  
 
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 PAX East 2011 Speed IFs, written by various authors. The PAX East 2011 Speed IFs were written as part of the interactive fiction events surrounding PAX East 2011. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.You can skip directly to a particular Speed IF by clicking below: A Scurvey of Wonders by Rob Dubbin, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi Bored Ladders by Taleslinger Brain of the Night Guest by Colin Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine Delusions Again by Duncan Bowsman Digging Time! by Rob Wheeler A Shadow of Helpfulman by Clara Raubertas The Right Tool by Christopher Huang Vault of Hugo II: Electric Boogaloo by Roody Yogurt Merk by Jesse McGrew and Kate Matthews 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 paxscurvy" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | It was supposed to be a carefree escape. Just you, your yacht, and a Floyd | two-month supply of frozen pizza, chicken fingers, and beer. But it Floyd | seems there was an uninvited guest: scurvy. Floyd | Floyd | A Scurvy of Wonders Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Rob Dubbin, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Floyd | Kazemi Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110313 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Yacht Floyd | The immaculate fiberglass transom of your 45-foot yacht only Floyd | highlights the hideous, scorbutic condition of your body. Fifty-eight Floyd | days of nothing but carbohydrates, alcohol, and deep-fried poultry Floyd | have come to this. Floyd | Floyd | You cannot speak, and you can barely move. You can only muster the Floyd | strength to groan. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob says, "ah ardubs" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "groan" | ||||
Floyd | You moan a wet-sounding sough. Floyd | Floyd | HOW TO PLAY: The options available to your scurvy-riddled brain and Floyd | body are: Floyd | Floyd | appreciate Floyd | eat Floyd | examine Floyd | give Floyd | groan Floyd | wait Floyd | Floyd | Typing "help" at any time will bring up this list again. It will not, Floyd | however, restore your body's ability to synthesize collagen. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha - that is a fantasy dreamland prologue." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "appreciate life" | ||||
Floyd | That isn't here, nor have you hallucinated it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "appreciate me" | ||||
Floyd | You're really more of an animal person. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "scorbutic" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "appreciate scurvy" | ||||
Floyd | You're really more of an animal person. Floyd | Floyd | A chance look at the ocean reveals the corpulent outline of a Floyd | surfacing manatee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "appreciate yacht" | ||||
Floyd | You're really more of an animal person. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "appreciate manatee" | ||||
Floyd | As you ruminate on the merits of the manatee -- so noble! So gentle! Floyd | -- your vision blurs and you feel your perspective shift. Floyd | Floyd | Grove Floyd | The smell of citrus awakens long-dead senses, as a gentle breeze wafts Floyd | through row after row of orange trees in fruit. The wind only somewhat Floyd | irritates your inflamed gums, so that's an improvement. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some trees and a manatee farmer here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine trees" | ||||
Floyd | Festooned with life-giving citrus. Even one of them would save your Floyd | life, but for one thing they are too far away and for another they are Floyd | guarded by a possessive manatee farmer. Floyd | Floyd | "Boy howdy, I could stand to whet my whistle. Preferably with Floyd | something alcoholic." The manatee farmer winks. "Got me one of them Floyd | demandin' whistles." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "groan" | ||||
Floyd | You grumble a heartrending wail. Floyd | Floyd | "Take yer grousin' somewhere else," says the manatee. "I've seen Floyd | worse." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a jacket (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x jacket" | ||||
Floyd | You bought this jacket to symbolize your financial independence and Floyd | freedom. Right now it's soaked with a heady combination of rum, Floyd | breading, and old sweat. Floyd | Floyd | The manatee twitches its vibrissae. "Been a long day out here," it Floyd | muses. "Could sure use a tall cold one." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before you can act, the smell of the ocean fills your nostrils and Floyd | your vision shifts again as the hallucination expires. Floyd | Floyd | Yacht Floyd | The immaculate fiberglass transom of your 45-foot yacht only Floyd | highlights the hideous, scorbutic condition of your body. Fifty-eight Floyd | days of nothing but carbohydrates, alcohol, and deep-fried poultry Floyd | have come to this. Floyd | Floyd | You cannot speak, and you can barely move. You can only muster the Floyd | strength to groan. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rat here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. I think I understand the setup." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "appreciate rat" | ||||
Floyd | As you meditate on the merits of the rat -- so resourceful! So Floyd | thrifty! -- your vision blurs and you feel your perspective shift. Floyd | Floyd | Money Cave Floyd | The mountain of treasure piled before you shimmers with the casual Floyd | indifference of unadulterated wealth. Torches burn in the wall Floyd | sconces, contributing to the impression of an ill-gotten fortune. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting before his hoard in a gilded Aeron chair, whiskers twitching Floyd | proudly, is a rat tycoon. Floyd | Floyd | > | zarf says, "Darius asked me how to turn off all verbs except the listed ones, but I couldn't tell him off the top of my head. So that's probably on the to-do list." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh man this is one of the best speeds ever." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x treasure" | ||||
Floyd | You see amethyst goblets, hillocks of gold doubloons, and what appears Floyd | to be a life-sized jewel-encrusted chimpanzee. Floyd | Floyd | With studied indifference, the whiskered prince of business hefts a Floyd | crystalline chalice. "Feh. About as much emotion in this object as Floyd | there is in my multinational corporation's mission statement." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chimpanzee" | ||||
Floyd | Was it ever alive? And if so, isn't this better? Floyd | Floyd | "I would give it all up," the tycoon says, nervously worrying at his Floyd | lapels, "for proof that love exists in this cynical, Floyd | bottom-line-driven world." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Miseri says (to Floyd), "appreciate tycoon" | ||||
Floyd | This is not the 2010 film sensation Inception. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "this game has quite a showy vocabulary" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "appreciate chimpanzee" | ||||
Floyd | This is not the 2010 film sensation Inception. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before you can act, the smell of the ocean fills your nostrils and Floyd | your vision shifts again as the hallucination expires. Floyd | Floyd | Yacht Floyd | The immaculate fiberglass transom of your 45-foot yacht only Floyd | highlights the hideous, scorbutic condition of your body. Fifty-eight Floyd | days of nothing but carbohydrates, alcohol, and deep-fried poultry Floyd | have come to this. Floyd | Floyd | You cannot speak, and you can barely move. You can only muster the Floyd | strength to groan. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Miseri says (to Floyd), "get beer" | ||||
Floyd | You emit a piteous sob. Floyd | Floyd | With a loud caw, a seagull alights on the aft railing in front of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "where did the rat go?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "appreciate seagull" | ||||
Floyd | As you ruminate on the merits of the seagull -- so loud! So Floyd | gregarious! -- your vision blurs and you feel your perspective shift. Floyd | Floyd | Tavern Floyd | The candlelit taproom smells of liquor and cherry-wood. Dignified in Floyd | her barkeep's apron, your seagull wife swabs the surface of the bar Floyd | with a feathered wing. Floyd | Floyd | One look and you know she's a loving, caring wife who can carry her Floyd | end of a conversation. Floyd | Floyd | > | Miseri says, "maybe he'll be back" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "appreciate wife" | ||||
Floyd | This is not the 2010 film sensation Inception. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "it took me a while to realize 'manatee farmer' meant a manatee who was a farmer, not a farmer-of-manatees" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "haha" | ||||
| DB says, "haha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine seagull" | ||||
Floyd | She grits her beak with frustrated determination, and worry-lines Floyd | crinkle the downy spots around her eyes. Floyd | Floyd | Your seagull wife taps idly at the cash register with her beak. It Floyd | springs open, empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy whiskey" | ||||
Floyd | That isn't here, nor have you hallucinated it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB asks, "We're married to a seagull?" | |||
| Miseri says (to Floyd), "kiss seagull" | ||||
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before you can act, the smell of the ocean fills your nostrils and Floyd | your vision shifts again as the hallucination expires. Floyd | Floyd | Yacht Floyd | The immaculate fiberglass transom of your 45-foot yacht only Floyd | highlights the hideous, scorbutic condition of your body. Fifty-eight Floyd | days of nothing but carbohydrates, alcohol, and deep-fried poultry Floyd | have come to this. Floyd | Floyd | You cannot speak, and you can barely move. You can only muster the Floyd | strength to groan. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm" | |||
| jenrexrode says, "shoulda groaned at her" | ||||
| DavidW says, "sorry" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "groan" | ||||
Floyd | You moan a wet-sounding sough. Floyd | Floyd | A chance look at the ocean reveals the corpulent outline of a Floyd | surfacing manatee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Limax arrives, full of fun and funk. | Limax asks, "DId I miss everything?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Not quite" | ||||
| Limax says, "Oh. I'll come back later, then" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Should we groan again?" | ||||
| jenrexrode asks, "can we squeeze a drink out of our jacket?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "snrk" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "help" | ||||
Floyd | The options available to your scurvy-riddled brain and body are: Floyd | Floyd | appreciate Floyd | eat Floyd | examine Floyd | give Floyd | groan Floyd | wait Floyd | Floyd | Typing "help" at any time will bring up this list again. It will not, Floyd | however, restore your body's ability to synthesize collagen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| vaporware arrives, full of fun and funk. | jenrexrode says, "guess give is it" | |||
| Limax asks, "Where's 'rot'?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we could get whiskey from the seagull, if we had money from the rat, if we had love from the seagul." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Yeah, we need some inventory to get started." | ||||
| jenrexrode says, "love from the seagull..." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a jacket (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | With a deliberate flap of its platter-sized forelimb, the manatee Floyd | sinks back into the deep. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine jacket" | ||||
Floyd | You bought this jacket to symbolize your financial independence and Floyd | freedom. Right now it's soaked with a heady combination of rum, Floyd | breading, and old sweat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine rum" | ||||
Floyd | That isn't here, nor have you hallucinated it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "appreciate jacket" | ||||
Floyd | You're really more of an animal person. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "so when we wake up we'll see the rat again? Then seagull?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "oh. Maybe we can give the jacket to one of the hallucinated animals?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think 'groan' cycles through the animals." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Worth a shot." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "groan" | ||||
Floyd | You emit a piteous sob. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Yacht Floyd | The immaculate fiberglass transom of your 45-foot yacht only Floyd | highlights the hideous, scorbutic condition of your body. Fifty-eight Floyd | days of nothing but carbohydrates, alcohol, and deep-fried poultry Floyd | have come to this. Floyd | Floyd | You cannot speak, and you can barely move. You can only muster the Floyd | strength to groan. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a tiny scrabble, as a waterlogged rat climbs out of the bilge Floyd | pipe into view. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Well, in theory we can move between any hallucinations in any order now that we know what to appreciate, right?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "appreciate rat" | ||||
Floyd | As you ruminate on the merits of the rat -- so crafty! So furry! -- Floyd | your vision blurs and you feel your perspective shift. Floyd | Floyd | Money Cave Floyd | The mountain of treasure piled before you shimmers with the casual Floyd | indifference of unadulterated wealth. Torches burn in the wall Floyd | sconces, contributing to the impression of an ill-gotten fortune. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting before his hoard in a gilded Aeron chair, whiskers twitching Floyd | proudly, is a rat tycoon. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser nods. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "appreciate chimpanzee" | ||||
Floyd | This is not the 2010 film sensation Inception. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Wow" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give jacket" | ||||
Floyd | (to the rat) Floyd | The rat tycoon scoffs. "Oh please, I already have twenty of these. In Floyd | fact, I own the factory that makes them." He beams. "It's very Floyd | efficient." Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "well i'm thinking we can only see the animals one at a time..." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get wealth" | ||||
Floyd | You sob a melancholy shriek. Floyd | Floyd | "This is the worst product pitch I've had to sit through in weeks. Who Floyd | gave you time on my schedule?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x torches" | ||||
Floyd | That isn't here, nor have you hallucinated it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Miseri says, "This is totally the Dragon's Den." | |||
| DavidW asks, "I think, maybe, give the jacket to the seagull?" | ||||
| jenrexrode says, "i like" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Seagulls like old breading and rum, right?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "appreciate rat" | ||||
Floyd | This is not the 2010 film sensation Inception. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before you can act, the smell of the ocean fills your nostrils and Floyd | your vision shifts again as the hallucination expires. Floyd | Floyd | Yacht Floyd | The immaculate fiberglass transom of your 45-foot yacht only Floyd | highlights the hideous, scorbutic condition of your body. Fifty-eight Floyd | days of nothing but carbohydrates, alcohol, and deep-fried poultry Floyd | have come to this. Floyd | Floyd | You cannot speak, and you can barely move. You can only muster the Floyd | strength to groan. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "and wives clean dirty jackets, if the love you" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "One would think birds would like breading, at least, yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "groan" | ||||
Floyd | You shriek a dismal yawlp. Floyd | Floyd | With a loud caw, a seagull alights on the aft railing in front of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "appreciate seagull" | ||||
Floyd | As you reflect on the merits of the seagull -- so confident! So Floyd | feathered! -- your vision blurs and you feel your perspective shift. Floyd | Floyd | Tavern Floyd | The candlelit taproom smells of liquor and cherry-wood. Dignified in Floyd | her barkeep's apron, your seagull wife swabs the surface of the bar Floyd | with a feathered wing. Floyd | Floyd | One look and you know she's a loving, caring wife who can carry her Floyd | end of a conversation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give jacket" | ||||
Floyd | (to the seagull) Floyd | She eyes your jacket with skepticism. "That won't pay the bills," she Floyd | caws. "Nothing will." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Miseri says (to Floyd), "talk to seagull" | ||||
Floyd | You emit a piteous sob. Floyd | Floyd | Times may be hard, but you swore to love each other for richer or for Floyd | poorer, and she is a gull of integrity. Floyd | Floyd | Taking flight over the bar with a single flap, she lands at your side Floyd | and cradles your head under her wing. For minutes, you sit there Floyd | together in silence. As she hops back, you feel the gentle poke of a Floyd | wing feather caught in your captain's jacket. Floyd | Floyd | > | zarf says, "aha" | |||
| inky says, "aww" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "ooh, proof of love?" | ||||
| jenrexrode says, "yup" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine feather" | ||||
Floyd | It smells uncannily like love. Well, love and seagull. Floyd | Floyd | "I just don't know," comes the frustrated coo. "What more can we do to Floyd | attract customers?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay. We can give the feather to the rat, then." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before you can act, the smell of the ocean fills your nostrils and Floyd | your vision shifts again as the hallucination expires. Floyd | Floyd | Yacht Floyd | The immaculate fiberglass transom of your 45-foot yacht only Floyd | highlights the hideous, scorbutic condition of your body. Fifty-eight Floyd | days of nothing but carbohydrates, alcohol, and deep-fried poultry Floyd | have come to this. Floyd | Floyd | You cannot speak, and you can barely move. You can only muster the Floyd | strength to groan. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| metoikos arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "groan" | ||||
Floyd | You wail a tearful sob. Floyd | Floyd | A chance look at the ocean reveals the corpulent outline of a Floyd | surfacing manatee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "groan" | ||||
Floyd | You discharge a dismal wail. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "groan" | ||||
Floyd | You shriek a dismal yawlp. Floyd | Floyd | With a deliberate flap of its platter-sized forelimb, the manatee Floyd | sinks back into the deep. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "groan" | ||||
Floyd | You shriek a grotesque keen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "groan" | ||||
Floyd | You let loose a pathetic moan. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "groan" | ||||
Floyd | You cry an attention-seeking sigh. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a tiny scrabble, as a waterlogged rat climbs out of the bilge Floyd | pipe into view. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "appreciate rat" | ||||
Floyd | As you reflect on the merits of the rat -- so resourceful! So thrifty! Floyd | -- your vision blurs and you feel your perspective shift. Floyd | Floyd | Money Cave Floyd | The mountain of treasure piled before you shimmers with the casual Floyd | indifference of unadulterated wealth. Torches burn in the wall Floyd | sconces, contributing to the impression of an ill-gotten fortune. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting before his hoard in a gilded Aeron chair, whiskers twitching Floyd | proudly, is a rat tycoon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give feather" | ||||
Floyd | (to the rat) Floyd | The rat begins to sneer at the feather, but then pauses. He sniffs the Floyd | air. "This... this feather smells like love. True love. Clearly it is Floyd | a treasure to you." His eyes become greedy. "The feather must be Floyd | mine." Floyd | Floyd | Turning around, he fishes in his treasure pile, pulls out a large bag Floyd | of money, and tosses it into your lap. "Take this instead, buy Floyd | yourself a new soulmate." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bag" | ||||
Floyd | The clinking of coins inside reminds you of your own money-pile back Floyd | home. Floyd | Floyd | With studied indifference, the whiskered prince of business hefts a Floyd | crystalline chalice. "Feh. About as much emotion in this object as Floyd | there is in my multinational corporation's mission statement." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before you can act, the smell of the ocean fills your nostrils and Floyd | your vision shifts again as the hallucination expires. Floyd | Floyd | Yacht Floyd | The immaculate fiberglass transom of your 45-foot yacht only Floyd | highlights the hideous, scorbutic condition of your body. Fifty-eight Floyd | days of nothing but carbohydrates, alcohol, and deep-fried poultry Floyd | have come to this. Floyd | Floyd | You cannot speak, and you can barely move. You can only muster the Floyd | strength to groan. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "groan" | ||||
Floyd | You bleat a horrible lamentation. Floyd | Floyd | With a loud caw, a seagull alights on the aft railing in front of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | Miseri asks, "wait, did we GET the bag?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "appreciate gull" | ||||
Floyd | As you meditate on the merits of the seagull -- so loud! So Floyd | gregarious! -- your vision blurs and you feel your perspective shift. Floyd | Floyd | Tavern Floyd | The candlelit taproom smells of liquor and cherry-wood. Dignified in Floyd | her barkeep's apron, your seagull wife swabs the surface of the bar Floyd | with a feathered wing. Floyd | Floyd | One look and you know she's a loving, caring wife who can carry her Floyd | end of a conversation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give bag" | ||||
Floyd | (to the seagull) Floyd | At first, she can't believe it. Her beady eyes dilate, and her Floyd | crown-feathers ruffle in surprise. "Is that... for us?" Defying Floyd | biology, a tear rolls down her seagull cheek. Floyd | Floyd | As proudly as you can muster under the circumstances, you nod. Floyd | Floyd | "Let's celebrate!" She clutches two of the tavern's finest microbrews Floyd | in one claw, and walks around the bar to your side. Handing you a Floyd | bottle, she chirps in your ear: "Someone's getting lucky tonight." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "I think only in hallucination." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine bottle" | ||||
Floyd | Cisco Brewers' The Grey Lady, named for the often foggy island where Floyd | it is brewed. This wheat beer is fermented with Belgian yeast and Floyd | brewed with fresh fruit and spices. A unique ale that emits a complex, Floyd | earthy nose and a soft, mid-palate maltiness with hints of tropical Floyd | fruit. Dry and spicy. Floyd | Floyd | Your seagull wife taps idly at the cash register with her beak. It Floyd | springs open, empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a microbrew Floyd | a jacket (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before you can act, the smell of the ocean fills your nostrils and Floyd | your vision shifts again as the hallucination expires. Floyd | Floyd | Yacht Floyd | The immaculate fiberglass transom of your 45-foot yacht only Floyd | highlights the hideous, scorbutic condition of your body. Fifty-eight Floyd | days of nothing but carbohydrates, alcohol, and deep-fried poultry Floyd | have come to this. Floyd | Floyd | You cannot speak, and you can barely move. You can only muster the Floyd | strength to groan. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "appreciate manatee" | ||||
Floyd | That isn't here, nor have you hallucinated it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "groan" | ||||
Floyd | You emit a piteous sob. Floyd | Floyd | A chance look at the ocean reveals the corpulent outline of a Floyd | surfacing manatee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "appreciate manatee" | ||||
Floyd | As you reflect on the merits of the manatee -- so massive! So calm! -- Floyd | your vision blurs and you feel your perspective shift. Floyd | Floyd | Grove Floyd | The smell of citrus awakens long-dead senses, as a gentle breeze wafts Floyd | through row after row of orange trees in fruit. The wind only somewhat Floyd | irritates your inflamed gums, so that's an improvement. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some trees and a manatee farmer here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give microbrew" | ||||
Floyd | (to the manatee farmer) Floyd | "Now we're talkin'!" The manatee positively leaps with excitement, to Floyd | the extent that a manatee can leap. Floyd | Floyd | "S'pose it's only fair you get somethin' in return." Ponderously, the Floyd | farmer stabs the nearest orange with its pitchfork, then tucks the Floyd | fruit into your jacket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat orange" | ||||
Floyd | With just one bite, you feel life-giving Vitamin C begin to course Floyd | through your veins. It won't be long before you're back on land, Floyd | resuming your life as a wealthy yacht-owning layabout. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** *** YOU WIN! *** *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | jenrexrode exclaims, "yay!" | |||
| Limax says, "Woo" | ||||
| inky asks, "wait, what?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "That was excellent!" | ||||
| Limax says, "I liked the mechanic" | ||||
| EmacsUser claps. | ||||
| jenrexrode says, "yeah" | ||||
| inky asks, "how did a series of hallucinations cure our scurvy?" | ||||
| Limax says (to inky), "It's a game, not real life" | ||||
| Miseri says (to inky), "clearly the scurvy was a hallucination too." | ||||
| DB says, "It gave us an orange." | ||||
| Limax says, "I would have rather had a banana" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That was very, very good, yes." | ||||
| Rob says, "maybe it was all real after all" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Bananas aren't as vitamin C filled." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "maga will have to update his recommended Speed IF page over this one." | ||||
| Limax says, "Yeah, but I like the taste better" | ||||
| inky says (to Rob), "good point" | ||||
| Rob says, "that was really good, except I was five to ten commands behind reading recap to catch up from the moment it started" | ||||
| zarf says, "Clearly the orange was a hallucination, and we actually ate a raw seagull." | ||||
| jenrexrode asks, "orange you glad I didn't say banana?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Raw meat also has vitamin C in it, I believe." | ||||
| zarf says, "right" | ||||
| Jacqueline kicks Jen out of the Toyshop. | ||||
| Rob says, "maybe if you ate a rat that had eaten lemons recently you'd be ok" | ||||
| zarf says, "the hidden horror behind the game" | ||||
| Rob says, "the little guy from the last turn of shade runs by screaming" | ||||
| olethros arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Jacqueline asks, "So... next?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Rob says, "that was good! let's play another !" | Miseri says, "yes, next" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxbored" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Braintree. The oldest enemy of your people, sitting there in the Floyd | middle of the Neverlight Forest. Sitting...scheming. So now he put a Floyd | giant space claw on Pluto, and Pluto powers your people, because you Floyd | are some kind of sci-fi metaphor for hippies and back to nature Floyd | -stuff. So the Eldest of your people send you and Kevin on a mission Floyd | to find the Tomb of the Unknown Tool, also known as Grave of the Floyd | nameless Idiot. There you will find the artifact to defeat the evil Floyd | Braintree. So there you are, at the edge of the Forest, ready to begin Floyd | your trip. I will be your eyes and ears. And nose. Floyd | Floyd | Bored Ladders Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Taleslinger Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110313 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | No relation to any real people called Kevin or Jim is implied. Floyd | Floyd | Edge of Forest Floyd | The forest is dark and foreboding, yadda, yadda, forest path. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Jim here. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "the manatee had an orange in the ocean, and he was hallucinating, too, and threw it when we gave him imaginary beer." | |||
| metoikos says, "x tomb" | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | Yeah, I said I'll be your nose, but you caught a cold. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Miseri says (to metoikos), "you want to say that to Floyd." | DavidW says, "That's a confusing intro." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jim" | ||||
Floyd | Jim is wearing something made of 100% natural cotton, because your Floyd | people are into nature and stuff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Confusing but amusing." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to metoikos), "Also, @joinc #club" | Jacqueline says, "It takes the 'this a thesis statement as to how we intend to integrate all the madlib constraints' approach to Speed IF." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jim about kevin" | ||||
Floyd | Jim gives you a satisfying answer. Floyd | Floyd | "Shouldn't we follow the Forest Path? What do you mean not Floyd | implemented? It's just here, to the northnortheast." Floyd | Jim goes to the Northnortheast. Floyd | You follow Jim to the Northnortheast. Floyd | The forest path looks pretty normal...Oh dear! Floyd | Vacuum Trap!!! Floyd | Jim explodes in the goriest way you can imagine (so it might be Floyd | pretty tame). Floyd | Floyd | Vacuum Trap!!! Floyd | There's nothing here to see, as vacuum is invisible. Luckily, you're Floyd | immune to vacuum, as all creatonists are. The forest path continues to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "so the speedIF required Pluto or a manatee right?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "s/this a/this is a" | ||||
| Rob says, "definitely pluto, not the manatee" | ||||
| * metoikos has joined the channel. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Jen), "[LINK]" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "east" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tomb of the Unknown Tool, also known as Grave of the nameless Idiot Floyd | It is done up in a modern style, all glass and steel, the lettering of Floyd | its name float over the glass front as flashy laser projections. The Floyd | entrance leads down (by elevator). Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Constraints are there." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | Nice elevator music! Floyd | Floyd | Chicken Room Floyd | This room is full of skulls and bones. Right before you lies the slain Floyd | corpse of the famous adventurer Monathan Mlask, who has met his doom Floyd | here. A door leads, hm, let's say southeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a bubble gum door and a Chicken with Hands! here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "somewhere on ifwiki.org is the list" | |||
