, "What is that clicking?"
EmacsUser notes ominous clicks.
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad about this"
Floyd | I don't know the word "this".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad about place"
Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd | You listen carefully for the noise, and eventually determine that it's
Floyd | coming from your dad.  You watch him attentively, and see that the
Floyd | noise happens when he blinks.  It's kind of like the clicking of a
Floyd | camera shutter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad where we are"
Floyd | I don't know the word "where".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "Fake dad?"
Cheddarius says, "Yes, perhaps"
djfletch says (to Floyd), "blink"
Floyd | I don't know the word "blink".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x dad"
Floyd | Your father's face is a memory come true.  He is almost precisely the
Floyd | man taken to the asylum ten years ago-- except his eyes have lost
Floyd | their spark.  He looks complacent and lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x eyes"
Floyd | I don't know the word "eyes".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x dad's eyes"
Floyd | I don't know the word "dad's".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x hoe"
Floyd | It is painfully obvious that the hoe is broken beyond repair.  The
Floyd | break in the middle of the handle is completely smooth; it looks sawed
Floyd | through, not broken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "Shall we explore the rest of the house?"
Cheddarius says, "Sure"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | With all the other changes, it really shouldn't bother you that the
Floyd | front door works and leads down nice concrete steps to the yard and
Floyd | driveway.  It gives you the willies anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x Pontiac"
Floyd | The old, familiar Pontiac sits in the driveway.  It looks to be in
Floyd | pretty good shape, considering you sold it to the scrap yard four
Floyd | years ago.  The keys are in the ignition.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "I'd try to stab the robot in the eyes with the hoe, but if it turns out to be our real dad that would be a massive mistake"
EmacsUser says, "We have undo."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Heh."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "kill dad with hoe"
Floyd | You grapple with your father, who pushes who back with incredible
Floyd | strength.  "What the hell was that for?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Hmmmmmm"
EmacsUser says, "Yep. Fake."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "Try to car?"
Cheddarius asks, "Run him over with the car? Drive away?"
Cheddarius says, "Sure"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "in"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "enter car"
Floyd | Okay, you're now in the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter car"
Floyd | You'll have to get out of the big, blue Pontiac first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "drive"
Floyd |
Floyd |    You begin to follow the gravel road towards town simply because
Floyd | that seems like the best place to go.  It doesn't take long for you to
Floyd | realize that you don't have a choice.  The view of the road in front
Floyd | of you is unobstructed, but about fifty feet off the road on either
Floyd | side is a thick, opaque fog.  You turn off on one of the side streets,
Floyd | thinking, "It's only fog."  When the car pushes into the fog, you
Floyd | literally cannot see anything beyond the car itself.  You nudge the
Floyd | car forward at about five miles per hour, and eventually see a trace
Floyd | of road in front of you.  With your eyes fixed on the line down the
Floyd | middle of the road, you slowly accelerate until the fog starts to
Floyd | lift.  Looking up, you see that you're back on the road heading into
Floyd | town.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Resignedly, you follow the road into town.  If you were expecting
Floyd | to be comforted by the sight of other people, you remain unconsoled.
Floyd | No one else is driving on the streets, no one is out walking.  The few
Floyd | houses brave enough to stick out of the fog are all dark and silent.
Floyd | The marked path of road comes to a stop right in front of Pop's
Floyd | market.  You park in the prime two-hour spot right in front of the
Floyd | store.  There doesn't seem to be a lot of competition for it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Outside Pop's, in the big, blue Pontiac
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "enter storee"
Floyd | I don't know the word "storee".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "enter store"
Floyd | You can't reach that from the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "exit"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "enter store"
Floyd | The Pop's isn't important.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "enter library"
Floyd | It's too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You head towards the library, not quite sure what you're looking for,
Floyd | but hopeful that you'll find something useful.  You stride up the
Floyd | steps, pull the door open, and come up against a wall of fog, just
Floyd | beyond the doorway.  Holding your arms out in front of you, you press
Floyd | into the fog, but you still end up coming back out of the library.
Floyd | You retreat to Pop's stoop.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Well then."
djfletch says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Inside Pop's
Floyd |    The comforting familiarity of Pop's storefront vanishes when you
Floyd | enter.  All of the aisles are barren and empty.  The candy display
Floyd | visible from outside is conspicuously absent.  The only reason you
Floyd | have to think that this is actually Pop's store is a young-looking Pop
Floyd | standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Pop looks at you and grins.  "Howdy, Isaiah!  Looks like you got on
Floyd | board okay."  He takes in your slack-jawed expression for a moment.
Floyd | "I 'spose you're wonderin' how old Pop got himself on board this ship
Floyd | when you probably saw him just a couple of days ago in town, lookin' a
Floyd | lot older.  The answer is that I ain't Pop, just a robot that looks
Floyd | and acts a lot like him.
Floyd |    "I'm tellin' you this up front so you won't think I'm trying to
Floyd | hide stuff from you.  We tried not telling your dad right away, but
Floyd | when he figured it out, boy was he sore!  He still won't come into
Floyd | town.
Floyd |    "Anyhow, I'm here to help you out.  I'll tell you everything I
Floyd | know, but I warn you now that I don't know everything.  If anything
Floyd | breaks, bring it to me and I'll try to fix it.  'Kay?"
Floyd |    Pop is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "give hoe to po"
Floyd | I don't know the word "po".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "give hoe to pop"
Floyd | Pop takes the pieces of the broken hoe and looks them over.  "Broke
Floyd | again, eh?  That's only the fourth time this month.  I think our hosts
Floyd | are finally startin' to realize that they just can't make good tools
Floyd | with their fields.  Lucky for you, they picked up an actual hoe when
Floyd | they got you.  Only costs a crystal duck."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius exclaims, "Gosh, only a crystal duck? What a deal!"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask pop about world"
Floyd | I don't know the word "world".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask pop about dad"
Floyd | "To tell you the truth, our hosts are gettin' a bit worried about him.
Floyd | When he first looked like he was down in the dumps, they figured it
Floyd | was just the stress of the asylum and what-not.  They figured out how
Floyd | to make him forget all about that, but he still doesn't seem up to his
Floyd | old self, you know?  That's one of the big reasons they started
Floyd | talkin' to you.  Maybe you can snap him out of it."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask pop about ufo"
Floyd | I don't know the word "ufo".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd | You carefully watch Pop to make sure.  Yep, he clicks when he blinks.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask pop about aliens"
Floyd | "A little curious about your 'hosts', eh?  Well, it seems to me
Floyd | they're a pretty friendly bunch, but that they can't figure out how we
Floyd | think.  I think all this abduction nonsense is designed to get us
Floyd | where they can figure us out. They've got more of a hive mind, if you
Floyd | know what I mean."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "So they're benign, then."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are empty-handed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius exclaims, "Dude stole our hoe!"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take hoe"
Floyd | I don't see any hoe here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. EmacsUser says, "Yep."
EmacsUser asks, "Where to now?"
EmacsUser asks, "Or more questions?"
Cheddarius says, "Hmmmm"
djfletch says, "to the crystal duckpond to catch a crystal duck"
Cheddarius asks, "Where can we get a duck?"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask about robot"
Floyd | I don't know the word "robot".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask pop about duck"
Floyd | "Haven't seen the duck yet?  Well, it's at the fork in the path behind
Floyd | your house.  Of course you'll have to figure out how to get it on your
Floyd | own."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius exclaims, "Excellent!"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "exit"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Drive back?"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter Pontiac"
Floyd | Okay, you're now in the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "drive"
Floyd | It's a relief to be driving out of town.  There usually aren't a lot
Floyd | of people at your house, so at least you can pretend that things are
Floyd | normal when you don't see any.
Floyd |
Floyd | Eventually you pull in the driveway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "exit"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "sw"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | The path leads north and south here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | Path Bend
Floyd |    The wooded path curves to the southwest here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Path Bend
Floyd |    The wooded path curves to the southwest here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Sorry."
Cheddarius says, "At the fork, he said"
Cheddarius says, "No problem"
Cheddarius says, "Hmmm"
Cheddarius asks, "So, southeast, or southwest?"
EmacsUser says, "Let's try sw."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd | Woods
Floyd |    This is the major hub of this path.  It splits to the south and
Floyd | west, and taking either fork will eventually get you back here from
Floyd | from the other direction.  Right at the forking of the path is a huge,
Floyd | menacing contraption.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x contraption"
Floyd | The large metal contraption is fairly straightforward in design.  It
Floyd | has a platform that comes up to your chest, supporting a hollow,
Floyd | transparent cylinder.  It also has an axe, connected to a large,
Floyd | tightly wound spring arm, ready to sweep horizontally across the top
Floyd | of the cylinder.  Presumably, the purpose of the axe is to discourage
Floyd | the theft of the beautiful crystalline duck, resting serenely in the
Floyd | cylinder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Seems a bit low-tech for aliens."
Cheddarius says, "We'll probably have to undo this"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "steal duck"
Floyd | I don't know the word "steal".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take duck"
Floyd | You reach into the cylinder, wondering how good of an idea this is.
Floyd | You lift the duck, and you simultaneously hear a mechanical chuff and
Floyd | feel your forearm explode in pain.  You grab at the axe with your
Floyd | other hand, and pull it back far enough to let your arm escape with
Floyd | the duck.  The bruise is already becoming visible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd |    This is the major hub of this path.  It splits to the south and
Floyd | west, and taking either fork will eventually get you back here from
Floyd | from the other direction.  Right at the forking of the path is a huge,
Floyd | menacing contraption.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "redo"
Floyd | I don't know the word "redo".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take duck"
Floyd | You reach into the cylinder, wondering how good of an idea this is.
Floyd | You lift the duck, and you simultaneously hear a mechanical chuff and
Floyd | feel your forearm explode in pain.  You grab at the axe with your
Floyd | other hand, and pull it back far enough to let your arm escape with
Floyd | the duck.  The bruise is already becoming visible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Oh, I guess we don't"
EmacsUser asks, "don't...?"
Cheddarius says, "Don't have to undo"
Cheddarius says, "Because we have the duck and we're not dead"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x arm"
Floyd | Which arm do you mean, the spring arm, or the bruise on your arm?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x bruise"
Floyd | Every time you look at it, the bruise on your arm seems to have spread
Floyd | a little more.  The yellowish edge grows more pronounced, and the
Floyd | blacks, blues and purples have deepened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Er... are we going to die?"
EmacsUser says, "I think we could have been more clever."
Cheddarius asks, "So, undo?"
EmacsUser asks, "How about undo, save, and then continue to see if we die?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "sure"
Floyd | I don't know the word "sure".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Sure."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd |    This is the major hub of this path.  It splits to the south and
Floyd | west, and taking either fork will eventually get you back here from
Floyd | from the other direction.  Right at the forking of the path is a huge,
Floyd | menacing contraption.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd |    This is the major hub of this path.  It splits to the south and
Floyd | west, and taking either fork will eventually get you back here from
Floyd | from the other direction.  Right at the forking of the path is a huge,
Floyd | menacing contraption.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd |    This is the major hub of this path.  It splits to the south and
Floyd | west, and taking either fork will eventually get you back here from
Floyd | from the other direction.  Right at the forking of the path is a huge,
Floyd | menacing contraption.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd |    This is the major hub of this path.  It splits to the south and
Floyd | west, and taking either fork will eventually get you back here from
Floyd | from the other direction.  Right at the forking of the path is a huge,
Floyd | menacing contraption.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks (of Jacqueline), "If we'd like to save, what filename may we use?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Path Bend
Floyd |    The wooded path curves to the southwest here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd | Woods
Floyd |    This is the major hub of this path.  It splits to the south and
Floyd | west, and taking either fork will eventually get you back here from
Floyd | from the other direction.  Right at the forking of the path is a huge,
Floyd | menacing contraption.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says, "usually use the save button I think"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf2"
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser exclaims (at djfletch), "Thanks!"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take duck"
Floyd | You reach into the cylinder, wondering how good of an idea this is.
Floyd | You lift the duck, and you simultaneously hear a mechanical chuff and
Floyd | feel your forearm explode in pain.  You grab at the axe with your
Floyd | other hand, and pull it back far enough to let your arm escape with
Floyd | the duck.  The bruise is already becoming visible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x bruise"
Floyd | Every time you look at it, the bruise on your arm seems to have spread
Floyd | a little more.  The yellowish edge grows more pronounced, and the
Floyd | blacks, blues and purples have deepened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x bruise"
Floyd | Every time you look at it, the bruise on your arm seems to have spread
Floyd | a little more.  The yellowish edge grows more pronounced, and the
Floyd | blacks, blues and purples have deepened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x duck"
Floyd | The duck is made from clear crystal that looks exactly like a rush of
Floyd | spring water, frozen in time.  Its curves are unblemished, and its
Floyd | form is serene and beautiful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "We seem to be fine"
Cheddarius asks, "Should we try a more clever way?"
EmacsUser says, "Let's keep going with this."
Cheddarius says, "Yeah, probably. I don't really see why there would be a clever way to do it when the normal way is perfectly fine"
EmacsUser asks, "back to town?"
Cheddarius says, "Yeah"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | You start heading back up the path toward your house.  As the trail
Floyd | curves around a large tree, you are startled to find an alien standing
Floyd | in the middle of the path, shaking its head.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a sharp prick in your neck, and you slap at the pain and spin
Floyd | around to see what it was.  You are dismayed to find that the world
Floyd | continues spinning past you even though you are sure your body has
Floyd | stopped.  You slump to the ground...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | and awaken in the woods near the contraption.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "What"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are empty-handed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "They want us to be clever."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x contraption"
Floyd | The large metal contraption is fairly straightforward in design.  It
Floyd | has a platform that comes up to your chest, supporting a hollow,
Floyd | transparent cylinder.  It also has an axe, connected to a large,
Floyd | tightly wound spring arm, ready to sweep horizontally across the top
Floyd | of the cylinder.  Presumably, the purpose of the axe is to discourage
Floyd | the theft of the beautiful crystalline duck, resting serenely in the
Floyd | cylinder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x bruise"
Floyd | Every time you look at it, the bruise on your arm seems to have spread
Floyd | a little more.  The yellowish edge grows more pronounced, and the
Floyd | blacks, blues and purples have deepened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x spring"
Floyd | The torsional spring about the axis of this arm looks very strong and
Floyd | very strained.  Practically anything could set it off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Can I try taking the duck again to see if we die or something?"
