  
 
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction. Below is a transcript of The Unicorn Pool, written by Tiddy Ogg. The Unicorn Pool was originally released in 2010. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page. |
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load unipool" | ||||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | It is late afternoon, and the previously busy market place now has Floyd | only a few stragglers trying to find last-minute bargains. Floyd | Your stall is now devoid of all the home-grown delights that were Floyd | piled on the table, and you are preparing to pack things away and Floyd | return to your house. Floyd | It seems that Giles, next stall along, (for whom you have a secret Floyd | fondness,) has also had a good day. He stands, with the last Floyd | remaining apple tree sapling that he has left for sale. Floyd | You look shyly towards him, but all his attention is taken up gazing Floyd | at Grace, the beautiful daughter of the local squire who approaches Floyd | Giles' stall. Floyd | Floyd | Hardly sparing a glance at the tree she throws some money at Giles' Floyd | feet and instructs him to deliver it immediately to the Hall. Floyd | She sweeps away with a wiggle and a show of shapely leg below her Floyd | silk gown, and Giles trots along obediently behind her like a faithful Floyd | dog. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Unicorn Pool Floyd | A fable owing much to Theodore Sturgeon, Thomas Hardy, and the film A Floyd | Kid For Two Farthings. Floyd | Floyd | Type "examine me" to discover who you are. Floyd | Type "about" to find out more about the game. Floyd | Floyd | By Tiddy Ogg, June 2010. Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 100914 / Inform v6.31 Library 6/11 SD Floyd | Floyd | The Market Square Floyd | The market place has stalls arranged around its perimeter. Floyd | The north side of the square is bordered by the entrance gate and Floyd | boundary wall of the Hall, the squire's residence. Floyd | Your house is along the road to the east, and the dismal bogland trail Floyd | leads to the west. Floyd | The southern road leads off to the big town many miles away which is Floyd | far too distant to walk to. Floyd | Floyd | It's the end of the day and there is little left to buy, and few Floyd | people still browsing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ooh a secret fondness" | |||||
| Johnny says, "Woo, debug" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine me" | ||||||
Floyd | You are a hard-working girl, with mousey hair, a weathered face and Floyd | labour-toughened hands. As someone once said of you - Marty's beauty Floyd | is well-concealed. Floyd | Like most of the villagers, your clothes are home made from coarse Floyd | fabric. It may not be too comfortable, but it's what you are Floyd | accustomed to. And there's no point in wishing to dress like those Floyd | rich folks at the Hall - those silks and satins wouldn't last five Floyd | minutes on the farm. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Far too distant to walk to, so don't even try, HINT HINT. heh" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stall" | ||||||
Floyd | Wooden boards, resting on trestles, providing a trading area for the Floyd | market. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), " look under stall" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the market stalls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x market" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||||||
Floyd | Two wrought iron entrance gates, locked with an iron bar, and Floyd | surmounted by iron spikes are set in a six foot high brick wall topped Floyd | with broken glass which makes an impregnable barrier to the casual Floyd | visitor. Floyd | You can see the driveway curving off toward the house to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't think we're gettin' in the gate -- yet." | |||||
| DavidW asks, "Our home is east. Shall we see where we live?" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bluebell Lane Floyd | The pretty grassy track is bordered by thick hedges with many wild Floyd | flowers growing in the verges. Floyd | It is only a couple of hundred yards long, connecting your cottage, Floyd | hidden behind high hedges at the east end, to the market square Floyd | westwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search hedges" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the hedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get flowers" | ||||||
Floyd | They look much better in their natural setting, and will last far Floyd | longer than in a vase. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell flowers" | ||||||
Floyd | Aah! Delightful. One of life's simple pleasures. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says, "x cotttage" | |||||
| inky says, "aaah flowers" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "too much t" | ||||||
| Jizaboz says (to x), "cottage" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "t?" | ||||||
| Alex says (to Jacqueline), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that t is a drink with jam and bread." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "'f x cottage', not on the channel." | ||||||
| Jizaboz says, "Argh maybe I should take a nap" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "'cotttage'" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cottage" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "east?" | |||||
| Jizaboz says (to DavidW), "I was slowly getting there, heh" | ||||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | End Of Lane Floyd | The end of the lane to your cottage, which is immediately to the east. Floyd | Another cottage, Orchard Cot, owned by Giles, is up a short track to Floyd | the south. The market square may be reached down the lane westwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cottage" | ||||||
Floyd | The thatched roof is supported by thick walls made in the traditional Floyd | manner from cob - straw and mud. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says, "Ah, you can see it from here" | |||||
| inky says, "we can see our house from here" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "I was worried this was Zeno's Lane, not Bluebell Lane." | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bluebell Cottage Floyd | Your humble home. There is only this one room on the ground floor and Floyd | a bedroom above to which stairs lead up. Floyd | The front door is to the west and the garden door to the east. Floyd | The only furnishings are extremely basic. Floyd | Floyd | Entering through the unlocked door, you see the familiar old Floyd | furniture. It's not much, but it's your home. Floyd | You're tired after your day at the market, but the animals need Floyd | feeding. You can hear the chickens clucking impatiently out back. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table (on which is a book), a cooker and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||||||
Floyd | It's about a young girl, a unicorn, and a magic pool. You've learned Floyd | that unicorns will only appear to the pure. Floyd | There is a picture of a unicorn on the front cover - a magnificent Floyd | beast with a gold mane and golden horn, silver hooves and a snow white Floyd | body. Floyd | Floyd | Where did the book come from? Probably given away by the people at Floyd | the Hall when they'd finished with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||||||
Floyd | It's about a young girl, a unicorn, and a magic pool. You've learned Floyd | that unicorns will only appear to the pure. Floyd | There is a picture of a unicorn on the front cover - a magnificent Floyd | beast with a gold mane and golden horn, silver hooves and a snow white Floyd | body. Floyd | Floyd | Where did the book come from? Probably given away by the people at Floyd | the Hall when they'd finished with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cooker" | ||||||
Floyd | wood-burning stove, your only source of heat and means of cooking. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We need to feed the chickens to the east." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take book" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It's a good thing Giles doesn't give us the time of day. We're still pure for the unicorns." | |||||
| Binder says, "I'm not convinced chickens eat books" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Binder), "I don't want the hobgoblins to get the book." | ||||||
| Binder says (to DavidW), "On behalf of my goblinoid brethren: NYAH" | ||||||
| Johnny does like justice, but that's taking it a bit far. | ||||||
| Johnny arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW says, "Hobgoblins steal books and people named Binder. Well known fact." | |||||
| Binder says, "oh, well, hard to argue with facts." | ||||||
| DavidW asks, "east?" | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bluebell Cottage Floyd | Your humble home. There is only this one room on the ground floor and Floyd | a bedroom above to which stairs lead up. Floyd | The front door is to the west and the garden door to the east. Floyd | The only furnishings are extremely basic. Floyd | Floyd | You're tired after your day at the market, but the animals need Floyd | feeding. You can hear the chickens clucking impatiently out back. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table, a cooker and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "sure" | |||||
| DavidW says, "I assume the chicken feed is east also." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Yard Floyd | The typically untidy yard of a rural dwelling is full of chickens Floyd | scratching at the ground. Floyd | Your cottage is to the west and a small shed is to the south. Floyd | The goat's paddock has an entrance to the northwest. Floyd | You can see a billy goat, some chickens and a rooster here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x goat" | ||||||
Floyd | Why you bought a billy no-one can explain, but you love the brute, and Floyd | he seems to like you too, especially at feeding time. He has a pair Floyd | of stubby horns which should not do you too much damage... unless he Floyd | meant to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chickens" | ||||||
Floyd | A motley collection of hens, mostly derbyshire redcaps, with one proud Floyd | rooster who thinks he is in charge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rooster" | ||||||
Floyd | Bad-tempered brute who'll peck at you any time he gets the chance, but Floyd | he does his duty as far as the hens are concerned. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shed" | ||||||
Floyd | A solid wooden shed made of shiplapped boards, needing a fresh coat of Floyd | pitch oil . Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "south?" | |||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shed Floyd | A small shed containing tubs of animal feed... ...which you Floyd | immediately distribute to your waiting audience outside. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some tubs of animal feed and a lead rein here. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "south, the land from which points flow" | |||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x tubs" | ||||||
Floyd | You make sure your stock is well fed, storing the foodstuff in these Floyd | metal bins. They are nearly full right now, so don't rick your back Floyd | trying to shift them. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I like points." | |||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x rein" | ||||||
Floyd | It's like a long dog lead with collar attached, just the right size Floyd | for Billy's neck. Lucky it's turned up now, that's been missing for Floyd | months. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says, "Me too." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rein" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take feed" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the tubs of animal feed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in tubs" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the tubs of animal feed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm." | |||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "x" | ||||||
Floyd | (the tubs of animal feed) Floyd | You make sure your stock is well fed, storing the foodstuff in these Floyd | metal bins. They are nearly full right now, so don't rick your back Floyd | trying to shift them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open tubs" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the tubs of animal feed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "search feed" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the tubs of animal feed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take food" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take foodstuff" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l under tubs" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the tubs of animal feed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I love the subtle but contextually appropriate hints in this game." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open tub" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the tubs of animal feed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Apparently not subtle enough" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shift tubs" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the tubs of animal feed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shed Floyd | A small shed containing tubs of animal feed... Floyd | You can see some tubs of animal feed here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||||