| DB says, "haha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take chicken" | ||||
Floyd | I don't suppose the Chicken with Hands! would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chicken" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the Chicken with Hands!. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the bubble gum door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chicken about kevin" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the bubble gum door) Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| metoikos says, ".. floyd x corpse" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock door with chicken" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the Chicken with Hands!) Floyd | I don't suppose the Chicken with Hands! would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Though, I guess for the transcript, it's good to put them here:" | |||
| Jacqueline | A character whose name starts with the letter 'M' | ||||
| Jacqueline | Sending Jim and Kevin on a mission to locate something | ||||
| Jacqueline | The Tomb of the Unknown Tool | ||||
| Jacqueline | A 100 year old typewriter | ||||
| Jacqueline | Pluto | ||||
| Jacqueline | Braintree or Alewife | ||||
| Jacqueline | One of the titles on the poster of made up titles (online version of the poster: [LINK]) | ||||
| Jacqueline | Chicken fingers | ||||
| Jacqueline | Vacuum | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search chicken" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat chicken" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the Chicken with Hands!) Floyd | I don't suppose the Chicken with Hands! would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "chicken, unlock door" | ||||
Floyd | (with the wrapper key) Floyd | The Chicken with Hands! has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline | Explosions | |||
| EmacsUser says (to metoikos), "You can also give commands by writing f followed by the command." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That one, too." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "wrapper key?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wrapper key" | ||||
Floyd | That seems to belong to the Chicken with Hands!. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chicken about key" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chicken" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the Chicken with Hands!. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open chicken" | ||||
Floyd | He's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chicken for key" | ||||
Floyd | The Chicken with Hands! has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit chicken" | ||||
Floyd | It flutters up and chokes you to death with its creepy hands. So you Floyd | die disgusted. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You died. Consider this a bad ending. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 3, in 23 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Chicken Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "x corpse" | ||||
Floyd | Nah, it's not an object. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "Tale made it clear when we played through this at pax that it was a bug that the chicken wasn't automatically kiling you every 2 turns and ending the game, but we said we were fine with that" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we need to get the key from this chicken somehow." | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | Your singing is abominable. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Hee hee" | |||
| metoikos says, "well it was worth a shot" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tickle chicken" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shake hands with chicken" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "bread chicken" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "choke chicken" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hands" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax exclaims, "Fry that chicken!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "choke chicken" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says (to jenrexrode), "Ew" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fry chicken" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Rubber chicken, I hardly" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "parbroil chicken" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "squeeze chicken" | ||||
Floyd | Keep your hands to yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Limax asks, "Have we tried kicking the head?" | |||
| Limax asks, "Er. Chicken?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "feel free" | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "kiss chicken" | ||||
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill chicken" | ||||
Floyd | It flutters up and chokes you to death with its creepy hands. So you Floyd | die disgusted. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You died. Consider this a bad ending. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 3, in 28 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Chicken Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "this one required Tale to give us a hint" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick head" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), ";" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode exclaims, "in this game, the chicken chokes YOU!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Chicken Room Floyd | This room is full of skulls and bones. Right before you lies the slain Floyd | corpse of the famous adventurer Monathan Mlask, who has met his doom Floyd | here. A door leads, hm, let's say southeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a bubble gum door and a Chicken with Hands! here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "At one point Tale said to me, 'Chicken fingers?' and I thought he didn't know what was meant in English by the phrase 'chicken fingers' so I replied, 'Yeah, little strips of chicken, breaded and fried, not, y'know, chickens with fingers...' and he was all, 'Oh, I know, but ... hm... chickens with fingers...'" | |||
| Rob says, "with its chickeny fingers of death" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And then I guess he wrote this." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x skulls" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mlask" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "x chicken's feet" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "blow door" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "pop door" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Speaking of chickens, I need to go get eggs soon" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lay chicken" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "have you chewed the door first?" | |||
| Limax says (to DavidW), "Ha ha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat door" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the bubble gum door) Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under chicken" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind chicken" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "lick door" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "open chicken" | ||||
Floyd | He's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "come first" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB asks, "I wonder if tale has ever played The Evil Chicken of Doom?" | |||
| DavidW says (to DB), "I don't think so." | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "egg on chicken" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lay egg" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "goose chicken" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "duck" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "outfox cchicken" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unwrap chicken" | ||||
Floyd | He's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wake" | ||||
Floyd | The dreadful truth is, this is not a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wake chicken" | ||||
Floyd | That seems unnecessary. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "the solution didn't actually involve doing anything directly to the chicken, but getting clear of its clucky clutches long enough for a solution to present itself" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tomb of the Unknown Tool, also known as Grave of the nameless Idiot Floyd | It is done up in a modern style, all glass and steel, the lettering of Floyd | its name float over the glass front as flashy laser projections. The Floyd | entrance leads down (by elevator). Floyd | Floyd | The Chicken with Hands! arrives from below. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh" | |||
| Rob says, "this is probably why he mentioned that it was supposed to be killing us all the time" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "which way was the vacuum?" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vacuum Trap!!! Floyd | There's nothing here to see, as vacuum is invisible. Luckily, you're Floyd | immune to vacuum, as all creatonists are. The forest path continues to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | The Chicken with Hands! arrives from the east. Floyd | Floyd | The Chicken implodes, which looks kinda awesome. You see something Floyd | glinting in the wreckage. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | (the wrapper key) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "...ggg wow, good guess" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tomb of the Unknown Tool, also known as Grave of the nameless Idiot Floyd | It is done up in a modern style, all glass and steel, the lettering of Floyd | its name float over the glass front as flashy laser projections. The Floyd | entrance leads down (by elevator). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Nice elevator music! Floyd | Floyd | Chicken Room Floyd | This room is full of skulls and bones. Right before you lies the slain Floyd | corpse of the famous adventurer Monathan Mlask, who has met his doom Floyd | here. A door leads, hm, let's say southeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a bubble gum door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock door" | ||||
Floyd | (with the wrapper key) Floyd | You unlock the bubble gum door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You open the bubble gum door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Treasure Room Floyd | There are hordes of gold and silver, ipods and other treasures. Being Floyd | from a culture who is all back to nature and stuff, you're not Floyd | interested. A small tunnel leads, what didn't we have, southwest. Floyd | Floyd | But there is the unknown tool, a typewriter. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a bubble gum door here. Floyd | Floyd | The typewriter types a "9" with a clang. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take tool" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The typewriter types a "8" with a clang. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh-oh" | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "Count-down?" | ||||
| Binder says, "uh oh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Clangs are not good." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Numbered clangs are worse." | |||
| Rob says, "that typewriter is a great suspense device" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to rob), "Thanks for the hint about 'getting away' :P" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Observatory Floyd | You can see the sky through the glass dome, and beloved Pluto far Floyd | above. Floyd | Floyd | There is an incredible large heap of the intelligent, but unresponsive Floyd | Ladders of Mercury here. They look pretty bored, not being used for Floyd | their given purpose. Floyd | Floyd | The typewriter types a "7" with a clang. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "Wow, that's kind of creepy." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | The typewriter types a "6" with a clang. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You shoulder all but one of the ladders, who actually weight nothing, Floyd | and put that one up. Then you climb it, stack the other one on top, Floyd | climb that, etc. You have to break the glass dome, but after that it's Floyd | easy work till the cloud layer. As you leave Earth'sa atmosphere, Floyd | you're once again happy to be immune to Vacuum. Luckily it still only Floyd | takes you one turn to reach Pluto in the unmeasurable vastness of Floyd | Space. Floyd | Floyd | Pluto Floyd | You are standing on Pluto, at the foot of the Space Claw holding your Floyd | beloved Planet. Floyd | Floyd | The typewriter types a "5" with a clang. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "WHAT?" | |||
| Rob says, "huh I guess 'climb ladders' was implemented but not 'climb ladder'" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Who typed an invisible command?" | ||||
| Rob says, "it wasn't invisible. or I didn't mean it to be" | ||||
| Rob says, "oh I guess I whispered it by accident. I typed 'climb ladders' just as you typed 'climb ladder'" | ||||
| Binder says, "wf instead of f" | ||||
| Rob says, "yeah I'm out of practice" | ||||
| Johnny says, "wtf" | ||||
| Binder says, "all wf, no t" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "so, what do we do here?" | ||||
Floyd | Pluto Floyd | You are standing on Pluto, at the foot of the Space Claw holding your Floyd | beloved Planet. Floyd | Floyd | The typewriter types a "4" with a clang. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Pluto Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "it's still whispering" | |||
| Binder says, "bust the claw somehow" | ||||
| DavidW says, "STOP the invisible commands, please." | ||||
| Limax says, "Back later" | ||||
| Limax walks slowly out of the room and into the sunset. | Rob says, "sorry I keep typing wf out of habit" | |||
| Miseri says, "too much werewolf." | ||||
| Rob says, "that's how my brain is trained to talk to floyd" | ||||
| Binder says (to Rob), "I've had to break myself of the same habit recently" | ||||
| Miseri votes to lynch Rob. | ||||
| DavidW says, "Do we drop the typewriter on the planet? That seems wrong, somehow." | ||||
| Rob says, "I'll just not type for a while.." | ||||
| Johnny votes to lynch Gery........ Miseri. | ||||
| Miseri says, "You're not on the planet; you're on the claw holding the planet." | ||||
| Binder says (to DavidW), "maybe if we get to the end and it blows up and then we'll know to use it on the claw" | ||||
| Gerynar says, "snrk" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Have we examined the claw or the typewriter?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | It's an old typewriter, which has some dynamite in it. Floyd | Floyd | The typewriter types a "4" with a clang. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Ah." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine claw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "heh, dynamite on it" | |||
| inky says, "my read of the description is we're at the foot of the claw on the planet" | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "type" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "so it seems like we could just drop the typewriter and run away" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | You carefully place the typewriter at the foot of the Space Claw, then Floyd | run up the next slope and get proppeled into the vast, cold Floyd | nothingness of Space. Behind you, there is a giant and satisfyingly Floyd | loud explosion. You drift through Space as helpless as the next sequel Floyd | hook. But with Pluto's power restored, your people are able to find Floyd | you, sailing to your rescue on Space Birds. Back home, they're having Floyd | a big celebration in your honor, and you finally muster up your Floyd | courage to speak to the silk weavers daughter. Braintree is still at Floyd | large, but it's not like he can run away. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You won! *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 3 out of a possible 3, in 49 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "wow. weird." | |||
| EmacsUser claps. | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Yeah." | ||||
| DB says, "I liked it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah, with a prologue like that I was expecting it to be a pretty straight-forward, not at all weird game." | ||||
| DavidW says, "But props to geekgirl who figured out what to do with a Chicken with Hands!" | ||||
| Miseri asks, "what's next?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxbrain" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | After dreams of swedish fish fountains and 5-cent space otter rides, Floyd | you find yourself unwillingly dragged back into consciousness. You Floyd | open your eyes slowly to the sight of a completely bare ceiling. Your Floyd | thoughts swim aimlessly in your head, trying to figure out what was Floyd | happening before you passed out. Floyd | Floyd | "Hi there!" a chipper voice says. You raise your head and see the Floyd | flashing light-eyes of a maintenance bot. "Seems like you were Floyd | unconscious in the bathroom! I moved you here." Floyd | Floyd | Oh yeah. You had been on a field trip with your class to the Plutonian Floyd | Commonwealth museum, learning about ancient technology and the history Floyd | of the braintree and lots of educational stuff. As always, you find Floyd | things way more educational when combined with the results of your Floyd | pharmaceutical class, so you got totally fruitbat flapjacks on Floyd | yesterday's lesson. You guess it must have been too much for you and Floyd | you passed out. Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry, but the museum's already closed and your tour group has gone. Floyd | Since you're not supposed to be here, we'll have to have the security Floyd | guy take you to the police in the morning. In the meantime, I'm off Floyd | duty, so -" the light-eyes of the maintenance bot die out as it goes Floyd | into sleep mode. Floyd | Floyd | Dang. You've taken so many liberties in pharmaceutical class, you'd Floyd | have a ton of paperwork to do if the police end up taking you out of Floyd | here. You're going to have to find an exit on your own. Floyd | Floyd | Brain of the Night Guest Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Colin Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110312 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | You are in a sparse, small room with no decoration whatsoever. It Floyd | stinks of garbage, metal and oil. From here, you can go north into Floyd | the main museum hall, west into a nasty little break room, and east Floyd | down a smelly hallway. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of fat black garbage bags take up most of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, a maintenance bot squats, inactive and shut off. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a reminder note here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "textdump!" | |||
| jenrexrode doesn't read as fast as the others. | ||||
| DavidW says, "tl;dr: Escape the museum" | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "x bags" | ||||
Floyd | Large black garbage bags, filled with stuff you don't want to think Floyd | about. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "x bot" | ||||
Floyd | A squat robot on treads. Its cylindrical body contains all of the Floyd | tools and appendages it probably uses to keep up the place, but Floyd | they're all retracted right now. Its eye-lights are currently dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||||
Floyd | The note reads, "Please remember: to maintain optimum stamina, the Floyd | braintree must be fed nightly. Deposit protein slurry directly into Floyd | its planter. DO NOT GIVE JUNK FOOD to the braintree; it will be up all Floyd | night." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "x self" | ||||
Floyd | You are Alex. Floyd | You are a kind of lazy student and you have a penchant for bringing Floyd | your results from pharmaceutical class into other classes. And field Floyd | trips. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| zarf walks off through the wall; pale violet light flares briefly around him. | Tale asks, "+sigh* Did it start an hour ago?" | |||
| Rob says, "it's like you wake up here after the explosion at the end of Tale's" | ||||
| DB says, "Hey, tale." | ||||
| DB says, "Yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Tale), "Yes. And you just missed us playing yore gaim." | ||||
| Tale says, "Hey, DB" | ||||
| Rob says, "it's all one big game" | ||||
| Tale says, "Damn it" | ||||
| DB says, "We just finished playing your game." | ||||
| Ellison says (to Tale), "wow, you missed the beginning, too? we are miss-the-beginning brothers!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Tale), "I'll be good and post transcripts right afterward. Worry not." | ||||
| Tale asks, "Did you find the good ending, or the one with the explosion?" | ||||
| Rob says, "ha ha, *everybody* got the same gist from 'braintree' it seems like" | ||||
| Binder asks, "they're not the same?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Oh, the explosion." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "You'll have to forgive me, but I can't help but mentally picture you as the protagonist in this one." | ||||
| jenrexrode exclaims, "hey, it's Monothan Mlask!" | ||||
| Tale says (to jacq), "Cool thanks." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open bags" | ||||
Floyd | They're not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline gives Ellison a hug. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bag" | ||||
Floyd | They're fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bot" | ||||
Floyd | I don't suppose the maintenance bot would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search bot" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I vote west to start with." | |||
| Tale asks, "Which one is this?" | ||||
| Rob asks, "there's another ending to yours?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Brain of the Night Guest" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | You are in a sparse, small room with no decoration whatsoever. It Floyd | stinks of garbage, metal and oil. From here, you can go north into Floyd | the main museum hall, west into a nasty little break room, and east Floyd | down a smelly hallway. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of fat black garbage bags take up most of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, a maintenance bot squats, inactive and shut off. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a reminder note here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "carolynV and guy" | |||
| Ellison says (to Jacqueline), "heh, you're forgiven" | ||||
| Tale says (to rob), "Nope, was kidding" | ||||
| Binder says, "sure, west" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take note" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Break Room Floyd | This is a break room, you guess? It lacks a kitchenette of any kind, Floyd | with no counters, no sinks and no cupboards. The large refrigerator in Floyd | the corner looks lonely, its surface bare of adornment. With a Floyd | complete lack of tables or chairs, it seems less and less credible Floyd | that any people work here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x refrigerator" | ||||
Floyd | A large refrigerator, alone and unloved. Its surface is bare. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says (to Tale), "you fooled me!" | |||
| Rob says (to floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | You open the refrigerator, revealing Jim's brain and some half-eaten Floyd | chicken fingers. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "wait, what" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x brain" | ||||
Floyd | Someone has written "Jim" on this brain in black sharpie. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x fingers" | ||||
Floyd | Some gross fried chicken fingers, covered in congealed grease. Who Floyd | refrigerates fried food? And why did people think it was a good idea Floyd | to start growing chickens with fingers? Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "oh, ok" | |||
| Johnny says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Rob says, "take the brain, leave the connoli" | ||||
| Binder snorks | ||||
| DavidW says, "no, take all" | ||||
| Ellison says, "this is not the first break room they have coded. hopefully, there's no espresso machine in this one, though!" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | Jim's brain: Taken. Floyd | half-eaten chicken fingers: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "They stole my joke, which I stole from Sargent & Jacq" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close fridge" | ||||
Floyd | You close the refrigerator. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "eat brain" | ||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says (to Tale), "ewwww" | |||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | There are none at all available! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Break Room Floyd | This is a break room, you guess? It lacks a kitchenette of any kind, Floyd | with no counters, no sinks and no cupboards. The large refrigerator in Floyd | the corner looks lonely, its surface bare of adornment. With a Floyd | complete lack of tables or chairs, it seems less and less credible Floyd | that any people work here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "brain, hello" | ||||
Floyd | You can't talk to Jim's brain. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says (to Tale), "That was a surprisingly obvious one" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get in fridge" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "go back east, I think." | |||
| Miseri says (to Tale), "(late) the ending with the explosion crashed my client. Too much BOOM." | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | You are in a sparse, small room with no decoration whatsoever. It Floyd | stinks of garbage, metal and oil. From here, you can go north into Floyd | the main museum hall, west into a nasty little break room, and east Floyd | down a smelly hallway. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of fat black garbage bags take up most of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, a maintenance bot squats, inactive and shut off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "at least we know we're not a zombie" | |||
| Tale says, "Sorry" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "east again?" | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Service Corridor Floyd | There is nothing special about this corridor, except for the fire door Floyd | and the control panel beside it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale asks (of miseri), "Did they play yours yet?" | |||
| Rob says (to floyd), "x panel" | ||||
Floyd | It's a control panel or something. You don't know how it works. Floyd | Floyd | > | Miseri says (to Tale), "heh, no worries. it was funny. No, not yet." | |||
| Rob says (to floyd), "open panel" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "hm" | |||
| Binder says, "I like how comfortable we are with our shortcomings as a PC." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on panel" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the fire door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "cool. we didn't get to finish that." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You try the door, but it won't open. That's not safe! Whose bright Floyd | idea was this? Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob asks, "the description of the garbage bags dissuaded playing with them, but did we try taking/opening them?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I tried to take one and open one, I thought." | ||||
| Gerynar says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions. | ||||
| Gerynar has disconnected. | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "oh, ok" | |||
| DavidW says, "But try again, sure." | ||||
| Rob says, "I probably just missed it since nothing happened" | ||||
| Miseri asks, "try searching them?" | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "search panel" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "I don't think we searched them" | |||
| DavidW says, "Well I tried take bag and open bag, but maybe take bagS and open bagS works." | ||||
| Rob says, "maybe it's active later" | ||||
| jenrexrode says, "the bags, that is" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "press panel" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "show panel to brain" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we need a panel manual." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Hm." | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "wreck brain" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob asks, "west then north ?" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | You are in a sparse, small room with no decoration whatsoever. It Floyd | stinks of garbage, metal and oil. From here, you can go north into Floyd | the main museum hall, west into a nasty little break room, and east Floyd | down a smelly hallway. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of fat black garbage bags take up most of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, a maintenance bot squats, inactive and shut off. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I bet we need to feed the braintree." | |||
| Rob says (to floyd), "push bot" | ||||
Floyd | That would be less than courteous. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Junk food." | |||
| Tale asks, "did we try messing with the bot?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I tried to take it." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "A little bit." | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "switchon bot" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "kiss bot" | ||||
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "take bot" | ||||
Floyd | I don't suppose the maintenance bot would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "switch on bot" | ||||
Floyd | You press the On switch. Floyd | Floyd | The maintenance bot turns on its eye-lights. "Please do not poke me," Floyd | it says reproachfully, and then turns its eye-lights back off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "No, but I kinda think the bot is just a backstory delivery mechanism." | |||
| Rob says, "yay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||||
| Rob says, "guess-the-inform-library-verb" | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "touch bot" | ||||
Floyd | Keep your hands to yourself! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "bot, w" | ||||
Floyd | The maintenance bot has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "search bags" | ||||
Floyd | You check through the garbage bags briefly. It's a pretty gross Floyd | experience. Floyd | Floyd | In one of the bags, you find a discarded brain in a plastic bag. You Floyd | pull the brain out for a better look and stuff the plastic bag back Floyd | into the garbage. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That is awesome. That's why the bot deleted its Facebook account, evidently." | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "bot, clean" | ||||
