  
 
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 Fish!, written by Magnetic Scrolls Ltd.. Fish! was released in 1988 by Magnetic Scrolls Ltd. It was written by John Molloy, Pete Kemp, Phil South, and Rob Steggles. Graphics were created by Geoff Quilley, Alan Hunnisett, Chris Kent, Richard Selby, and Tristan Humphries, with cover art by Duncan McLean. It was programmed by Richard Huddy and Bob Coles. Music and goodies were created by John Molloy. You can learn more about the game, including how to play it yourself, by visiting the Magnetic Scrolls Memorial.WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page. |
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| Jacqueline says, "Okay, let's begin." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load cfish" | ||||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Well done, Agent 10," said Sir Playfair Panchax, head of Mission HQ. Floyd | "We knew you'd stop the Seven Deadly Fins. Good show! It's a shame they Floyd | got away again. But now I suggest you take a vacation. You've earned Floyd | it, old boy." You agreed with him, the last few months had been a real Floyd | chore. Being an inter-dimensional espionage operative isn't a bad life Floyd | apart from the pain of warping and the inconvenience of host-parasite Floyd | relationships, but you need a spot of R and R every now and then, just Floyd | to stay sane. So you went for the big one - warping into a goldfish for Floyd | a whole month! The peace. The tranquility. And you're still on the Floyd | payroll. Floyd | Floyd | FISH! - Version 1.10 - Copyright (C) 1988, 1990 Magnetic Scrolls Ltd. Floyd | Floyd | Someone's coming. Good, it must be time for food. SPLATTO. A hand as Floyd | big as a bus drops something hard right on your head. Understandably Floyd | dazed, you flip over and, through a swirl of ant eggs, spot what hit Floyd | you: a tacky plastic castle. It looks like a rush job. Sir Playfair Floyd | must be in trouble. And you thought you were on vacation... Floyd | Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | Swimming upside down is good fun, but difficult, even for someone as Floyd | highly trained as yourself. It looks like the pondweed is dangling from Floyd | the gravel above your head. And the ant eggs, wow! Upside down they Floyd | look, so, so much like, well, like exactly the same as if you were the Floyd | right way up actually. Anyway, there's no need to get carried away. Sir Floyd | Playfair has a message for you in the castle if you're not mistaken and Floyd | he hates agents who are late. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "[LINK] has some feelies and things. That Mission HQ pdf explains the basic premise of the game. the tl;dr version is that the game takes place in a world where people can warp into other creatures and control them for a while, so we'll be doing that a bunch. also, we're a spy. lastly, when we are warped into things, bright lights and loud sounds can force us out of our host's body." | |||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x eggs" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's a pity that ant eggs are all you've had to eat for the past week, Floyd | otherwise they might look appetising. Floyd | > | ||||||
| jenrexrode wanders off. | ||||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x pondweed" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The pondweed makes a nice change from ant eggs, but you couldn't eat it Floyd | all the time. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "flip" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand flip Floyd | > | ||||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You are a small, scaly fish, with fins and a natty little tail. Tres Floyd | chic. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x castle" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Colours are sprayed on this tacky castle in a random fashion, as if it Floyd | had been visited by a medieval graffiti artist with a belly full of Floyd | mead and a nasty case of clinical depression. A large gateway leads Floyd | inside. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | Your mouth is empty. Floyd | You get bored of swimming upside-down and turn over, deftly avoiding Floyd | the first scoring point of the game. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | The ant eggs have stopped swirling around and are now floating on the Floyd | surface. Gravel fills the bottom of the bowl and some tasty looking Floyd | pondweed you've been wanting to nibble for days is lying on it. You get Floyd | a nasty feeling in your swim bladder about the castle, probably because Floyd | Sir Playfair has so rudely interrupted your vacation. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "enter castle" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Floyd | "Phffft! Phffft! Testing... Hello? Can you hear me? Agent 10?" You Floyd | groan as Sir Playfair Panchax's voice rattles round your brain. "I'm Floyd | sorry about this old chap," he continues, "I wouldn't disrupt your Floyd | vacation unless it was necessary." He coughs. "It's bad news, I'm Floyd | afraid; the Seven Deadly Fins again. Sabotage this time - on a planet Floyd | full of fish! Beats me why they should pick on fish, but fish it is. Floyd | They've stolen something important, a focus wheel I think, and Floyd | dismantled it. We've got a fix on most places they've visited recently; Floyd | you'll have to scout around and find the wheel. Your inter-dimensional Floyd | warps will be ready in a few milliseconds. The back-room boys have some Floyd | tricks up their sleeves if you get into trouble." The castle jolts and Floyd | three warps and a glass box appear as Sir Playfair signs off. "Good Floyd | luck and keep your eyes peeled. Panchax out." Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Is it Floyd making x into examine and i into inventory, or did MS do that?" | |||||
| Bert says, "I believe it's nitfol." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Also, did we just lose a point?" | ||||||
| Bert says, "(Which is what Floyd uses.)" | ||||||
| Bert says, "I think we just failed to score a point." | ||||||
| Bert says, "Which is similar but not quite the same thing." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Man. Should we restart?" | ||||||
| rockersuke says, "MS did the i thing, and yes we missed a ponit for not turning upside down" | ||||||
| Tale says, "I tried" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or just do a play through and then figure out all the places we screwed up?" | ||||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 9 out of 501. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "notify on" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand notify Floyd | > | Tale says, "But you people where all "hey, let's examine stuff" as if that is ever important" | |||||
| DavidW says, "I tend to sit back when there's a fish feeding frenzy." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "we should save at the beginning of every area we go to. this game (as far as I've gotten) isn't terrible puzzle-strength-wise, but move efficiency and stuff is important" | ||||||
| DavidW asks, "ugh. Move efficiency is important?" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "That's so not my playstyle." | ||||||
| Bert says, "Me neither." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "well, at some point. I never did figure out what causes a particular daemon later on." | ||||||
| Rotonoto asks, "Do we pick up the warps & the box, or can't we pick up anything as a fish?" | ||||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I did clear the save calendar, so we're good there." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Rotonoto), "I don't know that fish can pick them up." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "we can only pick up what fits in our mouth" | ||||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x smooth warp" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The smooth warp looks the trendiest of all the warps. It must lead Floyd | somewhere pretty cool. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "We have a mouth." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing" | ||||||
| Rotonoto says, "Ah, things to enter." | ||||||
| Tale asks, "So, do we need a driver?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm." | ||||||
| Tale says, "diver. whatever." | ||||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "examine box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The glass box shows all the hallmarks of a rush assembly. There are Floyd | loads of electrical components in it and yards and yards of wiring. You Floyd | can only hope the back-room boys didn't economise on waterproofing. Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Well, it might be annoying, but if we save at the entry to each new area, play it, then restore and do what we've learned the efficient way, would that be (redundant but) workable?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Tale), "heh" | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, maybe." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "it should be. the first several areas aren't that big. more like miniquests." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "It's probably too early for a driver. We don't know what we're doing yet to even attempt efficiency." | ||||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But a mere goldfish can't do that! Floyd | > | ||||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "push box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But a mere goldfish can't do that! Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Shouldn't open electronics underwater." | |||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ram box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand ram Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Just sayin'." | |||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But a mere goldfish can't do that! Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I'm thinking we tagteam it to a point where we're like, 'oh, we shoulda done X and Y and Z,' then restore and have one person do that, save again and then continue." | |||||
| Ellison says, "sure" | ||||||
| Rotonoto says, "Good point." | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Sure" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So do we give a damn about the not getting that point for flipping over bit?" | ||||||
| Rotonoto says, "It's nudging us to enter the smooth warp." | ||||||
| Guenni says (to floyd), "hit box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But a mere goldfish can't do that! Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Rotonoto), "agreed." | |||||
| Guenni says (to floyd), "bite box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But a mere goldfish can't do that! Floyd | > | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But a mere goldfish can't do that! Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "should we enter it then?" | |||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Do we evolve at some point? Become a super goldfish or something?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure. Or do the flippy-over thing first." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "I think we should enter a warp and remember this box for later, if we become a squid or something." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "sure, let's just restart real quick so Jacqueline isn't bugged for the rest of the game" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Are you sure (y/n)? | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||||
Floyd | [y -> yes] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Well done, Agent 10," said Sir Playfair Panchax, head of Mission HQ. Floyd | "We knew you'd stop the Seven Deadly Fins. Good show! It's a shame they Floyd | got away again. But now I suggest you take a vacation. You've earned Floyd | it, old boy." You agreed with him, the last few months had been a real Floyd | chore. Being an inter-dimensional espionage operative isn't a bad life Floyd | apart from the pain of warping and the inconvenience of host-parasite Floyd | relationships, but you need a spot of R and R every now and then, just Floyd | to stay sane. So you went for the big one - warping into a goldfish for Floyd | a whole month! The peace. The tranquility. And you're still on the Floyd | payroll. Floyd | Floyd | FISH! - Version 1.10 - Copyright (C) 1988, 1990 Magnetic Scrolls Ltd. Floyd | Floyd | Someone's coming. Good, it must be time for food. SPLATTO. A hand as Floyd | big as a bus drops something hard right on your head. Understandably Floyd | dazed, you flip over and, through a swirl of ant eggs, spot what hit Floyd | you: a tacky plastic castle. It looks like a rush job. Sir Playfair Floyd | must be in trouble. And you thought you were on vacation... Floyd | Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | Swimming upside down is good fun, but difficult, even for someone as Floyd | highly trained as yourself. It looks like the pondweed is dangling from Floyd | the gravel above your head. And the ant eggs, wow! Upside down they Floyd | look, so, so much like, well, like exactly the same as if you were the Floyd | right way up actually. Anyway, there's no need to get carried away. Sir Floyd | Playfair has a message for you in the castle if you're not mistaken and Floyd | he hates agents who are late. Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "haha" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "flip over" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand flip Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn over" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | The ant eggs have stopped swirling around and are now floating on the Floyd | surface. Gravel fills the bottom of the bowl and some tasty looking Floyd | pondweed you've been wanting to nibble for days is lying on it. You get Floyd | a nasty feeling in your swim bladder about the castle, probably because Floyd | Sir Playfair has so rudely interrupted your vacation. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 1 out of 501. Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Red rover, red rover, I flip goldfish over." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "enter castle" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Floyd | "Phffft! Phffft! Testing... Hello? Can you hear me? Agent 10?" You Floyd | groan as Sir Playfair Panchax's voice rattles round your brain. "I'm Floyd | sorry about this old chap," he continues, "I wouldn't disrupt your Floyd | vacation unless it was necessary." He coughs. "It's bad news, I'm Floyd | afraid; the Seven Deadly Fins again. Sabotage this time - on a planet Floyd | full of fish! Beats me why they should pick on fish, but fish it is. Floyd | They've stolen something important, a focus wheel I think, and Floyd | dismantled it. We've got a fix on most places they've visited recently; Floyd | you'll have to scout around and find the wheel. Your inter-dimensional Floyd | warps will be ready in a few milliseconds. The back-room boys have some Floyd | tricks up their sleeves if you get into trouble." The castle jolts and Floyd | three warps and a glass box appear as Sir Playfair signs off. "Good Floyd | luck and keep your eyes peeled. Panchax out." Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "Thank you so much, Ellison!" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I guess I could have waited a couple of turns, but whatever." | |||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x warps" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The small warp is just big enough to swim through. Floyd | The jagged warp looks important. It's jagged as well, but definitely Floyd | important. Floyd | The smooth warp looks the trendiest of all the warps. It must lead Floyd | somewhere pretty cool. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Also, after all the birding festival stuff I've been doing, I am now typing 'tern' by default. Argh." | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Smooth warp?" | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ok" | ||||||
| Tale says, "Ok" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Please." | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter smooth warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Inter-dimensional travel hurts. A lot. Especially when you haven't done Floyd | it for a while. You buck and roll through the journey, feeling very Floyd | nauseous, then, with a small popping noise, take over a body with the Floyd | aid of a customised host-parasite interface. Your host has arms and Floyd | legs. Looks like trouble! Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Micky Blowtorch, your Floyd | ex-colleague, now a crazed warp junkie, is lounging around the stump, Floyd | looking suitably bemused. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x mw" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand mw Floyd | > | ||||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x mickey" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand mickey Floyd | > | ||||||
| rockersuke says, "x blowtorch" | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x micky" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch was once Sir Playfair's best operative. Now a sad Floyd | warp-junkie, he lives alone and has no contact with Mission HQ. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You are a tall human being with arms and legs. Somewhat surprisingly, Floyd | you don't have any fishy traits at all. Look, you weren't really Floyd | expecting to spend the whole game as a fish were you? Fish don't get to Floyd | do anything exciting, so we cheated. Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||||
| genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Yay!" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "oh Mickey, you're so fine, you go warpin' all the time, hey Mickey" | ||||||
| Tale says, "Aww" | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to micky" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand talk Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Micky. whatever" | |||||
| Guenni says (to floyd), "say hallo to micky" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand hallo Please try re-phrasing that. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask micky about warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Let me at 'em," cries Micky enthusiastically. "There's nothing like a Floyd | good warp to make the day worthwhile!" Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I believe commands and ASK/TELL should be supported" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask micky about fins" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "A bunch of nutters. I mean, a real collection of Floyd | fruitcakes. You might think I'm a few chips short of a butty, but these Floyd | guys are the real thing. You look decent - my advice is never, ever Floyd | tangle with them; they're more trouble than you can imagine." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask micky about focus wheel" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "I talk to the trees. That's why they put me Floyd | away." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask micky about micky" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "There are more important things in life to Floyd | consider. Did you know there are two simple rules for happiness? One, Floyd | inherit a great deal of money. Two, don't spend it all at once." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask micky about me" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "You think I'm mad, don't you? That's what they Floyd | said at Mission HQ but they're wrong." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Guenni says (to floyd), "ask micky about trees" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "I talk to the trees. That's why they put me Floyd | away." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask micky about mission hq" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "I'm not going back you know. I don't care what Floyd | you say, I'm just not going back." Floyd | BANG! Something explodes in the distance. But, as they say, 'out of Floyd | sight, out of mind', so it's probably better not to worry about it. Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Hi, has the game started?" | |||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "> worry :P" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to ibhr), "Yes, we started as scheduled." | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Magnetic Scrolls games are known for being really weird, right?" | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask micky about explosion" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "Well. It's sort of a loud banging noise, I Floyd | think." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "tell micky to explode" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "What would anyone want to go there for? That Floyd | sounds really odd." Floyd | Micky climbs out of the stump, scratches his backside and looks around. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Guenni says (to floyd), "ask micky about fish" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "You think I'm mad, don't you? That's what they Floyd | said at Mission HQ but they're wrong." Floyd | Micky trudges off towards the wet forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "search stump" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "enter stump" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are now sitting on the tree stump. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Guenni says (to floyd), "knock on stump" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Thud! Floyd | > | ||||||
| Gunther has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search undergrowth" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any undergrowth here. Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "lies" | |||||
| Guenni says (to floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Clearing (on the tree stump) Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Floyd | > | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask micky about paths" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see Micky Blowtorch here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "enter forest" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which one, the wet forest, the dim forest or the dank forest? Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh. Oops" | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "dank" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't reach the dank forest from here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x s" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to examine south? Floyd | > | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x path" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand path Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "*shrug* Pick a direction? Should we follow Micky and try to get more information?" | |||||
| Guenni says (to floyd), "get off stump" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are on your feet. Floyd | Micky arrives looking worried. Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, good." | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "ask micky about rain" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "There are more important things in life to Floyd | consider. Did you know there are two simple rules for happiness? One, Floyd | inherit a great deal of money. Two, don't spend it all at once." Floyd | "Something suspicious is going on," he says. "The only person who'd Floyd | interfere with the parrot would be someone after the mould. That means Floyd | Sir Playfair has got someone else on the trail. And that means... " His Floyd | words become indecipherable. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "ask micky about playfair" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "What do you know about the boss? Who's side are Floyd | you on anyway?" Floyd | > | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask micky about forest" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "Please don't talk about the trees all the time. Floyd | It gets so boring." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "say, playfair" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "I don't know where that is." Floyd | > | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smack some sense into micky" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand smack Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask micky about mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "There are more important things in life to Floyd | consider. Did you know there are two simple rules for happiness? One, Floyd | inherit a great deal of money. Two, don't spend it all at once." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask micky about parrot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "There's something very fishy about a bird who Floyd | goes round squawking 'Pieces of seven, pieces of nine.' It doesn't add Floyd | up if you ask me." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "ask micky for money" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "But I don't have any clams." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Guenni says (to floyd), "tell micky about mission" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is no such mission. Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Where'd that parrot question come from?" | |||||
| rockersuke says, "mike mentioned a parrot before" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "look in the text after he was asked about rain" | ||||||
| Guenni asks, "Do we want to try to talk or go elsewhere?" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I think we need to explore. Micky seems to be a useless fucking idiot." | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dank Forest Floyd | This part of the forest is horribly cold and damp, and brambles scratch Floyd | and pull at you as you pass. To the north and south the undergrowth Floyd | clears a little. The forest continues freely in all other directions. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Charred Glade Floyd | This unpleasant scene is clear evidence that the hand of man has set Floyd | foot here. The trees have been damaged by fire, and, on closer Floyd | inspection, you notice the entrance to a mine leading down. Floyd | > | Emily asks (of inuredbyheavyrain), "could you please tone down the negativity if you're going to play with us?" | |||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to inuredbyheavyrain), "Please watch the language. The transcripts are going online, and it's more work for Jacq." | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mine Floyd | Experience tells you the mine is probably riddled with lurking nasties. Floyd | Training tells you there's nothing to worry about. It's dark in there. Floyd | You haven't got a light. Anyway, who's looking for trouble. You return Floyd | to the glade. Floyd | Charred Glade Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "All right, but I see no reason to tone down the language: Children know all the words." | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Only north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, Floyd | northwest, down. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Deeper Forest Floyd | The forest gets deeper and darker here. The brambles seem to have a Floyd | life of their own. They snatch at your clothes. Your efforts to get Floyd | through are futile. You are forced back. Floyd | Charred Glade Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dank Forest Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Deeper Forest Floyd | The forest gets deeper and darker here. The brambles seem to have a Floyd | life of their own. They snatch at your clothes. Your efforts to get Floyd | through are futile. You are forced back. Floyd | Clearing Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess I'm done." | |||||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Deeper Forest Floyd | The forest gets deeper and darker here. The brambles seem to have a Floyd | life of their own. They snatch at your clothes. Your efforts to get Floyd | through are futile. You are forced back. Floyd | Clearing Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Deeper Forest Floyd | The forest gets deeper and darker here. The brambles seem to have a Floyd | life of their own. They snatch at your clothes. Your efforts to get Floyd | through are futile. You are forced back. Floyd | Clearing Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | North, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am not sure how to explain this to you, ibhr, but your attitude and the way you are always so deeply critical and your language and all of that has run people off. First Gunther, now David, and I'm not really feeling like playing with you, either." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "You just come in and take over when you haven't even seemingly read the scrollback." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "And it just makes it all very not fun for the rest of us." | ||||||
| Bert says, "I am sure that children also know what feces is, but that does not justify flinging it about." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I've tried being diplomatic over several sessions and that has not worked." | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I do not mean to be offensive. I was talking about the characterization of Micky, not the game. I will let you have control." | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I did like some of the games we played, like Nord and Bert, aand some of those independent ones." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I... I'm not sure anyone's still in the mood. You kind of threw a wet blanked over various people's moods." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I'm just silent because I'm trying to get Trizbort to work so I can map this section (it's not huge but still)" | ||||||
| Guenni says, "I'm just a bit confused which directions we already explord since I'm using a different system, and I'm a bit slower in reading than the rest of you." | ||||||
| Guenni says, "I'm just a bit confused which directions we already explord since I'm using a different system, and I'm a bit slower in reading than the rest of you...floyd l" | ||||||
| Guenni says, "sorry" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Guenni), "Sorry, I got derailed but ibhr. I'll try to snap back into it. :)" | ||||||
| Guenni says, "The sorry was just for the last mixed up message." | ||||||
| Guenni says (to floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Micky Blowtorch, your Floyd | ex-colleague, now a crazed warp junkie, is lounging around the stump, Floyd | looking suitably bemused. Floyd | > | Rotonoto asks, "Did anyone ask Micky about the focus wheel, which is what we're supposed to be looking for?" | |||||
| Ellison says, "he gave a generic response to that" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm not sure we asked about that -- or maybe we did and he was all 'don't talk about trees so much'" | ||||||
| Tale makes himself you nothing me nothing out of the dust. | ||||||
| Tale has disconnected. | genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, I think Ellison asked earlier." | |||||
| Guenni says, "I remember the same as Ellison." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm goign to be semi-afk a sec recapping what we've done here to recapture my focus." | ||||||
| Rotonoto says, "oh yeah, I see that now" | ||||||
| Guenni asks, "So did we establish that the only direction after s is down into the mine?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "if you guys don't mind, I'll just try mapping a bit and then we can restore to the start of this area" | ||||||
| Rotonoto says, "also se & e" | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Sure." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dim Forest Floyd | The dense foliage blocks out nearly all the daylight here, with just a Floyd | few patches peeking through. There are ways through the forest in every Floyd | direction with the clearing to the west and a cool glade to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | North, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "weird. I don't think 'exits' lists the actual available exits." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | Don't you hate the rain? Why is it raining much harder in this bit of Floyd | the forest than anywhere else? Cold, grey and wet. Blurg! You can leave Floyd | in any direction, but the undergrowth is too dense for you to see which Floyd | way would be best. Floyd | Micky arrives from the general direction of the clearing, looking Floyd | extremely angry. Floyd | "You," screams Micky. "You're the one who's destroyed my peace and Floyd | quiet. I won't have it I tell you!" He slowly stands up and waves his Floyd | fist at you. He slowly works himself into a rage. He slowly moves Floyd | toward you. If you hadn't spent so much time worrying over the dreadful Floyd | grammar, you might have seen him land the karate chop that broke your Floyd | neck... Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp or a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ouch" | |||||
| Emily says, "wow, I had no idea Micky was so mean" | ||||||
| Guenni asks, "Sholdn't we have gone there or were we to slow?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "well, he's crazy. crazy mean." | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Whoa." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I think it was some kind of timer." | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "We get to alternate locations by dying: This could be very iteresting." | ||||||
| Rotonoto says, "At least when our host dies, we don't." | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to inuredbyheavyrain), "This is like the "hub", so we were just sent back to the beginning." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I don't remember if you can just re-do areas repeatedly or if you have to restore" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "enter smooth warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim through the smooth warp and leave the castle far behind. Floyd | Travelling through the dimensions doesn't hurt so much this time, but Floyd | entering the host-parasite interface is a bit tricky - it'll become Floyd | easier with practice. Your host this time is another human. More hard Floyd | work! Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Micky Blowtorch, your Floyd | ex-colleague, now a crazed warp junkie, is lounging around the stump, Floyd | looking suitably bemused. Floyd | > | inky says, "hunh weird" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ok. Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "His timer's been reset." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Gloomy Forest Floyd | The constant rainfall here is incredibly depressing. So depressing in Floyd | fact, that if you weren't an alert inter-dimensional espionage Floyd | operative with other things to think about, you'd get pretty miserable. Floyd | The forest is impassable to the northeast, east and southeast, although Floyd | to the north and south it seems to clear a bit. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "When you're done mapping, I'd like to share with Mickey who we really are." | |||||