Floyd | The Unicorn Pool is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives long Floyd | descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shed Floyd | A small shed containing tubs of animal feed... Floyd | You can see some tubs of animal feed here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Johnny does like justice, but that's taking it a bit far. | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "feed chickens" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Yard Floyd | The typically untidy yard of a rural dwelling is full of chickens Floyd | scratching at the ground. Floyd | Your cottage is to the west and a small shed is to the south. Floyd | The goat's paddock has an entrance to the northwest. Floyd | You can see a billy goat, some chickens and a rooster here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "feed chickens" | ||||||
Floyd | Whom do you want to feed the chickens to? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. I guess we need a bucket or bowl or bag to fill?" | |||||
| Binder says, "it said we fed them when we entered the shed" | ||||||
| DavidW asks, "Let's look upstairs?" | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x chickens" | ||||||
Floyd | A motley collection of hens, mostly derbyshire redcaps, with one proud Floyd | rooster who thinks he is in charge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shed Floyd | A small shed containing tubs of animal feed... Floyd | You can see some tubs of animal feed here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "compare:" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take animal feed" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Binder says, "Floyd | A small shed containing tubs of animal feed... ...which you" Binder says, "Floyd | immediately distribute to your waiting audience outside." | DavidW says, "I've noticed with I7 games that authors can't easily see extra spaces or periods that sneak into their text strings." | |||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Yard Floyd | The typically untidy yard of a rural dwelling is full of chickens Floyd | scratching at the ground. Floyd | Your cottage is to the west and a small shed is to the south. Floyd | The goat's paddock has an entrance to the northwest. Floyd | You can see a billy goat, some chickens and a rooster here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a lead rein Floyd | a book Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The IDE ought to use fixed-width font for the source code, or at least offer it." | |||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "leash goat" | ||||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "we need to feed the goat first, no?" | |||||
| inky says, "this is actually I6, I think" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Also, 'put rein on goat' probably works." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "version" | ||||||
Floyd | The Unicorn Pool Floyd | A fable owing much to Theodore Sturgeon, Thomas Hardy, and the film A Floyd | Kid For Two Farthings. Floyd | Floyd | Type "examine me" to discover who you are. Floyd | Type "about" to find out more about the game. Floyd | Floyd | By Tiddy Ogg, June 2010. Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 100914 / Inform v6.31 Library 6/11 SD Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 (2N) / Library serial number 040227 Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "I'd think a hungry goat would be more inclined to follow than a contented goat but I may not be a typical goat" | |||||
| DavidW says, "oh. So it is." | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "put rein on goat" | ||||||
Floyd | The salient characteristic of goats is their stubbornness, and Billy Floyd | wants nothing to do with this game. The only place you can go with Floyd | him is the paddock, so it's hardly worth trying, is it? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Nitku), "coolness. I'll look for it." | |||||
| DavidW says, "Let's look in the paddock anyway. (northwest)" | ||||||
| Binder says, "suits me" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddock Floyd | A grassy area for the goat to forage, though he's always in the back Floyd | yard at feeding time. Floyd | It stretches northwest to the boundary of the grounds of the Hall, the Floyd | side wall of which abuts it. Floyd | The open gateway to your yard is at the east side. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hmmm." | |||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x hall" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "must be foggy in the paddock" | |||||
| DavidW says, "silly. Try nw again" | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | By Hall Side-wall Floyd | The northwest corner of your paddock. The Hall is just the other side Floyd | of the wall. A first floor balcony is visible above you, but nothing Floyd | can be seen above the parapet except the top of a double paned window Floyd | set back into the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Binder), "heh" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||||
Floyd | Panes of glass to let in daylight. Not the product of the Microsoft Floyd | corporation. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "..." | |||||
| DavidW says, "ack. Fourth wall smashed!" | ||||||
| Binder says, "Indeed." | ||||||
| Jizaboz says, "heh" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look through window" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the windows. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x balcony" | ||||||
Floyd | It's what's known as a belvedere - the balcony doesn't project but is Floyd | flush with the wall. It only has brickwork eighteen inches high at Floyd | the base, so it'd be easy enough to fall out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "fire batarang at balcony then scale up like batman" | ||||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "we haven't found a batarang yet." | |||||
| Binder says, "I guess I meant lead rein." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Also, sounds like something might fall off the balcony into our paddock." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Like, later in the story." | ||||||
| Binder says, "Probably us." | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | By Hall Side-wall Floyd | The northwest corner of your paddock. The Hall is just the other side Floyd | of the wall. A first floor balcony is visible above you, but nothing Floyd | can be seen above the parapet except the top of a double paned window Floyd | set back into the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "climb wall" | ||||||
Floyd | There's no way you'll get up there over those glass shards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||||||
Floyd | The six foot high wall with broken glass stuck to the top surface Floyd | surrounds the entire property. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, this sounds like not-yet stuff." | |||||
| Binder says, "worst.art car. ever." | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddock Floyd | A grassy area for the goat to forage, though he's always in the back Floyd | yard at feeding time. Floyd | It stretches northwest to the boundary of the grounds of the Hall, the Floyd | side wall of which abuts it. Floyd | The open gateway to your yard is at the east side. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "e?" | |||||
| Alex says (to Binder), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that e is 2.71828183." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "yes. Let's go upstairs in our cottage." | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Yard Floyd | The typically untidy yard of a rural dwelling is full of chickens Floyd | scratching at the ground. Floyd | Your cottage is to the west and a small shed is to the south. Floyd | The goat's paddock has an entrance to the northwest. Floyd | You can see a billy goat, some chickens and a rooster here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bluebell Cottage Floyd | Your humble home. There is only this one room on the ground floor and Floyd | a bedroom above to which stairs lead up. Floyd | The front door is to the west and the garden door to the east. Floyd | The only furnishings are extremely basic. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You really must get a bit of shut-eye! Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table, a cooker and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder exclaims, "must!" | |||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | Nestling under the eaves, there's nothing much of interest here except Floyd | the bed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a bed here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||||
Floyd | Old, like everything else, and a bit lumpy in places, but you know the Floyd | best position to lie for a good night's sleep. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz asks, "sleep?" | |||||
| Alex says (to Jizaboz), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that sleep is something that no real programmer needs." | ||||||
| DavidW asks, "hm. Maybe we don't need to feed the chickens then?" | ||||||
| Binder says (to DavidW), "I stand by my belief that entering the shed fed them" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "lie in bed. Then sleep." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Binder), "perhaps." | ||||||
| Binder says (to DavidW), "If they come devour us in our sleep you are entitled to one I Told You So." | ||||||
| Jizaboz says, "it probably won't let us sleep on the floor" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "We did get a point for it." | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "lie in bed" | ||||||
Floyd | You get onto the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||||||
Floyd | After a well-deserved night's slumber, you awake refreshed at dawn to Floyd | the cock's crow. Floyd | Another day, and as usual, the first thing to do is sort the animals Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "animal sorting day already? where does the time go." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I hate waking up that way." | ||||||
| Jizaboz says, "haha" | ||||||
| Binder asks (of Jacqueline), "Refreshed?" | ||||||
| Nitku asks (of Jacqueline), "At dawn?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "With the cock's crow." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's jarring." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "And cocks never wait until dawn to make their noise." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "They seem to like to start at 3 am." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "hm. I've never been woken by a ... rooster." | ||||||
| Jizaboz says, "Heh-heh" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "heh" | ||||||
| Binder rummages around for some riff on 'alarm cock' but gets nowhere. | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom (on the bed) Floyd | Nestling under the eaves, there's nothing much of interest here except Floyd | the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we need to head down to the garden again." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||||
Floyd | Old, like everything else, and a bit lumpy in places, but you know the Floyd | best position to lie for a good night's sleep. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||||
Floyd | You get off the bed. Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | Nestling under the eaves, there's nothing much of interest here except Floyd | the bed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a bed here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x eaves" | ||||||
Floyd | The thatched roof is supported by thick walls made in the traditional Floyd | manner from cob - straw and mud. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "alarm cock is what that Swedish girlfriend of Assange's woke up to" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bluebell Cottage Floyd | Your humble home. There is only this one room on the ground floor and Floyd | a bedroom above to which stairs lead up. Floyd | The front door is to the west and the garden door to the east. Floyd | The only furnishings are extremely basic. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Those animals are hungry again - listen to the noise! Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table, a cooker and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Yard Floyd | The typically untidy yard of a rural dwelling is full of chickens Floyd | scratching at the ground. Floyd | Your cottage is to the west and a small shed is to the south. Floyd | The goat's paddock has an entrance to the northwest. ... but Billy's Floyd | not here! Floyd | You'd better try to find the brute. Floyd | I'd guess if he's not in the paddock, he may have nipped across the Floyd | lane to Giles' place. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some chickens and a rooster here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shed Floyd | A small shed containing tubs of animal feed... ...which you Floyd | immediately distribute to your waiting audience outside. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some tubs of animal feed here. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Yard Floyd | The typically untidy yard of a rural dwelling is full of chickens Floyd | scratching at the ground. Floyd | Your cottage is to the west and a small shed is to the south. Floyd | The goat's paddock has an entrance to the northwest. ... but Billy's Floyd | not here! Floyd | You'd better try to find the brute. Floyd | I'd guess if he's not in the paddock, he may have nipped across the Floyd | lane to Giles' place. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some chickens and a rooster here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddock Floyd | A grassy area for the goat to forage, though he's always in the back Floyd | yard at feeding time. Floyd | It stretches northwest to the boundary of the grounds of the Hall, the Floyd | side wall of which abuts it. Floyd | The open gateway to your yard is at the east side. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a gap in the hedge bordering Bluebell Lane where the goat Floyd | made his getaway - unfortunately you'd cut yourself to ribbons on the Floyd | hawthorn if you tried going that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "two, TWO points! Ah-ah-AAAH." | |||||