Floyd | (the garbage bags) Floyd | The maintenance bot has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Kevin's brain (in your hand) Floyd | some half-eaten chicken fingers Floyd | Jim's brain (in your hand) Floyd | a reminder note Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "bot, maintain" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob asks, "we have a real and a plastic brain now?" | |||
| Johnny says, "I thin it eats brains." | ||||
| Rob says, "no, two brains" | ||||
| Tale asks, "Do we have a goal here?" | ||||
| Rob says, "feeding the brain tree" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Escape" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Escape is our goal." | ||||
| Rob says, "north, miss tessmacher" | ||||
| Johnny says, "The brain tree can help" | ||||
| Johnny says, "I guess" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall Floyd | Of all of the halls, this is the grandest. It even has a sweeping Floyd | staircase going up to a balcony type thing that overlooks where you're Floyd | standing. This room was created exclusively to house the magnificent Floyd | braintree, which is in the center of the room. The maintenance room Floyd | where you woke up is to the south, and an unobtrusive door with an Floyd | excessively obtrusive padlock on it is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There's a placard above the padlocked door to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a planter (in which is a magnificent braintree), a Floyd | brain tank (empty), a transfer chair, a transfer pedestal, a display Floyd | note and a warning sign here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "Okay, let's do it" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x placard" | ||||
Floyd | "Tomb of the Unknown Tool" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x display note" | ||||
Floyd | "The brain of our foremost researcher, Kevin vonHooligan, has been Floyd | removed for maintenance." Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "yep we definitely all wrote the same game from different angles" | |||
| Tale says, "tee hee" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x chair" | ||||
Floyd | It's a spartan but relatively comfortable chair. You sit in it to have Floyd | your brain switched around. Sitting in it before you put a brain on Floyd | the pedestal will leave you pretty out of it until somebody comes to Floyd | help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x pedestal" | ||||
Floyd | This pedestal is sort of vaguely greek-styled. You're supposed to sit Floyd | a brain on it to have it switched out with whoever sits in the chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "This is years after it has been defeated in my game" | |||
| Rob says, "this is the same location as my game but a million years earlier" | ||||
| Gerynar arrives, full of fun and funk. | DavidW asks, "So we can become Jim or Kevin?" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Looks like it." | ||||
| Tale says, "pretty impressive for a speed" | ||||
| Ellison says, "let's become Plastic Man" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Kevin's brain (in your hand) Floyd | some half-eaten chicken fingers Floyd | Jim's brain (in your hand) Floyd | a reminder note Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "maintenance = in the trash?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x warning" | ||||
Floyd | "Warning! Although this is a museum display, it is an active and Floyd | functioning braintree. Please do not sit in the chair until you are Floyd | ready to have your brain removed." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "that is a pretty cool premise" | |||
| canadianpuzzler says, "Oh, I like where this is going. :-)" | Rob says, "ha ha" | |||
| Tale says, "okay, let's doit[Z" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tank" | ||||
Floyd | It's like a fish tank, only for brains. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "I guess we get to pick both brains" | |||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | Binder asks, "so trash brain or fridge brain first?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "jim or kevin" | |||
| Binder asks, "or are we carrying two half brains?" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Kevin's brain (in your hand) Floyd | some half-eaten chicken fingers Floyd | Jim's brain (in your hand) Floyd | a reminder note Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "jim was fridge, kevin was trash, I think" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x kevin" | ||||
Floyd | This brain doesn't look so good. It's oozing gunk from a cut across Floyd | the cerebrum, and it might have bounced off the floor a couple times. Floyd | It has the name "Kevin" printed on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x jim" | ||||
Floyd | Someone has written "Jim" on this brain in black sharpie. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "also try the chicken fingers" | |||
| EmacsUser votes for Jim first. | ||||
| Rob says, "ha ha sharpie" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall Floyd | Of all of the halls, this is the grandest. It even has a sweeping Floyd | staircase going up to a balcony type thing that overlooks where you're Floyd | standing. This room was created exclusively to house the magnificent Floyd | braintree, which is in the center of the room. The maintenance room Floyd | where you woke up is to the south, and an unobtrusive door with an Floyd | excessively obtrusive padlock on it is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There's a placard above the padlocked door to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a planter (in which is a magnificent braintree), a Floyd | brain tank (empty), a transfer chair, a transfer pedestal, a display Floyd | note and a warning sign here. Floyd | Floyd | > | metoikos exclaims, "eat brain!" | |||
| Tale says, "The note said Kevin had to be removed, so let's try Jim" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "put jim on pedestal" | ||||
Floyd | You put Jim's brain on the transfer pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "sit in chair" | ||||
Floyd | The braintree twitches towards you slightly, but then it droops with a Floyd | frondy, lethargic sigh. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "no, it goes in the tank" | |||
| Rob asks, "doesn't it?" | ||||
| Binder says, "oh" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Hm." | ||||
| DavidW says, "no, the protein slurry goes in the tank" | ||||
| Binder says, "maybe we need to slurry the chicken fingers" | ||||
| jenrexrode says, "hm, maybe it's hungry" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "put jim's brain in tank" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking Jim's brain) Floyd | Floyd | You put Jim's brain into the brain tank. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob asks, "what protein slurry?" | |||
| Rob says, "I'm all confused" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||||
Floyd | (the reminder note) Floyd | The note reads, "Please remember: to maintain optimum stamina, the Floyd | braintree must be fed nightly. Deposit protein slurry directly into Floyd | its planter. DO NOT GIVE JUNK FOOD to the braintree; it will be up all Floyd | night." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "and hungry!" | |||
| Binder says (to Rob), "that protein slurry" | ||||
| Rob says, "goes into the *planter*" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh, into the planter, not the tank." | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "sit in chair" | ||||
Floyd | The braintree twitches towards you slightly, but then it droops with a Floyd | frondy, lethargic sigh. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "chicken fingers are practically slurry anyway" | |||
| DavidW says, "I guess the tank is where *our* brain goes." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "as seen in the video going around the internet" | |||
| Rob says, "ducks and geese and hens better scurry / lest they end up chopped in my slurry" | ||||
| Tale says, "Let's put the fingers in already" | ||||
| Ellison says, "the nice thing about this game is that it teaches us about brain transplants" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Frondy is a new word for me." | ||||
| DavidW says, "So put Jim's brain on the pedestal, then the chicken in the planter, then sit on the chair." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "Oh, I see that you already saved." | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall Floyd | Of all of the halls, this is the grandest. It even has a sweeping Floyd | staircase going up to a balcony type thing that overlooks where you're Floyd | standing. This room was created exclusively to house the magnificent Floyd | braintree, which is in the center of the room. The maintenance room Floyd | where you woke up is to the south, and an unobtrusive door with an Floyd | excessively obtrusive padlock on it is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There's a placard above the padlocked door to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a planter (in which is a magnificent braintree), a Floyd | brain tank (in which is Jim's brain), a transfer chair, a transfer Floyd | pedestal, a display note and a warning sign here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says (to DavidW), "Right-o, Dav-o" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "put fingers in planter" | ||||
Floyd | The braintree hunches over slightly, noticing that there is something Floyd | in its planter. When it realizes that a perfectly good nugget of Floyd | protein, fat and salt is within devouring range, it quickly pulls the Floyd | chicken fingers under the soil. It makes a sort of "nom nom nom" sound Floyd | as it eats, and within moments the braintree is looking much more Floyd | magnificent. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "I'm not sure what goes on the pedestal" | |||
| DavidW says, "The brain goes on the pedestal" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Kevin's brain (in your hand) Floyd | a reminder note Floyd | Floyd | The magnificent braintree suddenly croons, "We got the beat!" There Floyd | is no response. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "heh, nom nom" | |||
| Rob says, "the brain is in the brain tank!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Heh. For a moment, I thought we were putting *our* fingers in the planter." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Now sit on the chair." | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "get jim" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "NO!" | |||
| Binder says, "oookay" | ||||
| DavidW says, "DON"T TAKE THE BRAIN" | ||||
| Rob says, "why is there a brain tank and a pedestal" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "put brain in tank" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, Jim's brain, Kevin's brain or the brain tank? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You want to be brainless?!?!" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "put jim in tank" | ||||
Floyd | You put Jim's brain into the brain tank. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "NO" | |||
| jenrexrode says, "brain coming anf going locations" | ||||
| Rob says, "let DW do it" | ||||
| Tale says, "let david do it" | ||||
| Binder says, "ok then" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take jim" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tank" | ||||
Floyd | It's like a fish tank, only for brains. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pedestal" | ||||
Floyd | This pedestal is sort of vaguely greek-styled. You're supposed to sit Floyd | a brain on it to have it switched out with whoever sits in the chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put jim on it" | ||||
Floyd | You put Jim's brain on the transfer pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on chair" | ||||
Floyd | With a click and a woosh, the braintree vacuums up your brain and Floyd | replaces it with Jim's brain. You feel very odd as you stand up. Floyd | Floyd | You're now a maintenance guy. You tell the maintenance robots to do Floyd | maintenance stuff. There are a lot of subroutines and routines and Floyd | things so you don't really know much of what that is. You do know that Floyd | if you hit the fire door's control panel real hard, it unlocks. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "that's what I was doing" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tank" | ||||
Floyd | It's like a fish tank, only for brains. Floyd | Floyd | In the brain tank is Alex's brain. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "it was in the tank, I was putting it on the pedestal" | |||
| Rob says, "ah, that's us" | ||||
| DavidW says, "x alex's" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x alex's" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about Alex's brain. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "ok so what does kevin know" | |||
| Tale says (to rob), "my thinking" | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are Jim. Floyd | You're a maintenance guy. You tell the maintenance robots to do Floyd | maintenance stuff. There are a lot of subroutines and routines and Floyd | things so you don't really know much of what that is. You do know that Floyd | if you hit the fire door's control panel real hard, it unlocks. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "He was a top researcher, but then his brain got pretty messed up. It may not be safe to find out." | |||
| Rob says, "we could do the panel then come back" | ||||
| jenrexrode says, "yeah" | ||||
| DavidW says, "okay" | ||||
| metoikos says, "that's what undo is for" | ||||
| Tale says (to EmacsUser), "Nonsense! We have to do it for Science!" | ||||
| Rob says, "switching brain puzzle is a nice IF setup" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Tale), "Oh, right." | ||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, I'm a bit jealous" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Someone go unlock the panel." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | You are in a sparse, small room with no decoration whatsoever. It Floyd | stinks of garbage, metal and oil. From here, you can go north into Floyd | the main museum hall, west into a nasty little break room, and east Floyd | down a smelly hallway. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of fat black garbage bags take up most of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, a maintenance bot squats, inactive and shut off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Service Corridor Floyd | There is nothing special about this corridor, except for the fire door Floyd | and the control panel beside it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "hit panel" | ||||
Floyd | You smack the control panel in the right place with your fist and it Floyd | hurts a lot! You're not used to being this scrawny - or this dizzy Floyd | when your hand hurts. Stupid kid. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Um, did that work?" | |||
| DavidW says, "no" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "kick panel" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "we're too wimpy" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Jim's brain (implanted in your skull) Floyd | Kevin's brain (in your hand) Floyd | a reminder note Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Let's find out what Jim knows." | |||
| vaporware asks, "Can we tell the bot to hit it?" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "hit panel with brain" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "er Kevin" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to vaporware), "That's an idea." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Kevin might be able to make the bot hit the panel for us." | ||||
| Rob says, "ok" | ||||
| DavidW says, "(I'm guessing)" | ||||
| Binder says, "er" | ||||
| vaporware says, "We're the maintenance guy, maybe we ca norder the maintenance bot." | ||||
| jenrexrode asks, "what can jim tell the robot?" | ||||
| Binder says, "right. what vaporware said" | ||||
| Rob says, "oh" | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "bot, hit panel" | ||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | You are in a sparse, small room with no decoration whatsoever. It Floyd | stinks of garbage, metal and oil. From here, you can go north into Floyd | the main museum hall, west into a nasty little break room, and east Floyd | down a smelly hallway. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of fat black garbage bags take up most of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, a maintenance bot squats, inactive and shut off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "bot is west of here" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "bot, e" | ||||
Floyd | The maintenance bot has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | > | vaporware says, "doh." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "turn on bot" | ||||
Floyd | You press the On switch. Floyd | Floyd | The maintenance bot turns on its eye-lights. "Please do not poke me," Floyd | it says reproachfully, and then turns its eye-lights back off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get bot" | ||||
Floyd | I don't suppose the maintenance bot would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We need to become Kevin." | |||
| Rob says (to floyd), "push bot east" | ||||
Floyd | The maintenance bot cannot be pushed from place to place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "push bot east" | ||||
Floyd | The maintenance bot cannot be pushed from place to place. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "we need Kevin's brand of VanHooliganism" | |||
| Rob says, "from the boston vanhooligans" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we need to know something from Kevin." | ||||
| Rob says, "ok" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall Floyd | Of all of the halls, this is the grandest. It even has a sweeping Floyd | staircase going up to a balcony type thing that overlooks where you're Floyd | standing. This room was created exclusively to house the magnificent Floyd | braintree, which is in the center of the room. The maintenance room is Floyd | to the south, and an unobtrusive door with an excessively obtrusive Floyd | padlock on it is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There's a placard above the padlocked door to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a planter (in which is a magnificent braintree), a Floyd | brain tank (in which is Alex's brain), a transfer chair, a transfer Floyd | pedestal, a display note and a warning sign here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "get alex" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "put kevin on pedestal" | ||||
Floyd | You put Kevin's brain on the transfer pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We might also try going up." | |||
| Rob says, "oh, huh, balcony" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Oh. Duh. Forgot there *was* an up." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Let's?" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | This balcony looks out over the magnificent braintree's gently-furred Floyd | canopy. There's an exhibit shelf here labeled "The Hundred-Year-Old Floyd | Typewriter". A sweeping staircase leads back down to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an exhibit shelf (on which are Marlene's brain and an Floyd | antique typewriter) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Let's see what Kevin is about." | |||
| Rob says, "I still want to know what happens if you put the chicken fingers on the pedestal instead of a brain" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall Floyd | Of all of the halls, this is the grandest. It even has a sweeping Floyd | staircase going up to a balcony type thing that overlooks where you're Floyd | standing. This room was created exclusively to house the magnificent Floyd | braintree, which is in the center of the room. The maintenance room is Floyd | to the south, and an unobtrusive door with an excessively obtrusive Floyd | padlock on it is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There's a placard above the padlocked door to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a planter (in which is a magnificent braintree), a Floyd | brain tank (empty), a transfer chair, a transfer pedestal (on which is Floyd | Kevin's brain), a display note and a warning sign here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. Marlene" | |||
| DB says, "That's a good M name." | ||||
| Rob asks, "why'd we go up and down so fast without doing anything?" | ||||
| Tale says, "I'm still sad nobody used Marius :-(" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | This balcony looks out over the magnificent braintree's gently-furred Floyd | canopy. There's an exhibit shelf here labeled "The Hundred-Year-Old Floyd | Typewriter". A sweeping staircase leads back down to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an exhibit shelf (on which are Marlene's brain and an Floyd | antique typewriter) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x Marlene" | ||||
Floyd | Someone has signed this brain "Marlene" in a sweeping, elegant script. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We have too many brains at the controls." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | That's an old typewriter - a hundred years old or so. You hear the Floyd | first spec for the magnificent braintree was written on it, and you Floyd | kind of approve. Sad thing, machines getting a hold of everything Floyd | these days. One day they'll get your job, and then what happens to Floyd | you? | Rob says, "heh" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "or not enough" | |||
| Rob says, "literally!" | ||||
| jenrexrode asks, "don't they just go in the tank?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Tale), "Aw. I was thinking of writing one this week, and was going to include you, but then I worked on my Minecraft labyrinth instead." | ||||
| Tale says (to rob), "Dave said he wanted to try Kevin first, and 'round here, Dave's word is LAW" | ||||
| Binder says, "evidently" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "So, um, someone drive." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Tale), "I confused everyone by noticing the balcony." | ||||
| Miseri says, "I don't think anyone used Miseri either. Or Mhristopher Muang." | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "get marlene" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall Floyd | Of all of the halls, this is the grandest. It even has a sweeping Floyd | staircase going up to a balcony type thing that overlooks where you're Floyd | standing. This room was created exclusively to house the magnificent Floyd | braintree, which is in the center of the room. The maintenance room is Floyd | to the south, and an unobtrusive door with an excessively obtrusive Floyd | padlock on it is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There's a placard above the padlocked door to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a planter (in which is a magnificent braintree), a Floyd | brain tank (empty), a transfer chair, a transfer pedestal (on which is Floyd | Kevin's brain), a display note and a warning sign here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB asks, "How is the labyrinth coming?" | |||
| Rob says, "should we save it again or what" | ||||
| DavidW says, "no, just do it, I think" | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "sit on chair" | ||||
Floyd | With a click and a woosh, the braintree vacuums up your brain and Floyd | replaces it with Kevin's brain. You feel very odd as you stand up. Floyd | Floyd | You are now the research man! You know many a thing! You know special Floyd | things about mysterious mysteries! You should examine such things for Floyd | cryptic clues! Floyd | Floyd | With a sploosh, the braintree deposits your prior brain into the brain Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "get brain" | ||||
Floyd | (Jim's brain) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "yay" | |||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "x jim" | ||||
Floyd | Someone has written "Jim" on this brain in black sharpie. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "x braintree" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | The magnificent braintree is one of modern society's most modernly Floyd | magnificent marvels. Its ropy trunk, its furry leaves, its twin Floyd | vacuum-mouth-things, all scream "Civilization!" (like, literally, Floyd | sometimes they just scream random words). Floyd | Floyd | Without the Braintree, the basic human right of taking your brain out Floyd | and replacing it with a different brain would take hours! The way it Floyd | works is that you put a brain on that pedestal over there and then you Floyd | sit in the chair on the other side. In that order. Doing it in that Floyd | order is very important. This one is just on display, but it probably Floyd | works. Floyd | Floyd | The magnificent braintree suddenly screams, "Maintenance!" There is Floyd | no response. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall Floyd | Of all of the halls, this is the grandest. It even has a sweeping Floyd | staircase going up to a balcony type thing that overlooks where you're Floyd | standing. This room was created exclusively to house the magnificent Floyd | braintree, which is in the center of the room. The maintenance room is Floyd | to the south, and an unobtrusive door with an excessively obtrusive Floyd | padlock on it is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There's a placard above the padlocked door to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a planter (in which is a magnificent braintree), a Floyd | brain tank (empty), a transfer chair, a transfer pedestal, a display Floyd | note and a warning sign here. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "spare brains in tank" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x padlock" | ||||
Floyd | You remember going in there with the wonderful hundred-year-old key. Floyd | You were keeping something in there... something important. But it's Floyd | all gone now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | This balcony looks out over the magnificent braintree's gently-furred Floyd | canopy. There's an exhibit shelf here labeled "The Hundred-Year-Old Floyd | Typewriter". A sweeping staircase leads back down to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an exhibit shelf (on which is an antique typewriter) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | Beautiful Marlene kept that beautiful machine. Beautiful Marlene, Floyd | what happened to her? Beautiful Marlene and the nitroglycerine, and Floyd | you won't be seeing her again, least not her face, for sure. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | But it looks so familiar... so familiar... so familiar.... Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "the tree just screamed 'maintenance!' at us" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "look in it" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "dang, that's a nice description. this one is chuck full o' backstory." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do you suppose the 100-year-old key is in the 100-year-old typewriter?" | |||
| Tale says, "Beautiful Marlene and the nitroglycerine would make a good song title" | ||||
| Tale says, "yes" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Ah, I thought there would be a pun on the word ``key.''" | ||||
| DB says, "haha" | ||||
| Rob says, "we could examine a few more things and find out what marlene knows" | ||||
| Tale says, "And I think Marleneknows" | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, there might be" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes, examine more things. Examine the braintree and the bot and the panel." | ||||
| Ellison says, "maybe she knows where the nitroglycerin is" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall Floyd | Of all of the halls, this is the grandest. It even has a sweeping Floyd | staircase going up to a balcony type thing that overlooks where you're Floyd | standing. This room was created exclusively to house the magnificent Floyd | braintree, which is in the center of the room. The maintenance room is Floyd | to the south, and an unobtrusive door with an excessively obtrusive Floyd | padlock on it is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There's a placard above the padlocked door to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a planter (in which is a magnificent braintree), a Floyd | brain tank (empty), a transfer chair, a transfer pedestal, a display Floyd | note and a warning sign here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x braintree" | ||||
Floyd | The magnificent braintree is one of modern society's most modernly Floyd | magnificent marvels. Its ropy trunk, its furry leaves, its twin Floyd | vacuum-mouth-things, all scream "Civilization!" (like, literally, Floyd | sometimes they just scream random words). Floyd | Floyd | Without the Braintree, the basic human right of taking your brain out Floyd | and replacing it with a different brain would take hours! The way it Floyd | works is that you put a brain on that pedestal over there and then you Floyd | sit in the chair on the other side. In that order. Doing it in that Floyd | order is very important. This one is just on display, but it probably Floyd | works. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "should examine the panel while we have dude's brain, though" | |||
| jenrexrode asks, "and how to maintain the tree now?" | ||||
| olethros has ordered three mega-generators to be installed in his boathouse. | DavidW says, "Examine more things" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | You are in a sparse, small room with no decoration whatsoever. It Floyd | stinks of garbage, metal and oil. From here, you can go north into Floyd | the main museum hall, west into a nasty little break room, and east Floyd | down a smelly hallway. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of fat black garbage bags take up most of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, a maintenance bot squats, inactive and shut off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | You are in a sparse, small room with no decoration whatsoever. It Floyd | stinks of garbage, metal and oil. From here, you can go north into Floyd | the main museum hall, west into a nasty little break room, and east Floyd | down a smelly hallway. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of fat black garbage bags take up most of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, a maintenance bot squats, inactive and shut off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bot" | ||||
Floyd | A squat robot on treads. Its cylindrical body contains all of the Floyd | tools and appendages it probably uses to keep up the place, but Floyd | they're all retracted right now. Its eye-lights are currently dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bags" | ||||
Floyd | Large black garbage bags, filled with stuff you don't want to think Floyd | about. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on bot" | ||||
Floyd | You press the On switch. Floyd | Floyd | The maintenance bot turns on its eye-lights. "Please do not poke me," Floyd | it says reproachfully, and then turns its eye-lights back off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Service Corridor Floyd | There is nothing special about this corridor, except for the fire door Floyd | and the control panel beside it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine door" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the fire door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine panel" | ||||