| rockersuke says, "s" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, brb" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cool Glade Floyd | Drizzle is falling here, to be followed by sunny spells, and a few Floyd | showers in northern regions later in the day. The outlook for tomorrow Floyd | is anybody's guess, but if you'd like to leave this place, you can go Floyd | south, west or southwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | Don't you hate the rain? Why is it raining much harder in this bit of Floyd | the forest than anywhere else? Cold, grey and wet. Blurg! You can leave Floyd | in any direction, but the undergrowth is too dense for you to see which Floyd | way would be best. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dark Forest Floyd | You are in the middle of a dark forest. The dense bracken grabs at your Floyd | feet as you walk. Brambles hinder your progress except towards a glade Floyd | to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Something interesting." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Deeper Forest Floyd | The forest gets deeper and darker here. The brambles seem to have a Floyd | life of their own. They snatch at your clothes. Your efforts to get Floyd | through are futile. You are forced back. Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage sits on the floor here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is now open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "look in it" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard contains some tongs, a crucible and a hammer. Floyd | B-A-N-G! An explosion triggers a reflex action. Faster than a speeding Floyd | bullet, you cover your head and dive for the ground. Unfortunately, Floyd | exploding parrots are much faster than speeding bullets (well, this one Floyd | is anyway). The shock wave hits you while you're still in mid-air, Floyd | disintegrating the host-parasite interface instantly. You get blown to Floyd | kingdom come, or rather that tacky plastic castle in your goldfish Floyd | bowl. Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "well, we found the parrot" | |||||
| Rotonoto says, "Ah. WE were the parrot." | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I assume we have to take those tools without look in the cupboard, before the explosion hits." | ||||||
| gjnave says, "oh!! thats right.. today is Fish .. #serendipity" | ||||||
| gjnave arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||||
| gjnave says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | Ellison says (to gjnave), "we're currently working on the smooth warp" | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | The ant eggs have stopped swirling around and are now floating on the Floyd | surface. Gravel fills the bottom of the bowl and some tasty looking Floyd | pondweed you've been wanting to nibble for days is lying on it. You get Floyd | a nasty feeling in your swim bladder about the castle, probably because Floyd | Sir Playfair has so rudely interrupted your vacation. Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I am curious what happens if we go out to the bowl." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "FYI, for the next few minutes I'm watching but can't join in." | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "eat weed" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Delicious and there is plenty more. Floyd | > | gjnave asks, "ok.. so i take it we are a fish?" | |||||
| Rotonoto asks, "Correct me, but did we last longer the first time, before Micky killed us?" | ||||||
| Guenni says (to floyd), "take weed" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You pick up the pondweed in your mouth and can't help but eat it. Floyd | Delicious. Floyd | > | gjnave asks, "what about eating the ant-eggs?" | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "eat eggs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Delicious and there are plenty more. Floyd | > | gjnave asks, "do we know what the goal of this game is?" | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take them" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You pick up the eggs in your mouth and can't help but eat them. Floyd | Delicious. Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "We did that." | |||||
| Ellison says (to gjnave), "yes, we are trying to find parts of a 'focus wheel' hidden in several different areas that we can warp to" | ||||||
| gjnave asks, "ah.. so we just warped into a fish body then?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "no, this is home base. we were on vacation." | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I think our natural state is fish." | ||||||
| Rotonoto says, "I'm wondering if every time we visit the forest, we get a shorter time there. Hope not." | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Maybe this is going to be a surrealistic thing like Nord and bert where the intended results of our objectives are never particularly clear. I am OK with that, since Nord and bert was wnderfully srreal." | ||||||
| rockersuke exclaims, "the goal is all about stop an interdimensional anarchist band, player is a member of a spy agancy whose agents warp into living things in different dimensions... yeah!" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "surreal" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Guenni says, "..floyd>" | ||||||
| Guenni goes home. | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "talk to colors" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand talk Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "communicate through colors" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand communicate Floyd | > | Ellison says, "hmm, I probably should not have put it on 'verbose' for Guenni's sake" | |||||
| inky asks, "is Guenni blind?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "yeah" | ||||||
| inky says, "that does make it tough" | ||||||
| inky says, "but it's hard for other people to follow if it's not verbose" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "true" | ||||||
| Rotonoto asks, "Should we continue mapping the smooth warp?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "sure" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "enter smooth warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dimensions flash past as you swim through the smooth warp and slide Floyd | into the host-parasite interface with consumate ease. Another human. Floyd | Work, work, work! Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Micky Blowtorch, your Floyd | ex-colleague, now a crazed warp junkie, is lounging around the stump, Floyd | looking suitably bemused. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "also, look, MS games support this:" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "go to smithy" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | Don't you hate the rain? Why is it raining much harder in this bit of Floyd | the forest than anywhere else? Cold, grey and wet. Blurg! You can leave Floyd | in any direction, but the undergrowth is too dense for you to see which Floyd | way would be best. Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage sits on the floor here. Floyd | OK. I'm here! Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x cage" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The bird cage is made of cane or something very similar. Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | It contains a parrot and a mould. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is now open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the bird cage. Floyd | The cupboard steadfastly refuses to be moved. Floyd | > | inky says, "whoah!" | |||||
| Rotonoto says, "Ooh, nifty. Only with places we've been though, probably." | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x mould" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The mould is the sort that can be broken open after the molten metal Floyd | you've poured into it has cooled. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the crucible. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "yeah, probably. I don't remember." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x parrot" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't reach the parrot from here. Floyd | B-A-N-G! An explosion triggers a reflex action. Faster than a speeding Floyd | bullet, you cover your head and dive for the ground. Unfortunately, Floyd | exploding parrots are much faster than speeding bullets (well, this one Floyd | is anyway). The shock wave hits you while you're still in mid-air, Floyd | disintegrating the host-parasite interface instantly. You get blown to Floyd | kingdom come, or rather that tacky plastic castle in your goldfish Floyd | bowl. Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | inky says, "oops" | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Maybe we should open the cage and hope the parrot flies out of range?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I doubt it's a real parrot" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "enter smooth warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dimensions flash past as you swim through the smooth warp and slide Floyd | into the host-parasite interface with consumate ease. Another human. Floyd | Work, work, work! Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Micky Blowtorch, your Floyd | ex-colleague, now a crazed warp junkie, is lounging around the stump, Floyd | looking suitably bemused. Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Yep, the old exploding parrot trick." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "go to smithy" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | Don't you hate the rain? Why is it raining much harder in this bit of Floyd | the forest than anywhere else? Cold, grey and wet. Blurg! You can leave Floyd | in any direction, but the undergrowth is too dense for you to see which Floyd | way would be best. Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | OK. I'm here! Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open bird cage" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The parrot squawks nervously as you open the cage. He stays firmly Floyd | inside. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x parrot" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The parrot clearly doesn't like being cooped up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | The parrot, clearly enjoying his new found freedom, emerges from the Floyd | smithy and heads skyward. It looks unsure where to go next. Floyd | The parrot flies off over the trees. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Whew." | |||||
| Ellison says, "weird" | ||||||
| inky says, "excellent" | ||||||
| Rotonoto says, "Now there's time to forge something." | ||||||
| rockersuke says (to floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 20 out of 501. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | You are wearing some jeans and a herringbone overcoat. Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Inventory does not carry over after death: Good to know." | |||||
| rootmos asks, "Did we examine the mould?" | ||||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "examine mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The mould is the sort that can be broken open after the molten metal Floyd | you've poured into it has cooled. Floyd | > | rootmos says, "I think it was hidden in the cage." | |||||
| Rotonoto says, "Yes. It won't tell us what it's shaped like." | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fire" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The fire is burning fiercely in the forge. The heat makes your face Floyd | glow. Floyd | BANG! Something explodes in the distance. But, as they say, 'out of Floyd | sight, out of mind', so it's probably better not to worry about it. Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "We seem to have the approriate tools in the cupboard; does anyone know the exact mechanics of blacksmithing>" | |||||
| Rotonoto exclaims, "Ha!" | ||||||
| rootmos says, "Oh, so we probably have to go to the mine to get something to pour into it." | ||||||
| Emily says, "I'm feeling sorry for the parrot" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "oh yeah, the mine" | ||||||
| Rotonoto says, "We couldn't go in the mine." | ||||||
| Emily asks, "do we need a light source for that?" | ||||||
| Ellison asks, "is there something here we could melt down?" | ||||||
| Emily says, "it wouldn't let us because it said we were "looking for trouble" but maybe if we're lit and have a reason to go in, it will let us" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "You must not have any experience with parrots if you feel bad for them." | ||||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "examine crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a crucible here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is now open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "examine crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crucible can easily withstand the heat of the fire. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "get mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the mould. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "get crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the crucible. Floyd | > | rootmos asks, "I think it was the darkness that prevented us from entering the mine, so can we turn something on fire to get some light?" | |||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "put crucible on fire" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crucible falls into the heart of the flames and disappears from Floyd | sight. The fire is obviously deeper than you thought. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x forge" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The fire is burning fiercely in the forge. The heat makes your face Floyd | glow. Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Aargh! Sorry about that guys." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put crucible on forge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crucible falls into the heart of the flames and disappears from Floyd | sight. The fire is obviously deeper than you thought. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Glad MS has undo." | |||||
| Ellison says, "er, I guess we hold stuff over the fire with the tongs" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "maybe" | ||||||
| Rotonoto says, "Tongs! Right you are." | ||||||
| Rotonoto says, "But we still need to get an ingot or something to melt." | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I have kind of an insane idea: We need light, and death is a mere inconvience, so what if I try--" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "set shirt on fire." | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a shirt here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a crucible and a mould. Floyd | You are wearing some jeans and a herringbone overcoat. Floyd | > | rootmos asks, "What about branches from the forest outside for light?" | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "set overcoat on fire" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that to the herringbone overcoat. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "sure, we could try that." | |||||
| Ellison says, "I don't think we want to be in here when Micky gets here, though" | ||||||
| Rotonoto asks, "We haven't been annoying him with questions in this incarnation. Does he show up no matter what?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "there's a dark forest two rooms to the west. there's a cool glade w. n.n. don't know where our best chances of finding a dry branch would be." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I think he goes to check out the explosion (which he assumes to be in the smithy since it's his weird booby trap thing)" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "A cool glade seems like the most ikely place." | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Likely" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Gloomy Forest Floyd | The constant rainfall here is incredibly depressing. So depressing in Floyd | fact, that if you weren't an alert inter-dimensional espionage Floyd | operative with other things to think about, you'd get pretty miserable. Floyd | The forest is impassable to the northeast, east and southeast, although Floyd | to the north and south it seems to clear a bit. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cool Glade Floyd | Drizzle is falling here, to be followed by sunny spells, and a few Floyd | showers in northern regions later in the day. The outlook for tomorrow Floyd | is anybody's guess, but if you'd like to leave this place, you can go Floyd | south, west or southwest. Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hee. Listening to the "original music score" (The link Ellison posted has the original lha file, which I don't know what to do with, but the site's downloads page has it in mp3.)" | |||||
| Ellison says, "oops, drizzle" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to ggg), "huh, I'll check it out" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Gloomy Forest Floyd | The constant rainfall here is incredibly depressing. So depressing in Floyd | fact, that if you weren't an alert inter-dimensional espionage Floyd | operative with other things to think about, you'd get pretty miserable. Floyd | The forest is impassable to the northeast, east and southeast, although Floyd | to the north and south it seems to clear a bit. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dark Forest Floyd | You are in the middle of a dark forest. The dense bracken grabs at your Floyd | feet as you walk. Brambles hinder your progress except towards a glade Floyd | to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get branche=" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand branche= Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get branch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand branch Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Charred Glade Floyd | This unpleasant scene is clear evidence that the hand of man has set Floyd | foot here. The trees have been damaged by fire, and, on closer Floyd | inspection, you notice the entrance to a mine leading down. Floyd | Some feathers are strewn about (almost enough to make a duvet). Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "That answers that." | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Whoops, we are unlikely to be able to maintain an open fire very long in the constant." | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Rain" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get feathers" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the feathers. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mine Floyd | Experience tells you the mine is probably riddled with lurking nasties. Floyd | Training tells you there's nothing to worry about. It's dark in there. Floyd | You haven't got a light. Anyway, who's looking for trouble. You return Floyd | to the glade. Floyd | Charred Glade Floyd | This unpleasant scene is clear evidence that the hand of man has set Floyd | foot here. The trees have been damaged by fire, and, on closer Floyd | inspection, you notice the entrance to a mine leading down. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take feathers" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But you are already carrying the feathers. Floyd | > | inky asks, "so are there exits we haven't taken?" | |||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "examine feathers" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The feathers are the last remains of a bird. Floyd | > | inky says, "(besides the mine)" | |||||
| Rotonoto says, "I don't think the feathers are useful." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I'm pretty sure we've seen everything but yeah, I could be wrong. anyhow, I'll upload what I've got so far." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, back. With clean hair and lunch and stuff." | ||||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a crucible, a mould and some feathers. Floyd | You are wearing some jeans and a herringbone overcoat. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "right on" | |||||
| inky says, "I don't see how we can go into the mine without a light" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x overcoat" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The herringbone overcoat smells slightly fishy, but at least it keeps Floyd | out the rain. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in pocket" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand pocket Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x jeans" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The jeans are held together by the dirt they've accumulated. A good Floyd | wash and they'd fall to pieces. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in jeans" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The jeans are held together by the dirt they've accumulated. A good Floyd | wash and they'd fall to pieces. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wash jeans" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand wash Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I want to say that maybe there's something to do with the stump in the first room when he's gone but that's probably wrong based on what we've seen so far" | |||||
| rootmos asks, "Wait! Wasn't the bird cage flammable?" | ||||||
| Rotonoto asks, "Back to smithy?" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Mickey said the parrot said something about seven and nine: I wonder if those were esoteric directions, like the maps in Monkey Island?" | ||||||
| Emily says, "he also said something about the parrot's comments "not adding up", which made me wonder whether 16 was going to be an important number" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "A clue of some sort, I'm sure." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Emily), "Yeah" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "go to smithy" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | Don't you hate the rain? Why is it raining much harder in this bit of Floyd | the forest than anywhere else? Cold, grey and wet. Blurg! You can leave Floyd | in any direction, but the undergrowth is too dense for you to see which Floyd | way would be best. Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | OK. I'm here! Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Parrots usually say 'Pieces of eight,' so perhaps that's what we're looking for & the parrot was trying to draw us off the scent." | |||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "examine birdcage" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand birdcage Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I put up the map at [LINK]" | |||||
| Rotonoto says, "Phooey." | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cage" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The bird cage is made of cane or something very similar. Floyd | It is open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cage" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the bird cage. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "burn cage" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "burn cage with fire" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | As you hold the bird cage over the fire the intense heat makes you drop Floyd | it into the flames. The bird cage burns away. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take tongs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the tongs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "hold cage with tongs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are now holding the bird cage with the tongs. Floyd | Out of the corner of your eye you see a movement in the doorway. It's Floyd | Micky and he seems even madder than usual. Floyd | "You," screams Micky. "You're the one who's destroyed my peace and Floyd | quiet. I won't have it I tell you!" He slowly stands up and waves his Floyd | fist at you. He slowly works himself into a rage. He slowly moves Floyd | toward you. If you hadn't spent so much time worrying over the dreadful Floyd | grammar, you might have seen him land the karate chop that broke your Floyd | neck... Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "put cage in tongs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any tongs here. Floyd | > | inky says, "man" | |||||
| rockersuke exclaims (at ellison), "Nice!" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "enter smooth warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dimensions flash past as you swim through the smooth warp and slide Floyd | into the host-parasite interface with consumate ease. Another human. Floyd | Work, work, work! Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Micky Blowtorch, your Floyd | ex-colleague, now a crazed warp junkie, is lounging around the stump, Floyd | looking suitably bemused. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "go to smithy" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | Don't you hate the rain? Why is it raining much harder in this bit of Floyd | the forest than anywhere else? Cold, grey and wet. Blurg! You can leave Floyd | in any direction, but the undergrowth is too dense for you to see which Floyd | way would be best. Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | OK. I'm here! Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open cage" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The parrot squawks nervously as you open the cage. He stays firmly Floyd | inside. Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I hope we get to nake Micky suffer." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | The parrot, clearly enjoying his new found freedom, emerges from the Floyd | smithy and heads skyward. It looks unsure where to go next. Floyd | The parrot flies off over the trees. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Micky is insane." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get mould. open cupboard. get tongs." | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the mould. Floyd | The cupboard is now open. Floyd | You have now got the tongs. Floyd | BANG! Something explodes in the distance. But, as they say, 'out of Floyd | sight, out of mind', so it's probably better not to worry about it. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "</obvious>" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "hold cage with tongs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the bird cage. Floyd | You are now holding the bird cage with the tongs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "burn cage" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "burn cage with fire" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The bird cage burns away. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "forge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Are you talking to yourself again? Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying some tongs and a mould. Floyd | You are wearing some jeans and a herringbone overcoat. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "dang, it's not still burning" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [You can't "undo" what hasn't been done!] Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "It woulda fizzled out in the rain anyway." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "/u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand /u Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "lok in tongs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is no such lok. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "look in tongs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The tongs are made from overwrought iron (the blacksmith was a nervous Floyd | sort of chappie). They are ideal for holding things at a distance. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look in crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a crucible here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look in crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crucible contains nothing. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "yeah, I dunno. I'd like to investigate the first room when he's gone." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tongs dropped. Floyd | Mould dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Gloomy Forest Floyd | The constant rainfall here is incredibly depressing. So depressing in Floyd | fact, that if you weren't an alert inter-dimensional espionage Floyd | operative with other things to think about, you'd get pretty miserable. Floyd | The forest is impassable to the northeast, east and southeast, although Floyd | to the north and south it seems to clear a bit. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dim Forest Floyd | The dense foliage blocks out nearly all the daylight here, with just a Floyd | few patches peeking through. There are ways through the forest in every Floyd | direction with the clearing to the west and a cool glade to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Micky Blowtorch, your Floyd | ex-colleague, now a crazed warp junkie, is lounging around the stump, Floyd | looking suitably bemused. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "xtump" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand xtump Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x stump" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The first thing to catch your eye is the familiar figure sitting upon Floyd | the stump. The tree stump is all that remains of an oak tree, blown Floyd | down in a huge gale sometime in late 1987. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask micky about stump" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "It keeps the wind out. Not much use when it's Floyd | raining though. I'll have to get the roof fixed." Floyd | > | Ellison asks (of Jacqueline), "what did you want to say to him before?" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "tell micky about us" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand us Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "tell micky about me" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch ignores your every word. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, I was wondering if he'd treat us differently if he knew we were from the agency." | |||||
| Rotonoto says, "I think the stump can be entered when M's not here." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Like, he's never seen us before, except that he has." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "tell micky about agency" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand agency Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Or at least, we know *him*" | |||||
| inky says, "it does seem like there is more info about the stump" | ||||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "tell micky about me" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch isn't interested. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, that answers that then." | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "tell micky that I am from agency" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Please try re-phrasing that. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | A changed man, Micky gets off the stump. He's muttering to himself - Floyd | words like 'kill', 'maim' and 'disfigure'. All in all this is an Floyd | ex-inter-dimensional espionage operative who is less than gruntled with Floyd | life. Floyd | "You," screams Micky. "You're the one who's destroyed my peace and Floyd | quiet. I won't have it I tell you!" He slowly stands up and waves his Floyd | fist at you. He slowly works himself into a rage. He slowly moves Floyd | toward you. If you hadn't spent so much time worrying over the dreadful Floyd | grammar, you might have seen him land the karate chop that broke your Floyd | neck... Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ah, yes. there's just a timer for the area in general" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "enter smooth warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dimensions flash past as you swim through the smooth warp and slide Floyd | into the host-parasite interface with consumate ease. Another human. Floyd | Work, work, work! Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Micky Blowtorch, your Floyd | ex-colleague, now a crazed warp junkie, is lounging around the stump, Floyd | looking suitably bemused. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "go to smithy" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | Don't you hate the rain? Why is it raining much harder in this bit of Floyd | the forest than anywhere else? Cold, grey and wet. Blurg! You can leave Floyd | in any direction, but the undergrowth is too dense for you to see which Floyd | way would be best. Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | OK. I'm here! Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open cage" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The parrot squawks nervously as you open the cage. He stays firmly Floyd | inside. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | The parrot, clearly enjoying his new found freedom, emerges from the Floyd | smithy and heads skyward. It looks unsure where to go next. Floyd | The parrot flies off over the trees. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | Don't you hate the rain? Why is it raining much harder in this bit of Floyd | the forest than anywhere else? Cold, grey and wet. Blurg! You can leave Floyd | in any direction, but the undergrowth is too dense for you to see which Floyd | way would be best. Floyd | The parrot flies off over the trees. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Micky Blowtorch, your Floyd | ex-colleague, now a crazed warp junkie, is lounging around the stump, Floyd | looking suitably bemused. Floyd | The parrot flies off over the trees. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | BANG! Something explodes in the distance. But, as they say, 'out of Floyd | sight, out of mind', so it's probably better not to worry about it. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Micky climbs out of the stump, scratches his backside and looks around. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x stump" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The tree stump is all that remains of an oak tree, blown down in a huge Floyd | gale sometime in late 1987. Floyd | Micky trudges off towards the wet forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "search stump" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "hmm" | |||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "enter stump" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are now sitting on the tree stump. Floyd | > | rockersuke says, "I was going to suggest to ask micky about some known characters, as playfair, agency leader, or something like that, perhaps about some of the bad guys (names mentioned in the feelies)" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I thought we asked about Playfair." | ||||||
| Rotonoto says, "Nope." | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "We did ask about Playfair" | ||||||
| Rotonoto says, "I meant nope, you can't enter the stump." | ||||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "look in stump" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Right at the bottom of the stump you spy a gold disc. Floyd | Micky arrives looking worried. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "get disc" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't reach the gold disc from here. Floyd | "Get off my stump pea-brain" Micky shouts pushing you aside. Floyd | "Something suspicious is going on," he says. "The only person who'd Floyd | interfere with the parrot would be someone after the mould. That means Floyd | Sir Playfair has got someone else on the trail. And that means... " His Floyd | words become indecipherable. Floyd | > | ||||||
| genericgeekgirl disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | Rotonoto says, "Tongs." | |||||
| rockersuke says (to floyd), "ask micky about playfair" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Micky Blowtorch says, "What do you know about the boss? Who's side are Floyd | you on anyway?" Floyd | > | rockersuke says, "aah, i remember we did this before" | |||||
| Rotonoto says, "Kill us, Micky. Now we know what to do." | ||||||
| rockersuke says (to floyd), "ask micky about brian" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand brian Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Hopefully there's time to melt the disc & pour it in the mould before he has his little breakdown." | |||||