EmacsUser says, "That's fine. But I don't think it will work."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take duck"
Floyd | You reach into the cylinder, wondering how good of an idea this is.
Floyd | You lift the duck, and are knocked to the ground by explosive noise
Floyd | and pain.
Floyd |
Floyd | Shortly before you go into shock, you realize that your arm is missing
Floyd | below the elbow.  Shortly after, you stop caring.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** You have died ***
Floyd |
Floyd | In a total of 130 turns, you have achieved a score of 80 points out of
Floyd | a possible 200.  You also received 5 bonus points.
Floyd |
Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current
Floyd | command.
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO:  >
Cheddarius says, "Hah, interesting"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd | File to restore >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "cf2"
Floyd | Woods
Floyd |    This is the major hub of this path.  It splits to the south and
Floyd | west, and taking either fork will eventually get you back here from
Floyd | from the other direction.  Right at the forking of the path is a huge,
Floyd | menacing contraption.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "I think we should get an item first"
Cheddarius says, "Then drop it, then grab the axe"
Cheddarius says, "Or wedge it or something"
djfletch says, "wonder if the hoe has been returned to the garden"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | Path Bend
Floyd |    The wooded path curves to the southwest here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | The gravel road into town is long and boring.  It would be a lot
Floyd | easier to drive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd | Garden
Floyd |    The garden that you let go to weed is flourishing here.  Tulips add
Floyd | color to the first greens of the vegetables pushing up through the
Floyd | ground.  The well is here, surrounded by flowers.  The front of the
Floyd | house is to the northeast and the back is to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Nope, it's not there"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "I think maybe search the places that are near that fork?"
Floyd | I don't know the word "think".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Oops"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask dad about duck"
Floyd | "They had me solve that duck puzzle too.  Huh.  Guess they're seeing
Floyd | if we work the same way.  After I got the duck, I wondered what would
Floyd | have happened if I had just grabbed the duck without..."  He looks at
Floyd | you, realizing that he's about to give too much away.  "...solving it
Floyd | first."  He finishes lamely.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Anyway, it said that the fork lead south and west"
EmacsUser says, "Okay. Lead on."
djfletch says, "oh wait I was thinking we had still tried the duck once but the save was before that wasn't it"
Cheddarius exclaims, "It's our real dad, I think!"
Cheddarius says, "Yeah, it was"
EmacsUser says, "I don't think it is our dad; he goes ``Click.''"
Cheddarius says, "Hmmm"
djfletch says, "anyway, keep looking around if we haven't been everywhere yet"
Cheddarius says, "On the other hand, he acts like our real dad, and doesn't say he's a robot"
Cheddarius says, "And he talked about solving the puzzle"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "Oh, could we look at the microwave?"
Cheddarius asks, "Should we go back to the fork and explore that?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Yeah, sorry"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "open microwave"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x microwave"
Floyd | The appliances aren't important.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | All of the appliances look new and spotless.  In fact, they look quite
Floyd | unused.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Oh."
Cheddarius says, "Drat"
EmacsUser says, "Your turn."
Cheddarius says, "All right"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Path Bend
Floyd |    The wooded path curves to the southwest here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | The path leads north and south-west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd | The path leads north and south-west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd | Woods
Floyd |    This is the major hub of this path.  It splits to the south and
Floyd | west, and taking either fork will eventually get you back here from
Floyd | from the other direction.  Right at the forking of the path is a huge,
Floyd | menacing contraption.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | You walk about twenty feet before coming to a wall of dense fog.  You
Floyd | press into it, but come out right where you entered, even though you
Floyd | never felt yourself turn around.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You walk about twenty feet before coming to a wall of dense fog.  You
Floyd | press into it, but come out right where you entered, even though you
Floyd | never felt yourself turn around.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take axe"
Floyd | You pull on it, but you can't seem to work it free from the spring
Floyd | arm, and frankly, it's a little frightening to try to remove it with
Floyd | the spring arm so tightly wound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "poke spring"
Floyd | Poking the spring arm doesn't seem to have any effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius exclaims, "If only we had a decoy!"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | Assuming you haven't lost your grip on reality, you are Isaiah Knott,
Floyd | a twenty-seven year old man from the Appalachian mountains.  You are
Floyd | wearing your comfortable jeans, a thick flannel shirt, and hiking
Floyd | boots.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "remove boots"
Floyd | I don't know the word "boots".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Darn"
EmacsUser asks, "What about the Bedroom?"
Cheddarius says, "Oh, yes, I'd forgotten about htat"
Cheddarius says, "*that"
Cheddarius exclaims, "Lead the way, my good man!"
Cheddarius says, "Or woman, as it may be"
EmacsUser says, "Oh. Ok. (Man)"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Woods
Floyd |    This is the major hub of this path.  It splits to the south and
Floyd | west, and taking either fork will eventually get you back here from
Floyd | from the other direction.  Right at the forking of the path is a huge,
Floyd | menacing contraption.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | Path Bend
Floyd |    The wooded path curves to the southwest here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd |    The bedroom has also learned of the wonders of carpeting, and your
Floyd | shoddy mattress has been replaced with a beautiful brass bed.  In the
Floyd | south-west corner of the room is a giant metal cylinder with rounded
Floyd | ends.  It stands well over eight feet tall, and comes close to
Floyd | brushing the ceiling.  The only break in the seamless metal is a pad
Floyd | protruding out of its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "A... brass bed?"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x cylinder. x pad"
Floyd | In many of the abduction stories that you read, there were cylinders
Floyd | like this one that contained other abductees.  This one is certainly
Floyd | large enough.
Floyd |
Floyd | A keypad protrudes from the cylinder's side and has nine keys, each
Floyd | with a different alien symbol on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Since you stand little chance of deciphering the nine different alien
Floyd | symbols, you decide to treat the three by three grid of buttons as a
Floyd | touch-tone phone and mentally number it that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "type 123456789"
Floyd | (on the keypad)
Floyd | You start pressing buttons.  The keypad buzzes sharply at you when you
Floyd | finish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "type 8888888888888888"
Floyd | (on the keypad)
Floyd | You start pressing buttons.  The keypad buzzes sharply at you when you
Floyd | finish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x pad" Jacqueline says, "Play on, folks. I'm stepping outside for a bit. I'll check back in later and if you're done I'll wrap up the transcript. :)"
Floyd | Since you stand little chance of deciphering the nine different alien
Floyd | symbols, you decide to treat the three by three grid of buttons as a
Floyd | touch-tone phone and mentally number it that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Okay, so we don't know the length of the code"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "type 5"
Floyd | (on the keypad)
Floyd | You start pressing buttons.  The keypad buzzes sharply at you when you
Floyd | finish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser exclaims (at Jacqueline), "Thanks Jacqueline!"
Cheddarius exclaims, "Thanks Jacqueline!"
EmacsUser says, "Sorry. It took me a bit to parse ``pad'' as keypad rather than pillowy thing."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask dad about pad"
Floyd | "Never heard of it.  Sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask dad about cylinder"
Floyd | "You noticed that too, huh?  When I first got here, I was real
Floyd | suspicious about that thing, so I hung around the bedroom a lot.  An
Floyd | alien came in and punched in a code, and a window opened up in it.
Floyd | The code was 5222."  He types on an imaginary keypad in front of him.
Floyd | "I guess my watching made them suspicious.  That night, when I tried
Floyd | to look through the window, they snuck up and hit me with one o' those
Floyd | hypos-- took me right out.  I woke up in my bed the next morning.  I
Floyd | went back and looked through the window again, but it was empty."  He
Floyd | stops and thinks for a minute.  "I think that was when they took the
Floyd | wires out of my head, too."  He reaches over and gives one of the
Floyd | wires on your head a playful tweak.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser exclaims, "Wires!"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x wires"
Floyd | I don't see any wires here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x head"
Floyd | You run your fingers back over your head, and are shocked to discover
Floyd | four wires (tubes?  It's hard to tell from touching them) coming out
Floyd | of the top of your head and re-entering your skull at the base of your
Floyd | neck.  What have they done to you?
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "feel wires"
Floyd | Without a mirror, it's really difficult to examine them.  Just from
Floyd | touch, all four wires are about a quarter-inch thick, and they
Floyd | seamlessly attach to your attach to your skull.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Let's hope this doesn't kill us"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "pull wires"
Floyd | You firmly pull on one of the wires.  It's like pulling on a large
Floyd | clump of your own hair.  It might come free, but how much will it
Floyd | hurt?
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "pull out wires"
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf3"
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "pull wires"
Floyd | You firmly pull on one of the wires.  It's like pulling on a large
Floyd | clump of your own hair.  It might come free, but how much will it
Floyd | hurt?
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Eh, guess it doesn't work"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd |    The bedroom has also learned of the wonders of carpeting, and your
Floyd | shoddy mattress has been replaced with a beautiful brass bed.  In the
Floyd | south-west corner of the room is a giant metal cylinder with rounded
Floyd | ends.  It stands well over eight feet tall, and comes close to
Floyd | brushing the ceiling.  The only break in the seamless metal is a pad
Floyd | protruding out of its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "type 5222"
Floyd | (on the keypad)
Floyd | You start pressing buttons.  When you finish with the sequence, a
Floyd | large section of the metal cylinder slowly becomes transparent.  The
Floyd | keypad chimes when the process completes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x cylinder"
Floyd | In many of the abduction stories that you read, there were cylinders
Floyd | like this one that contained other abductees.  This one is certainly
Floyd | large enough.
Floyd |
Floyd | Now you have a chance to see what is inside the enigmatic cylinder.  A
Floyd | large rectangle of the cylinder has become a dark window to the
Floyd | interior.
Floyd |
Floyd | A keypad protrudes from the cylinder's side and has nine keys, each
Floyd | with a different alien symbol on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "look inside cylinder"
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "look in cylinder"
Floyd | There's nothing in the metal cylinder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd | Without any light coming from within the cylinder, you are forced to
Floyd | press your face up against the window and cup your hands around your
Floyd | eyes.  At first you can see nothing but a small ball of faintly
Floyd | glowing blue light.  As your eyes adjust to the darkness within, you
Floyd | can tell that the faint glow is like a turbulent lightning storm;
Floyd | there are localized pockets of activity which occasionally leap across
Floyd | the length of the ball, lighting up new regions in a chaotic pattern.
Floyd |
Floyd | You continue to watch, fascinated, until you realize that the blue
Floyd | glow is faintly illuminating what's beneath it:  your face.  Somehow,
Floyd | you are looking at your own body inside of the cylinder, except that
Floyd | your head is open and there is a glowing ball where your brain should
Floyd | be.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tingles slide down your scalp, and the faintly glowing brain within
Floyd | the cylinder explodes with arcs of color and flashes of light.  As the
Floyd | shock passes, the tingles on your scalp recede, and the glowing brain
Floyd | dims to its previous state.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your heart crawls into your throat as you wait for what you think
Floyd | might happen. Finally, you see your alternate self blink, and hear a
Floyd | faint 'tik' through the skin of the cylinder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "...what."
EmacsUser says, "Fake us."
EmacsUser says, "Fake-us maybe could get the duck."
Cheddarius asks, "So the dad is fake after all?"
Cheddarius says, "Wait, maybe it's not truly "fake""
Cheddarius asks, "Maybe it's a robot that's controlled by us, see?"
EmacsUser says, "Maybe."
Cheddarius says, "When we were shocked, the brain lit up"
Cheddarius says, "It seems to be connected to us in some way"
EmacsUser asks, "How to test this hypothesis?"
Cheddarius says, "Hmmmm"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "smile"
Floyd | I don't know the word "smile".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "We need to do something that will let us see the other self"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x clone"
Floyd | I don't know the word "clone".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | Assuming you haven't lost your grip on reality, you are Isaiah Knott,
Floyd | a twenty-seven year old man from the Appalachian mountains.  You are
Floyd | wearing your comfortable jeans, a thick flannel shirt, and hiking
Floyd | boots.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are four wires protruding out of your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x body"
Floyd | I don't know the word "body".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd | You press against the window again, grotesquely fascinated with your
Floyd | doppleganger inside.  The chaotic lightshow emanating from its open
Floyd | skull is fascinating and disconcerting.  The faint, regular ticks
Floyd | float out to you as your other self blinks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x doppleganger"
Floyd | I don't know the word "doppleganger".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "pull wire"
Floyd | You firmly pull on one of the wires.  It's like pulling on a large
Floyd | clump of your own hair.  It might come free, but how much will it
Floyd | hurt?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "knock on window"
Floyd | I don't know the word "knock".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take other me"
Floyd | I don't know the word "other".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take bod"
Floyd | I don't know the word "bod".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take body"
Floyd | I don't know the word "body".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "Should be ask dad about the wires to see if we can learn more?"
Cheddarius says, "Yes, that sounds good"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "dad about wires"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask dad about wires"
Floyd | "Aw, don't worry about those.  They'll take 'em out after a couple
Floyd | days."  He proffers the top of his slightly balding head for your
Floyd | inspection.  "See?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad about me"
Floyd | "I told ya' they'd come for you."  His forehead creases a notch.  "I
Floyd | thought they'd give you more than a couple o' months, though."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad about doppleganger"
Floyd | I don't know the word "doppleganger".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "tell dad about cylinder"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "dad, w"
Floyd | "I'm tellin' you, it's empty.  Code's 5222, go look yourself."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | "I just don't feel like doin' much of anything."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says, "so, he thinks they took out his wires but actually that was when they replaced him with a robot. Maybe."
EmacsUser says, "I think you're right."
Cheddarius asks, "Okay, so if we're in there, maybe flailing around will break the cylinder?"
Cheddarius says, "Or, rather, if the doppleganger does the same thing as what we do"
EmacsUser says, "Maybe. My guess is this is more for literary effect than a puzzle. But I'm bad at guesses as the last game showed."
Cheddarius says, "Hmmm"
Cheddarius says, "I dunno what to do, really"
Cheddarius exclaims, "Oh! We can ask Pop about it!"