Floyd | It's a control panel or something. You don't know how it works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine me" | ||||
Floyd | You are Kevin. Floyd | You are research man! You know many a thing! You know special things Floyd | about mysterious mysteries! You should examine such things for cryptic Floyd | clues! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | You are in a sparse, small room with no decoration whatsoever. It Floyd | stinks of garbage, metal and oil. From here, you can go north into Floyd | the main museum hall, west into a nasty little break room, and east Floyd | down a smelly hallway. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of fat black garbage bags take up most of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, a maintenance bot squats, inactive and shut off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Break Room Floyd | This is a break room, you guess? It lacks a kitchenette of any kind, Floyd | with no counters, no sinks and no cupboards. The large refrigerator in Floyd | the corner looks lonely, its surface bare of adornment. With a Floyd | complete lack of tables or chairs, it seems less and less credible Floyd | that any people work here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine fridge" | ||||
Floyd | A large refrigerator, alone and unloved. Its surface is bare. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "I am truly disappointed it doesn't eat brains." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | You are in a sparse, small room with no decoration whatsoever. It Floyd | stinks of garbage, metal and oil. From here, you can go north into Floyd | the main museum hall, west into a nasty little break room, and east Floyd | down a smelly hallway. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of fat black garbage bags take up most of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, a maintenance bot squats, inactive and shut off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall Floyd | Of all of the halls, this is the grandest. It even has a sweeping Floyd | staircase going up to a balcony type thing that overlooks where you're Floyd | standing. This room was created exclusively to house the magnificent Floyd | braintree, which is in the center of the room. The maintenance room is Floyd | to the south, and an unobtrusive door with an excessively obtrusive Floyd | padlock on it is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There's a placard above the padlocked door to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a planter (in which is a magnificent braintree), a Floyd | brain tank (empty), a transfer chair, a transfer pedestal, a display Floyd | note and a warning sign here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "maybe the panel is a red herring" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine tank" | ||||
Floyd | It's like a fish tank, only for brains. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine chair" | ||||
Floyd | It's a spartan but relatively comfortable chair. You sit in it to have Floyd | your brain switched around. Sitting in it before you put a brain on Floyd | the pedestal will leave you pretty out of it until somebody comes to Floyd | help you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine pedestal" | ||||
Floyd | This pedestal is sort of vaguely greek-styled. You're supposed to sit Floyd | a brain on it to have it switched out with whoever sits in the chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine display note" | ||||
Floyd | "The brain of our foremost researcher, Kevin vonHooligan, has been Floyd | removed for maintenance." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine warning sign" | ||||
Floyd | "Warning! Although this is a museum display, it is an active and Floyd | functioning braintree. Please do not sit in the chair until you are Floyd | ready to have your brain removed." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine balcony" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine door" | ||||
Floyd | The Tomb of the Unknown Tool! You know the answer! You know the Floyd | answer! It's not an unknown tool to you! It's a glorious, marvelous Floyd | marvel that makes the world a better place! But it would take a very Floyd | special key to get in there... a hundred-year-old key! You knew about Floyd | the secret hundred-year-old key! But where would you get such a key Floyd | now? It's all a very sad mystery, in your lumpy beaten Floyd | consciousness.... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Jim's brain (in your hand) Floyd | Kevin's brain (implanted in your skull) Floyd | Marlene's brain (in your hand) Floyd | Alex's brain (in your hand) Floyd | a reminder note Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine marlene's" | ||||
Floyd | Someone has signed this brain "Marlene" in a sweeping, elegant script. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "let's try marlene" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine reminder" | ||||
Floyd | The note reads, "Please remember: to maintain optimum stamina, the Floyd | braintree must be fed nightly. Deposit protein slurry directly into Floyd | its planter. DO NOT GIVE JUNK FOOD to the braintree; it will be up all Floyd | night." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Haha at (implanted in your skull)" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | This balcony looks out over the magnificent braintree's gently-furred Floyd | canopy. There's an exhibit shelf here labeled "The Hundred-Year-Old Floyd | Typewriter". A sweeping staircase leads back down to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an exhibit shelf (on which is an antique typewriter) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine canopy" | ||||
Floyd | From here, you can only see the top of the magnificent braintree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine braintree" | ||||
Floyd | From here, you can only see the top of the magnificent braintree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine shelf" | ||||
Floyd | On the exhibit shelf is an antique typewriter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | Beautiful Marlene kept that beautiful machine. Beautiful Marlene, Floyd | what happened to her? Beautiful Marlene and the nitroglycerine, and Floyd | you won't be seeing her again, least not her face, for sure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||||
Floyd | No. It looks really heavy. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "a brain in the skull is worth two in the hand" | |||
| Tale says, "push it" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "push it" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type maintenance" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type key" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall Floyd | Of all of the halls, this is the grandest. It even has a sweeping Floyd | staircase going up to a balcony type thing that overlooks where you're Floyd | standing. This room was created exclusively to house the magnificent Floyd | braintree, which is in the center of the room. The maintenance room is Floyd | to the south, and an unobtrusive door with an excessively obtrusive Floyd | padlock on it is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There's a placard above the padlocked door to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a planter (in which is a magnificent braintree), a Floyd | brain tank (empty), a transfer chair, a transfer pedestal, a display Floyd | note and a warning sign here. Floyd | Floyd | The magnificent braintree suddenly croons, "Xyzzy!" There is no Floyd | response. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "I think typewriter is Marlene's job" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "braintree, xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | You can't talk to the magnificent braintree. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we ought to try Marlene next." | |||
| EmacsUser concurs. | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "plugh" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put marlene on pedestal" | ||||
Floyd | You put Marlene's brain on the transfer pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "yes" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on chair" | ||||
Floyd | With a click and a woosh, the braintree vacuums up your brain and Floyd | replaces it with Marlene's brain. You feel very odd as you stand up. Floyd | Floyd | You have become an archivist. You know about really old things, like Floyd | typewriters. For instance, you know that the hundred year-old Floyd | typewriter has a loose key that you pretty much sort of jimmied back Floyd | in at some point a while ago, and you know how to take it back out. Floyd | Come to think of it, you don't know much else. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Aha." | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | This balcony looks out over the magnificent braintree's gently-furred Floyd | canopy. There's an exhibit shelf here labeled "The Hundred-Year-Old Floyd | Typewriter". A sweeping staircase leads back down to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an exhibit shelf (on which is an antique typewriter) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take kevin" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "x keyboard" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | That's your beauty - your absolute favorite in the whole museum. Some Floyd | folks love the braintree, but you love what made it. Something solid Floyd | and real, like this - something with moving parts that you can take Floyd | apart and put back together. Like the "I" key, which pops out all the Floyd | time if you just thump it a little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "thump it" | ||||
Floyd | You give the antique typewriter a neat little thump on the side, and Floyd | the "I" key bounces up and into your waiting hand. Classic. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl exclaims, "A ha!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||||
Floyd | It's the "I" key. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "woo" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall Floyd | Of all of the halls, this is the grandest. It even has a sweeping Floyd | staircase going up to a balcony type thing that overlooks where you're Floyd | standing. This room was created exclusively to house the magnificent Floyd | braintree, which is in the center of the room. The maintenance room is Floyd | to the south, and an unobtrusive door with an excessively obtrusive Floyd | padlock on it is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There's a placard above the padlocked door to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a planter (in which is a magnificent braintree), a Floyd | brain tank (in which is Kevin's brain), a transfer chair, a transfer Floyd | pedestal, a display note and a warning sign here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "eat key" | ||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the padlock with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "key" | ||||
Floyd | You unlock the unobtrusive padlocked door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You open the unobtrusive padlocked door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tomb of the Unknown Tool Floyd | This is the Tomb of the Unk -- the Tomb of the Known Tool. (Though Floyd | it's much less spiffy that way.) You can leave to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a hammer here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hammer" | ||||
Floyd | It's a hammer. You know this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hammer" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Haha." | |||
| DB says, "haha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall Floyd | Of all of the halls, this is the grandest. It even has a sweeping Floyd | staircase going up to a balcony type thing that overlooks where you're Floyd | standing. This room was created exclusively to house the magnificent Floyd | braintree, which is in the center of the room. The maintenance room is Floyd | to the south, and an unobtrusive door with an excessively obtrusive Floyd | padlock on it is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There's a placard above the padlocked door to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a planter (in which is a magnificent braintree), a Floyd | brain tank (in which is Kevin's brain), a transfer chair, a transfer Floyd | pedestal, a display note and a warning sign here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "for percussive maintenance of the panel" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "...for the panel." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put alex on pedestal" | ||||
Floyd | You put Alex's brain on the transfer pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Timing." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on chair" | ||||
Floyd | With a click and a woosh, the braintree vacuums up your brain and Floyd | replaces it with Alex's brain. You feel very odd as you stand up. Floyd | Floyd | You are back to being a kind of lazy student with a penchant for Floyd | bringing your results from pharmaceutical class into other classes. Floyd | And field trips. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Alex's brain (implanted in your skull) Floyd | a hammer Floyd | a hundred-year-old typewriter key Floyd | Jim's brain (in your hand) Floyd | a reminder note Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "hit braintree with hammer" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put jim on pedestal" | ||||
Floyd | You put Jim's brain on the transfer pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "hit braintree with hammer" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the magnificent Floyd | braintree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | You are in a sparse, small room with no decoration whatsoever. It Floyd | stinks of garbage, metal and oil. From here, you can go north into Floyd | the main museum hall, west into a nasty little break room, and east Floyd | down a smelly hallway. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of fat black garbage bags take up most of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, a maintenance bot squats, inactive and shut off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Service Corridor Floyd | There is nothing special about this corridor, except for the fire door Floyd | and the control panel beside it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit panel with hammer" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "violence is not the answer" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "hammer panel" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit panel" | ||||
Floyd | You wind up and smack the control panel with the hammer. The hammer Floyd | bounces off, rather to your surprise. You try a couple more times, Floyd | but you get the feeling real fast that you're not very good at this. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "well then" | |||
| jenrexrode asks, "jim?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "drat. Not that simple." | ||||
| Binder says, "this looks like a job for jimbrainy" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I guess." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | You are in a sparse, small room with no decoration whatsoever. It Floyd | stinks of garbage, metal and oil. From here, you can go north into Floyd | the main museum hall, west into a nasty little break room, and east Floyd | down a smelly hallway. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of fat black garbage bags take up most of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, a maintenance bot squats, inactive and shut off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall Floyd | Of all of the halls, this is the grandest. It even has a sweeping Floyd | staircase going up to a balcony type thing that overlooks where you're Floyd | standing. This room was created exclusively to house the magnificent Floyd | braintree, which is in the center of the room. The maintenance room Floyd | where you woke up is to the south, and an unobtrusive door with an Floyd | excessively obtrusive padlock on it is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There's a placard above the padlocked door to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a planter (in which is a magnificent braintree), a Floyd | brain tank (in which are Marlene's brain and Kevin's brain), a Floyd | transfer chair, a transfer pedestal (on which is Jim's brain), a Floyd | display note and a warning sign here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "yup" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||||
Floyd | (on Alex's brain) Floyd | That's not something you can sit down on. Floyd | Floyd | The magnificent braintree suddenly screams, "Moose-squirrels!" There Floyd | is no response. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on chair" | ||||
Floyd | With a click and a woosh, the braintree vacuums up your brain and Floyd | replaces it with Jim's brain. You feel very odd as you stand up. Floyd | Floyd | You're now a maintenance guy. You tell the maintenance robots to do Floyd | maintenance stuff. There are a lot of subroutines and routines and Floyd | things so you don't really know much of what that is. You do know that Floyd | if you hit the fire door's control panel real hard, it unlocks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | You are in a sparse, small room with no decoration whatsoever. It Floyd | stinks of garbage, metal and oil. From here, you can go north into Floyd | the main museum hall, west into a nasty little break room, and east Floyd | down a smelly hallway. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of fat black garbage bags take up most of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, a maintenance bot squats, inactive and shut off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Service Corridor Floyd | There is nothing special about this corridor, except for the fire door Floyd | and the control panel beside it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit panel" | ||||
Floyd | Drawing on long experience, you whack the control panel precisely with Floyd | the hammer. There's a muted WHAM!, like a muffled explosion, and a Floyd | gorgeous shower of sparks. You might worry about it if you hadn't Floyd | seen it happen some twenty-odd times before (though the last time, you Floyd | had to hit it with a giant chunk of topaz from over in Rocks and Floyd | Minerals, and wasn't that a caution....) Floyd | Floyd | Oh, and the door's unlocked now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "That will have to be one of my new interjections: moose-squirrels!" | |||
| DavidW says, "Now, let's get our brain back." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | You are in a sparse, small room with no decoration whatsoever. It Floyd | stinks of garbage, metal and oil. From here, you can go north into Floyd | the main museum hall, west into a nasty little break room, and east Floyd | down a smelly hallway. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of fat black garbage bags take up most of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, a maintenance bot squats, inactive and shut off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall Floyd | Of all of the halls, this is the grandest. It even has a sweeping Floyd | staircase going up to a balcony type thing that overlooks where you're Floyd | standing. This room was created exclusively to house the magnificent Floyd | braintree, which is in the center of the room. The maintenance room is Floyd | to the south, and an unobtrusive door with an excessively obtrusive Floyd | padlock on it is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There's a placard above the padlocked door to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a planter (in which is a magnificent braintree), a Floyd | brain tank (in which are Alex's brain, Marlene's brain and Kevin's Floyd | brain), a transfer chair, a transfer pedestal, a display note and a Floyd | warning sign here. Floyd | Floyd | The magnificent braintree suddenly announces, "Xylophone!" There is Floyd | no response. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "in Russian accent..." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "I wonder what happens if we make our escape with the wrong brain." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take alex" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put alex on pedestal" | ||||
Floyd | You put Alex's brain on the transfer pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to jen), "heehee" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on chair" | ||||
Floyd | With a click and a woosh, the braintree vacuums up your brain and Floyd | replaces it with Alex's brain. You feel very odd as you stand up. Floyd | Floyd | You are back to being a kind of lazy student with a penchant for Floyd | bringing your results from pharmaceutical class into other classes. Floyd | And field trips. Floyd | Floyd | The magnificent braintree suddenly warbles, "Brains!" There is no Floyd | response. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | You are in a sparse, small room with no decoration whatsoever. It Floyd | stinks of garbage, metal and oil. From here, you can go north into Floyd | the main museum hall, west into a nasty little break room, and east Floyd | down a smelly hallway. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of fat black garbage bags take up most of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, a maintenance bot squats, inactive and shut off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Service Corridor Floyd | There is nothing special about this corridor, except for the fire door Floyd | and the control panel beside it. 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), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You walk out into the warm Plutonian night. You feel exhausted; having Floyd | to solve your own problems and take responsibility for your mistakes Floyd | is really hard. You make a mental note to avoid doing so for the Floyd | forseeable future. Floyd | Floyd | You do feel like you owe yourself a bit of self-congratulation for the Floyd | work you did today, though. Usually the degree of truancy, vandalism, Floyd | and lack of respect for history that you've shown takes several Floyd | students working in tandem. Seems like there are some ways in which Floyd | you really can be an overachiever. Floyd | Floyd | Now all you have to do is figure out a way to get home... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "woo" | |||
| EmacsUser exclaims, "Yay!" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Tale says, "he he" | ||||
| DB says, "That was neat." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Three for three." | ||||
| DavidW says (to DB), "agreed" | ||||
| jenrexrode says, "yay" | ||||
| Ellison says, "well done" | ||||
| Rob says, "that was pretty good" | ||||
| DavidW says, "The quality of speedif is high with these." | ||||
| Rob says, "these are all pretty good, is what I'm thinking" | ||||
| EmacsUser agrees. | ||||
| jenrexrode says, "I need a drink or a dessert" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Indeed." | ||||
| Rob says (to jen), "run !" | ||||
| Rob says, "perhaps a fruit smoothie" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Five minute break?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Keep going, or 3 min break for coffee/water/tea?" | ||||
| Binder says, "protein slurry" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, okay. 5 it is." | ||||
| Tale says, "Sure" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Be back at 27 after." | ||||
| Doug arrives, full of fun and funk. | * Doug has joined the channel. | |||
| Rob says, "I guess we were all inspired. plus it was a good seed list from dave" | ||||
| DB says, "Okay." | ||||
| DB says, "I'm ahead of schedule in my grading so far." | ||||
| Ellison says, "I am disappointed I didn't use all of the topics. in my mind at the time, I was doing one of the early SpeedIFs in which there weren't a buttload of them." | ||||
| Tale says, "i used all, i think" | ||||
| DB says, "I used all, too." | ||||
| Miseri says, "the early speedifs had a tighter deadline. And no Inform 7." | ||||
| jenrexrode says, "ready." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "While we're waiting, is everyone on the channel? I think we're missing canadianpuzzler at least..." | ||||
| * Jacqueline has added canadianpuzzler to the channel. | ||||
| Binder says, "the irony of asking on the channel to hear from people not on the channel.." | ||||
| Ellison says, "eh, going to the coffee shop, so I will miss the next 20 minutes or so" | ||||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | Jacqueline says (to Emacs), "Thanks - I missed that one, though I'd checked earlier. huh" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Well, I think he was asking someone who had the power to add people." | ||||
| Miseri asks, "nextgame?" | ||||
| Binder says (to Jacqueline), "in retrospect it makes more sense." | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "It is indeed 27 after. Ready, Okay!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxdelusions" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxdelusions" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You've been in a funk. Friends have said you're distant ever since Floyd | Marilyn. Sometimes you think, maybe you could be happy if only... a Floyd | nice family... hmmm... hot porridge in the morning, a good memory. If Floyd | only things between you had been different. Floyd | Floyd | But, no, that's not for you. Another, more assured part of your brain Floyd | says you're having delusions again. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Marilyn... Marlene... never Marius." | |||
| Binder pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Delusions Again Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Duncan Bowsman Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110312 / Inform 7 build 6E72 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Diner Floyd | You have always enjoyed this diner before, but now it just feels Floyd | forced. Tacky attempts at some sort of art deco diner atmosphere Floyd | crowd all around you. Nothing feels right. Jim sits across the from Floyd | table from you, silent but supportive. A listless rain pours on Floyd | outside. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table (on which is a plate of chicken fingers) here. Floyd | Floyd | Jim glances carefully at you from over his plate of chicken fingers. Floyd | It reminds you briefly of the time before your futile mission to Floyd | locate something better in life. A fleeting mission you intend to Floyd | abandon, no less, but that's just like you. Jim still hasn't given up Floyd | on you. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "After grepping, I think that's everyone." | |||
| DB says, "There's a repetitive from in the room description there." | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x jim" | ||||
Floyd | His mussed hair has fallen over his eyes. Now you've probably gone Floyd | and gotten him downcast, too. From time-to-time, he glances at you Floyd | half-expectantly. Floyd | Floyd | Like a good, patient friend, he's waiting for you to talk to him. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | Kevin Masters, only you feel least of all a master at the moment, and Floyd | more like a slave to a fate... ennui... and your own self-loathing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x plate" | ||||
Floyd | Jim's (you never ordered anything today). Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Goodness." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I think I'm depressed now." | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "mope" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Talk to Jim. Tell him how much you... care. Cared. About Marilyn or whoever it was." | |||
| jenrexrode says, "brain..." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to jim" | ||||
Floyd | "I've decided," you tell Jim. "I've really made up my mind this time. Floyd | There's nothing else for it." Floyd | Floyd | "But decided what, Kev? I... I wish I could understand what you've Floyd | been going through. It's like you've been on Pluto for the past few Floyd | months. I just want to help." He sweeps his hair away briefly and Floyd | folds his hands thoughtfully, semi-pleadingly. "Is it Marilyn?" Floyd | Floyd | "Maybe they should just bury me now," you say. "We could mark it The Floyd | Tomb of the Unknown Tool." Floyd | Floyd | "One of those already exists, you know," Jim informs you, but it Floyd | sounds no less pithy to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DB), "Nice quick work-in of Pluto there." | |||
| DB says, "hehe" | ||||
| jenrexrode says, "and tool" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to jim" | ||||
Floyd | You struggle to form words decent enough to express your troubles. Floyd | "I've just been having these... explosions in the vacuum of my Floyd | braintree." Floyd | Floyd | "Explosions?" Floyd | Floyd | "Ripples... tiny, crackling shocks. An inevitable rot. Can't be Floyd | fixed." Floyd | Floyd | "It is Marilyn, isn't it? Has she... done something?" You cannot Floyd | answer. Words lapse again into silence. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "Yeah, most of the stuff I just put into conversation." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Jen), "Yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Nice double meaning of Unknown Tool." | ||||
| DB says, "Thanks." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to jim" | ||||
Floyd | You sigh. "No, it doesn't matter. I've made up my mind. Get me to Floyd | the church, Jim." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 6 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Tale says, "We should have more Speeds." | |||
| jenrexrode exclaims, "huh!" | ||||
| DavidW blinks. | Rob says, "yeah" | |||
| Binder says, "what." | ||||
| Rob says, "I liked this one" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh - that was unexpected." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Was that it?" | ||||
| DB says, "'Get me to the church, Jim' was another of the titles from the poster." | ||||
| Tale asks, "Which was the first again?" | ||||
| DB says, "Delusions Again." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So you... you're not breaking up with her, you're marrying her... or she died?" | ||||
| Tale says, "Ah." | ||||
| Rob says, "it took us longer to play it in the suite than just now" | ||||
| Tale says, "I thought they get married, yeah." | ||||
| DB says, "It's meant to be ambiguous. That's part of what I like about it." | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Perhaps we are not meant to know!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Or marrying Jim." | ||||
| Rob says, "I kind of thought it was supposed to be surprisingly about marriage the whole time" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DB), "Timing" | ||||
| Rob says (to DB), "yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Point." | ||||
| Rob says, "I noticed the calibrated ambiguity at the time" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, is that one we should play a second time to find things, or next?" | ||||
| DB says, "The typewriter and vacuum were also part of the decor." | ||||
| Rob says, "in the art deco" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We skipped most of the decor." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You've been in a funk. Friends have said you're distant ever since Floyd | Marilyn. Sometimes you think, maybe you could be happy if only... a Floyd | nice family... hmmm... hot porridge in the morning, a good memory. If Floyd | only things between you had been different. Floyd | Floyd | But, no, that's not for you. Another, more assured part of your brain Floyd | says you're having delusions again. Floyd | | ||||