| DavidW says, "We fed 'em again." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 2 out of a possible 10, in 68 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "4 more days and nights of walking into that shed and we're SET" | |||||
| DavidW says, "surely we don't get a point every time we enter that shed (I hope)." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | You can go only east or northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | You can go only east or northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Yard Floyd | The typically untidy yard of a rural dwelling is full of chickens Floyd | scratching at the ground. Floyd | Your cottage is to the west and a small shed is to the south. Floyd | The goat's paddock has an entrance to the northwest. ... but Billy's Floyd | not here! Floyd | You'd better try to find the brute. Floyd | I'd guess if he's not in the paddock, he may have nipped across the Floyd | lane to Giles' place. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some chickens and a rooster here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shed Floyd | A small shed containing tubs of animal feed... Floyd | You can see some tubs of animal feed here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "see?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Yard Floyd | The typically untidy yard of a rural dwelling is full of chickens Floyd | scratching at the ground. Floyd | Your cottage is to the west and a small shed is to the south. Floyd | The goat's paddock has an entrance to the northwest. ... but Billy's Floyd | not here! Floyd | You'd better try to find the brute. Floyd | I'd guess if he's not in the paddock, he may have nipped across the Floyd | lane to Giles' place. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some chickens and a rooster here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bluebell Cottage Floyd | Your humble home. There is only this one room on the ground floor and Floyd | a bedroom above to which stairs lead up. Floyd | The front door is to the west and the garden door to the east. Floyd | The only furnishings are extremely basic. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table, a cooker and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | End Of Lane Floyd | The end of the lane to your cottage, which is immediately to the east. Floyd | Another cottage, Orchard Cot, owned by Giles, is up a short track to Floyd | the south. The market square may be reached down the lane westwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Orchard Cot Floyd | The furnishings are as basic as your own cottage. Floyd | You search the place, calling for Giles, but there is no reply. Where Floyd | on earth can he be? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Orchard Cot Floyd | The furnishings are as basic as your own cottage. Floyd | You search the place, calling for Giles, but there is no reply. Where Floyd | on earth can he be? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no exits listed" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | You can go only north. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Perhaps our billy is eating the marketplace." | |||||
| DavidW says, "We could be in biiiiig trouble." | ||||||
| Binder says, "Adam Smith's Invisible Gruff" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | End Of Lane Floyd | The end of the lane to your cottage, which is immediately to the east. Floyd | Another cottage, Orchard Cot, owned by Giles, is up a short track to Floyd | the south. The market square may be reached down the lane westwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bluebell Lane Floyd | The pretty grassy track is bordered by thick hedges with many wild Floyd | flowers growing in the verges. Floyd | It is only a couple of hundred yards long, connecting your cottage, Floyd | hidden behind high hedges at the east end, to the market square Floyd | westwards. Floyd | There is damage to the northern hedge where something has forced its Floyd | way through, and cloven hoof prints lead west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder exclaims, "aaaaa the debil!" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hedge" | ||||||
Floyd | Spiky hawthorn, interspersed with brambles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | You can go only east or west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x prints" | ||||||
Floyd | The woodcraft you've learned from a very early age allows you to Floyd | identify them as fairly freshly made goat tracks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "follow prints" | ||||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Market Square Floyd | The market place has stalls arranged around its perimeter. Floyd | The north side of the square is bordered by the entrance gate and Floyd | boundary wall of the Hall, the squire's residence. Floyd | Your house is along the road to the east, and the dismal bogland trail Floyd | leads to the west. Floyd | The southern road leads off to the big town many miles away which is Floyd | far too distant to walk to. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The square's now almost deserted, the day after the market, and early Floyd | in the morning as it is. Only old Ned and Jake are here now, leaning Floyd | on the wall and discussing life, the universe and current livestock Floyd | prices. You see Jake chuckling and nudging Ned as he gestures toward Floyd | the Hall. Giles name is mentioned, and Jake gives you a quizzical Floyd | look. Floyd | You can see Old Ned and Jake here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask old ned about billy goat" | ||||||
Floyd | Oh aar! He went off into yonder bog. I reckon he's a goner - nothing Floyd | comes back once they bin scrandled in them swamps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jake about giles" | ||||||
Floyd | Reckon the lucky beggar's been at it all night with racy Gracie. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "!" | |||||
| Binder says, "at least they're decisive in their assessments" | ||||||
| inky says, "ha h a" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Gracie ain't gonna see no unicorn." | ||||||
| DavidW asks, "West to the bog?" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask old ned about bog" | ||||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "sure, one corpse is as good as another" | |||||
| DavidW says, "You mean... we're gonna die?!" | ||||||
| Binder says, "no, I just generally assume any NPC who gets laid is dead by the time we see them again" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "tsk" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bog Trail Floyd | The flowery lane soon degenerates into a dank track through a series Floyd | of foul-smelling bogs as you move westward. But it's always been this Floyd | way, and the solitude can sometimes be a comfort. Floyd | You can continue westwards deeper into the swamp, or return to the Floyd | village eastwards. There are cloven hoof prints leading west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x prints" | ||||||
Floyd | The woodcraft you've learned from a very early age allows you to Floyd | identify them as fairly freshly made goat tracks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Alongside A Clear Pool Floyd | The bogs encroach on this spot from all directions except for the Floyd | narrow track eastwards. Strange you've never noticed this delightful Floyd | spot before now. Yes! You've found that beast. Now all you have to Floyd | do is get him home. Floyd | You can see a billy goat and a clear pool here. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "going into the swamp as at least as important as not killing our animals" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x goat" | ||||||
Floyd | Why you bought a billy no-one can explain, but you love the brute, and Floyd | he seems to like you too, especially at feeding time. He has a pair Floyd | of stubby horns which should not do you too much damage... unless he Floyd | meant to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pool" | ||||||
Floyd | Amid all the brackish muddy swamps this pool is perfectly clear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in pool" | ||||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "swim" | ||||||
Floyd | It may look inviting, but it's not very deep, and the weather is Floyd | decidedly chilly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put rein on goat" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Well, you found your goat, but what about Giles? Floyd | By the time you get home he's gone, and you never see him again. Has Floyd | he, in shame, gone off down that long southern road and found another Floyd | life? Floyd | Or did he never return from the Hall... and if that's the case, is he Floyd | living the life of Riley, or are the tales of the weird goings-on Floyd | there true? Floyd | Floyd | *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 4 out of a possible 10, in 95 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Alongside A Clear Pool Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "weird" | |||||
| Binder says, "that danged scape goat" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "I wasn't expecting the game to end suddenly like that." | ||||||
| inky says, "also, it's funny that that is all crammed into the ***s" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drink pool" | ||||||
Floyd | You take a tentative sip, and when you find the taste is wonderfully Floyd | sweet, drink your fill. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||||
Floyd | You are a hard-working girl, with mousey hair, a weathered face and Floyd | labour-toughened hands. As someone once said of you - Marty's beauty Floyd | is well-concealed. Floyd | Like most of the villagers, your clothes are home made from coarse Floyd | fabric. It may not be too comfortable, but it's what you are Floyd | accustomed to. And there's no point in wishing to dress like those Floyd | rich folks at the Hall - those silks and satins wouldn't last five Floyd | minutes on the farm. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says (to inky), "Alternate ending I'm thinking" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Alongside A Clear Pool Floyd | The bogs encroach on this spot from all directions except for the Floyd | narrow track eastwards. Floyd | You can see a billy goat and a clear pool here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bogs" | ||||||
Floyd | Not somewhere you'd want to wander into. There are old tales of even Floyd | horses being swallowed up in the local bogs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "make a wish" | ||||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wish" | ||||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "shall we go look for giles, then?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "I guess" | ||||||
| Binder says, "maybe we need the lead rein to drag him back" | ||||||
| Binder says, "it's a single use rein so obviously using it on the goat loses the game" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet billy" | ||||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bog Trail Floyd | The flowery lane soon degenerates into a dank track through a series Floyd | of foul-smelling bogs as you move westward. But it's always been this Floyd | way, and the solitude can sometimes be a comfort. Floyd | You can continue westwards deeper into the swamp, or return to the Floyd | village eastwards. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Market Square Floyd | The market place has stalls arranged around its perimeter. Floyd | The north side of the square is bordered by the entrance gate and Floyd | boundary wall of the Hall, the squire's residence. Floyd | Your house is along the road to the east, and the dismal bogland trail Floyd | leads to the west. Floyd | The southern road leads off to the big town many miles away which is Floyd | far too distant to walk to. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The square's now almost deserted, the day after the market, and early Floyd | in the morning as it is. Only old Ned and Jake are here now, leaning Floyd | on the wall and discussing life, the universe and current livestock Floyd | prices. Floyd | You can see Old Ned and Jake here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask old ned about giles" | ||||||
Floyd | Aye, Him gan ter the big 'ouse with Miss Grace yes'day, an' Ibain't Floyd | seen him since. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask old ned about grace" | ||||||
Floyd | Aar, but them aristocrats is a law unto 'emselves. I'd keep well Floyd | clear if I were you, young 'un. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask old ned about hall" | ||||||