| Ellison says, "I'm sure" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain arrives, ready to play with the toys. | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I searched the stump, but nothing was found." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get disc" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Hyahhhhhh," shouts Micky, adopting a kung fu position. "You have my Floyd | disc but not for long." In the time it takes to blink, he whips the Floyd | disc from your grasp and flings it in the stump. He explains that five Floyd | years' abstinence from sex, tobacco and alcohol have given him the Floyd | ability to move with supernatural speed and precision. You decide the Floyd | techniques aren't worth cultivating. Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "It's "look in," not "search."" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | inky asks, "will he just wander off again eventually?" | |||||
| Rotonoto says, "we have to get the disc while he's gone" | ||||||
| Bert goes home. | ||||||
| Bert has disconnected. | Ellison says, "I think he leaves just once per session" | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I suspect this guy has spent a lifetime abstaining from sex, and the tobacco and alcohol dulled the pain of everyone hating him." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "we need to esplode another parrot..." | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "punch micky" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Beating people up isn't the answer. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attack micky" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Beating people up isn't the answer. Floyd | > | Rotonoto asks, "Won't he kill us if we wait?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | Don't you hate the rain? Why is it raining much harder in this bit of Floyd | the forest than anywhere else? Cold, grey and wet. Blurg! You can leave Floyd | in any direction, but the undergrowth is too dense for you to see which Floyd | way would be best. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cage" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But the bird cage is already open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x parrot" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a parrot here. Floyd | > | inky says, "oops" | |||||
| Ellison says, "probably if we walk up to him carrying the mould" | ||||||
| inky asks, "is there a way to force a session restart without restarting the whole game?" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the mould. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But you are already carrying the mould. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't walk through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | Don't you hate the rain? Why is it raining much harder in this bit of Floyd | the forest than anywhere else? Cold, grey and wet. Blurg! You can leave Floyd | in any direction, but the undergrowth is too dense for you to see which Floyd | way would be best. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "sorry" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Micky Blowtorch, your Floyd | ex-colleague, now a crazed warp junkie, is lounging around the stump, Floyd | looking suitably bemused. Floyd | Micky snatches the mould from you. "You shouldn't have this," he tells Floyd | you. "Not unless you've been interfering with that parrot." Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "dang, Micky, why so reasonable?" | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I guess some of the things that happen, like the parrot flying away, are saved between deaths. We did see the parrot flying overhead when we first returned to this place." | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "kick micky" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Beating people up isn't the answer. Floyd | A changed man, Micky gets off the stump. He's muttering to himself - Floyd | words like 'kill', 'maim' and 'disfigure'. All in all this is an Floyd | ex-inter-dimensional espionage operative who is less than gruntled with Floyd | life. Floyd | "You," screams Micky. "You're the one who's destroyed my peace and Floyd | quiet. I won't have it I tell you!" He slowly stands up and waves his Floyd | fist at you. He slowly works himself into a rage. He slowly moves Floyd | toward you. If you hadn't spent so much time worrying over the dreadful Floyd | grammar, you might have seen him land the karate chop that broke your Floyd | neck... Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | inky says, "there we go" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "No, he dies anew each time." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter smooth warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dimensions flash past as you swim through the smooth warp and slide Floyd | into the host-parasite interface with consumate ease. Another human. Floyd | Work, work, work! Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Micky Blowtorch, your Floyd | ex-colleague, now a crazed warp junkie, is lounging around the stump, Floyd | looking suitably bemused. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | inky says, "whoops" | |||||
| inky asks, "what makes him wander away?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "the explosion. we want to free the parrot first, though." | ||||||
| inky says, "oh whoops" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "We need the tongs! And we need to set the parrot free." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter smooth" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is no such smooth. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter smooth warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dimensions flash past as you swim through the smooth warp and slide Floyd | into the host-parasite interface with consumate ease. Another human. Floyd | Work, work, work! Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Micky Blowtorch, your Floyd | ex-colleague, now a crazed warp junkie, is lounging around the stump, Floyd | looking suitably bemused. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | Don't you hate the rain? Why is it raining much harder in this bit of Floyd | the forest than anywhere else? Cold, grey and wet. Blurg! You can leave Floyd | in any direction, but the undergrowth is too dense for you to see which Floyd | way would be best. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cage" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The parrot squawks nervously as you open the cage. He stays firmly Floyd | inside. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | The parrot, clearly enjoying his new found freedom, emerges from the Floyd | smithy and heads skyward. It looks unsure where to go next. Floyd | The parrot flies off over the trees. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | Don't you hate the rain? Why is it raining much harder in this bit of Floyd | the forest than anywhere else? Cold, grey and wet. Blurg! You can leave Floyd | in any direction, but the undergrowth is too dense for you to see which Floyd | way would be best. Floyd | The parrot flies off over the trees. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Micky Blowtorch, your Floyd | ex-colleague, now a crazed warp junkie, is lounging around the stump, Floyd | looking suitably bemused. Floyd | The parrot flies off over the trees. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | BANG! Something explodes in the distance. But, as they say, 'out of Floyd | sight, out of mind', so it's probably better not to worry about it. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I think we only couldn't reach the disc because we were sitting on the stump at the time" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Micky climbs out of the stump, scratches his backside and looks around. Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Micky trudges off towards the wet forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in stump" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Right at the bottom of the stump you spy a gold disc. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get disc" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the gold disc. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | Don't you hate the rain? Why is it raining much harder in this bit of Floyd | the forest than anywhere else? Cold, grey and wet. Blurg! You can leave Floyd | in any direction, but the undergrowth is too dense for you to see which Floyd | way would be best. Floyd | Micky Blowtorch is here. Floyd | Micky glances at the disc. "There are some nasty folk around these Floyd | days," he remarks, retrieving the disc. "That's better," he says as he Floyd | dusts it down. "All's well now."Micky looks deeply upset. Setting off Floyd | towards the clearing he starts muttering to himself, but you can't make Floyd | any sense of what he's saying. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dim Forest Floyd | The dense foliage blocks out nearly all the daylight here, with just a Floyd | few patches peeking through. There are ways through the forest in every Floyd | direction with the clearing to the west and a cool glade to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Gloomy Forest Floyd | The constant rainfall here is incredibly depressing. So depressing in Floyd | fact, that if you weren't an alert inter-dimensional espionage Floyd | operative with other things to think about, you'd get pretty miserable. Floyd | The forest is impassable to the northeast, east and southeast, although Floyd | to the north and south it seems to clear a bit. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get tongs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any tongs here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is now open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in cupboard" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard contains some tongs, a crucible and a hammer. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get tongs, hammer, and crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the tongs. Floyd | Hammer taken. Floyd | Crucible taken. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hold disc in tongs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are now holding the gold disc with the tongs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put disc over fire" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't follow you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "melt disc" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "melt disc with fire" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The gold disc melts. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "put disc in crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a disc here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put gold in crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any gold here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying some tongs, a crucible and a hammer. Floyd | You are wearing some jeans and a herringbone overcoat. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tongs" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The tongs are made from overwrought iron (the blacksmith was a nervous Floyd | sort of chappie). They are ideal for holding things at a distance. Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "We probably have to put the mould in the crucible and the disc in the mould, but I thought Micky took the mould." | |||||
| Ellison says, "I think we put it in the crucible before we melt it" | ||||||
| inky asks, "did he take the mould when he wandered off?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "and then pour it into the mould" | ||||||
| Rotonoto says, "Yeah, put disc in crucible. hold crucible with tongs. hold crucible over fire,. pour gold into mould" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x mould" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The mould is the sort that can be broken open after the molten metal Floyd | you've poured into it has cooled. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter smooth warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dimensions flash past as you swim through the smooth warp and slide Floyd | into the host-parasite interface with consumate ease. Another human. Floyd | Work, work, work! Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Micky Blowtorch, your Floyd | ex-colleague, now a crazed warp junkie, is lounging around the stump, Floyd | looking suitably bemused. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | Don't you hate the rain? Why is it raining much harder in this bit of Floyd | the forest than anywhere else? Cold, grey and wet. Blurg! You can leave Floyd | in any direction, but the undergrowth is too dense for you to see which Floyd | way would be best. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cage" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The parrot squawks nervously as you open the cage. He stays firmly Floyd | inside. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | The parrot, clearly enjoying his new found freedom, emerges from the Floyd | smithy and heads skyward. It looks unsure where to go next. Floyd | The parrot flies off over the trees. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | Don't you hate the rain? Why is it raining much harder in this bit of Floyd | the forest than anywhere else? Cold, grey and wet. Blurg! You can leave Floyd | in any direction, but the undergrowth is too dense for you to see which Floyd | way would be best. Floyd | The parrot flies off over the trees. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Micky Blowtorch, your Floyd | ex-colleague, now a crazed warp junkie, is lounging around the stump, Floyd | looking suitably bemused. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | BANG! Something explodes in the distance. But, as they say, 'out of Floyd | sight, out of mind', so it's probably better not to worry about it. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Micky climbs out of the stump, scratches his backside and looks around. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Micky trudges off towards the wet forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get disc" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the gold disc. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dim Forest Floyd | The dense foliage blocks out nearly all the daylight here, with just a Floyd | few patches peeking through. There are ways through the forest in every Floyd | direction with the clearing to the west and a cool glade to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Gloomy Forest Floyd | The constant rainfall here is incredibly depressing. So depressing in Floyd | fact, that if you weren't an alert inter-dimensional espionage Floyd | operative with other things to think about, you'd get pretty miserable. Floyd | The forest is impassable to the northeast, east and southeast, although Floyd | to the north and south it seems to clear a bit. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is now open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get hammer, crucible, and tongs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the hammer. Floyd | Crucible taken. Floyd | Tongs taken. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x disc" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The gold disc was awarded to the Seven Deadly Fins for their Floyd | semi-mystical album "Batting Averages From The Test Match Of Oblivion". Floyd | It has a slight bulge in the middle. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | inky says, "I wonder if that bulge is significant" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put disc in crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The gold disc is now inside the crucible. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hold crucible with tongs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are now holding the crucible with the tongs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put crucible in fire" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crucible falls into the heart of the flames and disappears from Floyd | sight. The fire is obviously deeper than you thought. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put crucible in fire with tongs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crucible falls into the heart of the flames and disappears from Floyd | sight. The fire is obviously deeper than you thought. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hold crucible over fire with tongs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | At first nothing happens. Eventually, the gold disc crumples then Floyd | melts, leaving a puddle of molten gold in the crucible. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pour gold in mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't follow you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "put tongs over fire" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't follow you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put gold in mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You must have the mould. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the mould. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put gold in mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The molten gold dribbles through the hole into the mould. Floyd | Surprised by the heat of the mould you drop it, splashing molten gold Floyd | on your feet. Molten gold is hot. Very hot. Sufficiently hot to Floyd | vapourise your skin and melt all the way down to the bone. Fortunately, Floyd | you go into a state of shock before the really gruesome stuff starts, Floyd | slipping out of the host-parasite interface like an expert. You reel Floyd | and rock through the dimensions, screaming with pain until you hit a Floyd | goldfish's body with a wet slap. Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "pour gold into mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any gold here. Floyd | > | inky says, "oh come on" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [You can't "undo" what hasn't been done!] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | inky says, "grr" | |||||
| Ellison says, "sorry" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | inky says, "no, it's just the game being irritating" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter smooth warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dimensions flash past as you swim through the smooth warp and slide Floyd | into the host-parasite interface with consumate ease. Another human. Floyd | Work, work, work! Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Micky Blowtorch, your Floyd | ex-colleague, now a crazed warp junkie, is lounging around the stump, Floyd | looking suitably bemused. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | Don't you hate the rain? Why is it raining much harder in this bit of Floyd | the forest than anywhere else? Cold, grey and wet. Blurg! You can leave Floyd | in any direction, but the undergrowth is too dense for you to see which Floyd | way would be best. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cage" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The parrot squawks nervously as you open the cage. He stays firmly Floyd | inside. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | The parrot, clearly enjoying his new found freedom, emerges from the Floyd | smithy and heads skyward. It looks unsure where to go next. Floyd | The parrot flies off over the trees. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wet Forest Floyd | Don't you hate the rain? Why is it raining much harder in this bit of Floyd | the forest than anywhere else? Cold, grey and wet. Blurg! You can leave Floyd | in any direction, but the undergrowth is too dense for you to see which Floyd | way would be best. Floyd | The parrot flies off over the trees. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | It's stopped raining here at the moment, but the clouds overhead show Floyd | that it could start again any minute. If they decide to burst, the tree Floyd | stump in the centre of the clearing would probably fill up with water. Floyd | Paths go south, southeast and east. In all other directions the Floyd | undergrowth is too tangled to make any progress. Micky Blowtorch, your Floyd | ex-colleague, now a crazed warp junkie, is lounging around the stump, Floyd | looking suitably bemused. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Let's leave the mould on the floor this time." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | BANG! Something explodes in the distance. But, as they say, 'out of Floyd | sight, out of mind', so it's probably better not to worry about it. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "yeah, sorry that the game is like that!" | |||||
| inky says, "it wouldn't let me put it in when it was on the floor" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Micky climbs out of the stump, scratches his backside and looks around. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Micky trudges off towards the wet forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get disc" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the gold disc. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dim Forest Floyd | The dense foliage blocks out nearly all the daylight here, with just a Floyd | few patches peeking through. There are ways through the forest in every Floyd | direction with the clearing to the west and a cool glade to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Gloomy Forest Floyd | The constant rainfall here is incredibly depressing. So depressing in Floyd | fact, that if you weren't an alert inter-dimensional espionage Floyd | operative with other things to think about, you'd get pretty miserable. Floyd | The forest is impassable to the northeast, east and southeast, although Floyd | to the north and south it seems to clear a bit. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is now open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get hammer, tongs, crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the hammer. Floyd | Tongs taken. Floyd | Crucible taken. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x cupboard" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is a fine place to store metallurgical tools. Floyd | It is open. Floyd | There are some asbestos gloves on it. Floyd | > | inky says, "argh" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "oHO" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "This game is bad at giving important information." | ||||||
| Ellison asks, "should we save anyway?" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get gloves" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the asbestos gloves. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear gloves" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the asbestos gloves. Floyd | > | Rotonoto exclaims, "Oho, unlike Inform, their language lets a container be a supporter too!" | |||||
| Ellison says, "you can do that in Hugo, also" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "we call them SUPERCONTAINERS" | ||||||
| gjnave waves his arms, rolls a poor lore check, and then disappears - 'oh cra..' | inky says, "ok so I'm not sure exactly how this goes, but let's see" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put disc in crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The gold disc is now inside the crucible. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hold crucible over fire with tongs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | At first nothing happens. Eventually, the gold disc crumples then Floyd | melts, leaving a puddle of molten gold in the crucible. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But you are not carrying the mould. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pour gold in mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't follow you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put gold in mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You must have the mould. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pour crucible in mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You empty the crucible, but not carefully enough. Some of the molten Floyd | gold splashes over you. Molten gold is hot. Very hot. Sufficiently hot Floyd | to vapourise your skin and melt all the way down to the bone. Floyd | Fortunately, you go into a state of shock before the really gruesome Floyd | stuff starts, slipping out of the host-parasite interface like an Floyd | expert. You reel and rock through the dimensions, screaming with pain Floyd | until you hit a goldfish's body with a wet slap. Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "yikes" | |||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, I think we need to be holding the mould" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the mould. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "pour gold in mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't follow you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "pour gold into mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The molten gold dribbles through the hole into the mould. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "we should save again" | |||||
| rockersuke exclaims, "cannot stay any longer (now things were getting hot interesting :-) ) bye people, have fun!" | ||||||
| inky says, "wait, what the hell" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put gold into mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The molten gold dribbles through the hole into the mould. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "later rocker" | |||||
| rockersuke flies away singing: Hooome sweeet hooome! | inky says, "I though this killed me before" | |||||
| inky says, "ok well whatever" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "save" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that to the mould. Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I think this might be random as to whether it kills you." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit mould with hammer" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You break the mould. Bad decision. The gold is still molten and Floyd | splashes over you. Nice effect, if you want golden skin. Otherwise, it Floyd | rates zero on just about all counts. Molten gold is hot. Very hot. Floyd | Sufficiently hot to vapourise your skin and melt all the way down to Floyd | the bone. Fortunately, you go into a state of shock before the really Floyd | gruesome stuff starts, slipping out of the host-parasite interface like Floyd | an expert. You reel and rock through the dimensions, screaming with Floyd | pain until you hit a goldfish's body with a wet slap. Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | inky says, "shocking" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | inky asks, "ok where is some water or something?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The falling rain cools the mould too quickly. It cracks open and molten Floyd | gold spills over you. Molten gold is hot. Very hot. Sufficiently hot to Floyd | vapourise your skin and melt all the way down to the bone. Fortunately, Floyd | you go into a state of shock before the really gruesome stuff starts, Floyd | slipping out of the host-parasite interface like an expert. You reel Floyd | and rock through the dimensions, screaming with pain until you hit a Floyd | goldfish's body with a wet slap. Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Go out in the rain" | |||||
| inky says, "oh come on" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The falling rain cools the mould too quickly. It cracks open and molten Floyd | gold spills over you. Molten gold is hot. Very hot. Sufficiently hot to Floyd | vapourise your skin and melt all the way down to the bone. Fortunately, Floyd | you go into a state of shock before the really gruesome stuff starts, Floyd | slipping out of the host-parasite interface like an expert. You reel Floyd | and rock through the dimensions, screaming with pain until you hit a Floyd | goldfish's body with a wet slap. Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hrm. Rain might do it, yeah." | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Go to the drizzle?" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dark Forest Floyd | You are in the middle of a dark forest. The dense bracken grabs at your Floyd | feet as you walk. Brambles hinder your progress except towards a glade Floyd | to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Charred Glade Floyd | This unpleasant scene is clear evidence that the hand of man has set Floyd | foot here. The trees have been damaged by fire, and, on closer Floyd | inspection, you notice the entrance to a mine leading down. Floyd | Some feathers are strewn about (almost enough to make a duvet). Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dank Forest Floyd | This part of the forest is horribly cold and damp, and brambles scratch Floyd | and pull at you as you pass. To the north and south the undergrowth Floyd | clears a little. The forest continues freely in all other directions. Floyd | You hear a noise from the forest. Micky emerges from the undergrowth in Floyd | a daze. His eyes are unfocussed and look straight through you, as if Floyd | you weren't there. Floyd | "You," screams Micky. "You're the one who's destroyed my peace and Floyd | quiet. I won't have it I tell you!" He slowly stands up and waves his Floyd | fist at you. He slowly works himself into a rage. He slowly moves Floyd | toward you. If you hadn't spent so much time worrying over the dreadful Floyd | grammar, you might have seen him land the karate chop that broke your Floyd | neck... Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The falling rain cools the mould too quickly. It cracks open and molten Floyd | gold spills over you. Molten gold is hot. Very hot. Sufficiently hot to Floyd | vapourise your skin and melt all the way down to the bone. Fortunately, Floyd | you go into a state of shock before the really gruesome stuff starts, Floyd | slipping out of the host-parasite interface like an expert. You reel Floyd | and rock through the dimensions, screaming with pain until you hit a Floyd | goldfish's body with a wet slap. Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oh" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying some tongs, a mould and a hammer. Floyd | You are wearing some jeans, a herringbone overcoat and some asbestos Floyd | gloves. Floyd | You hear a noise from the forest. Micky emerges from the undergrowth in Floyd | a daze. His eyes are unfocussed and look straight through you, as if Floyd | you weren't there. Floyd | "You," screams Micky. "You're the one who's destroyed my peace and Floyd | quiet. I won't have it I tell you!" He slowly stands up and waves his Floyd | fist at you. He slowly works himself into a rage. He slowly moves Floyd | toward you. If you hadn't spent so much time worrying over the dreadful Floyd | grammar, you might have seen him land the karate chop that broke your Floyd | neck... Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "dang, we are really close for time, eh?" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "I mean, at this point, we probably need to restore, right?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Too close." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Deeper Forest Floyd | The forest gets deeper and darker here. The brambles seem to have a Floyd | life of their own. They snatch at your clothes. Your efforts to get Floyd | through are futile. You are forced back. Floyd | Charred Glade Floyd | This unpleasant scene is clear evidence that the hand of man has set Floyd | foot here. The trees have been damaged by fire, and, on closer Floyd | inspection, you notice the entrance to a mine leading down. Floyd | Some feathers are strewn about (almost enough to make a duvet). Floyd | You hear a noise from the forest. Micky emerges from the undergrowth in Floyd | a daze. His eyes are unfocussed and look straight through you, as if Floyd | you weren't there. Floyd | "You," screams Micky. "You're the one who's destroyed my peace and Floyd | quiet. I won't have it I tell you!" He slowly stands up and waves his Floyd | fist at you. He slowly works himself into a rage. He slowly moves Floyd | toward you. If you hadn't spent so much time worrying over the dreadful Floyd | grammar, you might have seen him land the karate chop that broke your Floyd | neck... Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | inky says, "oh yeah" | |||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, we need to restore" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "didn't think we had used up that many moves" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying some tongs, a mould and a hammer. Floyd | You are wearing some jeans, a herringbone overcoat and some asbestos Floyd | gloves. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But the mould is closed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The mould falls to the ground and breaks. You don't jump out of the way Floyd | quick enough and the molten gold splashes over your legs. Molten gold Floyd | is hot. Very hot. Sufficiently hot to vapourise your skin and melt all Floyd | the way down to the bone. Fortunately, you go into a state of shock Floyd | before the really gruesome stuff starts, slipping out of the Floyd | host-parasite interface like an expert. You reel and rock through the Floyd | dimensions, screaming with pain until you hit a goldfish's body with a Floyd | wet slap. Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dark Forest Floyd | You are in the middle of a dark forest. The dense bracken grabs at your Floyd | feet as you walk. Brambles hinder your progress except towards a glade Floyd | to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Charred Glade Floyd | This unpleasant scene is clear evidence that the hand of man has set Floyd | foot here. The trees have been damaged by fire, and, on closer Floyd | inspection, you notice the entrance to a mine leading down. Floyd | Some feathers are strewn about (almost enough to make a duvet). Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dank Forest Floyd | This part of the forest is horribly cold and damp, and brambles scratch Floyd | and pull at you as you pass. To the north and south the undergrowth Floyd | clears a little. The forest continues freely in all other directions. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "so, this is where my map comes in handy. we need to get the mould to a cool room without going places unduly cold or wet." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dim Forest Floyd | The dense foliage blocks out nearly all the daylight here, with just a Floyd | few patches peeking through. There are ways through the forest in every Floyd | direction with the clearing to the west and a cool glade to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cool Glade Floyd | Drizzle is falling here, to be followed by sunny spells, and a few Floyd | showers in northern regions later in the day. The outlook for tomorrow Floyd | is anybody's guess, but if you'd like to leave this place, you can go Floyd | south, west or southwest. Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The mould falls to the ground and breaks. You don't jump out of the way Floyd | quick enough and the molten gold splashes over your legs. Molten gold Floyd | is hot. Very hot. Sufficiently hot to vapourise your skin and melt all Floyd | the way down to the bone. Fortunately, you go into a state of shock Floyd | before the really gruesome stuff starts, slipping out of the Floyd | host-parasite interface like an expert. You reel and rock through the Floyd | dimensions, screaming with pain until you hit a goldfish's body with a Floyd | wet slap. Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You hear a noise from the forest. Micky emerges from the undergrowth in Floyd | a daze. His eyes are unfocussed and look straight through you, as if Floyd | you weren't there. Floyd | "You," screams Micky. "You're the one who's destroyed my peace and Floyd | quiet. I won't have it I tell you!" He slowly stands up and waves his Floyd | fist at you. He slowly works himself into a rage. He slowly moves Floyd | toward you. If you hadn't spent so much time worrying over the dreadful Floyd | grammar, you might have seen him land the karate chop that broke your Floyd | neck... Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the Floyd | boss's work. Floyd | > | Rotonoto asks, "Gotta go. What's the status of these Magnetic Scrolls games? Freeware, or can you buy them from someone?" | |||||