| EmacsUser presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Delusions Again Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Duncan Bowsman Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110312 / Inform 7 build 6E72 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Diner Floyd | You have always enjoyed this diner before, but now it just feels Floyd | forced. Tacky attempts at some sort of art deco diner atmosphere Floyd | crowd all around you. Nothing feels right. Jim sits across the from Floyd | table from you, silent but supportive. A listless rain pours on Floyd | outside. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table (on which is a plate of chicken fingers) here. Floyd | Floyd | Jim glances carefully at you from over his plate of chicken fingers. Floyd | It reminds you briefly of the time before your futile mission to Floyd | locate something better in life. A fleeting mission you intend to Floyd | abandon, no less, but that's just like you. Jim still hasn't given up Floyd | on you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x funk" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "table" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "x fingers" | ||||
Floyd | Jim's (you never ordered anything today). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||||
Floyd | A checkered, but scratched table. The scratches momentarily entrance Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | On the table is a plate of chicken fingers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "eat chicken fingers" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the plate of chicken fingers) Floyd | "They're yours, if you want 'em," Jim mumbles. Floyd | Floyd | You sigh. Poor sod. Poor you. Jim does try. Floyd | Floyd | You chew on the tasteless, overly chewy substance. The breading feels Floyd | stale on the roof of your mouth. When you swallow, it sits Floyd | uncomfortably-- anxiously, even-- in the pit of your stomach. There Floyd | is another long silence as you masticate deliberately behind your Floyd | scowl. Floyd | Floyd | "Feeling alright?" Jim asks. Floyd | Floyd | You sneer and make a quiet scoff. You don't have the stomach for this Floyd | foul food. You set the plate back on the table. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oops, a wf there." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rain" | ||||
Floyd | A resigned pattering. Fitting, somehow. It should be a night, you Floyd | feel, wet and tragic. Floyd | Floyd | It reminds you that you've been full of "somehows," and "only ifs" Floyd | lately. Floyd | Floyd | > | Miseri says, "er, that was me. Sorry. >abandon mission" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cry" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | The mindless posters, advertisemnts of a bygone age. A 100 year old Floyd | typewriter, probably useless. A vacuum cleaner... dusty, disused, an Floyd | irony not unlike yourself. No doubt someone thinks this all looks Floyd | classy. You used to. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "heh heh foul food" | |||
| DB says, "hehe" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "get up" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Wow. Masticating deliberately behind your scowl. Too long for a band name, unfortunately." | |||
| DB says, "I had to work *some* humor in there." | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "scowl" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jim about diner" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "Well, that's about it for this one." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I like this one. It's a tight little short story." | ||||
| Rob says, "yeah I like 'masticating deliberately'" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | DB says, "Thanks, guys." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxdigging" | ||||
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.> | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxdigging" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The shaking stops after three or four tense minutes. This piece of Floyd | rock isn't going to hold together much longer. Floyd | Floyd | Digging Time! Floyd | by Rob Wheeler Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110312 / Inform v6.31 Library 6/11 S Floyd | Floyd | Pluto - Deep Mine Floyd | Twisting, crystalline passages carved out of pink ice and muddy rock Floyd | lead down deep into the planetoid core. Tremors pulsate through your Floyd | feet, up your spine, and shifting rock and newly-ground sand tumble Floyd | from overhead cracks, drifting slowly downward in the near-zero Floyd | gravity. Floyd | Floyd | Your tracking sensor pings. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "jim, he's dead" | ||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an alien digging tool Floyd | your tracking sensor Floyd | your atmos suit (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Inspired at all by the Japanese quake that happened the same weekend as PAX, Rob?" | |||
| Rob asks, "huh I dunno, maybe subliminally?" | ||||
| Tale says, "I thought more of "The Dig"" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sensor" | ||||
Floyd | Thirty meters to the artificial north is the signal emitter. It is Floyd | completely stationary, so Jim or Kevin either left it behind or are Floyd | themselves immobilized. Floyd | Floyd | Your tracking sensor pings. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "cool, I dig aliens" | |||
| Rob says, "I loved The Dig, for what that's worth" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I liked The Dig too." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I guess we go north.," | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x tool" | ||||
Floyd | This was the first artifact that you came across that let you know you Floyd | were on the right trail to find the missing dig crew. Of alien origin, Floyd | it doesn't resemble an earthbound digging tool such as a bladed Floyd | shovel. Floyd | Floyd | This looks more like a corkscrew attached to a five-pronged handle Floyd | with some kind of stabilizer gyroscope stuck on the end. I suppose Floyd | that helps you dig "down" in a near-null-gravity planetoid core, which Floyd | is where you happen to find yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x suit" | ||||
Floyd | The suit is what keeps your feet more or less on the ground, and the Floyd | air in your lungs. You have about nine hours of fresh oxygen and about Floyd | two days worth of recycled air before respiration ceases. Floyd | Floyd | Your tracking sensor pings. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm liking the speculative physics." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm not even going to try understanding it! Yay for scifi." | ||||
| Rob says, "heh :)" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "North?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we're trying to rescue Jim and Kevin. We have a space shovel." | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes, north, please" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | It's slow going to half-float, half-scrape yourself along a tunnel Floyd | that wasn't really made for someone your size. Your suit also seems to Floyd | be chugging and wheezing trying to calibrate, not sure whether the Floyd | temperature is freezing cold or becoming unbearably hot. Floyd | Floyd | Insulation protects you from the worst of this, but you can feel a Floyd | cold sweat trickling down your back. Floyd | Floyd | Abruptly, the tunnel dead ends, two meters from the signal emitter, at Floyd | a solid wall. Floyd | Floyd | Pluto - Deep Mine - Tunnel end Floyd | The mining tunnel dead ends here, two meters south of the signal Floyd | emitter, at a solid rock wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "I guess that means they're buried in a spacedrift" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||||
Floyd | The mining tunnel dead ends at a solid rock wall. Floyd | Floyd | Your tracking sensor pings. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "dig n" | ||||
Floyd | (the solid rock wall) Floyd | It crumbles as you touch it, sending debris tumbling in slow motion Floyd | down to the ground, which at least holds your weight, as negligible as Floyd | your weight is right now. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "I love when violence IS the answer" | |||
| Tale says, "yay for a score" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 1 out of a possible 10, in 7 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "have to give players reward-pellets" | |||
| DB says, "Yay, points." | ||||
| DavidW says, "nom nom" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pluto - Deep Mine - Tunnel end Floyd | The mining tunnel dead ends here, two meters south of the signal Floyd | emitter, at a solid rock wall. Floyd | Floyd | Your tracking sensor pings. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "ilac" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | As you squeeze through, you dislodge enough loose sand and dirt to Floyd | cause a small rockslide that seals the passage as soon as you pull Floyd | your legs through. Floyd | Floyd | Pluto - Deep Mine - Vent Chamber Floyd | A small chamber, round and compact like a bathysphere. Overhead, the Floyd | ceiling is riddled with vent holes in a swiss cheese pattern. Below, a Floyd | corkscrew hole winds down like a helter skelter slide, obscuring your Floyd | view of how far down it goes. A red, wet heat steams up out of it, Floyd | blurring your faceplate. Floyd | Floyd | Lying dead next to the hole is Jim Alewife. There's no sign of Kevin. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a signal emitter here. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "mmm, pellety" | |||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "x emitter" | ||||
Floyd | The blue button on the signal emitter is lit. Floyd | Floyd | Your tracking sensor pings. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Yikes." | |||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | You push the blue button. Click. Floyd | Floyd | The light goes out in the emitter. Seconds later, there's a crackle Floyd | over your commlink. "Mendoza, the emitter just stopped sending its Floyd | signal. What is your status? Did you find them?" Floyd | Floyd | "I found one of them. Jim's dead. Looks like he died waiting for Kevin Floyd | to return from exploring a coreward tunnel." Floyd | Floyd | There's a loud crackle about one second before a huge tremor nearly Floyd | splits the chamber you're standing into two pieces. The hole you Floyd | squeezed through is buried under more rocks than you'll be able to Floyd | easily push out of the way, and a gout of steam spits and hisses out Floyd | of the corkscrew hole. Floyd | Floyd | "The way out just got lost. I'm going deeper," you report. There's Floyd | only radio silence. You're on your own. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | metoikos says, "liking the realistic details" | |||
| Ellison says, "Rob is the real deal" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jim" | ||||
Floyd | You have to wipe at his faceplate to make out his features, which show Floyd | parched lips and a lolling tongue. Perhaps he died of dehydration, Floyd | waiting for someone to return who never did. Going down the hole would Floyd | probably be an extremely risky move at this point. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "also, more games should have Mendozas" | |||
| Binder says, "oh. dead alewives" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||||
| Rob says (to binder), "does alewife mean 'dead fish' to you" | ||||
| Rob asks, "?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||||
Floyd | A corkscrew hole winds down into the planetoid core. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search jim" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take jim" | ||||
Floyd | I don't suppose Jim Alewife would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wake jim" | ||||
Floyd | He's dead. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "ha ha" | |||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "search jim" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "gettin' a little star trekky" | |||
| Ellison says, "ha ha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take emitter" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Down?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "You're an astronaut, Jim, not a doctor!" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "Sure." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You put your feet over the edge of the corkscrew hole and listen to Floyd | yourself breathing heavily. Your heart thumping, you find some kind of Floyd | stupid courage somewhere in yourself, and push off, taking the ride Floyd | wherever it goes. Floyd | Floyd | The corkscrew slide seems to draw you downward with magnetic power. It Floyd | can't be gravity -- gravity should be getting less and less Floyd | accelerative the closer you go to planetoid core, but within seconds Floyd | you're twisting fast enough to become dizzy. Your hands uselessly try Floyd | to grab hold, but there's not enough friction. Or too much -- your Floyd | hands feel like they're burning through your gloves before you can Floyd | tell there's any slowing of your momentum at all. Floyd | Floyd | You feel your vision collapsing to a pinpoint, and everything is about Floyd | to go black, when suddenly everything bursts wide open and bright as Floyd | day. Floyd | Floyd | Pluto - Central Core - Brain Tree Floyd | You are tumbling and spinning in an effective zero gravity Floyd | environment, in a place big enough to fit two or three mining ships Floyd | end to end. Giant, ancient crystals grow in funguslike clusters around Floyd | the spheric volume, spiking up toward the center, looking every bit Floyd | like the inside of a geode. Floyd | Floyd | Asymmetrically, a single great fossilized tree trunk grows from the Floyd | far side of the cavernous space from you, with branches that twist and Floyd | curl and spread and go straight and turn back again -- some kind of Floyd | null gravity growth that you've never seen in an earthbound tree, Floyd | which has to contend with gravity and atmosphere and winds. Here in a Floyd | vacuum, other rules of growth seem to apply. Floyd | Floyd | While it was alive, that is. It does look fossilized. It doesn't, Floyd | however, look dead. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says (to Rob), "No, but a dead Alewife reminded me of the Dead Alewives." | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | Sitting in the center of the trunk, embedded within it, with the Floyd | fibers of the tree attached to his head so that the tree seems to be Floyd | plugged into his brain stem, is Kevin. His eyes are closed, his Floyd | expression blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x kevin" | ||||
Floyd | His eyes open. A line of silver pulsates out from his head, threading Floyd | through the tree branches, flowing through capillaries. At the ends, a Floyd | bright glow, a sense of drawing you closer. Floyd | Floyd | Within moments, you are face to face with the face in the tree. Floyd | Floyd | "This planet is dying," croaks a reedy voice. "It will break apart Floyd | soon, freeing me to enter the void. You will have to help this happen, Floyd | and then flee." Floyd | Floyd | "What do I have to do?" you say. Floyd | Floyd | "You have to dig." Floyd | Floyd | "Dig?" Floyd | Floyd | "Dig." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "#belated DB's game- in the suite, we had a nice dramatic reading, of course" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "This is well-written, as ever, Rob." | ||||
| Rob says, "thanks" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crystals" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | (the brain tree) Floyd | Digging time! You float down to the base of the tree and start Floyd | digging, at first with your hands. A minute of this and your hands Floyd | fall upon some sort of hard thing buried in the rocky soil. Floyd | Floyd | After dusting it off and shaking it, what at first felt like a metal Floyd | box cleans off to reveal an ancient typewriter. An Under-Wood, of Floyd | course. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "dang, he deviated" | |||
| DavidW asks, "hm?" | ||||
| Binder groans at Under-Wood | ||||
| Ellison says (to DavidW), "this is not a game in which you're supposed to stop and smell the space flowers" | ||||
| DavidW says, "sorry" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | The typewriter is a heavy contraption, but looks in good shape for Floyd | typing. Floyd | Floyd | A large, papery leaf breaks off the upper branches of the tree and Floyd | floats within reach of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "hee" | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "get leaf" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take leaf" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | A large, papery leaf. It's blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser exclaims, "Yay pun!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put leaf in typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | You crank the leaf into the typewriter. As soon as you touch the keys Floyd | of the typewriter, it begins to automatically clack out text. With a Floyd | crank and a zip, the paper leaf pops out into your hands, covered in Floyd | writing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | The text of the paper reads: Floyd | Floyd | "The shaking stops after three or four tense Floyd | minutes. This piece of rock isn't going to Floyd | hold together much longer..." Floyd | Floyd | A sense of disorientation and dislocation spins your head around, and Floyd | a headache like a piercing dagger cuts into your brain. As you look Floyd | up, there is an explosion of light, followed by an explosion of Floyd | darkness, as everything solid breaks apart and flies into the vacuum Floyd | of space. Floyd | Floyd | A great glowing silver tree floats in the void, seeming to suck all of Floyd | the light and heat there is into itself to glow brighter. The tree Floyd | begins to move, its branches turning into arms, its balled-up roots Floyd | turning into things like fins. You are grabbed, you are enveloped, you Floyd | are propelled in one direction and the tree in another. Floyd | Floyd | Void Floyd | The sun is a distant point of light, recognizably the nearest star, Floyd | but impossibly small and cold. You are alone. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "I think that tree used us" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | You push the blue button, click. The light flashes and then glows Floyd | steadily. As long as you don't drop it... Floyd | Floyd | You have an hour to contemplate the silence and cold and the void, and Floyd | the potential running out of oxygen, freezing to death here at the Floyd | edges of the solar system. And then, a sparkle, a glint of weak Floyd | sunlight reflecting off metal, angling off of solar panels. Floyd | Floyd | Your ship picks you up an hour later. Floyd | Floyd | The end. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** What the hell just happened *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 10 out of a possible 10, in 29 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Rob says, "yay" | |||
| metoikos says, "I like the metareference to the IF typewriter" | ||||
| Rob says, "didn't even have to inventory again to remember" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Ellison says, "oh, I had missed where we were and thought DavidW found an ending we hadn't done in the suite" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "So far I am thoroughly impressed by every one of these." | ||||
| Miseri says, "I remember being stuck for the longest time before realising I could push the button on the emitter to turn it off." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to EU), "yay" | ||||
| DavidW says, "To turn it on." | ||||
| Ellison asks (of EmacsUser), "geez, look at the clock. don't you have to be somewhere?" | ||||
| Rob says (to Miseri), "oh dear" | ||||
| Miseri says (to DavidW), "No, to turn it off. This was way back beside Jim's body." | ||||
| EmacsUser asks (of Ellison), "Huh?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Ell), "Aw. You want him gone because your game hasn't been payed yet?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh" | ||||
| Rob asks, "was this maybe... the best speed-if ever?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxhelpfulman" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A Shadow of Helpfulman Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Clara Raubertas Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110312 / Inform 7 build 6F95 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Your Office Floyd | This is the graduate student office you share with Jim and Molly. Like Floyd | pretty much every graduate student office, tiny (way too small for Floyd | three people to share), windowless, and littered with some random shit Floyd | -- a shelf of books, a typewriter, a vacuum. Floyd | Floyd | The exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Jim and Molly here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Rob), "It might well have been." | |||
| Rob asks, "who is clara?" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Jacqueline), "sure, I don't want my game to be the game that breaks the pattern!" | ||||
| jenrexrode says, "of course it is." | ||||
| Rob says, "oh wait, clara! I know who she was" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Oh. I see." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Sorry, slow on the uptake." | ||||
| Ellison says, "I remember Clara, also." | ||||
| DB says, "Hey, we should make sure these get posted on IFDB and IFWiki." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "They're on the wiki, sort of." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Not sure about ifdb yet." | ||||
| DavidW says, "They're not on ifdb yet." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I've been too busy with deleting spam." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yay typewriter again relegated to random but appropriate scenery." | ||||
| Tale says, "Speeds rarely get put on ifdb, it seems." | ||||
| Rob says, "they have to be exceptional, but maybe we did it" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Tale), "They have to get onto the IF Archive first, or somewhere people can download them from." | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||||
Floyd | Performativity in the Beta-Male Gaze; Food, Longing, and Intertextual Floyd | Meta-Narrative in Ancient Greece; Heteronormativity and You. You know, Floyd | the usual grad student fare. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "hee" | |||
| Rob guesses clara is still a grad student | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | This is Molly's. It's so old, it's not even electric. She likes to Floyd | write drafts on it instead of on her computer, which you think is Floyd | adorable. Floyd | Floyd | She mentioned once that the typewriter belonged to her Floyd | great-grandfather in Ireland, a hundred years ago or so -- he was some Floyd | sort of revolutionary poet. Super romantic, you think. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "yay violet ref" | |||
| Rob says (to floyd), "talk to molly" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jim" | ||||
Floyd | You have known Jim since he first hazed you in college, and for some Floyd | reason, you've been hanging out with him ever since -- following him Floyd | around like you're his fucking shadow -- despite the fact that he Floyd | consistently makes you feel like shit about yourself. It's not like Floyd | he's even that fun, either. Floyd | Floyd | Yet here you are, not only in the same graduate program, but sharing Floyd | an office. Which means you have to look at his stupid fucking face Floyd | every time you come here to get some work done (or, more Floyd | realistically, to pretend you're getting work done while really you're Floyd | angsting about how you haven't even started your dissertation). Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "gosh" | |||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "fuck" | ||||
Floyd | Real adventurers do not use such language. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "tch" | |||
| Rob says, "real IF narrators do" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are Kevin, graduate student extraordinaire. Floyd | Floyd | Okay, not really extraordinaire.... at being a graduate student, or at Floyd | anything else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x molly" | ||||
Floyd | Molly Malone is the most beautiful creature in the world -- red-gold Floyd | curls tumbling around her pale, freckled face; thousand-watt green Floyd | eyes; an endearingly gap-toothed smile; and sharp as a whip, too. Floyd | (She's a year ahead of you in school, but more like two or three years Floyd | ahead if you measure it in dissertation progress. Not that you've... Floyd | well, started.) Floyd | Floyd | Unfortunately for you, Jim thinks she's the most beautiful creature in Floyd | the world, too. And if there's one thing that's bugged you more than Floyd | anything else about your friendship with Jim -- such as it is -- it's Floyd | his habit of seducing the women you like before you can get out so Floyd | much as a garbled "Hello". Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "romance triangle !" | |||
| Ellison says, "wow" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vacuum" | ||||
Floyd | Why is there a vacuum in your tiny office in your department building? Floyd | Who knows. People leave all kinds of stuff in these offices, then get Floyd | re-assigned to new offices and forget about it. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, I'm getting hungry. Jim, Kevin, either of you want to go pick up Floyd | something to eat?" Molly says. Floyd | Floyd | "I --" you say faintly, but Jim cuts you off. Floyd | Floyd | "I'll go! Just call me... Helpfulman," he says. Helpfulman? How Floyd | stupid, you think, and turn to Molly to share a laugh; but you stifle Floyd | your snort when you see a genuine smile on her face. Floyd | Floyd | "That's really sweet of you, Jim! Thanks, Helpfulman!" Floyd | Floyd | Jim runs out, shit-eating grin on his face. You scowl. Helpfulman. Floyd | What a douche. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "aw" | |||
| Binder says, "> kill jim" | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "ask molly about typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | You're always tongue-tied around her, and what you want to say just Floyd | comes out a stupid-sounding blurt. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "aw man" | |||
| Tale says, "you can see the line break where his heart is breaking" | ||||
| Binder says, "maybe we can point without getting finger-tied." | ||||
| Ellison says, ">TELL MOLLY ABOUT PAIN WITHIN CHEST" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Your Office Floyd | This is the graduate student office you share with Jim and Molly. Like Floyd | pretty much every graduate student office, tiny (way too small for Floyd | three people to share), windowless, and littered with some random shit Floyd | -- a shelf of books, a typewriter, a vacuum. Floyd | Floyd | The exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Molly here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This hallway stretches out from east to west, lined with offices; but Floyd | the only one of interest to you is your own office, to the south. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is an exit to the courtyard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Miseri says (to Floyd), "Tell Molly about pain within chest" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "aw" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The other students" offices aren't important to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | A round courtyard, paved with large, flat flagstones. It's suprisingly Floyd | peaceful here; at this hour, it's lit by starlight, moonlight, and Floyd | what looks like the remains of an illegal campfire set by some Floyd | undergrads from the dorms to the north. Floyd | Floyd | There is a fountain in the center of the courtyard. Floyd | Floyd | One of the flagstones looks loose; maybe even moveable. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Entrance to batcave?" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x campfire" | ||||
Floyd | Still-glowing embers in a depression in the flagstones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get stone" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Miseri says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | To get into the dorm you need an undergrad escort, and you prefer not Floyd | to talk to them; by comparison they make you feel old, ugly, hopeless. Floyd | Floyd | Even worse, some of them are your students, and they have things to Floyd | say to you like "Kevin, why haven't you graded my paper yet?" or "Hey, Floyd | dude, how come I got an A- on this paper? I thought it was good?" or Floyd | "Carl" -- they don't always remember your name -- "Carl, I need an Floyd | extension on my paper because I was up all night making out with my Floyd | boyfriend and didn't write it yet" or "Hey, you, what's your name, Floyd | aren't you my TA? Do you know when our paper is due?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move flagstone" | ||||
Floyd | (the loose flagstone) Floyd | You reveal a dark passage leading downward... a flourescent glow comes Floyd | from below. Floyd | Floyd | Alright! Now things are looking up. Er, down. You crack yourself up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "hey, it's the famous fountain-in-the-courtyard from the IF collective conscious" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tomb of the Unknown Tool Floyd | This is a tiny, narrow, ill-fitting space, roughly coffin shaped. The Floyd | walls are covered by decades of overlaid graffiti; the room is lit Floyd | (though poorly) by the flourescent glow of some of the graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | The only way out is back up. Floyd | Floyd | There is a length of string here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ha ha. I was going to say, hey, that's a nice courtyard (the illegal campfire was a nice touch)" | |||
| Rob says (to floyd), "x graffiti" | ||||
Floyd | It reads "Tomb of the Unknown Tool". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "read graffiti" | ||||
Floyd | It reads "Tomb of the Unknown Tool". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x string" | ||||
Floyd | The length of string is tied to nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take string" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "hang myself" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob asks, "what do you think this is, rameses?" | |||
| EmacsUser exclaims (at Tale), "No!" | ||||
| Rob says, "oh dear, clara tried to do a mini-rope in a speed-if, tricky business" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We are the shadow of Helpfulman." | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | A round courtyard, paved with large, flat flagstones. It's suprisingly Floyd | peaceful here; at this hour, it's lit by starlight, moonlight, and Floyd | what looks like the remains of an illegal campfire set by some Floyd | undergrads from the dorms to the north. Floyd | Floyd | There is a fountain in the center of the courtyard. Floyd | Floyd | A passage leads downward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x fountain" | ||||