EmacsUser says, "We can always ask the guy in town about---yes."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "enter car"
Floyd | Okay, you're now in the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "drive"
Floyd | As you drive into town, you carefully scan the oppressive fog for any
Floyd | weakness. Occasionally you drive down one of the other side roads, but
Floyd | you always end up heading toward town.  You roll to a stop in front of
Floyd | Pop's market.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "exit"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Inside Pop's
Floyd |    The comforting familiarity of Pop's storefront vanishes when you
Floyd | enter.  All of the aisles are barren and empty.  The candy display
Floyd | visible from outside is conspicuously absent.  The only reason you
Floyd | have to think that this is actually Pop's store is a young-looking Pop
Floyd | standing behind the counter.
Floyd |    Pop is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask pop about cylinder"
Floyd | "That big cylinder in your room?  It's just monitoring stuff.  Don't
Floyd | worry about it."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask pop about 5222"
Floyd | I don't know how to ask anything about the number 5222.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "tell pop about cylinder"
Floyd | It doesn't look as though Pop is interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask pop about wires"
Floyd | "Aw, don't worry about those.  Once the aliens get all their stuff set
Floyd | up right, they'll take those out again."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Not helpful."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask pop about axe"
Floyd | Pop scratches his chin.  "I'm afraid I wasn't told 'bout any axe.
Floyd | Maybe if you showed me."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask pop about contraption"
Floyd | "Reckon I don't know too much about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask pop about camera"
Floyd | "Reckon I don't know too much about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "curse gods"
Floyd | I don't know the word "curse".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "bother"
Floyd | I don't know the word "bother".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "Okay. Explore the trail then?"
Cheddarius says, "Sure"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter Pontiac"
Floyd | Okay, you're now in the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You're not going anywhere until you get out of the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Maybe... maybe if we tried to take the duck, got the bruise, and showed the bruise to Pop?"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drive"
Floyd | It's a relief to be driving out of town.  There usually aren't a lot
Floyd | of people at your house, so at least you can pretend that things are
Floyd | normal when you don't see any.
Floyd |
Floyd | Eventually you pull in the driveway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | You're not going anywhere until you get out of the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Path Bend
Floyd |    The wooded path curves to the southwest here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd | Woods
Floyd |    This is the major hub of this path.  It splits to the south and
Floyd | west, and taking either fork will eventually get you back here from
Floyd | from the other direction.  Right at the forking of the path is a huge,
Floyd | menacing contraption.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf4"
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "So, get a bruise?"
EmacsUser says, "It's saved. Go ahead."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take duck"
Floyd | You reach into the cylinder, wondering how good of an idea this is.
Floyd | You lift the duck, and you simultaneously hear a mechanical chuff and
Floyd | feel your forearm explode in pain.  You grab at the axe with your
Floyd | other hand, and pull it back far enough to let your arm escape with
Floyd | the duck.  The bruise is already becoming visible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | You start heading back up the path toward your house.  As the trail
Floyd | curves around a large tree, you are startled to find an alien standing
Floyd | in the middle of the path, shaking its head.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a sharp prick in your neck, and you slap at the pain and spin
Floyd | around to see what it was.  You are dismayed to find that the world
Floyd | continues spinning past you even though you are sure your body has
Floyd | stopped.  You slump to the ground...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | and awaken in the woods near the contraption.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | Path Bend
Floyd |    The wooded path curves to the southwest here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "enter pontiac"
Floyd | Okay, you're now in the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "drive"
Floyd | As you drive into town, you carefully scan the oppressive fog for any
Floyd | weakness. Occasionally you drive down one of the other side roads, but
Floyd | you always end up heading toward town.  You roll to a stop in front of
Floyd | Pop's market.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "exit"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Inside Pop's
Floyd |    The comforting familiarity of Pop's storefront vanishes when you
Floyd | enter.  All of the aisles are barren and empty.  The candy display
Floyd | visible from outside is conspicuously absent.  The only reason you
Floyd | have to think that this is actually Pop's store is a young-looking Pop
Floyd | standing behind the counter.
Floyd |    Pop is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "show bruise to pop"
Floyd | "Hoo!  That's a doozy!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask pop about bruise"
Floyd | "Hoo!  That's a doozy!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Dangit"
Cheddarius asks, "Restore?"
EmacsUser asks, "How about the other dad first?"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Sure"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter Pontiac"
Floyd | Okay, you're now in the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drive"
Floyd | It's a relief to be driving out of town.  There usually aren't a lot
Floyd | of people at your house, so at least you can pretend that things are
Floyd | normal when you don't see any.
Floyd |
Floyd | Eventually you pull in the driveway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "show bruise to dad"
Floyd | "Huh!  Helluva bruise, son."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "tell dad about bruise"
Floyd | "Huh!  Helluva bruise, son."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad about axe"
Floyd | "Never heard of it.  Sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad about contraption"
Floyd | "Never heard of it.  Sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "punch dad"
Floyd | I don't know the word "punch".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Dangiiiit"
djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask dad about duck"
Floyd | "They had me solve that duck puzzle too.  Huh.  Guess they're seeing
Floyd | if we work the same way.  After I got the duck, I wondered what would
Floyd | have happened if I had just grabbed the duck without..."  He looks at
Floyd | you, realizing that he's about to give too much away.  "...solving it
Floyd | first."  He finishes lamely.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "g"
Floyd | "They had me solve that duck puzzle too.  Huh.  Guess they're seeing
Floyd | if we work the same way.  After I got the duck, I wondered what would
Floyd | have happened if I had just grabbed the duck without..."  He looks at
Floyd | you, realizing that he's about to give too much away.  "...solving it
Floyd | first."  He finishes lamely.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "If we had one thing! One inventory item, anything, a rock, even"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd | Garden
Floyd |    The garden that you let go to weed is flourishing here.  Tulips add
Floyd | color to the first greens of the vegetables pushing up through the
Floyd | ground.  The well is here, surrounded by flowers.  The front of the
Floyd | house is to the northeast and the back is to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x well"
Floyd | This well, like the wood-burning stove inside of the house, was one of
Floyd | the few things of quality you've always had.  For as long as you can
Floyd | remember, it has always provided clear, sweet water.  It's about two
Floyd | and a half feet in diameter and lined with white stones.  A board is
Floyd | mortared into the top of it as an anchor for the rope.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take stones"
Floyd | I don't know the word "stones".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "use well"
Floyd | I don't know the word "use".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x board"
Floyd | This board is firmly attached to the top of the well.  Its purpose is
Floyd | simply to stop the rope from falling in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x rope"
Floyd | The rope is tied to the board at the top of the well, the rest dangles
Floyd | down into darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "turn crank"
Floyd | I don't know the word "crank".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take rope"
Floyd | You haul the bucket up out of the darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x bucket"
Floyd | The tall, narrow bucket is cool to the touch.  It is full of water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are empty-handed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take bucket"
Floyd | You untie it from the rope and carry it with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "YES"
Cheddarius says, "VICTORY IS OURS"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "untie rope"
Floyd | The knot connecting the rope to the board is so stiff and weathered
Floyd | that it cannot be untied.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Just checking."
EmacsUser says, "Water also, huh."
djfletch asks, "we can float the duck?"
Cheddarius asks, "Okay, let's try pouring it in the contraption?"
Cheddarius asks, "Or shorting out Dad?"
EmacsUser laughs
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf5"
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge.
Cheddarius arrives, full of fun and funk.
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "throw water at dad"
Floyd | You miss.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Ugh"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "pour water on dad"
Floyd | Just as you are about to tip the bucket out onto onto your father, he
Floyd | catches your hand.  "Not on me!  I'm real!  You can pour water on
Floyd | anything else, though.  Won't bother me a bit."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "I'm saving a lot because Baf's guide says you can get stuck by solving a puzzle too early."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "Ah"
Floyd | I don't know the word "ah".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "It recognizes the verb pour."
Cheddarius says, "He... claims he's real..."
Cheddarius says, "He might be mistaken, though"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You have a bucket.  The bucket seems to contain some water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Anyway. Short out Pops for awesome, or go to duck?"
EmacsUser says, "Duck please."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "Yeah"
Floyd | I don't know the word "yeah".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Yeah"
EmacsUser ducks.
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Path Bend
Floyd |    The wooded path curves to the southwest here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Oh, you drive I guess"
EmacsUser says, "You can; sorry."
EmacsUser says, "I was just speeding up the southward journey."
Cheddarius says, "Oh"
Cheddarius exclaims, "Thanks!"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd | Woods
Floyd |    This is the major hub of this path.  It splits to the south and
Floyd | west, and taking either fork will eventually get you back here from
Floyd | from the other direction.  Right at the forking of the path is a huge,
Floyd | menacing contraption.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "pour water in contraption"
Floyd | The contraption isn't important.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "What?"
EmacsUser asks, "Cylinder?"
Cheddarius says, "This is ridiculous"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "pour water in cylinde"
Floyd | The water fills the cylinder, covering the duck.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take duck"
Floyd | You gently reach into the water and lift the crystalline duck out.
Floyd | Once you get the duck past the sweep of the axe, you realize that you
Floyd | had been holding your breath.  You let it explode out of your mouth
Floyd | with a gust of relief.  A fresh wave of tingles crawls across your
Floyd | scalp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "YESSSSS"
EmacsUser asks, "Huh?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "pump fist"
Floyd | I don't know the word "pump".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "I think it acts on weight"
EmacsUser exclaims, "Ah!"
Cheddarius says, "We put weight in the cylinder that equaled the duck, so it didn't trigger"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You have a bucket and a duck.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf6"
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | Path Bend
Floyd |    The wooded path curves to the southwest here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | The path leads north and south-west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius exclaims, "To new horizons!"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "We should tell Dad"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "show duck to dad"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "tell dad about duck"
Floyd | "They had me solve that duck puzzle too.  Huh.  Guess they're seeing
Floyd | if we work the same way.  After I got the duck, I wondered what would
Floyd | have happened if I had just grabbed the duck without..."  He looks at
Floyd | you, realizing that he's about to give too much away.  "...solving it
Floyd | first."  He finishes lamely.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | "They had me solve that duck puzzle too.  Huh.  Guess they're seeing
Floyd | if we work the same way.  After I got the duck, I wondered what would
Floyd | have happened if I had just grabbed the duck without..."  He looks at
Floyd | you, realizing that he's about to give too much away.  "...solving it
Floyd | first."  He finishes lamely.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter car"
Floyd | Okay, you're now in the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drive"
Floyd | As you drive into town, you carefully scan the oppressive fog for any
Floyd | weakness. Occasionally you drive down one of the other side roads, but
Floyd | you always end up heading toward town.  You roll to a stop in front of
Floyd | Pop's market.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Inside Pop's
Floyd |    The comforting familiarity of Pop's storefront vanishes when you
Floyd | enter.  All of the aisles are barren and empty.  The candy display
Floyd | visible from outside is conspicuously absent.  The only reason you
Floyd | have to think that this is actually Pop's store is a young-looking Pop
Floyd | standing behind the counter.
Floyd |    Pop is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "No congratulations? No "I'm proud of you"? Not even a "Good work, son"? I'm starting to see why Mom left him"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "show duck to pop"
Floyd | Pop lifts the crystal duck out of your hands and admires it.  "Well,
Floyd | didn't take you too long to get that, did it?"  He grins and stashes
Floyd | the duck behind the counter.  "I'll go get that new hoe."  He wanders
Floyd | into the back room and emerges with a brand new hoe, which he gives to
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Dig up the garden?"
Cheddarius asks, "Become estranged from Dad and attack him in a fit of rage?"
EmacsUser says, "Ok. The former option please."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "enter car"
Floyd | Okay, you're now in the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "drive"
Floyd | It's a relief to be driving out of town.  There usually aren't a lot
Floyd | of people at your house, so at least you can pretend that things are
Floyd | normal when you don't see any.
Floyd |
Floyd | Eventually you pull in the driveway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd | Garden
Floyd |    The garden that you let go to weed is flourishing here.  Tulips add
Floyd | color to the first greens of the vegetables pushing up through the
Floyd | ground.  The well is here, surrounded by flowers.  The front of the
Floyd | house is to the northeast and the back is to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "dig garden"
Floyd | What do you want to dig in it with?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "dig garden with hoe"
Floyd | I don't know how to dig in the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "dig ground with hoe"
Floyd | I don't know how to dig in the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "dig with hoe"
Floyd | What do you want to dig in?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "dig with hoe in garden"
Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "dig flowers with hoe"
Floyd | I don't know how to dig in the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "This must be the wrong place to dig at."
djfletch says (to Floyd), "hoe vegetables"
Floyd | Although the garden itself doesn't need hoeing, you would like to hack
Floyd | out that unsightly clod of dirt.  With a couple of well placed swings,
Floyd | you sever the roots clinging to the clod.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Yes, perhaps"
Cheddarius says, "Ah"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x clod"
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary clod of dirt to me.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Garden
Floyd |    The garden that you let go to weed is flourishing here.  Tulips add
Floyd | color to the first greens of the vegetables pushing up through the
Floyd | ground.  The well is here, surrounded by flowers.  The front of the
Floyd | house is to the northeast and the back is to the southeast.
Floyd |    You see a clod of dirt here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take clod"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "search clod"
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "eat clod"
Floyd | The clod of dirt doesn't appear appetizing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "poke clod"
Floyd | Poking the clod of dirt doesn't seem to have any effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "What can we do with a clod of dirt?"
EmacsUser asks, "What is our current objective? Escape?"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "score"
Floyd | In a total of 283 turns, you have achieved a score of 120 points out
Floyd | of a possible 200.  You also received 15 bonus points.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "We have no objective, I thik"
Cheddarius says, "I think"
Cheddarius says, "Because we don't have any leads"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "full score"
Floyd | I don't know the word "full".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says, "we could smash open the robot container with our hoe"
djfletch says, "no idea what the clod is good for"
EmacsUser says, "Sounds worth a try."
djfletch says (to Floyd), "get vegetables"
Floyd | You can't have the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd |    The bedroom has also learned of the wonders of carpeting, and your
Floyd | shoddy mattress has been replaced with a beautiful brass bed.  In the
Floyd | south-west corner of the room is a giant metal cylinder with rounded
Floyd | ends.  It stands well over eight feet tall, and comes close to
Floyd | brushing the ceiling.  The only break in the seamless metal is a pad
Floyd | protruding out of its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "hit cylinder with hoe"
Floyd | Attacking the metal cylinder doesn't appear productive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "throw clod at cylinder"
Floyd | You miss.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take clod"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "microwave clod"
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "put clod in microwave"
Floyd | The appliances aren't important.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You have a bucket, a hoe, and a clod of dirt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "put dirt in bucket"
Floyd | That won't fit into the bucket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "rub clod"
Floyd | I don't know the word "rub".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius exclaims, "Ugh!"