| Ellison says, "hmm, guess we need more time than that." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "abandonware. you can find them all at the Magnetic Scrolls Memorial webpage." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open cage" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But the bird cage is already open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a gold disc. Floyd | You are wearing some jeans and a herringbone overcoat. Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of Ell), "I think the water is possibly the right thing, but we need it to all happen underwater. The rain doesn't protect us. Is there a place we can dip this?" | |||||
| inky says, "I'm not even sure what to do in this version" | ||||||
| Rotonoto exclaims, "Thanks. Have fun everybody!" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I have gotten sme Infocom games from what I deny are Abandonware sites, and if these are around the same age, they should be the same status." | ||||||
| Rotonoto goes home. | Ellison says, "we just need to spend more time in the cool glade. we don't have enough moves in that other one." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to ibhr), "It doesn't work like that." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to inky), "yeah, I wasn't sure which one to go back to. I was just trying to save you the trouble of going through it again." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "It has to do with what the copyright holder has to say." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | inky says, "no, I just meant I didn't know what to do in the cool glade" | |||||
| inky says, "maybe it will cool off on its own" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is now open. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "yeah, we just need to keep waiting there" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get hammer, tongs, crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the hammer. Floyd | Tongs taken. Floyd | Crucible taken. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put disc in crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The gold disc is now inside the crucible. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hold crucible over fire with tongs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | At first nothing happens. Eventually, the gold disc crumples then Floyd | melts, leaving a puddle of molten gold in the crucible. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pour gold in mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't follow you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | Ellison says, "into" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pour gold into mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You must have the mould. Floyd | > | inky says, "ah" | |||||
| Ellison says, "and we probably need the gloves, too" | ||||||
| inky says, "hmm, maybe this is the gloves" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get gloves" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the asbestos gloves. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear gloves" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the asbestos gloves. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pour gold into mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You must have the mould. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "the mould is still in the cage" | |||||
| inky says, "oh ah" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the mould. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop it" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Mould dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pour gold into mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You must have the mould. Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Do we lose turns for fails like, 'You must have the mould.'?" | |||||
| Ellison says, "and yeah, we need to be holding the mould" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Jacqueline), "I get the impression that we do" | ||||||
| inky says, "I thought that killed us" | ||||||
| inky says, "maybe not with the gloves" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [You can't "undo" what hasn't been done!] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the mould. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pour gold into mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The molten gold dribbles through the hole into the mould. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I thought we had the gloves last time it esploded." | |||||
| inky says, "actually I'll just undo, since I lost two turns here" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | > | Ellison says (to inky), "only if we 'pour crucible'... it must be interpreting it as 'empty crucible'" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is now open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get tongs, hammer, crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the tongs. Floyd | Hammer taken. Floyd | Crucible taken. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get tongs, hammer, crucible, mould, gloves" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the tongs. Floyd | Hammer taken. Floyd | Crucible taken. Floyd | Mould taken. Floyd | Asbestos gloves taken. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear gloves" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the asbestos gloves. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put disc in crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The gold disc is now inside the crucible. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hold disc over fire with tongs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The gold disc melts. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pour gold into crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any gold here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pour crucible into mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But the crucible is empty. Floyd | > | inky says, "argh" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Smithy Floyd | The smithy is dark and hot. The cherry-red glow of the fire is proof Floyd | that someone has been using it quite recently. Curiously, the building Floyd | has no windows and there is only the one exit, opposite a tool Floyd | cupboard, to the west. Floyd | There is a cupboard and a bird cage here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is now open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get hammer, tongs, crucible, mould, gloves" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the hammer. Floyd | Tongs taken. Floyd | Crucible taken. Floyd | Mould taken. Floyd | Asbestos gloves taken. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear gloves" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the asbestos gloves. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put disc in crucible" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The gold disc is now inside the crucible. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hold crucible over fire with tongs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | At first nothing happens. Eventually, the gold disc crumples then Floyd | melts, leaving a puddle of molten gold in the crucible. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pour gold in mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't follow you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pour gold into mould" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The molten gold dribbles through the hole into the mould. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "man, back when I played this when I was younger, I was completely oblivious to how fiddly it is" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of Ellison), "But now you are old and important and haven't time for this fiddliness?" | |||||
| (from Jacqueline) Ellison says, "Damn fiddles get off my lawn!" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Smithy Floyd | Soggy leaves hang limply from the trees here, and thick clouds drift Floyd | slowly overhead. A battered blacksmith's forge lies to the east, Floyd | shrouded on all sides by the trees of the forest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dark Forest Floyd | You are in the middle of a dark forest. The dense bracken grabs at your Floyd | feet as you walk. Brambles hinder your progress except towards a glade Floyd | to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dank Forest Floyd | This part of the forest is horribly cold and damp, and brambles scratch Floyd | and pull at you as you pass. To the north and south the undergrowth Floyd | clears a little. The forest continues freely in all other directions. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dim Forest Floyd | The dense foliage blocks out nearly all the daylight here, with just a Floyd | few patches peeking through. There are ways through the forest in every Floyd | direction with the clearing to the west and a cool glade to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cool Glade Floyd | Drizzle is falling here, to be followed by sunny spells, and a few Floyd | showers in northern regions later in the day. The outlook for tomorrow Floyd | is anybody's guess, but if you'd like to leave this place, you can go Floyd | south, west or southwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The mould has now cooled. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit mould with hammer" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The mould shatters into a fine dust, leaving you with a crudely cast Floyd | gold ring. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ring" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The gold ring is of slightly dodgy craftsmanship. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ring" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | As you take the ring, a well-aimed stone knocks it from your grasp. You Floyd | hear a "Gweek" sound and see one of the Fins emerging from the bushes Floyd | with an evil grin on his face. You dive for the ring, getting there a Floyd | split second before him. As your fingers close round it, the world Floyd | shimmers, sending you spiralling through the dimensions. With that you Floyd | slap hard into the goldfish's body, leaving the ring to float Floyd | effortlessly into the glass box. "Brilliant display Agent 10," says Sir Floyd | Playfair, "I thought they had you that time. I'm sending you back to Floyd | the bowl. Panchax out" Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the boss's work. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "You rock, man." | |||||
| rootmos exclaims, "Nice!" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "eh, I still want to see the end of this game sometime, fiddles or not" | ||||||
| inky asks, "...what?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "Gweek out" | ||||||
| inky says, "that was -- I don't understand what the deal was there at all" | ||||||
| inky asks, "also the mine was just a red herring?" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Sometimes, to enjoy a classic, you have to accept some niggling problems: I prefer the 2D Zeldas to the 3D ones because, despite a lack of direction, they have faster paces." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, the mine was just a red herring... so Micky, for whatever reason, had a mould for making one of the parts of the focus wheel, so both us and the Fins were after it." | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 90 out of 501. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "that's basically all the sense one's going to get out of it" | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "Nearly a fifth of the way there!" | |||||
| Ellison says, "and our little box thing is our trophy case for collecting focus wheel parts, I guess" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "enter jagged portal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand portal Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dimensions flash past as you swim through the small warp and slide Floyd | into the host-parasite interface with consumate ease. Another human. Floyd | Work, work, work! Floyd | Floyd | Plush Lounge Floyd | Lounge areas in recording studios are usually for one purpose only, and Floyd | that's to lull musicians into a false sense of the value of time. Floyd | They'll sit in the comfortable sofa, drinking coffee and watching promo Floyd | videos on the television here, all the while running up huge bills at Floyd | the standard hourly rate. But they can afford it. Through a glass door Floyd | to the north is an office. The only other exits are east and west. Floyd | A waste bin is standing in the corner. Rod is loafing around, as tape Floyd | ops are wont to do. Floyd | An important-looking beetroot-faced producer enters the room behind Floyd | you. "You," he shouts charmingly, "make some coffee or you're fired!" Floyd | He strides out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "watch television" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a watch here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "turn on television" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The screen bursts into life showing the latest Seven Deadly Fins promo. Floyd | Only one thing wrong - no sound. You twiddle a few knobs and jiggle a Floyd | few leads, but nothing happens, so you turn it off to avoid being Floyd | caught making a fool of yourself. Floyd | The producer's voice booms from the distance, "Rod! What are you doing? Floyd | I need a tape changing." "Coming," shouts Rod. "I'd better go," he Floyd | says, rushing out, "it's best not to upset him." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You are a tall human being with arms and legs. Somewhat surprisingly, Floyd | you don't have any fishy traits at all. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "make coffee" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | How? Floyd | "Oi! Where's my coffee?" bellows the producer from you know not where. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look in bin" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The waste bin contains a ferric oxide cassette. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get cassette" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the ferric oxide cassette. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This east-west hallway has a blue door in the north wall which leads to Floyd | the main studio. The light by the door is red, indicating that someone Floyd | is playing at the moment. To the south is a locked door marked Floyd | 'KITCHEN'. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This east-west hallway has a blue door in the north wall which leads to Floyd | the main studio. The light by the door is red, indicating that someone Floyd | is playing at the moment. To the south is a locked door marked Floyd | 'KITCHEN'. Floyd | The producer's menacing voice echoes ominously round the whole studio: Floyd | "If I haven't got my coffee in five minutes there'll be trouble." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "unlock door" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plush Lounge Floyd | Lounge areas in recording studios are usually for one purpose only, and Floyd | that's to lull musicians into a false sense of the value of time. Floyd | They'll sit in the comfortable sofa, drinking coffee and watching promo Floyd | videos on the television here, all the while running up huge bills at Floyd | the standard hourly rate. But they can afford it. Through a glass door Floyd | to the north is an office. The only other exits are east and west. Floyd | A waste bin is standing in the corner. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | By the prominently displayed gold discs this must be the entrance to an Floyd | up-market recording studio, possibly somewhere in London. There is a Floyd | lounge to the west and the exit to the street is east, through a large Floyd | wooden door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. You must open it before you can Floyd | go that way. (The door or the nose?- The door, idiot.) Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain asks, "A rust cassette?" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The large wooden door is now open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Busy Street Floyd | It's night, dark, and cars are flashing past on this busy road with Floyd | disturbing regularity. Disturbing because the host-parasite interface Floyd | is in danger. You start to feel a bit odd, and reach out for the door Floyd | to support you. Your head is spinning and you're finding it hard to Floyd | concentrate. Just before you lose consciousness, you fling the door Floyd | open and fall back inside the studio. Slamming the door behind you, you Floyd | take a few deep breaths to recover. Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | By the prominently displayed gold discs this must be the entrance to an Floyd | up-market recording studio, possibly somewhere in London. There is a Floyd | lounge to the west and the exit to the street is east, through a large Floyd | wooden door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plush Lounge Floyd | Lounge areas in recording studios are usually for one purpose only, and Floyd | that's to lull musicians into a false sense of the value of time. Floyd | They'll sit in the comfortable sofa, drinking coffee and watching promo Floyd | videos on the television here, all the while running up huge bills at Floyd | the standard hourly rate. But they can afford it. Through a glass door Floyd | to the north is an office. The only other exits are east and west. Floyd | A waste bin is standing in the corner. Floyd | The producer storms into the room, his beetroot face twitching with Floyd | rage. "Where's my coffee?" he screams, pointing at you, "Why haven't Floyd | you made it?" You try to blurt out an excuse but he just rants on. "Rod Floyd | makes coffee when he's asked. No questions. It's there in five minutes. Floyd | He can have your job. You're fired. Now get out." He grabs you with his Floyd | sweaty hand and leads you out onto the street. "I never want to see you Floyd | again," he shouts, slamming the wooden door. Floyd | Busy Street Floyd | It's night, dark, and cars are flashing past on this busy road with Floyd | disturbing regularity. Disturbing because the host-parasite interface Floyd | is in danger. You start to feel a bit odd, and reach out for the door Floyd | to support you. Your head is spinning and you're finding it hard to Floyd | concentrate. The door won't open and the host-parasite interface Floyd | collapses, hurling you through the dimensions slap bang into a Floyd | goldfish's body inside a tacky plastic castle. This looks familiar. Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the boss's work. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "enter jagged warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dimensions flash past as you swim through the jagged warp and slide Floyd | into the host-parasite interface with consumate ease. Another human. Floyd | Work, work, work! Floyd | Floyd | Back of Van Floyd | Not the best place to sleep. It's very cold and more than slightly Floyd | damp, but still better than sleeping outside. The icy draught is coming Floyd | from the front of the van to the south. Floyd | An old blanket lies next to you and some jeans have been thrown down on Floyd | the floor. Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | inky asks, "do we have to pick up gold discs in every warp?" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "enter small warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dimensions flash past as you swim through the small warp and slide Floyd | into the host-parasite interface with consumate ease. Another human. Floyd | Work, work, work! Floyd | Floyd | Plush Lounge Floyd | Lounge areas in recording studios are usually for one purpose only, and Floyd | that's to lull musicians into a false sense of the value of time. Floyd | They'll sit in the comfortable sofa, drinking coffee and watching promo Floyd | videos on the television here, all the while running up huge bills at Floyd | the standard hourly rate. But they can afford it. Through a glass door Floyd | to the north is an office. The only other exits are east and west. Floyd | There is a ferric oxide cassette and a waste bin is standing in the Floyd | corner here. Rod is loafing around, as tape ops are wont to do. Floyd | An important-looking beetroot-faced producer enters the room behind Floyd | you. "You," he shouts charmingly, "make some coffee or you're fired!" Floyd | He strides out. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "My guess is yes." | |||||
| Ellison says, "I don't think so but possibly. I don't remember." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask rod about coffee" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Rod says, "Coffee, strong coffee, keeps the band in the right state of Floyd | tension to help them capture those special moments." Floyd | The producer's voice booms from the distance, "Rod! What are you doing? Floyd | I need a tape changing." "Coming," shouts Rod. "I'd better go," he Floyd | says, rushing out, "it's best not to upset him." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "rod, make coffee" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Sure thing," says Rod, rushing down the corridor. You hear the kitchen Floyd | door slam, then a few seconds later it slams again as Rod comes out. Floyd | "That's the way to do it," he beams as he returns, holding a steaming Floyd | mug of coffee. Floyd | The producer's voice booms from the distance, "Rod! What are you doing? Floyd | I need a tape changing." "I'm making the coffee," replies Rod. The Floyd | producer appears and grabs the mug. He looks at you and smiles a sickly Floyd | smile as Rod leaves. "Well done," he says, taking a slurp, "you'll go Floyd | far in this business; you've already learnt the golden rule: if in Floyd | doubt, delegate." Then he stomps out, looking pleased with himself. Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||||
| inky says, "brilliant" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "this game taught me the word 'delegate'" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get tape" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the ferric oxide cassette. Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "My guess is that we have to make a gold disc rusty to trick this guy." | |||||
| Ellison says, "I don't remember anything, although I figure we should go play this tape in the empty studio" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This east-west hallway has a blue door in the north wall which leads to Floyd | the main studio. The light by the door is red, indicating that someone Floyd | is playing at the moment. To the south is a locked door marked Floyd | 'KITCHEN'. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which one, the wooden door or the secondary control room door? Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "wooden" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The wooden door is now open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You stride boldly into the store, bravely ignoring the dark, and Floyd | promptly bang your shin against something hard and metallic, causing a Floyd | terrible racket. Yelping with pain, you hop back into the corridor. The Floyd | producer puts his head round the door of studio one. The music stops Floyd | abruptly. "Whats all that flippin' noise?" he says, "Go and make some Floyd | coffee you idiot." Shaking his head in bewilderment, he returns to his Floyd | work. Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | "Oi! Where's my coffee?" bellows the producer from you know not where. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "dang coffee" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The secondary control room door is now open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Secondary Control Room Floyd | This room is used to edit tracks so terrible that the bands who made Floyd | them had to be sent down the pub. Unfortunately, the bands will Floyd | probably become very famous as a result of the changes, which is why Floyd | it's usually better to be a musician than a tape operator. An important Floyd | button is next to the door to the south. Floyd | There is a cassette player, a small cupboard and an amplifier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put tape in player" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The ferric oxide cassette is now inside the cassette player. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "plush play" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is no such plush. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "push play" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to push? Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x player" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The cassette player is a very expensive model, with woofers, tweeters, Floyd | bells, whistles and a cuddly toy. Actually it has none of those things, Floyd | but you know what salesmen are like. Floyd | It contains a ferric oxide cassette. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn on player" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | It is already! Floyd | "Oi! Where's my coffee?" bellows the producer from you know not where. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn on amplifier" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hey, I really dig you amplifier. Floyd | The producer storms into the room, his beetroot face twitching with Floyd | rage. "Where's my coffee?" he screams, pointing at you, "Why haven't Floyd | you made it?" You try to blurt out an excuse but he just rants on. "Rod Floyd | makes coffee when he's asked. No questions. It's there in five minutes. Floyd | He can have your job. You're fired. Now get out." He grabs you with his Floyd | sweaty hand and leads you out onto the street. "I never want to see you Floyd | again," he shouts, slamming the wooden door. Floyd | Busy Street Floyd | It's night, dark, and cars are flashing past on this busy road with Floyd | disturbing regularity. Disturbing because the host-parasite interface Floyd | is in danger. You start to feel a bit odd, and reach out for the door Floyd | to support you. Your head is spinning and you're finding it hard to Floyd | concentrate. The door won't open and the host-parasite interface Floyd | collapses, hurling you through the dimensions slap bang into a Floyd | goldfish's body inside a tacky plastic castle. This looks familiar. Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the boss's work. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh 'hey I really dig you amplifier'" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "enter small warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dimensions flash past as you swim through the small warp and slide Floyd | into the host-parasite interface with consumate ease. Another human. Floyd | Work, work, work! Floyd | Floyd | Plush Lounge Floyd | Lounge areas in recording studios are usually for one purpose only, and Floyd | that's to lull musicians into a false sense of the value of time. Floyd | They'll sit in the comfortable sofa, drinking coffee and watching promo Floyd | videos on the television here, all the while running up huge bills at Floyd | the standard hourly rate. But they can afford it. Through a glass door Floyd | to the north is an office. The only other exits are east and west. Floyd | A waste bin is standing in the corner. Rod is loafing around, as tape Floyd | ops are wont to do. Floyd | An important-looking beetroot-faced producer enters the room behind Floyd | you. "You," he shouts charmingly, "make some coffee or you're fired!" Floyd | He strides out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "rod, make coffee" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Sure thing," says Rod, rushing down the corridor. You hear the kitchen Floyd | door slam, then a few seconds later it slams again as Rod comes out. Floyd | "That's the way to do it," he beams as he returns, holding a steaming Floyd | mug of coffee. Floyd | The producer's voice booms from the distance, "Rod! What are you doing? Floyd | I need a tape changing." "I'm making the coffee," replies Rod. The Floyd | producer appears and grabs the mug. He looks at you and smiles a sickly Floyd | smile as Rod leaves. "Well done," he says, taking a slurp, "you'll go Floyd | far in this business; you've already learnt the golden rule: if in Floyd | doubt, delegate." Then he stomps out, looking pleased with himself. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get tape" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a cassette here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look in bin" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The waste bin contains nothing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This east-west hallway has a blue door in the north wall which leads to Floyd | the main studio. The light by the door is red, indicating that someone Floyd | is playing at the moment. To the south is a locked door marked Floyd | 'KITCHEN'. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Secondary Control Room Floyd | This room is used to edit tracks so terrible that the bands who made Floyd | them had to be sent down the pub. Unfortunately, the bands will Floyd | probably become very famous as a result of the changes, which is why Floyd | it's usually better to be a musician than a tape operator. An important Floyd | button is next to the door to the south. Floyd | There is a cassette player, a small cupboard and an amplifier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The small cupboard is now open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look in cupboard" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The small cupboard contains a head cleaner. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get head cleaner" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the head cleaner. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get tape" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the ferric oxide cassette. Floyd | The producer stomps in. "What are you doing in here?" he says, "I want Floyd | more coffee. NOW!" He gives you a menacing stare through bloodshot eyes Floyd | as he departs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | "Oi! Where's my coffee?" bellows the producer from you know not where. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This east-west hallway has a blue door in the north wall which leads to Floyd | the main studio. The light by the door is red, indicating that someone Floyd | is playing at the moment. To the south is a locked door marked Floyd | 'KITCHEN'. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plush Lounge Floyd | Lounge areas in recording studios are usually for one purpose only, and Floyd | that's to lull musicians into a false sense of the value of time. Floyd | They'll sit in the comfortable sofa, drinking coffee and watching promo Floyd | videos on the television here, all the while running up huge bills at Floyd | the standard hourly rate. But they can afford it. Through a glass door Floyd | to the north is an office. The only other exits are east and west. Floyd | A waste bin is standing in the corner. Rod is loafing around, as tape Floyd | ops are wont to do. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "rod, make coffee" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Sure thing," says Rod, rushing down the corridor. You hear the kitchen Floyd | door slam, then a few seconds later it slams again as Rod comes out. Floyd | "That's the way to do it," he beams as he returns, holding a steaming Floyd | mug of coffee. Floyd | The producer's voice booms from the distance, "Rod! What are you doing? Floyd | I need a tape changing." "I can't," replies Rod, "I'm making more Floyd | coffee." "About flippin' time too," shouts the producer, "bring it Floyd | through and stop wasting time talking to that twit." Rod walks off, Floyd | opens the kitchen door and goes in, slamming it behind him. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This east-west hallway has a blue door in the north wall which leads to Floyd | the main studio. The light by the door is red, indicating that someone Floyd | is playing at the moment. To the south is a locked door marked Floyd | 'KITCHEN'. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Secondary Control Room Floyd | This room is used to edit tracks so terrible that the bands who made Floyd | them had to be sent down the pub. Unfortunately, the bands will Floyd | probably become very famous as a result of the changes, which is why Floyd | it's usually better to be a musician than a tape operator. An important Floyd | button is next to the door to the south. Floyd | There is a cassette player, a small cupboard and an amplifier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put head cleaner in player" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The head cleaner is now inside the cassette player. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn on player" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | It is already! Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "play cleaner" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cleaner rumbles its way through the machine, scrubbing the cassette Floyd | heads until they are as shiny as new pins. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get cleaner" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the head cleaner. Floyd | The producer stomps in. "What are you doing in here?" he says, "I want Floyd | more coffee. NOW!" He gives you a menacing stare through bloodshot eyes Floyd | as he departs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | "Oi! Where's my coffee?" bellows the producer from you know not where. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This east-west hallway has a blue door in the north wall which leads to Floyd | the main studio. The light by the door is red, indicating that someone Floyd | is playing at the moment. To the south is a locked door marked Floyd | 'KITCHEN'. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plush Lounge Floyd | Lounge areas in recording studios are usually for one purpose only, and Floyd | that's to lull musicians into a false sense of the value of time. Floyd | They'll sit in the comfortable sofa, drinking coffee and watching promo Floyd | videos on the television here, all the while running up huge bills at Floyd | the standard hourly rate. But they can afford it. Through a glass door Floyd | to the north is an office. The only other exits are east and west. Floyd | A waste bin is standing in the corner. Rod is loafing around, as tape Floyd | ops are wont to do. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "rod, make coffee" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Sure thing," says Rod, rushing down the corridor. You hear the kitchen Floyd | door slam, then a few seconds later it slams again as Rod comes out. Floyd | "That's the way to do it," he beams as he returns, holding a steaming Floyd | mug of coffee. Floyd | The producer's voice booms from the distance, "Rod! What are you doing? Floyd | I need a tape changing." "I can't," replies Rod, "I'm making more Floyd | coffee." "About flippin' time too," shouts the producer, "bring it Floyd | through and stop wasting time talking to that twit." Rod walks off, Floyd | opens the kitchen door and goes in, slamming it behind him. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This east-west hallway has a blue door in the north wall which leads to Floyd | the main studio. The light by the door is red, indicating that someone Floyd | is playing at the moment. To the south is a locked door marked Floyd | 'KITCHEN'. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Secondary Control Room Floyd | This room is used to edit tracks so terrible that the bands who made Floyd | them had to be sent down the pub. Unfortunately, the bands will Floyd | probably become very famous as a result of the changes, which is why Floyd | it's usually better to be a musician than a tape operator. An important Floyd | button is next to the door to the south. Floyd | There is a cassette player, a small cupboard and an amplifier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put tape in player" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which one, the ferric oxide cassette or the head cleaner? Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ferric oxide" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The ferric oxide cassette is now inside the cassette player. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "play cassette" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The tape has been played. But you didn't hear anything. Perhaps the Floyd | volume was too low. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "raise volume" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't be serious! Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x volume" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | I'm afraid that volume is an abstract concept used to express the level Floyd | of sound present in a room and so it can't be seen. Floyd | The producer stomps in. "What are you doing in here?" he says, "I want Floyd | more coffee. NOW!" He gives you a menacing stare through bloodshot eyes Floyd | as he departs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | "Oi! Where's my coffee?" bellows the producer from you know not where. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This east-west hallway has a blue door in the north wall which leads to Floyd | the main studio. The light by the door is red, indicating that someone Floyd | is playing at the moment. To the south is a locked door marked Floyd | 'KITCHEN'. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plush Lounge Floyd | Lounge areas in recording studios are usually for one purpose only, and Floyd | that's to lull musicians into a false sense of the value of time. Floyd | They'll sit in the comfortable sofa, drinking coffee and watching promo Floyd | videos on the television here, all the while running up huge bills at Floyd | the standard hourly rate. But they can afford it. Through a glass door Floyd | to the north is an office. The only other exits are east and west. Floyd | A waste bin is standing in the corner. Rod is loafing around, as tape Floyd | ops are wont to do. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "plug player into amplifier" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any ear-plugs here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "rod, make coffee" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Sure thing," says Rod, rushing down the corridor. You hear the kitchen Floyd | door slam, then a few seconds later it slams again as Rod comes out. Floyd | "That's the way to do it," he beams as he returns, holding a steaming Floyd | mug of coffee. Floyd | The producer's voice booms from the distance, "Rod! What are you doing? Floyd | I need a tape changing." "I can't," replies Rod, "I'm making more Floyd | coffee." "About flippin' time too," shouts the producer, "bring it Floyd | through and stop wasting time talking to that twit." Rod walks off, Floyd | opens the kitchen door and goes in, slamming it behind him. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This east-west hallway has a blue door in the north wall which leads to Floyd | the main studio. The light by the door is red, indicating that someone Floyd | is playing at the moment. To the south is a locked door marked Floyd | 'KITCHEN'. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Secondary Control Room Floyd | This room is used to edit tracks so terrible that the bands who made Floyd | them had to be sent down the pub. Unfortunately, the bands will Floyd | probably become very famous as a result of the changes, which is why Floyd | it's usually better to be a musician than a tape operator. An important Floyd | button is next to the door to the south. Floyd | There is a cassette player, a small cupboard and an amplifier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x amplifier" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | This amplifier is the top of the range Scratchenitch. As usual, paying Floyd | more means you get less, and so there is only one fader on the front, Floyd | which can be used to set the output volume. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn fader" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't follow you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "set volume" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Please use "set fader to number." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x fader" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The fader covers the range 0 to 11, at least one louder than any other Floyd | studio. It is currently set to 0. Floyd | The producer stomps in. "What are you doing in here?" he says, "I want Floyd | more coffee. NOW!" He gives you a menacing stare through bloodshot eyes Floyd | as he departs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | "Oi! Where's my coffee?" bellows the producer from you know not where. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This east-west hallway has a blue door in the north wall which leads to Floyd | the main studio. The light by the door is red, indicating that someone Floyd | is playing at the moment. To the south is a locked door marked Floyd | 'KITCHEN'. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plush Lounge Floyd | Lounge areas in recording studios are usually for one purpose only, and Floyd | that's to lull musicians into a false sense of the value of time. Floyd | They'll sit in the comfortable sofa, drinking coffee and watching promo Floyd | videos on the television here, all the while running up huge bills at Floyd | the standard hourly rate. But they can afford it. Through a glass door Floyd | to the north is an office. The only other exits are east and west. Floyd | A waste bin is standing in the corner. Rod is loafing around, as tape Floyd | ops are wont to do. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "rod, make coffee" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Sure thing," says Rod, rushing down the corridor. You hear the kitchen Floyd | door slam, then a few seconds later it slams again as Rod comes out. Floyd | "That's the way to do it," he beams as he returns, holding a steaming Floyd | mug of coffee. Floyd | The producer's voice booms from the distance, "Rod! What are you doing? Floyd | I need a tape changing." "I can't," replies Rod, "I'm making more Floyd | coffee." "About flippin' time too," shouts the producer, "bring it Floyd | through and stop wasting time talking to that twit." Rod walks off, Floyd | opens the kitchen door and goes in, slamming it behind him. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This east-west hallway has a blue door in the north wall which leads to Floyd | the main studio. The light by the door is red, indicating that someone Floyd | is playing at the moment. To the south is a locked door marked Floyd | 'KITCHEN'. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Secondary Control Room Floyd | This room is used to edit tracks so terrible that the bands who made Floyd | them had to be sent down the pub. Unfortunately, the bands will Floyd | probably become very famous as a result of the changes, which is why Floyd | it's usually better to be a musician than a tape operator. An important Floyd | button is next to the door to the south. Floyd | There is a cassette player, a small cupboard and an amplifier here. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh, this amp goes to 11" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "set fader to 3" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The fader is now set to 3. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "play cassette" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | A really terrible blues tune starts to play: Floyd | "I woke up one morning. Floyd | My woman was dead. Floyd | Fin rot on her dorsal. Floyd | And white spot on her head." Floyd | No wonder you found the tape in the bin! Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, ";heh" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x button" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The button looks complicated. It has two positions: "Safe" and "Record" Floyd | and is currently set to safe. Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "You can live without a dorsal fin, if you call that living." | |||||
| inky asks, "have we found a goal here yet?" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "set fader to 11" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The fader is now set to 11. Floyd | The producer stomps in. "What are you doing in here?" he says, "I want Floyd | more coffee. NOW!" He gives you a menacing stare through bloodshot eyes Floyd | as he departs. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "no, not yet." | |||||
| Ellison says, "man, coffee sounds really good right now" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | "Oi! Where's my coffee?" bellows the producer from you know not where. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This east-west hallway has a blue door in the north wall which leads to Floyd | the main studio. The light by the door is red, indicating that someone Floyd | is playing at the moment. To the south is a locked door marked Floyd | 'KITCHEN'. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plush Lounge Floyd | Lounge areas in recording studios are usually for one purpose only, and Floyd | that's to lull musicians into a false sense of the value of time. Floyd | They'll sit in the comfortable sofa, drinking coffee and watching promo Floyd | videos on the television here, all the while running up huge bills at Floyd | the standard hourly rate. But they can afford it. Through a glass door Floyd | to the north is an office. The only other exits are east and west. Floyd | A waste bin is standing in the corner. Rod is loafing around, as tape Floyd | ops are wont to do. Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "It does, doesn't it?" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "rod, make coffee" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Sure thing," says Rod, rushing down the corridor. You hear the kitchen Floyd | door slam, then a few seconds later it slams again as Rod comes out. Floyd | "That's the way to do it," he beams as he returns, holding a steaming Floyd | mug of coffee. Floyd | The producer's voice booms from the distance, "Rod! What are you doing? Floyd | I need a tape changing." "I can't," replies Rod, "I'm making more Floyd | coffee." "About flippin' time too," shouts the producer, "bring it Floyd | through and stop wasting time talking to that twit." Rod walks off, Floyd | opens the kitchen door and goes in, slamming it behind him. Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "hmm, where is this tape changing, do we think?" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The glass door is now open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Office Floyd | This is where the studio paperwork is done. It's also where the Floyd | producer often complains bitterly that he does everything. In fact, he Floyd | spends most of his time 'delegating responsibility' or, in ordinary Floyd | language, bossing people about. The glass door leads back to the Floyd | lounge. Floyd | There is a desk and a filing cabinet here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The desk is incredibly untidy. Perhaps the cleaning woman should be Floyd | sacked. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "clean desk" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is no such clean desk. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search desk" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "search desk" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under desk" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open desk" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that to the desk. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x cabinet" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The filing cabinet is made of dull grey metal, obligatory for the Floyd | modern '80s style office. It has a complex combination lock on it. Floyd | It is locked. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), " s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plush Lounge Floyd | Lounge areas in recording studios are usually for one purpose only, and Floyd | that's to lull musicians into a false sense of the value of time. Floyd | They'll sit in the comfortable sofa, drinking coffee and watching promo Floyd | videos on the television here, all the while running up huge bills at Floyd | the standard hourly rate. But they can afford it. Through a glass door Floyd | to the north is an office. The only other exits are east and west. Floyd | A waste bin is standing in the corner. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Office Floyd | This is where the studio paperwork is done. It's also where the Floyd | producer often complains bitterly that he does everything. In fact, he Floyd | spends most of his time 'delegating responsibility' or, in ordinary Floyd | language, bossing people about. The glass door leads back to the Floyd | lounge. Floyd | There is a desk and a filing cabinet here. Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "I've been away off and on (and am now desperately fighting an urge for a probably much-needed nap but haven't been too ClubFloyd-engaged lately due to work and company and thus feel compelled to stay) but have you mapped this area fully yet?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in bin" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a bin here. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "pretty much. this location basically only has a handful of locations." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I'm just wondering where the tape-changin' place is." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plush Lounge Floyd | Lounge areas in recording studios are usually for one purpose only, and Floyd | that's to lull musicians into a false sense of the value of time. Floyd | They'll sit in the comfortable sofa, drinking coffee and watching promo Floyd | videos on the television here, all the while running up huge bills at Floyd | the standard hourly rate. But they can afford it. Through a glass door Floyd | to the north is an office. The only other exits are east and west. Floyd | A waste bin is standing in the corner. Floyd | > | rootmos asks, "Perhaps we are supposed to put a tape in the player and turn the switch to record?" | |||||
| Ellison asks, "oh, did it mention a record switch?" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This east-west hallway has a blue door in the north wall which leads to Floyd | the main studio. The light by the door is red, indicating that someone Floyd | is playing at the moment. To the south is a locked door marked Floyd | 'KITCHEN'. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | > | rootmos exclaims, "Yeah, the important button!" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Secondary Control Room Floyd | This room is used to edit tracks so terrible that the bands who made Floyd | them had to be sent down the pub. Unfortunately, the bands will Floyd | probably become very famous as a result of the changes, which is why Floyd | it's usually better to be a musician than a tape operator. An important Floyd | button is next to the door to the south. Floyd | There is a cassette player, a small cupboard and an amplifier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The button gives under your pressure, and speaks a sentence in button Floyd | language. It says "click". Profound. Floyd | > | inky asks, "did you look in that waste bin?" | |||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, that's where we got the cassette. this area doesn't make us grab it every time, though." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to rootmos), "this button is for a light outside the door. kind of like a 'do not disturb' thing." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x cupboard" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The small cupboard is made from chipboard and covered in plastic. It's Floyd | pretty ugly. Floyd | It is open. Floyd | > | rootmos says, "Oh, right" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x player" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The cassette player is a very expensive model, with woofers, tweeters, Floyd | bells, whistles and a cuddly toy. Actually it has none of those things, Floyd | but you know what salesmen are like. Floyd | It contains a ferric oxide cassette. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get cassette" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the ferric oxide cassette. Floyd | The producer stomps in. "What are you doing in here?" he says, "I want Floyd | more coffee. NOW!" He gives you a menacing stare through bloodshot eyes Floyd | as he departs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | "Oi! Where's my coffee?" bellows the producer from you know not where. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This east-west hallway has a blue door in the north wall which leads to Floyd | the main studio. The light by the door is red, indicating that someone Floyd | is playing at the moment. To the south is a locked door marked Floyd | 'KITCHEN'. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plush Lounge Floyd | Lounge areas in recording studios are usually for one purpose only, and Floyd | that's to lull musicians into a false sense of the value of time. Floyd | They'll sit in the comfortable sofa, drinking coffee and watching promo Floyd | videos on the television here, all the while running up huge bills at Floyd | the standard hourly rate. But they can afford it. Through a glass door Floyd | to the north is an office. The only other exits are east and west. Floyd | A waste bin is standing in the corner. Rod is loafing around, as tape Floyd | ops are wont to do. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask rod about tapes" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Rod says, "I wouldn't worry about it; it's the producer's problem." Floyd | The producer's voice booms from the distance, "Rod! What are you doing? Floyd | I need a tape changing." "Coming," shouts Rod. "I'd better go," he Floyd | says, rushing out, "it's best not to upset him." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "rod, make coffee" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Sure thing," says Rod, rushing down the corridor. You hear the kitchen Floyd | door slam, then a few seconds later it slams again as Rod comes out. Floyd | "That's the way to do it," he beams as he returns, holding a steaming Floyd | mug of coffee. Floyd | The producer's voice booms from the distance, "Rod! What are you doing? Floyd | I need a tape changing." "I can't," replies Rod, "I'm making more Floyd | coffee." "About flippin' time too," shouts the producer, "bring it Floyd | through and stop wasting time talking to that twit." Rod walks off, Floyd | opens the kitchen door and goes in, slamming it behind him. Floyd | > | ||||||
| canadianpuzzler arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | By the prominently displayed gold discs this must be the entrance to an Floyd | up-market recording studio, possibly somewhere in London. There is a Floyd | lounge to the west and the exit to the street is east, through a large Floyd | wooden door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "discs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Are you talking to yourself again? Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x discs" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Several of the gold discs were awarded to the Seven Deadly Fins; one of Floyd | the biggest was for their infamous album "Batting Averages From The Floyd | Test Match Of Oblivion". This one has been stolen. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh" | |||||
| inky asks, "did you look in the waste bin?" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plush Lounge Floyd | Lounge areas in recording studios are usually for one purpose only, and Floyd | that's to lull musicians into a false sense of the value of time. Floyd | They'll sit in the comfortable sofa, drinking coffee and watching promo Floyd | videos on the television here, all the while running up huge bills at Floyd | the standard hourly rate. But they can afford it. Through a glass door Floyd | to the north is an office. The only other exits are east and west. Floyd | A waste bin is standing in the corner. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "yeah, that's where we got the cassette we have" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look in bin" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The waste bin contains nothing. Floyd | > | inky says, "ah ok" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x sofa" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Despite being made from plastic the sofa looks and sounds incredibly Floyd | comfortable. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sit in sofa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't follow you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sit sofa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You sink right into the sofa and end up with your knees around your Floyd | chin. "Get off me you fat lump," whispers the sofa. You try to leap out Floyd | of the sofa, but only succeed in falling sideways onto the floor as Floyd | your knees give way. Cursing your training, you clamber to your feet. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "search sofa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look under sofa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This east-west hallway has a blue door in the north wall which leads to Floyd | the main studio. The light by the door is red, indicating that someone Floyd | is playing at the moment. To the south is a locked door marked Floyd | 'KITCHEN'. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which one, the blue door or the kitchen door? Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "kitchen" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But the kitchen door is locked. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x wooden door" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The wooden door is large, solid and here to slow you down. Floyd | It is open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn on switch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | A light flickers in the room to the south. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "hey, look at that." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Store Floyd | This is where everything usually ends up. If you had the time to sift Floyd | your way through it all you might find some unreleased tracks by bands Floyd | who have since become famous under other names. A more likely find are Floyd | tracks that should be taken from this place and, for the general good Floyd | of the population, burned. Floyd | There is a tape bin here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x bin" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The tape bin collects stray bits of tape during editing. Floyd | It contains a chrome cassette and a metal cassette. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get chrome, metal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is no such chrome. Floyd | > | inky says, "oho" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chrome" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | There is no such chrome. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chrome cassette" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The chrome cassette looks like it's been used as an ashtray, but it's Floyd | probably still playable. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x metal cassette" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The metal cassette is brand spanking new. Well, almost. It's only had Floyd | one previous owner - a lovely old granny who only played it on Sundays. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh granny" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get chrome cassette, metal cassette" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the chrome cassette. Floyd | Metal cassette taken. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Secondary Control Room Floyd | This room is used to edit tracks so terrible that the bands who made Floyd | them had to be sent down the pub. Unfortunately, the bands will Floyd | probably become very famous as a result of the changes, which is why Floyd | it's usually better to be a musician than a tape operator. An important Floyd | button is next to the door to the south. Floyd | There is a cassette player, a small cupboard and an amplifier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "play metal cassette" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Please play the cassette IN or WITH something. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "play metal cassette in player" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The fader setting is much too high for the host-parasite interface. A Floyd | massive soundwave hits you like a locomotive. Your psyche is wrenched Floyd | from its host and flung like so much chaff through the dimensions. You Floyd | arrive back in the goldfish's body with a wet slap, and notice with a Floyd | heavy sigh that you are back where you started, in the castle. Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the boss's work. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "set fader to 3" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The fader is now set to 3. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "play metal cassette in player" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | A loud, punk song starts to play: Floyd | "Whatever happened to Leon Codsky. Floyd | He got a fish hook, Floyd | That made his gills burn. Floyd | No more cod roes any more Floyd | No more cod roes any more." Floyd | The tune fades out with the producer shouting, "No more this song any Floyd | more." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "play chrome cassette in player" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The room is briefly filled with a dreadful ditty that goes precisely Floyd | after this fashion: Floyd | "Climb every fountain, Floyd | Swim every stream, Floyd | Follow every river, Floyd | 'Til you find your bream." Floyd | The singer is so out of time that the producer stops the session. "No, Floyd | no, no," the producer shouts, clicking his fingers in a strange rhythm, Floyd | "like this: 2.5.6, 2.5.6, 2.5.6." Floyd | The producer stomps in. "What are you doing in here?" he says, "I want Floyd | more coffee. NOW!" He gives you a menacing stare through bloodshot eyes Floyd | as he departs. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "hey, combination" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden Floyd | door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room Floyd | door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the Floyd | east. Floyd | "Oi! Where's my coffee?" bellows the producer from you know not where. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This east-west hallway has a blue door in the north wall which leads to Floyd | the main studio. The light by the door is red, indicating that someone Floyd | is playing at the moment. To the south is a locked door marked Floyd | 'KITCHEN'. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plush Lounge Floyd | Lounge areas in recording studios are usually for one purpose only, and Floyd | that's to lull musicians into a false sense of the value of time. Floyd | They'll sit in the comfortable sofa, drinking coffee and watching promo Floyd | videos on the television here, all the while running up huge bills at Floyd | the standard hourly rate. But they can afford it. Through a glass door Floyd | to the north is an office. The only other exits are east and west. Floyd | A waste bin is standing in the corner. Rod is loafing around, as tape Floyd | ops are wont to do. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "rod, make coffee" | inky says, "excellent" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Sure thing," says Rod, rushing down the corridor. You hear the kitchen Floyd | door slam, then a few seconds later it slams again as Rod comes out. Floyd | "That's the way to do it," he beams as he returns, holding a steaming Floyd | mug of coffee. Floyd | The producer's voice booms from the distance, "Rod! What are you doing? Floyd | I need a tape changing." "I can't," replies Rod, "I'm making more Floyd | coffee." "About flippin' time too," shouts the producer, "bring it Floyd | through and stop wasting time talking to that twit." Rod walks off, Floyd | opens the kitchen door and goes in, slamming it behind him. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Office Floyd | This is where the studio paperwork is done. It's also where the Floyd | producer often complains bitterly that he does everything. In fact, he Floyd | spends most of his time 'delegating responsibility' or, in ordinary Floyd | language, bossing people about. The glass door leads back to the Floyd | lounge. Floyd | There is a desk and a filing cabinet here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x lock" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The lock is a three-digit combination lock. It is currently set to 525. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "set combination to 256" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The lock is now set to 256. A soft click tells you that the cabinet is Floyd | now unlocked. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The filing cabinet is now open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look in cabinet" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The filing cabinet contains a spindle. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get spindle" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You grab the spindle and the whole room starts wobbling; it looks like Floyd | a wormhole is opening, probably carrying the Fins. Fortunately, you Floyd | were prepared for this and activate the escape device lodged in the Floyd | back of your psyche just as the Fins start to warp in. "You'll not Floyd | escape us this time," one of them says between curved teeth. But it's Floyd | too late, you already have. Your mind zooms to one side, or is it that Floyd | the world moves very quickly in the opposite direction. It's hard to Floyd | tell. A tiny plastic castle is off in the distance, getting bigger and Floyd | bigger as it speeds towards you. SLAP! Your psyche twists into a Floyd | goldfish's body and the spindle spins (what else) into the glass box. Floyd | "We only just got you out," says a quiet voice in your brain, clearly Floyd | Sir Playfair. "But well done. You're doing a remarkable job. Quite Floyd | outstanding in fact. Chin up. Panchax out." Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A jagged warp is also clearly the boss's work. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 160 out of 501. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The glass box shows all the hallmarks of a rush assembly. There are Floyd | loads of electrical components in it and yards and yards of wiring. You Floyd | can only hope the back-room boys didn't economise on waterproofing. Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | It contains a spindle and a gold ring. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter jagged" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is no such jagged. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter jagged warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dimensions flash past as you swim through the jagged warp and slide Floyd | into the host-parasite interface with consumate ease. Another human. Floyd | Work, work, work! Floyd | Floyd | Back of Van Floyd | Not the best place to sleep. It's very cold and more than slightly Floyd | damp, but still better than sleeping outside. The icy draught is coming Floyd | from the front of the van to the south. Floyd | An old blanket lies next to you and some jeans have been thrown down on Floyd | the floor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x blanket" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Smelly perhaps, but even a smelly blanket keeps out the draughts. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You are a tall human being with arms and legs. Somewhat surprisingly, Floyd | you don't have any fishy traits at all. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear jeans" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the jeans. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get blanket" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the old blanket. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cab Floyd | The cab is Steve's province. Like most roadies, his ability to create Floyd | chaos out of order is legendary and the rubbish all over the cab is Floyd | definitely his work. Major slobs themselves, the band prefer to ride in Floyd | the back in their own squalor. The passenger door has been jammed open, Floyd | revealing a dark field. Floyd | A note is close to hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The note is signed with a squiggle that looks like "Steve". There Floyd | again, it could be "Rufus T. Flywheel". Fortunately, it doesn't matter. Floyd | If you really hate not knowing, we suggest you take it to a pharmacist; Floyd | they're used to deciphering illegible squiggles. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "who am i" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Are you talking to yourself again? Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get note" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the note. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This game has a very modern feel in many respects." | |||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, they are interesting that way" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | It's dark out there. Brave and fearless you may be, but totally stupid Floyd | you're not (at least, that's your estimation; others have been known to Floyd | disagree). You decide to return to the van and search for a source of Floyd | light. Floyd | Cab Floyd | The cab is Steve's province. Like most roadies, his ability to create Floyd | chaos out of order is legendary and the rubbish all over the cab is Floyd | definitely his work. Major slobs themselves, the band prefer to ride in Floyd | the back in their own squalor. The passenger door has been jammed open, Floyd | revealing a dark field. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open glove compartment" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any gloves here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The note says: Floyd | Gone to get diesel. Back before dawn. Steve. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x rubbish" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The rubbish covers the floor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get rubbish" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The rubbish is covered with a thin film of mould. You decide against Floyd | carrying it with you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "search rubbish" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You find a torch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get torch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the torch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x torch" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The torch is the rubber type; the sort that looks like a marital aid Floyd | but isn't. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "man" | |||||