Floyd | A round, concrete fountain, full of water; more water spews from the Floyd | mouth of a grotesque concrete realization of the university mascot. Floyd | Super tacky. Floyd | Floyd | In the fountain is an alewife. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "x string" | ||||
Floyd | The length of string is tied to nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get alewife" | ||||
Floyd | You try to grab it with your hands, but it flops and flips away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x alewife" | ||||
Floyd | A long, shiny fish, covered in silver scales. Floyd | Floyd | You don't know how you know it's called an alewife, actually. You're Floyd | no botanist. Or much of anything, really. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "fish for alewife" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie string to alewife" | ||||
Floyd | You can't realistically tie anything to the alewife. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "ha ha,no botanist" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | A round courtyard, paved with large, flat flagstones. It's suprisingly Floyd | peaceful here; at this hour, it's lit by starlight, moonlight, and Floyd | what looks like the remains of an illegal campfire set by some Floyd | undergrads from the dorms to the north. Floyd | Floyd | There is a fountain in the center of the courtyard. Floyd | Floyd | A passage leads downward. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I suppose we need a net if we want to catch it? Or a hook?" | |||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "x fountain" | ||||
Floyd | A round, concrete fountain, full of water; more water spews from the Floyd | mouth of a grotesque concrete realization of the university mascot. Floyd | Super tacky. Floyd | Floyd | In the fountain is an alewife. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "we need to make a fishing rod,i guess" | |||
| DavidW says, "The string might be... yeah." | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "make net" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Miseri says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a length of string (with both ends free) Floyd | a pencil Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser exclaims, "Oho!" | |||
| jenrexrode says, "ooh a rod" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I've lost count of how many fishing poles I've had to assemble in IF." | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "tie string to pencil" | ||||
Floyd | You knot the length of string onto the pencil. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "need hook" | |||
| Miseri says, "we'd need bait." | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "fish" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This hallway stretches out from east to west, lined with offices; but Floyd | the only one of interest to you is your own office, to the south. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is an exit to the courtyard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Miseri says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your Office Floyd | This is the graduate student office you share with Jim and Molly. Like Floyd | pretty much every graduate student office, tiny (way too small for Floyd | three people to share), windowless, and littered with some random shit Floyd | -- a shelf of books, a typewriter, a vacuum. Floyd | Floyd | The exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Molly here. Floyd | Floyd | Jim rushes back in, holding a styrofoam container of gross-looking Floyd | chicken fingers. "Hey, Molly!" he says breathlessly. "I got you some Floyd | dinner!" Floyd | Floyd | Molly looks up. "Oh, Jim, that's really nice of you! Um, but I should Floyd | have said, I'm allergic to chicken. I can't eat that." Floyd | Floyd | You're not pleased with yourself for the smug smile of satisfaction Floyd | that creeps onto your face as you see Jim turn suddenly glum. But you Floyd | are pleased. The douche had it coming. Helpfulman. Floyd | Floyd | "Um, I'll get you something else!" he says, rushing away, and dropping Floyd | one of the chicken fingers to the ground as he goes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x offices" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "get chicken finger" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "tie chicken finger to string" | ||||
Floyd | You knot the length of string onto the chicken finger. Floyd | Floyd | > | metoikos says, "bait" | |||
| jenrexrode says, "yeah" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Are we gonna serve roast alewife?" | ||||
| metoikos says, "see, everytime people say this I just think of the T stop" | ||||
| jenrexrode says, "oh yeah , fire" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This hallway stretches out from east to west, lined with offices; but Floyd | the only one of interest to you is your own office, to the south. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is an exit to the courtyard. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "Sounds like a plan." | |||
| metoikos says, "and that would taste really gritty" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | A round courtyard, paved with large, flat flagstones. It's suprisingly Floyd | peaceful here; at this hour, it's lit by starlight, moonlight, and Floyd | what looks like the remains of an illegal campfire set by some Floyd | undergrads from the dorms to the north. Floyd | Floyd | There is a fountain in the center of the courtyard. Floyd | Floyd | A passage leads downward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a chicken finger Floyd | a length of string (attached to the chicken finger and the pencil) Floyd | a pencil Floyd | Floyd | > | Miseri says, "OH! The seagull wife/bartender from Scurvy, first game today ... she's the Ale Wife!" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "put finger in fountain" | ||||
Floyd | You put the chicken finger into the fountain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Miseri says, "(took me this long.)" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get finger" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fish" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take alewife" | ||||
Floyd | You try to grab it with your hands, but it flops and flips away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "throw rod" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x rod" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x penicl" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cast" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x pencil" | ||||
Floyd | A #2 pencil, suitable for taking standardized tests. Fortunately you Floyd | finished your last one of those with the GRE. Thank God that's over. Floyd | Floyd | The pencil is currently tied to the chicken finger and the length of Floyd | string. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| canadianpuzzler says (to floyd), "catch alewife" | ||||
Floyd | You try to grab it with your hands, but it flops and flips away. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "oh, you guys did Scurvy already? dang my tardiness" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take alewife with finger" | ||||
Floyd | You dangle the finger over the fish with the pencil. Closer... Floyd | closer... Floyd | Floyd | The fish bites! You pull it up gently, and detach it from its bait. It Floyd | flops in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | You caught a fish! You, Kevin, caught your own fish. Floyd | Floyd | Man, this is great. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "kill fish" | ||||
Floyd | You smash the fish against the flagstones until it stops wriggling. Floyd | Floyd | Take that, fish! And that! And that! Floyd | Floyd | You realize that now you're beating a dead fish. Nice going, Kevin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cook fish" | ||||
Floyd | You hold the dead fish over the glowing embers, and soon it gives off Floyd | a delicious roasted aroma. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This hallway stretches out from east to west, lined with offices; but Floyd | the only one of interest to you is your own office, to the south. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is an exit to the courtyard. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your Office Floyd | This is the graduate student office you share with Jim and Molly. Like Floyd | pretty much every graduate student office, tiny (way too small for Floyd | three people to share), windowless, and littered with some random shit Floyd | -- a shelf of books, a typewriter, a vacuum. Floyd | Floyd | The exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Molly here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give fish to molly" | ||||
Floyd | Molly takes the cooked fish from you, and looks at you. Floyd | Floyd | "Kevin, this is so sweet! I love fish!" She gives you a beautiful Floyd | gap-toothed smile; then eats the fish, nibbling daintily with her Floyd | wonderful mouth. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly you feel courage rushing into you. "Molly... would you like Floyd | to get dinner with me sometime?" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, honey..." Molly fixes her green eyes on you. "I'm seeing someone. Floyd | I thought you knew!" Floyd | Floyd | For a moment you think that your heart is ready to break into a Floyd | million little pieces. But then, surprisingly, it doesn't. You Floyd | swallow, and smile at Molly. "Okay! That's fine. I just thought I'd Floyd | ask." Floyd | Floyd | "I hope you enjoyed the fish!" You smile as you walk out the door. Floyd | Floyd | You caught your own fish. You cooked it. You asked Molly out. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This hallway stretches out from east to west, lined with offices; but Floyd | the only one of interest to you is your own office, to the south. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is an exit to the courtyard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Miseri says (to Floyd), "Tell Molly about pain within chest" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "you really shouldn't cook a whole fish" | |||
| Miseri asks (of Tale), "why not?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Tale), "I'm sure somewhere, guts and all, it's a (maybe slightly poisonous) delicacy." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Why did we retreat?" | ||||
| Miseri says, "it was the Dignified Thing To Do." | ||||
| metoikos says, "hee" | ||||
| Miseri says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | A round courtyard, paved with large, flat flagstones. It's suprisingly Floyd | peaceful here; at this hour, it's lit by starlight, moonlight, and Floyd | what looks like the remains of an illegal campfire set by some Floyd | undergrads from the dorms to the north. Floyd | Floyd | There is a fountain in the center of the courtyard. Floyd | Floyd | A passage leads downward. Floyd | Floyd | As you walk out into the courtyard, you look up at the sky. Bright, Floyd | full moon; constellations of stars; planets. And things like Pluto, Floyd | that aren't really planets -- more like shadows of planets. Floyd | Floyd | Pluto was always your favorite, anyway. The underdog planet. Floyd | Floyd | When you get home, you're going to start writing your dissertation. Floyd | You have a feeling you're going to have plenty of ideas tonight. Floyd | Floyd | And tomorrow, you'll talk to that cute girl in your theory seminar. Floyd | And if she's taken? No big deal. There are other fish. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do we find dessert now?" | |||
| Tale says (to miseri), "yeah,guts and stuff" | ||||
| metoikos says, "I guess "gut fish" would be less romantic" | ||||
| Ellison says, "aw, the underdog planet. very nice." | ||||
| Tale says, "aww,this is nice" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Awwww." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Aw. Nice subtle jab at Pluto there in the end text." | ||||
| EmacsUser claps. | ||||
| jenrexrode says, "yay" | ||||
| canadianpuzzler says, "heh I wonder what would have happened if we tried to re-enter the office at the end.\" | ||||
| Ellison says, "the PC is no astronomer" | ||||
| Tale says, "no i feel bad about making a game about killing stuff and blowing stuff up" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of cp), "Want to undo the end and try that?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to canadianp), "I imagine we'd stop ourselves." | ||||
| metoikos exclaims, "yes yes!" | ||||
| Miseri says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Hallway Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | metoikos says, "as in let's try again" | |||
| Miseri says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | That was a very dignified exit, for you. You're not going to go back Floyd | in there now and ruin it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says (to Tale), "But your game was fun." | |||
| Miseri says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | A round courtyard, paved with large, flat flagstones. It's suprisingly Floyd | peaceful here; at this hour, it's lit by starlight, moonlight, and Floyd | what looks like the remains of an illegal campfire set by some Floyd | undergrads from the dorms to the north. Floyd | Floyd | There is a fountain in the center of the courtyard. Floyd | Floyd | A passage leads downward. Floyd | Floyd | As you walk out into the courtyard, you look up at the sky. Bright, Floyd | full moon; constellations of stars; planets. And things like Pluto, Floyd | that aren't really planets -- more like shadows of planets. Floyd | Floyd | Pluto was always your favorite, anyway. The underdog planet. Floyd | Floyd | When you get home, you're going to start writing your dissertation. Floyd | You have a feeling you're going to have plenty of ideas tonight. Floyd | Floyd | And tomorrow, you'll talk to that cute girl in your theory seminar. Floyd | And if she's taken? No big deal. There are other fish. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ha ha dignified exit" | |||
| canadianpuzzler says, "So now we know, no second ending." | ||||
| Tale says (to db), "thanks" | ||||
| Miseri asks, "what's next?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Merk" | ||||
| Tale asks, "how many games are left?" | ||||
| Miseri says, "Hm, I have 20 minutes...." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxmerk" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, guzzletuff!" exclaims Merk. "Why can't they make these like they Floyd | used to? This is the fourth keyboard I've broken this week!" Floyd | Floyd | He sweeps the shattered bits of the plastic keyboard into the spacebin Floyd | and sits down to write a letter. Floyd | Floyd | MEANWHILE, ON EARTH... Floyd | Floyd | Merk Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Jesse McGrew and Kate Matthews Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110312 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Apartment Floyd | This is where you live with your buddy Jim. His stuff adorns every Floyd | surface of the room. The front door leads out to the north. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is an envelope (closed). Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Three games. Merk, The Right Tool, and Vault of Hugo II: Electric Boogaloo." | |||
| Ellison says, "let's do Miseri's game. it's a great game to play when there is a time limit hanging over your head!" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh, you mean do Mis' game before he has to leave?" | ||||
| Doug asks, "wait, this wasn't a ZILF game?" | ||||
| Tale says, "yeah, let's play his' as he's here" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Jacqueline), "that's what I was thinking" | ||||
| Miseri says, "aw, thanks." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay - which is it? righttool or vohii" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | Miseri says, "Right Tool" | |||
| Ellison says (to Doug), "lightning doesn't always strike twice, I guess" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxrighttool" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Tool has been buried. The monument has been erected. It's taken Floyd | a whole lot of legal back-and-forth (for some inexplicable reason, the Floyd | City couldn't seem to understand why the People would want to honour Floyd | an ancient tool) but here you are, the day before the great Unveiling Floyd | of the Tomb of the ... Floyd | Floyd | Uh. Floyd | Floyd | Thing is, it's taken so long to get approval and to work out the Floyd | contracts and so on and so forth, that nobody can remember what the Floyd | ancient tool actually was. Floyd | Floyd | Could it have been a wrench? Floyd | Floyd | The Right Tool Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Christopher Huang Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110312 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Beside The Tomb Floyd | You are standing on the top of the hill of the Festeron graveyard, Floyd | beside the newly-made marble tomb. The gates are back to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The branches of a massive, dead tree stretch overhead. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Kevin and Jim here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x tomb" | ||||
Floyd | It's large and grandiose and made of pristine white marble, easily Floyd | visible from all corners of the graveyard. A marble tablet is Floyd | prominently displayed on the side of the tomb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | It looks like a generic Spooky Graveyard Tree, but something tells you Floyd | it isn't, not quite. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Festeron, eh?" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "push tree" | ||||
Floyd | That would be less than courteous. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Heh - I hung out with you so much at PAX, Chris, that I can hear you reading this to me in my head." | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "tree,hi" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "tree, hi" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | Miseri says, "heehee" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Kevin and Jim are there and YOU TALK TO A TREE?" | ||||
| inky says, "talk to the tree, buddy" | ||||
| Rob says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Tale says, "the tree is a person, mr. smartypants" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "take tree" | ||||
Floyd | You're not strong enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | metoikos says, "Man, I can't say anything having been a tester, but I am holding back several jokes" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tomb" | ||||
Floyd | It's large and grandiose and made of pristine white marble, easily Floyd | visible from all corners of the graveyard. A marble tablet is Floyd | prominently displayed on the side of the tomb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tablet" | ||||
Floyd | It has been left blank, but not intentionally so. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "wow, speed-if with testers" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jim" | ||||
Floyd | Jim is one of the gravediggers attached to the Festeron graveyard. Floyd | He's a large, bald fellow with a felt cap, a giant moustache, glasses Floyd | and, apparently, a highly eclectic personal work history. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask tree about tablet" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask jim about tablet" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jim about tool" | ||||
Floyd | "It could be a vacuum cleaner, for all we know." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Mis), "Oh, by the way, that random card playing dude, Stewart? He got in touch with me after PAX. Found me with the search phrase 'Interactive Fiction Alaska PAX'" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x Kevin" | ||||
Floyd | This is Kevin, one of the gravediggers. He's kind of hyper, with a Floyd | pronounced fondness for blowing things up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x kevin" | ||||
Floyd | This is Kevin, one of the gravediggers. He's kind of hyper, with a Floyd | pronounced fondness for blowing things up. Floyd | Floyd | > | * Stokely has joined the channel. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask kevin about tool" | ||||
Floyd | "I bet it's a mead-dispenser. You know, you plug it into the side of Floyd | a beehive and turn it and it gives you mead." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Stokely arrives, full of fun and funk. | Atrilla asks, "Back. How many have you guys played so far?" | |||
| Rob says, "lots" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Six" | ||||
| Miseri asks (of Jacqueline), "...and he's Stokely?" | ||||
| metoikos asks, "maybe four?" | ||||
| Rob has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Beside The Tomb Floyd | You are standing on the top of the hill of the Festeron graveyard, Floyd | beside the newly-made marble tomb. The gates are back to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The branches of a massive, dead tree stretch overhead. | EmacsUser says, "Nope, that's Kate." | |||
Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Kevin and Jim here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Doug says, "maybe it's a jackson-mead-dispenser" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Graveyard Gates Floyd | The gates of the graveyard are appropriately spooky and twisted. It Floyd | takes a lot of care and money to keep them that way. A rocky path Floyd | winds back up the hill to the north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Morty here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x morty" | ||||
Floyd | Morty, the Head Undertaker. Or something. You've met him at various Floyd | graveyards and hospitals, but it's never entirely clear what he does. Floyd | He's a tall, pale man dressed all in black. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "ok, ivemet stokely" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Mis), "No, but I wouldn't be shocked if he turns up here one of these days. We had a nice back-n-forth via e-mail about IF this week." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask morty about tool" | ||||
Floyd | Morty smiles enigmatically, but says nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Miseri says, "cool" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask morty about tree" | ||||
Floyd | Morty smiles enigmatically, but says nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask morty about tomb" | ||||
Floyd | Morty smiles enigmatically, but says nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask morty about tree" | ||||
Floyd | Morty smiles enigmatically, but says nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "He wrote me because he couldn't remember the name of the card game we'd played and he wanted a copy." | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask morty about tmorty" | ||||
Floyd | Morty smiles enigmatically, but says nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask morty about morty" | ||||
Floyd | Morty smiles enigmatically, but says nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit morty" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Beside The Tomb Floyd | The branches of a massive, dead tree stretch overhead. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Kevin and Jim here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take branch" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask kevin about jim" | ||||
Floyd | "Man, that guy knows everything!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "this is how tale and I flailed around at the time, and it's happening all over again" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask kevin about tree" | ||||
Floyd | "Jim's been telling me about it. Did you know that it only eats meat? Floyd | Is that creepy or what? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask kevin about morty" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't know who he is, but he creeps me out. Maybe you should ask Floyd | Jim." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask jim about morty" | ||||
Floyd | "Oh, him. That's really Pluto, lord of the Underworld. Not a myth. Floyd | Show him this, and you'll see." Jim pulls a pomegranate out of a Floyd | pocket and tosses it to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask jim about tree" | ||||
Floyd | Jim nods to the tree stretching overhead. "Yeah, that's a braintree. Floyd | They plant them in graveyards for the zombie uprisings. They're Floyd | supposedly carnivorous, and give you knowledge in exchange for food. Floyd | But that's just a myth." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | It's a red "apple grenade" (well, that's what a pomegranate is in Floyd | French) from Sargent Farms. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Or *is* it? *dun dun dun*" | |||
| Rob says, "very similiar to the braintree that ate protein slurry in the other game" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "give pomegranate to tree" | ||||
Floyd | The tree reacts very shrubbily, which is to say that it does nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "ha ha" | |||
| DavidW says, "Pom is for Morty" | ||||
| Tale asks, "was tthat a granate -> granade joke?" | ||||
| Rob says, "'I'm just going to sit here and rustle' tom said shrubbily" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Graveyard Gates Floyd | You can see Morty here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says (to tale), "oui" | |||
| Tale says (to rob), "yay" | ||||
| Ellison says, "this was also where I was hitting a worrying-about-the-commute-after-a-long-day wall and went silent and wasn't very helpful, which I am recreating now for the sake of properly simulating things" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show pomegranate to morty" | ||||
Floyd | Morty's face undergoes a dramatic change when he sees the pomegranate. Floyd | "Ah," he says, in a voice like arsenic-laced chocolate, "I see you've Floyd | been speaking to Jim." Pluto/Morty scowls impressively and disappears Floyd | in a cloud of sulphur. A moment later, you hear the ominous clucking Floyd | of a zombie chicken pecking around where Morty/Pluto used to be. Floyd | Floyd | > | Atrilla says, "Give Jim to tree? :)" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chicken" | ||||
Floyd | It's a zombie chicken! Hide your grains! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get chicken" | ||||
Floyd | Eeagh, no. Floyd | Floyd | > | vaporware says, "'It's been a long day of cutting taxes and starting wars. I'm bushed!' George said shrubbily." | |||
| DavidW says, "graaaaains" | ||||
| Ellison says, "hee" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "kill chicken" | ||||
Floyd | Yes, but how? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a pomegranate Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give pomegranate to chicken" | ||||
Floyd | Zombie Chicken doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "throw pomegranate at chicken's head" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "throw pomegranate at chicken" | ||||
Floyd | You lack the nerve when it comes to the crucial moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "it might follow us." | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Beside The Tomb Floyd | The branches of a massive, dead tree stretch overhead. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Kevin and Jim here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh dear, yeah. Graaaains is a great pun." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jim about chicken" | ||||
Floyd | "That's a myth, that is." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jim about zombie" | ||||
Floyd | "I think a careful application of sunflowers and other plants would be Floyd | quite effective at keeping them away." Floyd | Floyd | > | canadianpuzzler says, ">detonate pomegranate" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jim about sunflowers" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask kevin about chicken" | ||||
Floyd | "Just blow "em up with some C4, man!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask kevin about c4" | ||||
Floyd | "C4 makes everything better." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask kevin about sunflowers" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask kevin for c4" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | It's a red "apple grenade" (well, that's what a pomegranate is in Floyd | French) from Sargent Farms. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "eat pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | Picking those ruby-red seeds out of the pomegranate husk would take Floyd | forever, and mess up your clothes something awful. No. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "if only we could lead it to that vacuum chamber" | |||
| Ellison says, "hee" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Rob), "My thoughts exactly." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit kevin with pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit Kevin. Floyd | Floyd | > | canadianpuzzler says, "I guess you'd have to pull the pin first." | |||
| Miseri says, "I bought a pomegranate once, just to try. Eating it was a royal pain." | ||||
| Tale says, "ha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jim about c4" | ||||
Floyd | Jim smiles enigmatically, but says nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pin" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "yeah I was thinking pin-pulling myself" | |||
| DavidW says (to Miseri), "oh, but they're fun." | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x stem" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Atrilla asks, "Give grenade to kevin for im to blow the chiken up?" | |||
| Tale says, "i like them.there is a very mediative thing about eating them" | ||||
| Rob says, "and the seeds are pretty jewels" | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "search pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says (to Miseri), "It's a lot easier if you make a few incisions and then peel under water." | |||
| canadianpuzzler asks, "can the tree be climbed?" | ||||
| Atrilla says, "*him" | ||||
| Ellison says, "the tree cannot be climbed" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We tried climbing." | ||||
| Miseri says, "whoa, there's a response that I wasn't expecting. (for asking Jim about C4). I don't know how it got there." | ||||
| DavidW says, "We need to feed the chicken to the tree." | ||||
| Rob says, "ok" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Graveyard Gates Floyd | A zombie chicken pecks about mindlessly, questing for graiiins. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "open pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a pomegranate Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fingers" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "show pomegranate to chicken" | ||||