EmacsUser says, "We could put the clod in water. What good that would do, I don't know."
Cheddarius says, "Yeah, I was thinking about making mud, but we can't put it in the bucket"
Cheddarius asks, "Maybe save, then throw it in the well?"
djfletch asks, "pour water on it?"
Cheddarius says, "Yeah, that could work"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Water is the available inventory item we don't have."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd | Garden
Floyd |    The garden that you let go to weed is flourishing here.  Tulips add
Floyd | color to the first greens of the vegetables pushing up through the
Floyd | ground.  The well is here, surrounded by flowers.  The front of the
Floyd | house is to the northeast and the back is to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "tie bucket to rope"
Floyd | You carefully tie the rope to the bucket, and drop the bucket into the
Floyd | well.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take rope"
Floyd | You haul the bucket up out of the darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take bucket"
Floyd | You untie it from the rope and carry it with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "pour bucket on clod"
Floyd | You can't pour a bucket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "pour water on clod"
Floyd | The water flows smoothly off of the clod of dirt, leaving it as dry as
Floyd | if it had never been there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Garden
Floyd |    The garden that you let go to weed is flourishing here.  Tulips add
Floyd | color to the first greens of the vegetables pushing up through the
Floyd | ground.  The well is here, surrounded by flowers.  The front of the
Floyd | house is to the northeast and the back is to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Show everything we have to everyone we know?"
EmacsUser says, "We need somehow to determine our objective."
Cheddarius says, "Hmmm"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad about escape"
Floyd | I don't know the word "escape".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad about leave"
Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad about goal"
Floyd | I don't know the word "goal".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad about escaping"
Floyd | I don't know the word "escaping".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x stove"
Floyd | This stove was the one thing of quality in your house.  It's
Floyd | comforting to see that it hasn't changed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "open stove"
Floyd | There's nothing in it.  It's too warm outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "turn on stove"
Floyd | The stove isn't important.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "put clod in stove"
Floyd | The stove isn't important.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Drat"
djfletch says (to Floyd), "show clod to dad"
Floyd | "You got that pulled up, huh?  I was trying to pry it up when I
Floyd | snapped the hoe in two."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask dad about clod"
Floyd | "Never heard of it.  Sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask dad about hoe"
Floyd | "Never heard of it.  Sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "show hoe to dad"
Floyd | "You always bring garden implements inside with you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "show bucket to dad"
Floyd | "Are you nuts, bringin' a full bucket of water inside, you'll ruin..."
Floyd | He looks around.  "What am I saying?  Everything's made out o' that
Floyd | electric field stuff.  You couldn't ruin anything if you tried.  Hell,
Floyd | you can't even make anything wet.  Go for it.  Pour away."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "Is there someway to obtain the axe, perhaps?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "pour water on floor"
Floyd | The water flows smoothly off of the ground, leaving it as dry as if it
Floyd | had never been there.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "When in doubt, acquire more stuff."
Cheddarius says, "Yes, let's try for that axe then"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Path Bend
Floyd |    The wooded path curves to the southwest here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd | Woods
Floyd |    This is the major hub of this path.  It splits to the south and
Floyd | west, and taking either fork will eventually get you back here from
Floyd | from the other direction.  Right at the forking of the path is a huge,
Floyd | menacing contraption.
Floyd |    The cylinder seems to contain some water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "get axe"
Floyd | You pull on it, but you can't seem to work it free from the spring
Floyd | arm, and frankly, it's a little frightening to try to remove it with
Floyd | the spring arm so tightly wound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "pour water in cylinder"
Floyd | The water spills over the top of the already full cylinder and onto
Floyd | the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd |    This is the major hub of this path.  It splits to the south and
Floyd | west, and taking either fork will eventually get you back here from
Floyd | from the other direction.  Right at the forking of the path is a huge,
Floyd | menacing contraption.
Floyd |    The cylinder seems to contain some water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x cylinder"
Floyd | It is a hollow cylinder, made of a clear material that you don't
Floyd | recognize.  It is about nine inches in diameter, a foot high, and its
Floyd | walls are about a half an inch thick.  It is full of clear water, and
Floyd | there is an axe poised to sweep across the top of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "How about s and w from here?"
Cheddarius says, "Tried that"
Cheddarius says, "Fog"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "wedge axe with dirt"
Floyd | I don't know the word "wedge".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | You walk about twenty feet before coming to a wall of dense fog.  You
Floyd | press into it, but come out right where you entered, even though you
Floyd | never felt yourself turn around.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You walk about twenty feet before coming to a wall of dense fog.  You
Floyd | press into it, but come out right where you entered, even though you
Floyd | never felt yourself turn around.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You have a hoe, a clod of dirt, and a bucket.  The bucket seems to
Floyd | contain some water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Ok."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "hit axe with hoe"
Floyd | Attacking the axe doesn't appear productive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "put dirt on axe"
Floyd | There's no good surface on the axe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius exclaims, "Oho!"
EmacsUser says, "Based on the previous puzzles, there should be a good indication of goal somewhere."
Cheddarius says, "We can put the dirt on things"
Cheddarius asks, "But what?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | Path Bend
Floyd |    The wooded path curves to the southwest here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd | The path leads north and south-west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "hit tree with hoe"
Floyd | Attacking the initialed tree doesn't appear productive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Maybe cut down the tree?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd | Garden
Floyd |    The garden that you let go to weed is flourishing here.  Tulips add
Floyd | color to the first greens of the vegetables pushing up through the
Floyd | ground.  The well is here, surrounded by flowers.  The front of the
Floyd | house is to the northeast and the back is to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take tulips"
Floyd | You can't have the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd |    The bedroom has also learned of the wonders of carpeting, and your
Floyd | shoddy mattress has been replaced with a beautiful brass bed.  In the
Floyd | south-west corner of the room is a giant metal cylinder with rounded
Floyd | ends.  It stands well over eight feet tall, and comes close to
Floyd | brushing the ceiling.  The only break in the seamless metal is a pad
Floyd | protruding out of its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser thinks.
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x cylinder"
Floyd | In many of the abduction stories that you read, there were cylinders
Floyd | like this one that contained other abductees.  This one is certainly
Floyd | large enough.
Floyd |
Floyd | Now you have a chance to see what is inside the enigmatic cylinder.  A
Floyd | large rectangle of the cylinder has become a dark window to the
Floyd | interior.
Floyd |
Floyd | A keypad protrudes from the cylinder's side and has nine keys, each
Floyd | with a different alien symbol on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd | You press against the window again, grotesquely fascinated with your
Floyd | doppleganger inside.  The chaotic lightshow emanating from its open
Floyd | skull is fascinating and disconcerting.  The faint, regular ticks
Floyd | float out to you as your other self blinks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "put dirt on cylinder"
Floyd | There's no good surface on the metal cylinder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "I think the only lead we have left is to go tell Pop about everything we have. What do you think?"
EmacsUser says, "Okay."
djfletch says, "I don't have any better ideas"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | The rest of the house is to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "enter car"
Floyd | Okay, you're now in the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "drive"
Floyd | As you drive into town, you carefully scan the oppressive fog for any
Floyd | weakness. Occasionally you drive down one of the other side roads, but
Floyd | you always end up heading toward town.  You roll to a stop in front of
Floyd | Pop's market.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | You're not going anywhere until you get out of the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Inside Pop's
Floyd |    The comforting familiarity of Pop's storefront vanishes when you
Floyd | enter.  All of the aisles are barren and empty.  The candy display
Floyd | visible from outside is conspicuously absent.  The only reason you
Floyd | have to think that this is actually Pop's store is a young-looking Pop
Floyd | standing behind the counter.
Floyd |    Pop is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "show dirt to pop"
Floyd | "You got some nice topsoil there."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "show hoe to pop"
Floyd | "Fine piece o' work, innit?  That won't break on ya', I'll bet."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "show bucket to pop"
Floyd | Pop grins and starts singing, "There's a hole in the bucket, dear
Floyd | Eliza..."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask pop about escape"
Floyd | I don't know the word "escape".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You head towards the library, not quite sure what you're looking for,
Floyd | but hopeful that you'll find something useful.  You stride up the
Floyd | steps, pull the door open, and come up against a wall of fog, just
Floyd | beyond the doorway.  Holding your arms out in front of you, you press
Floyd | into the fog, but you still end up coming back out of the library.
Floyd | You retreat to Pop's stoop.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You try to walk to the store next door, but the wall of fog covers the
Floyd | doorway. Groping for the handle, you pull the door open, step inside
Floyd | and proceed to walk through the fog, which eventually clears, leaving
Floyd | you on the sidewalk in front of Pop's.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You try to walk to the store next door, but the wall of fog covers the
Floyd | doorway. Groping for the handle, you pull the door open, step inside
Floyd | and proceed to walk through the fog, which eventually clears, leaving
Floyd | you on the sidewalk in front of Pop's.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Inside Pop's
Floyd |    The comforting familiarity of Pop's storefront vanishes when you
Floyd | enter.  All of the aisles are barren and empty.  The candy display
Floyd | visible from outside is conspicuously absent.  The only reason you
Floyd | have to think that this is actually Pop's store is a young-looking Pop
Floyd | standing behind the counter.
Floyd |    Pop is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask pop about fog"
Floyd | I don't know the word "fog".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask pop about wall"
Floyd | I don't know the word "wall".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Rrrrrgh"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "pour water on pop"
Floyd | Just as you are about to tip the bucket ontp Pop, he catches your
Floyd | hand.  "Whoa there, Isaiah.  Water 'n robots don't mix too good, if
Floyd | you know what I mean."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 arrives, ready to play with the toys. Cheddarius says, "Hey Automaton"
AutomatonZX27 asks, "Am I late?"
AutomatonZX27 says, "And hey there"
Cheddarius says, "Yes, by a few hours"
Cheddarius says, "But we're stuck on our second game"
AutomatonZX27 asks, "Ka or roofed?"
Cheddarius says, "Alien Abduction"
AutomatonZX27 says, "Oh"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x library"
Floyd | You look across the street at your old familiar haunt, the library.
Floyd | It is a welcome sight, a possible sanctuary from your madness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "in"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You head towards the library, not quite sure what you're looking for,
Floyd | but hopeful that you'll find something useful.  You stride up the
Floyd | steps, pull the door open, and come up against a wall of fog, just
Floyd | beyond the doorway.  Holding your arms out in front of you, you press
Floyd | into the fog, but you still end up coming back out of the library.
Floyd | You retreat to Pop's stoop.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Nope."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Inside Pop's
Floyd |    The comforting familiarity of Pop's storefront vanishes when you
Floyd | enter.  All of the aisles are barren and empty.  The candy display
Floyd | visible from outside is conspicuously absent.  The only reason you
Floyd | have to think that this is actually Pop's store is a young-looking Pop
Floyd | standing behind the counter.
Floyd |    Pop is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "I want to know what the library is for then."
EmacsUser asks, "pop about library"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask pop about library"
Floyd | Pop scratches his head.  "Ya know, I don't think your dad ever went
Floyd | into the library here on the ship.  Our hosts prolly never fleshed out
Floyd | the inside of it."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser:(
Cheddarius says, "ask pop about house"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask pop about house"
Floyd | "Reckon I don't know too much about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask pop about house"
Floyd | "Reckon I don't know too much about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says, "Creative excuse"
Cheddarius says, "We're in a simulation designed by aliens"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask pop about me"
Floyd | "You wanna know why yer here?"  Pop shrugs.  "Mostly just 'cause our
Floyd | hosts want to learn more about people.  That, and they wanted to see
Floyd | if you could cheer up yer old man.  He hasn't been too cooperative
Floyd | recently."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "Do we need to cheer him up then?"
Cheddarius exclaims, "Oho!"
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "ask pop about himself"
Floyd | I don't know the word "himself".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "oops pop"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask pop about pop"
Floyd | "Wonderin' how our hosts got me to act so much like Pop?  Well, I
Floyd | reckon' not too many people in town knew that Pop went on some serious
Floyd | weekend benders.  About once a month he'd close down for a weekend--
Floyd | he'd always say he was goin' to buy more supplies-- and head on over
Floyd | to Cedarsburg, check into a flophouse and get roarin' drunk.  If he
Floyd | thought he saw aliens pokin' and proddin' him when he was drunk, well,
Floyd | I reckon' he just kept his mouth shut about it.  Kinda puts him one up
Floyd | on your dad, don't it?
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | "Wonderin' how our hosts got me to act so much like Pop?  Well, I
Floyd | reckon' not too many people in town knew that Pop went on some serious
Floyd | weekend benders.  About once a month he'd close down for a weekend--
Floyd | he'd always say he was goin' to buy more supplies-- and head on over
Floyd | to Cedarsburg, check into a flophouse and get roarin' drunk.  If he
Floyd | thought he saw aliens pokin' and proddin' him when he was drunk, well,
Floyd | I reckon' he just kept his mouth shut about it.  Kinda puts him one up
Floyd | on your dad, don't it?
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter Pontiac"
Floyd | Okay, you're now in the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drive"
Floyd | It's a relief to be driving out of town.  There usually aren't a lot
Floyd | of people at your house, so at least you can pretend that things are
Floyd | normal when you don't see any.