| Emily says, "this is a saucy game" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Goodness." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn on torch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The batteries have just enough juice to give a faint glow from the Floyd | torch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dark Field Floyd | You're in the middle of a dark field, standing next to the band's van. Floyd | You can hear music to the east, where a fire silhouettes a ruined Floyd | building. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Track Floyd | This narrow east-west track is miles from civilisation. There is a fire Floyd | to the east and some music is coming from the same direction. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside the abbey Floyd | The ruined abbey stands before you, imposing even in such a state of Floyd | decay. Through the grand arch to the east, you hear some awful music Floyd | and see the glow from a large fire. Westward leads back into the gloom. Floyd | A poster is blowing about in the wind. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get poster" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the poster. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x poster" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The poster is a discarded advertisement for a concert by the Seven Floyd | Deadly Fins. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "read poster" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The poster has a psychedelic picture of purple and green goldfish Floyd | swimming around the Seven Deadly Fins logo. The fish form the words, Floyd | "No rules. No war. No profit." Underneath is scrawled, "The Fins are in Floyd | town. Place: just listen. Price: what can you afford? Anarchy: only if Floyd | my mum says it's ok." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You hear some music. These people are serious anarchists; they don't Floyd | even want to be bound by musical rules. Some people might say it's free Floyd | jazz, but they'd be wrong - it's just rubbish. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abbey Floyd | Neglected over the centuries, only the shell of this abbey remains and Floyd | even that is in a poor state of repair. Rubble is everywhere, except Floyd | for a gap cleared in the middle, in which a fire is burning. You can go Floyd | north and south, although the obvious exit is west, towards the grand Floyd | arch. Floyd | Some hippies are sitting around the fire in squalor, twanging out some Floyd | terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Nave Floyd | As you survey this place, you wonder how such beauty could have been Floyd | left to just rot. Depression hangs heavy on your heart, but not for Floyd | long! Inter-dimensional espionage operatives aren't renowned for their Floyd | sentimentality with regard to ruined naves, and, besides, you have jobs Floyd | to meet, people to be and places to do. Southward from here, it's as Floyd | dark as pitch, but northward the fire is burning fiercely. Floyd | A broken pew catches your attention. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x pew" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The broken pew is an old piece of church furniture, sadly discarded in Floyd | these ungodly times. It's about four feet high, three feet wide and Floyd | could just about support your weight. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Off The Beaten Track Floyd | It's really dark here, torch or no torch. What was that noise? It Floyd | sounded pretty fierce. There it is again. It came from the east. No, Floyd | the west. This could well be dangerous so you go back before whatever Floyd | it is makes itself known. Floyd | Ruined Nave Floyd | As you survey this place, you wonder how such beauty could have been Floyd | left to just rot. Depression hangs heavy on your heart, but not for Floyd | long! Inter-dimensional espionage operatives aren't renowned for their Floyd | sentimentality with regard to ruined naves, and, besides, you have jobs Floyd | to meet, people to be and places to do. Southward from here, it's as Floyd | dark as pitch, but northward the fire is burning fiercely. Floyd | A broken pew catches your attention. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abbey Floyd | Neglected over the centuries, only the shell of this abbey remains and Floyd | even that is in a poor state of repair. Rubble is everywhere, except Floyd | for a gap cleared in the middle, in which a fire is burning. You can go Floyd | north and south, although the obvious exit is west, towards the grand Floyd | arch. Floyd | Some hippies are sitting around the fire in squalor, twanging out some Floyd | terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Transept Floyd | The transept, at right angles to the nave, is in ruins. The fire to the Floyd | south gives the only light in here, allowing you to see an exit leading Floyd | down. Floyd | There is a crumbling archway here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | The antechamber connects the ruins to the catacombs. Upwards is the Floyd | transept and you can enter the catacombs through a doorway to the Floyd | south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Even for inter-dimensional espionage operatives, the catacombs are a Floyd | trifle iffy. Bearing in mind that you have no life assurance, do you Floyd | still want to enter? Floyd | Yes or No? | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The wind whistles around the antechamber as you tip toe towards the Floyd | catacombs. Expecting something to happen at any moment you stay alert, Floyd | watching and listening for anything untoward. But nothing does happen. Floyd | What a let down! Floyd | Catacombs Floyd | The ceiling's collapse has disturbed the sepulchral debris in this Floyd | sacred place, throwing it all over the floor. A doorway leads north to Floyd | the antechamber. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "IR 'crumbling' as 'crucible' and was about to let out a small scream." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x debris" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The debris is swathed in many doom laden cliches. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh" | |||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search debris" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You find a sarcophagus lid. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get lid" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Moving the lid uncovers an exciting exit leading down. Floyd | You have now got the sarcophagus lid. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | As you enter the room you have a sudden vision: Floyd | A girl dressed in white. A raised dagger. A scream. Floyd | Altar Room Floyd | This icy room has been sealed for a long time. Cold air slices through Floyd | you; a chill foreshadow of your doom. Terrifying images flash into your Floyd | mind. You feel that you have violated this place somehow. Floyd | There is an ancient altar here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x altar" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Hideous faces carved from stone are positioned halfway along three of Floyd | the four sides. Intriguingly, one side has a hole, surrounded by Floyd | custard stains, where a gargoyle should be. Floyd | There is a ceremonial cord on it. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cord" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The ceremonial cord is about thirty feet long and half an inch in Floyd | diameter. Really good for strangling virgins after a bout of ceremonial Floyd | custard-wrestling. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cord" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying too much already to get the ceremonial cord. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying an old blanket, a torch, a note, a poster and a Floyd | sarcophagus lid. Floyd | You are wearing some jeans, some socks and a tee-shirt. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop lid" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sarcophagus lid dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cord" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the ceremonial cord. Floyd | > | rootmos exclaims, "It's getting late, see you later!" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in hole" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The hole contains nothing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| rootmos goes home. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put cord in hole" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The ceremonial cord is now inside the hole. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Night, rootmos" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put poster in hole" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The poster is now inside the hole. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Catacombs Floyd | The ceiling's collapse has disturbed the sepulchral debris in this Floyd | sacred place, throwing it all over the floor. A doorway leads north to Floyd | the antechamber and there is an exit leading down. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Only north, down. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | The antechamber connects the ruins to the catacombs. Upwards is the Floyd | transept and you can enter the catacombs through a doorway to the Floyd | south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Transept Floyd | The transept, at right angles to the nave, is in ruins. The fire to the Floyd | south gives the only light in here, allowing you to see an exit leading Floyd | down. Floyd | There is a crumbling archway here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "f n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | No can do! Floyd | Off The Beaten Track Floyd | It's really dark here, torch or no torch. What was that noise? It Floyd | sounded pretty fierce. There it is again. It came from the east. No, Floyd | the west. This could well be dangerous so you go back before whatever Floyd | it is makes itself known. Floyd | Ruined Transept Floyd | The transept, at right angles to the nave, is in ruins. The fire to the Floyd | south gives the only light in here, allowing you to see an exit leading Floyd | down. Floyd | There is a crumbling archway here. Floyd | > | inky says, "weird" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abbey Floyd | Neglected over the centuries, only the shell of this abbey remains and Floyd | even that is in a poor state of repair. Rubble is everywhere, except Floyd | for a gap cleared in the middle, in which a fire is burning. You can go Floyd | north and south, although the obvious exit is west, towards the grand Floyd | arch. Floyd | Some hippies are sitting around the fire in squalor, twanging out some Floyd | terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Nave Floyd | As you survey this place, you wonder how such beauty could have been Floyd | left to just rot. Depression hangs heavy on your heart, but not for Floyd | long! Inter-dimensional espionage operatives aren't renowned for their Floyd | sentimentality with regard to ruined naves, and, besides, you have jobs Floyd | to meet, people to be and places to do. Southward from here, it's as Floyd | dark as pitch, but northward the fire is burning fiercely. Floyd | A broken pew catches your attention. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand on pew" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The pew's a bit wobbly, but you can reach a little higher now. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "loo up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand loo Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x nave" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | As you survey this place, you wonder how such beauty could have been Floyd | left to just rot. Depression hangs heavy on your heart, but not for Floyd | long! Inter-dimensional espionage operatives aren't renowned for their Floyd | sentimentality with regard to ruined naves, and, besides, you have jobs Floyd | to meet, people to be and places to do. Southward from here, it's as Floyd | dark as pitch, but northward the fire is burning fiercely. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see that far from here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't see the ceiling here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You get off. Floyd | Off The Beaten Track Floyd | It's really dark here, torch or no torch. What was that noise? It Floyd | sounded pretty fierce. There it is again. It came from the east. No, Floyd | the west. This could well be dangerous so you go back before whatever Floyd | it is makes itself known. Floyd | Ruined Nave Floyd | As you survey this place, you wonder how such beauty could have been Floyd | left to just rot. Depression hangs heavy on your heart, but not for Floyd | long! Inter-dimensional espionage operatives aren't renowned for their Floyd | sentimentality with regard to ruined naves, and, besides, you have jobs Floyd | to meet, people to be and places to do. Southward from here, it's as Floyd | dark as pitch, but northward the fire is burning fiercely. Floyd | A broken pew catches your attention. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||||
| inky says, "so we need a gargoyle" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "We could get one in Paris." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "But that's not helpful." | ||||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pew" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying too much already to get the broken pew. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abbey Floyd | Neglected over the centuries, only the shell of this abbey remains and Floyd | even that is in a poor state of repair. Rubble is everywhere, except Floyd | for a gap cleared in the middle, in which a fire is burning. You can go Floyd | north and south, although the obvious exit is west, towards the grand Floyd | arch. Floyd | Some hippies are sitting around the fire in squalor, twanging out some Floyd | terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hippies" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The hippies all have greasy hair and dirty denims. The bad news is that Floyd | they are the band you're travelling with. The worse news is that Floyd | they're blind drunk. They are sitting around the fire in squalor, Floyd | twanging out some terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask hippies about fin" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The music stops and the hippies turn. The leader peers into the gloom, Floyd | fondling the neck of his guitar. Then he spots you. "Get him boys," he Floyd | shouts. Your cover blown, you try plan C2-A, colloquially known as Floyd | 'running for it'. However, C2-A requires that the host be attired in Floyd | combat gear, not ridiculously flared jeans. Your legs get tangled and Floyd | you fall. "Thought you'd get your hands on my grommet didn't you?" says Floyd | the leader, standing over you, "well think again." The guitar hits you Floyd | with a twang like the opening of "A Hard Day's Night" and your host Floyd | passes out. The interface between you relaxes, warping you out through Floyd | the dimensions, spinning and whirling and feeling sick. Then a goldfish Floyd | approaches you at great speed. WHAP! That hurt. Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A jagged warp is also clearly the boss's work. Floyd | > | inky says, "whoops" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x guitar" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The guitars could certainly do with being properly tuned. Come to think Floyd | of it, tuned at all would be better than nothing. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "sorry, I've been Skyping in the other room" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x leader" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand leader Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x grommet" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a grommet here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Abbey Floyd | Neglected over the centuries, only the shell of this abbey remains and Floyd | even that is in a poor state of repair. Rubble is everywhere, except Floyd | for a gap cleared in the middle, in which a fire is burning. You can go Floyd | north and south, although the obvious exit is west, towards the grand Floyd | arch. Floyd | Some hippies are sitting around the fire in squalor, twanging out some Floyd | terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | inky says, "we've had to go on without you. it's been terrible!" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x rubble" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | A cursory glance at the rubble persuades you that it is of no Floyd | importance. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fire" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The fire is a real blazer, but you can't wear it. You can really feel Floyd | the heat. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying an old blanket, a torch, a note, a poster and a Floyd | ceremonial cord. Floyd | You are wearing some jeans, some socks and a tee-shirt. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tee-shirt" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The tee-shirt is old and white. It keeps your chest warm. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put note in fire" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Didn't your mother ever warn you about playing with fire? Well, if she Floyd | didn't, Sir Playfair certainly did. Apart from putting the Floyd | host-parasite interface in danger, there is the more immediate problem Floyd | of the hippies noticing you. You wisely refrain. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put blanket on fire" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Didn't your mother ever warn you about playing with fire? Well, if she Floyd | didn't, Sir Playfair certainly did. Apart from putting the Floyd | host-parasite interface in danger, there is the more immediate problem Floyd | of the hippies noticing you. You wisely refrain. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Transept Floyd | The transept, at right angles to the nave, is in ruins. The fire to the Floyd | south gives the only light in here, allowing you to see an exit leading Floyd | down. Floyd | There is a crumbling archway here. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We were assaulted by hippies while you were away, Roody." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x archway" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The crumbling archway looks dangerous. A gargoyle peers balefully from Floyd | the top of the arch. Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "heh, have we found anything out of reach yet?" | |||||
| inky says, "ah here" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop all except torch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Old blanket dropped. Floyd | Note dropped. Floyd | Poster dropped. Floyd | Ceremonial cord dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| gjnave arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abbey Floyd | Neglected over the centuries, only the shell of this abbey remains and Floyd | even that is in a poor state of repair. Rubble is everywhere, except Floyd | for a gap cleared in the middle, in which a fire is burning. You can go Floyd | north and south, although the obvious exit is west, towards the grand Floyd | arch. Floyd | Some hippies are sitting around the fire in squalor, twanging out some Floyd | terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Nave Floyd | As you survey this place, you wonder how such beauty could have been Floyd | left to just rot. Depression hangs heavy on your heart, but not for Floyd | long! Inter-dimensional espionage operatives aren't renowned for their Floyd | sentimentality with regard to ruined naves, and, besides, you have jobs Floyd | to meet, people to be and places to do. Southward from here, it's as Floyd | dark as pitch, but northward the fire is burning fiercely. Floyd | There is a broken pew here. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "yay" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pew" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the broken pew. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The torch beam waves in the air as you drag the pew. Not exactly the Floyd | most stealthy way to travel. The music stops and the hippies turn. The Floyd | leader peers into the gloom, fondling the neck of his guitar. Then he Floyd | spots you. "Get him boys," he shouts. Your cover blown, you try plan Floyd | C2-A, colloquially known as 'running for it'. However, C2-A requires Floyd | that the host be attired in combat gear, not ridiculously flared jeans. Floyd | Your legs get tangled and you fall. "Thought you'd get your hands on my Floyd | grommet didn't you?" says the leader, standing over you, "well think Floyd | again." The guitar hits you with a twang like the opening of "A Hard Floyd | Day's Night" and your host passes out. The interface between you Floyd | relaxes, warping you out through the dimensions, spinning and whirling Floyd | and feeling sick. Then a goldfish approaches you at great speed. WHAP! Floyd | That hurt. Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A jagged warp is also clearly the boss's work. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "yeah, these are scary hippies" | |||||
| inky says, "oops" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop pew" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Broken pew dropped. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "and this was *before* Phish was popular!" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abbey Floyd | Neglected over the centuries, only the shell of this abbey remains and Floyd | even that is in a poor state of repair. Rubble is everywhere, except Floyd | for a gap cleared in the middle, in which a fire is burning. You can go Floyd | north and south, although the obvious exit is west, towards the grand Floyd | arch. Floyd | Some hippies are sitting around the fire in squalor, twanging out some Floyd | terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Transept Floyd | The transept, at right angles to the nave, is in ruins. The fire to the Floyd | south gives the only light in here, allowing you to see an exit leading Floyd | down. Floyd | There is a ceremonial cord, a crumbling archway, a poster, a note and Floyd | an old blanket here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cord" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the ceremonial cord. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abbey Floyd | Neglected over the centuries, only the shell of this abbey remains and Floyd | even that is in a poor state of repair. Rubble is everywhere, except Floyd | for a gap cleared in the middle, in which a fire is burning. You can go Floyd | north and south, although the obvious exit is west, towards the grand Floyd | arch. Floyd | Some hippies are sitting around the fire in squalor, twanging out some Floyd | terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Nave Floyd | As you survey this place, you wonder how such beauty could have been Floyd | left to just rot. Depression hangs heavy on your heart, but not for Floyd | long! Inter-dimensional espionage operatives aren't renowned for their Floyd | sentimentality with regard to ruined naves, and, besides, you have jobs Floyd | to meet, people to be and places to do. Southward from here, it's as Floyd | dark as pitch, but northward the fire is burning fiercely. Floyd | There is a broken pew here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie cord to pew" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The ceremonial cord is now fixed to the broken pew. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abbey Floyd | Neglected over the centuries, only the shell of this abbey remains and Floyd | even that is in a poor state of repair. Rubble is everywhere, except Floyd | for a gap cleared in the middle, in which a fire is burning. You can go Floyd | north and south, although the obvious exit is west, towards the grand Floyd | arch. Floyd | Some hippies are sitting around the fire in squalor, twanging out some Floyd | terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Something you are carrying seems to hold you back. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull cord" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The room screeches to a halt and the guard rushes in. "Fifty Pounds, Floyd | please!" he demands belligerently. Then he suddenly notices his Floyd | surroundings and looks embarrassed. He departs with a red face. Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Abbey Floyd | Neglected over the centuries, only the shell of this abbey remains and Floyd | even that is in a poor state of repair. Rubble is everywhere, except Floyd | for a gap cleared in the middle, in which a fire is burning. You can go Floyd | north and south, although the obvious exit is west, towards the grand Floyd | arch. Floyd | Some hippies are sitting around the fire in squalor, twanging out some Floyd | terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull pew" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a pew here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a torch and a ceremonial cord. Floyd | You are wearing some jeans, some socks and a tee-shirt. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Nave Floyd | As you survey this place, you wonder how such beauty could have been Floyd | left to just rot. Depression hangs heavy on your heart, but not for Floyd | long! Inter-dimensional espionage operatives aren't renowned for their Floyd | sentimentality with regard to ruined naves, and, besides, you have jobs Floyd | to meet, people to be and places to do. Southward from here, it's as Floyd | dark as pitch, but northward the fire is burning fiercely. Floyd | There is a broken pew here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull cord" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You succeed in moving the ceremonial cord, but nothing happens. Floyd | The ceremonial cord is connected to the broken pew you succeed in Floyd | moving the broken pew, but nothing happens. Floyd | > | gjnave says, "what a bizarre game" | |||||
| Ellison says, "dang, the hippies sure make it hard" | ||||||
| inky says, "bwuh" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abbey Floyd | Neglected over the centuries, only the shell of this abbey remains and Floyd | even that is in a poor state of repair. Rubble is everywhere, except Floyd | for a gap cleared in the middle, in which a fire is burning. You can go Floyd | north and south, although the obvious exit is west, towards the grand Floyd | arch. Floyd | Some hippies are sitting around the fire in squalor, twanging out some Floyd | terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull cord" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You succeed in moving the ceremonial cord, but nothing happens. Floyd | The ceremonial cord is connected to the broken pew you succeed in Floyd | moving the broken pew, but nothing happens. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Abbey Floyd | Neglected over the centuries, only the shell of this abbey remains and Floyd | even that is in a poor state of repair. Rubble is everywhere, except Floyd | for a gap cleared in the middle, in which a fire is burning. You can go Floyd | north and south, although the obvious exit is west, towards the grand Floyd | arch. Floyd | Some hippies are sitting around the fire in squalor, twanging out some Floyd | terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cord" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But you are already carrying the ceremonial cord. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pew" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a pew here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sd" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand sd Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Nave Floyd | As you survey this place, you wonder how such beauty could have been Floyd | left to just rot. Depression hangs heavy on your heart, but not for Floyd | long! Inter-dimensional espionage operatives aren't renowned for their Floyd | sentimentality with regard to ruined naves, and, besides, you have jobs Floyd | to meet, people to be and places to do. Southward from here, it's as Floyd | dark as pitch, but northward the fire is burning fiercely. Floyd | There is a broken pew here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie cord to me" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that to you . Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abbey Floyd | Neglected over the centuries, only the shell of this abbey remains and Floyd | even that is in a poor state of repair. Rubble is everywhere, except Floyd | for a gap cleared in the middle, in which a fire is burning. You can go Floyd | north and south, although the obvious exit is west, towards the grand Floyd | arch. Floyd | Some hippies are sitting around the fire in squalor, twanging out some Floyd | terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Something you are carrying seems to hold you back. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Nave Floyd | As you survey this place, you wonder how such beauty could have been Floyd | left to just rot. Depression hangs heavy on your heart, but not for Floyd | long! Inter-dimensional espionage operatives aren't renowned for their Floyd | sentimentality with regard to ruined naves, and, besides, you have jobs Floyd | to meet, people to be and places to do. Southward from here, it's as Floyd | dark as pitch, but northward the fire is burning fiercely. Floyd | There is a broken pew here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Off The Beaten Track Floyd | It's really dark here, torch or no torch. What was that noise? It Floyd | sounded pretty fierce. There it is again. It came from the east. No, Floyd | the west. This could well be dangerous so you go back before whatever Floyd | it is makes itself known. Floyd | Ruined Nave Floyd | As you survey this place, you wonder how such beauty could have been Floyd | left to just rot. Depression hangs heavy on your heart, but not for Floyd | long! Inter-dimensional espionage operatives aren't renowned for their Floyd | sentimentality with regard to ruined naves, and, besides, you have jobs Floyd | to meet, people to be and places to do. Southward from here, it's as Floyd | dark as pitch, but northward the fire is burning fiercely. Floyd | There is a broken pew here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pew" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The broken pew is an old piece of church furniture, sadly discarded in Floyd | these ungodly times. It's about four feet high, three feet wide and Floyd | could just about support your weight. Floyd | There is a ceremonial cord fixed to it. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pew" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the broken pew. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The torch beam waves in the air as you drag the pew. Not exactly the Floyd | most stealthy way to travel. The music stops and the hippies turn. The Floyd | leader peers into the gloom, fondling the neck of his guitar. Then he Floyd | spots you. "Get him boys," he shouts. Your cover blown, you try plan Floyd | C2-A, colloquially known as 'running for it'. However, C2-A requires Floyd | that the host be attired in combat gear, not ridiculously flared jeans. Floyd | Your legs get tangled and you fall. "Thought you'd get your hands on my Floyd | grommet didn't you?" says the leader, standing over you, "well think Floyd | again." The guitar hits you with a twang like the opening of "A Hard Floyd | Day's Night" and your host passes out. The interface between you Floyd | relaxes, warping you out through the dimensions, spinning and whirling Floyd | and feeling sick. Then a goldfish approaches you at great speed. WHAP! Floyd | That hurt. Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A jagged warp is also clearly the boss's work. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove jeans" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You take off your jeans and discover you are completely naked Floyd | underneath. Not wishing to draw attention to yourself (you are supposed Floyd | to be on a covert mission remember), you put them back on. Besides, Floyd | it's bloody cold. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "maybe there's some kind of distraction we can do to clear out the hippie room for some time" | |||||
| inky says, "maybe put out the fire, but I don't see how" | ||||||
| inky says, "or put something in the fire" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe there is some lesson we learned from playing KoL that would apply in this situation." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I wonder if the guard thing from before is a reference to another game. possibly Guild of Thieves although I don't remember it in particular." | ||||||
| inky says, "'pull cord' is like if you're on a train and pull the cord, there's a fine" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "oh, reading the thing about dragging the pew, it sounds like it should be okay if we turn off our torch" | ||||||
| inky says, "hunh, ok" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Off The Beaten Track Floyd | It's really dark here, torch or no torch. What was that noise? It Floyd | sounded pretty fierce. There it is again. It came from the east. No, Floyd | the west. This could well be dangerous so you go back before whatever Floyd | it is makes itself known. Floyd | Ruined Nave Floyd | As you survey this place, you wonder how such beauty could have been Floyd | left to just rot. Depression hangs heavy on your heart, but not for Floyd | long! Inter-dimensional espionage operatives aren't renowned for their Floyd | sentimentality with regard to ruined naves, and, besides, you have jobs Floyd | to meet, people to be and places to do. Southward from here, it's as Floyd | dark as pitch, but northward the fire is burning fiercely. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a torch, a broken pew and a ceremonial cord. Floyd | You are wearing some jeans, some socks and a tee-shirt. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn off torch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With a sigh of relief, the torch batteries take a well earned rest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abbey Floyd | Neglected over the centuries, only the shell of this abbey remains and Floyd | even that is in a poor state of repair. Rubble is everywhere, except Floyd | for a gap cleared in the middle, in which a fire is burning. You can go Floyd | north and south, although the obvious exit is west, towards the grand Floyd | arch. Floyd | Some hippies are sitting around the fire in squalor, twanging out some Floyd | terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Transept Floyd | The transept, at right angles to the nave, is in ruins. The fire to the Floyd | south gives the only light in here, allowing you to see an exit leading Floyd | down. Floyd | There is a crumbling archway, a poster, a note and an old blanket here. Floyd | > | inky says, "sure enough" | |||||