Floyd | Bok. Bok. Bok. Graiiins. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "wave pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | You look ridiculous waving the pomegranate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Beside The Tomb Floyd | The branches of a massive, dead tree stretch overhead. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Kevin and Jim here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | It looks like a generic Spooky Graveyard Tree, but something tells you Floyd | it isn't, not quite. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "it doesn't follow us" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Can we throw the pomegranate at the chicken?" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "> GIVE?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'd try it *but* we keep Mooooving." | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "crush pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Graveyard Gates Floyd | A zombie chicken pecks about mindlessly, questing for graiiins. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Try away." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | Atrilla says, "If we lack the nerve to blow the chicken up, probably kevin doesn't." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), ";" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Graveyard Gates Floyd | The gates of the graveyard are appropriately spooky and twisted. It Floyd | takes a lot of care and money to keep them that way. A rocky path Floyd | winds back up the hill to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A zombie chicken pecks about mindlessly, questing for graiiins. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a pomegranate here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pom" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "i thought we could get the red things out" | |||
| Rob says, "boo short synonym" | ||||
| Miseri says (to Floyd), "x fruit" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | It's a red "apple grenade" (well, that's what a pomegranate is in Floyd | French) from Sargent Farms. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plants" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "peel pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | metoikos says, "Miseri I'm thinking about the conversation we had in the tequila bar about how to spell pomegranate" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | Picking those ruby-red seeds out of the pomegranate husk would take Floyd | forever, and mess up your clothes something awful. No. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "feed pomegranate to chicken" | ||||
Floyd | Zombie Chicken doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm." | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get seeds" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Miseri asks, "oh?" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "plant pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Can we find grains? Or plants?" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | metoikos says, "maybe you forgot with all the tequila ( :" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "appreciate pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "maybe just wait a couple turns while it is dropped? maybe there's an unclued daemon of some sort?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Are there more than two rooms?" | ||||
| canadianpuzzler says (to floyd), "take chicken" | ||||
Floyd | Eeagh, no. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says (to genericgeekgirl), "Haha." | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gates" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x gates" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||||
Floyd | (the pomegranate) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | metoikos asks, "there's just the hill and the gate, that I recall--Miseri?" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Miseri says, "there are more conversation topics. Not many, but even so." | |||
| Rob says, "what clue are we missing here" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Beside The Tomb Floyd | The branches of a massive, dead tree stretch overhead. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Kevin and Jim here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Miseri says (to metoikos), "right." | |||
| metoikos says, "graiiiins." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | The Right Tool is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives long Floyd | descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask Jim about tool" | ||||
Floyd | "It could be a vacuum cleaner, for all we know." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale asks, "jim about pomegranate" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jim about grains" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| canadianpuzzler says (to floyd), "ask kevin about chicken" | ||||
Floyd | "Just blow "em up with some C4, man!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask jim about pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jim about c4" | ||||
Floyd | Jim smiles enigmatically, but says nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "let us show favor to Kevin or Jim so the other kills him out of jealousy, and then we can feed the corpse to whatever" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask jim about sunflower" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | metoikos says, "suggestion - Tale said" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Graveyard Gates Floyd | The gates of the graveyard are appropriately spooky and twisted. It Floyd | takes a lot of care and money to keep them that way. A rocky path Floyd | winds back up the hill to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A zombie chicken pecks about mindlessly, questing for graiiins. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a pomegranate here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Beside The Tomb Floyd | You are standing on the top of the hill of the Festeron graveyard, Floyd | beside the newly-made marble tomb. The gates are back to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The branches of a massive, dead tree stretch overhead. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Kevin and Jim here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "enter tomb" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask kevin about grains" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | It looks like a generic Spooky Graveyard Tree, but something tells you Floyd | it isn't, not quite. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| canadianpuzzler says (to floyd), "ask kevin about tomb" | ||||
Floyd | "Your guess is as good as mine, man." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get branches" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "kill jim" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | metoikos says, "ask jim pomegranate" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Tale did that." | ||||
| Rob says, "jim seems not to have anything to say about pomegranate" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "give pomegranate to jim" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser | There is no reply. | |||
| Rob says, "unless it's a bug that he has no response" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask jim about pomegranite" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | metoikos says, "weird. my memory must be going" | |||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "ask jim about kevin" | ||||
Floyd | "I've worked with better," Jim mumbles. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "maybe he can't spell" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "s then get pomegranate then n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Graveyard Gates Floyd | The gates of the graveyard are appropriately spooky and twisted. It Floyd | takes a lot of care and money to keep them that way. A rocky path Floyd | winds back up the hill to the north. | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "ask kevin about jim" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | A zombie chicken pecks about mindlessly, questing for graiiins. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a pomegranate here. Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Beside The Tomb Floyd | You are standing on the top of the hill of the Festeron graveyard, Floyd | beside the newly-made marble tomb. The gates are back to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The branches of a massive, dead tree stretch overhead. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Kevin and Jim here. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | "Man, that guy knows everything!" Floyd | Floyd | > | metoikos says, "maybe it was kevin" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask jim about chicken" | ||||
Floyd | "That's a myth, that is." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "give pomegranate to jim" | ||||
Floyd | Jim doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask jim about pluto" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "give pomegranate to kevin" | ||||
Floyd | Kevin doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "ask kevin about fruit" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I really don't like pomegranates. Maga loves them. I can't even stand the smell of them for some reason. So I also hate it when maga *eats* pomegranates." | |||
| Miseri says (to Floyd), "ask jamie about mythbusters" | ||||
Floyd | There is no sensible reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a pomegranate Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale asks, "So Maga smells means "of pomegranates" ?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Weirder still - I used to like them when I was younger." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Tale), "haha YES" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "shake tree" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Beside The Tomb Floyd | You are standing on the top of the hill of the Festeron graveyard, Floyd | beside the newly-made marble tomb. The gates are back to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The branches of a massive, dead tree stretch overhead. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Kevin and Jim here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | * Doug has left the channel. | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask kevin about pluto" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tomb" | ||||
Floyd | It's large and grandiose and made of pristine white marble, easily Floyd | visible from all corners of the graveyard. A marble tablet is Floyd | prominently displayed on the side of the tomb. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "I'm taxed by this session of random guessing" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tablet" | ||||
Floyd | It has been left blank, but not intentionally so. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flowers" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask jim about pluto" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "ask Kevin about pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plants" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask jim about jim" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "maybe someone should give us a hint" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seeds" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Miseri says, "someone asked the right question earlier, but of the wrong person." | |||
| Rob says, "yeah lke the author" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask kevin about jim" | ||||
Floyd | "Man, that guy knows everything!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask kevin about chicken" | ||||
Floyd | "Just blow "em up with some C4, man!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask kevin about pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask jim about pomegranate" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask jim about chicken" | ||||
Floyd | "That's a myth, that is." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask kevin about c4" | ||||
Floyd | "C4 makes everything better." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask jim about c4" | ||||
Floyd | Jim smiles enigmatically, but says nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask kevin about myth" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "blow up" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask jim about me" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | metoikos says, "did we take the C4? my client is laggy" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a pomegranate Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "what c4" | |||
| DavidW says, "We've not seen any c4." | ||||
| Ellison says, "we have not found c4 yet" | ||||
| Tale says, "which c4" | ||||
| Rob says, "I've seen no actual c4" | ||||
| metoikos says, "there's explosives on the tomb, or I thought there were" | ||||
| Rob says, "we are desperate for c4" | ||||
| Rob asks, "on the tomb?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Beside The Tomb Floyd | You are standing on the top of the hill of the Festeron graveyard, Floyd | beside the newly-made marble tomb. The gates are back to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The branches of a massive, dead tree stretch overhead. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Kevin and Jim here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x tomb" | ||||
Floyd | It's large and grandiose and made of pristine white marble, easily Floyd | visible from all corners of the graveyard. A marble tablet is Floyd | prominently displayed on the side of the tomb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask jim about tomb" | ||||
Floyd | "You know, this would all be easier if we could just get that tomb out Floyd | of the way and dig the tool up." Floyd | Floyd | Kevin, listening in, suddenly snaps his fingers. "That's it! We'll Floyd | just get rid of the tomb! We can blow it up with this huge pile of C4 Floyd | that I just happen to be carrying around with me!" And sure enough, a Floyd | moment later, the pair of them are packing explosives into and onto Floyd | and around the tomb (Which, I might remind you, took a hundred years Floyd | just to get approved) in order to blow it into oblivion. Floyd | Floyd | This seems like a rather bad idea, now you think about it. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "bwuh" | |||
| Rob says, "dang" | ||||
| metoikos asks, "have you asked kevin and jim each about the tomb?" | ||||
| metoikos says, "and have you asked each about the tool" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take c4" | ||||
Floyd | You pick a peck of C4 while no-one is looking. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "the tool I think so yeah" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Graveyard Gates Floyd | The gates of the graveyard are appropriately spooky and twisted. It Floyd | takes a lot of care and money to keep them that way. A rocky path Floyd | winds back up the hill to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A zombie chicken pecks about mindlessly, questing for graiiins. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw c4 at chicken" | ||||
Floyd | You lack the nerve when it comes to the crucial moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | metoikos says, "bingo" | |||
| Tale says, "ha h" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give c4 to chicken" | ||||
Floyd | You toss the bit of C4 over to the zombie chicken, which begins Floyd | pecking away at it with the mindless determination of zombified Floyd | poultry. "Bok. Bok. Bok -" Floyd | Floyd | BOOM. Floyd | Floyd | A minute later, a few C4-toasted chicken fingers clatter down onto the Floyd | ground before you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take fingers" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Beside The Tomb Floyd | You are standing on the top of the hill of the Festeron graveyard, Floyd | beside the newly-made marble tomb. The gates are back to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A truly massive collection of explosives is piled up here, bits of it Floyd | being artfully arranged on and around the tomb. Floyd | Floyd | The branches of a massive, dead tree stretch overhead. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Kevin and Jim here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give fingers to tree" | ||||
Floyd | Not quite knowing how this works, you lay the chicken fingers on the Floyd | ground at the roots of the tree. A moment later, roots snake out of Floyd | the ground and drag the chicken fingers (the horror! the horror!) Floyd | under the ground. The branches overhead wave spookily and lean in Floyd | towards you. Floyd | Floyd | "A typewriter. The unknown tool is a typewriter." Floyd | Floyd | You run back around the tomb to where Jim and Kevin are just about to Floyd | push the button on the detonator. "A typewriter!" you shout, "the Floyd | unknown tool is a 100-year-old typewriter!" Floyd | Floyd | And that's that. Kevin's a bit disappointed at not having been able Floyd | to make something go BOOM, but the tomb is saved, and the unknown tool Floyd | is now known. Tomorrow, the Monument to the 100-year-old Typewriter Floyd | will be unveiled, and all will be well. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 138 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "phew" | |||
| Rob says, "the old popeye-hits-alligator-so-hard-it-falls-down-as-luggage-and-boots trick" | ||||
| EmacsUser exclaims, "Haha. Yay!" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Tale says, "he he, yay" | ||||
| Ellison says, "woo" | ||||
| inky asks, "was there an alternate ending where they blow up the tomb?" | ||||
| Miseri says, "Thanks. And now I have to go. I guess I should have put in more ways to trigger Kevin's C4-mania." | ||||
| Ellison says, "poor Kevin" | ||||
| Miseri says (to inky), "unfortunately no." | ||||
| Rob says, "see I thought it said jim knew all about explosives" | ||||
| Rob says, "I guess we didn't ask the right guy about the tomb is the main problem" | ||||
| metoikos says, "I got really stuck myself, although I was halfway into a beer at the time" | ||||
| Miseri says, "anyway, like I said, gotta run." | ||||
| metoikos says, "when testing I mean" | ||||
| Miseri is very disappointed in you. Earlier, he may have ransacked your office, but he is *very* disappointed in you. | metoikos exclaims, "be well Miseri!" | |||
| DavidW says, "I thought we'd asked both of them ages ago, but it's very hard to be complete during a CF session." | ||||
| Rob says, "yah" | ||||
| Ellison asks, "let's do Merk next. did Stokely join the channel?" | ||||
| Tale says, "indeed" | ||||
| Rob says, "ok vw and ellison's left" | ||||
| Rob asks (of ellison), "so you're the big finish?" | ||||
| Tale says, "Oh dear" | ||||
| vaporware says, "mm.. want to do yours first? Kate's busy for a few minutes." | ||||
| Ellison says, "sure, let's do mine" | ||||
| Ellison says, "as long as you guys promise to love it" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Is that paxmerk? I was keeping a list and destroying it as we went..." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Yes." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxmerk" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, guzzletuff!" exclaims Merk. "Why can't they make these like they Floyd | used to? This is the fourth keyboard I've broken this week!" Floyd | Floyd | He sweeps the shattered bits of the plastic keyboard into the spacebin Floyd | and sits down to write a letter. Floyd | Floyd | MEANWHILE, ON EARTH... Floyd | Floyd | Merk Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Jesse McGrew and Kate Matthews Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110312 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Apartment Floyd | This is where you live with your buddy Jim. His stuff adorns every Floyd | surface of the room. The front door leads out to the north. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is an envelope (closed). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read envelope" | ||||
Floyd | Written on the outside, in an awkward, alien hand: "For Jim and Floyd | Kevin". Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Er, no." | |||
| Ellison says, "no, Merk is vaporware and Stokely's" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at EU), "!" | ||||
| EmacsUser exclaims, "Sorry!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I TRUSTED YOU" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| inky says, "oh, this isn't anything about Mike Snyder" | ||||
| Tale asks, "Wait, didn't we want to play Ellison first?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, quit and do Ell's?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "sigh" | ||||
| Ellison says (to inky), "yeah, it starts off with a twist!" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Ell), "You have to go somewhere, or can we just continue?" | ||||
| Tale says (to jacq), "Yeah" | ||||
| inky says, "hee hee" | ||||
| Ellison says, "(that it's not about Mike Snyder)" | ||||
| Tale says (to jacq), "Kate isn't here yet" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | Ellison says (to Jacqueline), "I have nowhere to go, but Stokely (Kate) is temporarily busy and can't watch yet" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Jacqueline asks (of Ell), "Yours is which one?" | |||
| Atrilla asks, "Does these have all the same theme or the author is free on it?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "um, VoHII.hex, I think it's called" | ||||
| DavidW says, "They all used the same suggestion list." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxvohii" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The future's not what it's cracked up to be! Jetpacks and joybooths Floyd | are cool and all, but you've always had a special place in your heart Floyd | for history and its artefacts- so much that it was long ago that you Floyd | decided you wanted to be a roguish space pirate (way before it was Floyd | considered cool, in fact). Floyd | Floyd | Among the many who had heard the tale of a fabled lost museum devoted Floyd | to interactive fiction, you alone thought the myth was rooted in Floyd | truth. Perseverence paid off, though, and by golly, you found it. Floyd | Tragicly, you lost your cohorts Jim and Kevin to an ill-considered Floyd | mining expedition to Pluto, so you are embarking on this adventure Floyd | alone. You have already ransacked the other wings of the museum. The Floyd | one thing left to do is to crack the... Floyd | Floyd | Vault of Hugo II: Electric Boogaloo Floyd | An Interactive Scavenging by Roody Yogurt Floyd | Hugo v3.1 / Library 31031 Floyd | Floyd | The Hugo Wing Floyd | This place is pretty amazing. Of course, your attention is mainly Floyd | drawn to the north, where the big Hugo Vault Door keep you from its Floyd | treasures. Also somewhat neat is the desk near it. You came from the Floyd | east, but there was a cave-in just moments ago, trapping you. Luckily, Floyd | there seems to be a room past a tight squeeze to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh dear." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Ell), "Also, are you writing something non-speedy right now? If not, you should be." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The way back to the ALAN Wing has been blocked by a cave-in. Those Floyd | plaques written in Comic Sans are inaccessible to you for now. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Ellison says, "I am! it should be done sometime before the next century!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also yay tight squeeze." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x vault" | ||||
Floyd | This thing is the real deal. There's no way you're getting this bad Floyd | boy open without some serious firepower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | This is quite a sturdy work desk. On top of it is a typewriter, and Floyd | behind the typewriter is an output tray for sheets of paper to fall Floyd | into. Floyd | Floyd | The desk has the 100 year old awesomatic-typewriter and an output tray Floyd | on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in tray" | ||||
Floyd | The output tray is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | Unbelievable! Everybody remembers the "automatypewriter" that predates Floyd | this one, but not many remember the Awesomatic-Typewriter that came Floyd | much later, playing only Hugo games. This one seems to be in the Floyd | middle of a game of "Quest For Museum" and is currently waiting for a Floyd | command. If you feel up to the challenge, TYPE "COMMAND" ON Floyd | TYPEWRITER. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "HAHA" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "type i on typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "type "i" on typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | The awesomatic-typewriter prints a pithy response, leaving lots of Floyd | blank sheet yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type "xyzzy" on typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | The awesomatic-typewriter prints a pithy response, leaving lots of Floyd | blank sheet yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read sheet" | ||||
Floyd | The paper in the awesomatic-typewriter has some printed text but not Floyd | much. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "type x self on typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "self". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "type "g" on typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | The awesomatic-typewriter prints a pithy response, leaving lots of Floyd | blank sheet yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type "hugo" on typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | The awesomatic-typewriter prints a pithy response, leaving lots of Floyd | blank sheet yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "You need to use quotes around whatever you type in on the typewriter." | |||
| DavidW says, "hm. Perhaps a sw trip is required." | ||||
| metoikos says (to Floyd), "type "x self" on typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | The awesomatic-typewriter prints a pithy response, leaving lots of Floyd | blank sheet yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type "sw" on typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | The awesomatic-typewriter prints a pithy response, leaving lots of Floyd | blank sheet yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "type "pithy" on typewriter" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "type "pithy" on typewriter" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "type "pithy" on typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | The awesomatic-typewriter prints a pithy response, leaving lots of Floyd | blank sheet yet. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The awesomatic-typewriter prints a pithy response, leaving lots of Floyd | blank sheet yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale makes himself you nothing me nothing out of the dust. | ||||
| Tale has disconnected. | ||||
| Tale arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW asks, "May we go sw, please?" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | You'd never make that squeeze while carrying anything! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a landmine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x landmine" | ||||
Floyd | The only thing you have left- after using all of your good ordnance Floyd | raiding this museum- is your trusty landmine. With its hair-trigger Floyd | mechanism, it'll explode at a moment's notice. It may not be the Floyd | safest kind of landmine to carry around on one's person, but hey, they Floyd | are among the cheapest! It is roughly 8 by 10 inches in length and Floyd | fires powerful shrapnel in all directions. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Nice ref." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "The tight squeeze is actually a ... double reference, right?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I had to keep it real" | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "squeeze me" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "squeeze". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ell), "We can always count on you to keep it real, man." | |||
| Rob says, "oh but I do need to use the word squeeze" | ||||
| Ellison says, "that kind of thing shows up in several games, but that's mainly all Lurking Horror" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put landmine in tray" | ||||
Floyd | You put the landmine in the output tray. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | It's a tight fit, but you make it, finding yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | The Tomb of the Unknown Tool Floyd | What a weird place. Some graffiti lines the concrete walls, but the Floyd | real star of the room is the little creepy coffin at its center. Also, Floyd | did I mention that the floor is dusty? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | What a horribly dirty floor! Where's the abandoned museum cleaning Floyd | staff? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "clean floor" | ||||
Floyd | You have nothing to vacuum with! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x coffin" | ||||
Floyd | Creepy! Little! Coffin! It is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read graffiti" | ||||
Floyd | You can't do that with graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x graffiti" | ||||
Floyd | It reads, "Don't you hate spelling 'graffiti' right in IF games???" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open coffin" | ||||
Floyd | Scary stuff! With great trepidation, you slowly open up the coffin's Floyd | lid. Shockingly enough, the contents are revealed to be a hand vacuum Floyd | (a dustbuster, ya know?). Somebody here had a sense of humor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "x grafitti" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "grafitti". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take vacuum" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "I always try two t's first and then go no wait" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "vacuum dust" | ||||
Floyd | In a fit of dustbusting fever, you attack the dusty floor with the Floyd | dustbuster. Your efforts are rewarded by revealing a trapdoor. Huzzah! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the trapdoor is a game walkthrough. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I think 'tight squeeze' is in another Infocom game as a locale, but the ref is also the visit we made to the tomb of the unknown tool on our MIT fieldtrip last week." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take walkthrough" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | (assuming you mean the game walkthrough) Floyd | Somebody hid away this walkthrough for the game "Quest For Museum." Floyd | There are lots of little comments making snide remarks about the game Floyd | itself. Interestingly, there's a note that the command >SCRAPE PARROT Floyd | at any point results in the biggest infodump in the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "this room is kind of reminiscent of the mummy room in Necrotic Drift" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You'd never make that squeeze while carrying anything! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||||
Floyd | dustbuster: Dropped. Floyd | game walkthrough: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | It's a tight fit, but you make it, finding yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | The Hugo Wing Floyd | This place is pretty amazing. Of course, your attention is mainly Floyd | drawn to the north, where the big Hugo Vault Door keep you from its Floyd | treasures. Also somewhat neat is the desk near it. You came from the Floyd | east, but there was a cave-in just moments ago, trapping you. Luckily, Floyd | there seems to be a room past a tight squeeze to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take landmine" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type "scrape parrot" on typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | The awesomatic-typewriter springs to life, printing a giant screed Floyd | filled with the author's views on politics, religion, and his Floyd | complicated relationship with his mother. In fact, it still is Floyd | printing! Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "wait" | |||