Floyd |
Floyd | Eventually you pull in the driveway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "By the way, Auto, Pop is actually a robot designed to act like Pop"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "cheer up dad"
Floyd | I don't know the word "cheer".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "play with dad"
Floyd | I don't know the word "play".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "throw clod at dad"
Floyd | You miss.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take clod"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad about dad"
Floyd | "Aw, I'm fine, Isaiah.  Let's just get all this testing over with so's
Floyd | we can get back home and prove we weren't nuts."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad about pop"
Floyd | "Oh, you mean that..."  You watch him frown as he gropes for a
Floyd | distasteful enough word.  "...thing that they've set up to make us
Floyd | feel all homey?  Yeah, I've seen him.  I was fooled by him for a
Floyd | while, but not any more.  I'll take my own company over a robot's any
Floyd | day.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "talk with dad"
Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "We don't know why there's a library, and that seems like a way to cheer up pop."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad abot library"
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "inv"
Floyd | I don't know the word "abot".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | I don't know the word "inv".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad about library"
Floyd | "The Library?  Yeah, I remember going to the library.  Before they
Floyd | started visiting me.  I always liked it there."  He starts drifting
Floyd | away, lost in old memories.  "But then I started reading all the books
Floyd | about the government conspiracies to keep the aliens a secret.  I read
Floyd | about all of the abductees, and saw their stories had to be true.  I
Floyd | knew I wasn't nuts, but your mom decided that if I stopped reading the
Floyd | books, I'd stop hallucinating the ship that was visiting me."  He
Floyd | shakes his head.  "I wonder where she thinks I've been for the past
Floyd | couple months?  Inside my own mind?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask dad about library"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | "The Library?  Yeah, I remember going to the library.  Before they
Floyd | started visiting me.  I always liked it there."  He starts drifting
Floyd | away, lost in old memories.  "But then I started reading all the books
Floyd | about the government conspiracies to keep the aliens a secret.  I read
Floyd | about all of the abductees, and saw their stories had to be true.  I
Floyd | knew I wasn't nuts, but your mom decided that if I stopped reading the
Floyd | books, I'd stop hallucinating the ship that was visiting me."  He
Floyd | shakes his head.  "I wonder where she thinks I've been for the past
Floyd | couple months?  Inside my own mind?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | You have a hoe, a bucket, and a clod of dirt.  The bucket seems to
Floyd | contain some water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 asks, "Inv is not recognized?"
EmacsUser asks, "How can we get him to go there?"
EmacsUser says (to AutomatonZX27), "No, I guess not."
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "dad, follow me"
Floyd | "I just don't feel like doin' much of anything."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Path Bend
Floyd |    The wooded path curves to the southwest here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | The path leads north and south-west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd | Woods
Floyd |    This is the major hub of this path.  It splits to the south and
Floyd | west, and taking either fork will eventually get you back here from
Floyd | from the other direction.  Right at the forking of the path is a huge,
Floyd | menacing contraption.
Floyd |    The cylinder seems to contain some water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says, "Some description"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd | The paths lead north-east, south and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "fill bucket with water"
Floyd | I don't know the word "fill".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "put clod in cylinder"
Floyd | You drop the clod into water, and the water turns murky.  The axe
Floyd | whistles past the cylinder and swings around the spring arm several
Floyd | times before coming to rest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "YESSSS"
Cheddarius says, "DJ, you are a god among men"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x axe"
Floyd | You examine the axe, carefully feeling the cool metal of its head,
Floyd | brushing its cutting edge with the ball of your thumb.  It's real.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "I prostrate myself before your genius"
EmacsUser exclaims, "Oooh!"
djfletch says, "have to say I didn't really expect that to work"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "get axe"
Floyd | You pull on it, but you can't seem to work it free from the spring
Floyd | arm.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "pry axe"
Floyd | (with the hoe)
Floyd | After working the blade of the hoe underneath the handle of the axe
Floyd | and levering it a couple of times, the axe comes free.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | Path Bend
Floyd |    The wooded path curves to the southwest here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf7"
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "cut tree with axe"
Floyd | I don't know the word "cut".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "hit tree with axe"
Floyd | I don't see any axe here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "axe tree"
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 asks, "Did you actually take the axe?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You have a hoe and a bucket.  The bucket seems to contain some water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Path Bend
Floyd |    The wooded path curves to the southwest here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd | The path leads north and south-west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd | Woods
Floyd |    This is the major hub of this path.  It splits to the south and
Floyd | west, and taking either fork will eventually get you back here from
Floyd | from the other direction.  Right at the forking of the path is a huge,
Floyd | menacing contraption.
Floyd |    You see an axe here.  The cylinder seems to contain some water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take axe"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | Path Bend
Floyd |    The wooded path curves to the southwest here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "hit tree with axe"
Floyd | Attacking the initialed tree doesn't appear productive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "stumpify tree with axe"
Floyd | I don't know the word "stumpify".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "examine initials"
Floyd | This tree stands precisely on the spot where your thinking stump
Floyd | should be.  As you look at the tree, and the initials carved in it,
Floyd | you can almost feel a glimmer of recognition in the back of your mind,
Floyd | but you're still too befuddled by the loss of your stump.  Worse yet,
Floyd | there's no good place to sit and think about this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "defoliate land with axe"
Floyd | I don't know the word "defoliate".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Right, then."
Cheddarius asks, "Show axe to Dad?"
EmacsUser says (to Cheddarius), "Ok."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "show axe to dad"
Floyd | Your dad raises his eyebrow.  "Do I need this?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "hit dad with axe"
Floyd | You grapple with your father, who pushes who back with incredible
Floyd | strength.  "What the hell was that for?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "give axe to dad"
Floyd | Your dad raises his eyebrow.  "Do I need this?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says, "Interesting"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "dad, cheer up"
Floyd | I don't know the word "cheer".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 asks, "What's with the background clicking?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "dad, be happy or I will hit you with the axe"
Floyd | I don't know the word "be".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Okay... let's think."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd | You watch your father carefully, just to be sure.  Yep, he clicks when
Floyd | he blinks.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Dad and Pops click when they blink"
AutomatonZX27 says, "Aha"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd |    The bedroom has also learned of the wonders of carpeting, and your
Floyd | shoddy mattress has been replaced with a beautiful brass bed.  In the
Floyd | south-west corner of the room is a giant metal cylinder with rounded
Floyd | ends.  It stands well over eight feet tall, and comes close to
Floyd | brushing the ceiling.  The only break in the seamless metal is a pad
Floyd | protruding out of its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "hit window with axe"
Floyd | Attacking the window doesn't appear productive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Dad is (we think) a robot who still thinks that he's dad."
Cheddarius says, "Or, possibly, Dad is controlling this robot"
Cheddarius says, "Like a mech"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "hit me with axe"
Floyd | Attacking yourself doesn't appear productive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Slow down a bit."
Cheddarius says, "Okay"
EmacsUser asks, "Do we think we need to cheer dad up?"
AutomatonZX27 says, "I guess that's the goal"
EmacsUser asks, "So what are our options along that line?"
AutomatonZX27 asks, "Maybe he wants a familiar item or something?"
Cheddarius says, "He likes the library"
Cheddarius says, "He may also be cheered up by destroying the tree"
EmacsUser says, "Right, but last time we just got fog at the library."
AutomatonZX27 says, "So I guess we need a book for him, one about aliens"
Cheddarius says, "Most of all he wants to escape"
AutomatonZX27 says, "The fog reminds me of losing your grip"
Cheddarius says, "But we have no leads there"
EmacsUser asks, "The library thing bothers me. Why is it mentioned if not implemented?"
AutomatonZX27 says, "Maybe it IS implemented"
Cheddarius says, "I don't think the fog is a metaphor or whatnot. It's just that the aliens didn't fill it"
AutomatonZX27 asks, "Oh and, what's the point of the car?"
EmacsUser says (to AutomatonZX27), "Then how do we get inside? Like pop said, the aliens didn't ever fill it."
AutomatonZX27 says, "Ehe... I didn't really think about the getting in part"
EmacsUser says (to AutomatonZX27), "Ah, that lets us go between here and town. I'll show you."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd |    The bedroom has also learned of the wonders of carpeting, and your
Floyd | shoddy mattress has been replaced with a beautiful brass bed.  In the
Floyd | south-west corner of the room is a giant metal cylinder with rounded
Floyd | ends.  It stands well over eight feet tall, and comes close to
Floyd | brushing the ceiling.  The only break in the seamless metal is a pad
Floyd | protruding out of its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter Pontiac"
Floyd | Okay, you're now in the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drive"
Floyd | As you drive into town, you carefully scan the oppressive fog for any
Floyd | weakness. Occasionally you drive down one of the other side roads, but
Floyd | you always end up heading toward town.  You roll to a stop in front of
Floyd | Pop's market.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "So far that's all we know it to be good for."
AutomatonZX27 says, "Try searching the car"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "search car"
Floyd | You'll have to get out of the big, blue Pontiac first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "exit"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "search car"
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says, "Bah"
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "examine car"
Floyd | The old, familiar Pontiac sits in the driveway.  It looks to be in
Floyd | pretty good shape, considering you sold it to the scrap yard four
Floyd | years ago.  The keys are in the ignition.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "take keys"
Floyd | I don't know the word "keys".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "open trunk"
Floyd | I don't know the word "trunk".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says, "Hm"
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "open car"
Floyd | I don't know how to open the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "look under car"
Floyd | There's nothing under the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You have a hoe, a bucket, and an axe.  The bucket seems to contain
Floyd | some water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Inside Pop's
Floyd |    The comforting familiarity of Pop's storefront vanishes when you
Floyd | enter.  All of the aisles are barren and empty.  The candy display
Floyd | visible from outside is conspicuously absent.  The only reason you
Floyd | have to think that this is actually Pop's store is a young-looking Pop
Floyd | standing behind the counter.
Floyd |    Pop is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "show axe to pop"
Floyd | "And just what are you plannin' to do with that?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "hit car with axe"
Floyd | I don't see any car here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "examine aisles"
Floyd | I don't know the word "aisles".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "hit car with axe"
Floyd | Attacking the big, blue Pontiac doesn't appear productive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "The axe is real they say, so it can do actual damage."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Inside Pop's
Floyd |    The comforting familiarity of Pop's storefront vanishes when you
Floyd | enter.  All of the aisles are barren and empty.  The candy display
Floyd | visible from outside is conspicuously absent.  The only reason you
Floyd | have to think that this is actually Pop's store is a young-looking Pop
Floyd | standing behind the counter.
Floyd |    Pop is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "hit pop with axe"
Floyd | You grapple with Pop, who pushes you back with incredible strength.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Ugh."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x library"
Floyd | You look across the street at your old familiar haunt, the library.
Floyd | It is a welcome sight, a possible sanctuary from your madness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "examine library"
Floyd | You look across the street at your old familiar haunt, the library.
Floyd | It is a welcome sight, a possible sanctuary from your madness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "examine store"
Floyd | Every detail about Pop's store is perfect:  the green canopy awning
Floyd | that got cranked in at night, the huge Jingle bell hanging on the
Floyd | inside of the door, even the finger smudges on the window right in
Floyd | front of the candy display.  You can remember making some smudges of
Floyd | your own when you were in grade school and your dad brought you into
Floyd | town.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "examine bell"
Floyd | I don't know the word "bell".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "Back to the farm?"
djfletch says, "what did we try with the tree? Seems like such a good use for the axe."
Cheddarius says, "Sure"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Public Library
Floyd |    The interior of the library is filled with dense fog, but you can
Floyd | just barely make out the outline of the front desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "We tried a lot of things, but none worked"
Cheddarius exclaims, "Holy geez what?!"
EmacsUser says, "I tried to go back to the car."
Cheddarius asks, "How'd we get in!?"
djfletch says, "woah"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x desk"
Floyd | You focus your mind on that outline of the desk.  What should it look
Floyd | like?  You close your eyes and remember the light pine base, the
Floyd | speckled formica on top.  You feel a tric kle of sensation down your
Floyd | scalp.  You open your eyes and see that the fog has thinned out
Floyd | somewhat:  the desk is now only partially obscured.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 exclaims, "There we go!"
EmacsUser asks, "Wait, what happened to our car?"
Cheddarius says, "It's to the south"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Public Library
Floyd |    The interior of the library is filled with dense fog, but the front
Floyd | desk is almost visible through it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x desk"
Floyd | You continue to look at the desk, and start thinking about little
Floyd | details:  the thunk of the mechanical card puncher, printing the date
Floyd | on your library cards.  The line of tickling down your head starts up
Floyd | again, and the fog starts blowing away from the desk.  Soon you find
Floyd | yourself remembering the aisles of gold carpet that led to the shelves
Floyd | behind the front desk, and the small windows up by the vaulted
Floyd | ceiling.  As the details begin pouring into your head, the trickle on
Floyd | your scalp becomes a torrent of tingling, and the fog seems to retreat
Floyd | at the speed of thought.  Soon you are standing in the library you
Floyd | remember.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "look behind desk"
Floyd | There's nothing behind the front desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Public Library
Floyd |    This is the library that you remember, the desk, the carpeting, the
Floyd | walls, they all feel right to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Tell Dad about library, then?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "enter car"
Floyd | Okay, you're now in the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "examine carpeting"
Floyd | I don't know the word "carpeting".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd | I don't know the word "xyzzy".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Guys, should we tell Dad that we fixed the library?"
EmacsUser has his bearning now and tries to catch up.
AutomatonZX27 says, "Why not"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drive"
Floyd | It's a relief to be driving out of town.  There usually aren't a lot
Floyd | of people at your house, so at least you can pretend that things are
Floyd | normal when you don't see any.
Floyd |
Floyd | Eventually you pull in the driveway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "out then s"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "tell dad about library"
Floyd | "The Library?  Yeah, I remember going to the library.  Before they
Floyd | started visiting me.  I always liked it there."  He starts drifting
Floyd | away, lost in old memories.  "But then I started reading all the books
Floyd | about the government conspiracies to keep the aliens a secret.  I read
Floyd | about all of the abductees, and saw their stories had to be true.  I
Floyd | knew I wasn't nuts, but your mom decided that if I stopped reading the
Floyd | books, I'd stop hallucinating the ship that was visiting me."  He
Floyd | shakes his head.  "I wonder where she thinks I've been for the past
Floyd | couple months?  Inside my own mind?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "show library to dad"
Floyd | I don't see any library here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "We need a book."
EmacsUser frowns.