Floyd | You know they never lets on what goes on in there, an' I'm not Floyd | spreadin' no rumours . Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jake about grace" | ||||||
Floyd | They say she's into all this sad-ism with whips and chains and such. Floyd | Fancy me tying you to a bed and giving you what for? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||||
| inky says, "so *that's* what the lead rein is for" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jake about hall" | ||||||
Floyd | I'll tell you this much. It's only that Gracie who's home at the Floyd | moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "what a dirty old man" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "hm. So what are our options, really?" | ||||||
| Binder exclaims, "'put rein on jake'!" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put rein on jake" | ||||||
Floyd | Putting things on Jake would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "is north an option here?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | The gate is firmly locked, and even were you that athletic, you'd cut Floyd | yourself to ribbons on those sharp shards on top of the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask old ned about gate" | ||||||
Floyd | Ain't no way over that, girl, not 'less you'm pole vault champion of Floyd | China. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "go back out into our paddock?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jake about gate" | ||||||
Floyd | I reckon, if you could hoopla one of those spikes on the top, you Floyd | might be able to haul yourself over. I'll help you if you don't mind Floyd | me looking up your skirt at the same time. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "maybe giles was defenestrated" | |||||
| Binder says, "oh, an upskirt boost, just what I've always wanted" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jake, help me" | ||||||
Floyd | Jake winks knowingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | The gate is firmly locked, and even were you that athletic, you'd cut Floyd | yourself to ribbons on those sharp shards on top of the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | You can go only east or west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||||
Floyd | You might be fit, girl, but you're not a steroid fuelled athlete. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jake, lift me" | ||||||
Floyd | Jake winks knowingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says, "Could be that the author started a multiple endings concept but never finished. It's possible with the whole ending being in *** s" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on jake" | ||||||
Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "climb jake" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We could also try going south, I guess. Paddock is probably our best bet, though." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stall" | ||||||
Floyd | Wooden boards, resting on trestles, providing a trading area for the Floyd | market. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder shrugs indifferently | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on stall" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the market stalls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | It's much too far to walk. You'd better wait in the village until you Floyd | can get a lift... and vehicles are very few and far between. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "climb stall" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the market stalls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bluebell Lane Floyd | The pretty grassy track is bordered by thick hedges with many wild Floyd | flowers growing in the verges. Floyd | It is only a couple of hundred yards long, connecting your cottage, Floyd | hidden behind high hedges at the east end, to the market square Floyd | westwards. Floyd | There is damage to the northern hedge where something has forced its Floyd | way through, and cloven hoof prints lead west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | End Of Lane Floyd | The end of the lane to your cottage, which is immediately to the east. Floyd | Another cottage, Orchard Cot, owned by Giles, is up a short track to Floyd | the south. The market square may be reached down the lane westwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bluebell Cottage Floyd | Your humble home. There is only this one room on the ground floor and Floyd | a bedroom above to which stairs lead up. Floyd | The front door is to the west and the garden door to the east. Floyd | The only furnishings are extremely basic. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table, a cooker and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take chair" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Yard Floyd | The typically untidy yard of a rural dwelling is full of chickens Floyd | scratching at the ground. Floyd | Your cottage is to the west and a small shed is to the south. Floyd | The goat's paddock has an entrance to the northwest. Floyd | You can see some chickens and a rooster here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddock Floyd | A grassy area for the goat to forage, though he's always in the back Floyd | yard at feeding time. Floyd | It stretches northwest to the boundary of the grounds of the Hall, the Floyd | side wall of which abuts it. Floyd | The open gateway to your yard is at the east side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | By Hall Side-wall Floyd | The northwest corner of your paddock. The Hall is just the other side Floyd | of the wall. A first floor balcony is visible above you, but nothing Floyd | can be seen above the parapet except the top of a double paned window Floyd | set back into the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop chair" | ||||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on chair" | ||||||
Floyd | You get onto the chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | You'll have to get off the chair first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | You'll have to get off the chair first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb wall" | ||||||
Floyd | There's no way you'll get up there over those glass shards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter balcony" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | By Hall Side-wall (on the chair) Floyd | The northwest corner of your paddock. The Hall is just the other side Floyd | of the wall. A first floor balcony is visible above you, but nothing Floyd | can be seen above the parapet except the top of a double paned window Floyd | set back into the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||||
Floyd | You get off the chair. Floyd | Floyd | By Hall Side-wall Floyd | The northwest corner of your paddock. The Hall is just the other side Floyd | of the wall. A first floor balcony is visible above you, but nothing Floyd | can be seen above the parapet except the top of a double paned window Floyd | set back into the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | If you were three times your height, with amazing agility and a Floyd | glass-proof skin you might do it, but alas, that is not so. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "use the chair to get over the gate?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take chair" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||||
Floyd | Panes of glass to let in daylight. Not the product of the Microsoft Floyd | corporation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddock Floyd | A grassy area for the goat to forage, though he's always in the back Floyd | yard at feeding time. Floyd | It stretches northwest to the boundary of the grounds of the Hall, the Floyd | side wall of which abuts it. Floyd | The open gateway to your yard is at the east side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | You can go only east or northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Yard Floyd | The typically untidy yard of a rural dwelling is full of chickens Floyd | scratching at the ground. Floyd | Your cottage is to the west and a small shed is to the south. Floyd | The goat's paddock has an entrance to the northwest. Floyd | You can see some chickens and a rooster here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bluebell Cottage Floyd | Your humble home. There is only this one room on the ground floor and Floyd | a bedroom above to which stairs lead up. Floyd | The front door is to the west and the garden door to the east. Floyd | The only furnishings are extremely basic. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a cooker here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | End Of Lane Floyd | The end of the lane to your cottage, which is immediately to the east. Floyd | Another cottage, Orchard Cot, owned by Giles, is up a short track to Floyd | the south. The market square may be reached down the lane westwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bluebell Lane Floyd | The pretty grassy track is bordered by thick hedges with many wild Floyd | flowers growing in the verges. Floyd | It is only a couple of hundred yards long, connecting your cottage, Floyd | hidden behind high hedges at the east end, to the market square Floyd | westwards. Floyd | There is damage to the northern hedge where something has forced its Floyd | way through, and cloven hoof prints lead west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Market Square Floyd | The market place has stalls arranged around its perimeter. Floyd | The north side of the square is bordered by the entrance gate and Floyd | boundary wall of the Hall, the squire's residence. Floyd | Your house is along the road to the east, and the dismal bogland trail Floyd | leads to the west. Floyd | The southern road leads off to the big town many miles away which is Floyd | far too distant to walk to. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The square's now almost deserted, the day after the market, and early Floyd | in the morning as it is. Only old Ned and Jake are here now, leaning Floyd | on the wall and discussing life, the universe and current livestock Floyd | prices. Floyd | You can see Old Ned and Jake here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop chair" | ||||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jake, stand on chair" | ||||||
Floyd | Jake has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on chair" | ||||||
Floyd | You get onto the chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | You'll have to get off the chair first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | You'll have to get off the chair first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||||
Floyd | You can just reach the top of the gate, but there's nothing for your Floyd | feet to get a purchase on, so you' can't make it over. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "HMMM" | |||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a lead rein Floyd | a book Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l book" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jake for help" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jake, lift me" | ||||||
Floyd | Jake winks knowingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||||
Floyd | You get off the chair. Floyd | Floyd | The Market Square Floyd | The market place has stalls arranged around its perimeter. Floyd | The north side of the square is bordered by the entrance gate and Floyd | boundary wall of the Hall, the squire's residence. Floyd | Your house is along the road to the east, and the dismal bogland trail Floyd | leads to the west. Floyd | The southern road leads off to the big town many miles away which is Floyd | far too distant to walk to. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The square's now almost deserted, the day after the market, and early Floyd | in the morning as it is. Only old Ned and Jake are here now, leaning Floyd | on the wall and discussing life, the universe and current livestock Floyd | prices. Floyd | You can see a chair, Old Ned and Jake here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||||
Floyd | You can just reach the top of the gate, but there's nothing for your Floyd | feet to get a purchase on, so you' can't make it over. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. So the chair didn't make any difference." | |||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), ""jake, stand by gate" | ||||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "jake, stand by gate" | ||||||
Floyd | Jake winks knowingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "jake, you useless old goat" | ||||||
Floyd | Jake winks knowingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jake about gate" | ||||||
Floyd | I reckon, if you could hoopla one of those spikes on the top, you Floyd | might be able to haul yourself over. I'll help you if you don't mind Floyd | me looking up your skirt at the same time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||||
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "..DavidW" | |||||
| Binder says (to DavidW), "er: HA" | ||||||
| inky asks, "what does hoopla mean?" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x spikes" | ||||||
Floyd | Two wrought iron entrance gates, locked with an iron bar, and Floyd | surmounted by iron spikes are set in a six foot high brick wall topped Floyd | with broken glass which makes an impregnable barrier to the casual Floyd | visitor. Floyd | You can see the driveway curving off toward the house to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "grab onto? knock off?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "grab spikes" | ||||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hoopla spikes" | ||||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bar" | ||||||