| inky says, "well, that is kinda random" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn on torch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The batteries have just enough juice to give a faint glow from the Floyd | torch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop pew" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ceremonial cord dropped. Floyd | Broken pew dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand on pew" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The pew's a bit wobbly, but you can reach a little higher now. Looks Floyd | like you could climb the arch if you wanted to. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get gargoyle" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't reach the gargoyle from here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You get off. Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | The antechamber connects the ruins to the catacombs. Upwards is the Floyd | transept and you can enter the catacombs through a doorway to the Floyd | south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Transept Floyd | The transept, at right angles to the nave, is in ruins. The fire to the Floyd | south gives the only light in here, allowing you to see an exit leading Floyd | down. Floyd | There is a ceremonial cord, a crumbling archway, a broken pew, a Floyd | poster, a note and an old blanket here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "untie cord" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | (From the broken pew) Floyd | Ok. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cord" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the ceremonial cord. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand on pew" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The pew's a bit wobbly, but you can reach a little higher now. Looks Floyd | like you could climb the arch if you wanted to. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb arch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Archway Floyd | You're about thirty feet above ground. It feels as if the world is Floyd | swaying which you put down to vertigo. Only when you realise that you Floyd | don't suffer from vertigo do you realise that the world really IS Floyd | swaying. This place isn't safe. Floyd | A gargoyle stares at you with sightless eyes. Floyd | > Ellison | Floyd | The torch beam waves in the air as you drag the pew. Not exactly the Ellison | Floyd | most stealthy way to travel. The music stops and the hippies turn. | inky says (to Floyd), "tie cord to arch" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that to the archway. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie cord to gargoyle" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The ceremonial cord is now fixed to the gargoyle. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gargoyle" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The gargoyle is about one foot square. Its pointed tongue is sticking Floyd | out in a centuries old expression of disgust. You know just how he Floyd | feels. Floyd | There is a ceremonial cord fixed to it. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Transept Floyd | The transept, at right angles to the nave, is in ruins. The fire to the Floyd | south gives the only light in here, allowing you to see an exit leading Floyd | down. Floyd | There is a crumbling archway, a broken pew, a poster, a note and an old Floyd | blanket here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull cord" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cord tightens and the gargoyle takes the strain. As you pull Floyd | harder, it comes free. That was the good news. The bad news is that Floyd | you've brought down the rest of the arch as well, making a tremendous Floyd | din. Looking towards the fire, you see several heads looking in your Floyd | direction. The gargoyle lies at your feet. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get gargoyle" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the gargoyle. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | The antechamber connects the ruins to the catacombs. Upwards is the Floyd | transept and you can enter the catacombs through a doorway to the Floyd | south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Only north, south, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Catacombs Floyd | The ceiling's collapse has disturbed the sepulchral debris in this Floyd | sacred place, throwing it all over the floor. A doorway leads north to Floyd | the antechamber and there is an exit leading down. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | A sudden vision flashes before your eyes: Floyd | Chanting voices. Ancient demons. Flashing flames. Floyd | Altar Room Floyd | This icy room has been sealed for a long time. Cold air slices through Floyd | you; a chill foreshadow of your doom. Terrifying images flash into your Floyd | mind. You feel that you have violated this place somehow. Floyd | There is an ancient altar and a sarcophagus lid here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put gargoyle in hole" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With the ceremonial cord tied to it, the gargoyle won't fit in the Floyd | hole. Floyd | A number of unpleasant looking hippies emerge from who knows where. Floyd | Seven of them to be precise. They are not happy. Truth to tell, they're Floyd | extremely unhappy. A bottle of vodka sails through the air. It's not an Floyd | offer of a drink, since it was aimed at your head. It connects. You Floyd | disconnect from your host and spin through the dimensions towards your Floyd | new host. Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A jagged warp is also clearly the boss's work. Floyd | > | inky says, "grah" | |||||
| Ellison says, "dang" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A jagged warp is also clearly the boss's work. Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "These are the Fins, right?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter jagged warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dimensions flash past as you swim through the jagged warp and slide Floyd | into the host-parasite interface with consumate ease. Another human. Floyd | Work, work, work! Floyd | Floyd | Back of Van Floyd | Not the best place to sleep. It's very cold and more than slightly Floyd | damp, but still better than sleeping outside. The icy draught is coming Floyd | from the front of the van to the south. Floyd | An old blanket lies next to you and some jeans have been thrown down on Floyd | the floor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get jeans" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the jeans. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear jeans" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the jeans. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get blanket" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the old blanket. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cab Floyd | The cab is Steve's province. Like most roadies, his ability to create Floyd | chaos out of order is legendary and the rubbish all over the cab is Floyd | definitely his work. Major slobs themselves, the band prefer to ride in Floyd | the back in their own squalor. The passenger door has been jammed open, Floyd | revealing a dark field. Floyd | A note is close to hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search rubbish" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You find a torch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get torch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the torch. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am sure that has been made plain at some point, sorry." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | It's too dark to see. Floyd | > | inky says, "I'm not sure it has been made explicit, but I think so, yeah" | |||||
| inky says, "although I thought they were fish" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn on torch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The batteries have just enough juice to give a faint glow from the Floyd | torch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Track Floyd | This narrow east-west track is miles from civilisation. There is a fire Floyd | to the east and some music is coming from the same direction. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside the abbey Floyd | The ruined abbey stands before you, imposing even in such a state of Floyd | decay. Through the grand arch to the east, you hear some awful music Floyd | and see the glow from a large fire. Westward leads back into the gloom. Floyd | A poster is blowing about in the wind. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x poster" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The poster is a discarded advertisement for a concert by the Seven Floyd | Deadly Fins. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read poster" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The poster has a psychedelic picture of purple and green goldfish Floyd | swimming around the Seven Deadly Fins logo. The fish form the words, Floyd | "No rules. No war. No profit." Underneath is scrawled, "The Fins are in Floyd | town. Place: just listen. Price: what can you afford? Anarchy: only if Floyd | my mum says it's ok." Floyd | > | Ellison says, "well, also, the Fins are a band so these hippies could be followers" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get poster" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the poster. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abbey Floyd | Neglected over the centuries, only the shell of this abbey remains and Floyd | even that is in a poor state of repair. Rubble is everywhere, except Floyd | for a gap cleared in the middle, in which a fire is burning. You can go Floyd | north and south, although the obvious exit is west, towards the grand Floyd | arch. Floyd | Some hippies are sitting around the fire in squalor, twanging out some Floyd | terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Nave Floyd | As you survey this place, you wonder how such beauty could have been Floyd | left to just rot. Depression hangs heavy on your heart, but not for Floyd | long! Inter-dimensional espionage operatives aren't renowned for their Floyd | sentimentality with regard to ruined naves, and, besides, you have jobs Floyd | to meet, people to be and places to do. Southward from here, it's as Floyd | dark as pitch, but northward the fire is burning fiercely. Floyd | A broken pew catches your attention. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn off torch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With a sigh of relief, the torch batteries take a well earned rest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pew" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a pew here. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ell), "Hm, true." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pew" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a pew here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | It's too dark to see. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "But there are seven of them..." | |||||
| inky says, "hunh" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn on torch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The batteries have just enough juice to give a faint glow from the Floyd | torch. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "dang, that is harsh" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pew" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the broken pew. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn off torch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With a sigh of relief, the torch batteries take a well earned rest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abbey Floyd | Neglected over the centuries, only the shell of this abbey remains and Floyd | even that is in a poor state of repair. Rubble is everywhere, except Floyd | for a gap cleared in the middle, in which a fire is burning. You can go Floyd | north and south, although the obvious exit is west, towards the grand Floyd | arch. Floyd | Some hippies are sitting around the fire in squalor, twanging out some Floyd | terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hippies" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The hippies all have greasy hair and dirty denims. The bad news is that Floyd | they are the band you're travelling with. The worse news is that Floyd | they're blind drunk. They are sitting around the fire in squalor, Floyd | twanging out some terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Transept Floyd | The transept, at right angles to the nave, is in ruins. The fire to the Floyd | south gives the only light in here, allowing you to see an exit leading Floyd | down. Floyd | There is a crumbling archway here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop pew" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Broken pew dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn on torch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The batteries have just enough juice to give a faint glow from the Floyd | torch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | The antechamber connects the ruins to the catacombs. Upwards is the Floyd | transept and you can enter the catacombs through a doorway to the Floyd | south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Even for inter-dimensional espionage operatives, the catacombs are a Floyd | trifle iffy. Bearing in mind that you have no life assurance, do you Floyd | still want to enter? Floyd | Yes or No? | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The wind whistles around the antechamber as you tip toe towards the Floyd | catacombs. Expecting something to happen at any moment you stay alert, Floyd | watching and listening for anything untoward. But nothing does happen. Floyd | What a let down! Floyd | Catacombs Floyd | The ceiling's collapse has disturbed the sepulchral debris in this Floyd | sacred place, throwing it all over the floor. A doorway leads north to Floyd | the antechamber. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search debris" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You find a sarcophagus lid. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get lid" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Moving the lid uncovers an exciting exit leading down. Floyd | You have now got the sarcophagus lid. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop lid" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sarcophagus lid dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | As you enter the room you have a sudden vision: Floyd | A girl dressed in white. A raised dagger. A scream. Floyd | Altar Room Floyd | This icy room has been sealed for a long time. Cold air slices through Floyd | you; a chill foreshadow of your doom. Terrifying images flash into your Floyd | mind. You feel that you have violated this place somehow. Floyd | There is an ancient altar here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x altar" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Hideous faces carved from stone are positioned halfway along three of Floyd | the four sides. Intriguingly, one side has a hole, surrounded by Floyd | custard stains, where a gargoyle should be. Floyd | There is a ceremonial cord on it. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cord" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the ceremonial cord. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Catacombs Floyd | The ceiling's collapse has disturbed the sepulchral debris in this Floyd | sacred place, throwing it all over the floor. A doorway leads north to Floyd | the antechamber and there is an exit leading down. Floyd | There is a sarcophagus lid here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't walk through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Only north, down. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | The antechamber connects the ruins to the catacombs. Upwards is the Floyd | transept and you can enter the catacombs through a doorway to the Floyd | south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Transept Floyd | The transept, at right angles to the nave, is in ruins. The fire to the Floyd | south gives the only light in here, allowing you to see an exit leading Floyd | down. Floyd | There is a crumbling archway and a broken pew here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand on pew" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The pew's a bit wobbly, but you can reach a little higher now. Looks Floyd | like you could climb the arch if you wanted to. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb arch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Archway Floyd | You're about thirty feet above ground. It feels as if the world is Floyd | swaying which you put down to vertigo. Only when you realise that you Floyd | don't suffer from vertigo do you realise that the world really IS Floyd | swaying. This place isn't safe. Floyd | A gargoyle stares at you with sightless eyes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie cord to gargoyle" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The ceremonial cord is now fixed to the gargoyle. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Transept Floyd | The transept, at right angles to the nave, is in ruins. The fire to the Floyd | south gives the only light in here, allowing you to see an exit leading Floyd | down. Floyd | There is a crumbling archway and a broken pew here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull cord" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cord tightens and the gargoyle takes the strain. As you pull Floyd | harder, it comes free. That was the good news. The bad news is that Floyd | you've brought down the rest of the arch as well, making a tremendous Floyd | din. Looking towards the fire, you see several heads looking in your Floyd | direction. The gargoyle lies at your feet. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "untie gargoyle" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | (From the ceremonial cord) Floyd | Ok. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get gargoyle" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the gargoyle. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | The antechamber connects the ruins to the catacombs. Upwards is the Floyd | transept and you can enter the catacombs through a doorway to the Floyd | south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Catacombs Floyd | The ceiling's collapse has disturbed the sepulchral debris in this Floyd | sacred place, throwing it all over the floor. A doorway leads north to Floyd | the antechamber and there is an exit leading down. Floyd | There is a sarcophagus lid here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | A sudden vision flashes before your eyes: Floyd | Chanting voices. Ancient demons. Flashing flames. Floyd | Altar Room Floyd | This icy room has been sealed for a long time. Cold air slices through Floyd | you; a chill foreshadow of your doom. Terrifying images flash into your Floyd | mind. You feel that you have violated this place somehow. Floyd | There is an ancient altar here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put gargoyle in hole" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The gargoyle is now inside the hole. There is a click and you stand Floyd | back swiftly. The altar sinks into the ground as a column descends from Floyd | the ceiling. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x column" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The column has a niche in it, surrounded by an ornate carving. You Floyd | wonder where it came from, and whether you could get one for your front Floyd | garden. A chalice rests in the niche. Floyd | A number of unpleasant looking hippies emerge from who knows where. Floyd | Seven of them to be precise. They are not happy. Truth to tell, they're Floyd | extremely unhappy. A bottle of vodka sails through the air. It's not an Floyd | offer of a drink, since it was aimed at your head. It connects. You Floyd | disconnect from your host and spin through the dimensions towards your Floyd | new host. Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A jagged warp is also clearly the boss's work. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get chalice" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You grab the chalice. Intent on examining it, you don't pay proper Floyd | attention to the sounds behind you. This is not a good idea. The Floyd | hippies have found a way in and are peering into the chamber. They do Floyd | not look happy. Floyd | A number of unpleasant looking hippies emerge from who knows where. Floyd | Seven of them to be precise. They are not happy. Truth to tell, they're Floyd | extremely unhappy. A bottle of vodka sails through the air. It's not an Floyd | offer of a drink, since it was aimed at your head. It connects. You Floyd | disconnect from your host and spin through the dimensions towards your Floyd | new host. Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A jagged warp is also clearly the boss's work. Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn off torch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With a sigh of relief, the torch batteries take a well earned rest. Floyd | A number of unpleasant looking hippies emerge from who knows where. Floyd | Seven of them to be precise. They are not happy. Truth to tell, they're Floyd | extremely unhappy. A bottle of vodka sails through the air. It's not an Floyd | offer of a drink, since it was aimed at your head. It connects. You Floyd | disconnect from your host and spin through the dimensions towards your Floyd | new host. Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | A jagged warp is also clearly the boss's work. Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "think we can close the lid from the other side?" | |||||
| inky says, "hmm, could be" | ||||||
| inky says, "or put the blanket over the hole" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Archway Floyd | You're about thirty feet above ground. It feels as if the world is Floyd | swaying which you put down to vertigo. Only when you realise that you Floyd | don't suffer from vertigo do you realise that the world really IS Floyd | swaying. This place isn't safe. Floyd | A gargoyle stares at you with sightless eyes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Transept Floyd | The transept, at right angles to the nave, is in ruins. The fire to the Floyd | south gives the only light in here, allowing you to see an exit leading Floyd | down. Floyd | There is a crumbling archway and a broken pew here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Abbey Floyd | Neglected over the centuries, only the shell of this abbey remains and Floyd | even that is in a poor state of repair. Rubble is everywhere, except Floyd | for a gap cleared in the middle, in which a fire is burning. You can go Floyd | north and south, although the obvious exit is west, towards the grand Floyd | arch. Floyd | Some hippies are sitting around the fire in squalor, twanging out some Floyd | terrible guitar and drinking heavily. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | The antechamber connects the ruins to the catacombs. Upwards is the Floyd | transept and you can enter the catacombs through a doorway to the Floyd | south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Catacombs Floyd | The ceiling's collapse has disturbed the sepulchral debris in this Floyd | sacred place, throwing it all over the floor. A doorway leads north to Floyd | the antechamber and there is an exit leading down. Floyd | There is a sarcophagus lid here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get lid" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the sarcophagus lid. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | A sudden vision flashes before your eyes: Floyd | Chanting voices. Ancient demons. Flashing flames. Floyd | Altar Room Floyd | This icy room has been sealed for a long time. Cold air slices through Floyd | you; a chill foreshadow of your doom. Terrifying images flash into your Floyd | mind. You feel that you have violated this place somehow. Floyd | There is an ancient altar here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see that far from here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are unable to do that. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Catacombs Floyd | The ceiling's collapse has disturbed the sepulchral debris in this Floyd | sacred place, throwing it all over the floor. A doorway leads north to Floyd | the antechamber and there is an exit leading down. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a hole here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x doorway" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The doorway is between the antechamber and the catacombs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "exit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Never mind the size of your muscles, you're not going anywhere with a Floyd | sarcophagus lid tucked under your arm. Floyd | Catacombs Floyd | The ceiling's collapse has disturbed the sepulchral debris in this Floyd | sacred place, throwing it all over the floor. A doorway leads north to Floyd | the antechamber and there is an exit leading down. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop lid" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sarcophagus lid dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x debris" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The debris is swathed in many doom laden cliches. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search debris" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put lid on exit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that to the sarcophagus lid at the moment. Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | The antechamber connects the ruins to the catacombs. Upwards is the Floyd | transept and you can enter the catacombs through a doorway to the Floyd | south. Floyd | > | inky says, "this still seems to arue for distracting the hippies" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Too arue?" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get lid" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a lid here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Transept Floyd | The transept, at right angles to the nave, is in ruins. The fire to the Floyd | south gives the only light in here, allowing you to see an exit leading Floyd | down. Floyd | There is a crumbling archway and a broken pew here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | The antechamber connects the ruins to the catacombs. Upwards is the Floyd | transept and you can enter the catacombs through a doorway to the Floyd | south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Catacombs Floyd | The ceiling's collapse has disturbed the sepulchral debris in this Floyd | sacred place, throwing it all over the floor. A doorway leads north to Floyd | the antechamber and there is an exit leading down. Floyd | There is a sarcophagus lid here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get lid" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the sarcophagus lid. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put lid on doorway" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that to the doorway. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put lid over eist" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand eist Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put lid over exit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't follow you. Floyd | Never mind the size of your muscles, you're not going anywhere with a Floyd | sarcophagus lid tucked under your arm. Floyd | Catacombs Floyd | The ceiling's collapse has disturbed the sepulchral debris in this Floyd | sacred place, throwing it all over the floor. A doorway leads north to Floyd | the antechamber and there is an exit leading down. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "that's weird parser stuff" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put lid in doorway" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The sarcophagus lid is now inside the doorway. Floyd | > | inky says, "I think this game will parse multiple commands even if they are only space-separated" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But the sarcophagus lid's in the way. It's your own fault - you put it Floyd | there. Floyd | Catacombs Floyd | The ceiling's collapse has disturbed the sepulchral debris in this Floyd | sacred place, throwing it all over the floor. A doorway leads north to Floyd | the antechamber and there is an exit leading down. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "hmm" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get lid" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You take the lid from the doorway and drop it on the floor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Archway Floyd | You're about thirty feet above ground. It feels as if the world is Floyd | swaying which you put down to vertigo. Only when you realise that you Floyd | don't suffer from vertigo do you realise that the world really IS Floyd | swaying. This place isn't safe. Floyd | A gargoyle stares at you with sightless eyes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "tie cord to gargoyle" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The ceremonial cord is now fixed to the gargoyle. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Transept Floyd | The transept, at right angles to the nave, is in ruins. The fire to the Floyd | south gives the only light in here, allowing you to see an exit leading Floyd | down. Floyd | There is a crumbling archway and a broken pew here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "pull cord" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cord tightens and the gargoyle takes the strain. As you pull Floyd | harder, it comes free. That was the good news. The bad news is that Floyd | you've brought down the rest of the arch as well, making a tremendous Floyd | din. Looking towards the fire, you see several heads looking in your Floyd | direction. The gargoyle lies at your feet. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get gargoyle" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the gargoyle. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | The antechamber connects the ruins to the catacombs. Upwards is the Floyd | transept and you can enter the catacombs through a doorway to the Floyd | south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Catacombs Floyd | The ceiling's collapse has disturbed the sepulchral debris in this Floyd | sacred place, throwing it all over the floor. A doorway leads north to Floyd | the antechamber and there is an exit leading down. Floyd | There is a sarcophagus lid here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get lid" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying too much already to get the sarcophagus lid. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "drop gargoyle" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ceremonial cord dropped. Floyd | Gargoyle dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get lid" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the sarcophagus lid. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put lid in doorway" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The sarcophagus lid is now inside the doorway. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "untie cord" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | (From the gargoyle) Floyd | Ok. Floyd | You hear voices in the room outside. After a short discussion they Floyd | decide that you must have been crushed by the collapsing ceiling. The Floyd | voices fade away, sounding heartlessly cheerful in the face of your Floyd | death. Callous brutes. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh" | |||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| inky says, "nice one" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get gargoyle" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the gargoyle. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | A sudden vision flashes before your eyes: Floyd | Chanting voices. Ancient demons. Flashing flames. Floyd | Altar Room Floyd | This icy room has been sealed for a long time. Cold air slices through Floyd | you; a chill foreshadow of your doom. Terrifying images flash into your Floyd | mind. You feel that you have violated this place somehow. Floyd | There is an ancient altar here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put gargoyle on hole" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that to the hole. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put gargoyle in hole" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The gargoyle is now inside the hole. There is a click and you stand Floyd | back swiftly. The altar sinks into the ground as a column descends from Floyd | the ceiling. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x chalice" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The glass chalice is a beautifully fluted and delicate example of the Floyd | glassmaker's art. Floyd | It contains a grommet. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x grommet" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The grommet looks like it should be fixed to a gold ring with a spindle Floyd | to form a focus wheel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get grommet" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The glass chalice lies flush with the opening in the column. You will Floyd | have to take the chalice before you can get the grommet. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get chalice" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You grab the chalice. Intent on examining it, you don't pay proper Floyd | attention to the sounds behind you. This is not a good idea. The Floyd | hippies have found a way in and are peering into the chamber. They do Floyd | not look happy. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get grommet" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Not so fast," says one of the hippies, obviously the leader and Floyd | probably one of the Fins, "Hand over the grommet." You try to lodge an Floyd | SOS with HQ. The leader holds out his hand and stares you in the eye. Floyd | "Right," he yells, "hold him down boys." The hippies close in. The Floyd | smell is terrible. Just when you wanted a hole to open up in the ground Floyd | and swallow you, one does. Well almost. It's actually in the ceiling Floyd | but it'll definitely do. The hippies stop in their tracks and stare at Floyd | the hole. "Cor baby," says one, taking a puff, "that's really free." Floyd | You dive for it. Out of the corner of your eye you spot a goldfish Floyd | approaching at phenomenal speed. Too late to avoid it now. BLAM! The Floyd | grommet falls from your grasp and into the glass box. "Sorry about the Floyd | timing," says Sir Playfair's distorted voice, rolling and tumbling Floyd | through the dimensions with you. "Excellent job. Well done. Keep up the Floyd | good work. Panchax out." Floyd | "Oh, sorry old sport," Sir Playfair's voice returns, "I forgot that you Floyd | now had the focus wheel. Jolly well done. The back room boys have Floyd | worked out what the Fins are up to. I'll tell you what it is after we Floyd | open a warp into Hydropolis, the fish planet's capital. Intriguing eh?" Floyd | The castle jolts and a large warp appears in the wall. Floyd | "Well, this is the story: the Fins have set up a meteorological Floyd | imbalance on the fish planet, causing water to evaporate. The fish Floyd | scientists have devised a project to save their world but the Fins have Floyd | sabotaged that too! You are to help them complete their project in the Floyd | body of its leader, Dr. Roach. Good luck. Panchax out." Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | There is a large warp here. Floyd | > | inky says, "uh" | |||||
| inky asks, "why did a hole appear in the ceiling?" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 240 out of 501. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "yeah, I dunno" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ceiling Cat." | ||||||
| inky says, "ok, so I guess we are like halfway through the game" | ||||||
| inky says, "though maybe the score will keep going up" | ||||||
| inky says, "er, the speed of score accumulation" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "so, now we are at the midgame, yeah. this next section is more like AMFV or something where you wander around a city." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "(not as many rooms as AMFV but still larger than what we've seen so far)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline has never played AMFV. | ||||||
| Jacqueline waits for the !! and ?! and ?? from the crowd. | ||||||
| Ellison says, "any chance we could take an hour or so break? I promised an old lady that I'd go fix her tv." | ||||||