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "in"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "drive"
Floyd | You have to get in the car before you can drive it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "enter car"
Floyd | Okay, you're now in the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "drive"
Floyd | As you drive into town, you carefully scan the oppressive fog for any
Floyd | weakness. Occasionally you drive down one of the other side roads, but
Floyd | you always end up heading toward town.  You roll to a stop in front of
Floyd | Pop's market.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Public Library
Floyd |    This is the library that you remember, the desk, the carpeting, the
Floyd | walls, they all feel right to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "get book"
Floyd | I don't see any book here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says, "I suggested the bookk thing already"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x desk"
Floyd | It's not until you step towards the desk that you realize what you had
Floyd | been subconsciously hoping to find here.  Laying on the desk are the
Floyd | two newspaper articles that might convince your dad of what's
Floyd | happened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Oh"
AutomatonZX27 says, "Book*"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x newspaper"
Floyd | These are the two articles that you always come back to in the
Floyd | library's newspaper archives.  One is yellowed and stiff, the other is
Floyd | only a few weeks old.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "examine articles"
Floyd | These are the two articles that you always come back to in the
Floyd | library's newspaper archives.  One is yellowed and stiff, the other is
Floyd | only a few weeks old.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take papers"
Floyd | I don't know the word "papers".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "take newspaper"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "read newspaper"
Floyd | You must have read each of these articles hundreds of times, perhaps
Floyd | trying to glean some deeper meaning out of them, maybe just to make
Floyd | yourself numb to the implications.  Every detail of these articles has
Floyd | been pressed into your being. You know every word before you read it.
Floyd | The first is from ten years ago:
Floyd |
Floyd | Springfield --  A man police have identified as
Floyd |    Peter Knott walked into a restaurant with an
Floyd |    illegal handgun  and opened fire  yesterday,
Floyd |    killing  one  and  critically   injuring two
Floyd |    others  before employees  managed to wrestle
Floyd |    him to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd |        According to witnesses, he was screaming
Floyd |    "Wife-stealers!"   repeatedly.  We talked to
Floyd |    his  neighbors,  and learned that  Knott  is
Floyd |    convinced  that aliens  have  been abducting
Floyd |    him  for the  past  several months,  and the
Floyd |    stress of his claims caused his wife to move
Floyd |    out.
Floyd |
Floyd |        At  the  urgings  of his  lawyer,  Knott
Floyd |    pleaded  no contest at  his hearing  and has
Floyd |    been  committed  to an institution  for  the
Floyd |    criminally insane.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The other is from just two weeks ago:
Floyd |
Floyd | Springfield --  Although ten years  have passed
Floyd |    since  Peter Knott  went  on  his  murderous
Floyd |    rampage,  the people of Springfield have not
Floyd |    forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd |       Upon hearing that the home considered him
Floyd |    rehabilitated and was considering  releasing
Floyd |    him early, a large crowd gathered around the
Floyd |    Mayor's office and staged a  loud protest on
Floyd |    his lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |       The mayor promised to do his best to stop
Floyd |    Knott's release, but unless the county comes
Floyd |    up with more  money for  the facility,  they
Floyd |    will have to release twenty patients and lay
Floyd |    off several staff members in order to remain
Floyd |    operational.
Floyd |
Floyd |       A spokesman for the complex said: "We are
Floyd |    only thinking of releasing those individuals
Floyd |    that  have  responded  completely  to  their
Floyd |    therapy and that  we believe  pose no threat
Floyd |    to themselves or to others."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "read newspaper"
Floyd | You must have read each of these articles hundreds of times, perhaps
Floyd | trying to glean some deeper meaning out of them, maybe just to make
Floyd | yourself numb to the implications.  Every detail of these articles has
Floyd | been pressed into your being. You know every word before you read it.
Floyd | The first is from ten years ago:
Floyd |
Floyd | Springfield --  A man police have identified as
Floyd |    Peter Knott walked into a restaurant with an
Floyd |    illegal handgun  and opened fire  yesterday,
Floyd |    killing  one  and  critically   injuring two
Floyd |    others  before employees  managed to wrestle
Floyd |    him to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd |        According to witnesses, he was screaming
Floyd |    "Wife-stealers!"   repeatedly.  We talked to
Floyd |    his  neighbors,  and learned that  Knott  is
Floyd |    convinced  that aliens  have  been abducting
Floyd |    him  for the  past  several months,  and the
Floyd |    stress of his claims caused his wife to move
Floyd |    out.
Floyd |
Floyd |        At  the  urgings  of his  lawyer,  Knott
Floyd |    pleaded  no contest at  his hearing  and has
Floyd |    been  committed  to an institution  for  the
Floyd |    criminally insane.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The other is from just two weeks ago:
Floyd |
Floyd | Springfield --  Although ten years  have passed
Floyd |    since  Peter Knott  went  on  his  murderous
Floyd |    rampage,  the people of Springfield have not
Floyd |    forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd |       Upon hearing that the home considered him
Floyd |    rehabilitated and was considering  releasing
Floyd |    him early, a large crowd gathered around the
Floyd |    Mayor's office and staged a  loud protest on
Floyd |    his lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |       The mayor promised to do his best to stop
Floyd |    Knott's release, but unless the county comes
Floyd |    up with more  money for  the facility,  they
Floyd |    will have to release twenty patients and lay
Floyd |    off several staff members in order to remain
Floyd |    operational.
Floyd |
Floyd |       A spokesman for the complex said: "We are
Floyd |    only thinking of releasing those individuals
Floyd |    that  have  responded  completely  to  their
Floyd |    therapy and that  we believe  pose no threat
Floyd |    to themselves or to others."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, ""More text!""
Cheddarius says, "Whoa."
Cheddarius says, "Whooooooaaaaaaa."
EmacsUser says, "Just for context..."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | Assuming you haven't lost your grip on reality, you are Isaiah Knott,
Floyd | a twenty-seven year old man from the Appalachian mountains.  You are
Floyd | wearing your comfortable jeans, a thick flannel shirt, and hiking
Floyd | boots.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are four wires protruding out of your head, and a large, painful
Floyd | bruise spreading across your arm.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Our last name is Knott."
AutomatonZX27 asks, "So the murderer is...*drumroll* DAD?"
EmacsUser says, "I think so."
Cheddarius says, "We didn't even know there was a murderer"
Cheddarius says, "Murders have never been mentioned"
AutomatonZX27 exclaims, "The plot thickens!"
Cheddarius says, "We assumed that Dad went to an asylum because he thought he was abducted by aliens"
Cheddarius asks, "Tell Dad about the papers? Show them to pop?"
EmacsUser asks, "Do we still want to cheer robot-maybe-less-homocidal-than-the-real-dad up?"
AutomatonZX27 asks, "Show papers to dad?"
EmacsUser says, "The papers are probably more depressing the cheery."
Cheddarius says, "Nah, I think we discovered the real purpose of the game"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Save first, maybe"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf8"
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Inside Pop's
Floyd |    The comforting familiarity of Pop's storefront vanishes when you
Floyd | enter.  All of the aisles are barren and empty.  The candy display
Floyd | visible from outside is conspicuously absent.  The only reason you
Floyd | have to think that this is actually Pop's store is a young-looking Pop
Floyd | standing behind the counter.
Floyd |    Pop is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "show papers to pop"
Floyd | I don't know the word "papers".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "show newspaper to pop"
Floyd | Pop takes the articles and briefly glances at them before handing them
Floyd | back.  "These are entirely outside of my program.  Sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "enter car"
Floyd | Okay, you're now in the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "drive"
Floyd | It's a relief to be driving out of town.  There usually aren't a lot
Floyd | of people at your house, so at least you can pretend that things are
Floyd | normal when you don't see any.
Floyd |
Floyd | Eventually you pull in the driveway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | >
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "show newspaper to dad"
Floyd | You watch your father's lips move as he scans down the articles.  His
Floyd | brow furrows and he shakes his head several times as he reads.
Floyd | Finally, he looks up at you quizzically.  "I don't know where you got
Floyd | these, but they aren't real.  First of all, I've only been here a
Floyd | couple of months, so this one from..."  He checks the date again, "ten
Floyd | years from now is just a plain lie."  He shakes his head.  "They're
Floyd | both lies!  I've been here the whole time, I couldn't have killed
Floyd | anybody.  Unless these aliens are body snatchers, and it was my evil
Floyd | twin that done it."  His agitation fades as he puts the articles on
Floyd | the coffee table.  "Ain't no way those are real."  When you look back
Floyd | to the coffee table to retrieve the articles, they're gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Huh."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You have a hoe, a bucket, and an axe.  The bucket seems to contain
Floyd | some water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says, "Hmmm"
EmacsUser says, "(dis)Belief seems to create and destroy."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad about murder"
Floyd | I don't know the word "murder".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad about gun"
Floyd | I don't know the word "gun".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "ask dad about axe"
Floyd | "Never heard of it.  Sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "give axe to dad"
Floyd | Your dad raises his eyebrow.  "Do I need this?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "enter car"
Floyd | Okay, you're now in the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "drive"
Floyd | As you drive into town, you carefully scan the oppressive fog for any
Floyd | weakness. Occasionally you drive down one of the other side roads, but
Floyd | you always end up heading toward town.  You roll to a stop in front of
Floyd | Pop's market.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Public Library
Floyd |    This is the library that you remember, the desk, the carpeting, the
Floyd | walls, they all feel right to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x desk"
Floyd | The old, familiar library desk is a welcome sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x wall"
Floyd | I don't know the word "wall".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x carpet"
Floyd | I don't know the word "carpet".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Outside Pop's
Floyd |    Now that you're at the end of the road, the fog has spread out just
Floyd | enough to give you a taste of town.  What you can see is exactly like
Floyd | you remember it, perhaps a little cleaner, a bit newer.  Pop's store
Floyd | stands before you to the south, and the library sits regally to the
Floyd | north, the two real landmarks of Springfield.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says, "There's no handy computer terminal in this library"
EmacsUser says, "We could prove to dad that they took his body if he'd go look at the 5222 cylinder."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You try to walk to the store next door, but the wall of fog covers the
Floyd | doorway. Groping for the handle, you pull the door open, step inside
Floyd | and proceed to walk through the fog, which eventually clears, leaving
Floyd | you on the sidewalk in front of Pop's.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Hmm"
Cheddarius asks, "How about we go take a look south of the house again?"
EmacsUser says, "Fine by me."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "enter car"
Floyd | Okay, you're now in the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | You're not going anywhere until you get out of the big, blue Pontiac.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "drive"
Floyd | It's a relief to be driving out of town.  There usually aren't a lot
Floyd | of people at your house, so at least you can pretend that things are
Floyd | normal when you don't see any.
Floyd |
Floyd | Eventually you pull in the driveway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd |    The lawn is freshly mowed, the north side of the house looks just
Floyd | as good as the south side, and off to the southwest, the garden is a
Floyd | prize winner.
Floyd |    You see a big, blue Pontiac here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says, "Why don't we look WEST of house"
Cheddarius says, "That's the garden"
Cheddarius says, "Nothing interesting there"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd | Garden
Floyd |    The garden that you let go to weed is flourishing here.  Tulips add
Floyd | color to the first greens of the vegetables pushing up through the
Floyd | ground.  The well is here, surrounded by flowers.  The front of the
Floyd | house is to the northeast and the back is to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "We could check again. The library changed."
AutomatonZX27 exclaims, "It's still...west of house!"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x well"
Floyd | This well, like the wood-burning stove inside of the house, was one of
Floyd | the few things of quality you've always had.  For as long as you can
Floyd | remember, it has always provided clear, sweet water.  It's about two
Floyd | and a half feet in diameter and lined with white stones.  A board is
Floyd | mortared into the top of it as an anchor for the rope.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 asks, "You know, West of House?"
Cheddarius asks, "Huh?"
Cheddarius says, "Oh"
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "enter well"
Floyd | I don't know how to enter the well.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Like in Zork?"
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "climb rope"
Floyd | I don't know how to climb the rope.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says, "Yep"
Cheddarius says, "Anyway, you can get water from the well"
Cheddarius says, "But other than that, I don't think it's good for anything"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You have a hoe, a bucket, and an axe.  The bucket seems to contain
Floyd | some water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Shall we continue?"
AutomatonZX27 asks, "What's the hoe for?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "Digging up the clod of dirt"
Floyd | I don't know the word "digging".
Floyd |
AutomatonZX27 says, "Oh wait, we got the axe with it"
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "And the axe, yeah"
EmacsUser says, "Yeah, we used it to get other things. It's had no purpose of its own yet."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Garden
Floyd |    The garden that you let go to weed is flourishing here.  Tulips add
Floyd | color to the first greens of the vegetables pushing up through the
Floyd | ground.  The well is here, surrounded by flowers.  The front of the
Floyd | house is to the northeast and the back is to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "cut tree with axe"
Floyd | I don't know the word "cut".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x tree"
Floyd | This tree stands precisely on the spot where your thinking stump
Floyd | should be.  As you look at the tree, and the initials carved in it,
Floyd | you can almost feel a glimmer of recognition in the back of your mind,
Floyd | but you're still too befuddled by the loss of your stump.  Worse yet,
Floyd | there's no good place to sit and think about this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "chop tree"
Floyd | You swing the axe and strike the initialed tree.  There is a loud
Floyd | thunk and the impact jolts your arms.  You pull the axe away and
Floyd | inspect the initialed tree.  It appears undamaged.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius exclaims, ""Chop"! That's it!"
AutomatonZX27 says, "Hm"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "chop tree"
Floyd | You swing the axe and strike the initialed tree.  There is a loud
Floyd | thunk and the impact jolts your arms.  You pull the axe away and
Floyd | inspect the initialed tree.  It appears undamaged.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "chop tree"
Floyd | You swing the axe and strike the initialed tree.  There is a loud
Floyd | thunk and the impact jolts your arms.  You pull the axe away and
Floyd | inspect the initialed tree.  It appears undamaged.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "What can we chop"
EmacsUser asks, "?"
Cheddarius says, "Tree seems like the only reasonable option"
Cheddarius says, "Oh, got it"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd |    The bedroom has also learned of the wonders of carpeting, and your
Floyd | shoddy mattress has been replaced with a beautiful brass bed.  In the
Floyd | south-west corner of the room is a giant metal cylinder with rounded
Floyd | ends.  It stands well over eight feet tall, and comes close to
Floyd | brushing the ceiling.  The only break in the seamless metal is a pad
Floyd | protruding out of its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "chop window"
Floyd | You swing the axe and strike the window.  There is a loud thunk and
Floyd | the impact jolts your arms.  You pull the axe away and inspect the
Floyd | window.  It appears undamaged.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Right, but they're not real. Only the hoe and axe are known to be real."