Floyd | A thick iron strut locked in place by a padlock at either end. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on bar" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the Iron Locking Bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x bar" | ||||||
Floyd | A thick iron strut locked in place by a padlock at either end. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "knock on gate" | ||||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Market Square Floyd | The market place has stalls arranged around its perimeter. Floyd | The north side of the square is bordered by the entrance gate and Floyd | boundary wall of the Hall, the squire's residence. Floyd | Your house is along the road to the east, and the dismal bogland trail Floyd | leads to the west. Floyd | The southern road leads off to the big town many miles away which is Floyd | far too distant to walk to. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The square's now almost deserted, the day after the market, and early Floyd | in the morning as it is. Only old Ned and Jake are here now, leaning Floyd | on the wall and discussing life, the universe and current livestock Floyd | prices. Floyd | You can see a chair, Old Ned and Jake here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "get chair" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||||||
Floyd | Two wrought iron entrance gates, locked with an iron bar, and Floyd | surmounted by iron spikes are set in a six foot high brick wall topped Floyd | with broken glass which makes an impregnable barrier to the casual Floyd | visitor. Floyd | You can see the driveway curving off toward the house to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x driveway" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x lock" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "padlock" | ||||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x padlock" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put chair on spikes" | ||||||
Floyd | You put the chair on the wall surrounding the Hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "o_O" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | You can go only east or west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||||
Floyd | You might be fit, girl, but you're not a steroid fuelled athlete. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||||
Floyd | You might be fit, girl, but you're not a steroid fuelled athlete. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "timing" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb wall" | ||||||
Floyd | You might be fit, girl, but you're not a steroid fuelled athlete. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm, yeah, gotta head out. G'luck! I'll come take care of Perry later." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on chair" | ||||||
Floyd | (getting onto the wall surrounding the Hall) Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | The gate is firmly locked, and even were you that athletic, you'd cut Floyd | yourself to ribbons on those sharp shards on top of the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "put rein on spikes" | ||||||
Floyd | You put the lead rein on the wall surrounding the Hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "climb rein" | ||||||
Floyd | The rein is only the tool. Try CLIMB MOUNTAIN or whatever it's Floyd | attached to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||||
Floyd | With some support from Jake you haul yourself up the lead rein, giving Floyd | him the view he desired, and retrieving the rein as you go, drop down Floyd | into the grounds of the Hall. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside The Hall Gate Floyd | The beautifully manicured lawns stretch off to either side of the Floyd | tarmac drive which runs northeast to the Hall. The gates to the south Floyd | will be unclimbable without the help you obtained earlier. Floyd | Floyd | On the wall surrounding the Hall is a chair. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "huzzah" | |||||
| DavidW says, "woot" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take chair" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push save" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lawns" | ||||||
Floyd | Exquisitely tended gardens in the style of Calamity Jane... er... I Floyd | mean Capability Brown, somewhat spoiled by the "Keep off the grass" Floyd | signs bordering the driveway. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "didn't this room have a fourth wall when we came in?" | |||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Inside The Hall Gate Floyd | The beautifully manicured lawns stretch off to either side of the Floyd | tarmac drive which runs northeast to the Hall. The gates to the south Floyd | will be unclimbable without the help you obtained earlier. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "room?" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "Shall we go northeast?" | ||||||
| inky says, "heh" | ||||||
| Binder says, "I probably should have said 'stage' instead" | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | You remember from a visit once as a child, when your mother worked in Floyd | the hall, that the ground floor is mainly the servants quarters and Floyd | kitchen etc, and that the servants kept themselves strictly apart from Floyd | their masters. And out of sight as much as possible, so wandering Floyd | around this level should be fairly safe, but not likely to be very Floyd | productive... but one never can tell... Floyd | And what's that door to the south? Ah, you obviously weren't allowed Floyd | in there as a kid. Floyd | Floyd | A corridor leading to the kitchen is to the east. An ornate staircase Floyd | winds upwards, blocking off northward access from this point, and a Floyd | fancy doorway is to the south. The whole place is very gloomy with Floyd | oak-panelled walls and a few portraits of singularly unattractive Floyd | ancestors of the present incumbents. Floyd | You may exit the building westwards. Floyd | You can see some portraits here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x portraits" | ||||||
Floyd | Oil paintings of previous members of the Melbury family - though most Floyd | of the faces are no oil paintings, if you see what I mean - a right Floyd | villainous-looking collection of rogues. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "ooh, a thieves guild" | |||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x doorway" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind portraits" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search portraits" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the portraits. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "East to kitchen?" | |||||
| WeirdBeard arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | By Kitchen Door Floyd | The entrance hall is westwards, and the kitchen immediately to the Floyd | east. There is a door to the north leading to the servants' quarters. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "guess they keep a tidy kitchen" | |||||
| DavidW says, "I suppose the quarters might have a uniform we can 'borrow'." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Let's go north." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | There's a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door, and surely you don't want Floyd | to disturb any servant that may be quartered there. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oops. maybe not." | |||||
| WeirdBeard asks, "Wait, aren't we BY the kitchen, not in it?" | ||||||
| Binder asks, "wait, are they leery that housekeeping will come by and tidy up their quarters?" | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | By Kitchen Door Floyd | The entrance hall is westwards, and the kitchen immediately to the Floyd | east. There is a door to the north leading to the servants' quarters. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to WB), "right." | |||||
| Binder says, "I keep getting tricked by needing to move twice to our goal" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "A bit weird to have a room for a kitchen door entrance." | ||||||
| DavidW asks, "so, east?" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to door" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the door to the servants' quarters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||||
Floyd | A plain wooden door with a paper sign attached to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sign" | ||||||
Floyd | Scrawled capital letters make the meaning quite clear. It's glued to Floyd | the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read sign" | ||||||
Floyd | Scrawled capital letters make the meaning quite clear. It's glued to Floyd | the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sign" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the "Do Not Disturb" sign. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | All the equipment you'd expect to find in a large kitchen. Everything Floyd | is neatly put away, and the only utensils in plain view is a rack of Floyd | kitchen knives. The eastern wall, containing the only window has much Floyd | of its light blocked out by the wall that surrounds the property, and Floyd | which you have met before. The door is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a knife Rack (on which is a carving knife) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "if we don't need to worry about it, why'd it get so much detail? Sheesh." | |||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x knife" | ||||||
Floyd | Of the rack full of sharp bone-handled blades, a long carving knife Floyd | takes your fancy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "our fancies frighten me" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "yeah. Why do we want a knife?" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||||
Floyd | Panes of glass to let in daylight. Not the product of the Microsoft Floyd | corporation. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "argh" | |||||
| Binder now grinds his teeth everytime this game makes that $MSFT reference | ||||||
| DavidW says, "I suppose we should take the knife." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x oven" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "get knife" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stove" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | All the equipment you'd expect to find in a large kitchen. Everything Floyd | is neatly put away, and the only utensils in plain view is a rack of Floyd | kitchen knives. The eastern wall, containing the only window has much Floyd | of its light blocked out by the wall that surrounds the property, and Floyd | which you have met before. The door is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a knife Rack here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x rack" | ||||||
Floyd | A wooden container attached to the south wall holding a selection of Floyd | knives for use in food preparation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x counter" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x equipment" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess the knife and rack and window are all that's in here." | |||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | By Kitchen Door Floyd | The entrance hall is westwards, and the kitchen immediately to the Floyd | east. There is a door to the north leading to the servants' quarters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "cut sign" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the "Do Not Disturb" sign. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "disturb sign" | ||||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "hrmph" | |||||
| WeirdBeard asks, "Try knocking?" | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the door to the servants' quarters. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "guess not" | |||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "knock" | ||||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder exclaims, "I didn't even want to get in there until it told me I didn't need to!" | |||||
| DavidW says, "I think our options are now the forbidden south door or forbidden upstairs." | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A corridor leading to the kitchen is to the east. An ornate staircase Floyd | winds upwards, blocking off northward access from this point, and a Floyd | fancy doorway is to the south. The whole place is very gloomy with Floyd | oak-panelled walls and a few portraits of singularly unattractive Floyd | ancestors of the present incumbents. Floyd | You may exit the building westwards. Floyd | You can see some portraits here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "I vote for south" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fancy doorway" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ballroom Floyd | A cavernous expanse of polished wood flooring, with a stage at the Floyd | further end. Despite the many windows the place still gives the Floyd | impression of gloom. Maybe going south to the stage would let you Floyd | have a better look at the objects you can see there in that, the Floyd | gloomiest part of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "If it's at all possible. Finish out the dungeon level before changing levels, I always so." | |||||