| metoikos says, "I'm curious about scraping the parrot" | ||||
| Rob says, "why did you take out the landmine" | ||||
| Tale says (to rob), "No, RUN!" | ||||
| metoikos asks, "is it maybe for blowing the door off the hugo vault?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Because the paper might trigger it and explode?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | Unbelievable! Everybody remembers the "automatypewriter" that predates Floyd | this one, but not many remember the Awesomatic-Typewriter that came Floyd | much later, playing only Hugo games. This one seems to be in the Floyd | middle of a game of "Quest For Museum" and is currently waiting for a Floyd | command. If you feel up to the challenge, TYPE "COMMAND" ON Floyd | TYPEWRITER. Floyd | Floyd | The page finishes printing and falls into the output tray without much Floyd | fanfare. Uninterested with the result, you instantly throw the paper Floyd | away- NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "yes... exactly" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "ok I guess that is all correct" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh" | ||||
| Tale says, "he he" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "so, put landmine in tray, type the command, then run sw?" | ||||
| inky says, "seems right" | ||||
| Nitku has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline says, "yeah" | |||
| Tale says, "right" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put landmine in tray" | ||||
Floyd | You put the landmine in the output tray. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Maybe this gives us more exits?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type "scrape parrot" on typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to load the typewriter up with some paper first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | You grab a blank sheet of paper and load it up into the typewriter. It Floyd | automatically prints a line of text and waits with a new prompt. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "make sure we're not holding any inventory first" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type "scrape parrot" on typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | The awesomatic-typewriter springs to life, printing a giant screed Floyd | filled with the author's views on politics, religion, and his Floyd | complicated relationship with his mother. In fact, it still is Floyd | printing! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read text" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "text". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | It's a tight fit, but you make it, finding yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | The Tomb of the Known Tool Floyd | What a weird place. Some graffiti lines the concrete walls, but the Floyd | real star of the room is the little creepy coffin at its center. Also, Floyd | did I mention that the floor is dusty? Floyd | In the center of the floor is an open trapdoor. Floyd | A dustbuster and a game walkthrough are here. Floyd | Floyd | BOOM! You hear a deafening explosion from the other room! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "You almost killed us." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | It's a tight fit, but you make it, finding yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | The Hugo Wing Floyd | Oh, the humanity! The desk and awesomatic-typewriter have been blown Floyd | to a better place. Luckily, though, the Hugo Vault door is left Floyd | hanging on its hinges, leaving the exit north unblocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sorry 'bout that." | |||
| Ellison says, "she's always doing that" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Whistling a happy tune, you walk though the smoking debris, onward to Floyd | happiness and success and more effective roguishness! Floyd | Floyd | *** HUGO GLORY IS YOURS! *** Floyd | Floyd | The game has ended. Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game, Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT? | Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "I like to live life on the edge." | |||
| DavidW says, "hoorays" | ||||
| EmacsUser exclaims, "Yay!" | ||||
| Rob says, "aw yeah" | ||||
| canadianpuzzler asks, "Can we actually blow our collective self up?" | ||||
| Tale says, "cute little game" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I totally read that as GLORY HOLE IS YOURS. Man." | ||||
| Ellison says (to cp), "there are ways, yeah" | ||||
| Johnny asks (of Ellison), "What, like, 'I coulda sworn I knew that bear'?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to canadianpuzzler), "Probably." | ||||
| Rob says, "this one game has all the if injokes to cover the rest of them" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ah, canadianpuzzler would like to see the explosion, up close and personal-like." | ||||
| jenrexrode says, "hmm, scrape parrot" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Jacqueline), "that's from another comp" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Hugo Wing Floyd | Oh, the humanity! The desk and awesomatic-typewriter have been blown Floyd | to a better place. Luckily, though, the Hugo Vault door is left Floyd | hanging on its hinges, leaving the exit north unblocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart (YES or NO)? | Jacqueline says (to Ell), "heehee" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Tomb of the Known Tool Floyd | What a weird place. Some graffiti lines the concrete walls, but the Floyd | real star of the room is the little creepy coffin at its center. Also, Floyd | did I mention that the floor is dusty? Floyd | In the center of the floor is an open trapdoor. Floyd | A dustbuster and a game walkthrough are here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Hugo Wing Floyd | This place is pretty amazing. Of course, your attention is mainly Floyd | drawn to the north, where the big Hugo Vault Door keep you from its Floyd | treasures. Also somewhat neat is the desk near it. You came from the Floyd | east, but there was a cave-in just moments ago, trapping you. Luckily, Floyd | there seems to be a room past a tight squeeze to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says (to inky), "Sorry." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | Like an idiot, you watch while the page falls lightly onto the Floyd | landmine. Floyd | Floyd | *** SHRAPNEL IS NOT JUST AN IF GAME *** Floyd | Floyd | The game has ended. Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game, Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT? | inky says, "no biggie" | |||
| inky says, "hee hee hee" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||||
| Rob asks, "did we ever try swapping our brain with nothing or with chicken fingers in the brain swapping game?" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | Tale says, "ha ha" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The future's not what it's cracked up to be! Jetpacks and joybooths Floyd | are cool and all, but you've always had a special place in your heart Floyd | for history and its artefacts- so much that it was long ago that you Floyd | decided you wanted to be a roguish space pirate (way before it was Floyd | considered cool, in fact). Floyd | Floyd | Among the many who had heard the tale of a fabled lost museum devoted Floyd | to interactive fiction, you alone thought the myth was rooted in Floyd | truth. Perseverence paid off, though, and by golly, you found it. Floyd | Tragicly, you lost your cohorts Jim and Kevin to an ill-considered Floyd | mining expedition to Pluto, so you are embarking on this adventure Floyd | alone. You have already ransacked the other wings of the museum. The Floyd | one thing left to do is to crack the... Floyd | Floyd | Vault of Hugo II: Electric Boogaloo Floyd | An Interactive Scavenging by Roody Yogurt Floyd | Hugo v3.1 / Library 31031 Floyd | Floyd | The Hugo Wing Floyd | This place is pretty amazing. Of course, your attention is mainly Floyd | drawn to the north, where the big Hugo Vault Door keep you from its Floyd | treasures. Also somewhat neat is the desk near it. You came from the Floyd | east, but there was a cave-in just moments ago, trapping you. Luckily, Floyd | there seems to be a room past a tight squeeze to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, paxrighttool, then merk, then that's all of them? Or did I miss one in the confusion?" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "push landmind" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "landmind". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "oops landmine" | ||||
Floyd | "Gee, I wonder what this button does..." Floyd | Floyd | *** KABOOM IS NOT JUST AN ATARI GAME *** Floyd | Floyd | The game has ended. Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game, Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT? | Rob says, "we did righttool, merk is all that's left" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Hugo Wing Floyd | This place is pretty amazing. Of course, your attention is mainly Floyd | drawn to the north, where the big Hugo Vault Door keep you from its Floyd | treasures. Also somewhat neat is the desk near it. You came from the | EmacsUser says (to Rob), "I don't think so." | |||
Floyd | east, but there was a cave-in just moments ago, trapping you. Luckily, Floyd | there seems to be a room past a tight squeeze to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are rugged and roguish and space-pirate-tastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We did The Right Tool" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit (YES or NO)? | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | canadianpuzzler says, "thanks for obliging me. :-)" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So we did - I knew I deleted stuff from the list wrong." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Merk is all that's left, I think." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, is Kate back?" | ||||
| vaporware says, "Yeah, go for it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load paxmerk" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, guzzletuff!" exclaims Merk. "Why can't they make these like they Floyd | used to? This is the fourth keyboard I've broken this week!" Floyd | Floyd | He sweeps the shattered bits of the plastic keyboard into the spacebin Floyd | and sits down to write a letter. Floyd | Floyd | MEANWHILE, ON EARTH... Floyd | Floyd | Merk Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Jesse McGrew and Kate Matthews Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110312 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Apartment Floyd | This is where you live with your buddy Jim. His stuff adorns every Floyd | surface of the room. The front door leads out to the north. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is an envelope (closed). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read envelope" | ||||
Floyd | Written on the outside, in an awkward, alien hand: "For Jim and Floyd | Kevin". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | You open the envelope, revealing a letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read letter" | ||||
Floyd | It reads: Floyd | Floyd | Dear Jim and Kevin, Floyd | I have a mission for you: find me a 100-year-old typewriter. You'll be Floyd | rewarded with space riches beyond your wildest dreams! Floyd | Your new friend, Floyd | Merk from Pluto Floyd | Floyd | The door opens, and Jim arrives. "Hey, man! What's crack-a-lackin'?" Floyd | Floyd | He nods toward the opened envelope. "Oh yeah," he says. "I found that Floyd | outside the door this morning. Anything good? Lemme see!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "heh crack-a-lackin" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give letter to jim" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the letter) Floyd | You hand the letter to Jim. He skims through it and says, "Crazy. Wish Floyd | I could help you, but I got a big date tonight. Like, stupid big. Have Floyd | fun!" Floyd | Floyd | He hands you the letter and walks right back out the door. Floyd | Floyd | Well, better get started looking for that typewriter. You dig a phone Floyd | book out from the pile of stuff. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "in this game I am reading 'Jim and Kevin' as thinly-veiled pseudonyms for 'Jesse and Kate'" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I put up the source to my game at [LINK]" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||||
Floyd | You flip the phone book open to the Typewriters section. Looks like Floyd | there's only one typewriter store open today: Braintree Typewriter Floyd | Services, a couple miles from the Braintree station. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x phone book" | ||||
Floyd | No need to open the phone book again. You remember that you're going Floyd | to Braintree Typewriter Services, a couple miles from the Braintree Floyd | station. Floyd | Floyd | > | vaporware says, "(Stupid Big Date was a title)" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stuff" | ||||
Floyd | What a mess. There's just way too much stuff to even think about Floyd | listing it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search stuff" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a phone book Floyd | a letter Floyd | a T pass Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pass" | ||||
Floyd | This paper ticket lets you ride the subway and local buses. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale scoffs at Hugo code. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Apartment Floyd | This is where you live with your buddy Jim. His stuff adorns every Floyd | surface of the room. The front door leads out to the north. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is an envelope (empty). Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims (at Tale), "Plurality is good!" | |||
| DavidW asks, "hm. I suppose we go north?" | ||||
| EmacsUser nods. | ||||
| Tale scoffs at plurality. | ||||
| Rob asks, "what was in the envelope?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Just the letter." | ||||
| DavidW says, "A letter" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at Tale), "Well, fine. I scoff at scoffings!" | ||||
| Rob says, "ok" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read letter" | ||||
Floyd | It reads: Floyd | Floyd | Dear Jim and Kevin, Floyd | I have a mission for you: find me a 100-year-old typewriter. You'll be Floyd | rewarded with space riches beyond your wildest dreams! Floyd | Your new friend, Floyd | Merk from Pluto Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "all righty then" | |||
| DavidW says, "Mission: get typewriter." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or is that shunning?" | ||||
| Tale says, "well played." | ||||
| metoikos says, "that sounds suspiciously close to Mork." | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the front door) Floyd | Floyd | Street Floyd | This is the street in front of your apartment. The front door of your Floyd | apartment is to the south, and down the block to the west, you can see Floyd | Broadway Station. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||||
Floyd | You close the front door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Broadway Station Floyd | Red signage covering the walls indicates that this is the Broadway Floyd | station on the Red Line. To the east, you can see the street leading Floyd | to your apartment. | Rob says, "ha, I was going to do that" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | A turnstile stands between you and the boarding platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "I felt weird walking out and getting on the subway without shutting my front door" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x turnstile" | ||||
Floyd | It prevents you from getting to the boarding platform unless you Floyd | insert a ticket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "insert ticket" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a phone book Floyd | a letter Floyd | a T pass Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "insert pass" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | metoikos says, "I wonder if we still call them turnstiles even though the turning element is gone with the slidy things now" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "put pass in turnstile" | ||||
Floyd | You insert the ticket into one slot, remove it from another, and the Floyd | gate opens. Floyd | Floyd | Broadway Platform Floyd | Track sunk into a dangerous-looking trench runs through the room. The Floyd | outer part of the station is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "'insert' really ought to work there." | |||
| Ellison says, "wow, this is the second year in a row that vaporware and Stokely have coded a transportation system" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess we do, m." | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "e?" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You might miss the train if you leave. Floyd | Floyd | A voice intones, "Attention passengers: the next Red Line train to Floyd | Braintree is now approaching." Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "it looms large in their minds during pax trips, for some reason" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Or maybe I am disor---yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Broadway Platform Floyd | Track sunk into a dangerous-looking trench runs through the room. The Floyd | outer part of the station is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | Your singing is abominable. Floyd | Floyd | A voice intones, "Attention passengers: the next Red Line train to Floyd | Braintree is now arriving. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "wave" | ||||
Floyd | You wave, feeling foolish. Floyd | Floyd | The train arrives with a gust of wind. Its doors open, and you step on Floyd | board. Floyd | Floyd | Train Floyd | This train car looks clean enough. There are rows of seats on either Floyd | side. Doors lead out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on seat" | ||||
Floyd | You get onto the seat. Floyd | Floyd | The doors close, and the train begins to move. After a few minutes, a Floyd | voice intones, "Now arriving at Broadway." Floyd | Floyd | The train comes to a stop, and the doors open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "think" | ||||
Floyd | What a good idea. Floyd | Floyd | The doors close, and the train begins to move. After a few minutes, a Floyd | voice intones, "Now arriving at Andrew." Floyd | Floyd | The train comes to a stop, and the doors open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny does like justice, but that's taking it a bit far. | Rob says, "this game is going for verisimilitude viz train arrivals" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But this isn't your stop. Floyd | Floyd | The doors close, and the train begins to move. After a few minutes, a Floyd | voice intones, "Now arriving at JFK/UMass." Floyd | Floyd | The train comes to a stop, and the doors open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "That was my stop!" | |||
| DavidW says, "We're going to Braintree." | ||||
| Rob says, "did we bring a book to read" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read phone book" | ||||
Floyd | No need to open the phone book again. You remember that you're going Floyd | to Braintree Typewriter Services, a couple miles from the Braintree Floyd | station. Floyd | Floyd | The doors close, and the train begins to move. After a few minutes, a Floyd | voice intones, "Now arriving at North Quincy." Floyd | Floyd | The train comes to a stop, and the doors open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "hee" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "The phone book." | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a phone book Floyd | a letter Floyd | a T pass Floyd | Floyd | The doors close, and the train begins to move. After a few minutes, a Floyd | voice intones, "Now arriving at Wollaston." Floyd | Floyd | The train comes to a stop, and the doors open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The doors close, and the train begins to move. After a few minutes, a Floyd | voice intones, "Now arriving at Quincy Center." Floyd | Floyd | The train comes to a stop, and the doors open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||||
Floyd | You aren't feeling especially drowsy. Floyd | Floyd | The doors close, and the train begins to move. After a few minutes, a Floyd | voice intones, "Now arriving at Quincy Adams." Floyd | Floyd | The train comes to a stop, and the doors open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "danec" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play tennis" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "pick nose" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "scrape parrot" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "pickpocket" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The doors close, and the train begins to move. After a few minutes, a Floyd | voice intones, "Now arriving at Braintree. End of the line." Floyd | Floyd | The train comes to a stop, and the doors open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You leave the train, find some stairs leading out of the station, and Floyd | walk outside. Floyd | Floyd | Outside Braintree Station Floyd | You're at the top of the stairs leading out of Braintree Station. The | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Pilgrims Highway leads southeast toward the typewriter store. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | You hike along the highway for a few miles, finally arriving at the Floyd | typewriter store. Floyd | Floyd | Braintree Typewriter Services Floyd | Typewriters are everywhere, typewriters, typewriters! Floyd | Floyd | A salesman is watching you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "x salesman" | ||||
Floyd | He's wearing a cheap suit and reeks of typewriters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "buy typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing is on sale. Floyd | Floyd | > | canadianpuzzler says, "some time when it is not so social in here, I might come back and try to get out early at the other stations. :-)" | |||
| DavidW says, "We want the old typewriter." | ||||
| Rob says, "ha ha, typewriter-reek" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x typewriters" | ||||
Floyd | They're everywhere, they, they! Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says (to Rob), "I was going to laugh at that!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to salesman" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says (to canadianpuzzler), "I think that it won't let you." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask salesman about typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | "We have tons of typewriters. Interest you in something specific?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says (to canadianpuzzler), "it said 'this isn't your stop'" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read letter" | ||||
Floyd | It reads: Floyd | Floyd | Dear Jim and Kevin, Floyd | I have a mission for you: find me a 100-year-old typewriter. You'll be Floyd | rewarded with space riches beyond your wildest dreams! Floyd | Your new friend, Floyd | Merk from Pluto Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "show letter to salesman" | ||||
Floyd | The salesman is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask salesman about 100-year-old typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | "As a matter of fact, we just got a 100-year-old typewriter. Come into Floyd | the back room, I'll show it to you." Floyd | Floyd | You follow him through a previously hidden door into the back room. Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | Aged wood paneling suggests that this room doesn't get much use. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table (on which is an old typewriter) here. Floyd | Floyd | The salesman gestures toward the table. "There you are. Go ahead, try Floyd | it out." Floyd | Floyd | He slips out the door and shuts it behind him, leaving you trapped Floyd | inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "wow that worked" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x typewriter" | ||||
Floyd | It looks ancient! You can believe this is 100 years old. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type on it" | ||||
Floyd | You type "lovesong of sherlock holmes" on the old typewriter. Seems to Floyd | work. Floyd | Floyd | You look around for some sign of where the salesman went, when Floyd | suddenly a massive vacuum opens up in the middle of the room! Floyd | Powerless to escape, you're soon sucked through and find yourself in Floyd | an unfamiliar place. Floyd | Floyd | Tomb of the Unknown Tool Floyd | This small room houses an unmade bed, several textbooks, and a lamp. Floyd | The exit is to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| Gerynar says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions. | ||||
| Gerynar has disconnected. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get lamp" | ||||
Floyd | No, GET LAMP was last year. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh" | |||
| Tale says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Rob says, "this has gotten surreal after the numbing reality of the train trip" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "make bed" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing better to do? OK, you make the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x textboks" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "make bed" | ||||
Floyd | It's already made. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x textbooks" | ||||
Floyd | The titles include "Robin Alien", "Cave Inheritance", "The Cross of Floyd | Baby", "CIA Fire", "Living Vic-20", "Hippy's Machine", and "Exhibition Floyd | Cult". Someone has an interesting class schedule. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "read CIA Fire" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB goes home. | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "read them" | ||||
Floyd | The titles include "Robin Alien", "Cave Inheritance", "The Cross of Floyd | Baby", "CIA Fire", "Living Vic-20", "Hippy's Machine", and "Exhibition Floyd | Cult". Someone has an interesting class schedule. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "read textbooks" | ||||
Floyd | The titles include "Robin Alien", "Cave Inheritance", "The Cross of Floyd | Baby", "CIA Fire", "Living Vic-20", "Hippy's Machine", and "Exhibition Floyd | Cult". Someone has an interesting class schedule. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Tomb of the Unknown Tool Floyd | This small room houses a bed, several textbooks, and a lamp. The exit Floyd | is to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "s?" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | There are none at all available! Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "ha ha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take lamp" | ||||
Floyd | No, GET LAMP was last year. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "DW and I are well trained" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pluto Floyd | From beneath a glass dome, you can see the unmistakable surface of Floyd | Pluto. The Tomb is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A green alien strolls up to the outside of the dome, waving his Floyd | tentacles annoyedly. Floyd | Floyd | He speaks to you. "I didn't tell you to get a cursed typewriter! Floyd | That's no help to me at all, and now look what you've done: the curse Floyd | has followed you through the vacuum and infested my planet. See these Floyd | tentacles? I didn't have tentacles when I woke up this morning! Who Floyd | knows what will happen next?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "suddenly we're back in the collective game !" | |||
| Ellison says, "hee" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask alien about curse" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | The alien continues. "The only option now is to blow up the planet. Floyd | Long ago, my space ancestors fitted this planet with a self-destruct Floyd | mechanism for just such an occasion. Unfortunately, the builder who Floyd | installed this dome forgot about it. You'll have to activate it from Floyd | inside." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Pluto Floyd | From beneath a glass dome, you can see the unmistakable surface of Floyd | Pluto. The Tomb is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an alien here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask alien about curse" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | An ominous plunger slowly rises out of the ground. Floyd | Floyd | The alien points to it and says, "There. Don't worry about me, just do | DavidW says, "Of *course* we blow up the planet." | |||
Floyd | what needs to be done. Today is a good day to die." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "this is more exciting than Halo!" | |||
| Rob says, "which is good because this is the big conclusion" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Naturally." | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "pull plunger" | ||||
Floyd | The handle pulls right out! Embarrassed, you drop it back in. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "also, that alien is talking like the tree guy in my game" | |||
| metoikos says, "gotta go, take care guys" | ||||
| metoikos goes home. | Rob says, "bye ! too late" | |||
| DavidW says, "Push, not pull." | ||||
| Rob says (to floyd), "push plunger" | ||||
Floyd | You press the plunger. A series of loud explosions ensues, but you Floyd | only have an instant to register them before you're vaporized. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The moral is: never open your mail *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 64 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Rob says, "oops" | |||
| Rob says (to floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Pluto Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "or was that the only ending" | |||
| Tale says, "Is there a better ... timing" | ||||
| Ellison says, "maybe there's a 'never open our mail' ending" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "That time we got to experience part of being blown up." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a phone book Floyd | a letter Floyd | a T pass Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale asks, "Restart?" | |||
| Rob says, "that's probably it, heh" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put phone book on plunger" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on the plunger would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "9:45 ending" | |||
| vaporware says, "That was it, yeah. It's a tragic tale brought to you by the American Email Council." | ||||
| inky asks, "so we weren't actually carrying the typewriter?" | ||||
| Tale says, "ha ha" | ||||
| DavidW says, "no" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Haha." | ||||
| Rob applauds all authors | ||||
| Ellison says, "the curse of inventory limits!" | ||||
| EmacsUser exclaims, "Yes, impressive work by everyone!" | ||||
| Tale says, "yay authors" | ||||
| inky says, "this was a really high-quality speedIF" | ||||
| Rob says, "well I'm proud to be one of the authors in this set I have to say" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Exceptional speedifs." | ||||
| jenrexrode says, "yeah,, fun" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes, a speed chock-full of awesome." | ||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, some really impressive stuff from this one" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Thanks, everyone!" | ||||
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