Cheddarius says, "Huh."
djfletch says (to Floyd), "chop cylinder"
Floyd | The metal of the cylinder appears to be much stronger than the blade
Floyd | of the axe.  Aside from a faint scratch on the cylinder, all you have
Floyd | accomplished is severely dulling your axe blade.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says, ">CHOP DAD"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "chop dad"
Floyd |
Floyd | [TADS-1026: wrong number of arguments to user function "<NO SYMBOL
Floyd | TABLE>.<NO SYMBOL TABLE>"]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "I say."
EmacsUser says, "Oops."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says, "I'm a fantastic beta-tester/homicidal maniac"
Cheddarius says, "Nope, it's good"
Cheddarius says, "Thought I had destroyed the game there for a while"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd |    The bedroom has also learned of the wonders of carpeting, and your
Floyd | shoddy mattress has been replaced with a beautiful brass bed.  In the
Floyd | south-west corner of the room is a giant metal cylinder with rounded
Floyd | ends.  It stands well over eight feet tall, and comes close to
Floyd | brushing the ceiling.  The only break in the seamless metal is a pad
Floyd | protruding out of its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "chop bed"
Floyd | You swing the axe and strike the brass bed.  There is a loud thunk and
Floyd | the impact jolts your arms.  You pull the axe away and inspect the
Floyd | brass bed.  It appears undamaged.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "type 52222"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "chop cylinder"
Floyd | (on the keypad)
Floyd | You start pressing buttons.  The keypad buzzes sharply at you when you
Floyd | finish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | The metal of the cylinder appears to be much stronger than the blade
Floyd | of the axe.  Aside from a faint scratch on the cylinder, all you have
Floyd | accomplished is severely dulling your axe blade.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "chop cylinder"
Floyd | The metal of the cylinder appears to be much stronger than the blade
Floyd | of the axe.  Aside from a faint scratch on the cylinder, all you have
Floyd | accomplished is severely dulling your axe blade.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "type 5222"
Floyd | (on the keypad)
Floyd | You start pressing buttons.  The keypad buzzes sharply at you when you
Floyd | finish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "type 2225"
Floyd | (on the keypad)
Floyd | You start pressing buttons.  The keypad buzzes sharply at you when you
Floyd | finish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "examine cylinder"
Floyd | In many of the abduction stories that you read, there were cylinders
Floyd | like this one that contained other abductees.  This one is certainly
Floyd | large enough.
Floyd |
Floyd | Now you have a chance to see what is inside the enigmatic cylinder.  A
Floyd | large rectangle of the cylinder has become a dark window to the
Floyd | interior.
Floyd |
Floyd | A keypad protrudes from the cylinder's side and has nine keys, each
Floyd | with a different alien symbol on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Oh, so we can't enter the code again."
AutomatonZX27 says (to Floyd), "type 1026"
Floyd | (on the keypad)
Floyd | There are only nine keys.  (You can't use zero.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "We already figured out the code"
Cheddarius says, "Dad told us, it's 5222"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad is sitting on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "dad, w"
Floyd | "I just don't feel like doin' much of anything."
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "tell dad about cylinder"
Floyd | "Okay, okay, I'll go look at it."  He gets up and wanders into the
Floyd | bedroom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says, "aha"
EmacsUser exclaims, "Aha!"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You have a hoe, a bucket, and an axe.  The bucket seems to contain
Floyd | some water.
Floyd |
Floyd | You wait for some noise from the bedroom, some sign that your dad is
Floyd | still functioning.  Eventually you hear him say, "Bastards lied to me.
Floyd | They lied."  There is a short pause, and then the harsh phrase
Floyd | "Bastards'll pay."  He storms into the living room, obviously on his
Floyd | way towards the back door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 exclaims, "Progress!"
EmacsUser asks, "Uh, what now?"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf9"
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd | Your dad strides angrily off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |    Your dad strides angrily off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says, ">FOLLOW DAD"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "follow dad"
Floyd | I don't see any dad here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |    Your dad strides angrily off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |    Your dad is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your dad keeps running his hand over the tree with the initials carved
Floyd | in it, and muttering.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Ah."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "give axe to dad"
Floyd | Your father looks at you for a long moment before it registers what
Floyd | you are offering.  He accepts the axe grimly.  Your dad looks at the
Floyd | axe solemnly for a moment, and a tear streams down his cheek.  "Too
Floyd | many damn lies."  are the only words he says before beginning to swing
Floyd | the axe at the tree with all of his might.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sound of hollow thuds fills the air.  You can't see any visible
Floyd | damage on the tree, but your father continues chopping with demented
Floyd | ferocity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "What did we do in the memory?"
Cheddarius asks, "We went to the forest, correct?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | Just as you are about to give up hope that the tree can be damaged,
Floyd | you see sparks of electricity shooting off of it, and smoke starting
Floyd | to rise off of its branches.  Your father continues striking it with
Floyd | the axe, and there is a loud crackle as the tree simply winks out of
Floyd | existence, revealing a tall, seamless metal tower inside the spot the
Floyd | tree had been.  Your father, unfazed at this transformation from wood
Floyd | to metal, starts striking up sparks and horribly denting the side of
Floyd | the tower with his axe.
Floyd |
Floyd | An alien hurries down the path.  Its gaze is locked on your father,
Floyd | and it's holding a metal prod.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser asks, "in the memory?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |    Your dad is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "We remembered Dad chopping down the tree"
EmacsUser says, "Oh. We ran away and eventually heard it fall."
Cheddarius says, "We went to the forest to try and get away, but the chopping echoed like the crack of a rifle, it said"
Cheddarius says, "Yeah"
Cheddarius asks, "So, wait?"
Cheddarius asks, "Should we save?"
EmacsUser says, "I think the alien is going to stop him though."
EmacsUser says, "Already saved."
Cheddarius asks, "Should we attack the alien with water or hoe?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | Just as you are about to give up hope that the tree can be damaged,
Floyd | you see sparks of electricity shooting off of it, and smoke starting
Floyd | to rise off of its branches.  Your father continues striking it with
Floyd | the axe, and there is a loud crackle as the tree simply winks out of
Floyd | existence, revealing a tall, seamless metal tower inside the spot the
Floyd | tree had been.  Your father, unfazed at this transformation from wood
Floyd | to metal, starts striking up sparks and horribly denting the side of
Floyd | the tower with his axe.
Floyd |
Floyd | An alien hurries down the path.  Its gaze is locked on your father,
Floyd | and it's holding a metal prod.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Or just let the alien stop him?"
EmacsUser asks, "x prod?"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x prod"
Floyd | I don't know the word "prod".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "x alien"
Floyd | The alien is wielding a metal prod at your father.
Floyd |
Floyd | You watch the alien as it approaches your father and touches the metal
Floyd | prod to the base of his skull.  Your father stiffens and falls to the
Floyd | ground.  The alien turns to you and holds your gaze as the ground
Floyd | beneath it becomes foggy and it and your father are swallowed into the
Floyd | hill.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |    You see an alien here.
Floyd |    Your dad is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Attack him?"
Cheddarius asks, "The alien, I mean?"
EmacsUser says, "I guess."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "hit alien with hoe"
Floyd | As you rush the alien, you can feel that you are stepping over some
Floyd | internal boundary.  The madness rises within you, but the only way out
Floyd | of it seems to be through it.  You strike at the alien with the hoe,
Floyd | and experience what feels like an eternal moment of fear and rage.
Floyd | Your hand comes over your head in slow motion, yet with all of your
Floyd | strength behind it.  You can hear your father's axe bite into the
Floyd | tower just as the hoe reaches the alien's face.  You hear the metal of
Floyd | the tower yielding:  a slow, tortured squeal of anguish.
Floyd |
Floyd | The world around you begins to melt away-- the alien, your father, the
Floyd | hoe-- they all fade into nothing.  It is only the screaming:  the
Floyd | shrill, metallic squealing that accompanies you all the way into
Floyd | unconsciousness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your eyes come into focus on a slate-gray sky.  Your arms are firmly
Floyd | gripped by two guards on either side of you, who are firmly escorting
Floyd | you towards the gates of Juniper Hill asylum.  The same asylum that
Floyd | your father was taken to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "....Ohhhhhhhhh."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |    You see an alien here.
Floyd |    Your dad is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says, "Uh-oh"
Cheddarius says, "We are hallucinating."
EmacsUser asks, "Were the outcomes the same?"
Cheddarius says, "I don't know"
Cheddarius says, "We only went one command into each path"
Cheddarius says, "But they were different"
EmacsUser asks, "Which path do we want then?"
Cheddarius says, "The alien is the guards"
EmacsUser says, "Yes, and they were checking our recognition of concepts like color and shape. I think you're right."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "score"
Floyd | In a total of 537 turns, you have achieved a score of 160 points out
Floyd | of a possible 200.  You also received 15 bonus points.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Still some ways to go it seems."
Cheddarius asks, "Okay, let's try the crazy way?"
EmacsUser says, "I'm okay with that."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "hit alien with hoe"
Floyd | As you rush the alien, you can feel that you are stepping over some
Floyd | internal boundary.  The madness rises within you, but the only way out
Floyd | of it seems to be through it.  You strike at the alien with the hoe,
Floyd | and experience what feels like an eternal moment of fear and rage.
Floyd | Your hand comes over your head in slow motion, yet with all of your
Floyd | strength behind it.  You can hear your father's axe bite into the
Floyd | tower just as the hoe reaches the alien's face.  You hear the metal of
Floyd | the tower yielding:  a slow, tortured squeal of anguish.
Floyd |
Floyd | The world around you begins to melt away-- the alien, your father, the
Floyd | hoe-- they all fade into nothing.  It is only the screaming:  the
Floyd | shrill, metallic squealing that accompanies you all the way into
Floyd | unconsciousness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your eyes come into focus on a slate-gray sky.  Your arms are firmly
Floyd | gripped by two guards on either side of you, who are firmly escorting
Floyd | you towards the gates of Juniper Hill asylum.  The same asylum that
Floyd | your father was taken to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Gates of Asylum
Floyd |    You've only been to Juniper Hill once before, when you had to go
Floyd | sign the paperwork as your father's legal guardian-- your mom couldn't
Floyd | be found.  It looks the same as it did then:  serene, quiet, dead.
Floyd | Through the closed outer gates you can see the plush, well-tended lawn
Floyd | where the less violent inmates are allowed to go.
Floyd |    You see your bruise here.
Floyd |    The guards are gripping your arms.
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the pain and confusion, your mind relives that instant of
Floyd | striking the alien over and over.  Was there really an alien there to
Floyd | hit?  If you were hallucinating, isn't it possible that what you saw
Floyd | as an alien was just an ordinary person?  The possibilities of what
Floyd | you may have done start to sink in. When your dad went on his shooting
Floyd | spree in the restaurant ten years ago, was he seeing people, or alien
Floyd | faces conjured up by his own fevered imagination?
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe Juniper Hill is where you belong-- you and your father.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | You close the last twenty feet to the gate.  The guard on your right
Floyd | releases your arm to go talk to the gate-keeper.  The other guard
Floyd | clamps down painfully on your left arm.  The scene around you seems to
Floyd | blur; is it just your eyes tearing up from the pain?  You feel an
Floyd | all-too-familiar tingling sensation along your scalp, and the world
Floyd | comes into focus again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | The guard continues conferring with the gate-keeper for a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says, "Oh god, this game took a weird turn"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | The gate-keeper pushes a button, and the heavy, wrought-iron fence is
Floyd | hydraulically pushed open.  The guard returns to your side and grabs
Floyd | your arm again.  They escort you across the plush lawn into the
Floyd | freshly whitewashed building.  They force you into a small room where
Floyd | they wrestle you into a straight-jacket, and then they take you to a
Floyd | classic padded cell, and put you inside.  Any doubts you may have had
Floyd | about the reality of your situation are quickly dispelled as you rub
Floyd | your face against the rough canvas padding on your walls.  The cell is
Floyd | real.
Floyd |
Floyd | Real enough, anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In a total of 542 turns, you have achieved a score of 175 points out
Floyd | of a possible 200.  You also received 15 bonus points.
Floyd |
Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current
Floyd | command.
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO:  >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd | File to restore >
Cheddarius asks, "Which file was the most recent?"
AutomatonZX27 says, "Cf7, I believe"
EmacsUser says, "cf9"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "cf9"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |    Your dad strides angrily off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |    Your dad strides angrily off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |    Your dad strides angrily off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |    Your dad is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your dad keeps running his hand over the tree with the initials carved
Floyd | in it, and muttering.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "chop dad with axe"
Floyd | I don't know how to chop Dad.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your dad's murmuring gets louder, you can hear snatches of it.
Floyd | "...need an axe ...  where?  ...  Think!"  His mumbles trail off
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "hit dad with axe"
Floyd | You grapple with your father, who pushes who back with incredible
Floyd | strength.  "What the hell was that for?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Your dad keeps running his hand over the tree with the initials carved
Floyd | in it, and muttering.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | Your dad's murmuring gets louder, you can hear snatches of it.
Floyd | "...need an axe ...  where?  ...  Think!"  His mumbles trail off
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "give axe to dad"
Floyd | Your father looks at you for a long moment before it registers what
Floyd | you are offering.  He accepts the axe grimly.  Your dad looks at the
Floyd | axe solemnly for a moment, and a tear streams down his cheek.  "Too
Floyd | many damn lies."  are the only words he says before beginning to swing
Floyd | the axe at the tree with all of his might.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sound of hollow thuds fills the air.  You can't see any visible
Floyd | damage on the tree, but your father continues chopping with demented
Floyd | ferocity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "Now what? Just wait?"
EmacsUser says, "I guess."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | Just as you are about to give up hope that the tree can be damaged,
Floyd | you see sparks of electricity shooting off of it, and smoke starting
Floyd | to rise off of its branches.  Your father continues striking it with
Floyd | the axe, and there is a loud crackle as the tree simply winks out of
Floyd | existence, revealing a tall, seamless metal tower inside the spot the
Floyd | tree had been.  Your father, unfazed at this transformation from wood
Floyd | to metal, starts striking up sparks and horribly denting the side of
Floyd | the tower with his axe.