| Binder says, "s/so/say/" | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage Floyd | Area for musicians to play. An enormous grand piano stands here, as Floyd | do a couple of old music stands. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a grand piano and a music stand here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Strong hint to go south to stage." | |||||
| Binder says, "again, moving twice in a direction to get to the interesting part; this is as protracted as a hike to Mt. Doom" | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x piano" | ||||||
Floyd | I believe it's a Broadwood. Anyway, the castors have seized up and Floyd | it's immovable. The keyboard lid is down and locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "We *probably* don't want to play music ... do we?" | |||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x stand" | ||||||
Floyd | A vertical metal pole about four feet high with a tripod base and an Floyd | open metal square at the top intended to support sheet music. Floyd | Floyd | > | WeirdBeard says, "There might be something in it, though." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search stand" | ||||||
Floyd | There is nothing on the music stand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||||||
Floyd | You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a carving knife Floyd | a chair Floyd | a lead rein Floyd | a book Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x lid" | ||||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the piano parts. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "grr. Didn't know we had an inventory limit." | |||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "put book on stand" | ||||||
Floyd | You put the book on the music stand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "get stand" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a music stand Floyd | a book Floyd | a carving knife Floyd | a chair Floyd | a lead rein Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hooray" | |||||
| Binder says, "yar har haaar" | ||||||
| Binder says, "behold the power of nesting" | ||||||
| Binder says, "the trivial exercise of adding the piano to our inventory is left to the student" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I once finagled a game by carrying everything in a discarded hamburger bag." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | You can go only north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search piano" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the grand piano. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Of course we don't. That's why the piano is here." | |||||
| Jizaboz says, "heh" | ||||||
| Binder says, "this is the anxiety relieving room; we can not worry about anything in here" | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage Floyd | Area for musicians to play. An enormous grand piano stands here, as Floyd | do a couple of old music stands. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a grand piano here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Upstairs, I guess? Unless the staircase flips up when the newel is turned or something." | |||||
| Binder says, "sure" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ballroom Floyd | A cavernous expanse of polished wood flooring, with a stage at the Floyd | further end. Despite the many windows the place still gives the Floyd | impression of gloom. Maybe going south to the stage would let you Floyd | have a better look at the objects you can see there in that, the Floyd | gloomiest part of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flooring" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A corridor leading to the kitchen is to the east. An ornate staircase Floyd | winds upwards, blocking off northward access from this point, and a Floyd | fancy doorway is to the south. The whole place is very gloomy with Floyd | oak-panelled walls and a few portraits of singularly unattractive Floyd | ancestors of the present incumbents. Floyd | You may exit the building westwards. Floyd | You can see some portraits here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x staircase" | ||||||
Floyd | Solid wooden staircase in the grand style, wide enough to drive a Floyd | coach and horses down. The newel posts are surmounted by the heads of Floyd | lions, which would bring a painful conclusion to any attempt at Floyd | sliding down the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lions" | ||||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the banister. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn newel" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the banister. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Landing Floyd | A dim area, only lit by a skylight high above, which even your trusty Floyd | lead rein would not allow you to reach. There are doorways northeast, Floyd | northwest, southeast and southwest. A corridor leading south seems Floyd | disused and is blocked by a wooden partition. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "an embarassment of choices" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x partition" | ||||||
Floyd | A collection of ancient heavy furniture, presumably unwanted but with Floyd | nowhere else to store it. It is impassable and any disturbance of it Floyd | would surely create quite a din. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x skylight" | ||||||
Floyd | A dirty glass panel in the roof, providing a minimal amount of Floyd | illumination to filter down to this enclosed point. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search furnace" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "oops furniture" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the barricade. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "northeast?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dining Hall Floyd | Though of great historical significance, the antique nature of the Floyd | long polished table and chairs, the animal heads adorning the walls Floyd | and the other accoutrements are wasted on you right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x heads" | ||||||
Floyd | Hunting trophies. It was the mission of old aristocrats to go off to Floyd | find endangered species and try to finish off the endangering with Floyd | extinction. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder exclaims, "I feel like we have a teenage sense of melodrama about everything we see. Oh, THIS is historically significant!" | |||||
| DavidW says, "Hope we win soon. I'm getting hungry." | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dining Hall Floyd | Though of great historical significance, the antique nature of the Floyd | long polished table and chairs, the animal heads adorning the walls Floyd | and the other accoutrements are wasted on you right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||||||
Floyd | You've seen all those old movies about Henry VIII, the sheriff of Floyd | Nottingham and so on - it's one of those. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chairs" | ||||||
Floyd | Enormous old oak chairs. Even if you could haul your own little chair Floyd | around, there's no way of moving these more than a foot or two. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We CAN haul our little chair around." | |||||
| WeirdBeard says, "I don't get the table ref." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Basically, it's a large table. Suitable for feasting." | ||||||
| Binder says (to WeirdBeard), "I'm picturing an enormous trestle table" | ||||||
| Binder says, "also the author keeps winking at the player past the PC" | ||||||
| Binder says, "I think we're done in this room" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | You can go only southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Landing Floyd | A dim area, only lit by a skylight high above, which even your trusty Floyd | lead rein would not allow you to reach. There are doorways northeast, Floyd | northwest, southeast and southwest. A corridor leading south seems Floyd | disused and is blocked by a wooden partition. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "nw?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Before Closed Door Floyd | In front of a heavy wooden door with brass handle - a curved lever Floyd | rather than a knob. The door opens into a room to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||||
Floyd | There's a lock, but no key, so securing it won't be easy, assuming you Floyd | want to. But maybe you could do something with the handle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x handle" | ||||||
Floyd | There's a lock, but no key, so securing it won't be easy, assuming you Floyd | want to. But maybe you could do something with the handle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to door" | ||||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "er, nw again?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | You'll have to open the door first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||||
Floyd | You quietly open the door revealing Grace's bedroom. Floyd | Corny as it may seem, she really does have a big four-poster bed which Floyd | dominates the room to the exclusion of everything else. Floyd | Grace is asleep on the silken coverlet now, a riding crop held in one Floyd | hand, and a double barrelled shotgun lying alongside her. Floyd | Let sleeping bitches lie! Floyd | You softly close the door and retreat to the upstairs landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "...what" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put knife in handle" | ||||||
Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Grace is the woman who took Giles away to 'play' with." | |||||
| Binder says, "I recall. I'm curious about her choice of sleeping accessories." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "He's probably tied up in a dungeon for laters." | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a music stand Floyd | a book Floyd | a carving knife Floyd | a chair Floyd | a lead rein Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Grace is said to be into sadism." | |||||
| Binder says, "maybe we can do that old movie gag of pinning a door shut with a chair" | ||||||
| Binder says, "i'm pretty sure a double barreled shotgun is immediate cause for safeword" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put chair under handle" | ||||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x handle" | ||||||
Floyd | There's a lock, but no key, so securing it won't be easy, assuming you Floyd | want to. But maybe you could do something with the handle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put chair on handle" | ||||||
Floyd | You put the chair on the closed door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder blinks | |||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "that doesn't sound like it worked." | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Before Closed Door Floyd | In front of a heavy wooden door with brass handle - a curved lever Floyd | rather than a knob. The door opens into a room to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | On the closed door is a chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||||
Floyd | You quietly open the door revealing Grace's bedroom. Floyd | Corny as it may seem, she really does have a big four-poster bed which Floyd | dominates the room to the exclusion of everything else. Floyd | Grace is asleep on the silken coverlet now, a riding crop held in one Floyd | hand, and a double barrelled shotgun lying alongside her. Floyd | Let sleeping bitches lie! Floyd | You softly close the door and retreat to the upstairs landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take chair" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says, "Oh my..." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put rein on door" | ||||||
Floyd | You attach the rein to the door handle. Good idea, but there's Floyd | nowhere to tie the other end to hold it shut. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Before Closed Door Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie rein to music stand" | ||||||
Floyd | Try putting it on that thing, rather than tying it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put rein on stand" | ||||||
Floyd | You lack the dexterity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put stand on door" | ||||||
Floyd | You thread the handle of the door through the frame of the stand. By Floyd | extreme good fortune you can wedge the music stand across the door Floyd | frame to prevent it opening. It's not a very strong "locking bar" but Floyd | it ought to give you a bit of time. Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| djfletch has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rein" | ||||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a chair Floyd | a carving knife Floyd | a lead rein Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take book" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put book on chair" | ||||||
Floyd | You lack the dexterity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Before Closed Door Floyd | In front of a heavy wooden door with brass handle - a curved lever Floyd | rather than a knob. The door opens into a room to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | On the closed door is a music stand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "great, we belled the cat, let's try more exits from the landing" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Landing Floyd | A dim area, only lit by a skylight high above, which even your trusty Floyd | lead rein would not allow you to reach. There are doorways northeast, Floyd | northwest, southeast and southwest. A corridor leading south seems Floyd | disused and is blocked by a wooden partition. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blue Room Floyd | There's surprisingly little here in the way of furniture. The east Floyd | wall has french windows leading to a small balcony or belvedere. The Floyd | naked form of Giles is strapped to the bed. He has red welts on his Floyd | back, and signs of bruising. He is attached by leather thongs at Floyd | hand and foot to the bed. Floyd | As he hears the door open, Giles groans and you can see him flinch, Floyd | but when he realises it's you he relaxes. Floyd | "Oh Marty, thank heaven. Please help me..." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see a narrow bed (on which is Giles) and some clothing Floyd | belonging to Giles here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says, "we can't put a book on a chair, yet we can put a chair on a door" | |||||
| inky says, "this game is super-weird premise-wise" | ||||||
| Jizaboz says, "Heh" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x giles" | ||||||
Floyd | A local smallholder as hard-working as yourself. You have long Floyd | harboured a secret love for the man, who is as weather-beaten and Floyd | down-to-earth as yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "kiss giles" | ||||||
Floyd | Ooh that was wonderful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut thongs with knife" | ||||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to cut the leather thong. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut thong" | ||||||
Floyd | You make short work of releasing the bonds, and Giles staggers to his Floyd | feet smiling through his pain. Then realising his situation, blushes Floyd | and dons his clothing. Floyd | He declares he'll never let you out of his sight again. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "put rein on giles" | ||||||
Floyd | Putting things on Giles would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "heh heh heh" | |||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blue Room Floyd | There's surprisingly little here in the way of furniture. The east Floyd | wall has french windows leading to a small balcony or belvedere. Floyd | You can see Giles and a narrow bed here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 8 out of a possible 10, in 259 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. We can escape now or explore more, I guess." | |||||
| WeirdBeard asks, "So the PC has a specific gender?" | ||||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||||
Floyd | You are a hard-working girl, with mousey hair, a weathered face and Floyd | labour-toughened hands. As someone once said of you - Marty's beauty Floyd | is well-concealed. Floyd | Like most of the villagers, your clothes are home made from coarse Floyd | fabric. It may not be too comfortable, but it's what you are Floyd | accustomed to. And there's no point in wishing to dress like those Floyd | rich folks at the Hall - those silks and satins wouldn't last five Floyd | minutes on the farm. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, yes. We're a girl named Marty." | |||||
| Jizaboz says, "It's a girl" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||||
Floyd | Old fashioned iron single bed with iron rings fitted around the Floyd | periphery through which thongs of leather are threaded. Maybe the Floyd | family once boasted its own idiot and had to keep him sedated in this Floyd | primitive manner. The headboard supports rise a few inches above this Floyd | board. These bedposts are capped by moulded monkey heads. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "MOULDED MONKEY HEADS" | |||||
| DavidW says, "uh-huh. I see." | ||||||
| Binder says, "monkeys on the bed, lions on the stairs" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Other heads in the dining hall." | ||||||
| Binder says, "endangered heads in the dining hall" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Binder), "er, extinct, actually." | ||||||
| Binder didn't smell anything | ||||||
| DavidW asks, "Shall we explore a bit more?" | ||||||
| Binder says, "sure" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Landing Floyd | A dim area, only lit by a skylight high above, which even your trusty Floyd | lead rein would not allow you to reach. There are doorways northeast, Floyd | northwest, southeast and southwest. A corridor leading south seems Floyd | disused and is blocked by a wooden partition. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Giles here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Green bedroom Floyd | This is obviously the sleeping area for the master and mistress of the Floyd | Hall, now somewhere abroad. The double bed is flanked by two bedside Floyd | cabinets, and on one wall is an enlarged photograph of the Melbury Floyd | family. The exit is northeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Giles and a bedside cabinet (on which is Melbury's tome) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "ooh, a TOME" | |||||
| Binder envisions an Indiana Jones bookswap | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read tome" | ||||||
Floyd | The Collected Works of the Marquis de Sade. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "awww, she's following in the family business" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask giles about grace" | ||||||
Floyd | Yeah, I'm a fool. Should have known when she came on so strong... Floyd | gave me a drink... must have had laudanum or something in it. Next Floyd | thing I know I'm flat on that bed and she's beatin' the daylights out Floyd | of me with that riding crop of hers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask giles about melburys" | ||||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask giles about melbury" | ||||||
Floyd | Grace comes storming out of her room and blasts you with the shotgun. Floyd | In a later interview she claimed that she was only defending herself Floyd | against a couple of burglars, one of whom had been carrying a lethal Floyd | knife. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 8 out of a possible 10, in 267 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "whoops" | |||||
| Binder blinks | ||||||
| DavidW says, "I guess exploring wasn't an option." | ||||||
| Binder says, "maybe we should just flee with Giles" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Green bedroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Green bedroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Green bedroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Green bedroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | First Floor Landing Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Blue Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Belvedere Floyd | A sort of recessed balcony accessed through french windows from the Floyd | blue room. It overlooks the northwest end of Bluebell Cottage's Floyd | paddock; and indeed is practically on the boundary line, the notorious Floyd | glass-topped wall being visible directly below if you look over the Floyd | eighteen inch high parapet. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Giles here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "d?" | |||||
| Alex says (to Binder), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that D IS D." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Jump from here? You'd break your neck, or cut yourself to ribbons. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "hrmph" | |||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a book Floyd | a chair Floyd | a carving knife Floyd | a lead rein Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x parapet" | ||||||
Floyd | A solid stone wall half a meter in height along the outer edge of Floyd | the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put rein on parapet" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the parapet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Grace comes storming out of her room and blasts you with the shotgun. Floyd | In a later interview she claimed that she was only defending herself Floyd | against a couple of burglars, one of whom had been carrying a lethal Floyd | knife. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 8 out of a possible 10, in 267 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Belvedere Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||||
Floyd | Grace comes storming out of her room and blasts you with the shotgun. Floyd | In a later interview she claimed that she was only defending herself Floyd | against a couple of burglars, one of whom had been carrying a lethal Floyd | knife. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 8 out of a possible 10, in 267 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Belvedere Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "wish I knew what wakes Grace up." | |||||
| Binder says, "perhaps undo twice? maybe it's # of turns since something" | ||||||
| inky asks, "isn't it just a timer?" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Belvedere Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Grace comes storming out of her room and blasts you with the shotgun. Floyd | In a later interview she claimed that she was only defending herself Floyd | against a couple of burglars, one of whom had been carrying a lethal Floyd | knife. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 8 out of a possible 10, in 267 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of inky), "But what starts the timer?" | |||||
| Binder says, "I'll guess freeing Giles" | ||||||
| inky says, "yeah probably" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Landing Floyd | A dim area, only lit by a skylight high above, which even your trusty Floyd | lead rein would not allow you to reach. There are doorways northeast, Floyd | northwest, southeast and southwest. A corridor leading south seems Floyd | disused and is blocked by a wooden partition. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blue Room Floyd | There's surprisingly little here in the way of furniture. The east Floyd | wall has french windows leading to a small balcony or belvedere. The Floyd | naked form of Giles is strapped to the bed. He has red welts on his Floyd | back, and signs of bruising. He is attached by leather thongs at Floyd | hand and foot to the bed. Floyd | As he hears the door open, Giles groans and you can see him flinch, Floyd | but when he realises it's you he relaxes. Floyd | "Oh Marty, thank heaven. Please help me..." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see a narrow bed (on which is Giles) and some clothing Floyd | belonging to Giles here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut thong" | ||||||
Floyd | You make short work of releasing the bonds, and Giles staggers to his Floyd | feet smiling through his pain. Then realising his situation, blushes Floyd | and dons his clothing. Floyd | He declares he'll never let you out of his sight again. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take thong" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the leather thong. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Blue Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Belvedere Floyd | A sort of recessed balcony accessed through french windows from the Floyd | blue room. It overlooks the northwest end of Bluebell Cottage's Floyd | paddock; and indeed is practically on the boundary line, the notorious Floyd | glass-topped wall being visible directly below if you look over the Floyd | eighteen inch high parapet. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Giles here. Floyd | Floyd | > | josh_g says, "hey, a game. I could randomly come in and suggest things out of context" | |||||
| josh_g says, "or, not, I guess" | ||||||
| josh_g arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Binder says, "sadly I need to go idle for some time. good luck." | |||||
| DavidW asks, "any idea how to get down from here?" | ||||||
| josh_g asks, "is there a way to recap the toyshop?" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask giles about escape" | ||||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "sure. @recap #toyshop" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie rein to parapet" | ||||||
Floyd | Try putting it on that thing, rather than tying it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Belvedere Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put rein on parapet" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the parapet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Belvedere Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb down" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Belvedere Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Jump from here? You'd break your neck, or cut yourself to ribbons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Belvedere Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose we can restore from before freeing Giles and hope we can explore more." | |||||
| inky asks, "what was back in the other room?" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Belvedere Floyd | A sort of recessed balcony accessed through french windows from the Floyd | blue room. It overlooks the northwest end of Bluebell Cottage's Floyd | paddock; and indeed is practically on the boundary line, the notorious Floyd | glass-topped wall being visible directly below if you look over the Floyd | eighteen inch high parapet. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Giles here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Belvedere Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "bed, cabinets, tome, photograph" | |||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | You can go only west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blue Room Floyd | There's surprisingly little here in the way of furniture. The east Floyd | wall has french windows leading to a small balcony or belvedere. Floyd | You can see Giles and a narrow bed here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||||