Floyd |
Floyd | An alien hurries down the path.  Its gaze is locked on your father,
Floyd | and it's holding a metal prod.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | You watch the alien as it approaches your father and touches the metal
Floyd | prod to the base of his skull.  Your father stiffens and falls to the
Floyd | ground.  The alien turns to you and holds your gaze as the ground
Floyd | beneath it becomes foggy and it and your father are swallowed into the
Floyd | hill.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You wander aimlessly for a while, but eventually the aliens give you
Floyd | other puzzles to work on.  You do so listlessly, thinking back to the
Floyd | bizarre opportunity you had with your father, and wondering what you
Floyd | could have done differently.  Eventually, you crawl into bed, tired
Floyd | and confused.
Floyd |
Floyd |    When you awake the next morning, you feel a little odd.  You sit up
Floyd | and rub your face, running your hands back over your head.  Ah, that
Floyd | must be why you feel odd, they took the wires out last night.  You
Floyd | yawn, stretch, and blink to clear your eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In a total of 543 turns, you have achieved a score of 160 points out
Floyd | of a possible 200.  You also received 15 bonus points.
Floyd |
Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current
Floyd | command.
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO:  >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "restore cf9"
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO:  >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "restore" AutomatonZX27 says, "Eep."
Floyd | File to restore >
Cheddarius says, "What"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf9"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | Assuming you haven't lost your grip on reality, you are Isaiah Knott,
Floyd | a twenty-seven year old man from the Appalachian mountains.  You are
Floyd | wearing your comfortable jeans, a thick flannel shirt, and hiking
Floyd | boots.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are four wires protruding out of your head, and a large, painful
Floyd | bruise spreading across your arm.  Your dad strides angrily off to the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "feel wires"
Floyd | Without a mirror, it's really difficult to examine them.  Just from
Floyd | touch, all four wires are about a quarter-inch thick, and they
Floyd | seamlessly attach to your attach to your skull.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius asks, "What are the wires?"
Cheddarius asks, "Are they real?"
EmacsUser says, "Don't know if you saw that, AutomatonZX27."
EmacsUser says, "We might cut them."
AutomatonZX27 asks, "Saw what?"
EmacsUser says, "The response to feel wires."
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "cut wires"
Floyd | I don't know the word "cut".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "chop wires with axe"
Floyd | I don't know how to chop the wires.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
AutomatonZX27 says, "Nope, I didn;t"
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "pull wires"
Floyd | You firmly pull on one of the wires.  It's like pulling on a large
Floyd | clump of your own hair.  It might come free, but how much will it
Floyd | hurt?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Cheddarius says, "Yes, because chopping vaguely at your head with an axe is the sign of a sane mind."
AutomatonZX27 says, "Didn't*"
Cheddarius P
AutomatonZX27 says, "Also, the wires are EVIL PENTAGRAM SOUL SUCK HORROR"
EmacsUser says, "Don't forget the double colon for :P."
EmacsUser asks, "So where are the remaining points?"
EmacsUser reviews the endings we've seen.
AutomatonZX27 says, "Argh"
AutomatonZX27 says, "I have to go guys"
AutomatonZX27 says, "Enjoy the game"
EmacsUser waves goodbye.
AutomatonZX27 exclaims, "Bye!"
AutomatonZX27 disappears in a flash of glaring white light.
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |    The living room is tastefully decorated.  Plush wall-to-wall
Floyd | carpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and
Floyd | coffee table.  The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the
Floyd | house you live in.  The front door to the north opens out on the
Floyd | driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |    The kitchen is just as small as you remember, but completely
Floyd | renovated, just like the outside of the house.  The appliances and the
Floyd | linolium on the floor are new.  There's a space-saving microwave oven
Floyd | installed above the range.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Back Porch
Floyd |    The building to the north looks far too good to be your house.  It
Floyd | sports new aluminum siding and shingles; the screen door is in place
Floyd | and freshly painted.  Off to the northwest, the garden is an explosion
Floyd | of color.  The path through the woods leads back south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |    Your dad is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your dad keeps running his hand over the tree with the initials carved
Floyd | in it, and muttering.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "I want to check something."
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "give axe to dad"
Floyd | Your father looks at you for a long moment before it registers what
Floyd | you are offering.  He accepts the axe grimly.  Your dad looks at the
Floyd | axe solemnly for a moment, and a tear streams down his cheek.  "Too
Floyd | many damn lies."  are the only words he says before beginning to swing
Floyd | the axe at the tree with all of his might.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sound of hollow thuds fills the air.  You can't see any visible
Floyd | damage on the tree, but your father continues chopping with demented
Floyd | ferocity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You have a hoe and a bucket.  The bucket seems to contain some water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Just as you are about to give up hope that the tree can be damaged,
Floyd | you see sparks of electricity shooting off of it, and smoke starting
Floyd | to rise off of its branches.  Your father continues striking it with
Floyd | the axe, and there is a loud crackle as the tree simply winks out of
Floyd | existence, revealing a tall, seamless metal tower inside the spot the
Floyd | tree had been.  Your father, unfazed at this transformation from wood
Floyd | to metal, starts striking up sparks and horribly denting the side of
Floyd | the tower with his axe.
Floyd |
Floyd | An alien hurries down the path.  Its gaze is locked on your father,
Floyd | and it's holding a metal prod.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "hit alien"
Floyd | It feels dangerous to go after the alien with nothing but your bare
Floyd | hands, but you go for it anyway.  The element of surprise is on your
Floyd | side, at least:  the alien is completely focused on your father.  As
Floyd | you close the final few steps to the alien, it sees you out of the
Floyd | corner of its eye and reflexively jerks its arm.  The metal prod
Floyd | grazes your temple and sends a jolt of electricity through your body,
Floyd | hurling you to the ground, momentarily as helpless as a newborn.
Floyd |
Floyd | You watch the alien as it approaches your father and touches the metal
Floyd | prod to the base of his skull.  Your father stiffens and falls to the
Floyd | ground.  The alien turns to you and holds your gaze as the ground
Floyd | beneath it becomes foggy and it and your father are swallowed into the
Floyd | hill.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hill Top
Floyd |    You are on the top of the hill just south of your house, surrounded
Floyd | by trees and spring-time air.  The familiar path beneath your feet
Floyd | leads south, just like it always has.  A thick fog in the distance
Floyd | obscures a normally beautiful view of the surrounding hilltops.  You
Floyd | are surrounded by artificial trees.  One of them has initials carved
Floyd | into it.
Floyd |    You see an alien here.
Floyd |    Your dad is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "hit alien with hoe"
Floyd | As you rush the alien, you can feel that you are stepping over some
Floyd | internal boundary.  The madness rises within you, but the only way out
Floyd | of it seems to be through it.  You strike at the alien with the hoe,
Floyd | and experience what feels like an eternal moment of fear and rage.
Floyd | Your hand comes over your head in slow motion, yet with all of your
Floyd | strength behind it.  You can hear your father's axe bite into the
Floyd | tower just as the hoe reaches the alien's face.  You hear the metal of
Floyd | the tower yielding:  a slow, tortured squeal of anguish.
Floyd |
Floyd | The world around you begins to melt away-- the alien, your father, the
Floyd | hoe-- they all fade into nothing.  It is only the screaming:  the
Floyd | shrill, metallic squealing that accompanies you all the way into
Floyd | unconsciousness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your eyes come into focus on a slate-gray sky.  Your arms are firmly
Floyd | gripped by two guards on either side of you, who are firmly escorting
Floyd | you towards the gates of Juniper Hill asylum.  The same asylum that
Floyd | your father was taken to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "feel wires"
Floyd | The guards have your arms firmly pinioned to your sides.
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the pain and confusion, your mind relives that instant of
Floyd | striking the alien over and over.  Was there really an alien there to
Floyd | hit?  If you were hallucinating, isn't it possible that what you saw
Floyd | as an alien was just an ordinary person?  The possibilities of what
Floyd | you may have done start to sink in. When your dad went on his shooting
Floyd | spree in the restaurant ten years ago, was he seeing people, or alien
Floyd | faces conjured up by his own fevered imagination?
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe Juniper Hill is where you belong-- you and your father.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Drat. I wanted to know if we still had wires in our head."
EmacsUser reviews the endings some more.
djfletch says, "wonder if we can escape here"
djfletch says, "it was quite specific about how one guard lets go of us"
EmacsUser says, "I would bet so then."
EmacsUser says (to djfletch), "Have a try."
djfletch says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
djfletch says (to Floyd), "cf10"
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Touchy asks, "What are you playing right now?"
djfletch says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are empty-handed.
Floyd |
Floyd | You close the last twenty feet to the gate.  The guard on your right
Floyd | releases your arm to go talk to the gate-keeper.  The other guard
Floyd | clamps down painfully on your left arm.  The scene around you seems to
Floyd | blur; is it just your eyes tearing up from the pain?  You feel an
Floyd | all-too-familiar tingling sensation along your scalp, and the world
Floyd | comes into focus again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says, "Alien Abduction"
djfletch says (to Floyd), "punch guard"
Floyd | I don't know the word "punch".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says (to Floyd), "hit guard"
Floyd | You flail with your free arm at the one guard still holding you, but
Floyd | to no avail.  Even one-handed, his grip is stronger than your arm,
Floyd | leaving his other hand free to rebuff your attacks and get some good
Floyd | jabs in of his own.  The other guard glances over, unconcerned.
Floyd |
Floyd | The guard continues conferring with the gate-keeper for a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
djfletch says, "oh well"
EmacsUser exclaims, "Wait!"
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "run"
Floyd | I don't know the word "run".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "feel wires"
Floyd | Without a mirror, it's really difficult to examine them.  Just from
Floyd | touch, all four wires are about a quarter-inch thick, and they
Floyd | seamlessly attach to your attach to your skull.
Floyd |
Floyd | The gate-keeper pushes a button, and the heavy, wrought-iron fence is
Floyd | hydraulically pushed open.  The guard returns to your side and grabs
Floyd | your arm again.  They escort you across the plush lawn into the
Floyd | freshly whitewashed building.  They force you into a small room where
Floyd | they wrestle you into a straight-jacket, and then they take you to a
Floyd | classic padded cell, and put you inside.  Any doubts you may have had
Floyd | about the reality of your situation are quickly dispelled as you rub
Floyd | your face against the rough canvas padding on your walls.  The cell is
Floyd | real.
Floyd |
Floyd | Real enough, anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In a total of 544 turns, you have achieved a score of 175 points out
Floyd | of a possible 200.  You also received 15 bonus points.
Floyd |
Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current
Floyd | command.
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO:  >
Cheddarius says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO:  >
Cheddarius says, "Time for walkthrough? I think we've won the game all we can..."
EmacsUser exclaims, "So we still do have wires!"
Cheddarius says, "It could be a bug in the game"
Cheddarius says, "The creator might have just forgotten to remove it, or figured it didn't matter"
EmacsUser says, "We've been playing a long time. I'd be okay with a walkthrough, except that I've never seen one used in a CF transcript."
EmacsUser looks up walkthrough on the ifdb.
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "restore cf9"
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO:  >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd | File to restore >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf10"
Floyd | Gates of Asylum
Floyd |    You've only been to Juniper Hill once before, when you had to go
Floyd | sign the paperwork as your father's legal guardian-- your mom couldn't
Floyd | be found.  It looks the same as it did then:  serene, quiet, dead.
Floyd | Through the closed outer gates you can see the plush, well-tended lawn
Floyd | where the less violent inmates are allowed to go.
Floyd |    You see your bruise here.
Floyd |    The guards are gripping your arms.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | You close the last twenty feet to the gate.  The guard on your right
Floyd | releases your arm to go talk to the gate-keeper.  The other guard
Floyd | clamps down painfully on your left arm.  The scene around you seems to
Floyd | blur; is it just your eyes tearing up from the pain?  You feel an
Floyd | all-too-familiar tingling sensation along your scalp, and the world
Floyd | comes into focus again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "pull wire"
Floyd | You sense that this is probably your only chance to do anything, and
Floyd | so you seize on the one possibility that offers you hope.  You reach
Floyd | up with your free hand and pull on one of the wires with all of your
Floyd | strength.  The pain is incredible.  The guard realizes something is
Floyd | wrong when your knees give out from under you.  You can hear them
Floyd | frantically shouting something, but the words are lost behind a fine
Floyd | red mist of pain.  As the pain pushes you to the limits of your very
Floyd | being, you feel a moist ripping and the wire starts to pull free.
Floyd | Then, you thankfully lose consciousness.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You awaken on the ground in the clearing where you saw the ship.  The
Floyd | morning is growing bright in the east.  Stiff joints protest your
Floyd | weight as you stand up amongst the litter of pictures on the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "get pictures"
Floyd | Gathering the pictures up off of the ground, you try not to look at
Floyd | them, being terrified of what they may show, yet insanely curious as
Floyd | to what's on them.  Once you have them piled in your hands, you take a
Floyd | deep breath and try to still your nervous heart.
Floyd |
Floyd | Clammy fingertips far too distant and removed to be yours reach out
Floyd | and start flipping through the pictures.  All of them seem to be
Floyd | identical.  All of them capture bare tree branches carefully
Floyd | silhouetted against the full moon and the clear, starry sky.  Numb
Floyd | fingers slowly flip identical pictures past unseeing eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your mind focuses on one part of that scene, and the more you think
Floyd | about it, the more clearly you see it-- the gentle face of the moon,
Floyd | not only looking down at you, but winking at you conspiratorially, as
Floyd | if it knows something that you don't.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In a total of 543 turns, you have achieved a score of 200 points out
Floyd | of a possible 200.  You also received 15 bonus points.
Floyd |
Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current
Floyd | command.
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO:  >
EmacsUser says, "I'm done for the day."
Cheddarius exclaims, "I say~!"
Cheddarius says, "Oh"
Cheddarius says, "Right, then"
Cheddarius exclaims, "Thanks!"
EmacsUser says, "That took a lot longer than I thought it would."
Cheddarius says, "Yeah"
EmacsUser says, "Hopefully next time we'll have some more club members present."



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