Floyd | Old fashioned iron single bed with iron rings fitted around the Floyd | periphery through which thongs of leather are threaded. Maybe the Floyd | family once boasted its own idiot and had to keep him sedated in this Floyd | primitive manner. The headboard supports rise a few inches above this Floyd | board. These bedposts are capped by moulded monkey heads. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bed" | ||||||
Floyd | Don't be silly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push bed" | ||||||
Floyd | Which direction? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ooh" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push bed east" | ||||||
Floyd | The bed crashes through the french doors onto the balcony scattering Floyd | glass in all directions. All that noise must have woken Grace. Floyd | Floyd | Belvedere Floyd | A sort of recessed balcony accessed through french windows from the Floyd | blue room. It overlooks the northwest end of Bluebell Cottage's Floyd | paddock; and indeed is practically on the boundary line, the notorious Floyd | glass-topped wall being visible directly below if you look over the Floyd | eighteen inch high parapet. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Giles here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "uh" | |||||
| inky says, "ok, maybe *that* starts the timer, except .." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push bed east" | ||||||
Floyd | Grace comes storming out of her room and blasts you with the shotgun. Floyd | In a later interview she claimed that she was only defending herself Floyd | against a couple of burglars, one of whom had been carrying a lethal Floyd | knife. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 8 out of a possible 10, in 264 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie lead to bed" | ||||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | inky says, "oops nuts" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Landing Floyd | A dim area, only lit by a skylight high above, which even your trusty Floyd | lead rein would not allow you to reach. There are doorways northeast, Floyd | northwest, southeast and southwest. A corridor leading south seems Floyd | disused and is blocked by a wooden partition. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blue Room Floyd | There's surprisingly little here in the way of furniture. The east Floyd | wall has french windows leading to a small balcony or belvedere. The Floyd | naked form of Giles is strapped to the bed. He has red welts on his Floyd | back, and signs of bruising. He is attached by leather thongs at Floyd | hand and foot to the bed. Floyd | As he hears the door open, Giles groans and you can see him flinch, Floyd | but when he realises it's you he relaxes. Floyd | "Oh Marty, thank heaven. Please help me..." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see a narrow bed (on which is Giles) and some clothing Floyd | belonging to Giles here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut thong" | ||||||
Floyd | You make short work of releasing the bonds, and Giles staggers to his Floyd | feet smiling through his pain. Then realising his situation, blushes Floyd | and dons his clothing. Floyd | He declares he'll never let you out of his sight again. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open doors" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the french windows. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Blue Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push bed east" | ||||||
Floyd | The bed crashes through the french doors onto the balcony scattering Floyd | glass in all directions. All that noise must have woken Grace. Floyd | Floyd | Belvedere Floyd | A sort of recessed balcony accessed through french windows from the Floyd | blue room. It overlooks the northwest end of Bluebell Cottage's Floyd | paddock; and indeed is practically on the boundary line, the notorious Floyd | glass-topped wall being visible directly below if you look over the Floyd | eighteen inch high parapet. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Giles here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Jump from here? You'd break your neck, or cut yourself to ribbons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Belvedere Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push bed east" | ||||||
Floyd | There's hardly any room to move it that way. Floyd | You can go only west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put lead on bed" | ||||||
Floyd | You put the lead rein on the narrow bed. Floyd | It's tricky, but you sling the rein over the parapet and scramble down Floyd | on the far side of the wall. Giles follows. It's a good job you both Floyd | wore those heavy work boots to protect your feet from that glass on Floyd | the top of the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | By Hall Side-wall Floyd | The northwest corner of your paddock. The Hall is just the other side Floyd | of the wall. A first floor balcony is visible above you, but nothing Floyd | can be seen above the parapet except the top of a double paned window Floyd | set back into the house. Floyd | As you make a run for it across the field, Grace appears on the Floyd | balcony and lets off both barrels of her shotgun. Luckily she is not Floyd | a good shot. In frustration she hurls the lead rein after you, which Floyd | you retrieve before she can reload. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "she left his boots on during sex?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "woot!" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "He got dressed when we freed him." | ||||||
| inky says, "oh right" | ||||||
| WeirdBeard asks, "Did he have a choice?" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "so now we can get the goat." | ||||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "goat 'em up" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddock Floyd | A grassy area for the goat to forage, though he's always in the back Floyd | yard at feeding time. Floyd | It stretches northwest to the boundary of the grounds of the Hall, the Floyd | side wall of which abuts it. Floyd | The open gateway to your yard is at the east side. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Giles here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | You can go only east or northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says, "w" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Yard Floyd | The typically untidy yard of a rural dwelling is full of chickens Floyd | scratching at the ground. Floyd | Your cottage is to the west and a small shed is to the south. Floyd | The goat's paddock has an entrance to the northwest. Floyd | You can see Giles, some chickens and a rooster here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bluebell Cottage Floyd | Your humble home. There is only this one room on the ground floor and Floyd | a bedroom above to which stairs lead up. Floyd | The front door is to the west and the garden door to the east. Floyd | The only furnishings are extremely basic. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see Giles, a table and a cooker here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | End Of Lane Floyd | The end of the lane to your cottage, which is immediately to the east. Floyd | Another cottage, Orchard Cot, owned by Giles, is up a short track to Floyd | the south. The market square may be reached down the lane westwards. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Giles here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bluebell Lane Floyd | The pretty grassy track is bordered by thick hedges with many wild Floyd | flowers growing in the verges. Floyd | It is only a couple of hundred yards long, connecting your cottage, Floyd | hidden behind high hedges at the east end, to the market square Floyd | westwards. Floyd | There is damage to the northern hedge where something has forced its Floyd | way through, and cloven hoof prints lead west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Giles here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Market Square Floyd | The market place has stalls arranged around its perimeter. Floyd | The north side of the square is bordered by the entrance gate and Floyd | boundary wall of the Hall, the squire's residence. Floyd | Your house is along the road to the east, and the dismal bogland trail Floyd | leads to the west. Floyd | The southern road leads off to the big town many miles away which is Floyd | far too distant to walk to. Floyd | There's no-one here at all now. Ned and Jake have gone about their Floyd | business and most of the town has yet to venture abroad. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can see Giles here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bog Trail Floyd | The flowery lane soon degenerates into a dank track through a series Floyd | of foul-smelling bogs as you move westward. But it's always been this Floyd | way, and the solitude can sometimes be a comfort. Floyd | You can continue westwards deeper into the swamp, or return to the Floyd | village eastwards. Floyd | You can see Giles here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Alongside A Clear Pool Floyd | The bogs encroach on this spot from all directions except for the Floyd | narrow track eastwards. Floyd | You can see Giles, a billy goat and a clear pool here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss giles" | ||||||
Floyd | Ooh that was wonderful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask giles about pool" | ||||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put rein on goat" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | As you fit the collar on the goat, who is quietly munching the grass, Floyd | Giles steps towards you. Floyd | He staggers up to you and puts his hands on your shoulders, at which Floyd | moment Billy gives a sidestep into you, you both overbalance and fall Floyd | into the pond. Floyd | You both stand up, laughing, and you look over to the animal, now free Floyd | of your grasp on the rein. With the sun at just this angle his grey Floyd | coat seems pure white, and his little horns glow gold. Floyd | It's only for an instant but it's enough... Floyd | You look at Giles. He, too, seems more handsome than ever. He is Floyd | looking at you in equal wonder... "Marty, you're beautiful!" and he Floyd | kisses you. Floyd | Floyd | A derisive snort comes from the track, and you see the haughty Grace Floyd | sneering at you both. "Yes, take that peasant. She's more your type, Floyd | Giles," she cackles, whereupon Billy charges her and deposits her in Floyd | the foul swamp on the opposite side of the track. Floyd | Floyd | You both climb out of the pool, and retrieve Billy, and as you walk Floyd | home - each beautiful in each other's eyes, you know that maybe Floyd | sometimes those fairy tales do come true. Floyd | Floyd | In future years you often come wandering through the bogs together. Floyd | You've never again found that magic pool, but along with your Floyd | 'unicorn' live happily ever after. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 10 out of a possible 10, in 270 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "awww. That was nice." | |||||
| Jizaboz says, "Time to get some meat in the over. It'd been fun." | ||||||
| WeirdBeard asks, "Wait, so the pool works like that one Jack Black Gweneth Paltrow movie?" | ||||||
| Jizaboz says, "*oven" | ||||||
| josh_g has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||||
| Jizaboz disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||||||
| WeirdBeard has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "The game's based on a couple things I'm not familar with, so maybe." | |||||
| DavidW says, "Anyway, I guess we're done for today. Thanks everyone for playing, and hopefully we'll play Mite next week." | ||||||
| inky says, "this didn't really make any sense to me" | ||||||
| inky says, "yeah good idea" | ||||||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||||
Floyd | | ||||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
| Floyd says (to DavidW), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | ||||||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW asks, "no?" | |||||
| inky says, "well, maybe I missed some plot" | ||||||
| inky says, "but what I got out of it was "girl loses goat, girl discovers boy is missing, girl finds out boy has been taken by high-born lady to her s&m dungeon, girl rescues boy, girl and boy get goat back, girl and boy live happily ever after"" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, that's moreorless the story." | ||||||
| inky says, "it seems like the goat is pretty irrelevant there" | ||||||
| inky says, "but then it gets big play in the ending" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Although the boy is taken away in the prologue." | ||||||
| inky says, "oh, ok, I guess I missed that" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "We knew Marty was sweet on Giles right from the first." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "I agree that the goat isn't integrated as well as it could be into the story." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "I'm glad we played the game. It was a good fit for ClubFloyd, I thought." | ||||||
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