| inky says, "hmm, me neither" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Jacqueline), "eh, although now that you've played nm's AMFV-ish game, you've played something like it" | ||||||
| Jacqueline waves and makes an isquiesque departure for home. | ||||||
| maga's studied dalliance with his venal muses is little to our taste. | Ellison says, "(and Fish!'s city is not all gridlike like AMFV. I only use the comparison since you're wandering around a city.)" | |||||
| inky says, "I think it is mostly us two or three playing this, so if you want to take a break, let's do it" | ||||||
| gjnave says, "'no breark for you Doctor Jones!'" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "cool, thanks. sorry to make you wait, though. again, if you guys want, go ahead and I'll catch up when I get back." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I got booted before I could say..." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Ellison), "What are you, an Eagle Scout?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Kidding. That is really cool." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I could use a nap, sure." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "There. That is what I tried to say before our intenet crapped out yet again." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| Ellison goes idle | ||||||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline returns from her refreshing nap. | |||||
| gjnave waves his arms, rolls a poor lore check, and then disappears - 'oh cra..' | Ellison says, "old ladies: helped" | |||||
| inky says, "aw yeah" | ||||||
| inky arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Jacqueline says, "aw yeah" | |||||
| Ellison says, "had I known that this time it'd be more complicated than making sure the tv was set to the right channel, I'm not sure I would have agreed to help so willingly!" | ||||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "(this time, the tv's vertical hold was shot or something, so I carried it out to the curb for them and moved their small bedroom tv to the main area and connected all of the wires for them)" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "so anyways, this next section is where there is a weird timer going on. before we enter the large warp, let's leave the castle to see if anything is different outside" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | The ant eggs have stopped swirling around and are now floating on the Floyd | surface. Gravel fills the bottom of the bowl and some tasty looking Floyd | pondweed you've been wanting to nibble for days is lying on it. You get Floyd | a nasty feeling in your swim bladder about the castle, probably because Floyd | Sir Playfair has so rudely interrupted your vacation. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which way: north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, Floyd | northwest, up, down. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't get enough speed up to leap out of the bowl. You only just Floyd | manage to break the surface before flopping back in. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "eh, ok, maybe there's nothing there yet" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter castle" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | There is a large warp here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter large warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the large warp and your body changes into a strange Floyd | hybrid creature, half-man half-fish. This must be Dr. Roach. Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | There is a fishton here. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "so yeah, in this next section, we're fish people. it is the culmination of everything we have seen before!" | |||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| inky says, "at last" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I've been waiting." | ||||||
| inky says, "there is a fishton of crap in the room here" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fishton" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Fishtons are really popular in Hydropolis at the moment. Most fish can Floyd | only afford small apartments so these space saving beds are essential. Floyd | You didn't get any instructions with it so it's really just a glorified Floyd | sofa. Floyd | The wall behind your fishton glows, revealing the face of the Floyd | principal's secretary. "Good morning Dr. Roach," she says, "I'm sorry Floyd | to call so early, I just want to confirm that the principal is Floyd | expecting you at ten o'clock this morning. Goodbye." Her face fades Floyd | out, leaving you with the annoying jingle of the Hydropolis Floyd | Telecommunications Network: "HTN, HTN - With your friends you can talk, Floyd | and you won't have to walk, HTN, HTN". Not the most auspicious start to Floyd | a morning. Floyd | > | Jacqueline makes a fishy face. | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain exclaims, "I hope for some Lovecraftian insanity. I'a Ch'thulhu!" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "ha ha fishton of crap" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lie on fishton" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You lie down on the fishton. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Look, you're a trained inter-dimensional espionage operative. You, more Floyd | than anyone else, should know that sleeping will destroy the Floyd | host-parasite interface. You've got an important job to do, now get on Floyd | with it. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Allen arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are on your feet. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | There is a fishton here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x shelf" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Roach bought the trendy black shelf from his favourite trendy black Floyd | shelf shop. Floyd | There is a fishofax on it. Floyd | > | Jacqueline puts on some Mr. Scruff for the next section. | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The painting is called 'Waves in Black'. One of Finn's more solid Floyd | works. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fishofax" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The fishofax is a really useful item. Honest. It combines all the Floyd | features of a diary and a wallet, for about four or five times the Floyd | price. Floyd | It is open. Floyd | It contains a Fisa card and a tatty card. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The Fisa card saves you carrying cash around. For this pleasure, you Floyd | have to pay extortionate interest rates on your outstanding balance. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Allen has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline says, "Oh, I wasn't in the right room. Durr." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get fishofax" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the fishofax. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tatty" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | There is no such tatty. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tatty card" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The tatty card is in a sorry state, probably because you have to carry Floyd | it around all the time to keep proving your identity. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "hmm, the principal is expecting us. I wonder if that's the first hurdle I used to forget to do." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 09:12 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look behind painting" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x switch" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | For a joke, when Roach was bored one evening last week, he re-wired the Floyd | switch so that it controls the lights for all of the other apartments Floyd | in the whole block. For the time being it is on. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn off switch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The switch is now off. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh dear." | |||||
| Ellison says, "yay implemented time commands (can't remember if there was time mentioned in the status line)" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which way: there aren't any obvious exits! Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to put your hand on the print next to the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The apartment door is the latest sliding design, operated by a silver Floyd | hand print next to it. Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "there are elements in this section reminiscent of Dirk Gently, I thought (well, I thought in retrospect when I read Dirk Gently years later)" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put hand on print" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With a loud whoosh, the door flies up into the ceiling. Floyd | > | inky asks, "don't we have a flipper?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub greets you cheerfully. Your colleague Ernest Floyd | Chub goes north. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chub" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't see Ernest Chub here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | There is a fishton here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chub" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub wants to be like you in every way. You're his hero and this Floyd | leads to plenty of grovelling on his part. He really needs to get a Floyd | life - of his own preferably, especially since he rented the apartment Floyd | next door to you. Floyd | > | inky asks, "uh, did he really just walk into our apartment?" | |||||
| Firion arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "so it would seem" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put hand on print" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which one, the silver hand print or the gold hand print? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "gold" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | After a few moments, nothing happens. The gold print probably responds Floyd | only to Ernest Chub. You remove your hand before anyone notices you Floyd | looking foolish. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | A high speed police fish pulls up outside your apartment block. His Floyd | flashing blue light and wailing siren make you feel decidedly uneasy. Floyd | The host-parasite interface weakens momentarily and you catch a glimpse Floyd | of the goldfish bowl. Then you regain control of Roach's body as the Floyd | police fish zooms off. Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | Ellison starts mapping. "I believe the city comprises of a bunch of small areas connected by public transit, but I'll map just the same." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x clerk" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The ticket clerk sits behind the ticket counter selling tickets. Floyd | Steve swims by at top speed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask clerk about ticket" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The ticket clerk says, "Yes, I've got tickets. Lots of lovely tickets Floyd | and they're all for sale chief. You need one to get on a train. But you Floyd | knew that didn't you? I mean, you're a clever sort, I can tell." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x steve" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't see Steve here. Floyd | > | Firion asks, "What are we playing?" | |||||
| inky says, "Fish!" | ||||||
| Firion sees nothing of it on the wiki. | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Firion), "Last entry on the bb... you can usually (if I've been good) check the bb to see what we're playing. We started this earlier today, though, and are resuming after a break." | ||||||
| inky says, "it's secret" | ||||||
| Jacqueline | [LINK] | ||||||
| inky says, "I forget where we're trying to go" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "(Look under the heading The Games)" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "we're trying to get to a meeting with the principal so we need to go to some school or some sort, I imagine" | ||||||
| inky asks, "but what station are we supposed to go to?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I dunno. do we need to know" | ||||||
| Ellison asks, "?" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "buy ticket" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "visa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand visa Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "buy ticket with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The ticket clerk sneers, "I'm sorry chief, that won't do nicely; we Floyd | don't accept Fisa here, only cash or Mastercarp." Floyd | > | inky says, "argh" | |||||
| Ellison says, "SHAKE FIST" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Only west, down. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sorry," says the guard, stopping you, "you can't go into the Floyd | funnel without a travel pass or a ticket." Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax. Floyd | You are wearing a watch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | North, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Paddlington Floyd | The roads in Hydropolis, especially here in Paddlington, look Floyd | remarkably similar. After a short jaunt you get lost. Panic takes a Floyd | tight grip on your arms and leads you at a rush through the streets, Floyd | desperately trying to find somewhere familiar. More by luck than Floyd | judgement, you eventually reach the underground station. Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and up to the level of your apartment Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub greets you cheerfully. Your colleague Ernest Floyd | Chub goes east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | Emily asks, "why do I have the impression the authors were giggling maniacally the whole time?" | |||||
| inky says, "hunh" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "chub, up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "Definitely not!" Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and up to the level of your apartment Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | Oh, no! You've been burgled! I hope Dr. Roach was insured. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||||
| inky asks, "what?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "Chubs burgled us!" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "oh hey, a travel pass" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Burgled." | ||||||
| inky asks, "did we get burgled by someone leaving a pass?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I guess so!" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pass" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The travel pass gives you unlimited use of the Hydropolis Underground Floyd | Omnibus system, until it expires of course. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pass" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the travel pass. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and up to the level of your apartment Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "knock on chub's door" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Thud! Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask chub about pass" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "Oh really sir. You flatter me with such a question. Floyd | I'm not fit to provide an answer." Floyd | "Oh well," says Ernest Chub suddenly. "I've got to go now. Bye!" Floyd | Your colleague Ernest Chub goes east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You wisely decide not to walk onto the tracks. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 10:00 Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | Allen says, "oh huh I never played Fish" | |||||
| Allen arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You try to push your way through to the doors, but can't quite make it Floyd | in time. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Pickerel. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | A group of students swim by with what looks like the principal. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x students" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any students here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "principal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see the principal here. Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Pickerel Underground Station Floyd | This station is teeming with guppies, nipping in and out of the access Floyd | funnel which leads to the platform. A guard, looking rather bored with Floyd | life, checks all their tickets. You can buy tickets from the ticket Floyd | clerk, behind his counter close to the exit southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | It's a good job you have your Fisa card with you. A happy ticket clerk Floyd | sells you a cinema ticket and you are shown to a seat. The film begins. Floyd | It's Starfish Wars, the first part of the infamous Starfish Wars Floyd | trilogy. You spend an entertaining hour watching various fish blaze Floyd | their way across the galaxy, blasting things and generally having a Floyd | whale of a time. You are most uplifted but disappointed when the Floyd | closing credits run. The film ends, the curtains close and the lights Floyd | come up. You rise from your seat and carefully throwing your ticket Floyd | into a bin you return to the plaza. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "looking back, I see our burgled apartment was missing the fishton" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Simon Tench greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | inky says, "oh yeah" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x simon" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Simon Tench is a brilliant scientist with a searing intuition for the Floyd | right answer. Unfortunately, he'd much rather have fun than work on The Floyd | Project. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask simon about meeting" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand meeting Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sit on stool" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are now sitting on the stool. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask simon about project" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Simon Tench says, "Daddio, the project is real cool. Probably the Floyd | coolest thing I've been around. I'm just a prawn, you're the main fish, Floyd | Roachie." Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man, the writing." | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Starfish Wars sounds better than Attack of the Clones." | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "sk simon to define cool" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand sk Floyd | > | inky says, "I'm not really remembering what to do here" | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "oops ask" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand oops Floyd | > | Ellison says, "of course, the Magnetic Scrolls games' artwork adds to the experience, but it's not so important that I figured it wasn't worth suggesting this for ClubFloyd" | |||||
| inky asks, "was that principal who we were supposed to meet?" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax and a travel pass. Floyd | You are wearing a watch. Floyd | > | inky asks, "or this guy about the project?" | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "show time to simon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Simon Tench says, "How nice." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline waves and makes an isquiesque departure for home. | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "buy drink for simon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to buy? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "beer" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand beer Floyd | > | Ellison says, "we had an appointment to meet a principal at 10. otherwise, I don't think there's any harm in exploring and learning stuff" | |||||
| Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "tell simon he is important" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand he Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm ok" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Pub (on the stool) Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't reach the cylinder from here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You get off. Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Police Station Floyd | The police station is fished day and night by a stalwart dogfish who is Floyd | ready to solve the troutiest of crimes, especially the really simple Floyd | ones where the villains just confess. You can escape without much Floyd | danger of pursuit to the north. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "sniff gas" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any gas here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dogfish" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The police officer is a dogfish, with large whiskers and a semi-alert Floyd | expression. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | inky says, "this is a pretty big map" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tuna Day's Music Shop Floyd | The music shop is cluttered with amateur musicians, most of whom are Floyd | playing versions of the ancient heavy metal hit "Smoke Underwater", Floyd | very badly, on expensive instruments that they have no intention of Floyd | buying. An assistant is attempting to hide behind the counter. The Floyd | hasty exit from this noisy place is north. The assistant is fondling Floyd | some ear plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x plugs" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The ear-plugs reduce all types of loud noise to a bearable level. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get plugs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But the shop assistant won't let you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy plugs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy plugs with visa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand visa Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy plugs with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Second Hand Shop Floyd | This shop is run by a cool catfish of many talents, most of them Floyd | illegal, who goes by the name of Steve. Steve is a fish who could sell Floyd | stripes to tiger sharks, but would rather sell them his grandmother - Floyd | if he hasn't already. The shop has a bad reputation. It normally sells Floyd | "fins what have fallen off the back of a submarine" if you get my Floyd | drift. The exit from this den of low morals and high prices is to the Floyd | south. Steve catches your eye, and with a knowing wink suggests that Floyd | you might like to buy a "somewhat fruity" film that came in yesterday. Floyd | You recognise the fishton. Floyd | There is a radio case here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x radio" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | There is no such radio. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask steve abotu radio" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand abotu Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask steve about radio" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is no such radio. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask steve about film" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Steve says, "No, no, the market won't take that sort of talk much Floyd | longer. The service industries are where the clams are these days." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Second Hand Shop Floyd | This shop is run by a cool catfish of many talents, most of them Floyd | illegal, who goes by the name of Steve. Steve is a fish who could sell Floyd | stripes to tiger sharks, but would rather sell them his grandmother - Floyd | if he hasn't already. The shop has a bad reputation. It normally sells Floyd | "fins what have fallen off the back of a submarine" if you get my Floyd | drift. The exit from this den of low morals and high prices is to the Floyd | south. Steve catches your eye, and with a knowing wink suggests that Floyd | you might like to buy a "somewhat fruity" film that came in yesterday. Floyd | You recognise the fishton. Floyd | There is a radio case here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fishton" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Fishtons are really popular in Hydropolis at the moment. Most fish can Floyd | only afford small apartments so these space saving beds are essential. Floyd | You didn't get any instructions with it so it's really just a glorified Floyd | sofa. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x radio case" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The radio case is the outer casing of an antique radio. There is a lot Floyd | of space inside where the radio bits used to be. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy radio case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy radio case with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry," says Steve, "but I've already sold the radio case to a fish Floyd | named Chub who lives in Paddlington. I'll get Rod to deliver it later Floyd | on, if the van's going that way. Otherwise, he'll have to wait!" Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy fishton with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Rod," calls Steve, "come here and put the fishton in the van for Floyd | delivery later on." Rod appears from a back room, gives you a knowing Floyd | wink, and leaves with the goods safely in his charge. Floyd | "It's all right I know your address," Steve says as you offer the Floyd | information. He takes your credit card and partly fills in a sales slip Floyd | which he informs you will be duly completed "Later" and returns the Floyd | card to you with a supercilious "Thank you sir." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline waves and makes an isquiesque departure for home. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Second Hand Shop Floyd | This shop is run by a cool catfish of many talents, most of them Floyd | illegal, who goes by the name of Steve. Steve is a fish who could sell Floyd | stripes to tiger sharks, but would rather sell them his grandmother - Floyd | if he hasn't already. The shop has a bad reputation. It normally sells Floyd | "fins what have fallen off the back of a submarine" if you get my Floyd | drift. The exit from this den of low morals and high prices is to the Floyd | south. Steve catches your eye, and with a knowing wink suggests that Floyd | you might like to buy a "somewhat fruity" film that came in yesterday. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy film with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Steve charges the sum of 75 Clams to your Fisa account and passes the Floyd | film to you. Floyd | "I hope you enjoy it, sir," he smirks. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | Your colleague Bertie Bream swims into view. Floyd | Bertie Bream greets you with a friendly wave of his fin. Floyd | You notice a guppy flounder around for a bit and then swim off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a travel pass, some ear-plugs and a film. Floyd | You are wearing a watch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x film" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The film is an original copy of "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes". It's Floyd | more of a vegetable video than a fruity film now you think about it. Floyd | > | inky says, "man what" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Hardware Shop Floyd | This hardware shop contains everything for the fish with DIY leanings. Floyd | If your DIY is leaning, this is were you can get the tools to mend it. Floyd | If you require anything the assistant will only be too pleased to take Floyd | your credit, if not your credit card. He may even give it back. You can Floyd | leave the shop by swimming west. The assistant offers to sell you a Floyd | black plastic bag. Floyd | A hyperdriver and a screwdriver are for sale. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The hyperdriver is a variant on the standard screwdriver, designed for Floyd | removing lok screws. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy hyperdriver with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 99 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the hyperdriver. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy screwdriver with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 8 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the screwdriver. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x screwdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The screwdriver works with any normal kind of screw. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Hardware Shop Floyd | This hardware shop contains everything for the fish with DIY leanings. Floyd | If your DIY is leaning, this is were you can get the tools to mend it. Floyd | If you require anything the assistant will only be too pleased to take Floyd | your credit, if not your credit card. He may even give it back. You can Floyd | leave the shop by swimming west. The assistant offers to sell you a Floyd | black plastic bag. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy bag with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 2 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the bag. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who | ||||||
| Lionheart arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||||
Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Simon Tench greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Simon Tench greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stool" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The stool is the only stool at the bar available for your use. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get stool" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Don't do that," says Steve, "or I'll ban you." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Clothing Shop Floyd | Behind a counter stands an assistant, ready to sell you anything in the Floyd | shop. Many racks are filled with exciting jackets, a fashionable Floyd | accessory in Hydropolis at the moment. You can leave the shop by going Floyd | south. A trendy pair of sun glasses are on sale. Floyd | A tie is for sale. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy sun glasses" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see the sun here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy glasses" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy glasses with visa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand visa Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy glasses with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the dark glasses. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy tie with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 25 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the tie. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tie" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The tie is to be worn on special occasions: births, deaths, marriages, Floyd | visits to the disco and so on. It's made from finest kipper. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x glasses" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The dark glasses are incredibly cool and trendy, highly unsuitable for Floyd | Dr. Roach. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | An old fish swims up to you and asks for the price of a snifter. "Five Floyd | clams," you tell him. He thanks you and swims away. Floyd | > | inky says, "ok so I guess I bought all there is" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pickerel Underground Station Floyd | This station is teeming with guppies, nipping in and out of the access Floyd | funnel which leads to the platform. A guard, looking rather bored with Floyd | life, checks all their tickets. You can buy tickets from the ticket Floyd | clerk, behind his counter close to the exit southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Pickerel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Allen has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | A rumbling comes from the tunnel and a train pulls into the station. As Floyd | it comes to a halt, someone pushes you in the back sending you onto the Floyd | tracks. Brakes screech but the train can't stop in time. It pulverises Floyd | your pathetic little body, sending you reeling through the dimensions. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says, "Okay, my internet is being a little *too* annoying." | |||||
| inky says, "whoah" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "sorry, I was away. well, it's good to know where we can buy that stuff. considering loud sounds and bright lights can kick us out of our host body, that stuff might be important later" | ||||||
| inky says, "ah cunning" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which way: there aren't any obvious exits! Floyd | > | Ellison says, "my computer has been really slow so I am not far in my mapping progress" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x terminals" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't reach the terminals from here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | There's no way out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gravel" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any gravel here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat pondweed" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any pondweed here. Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, I assume this is just basically an ending" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | There is a large warp here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter large warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the large warp and your body changes into a strange Floyd | hybrid creature, half-man half-fish. This must be Dr. Roach. Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | There is a fishton here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x shelf" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Roach bought the trendy black shelf from his favourite trendy black Floyd | shelf shop. Floyd | There is a fishofax on it. Floyd | The wall behind your fishton glows, revealing the face of the Floyd | principal's secretary. "Good morning Dr. Roach," she says, "I'm sorry Floyd | to call so early, I just want to confirm that the principal is Floyd | expecting you at ten o'clock this morning. Goodbye." Her face fades Floyd | out, leaving you with the annoying jingle of the Hydropolis Floyd | Telecommunications Network: "HTN, HTN - With your friends you can talk, Floyd | and you won't have to walk, HTN, HTN". Not the most auspicious start to Floyd | a morning. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get fishofax" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the fishofax. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put hand on print" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With a loud whoosh, the door flies up into the ceiling. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | As you arrive Simon Tench greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and up to the level of your apartment Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | As you arrive Simon Tench greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | Oh, no! You've been burgled! I hope Dr. Roach was insured. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pass" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the travel pass. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | As you arrive Simon Tench greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | An old fish swims up to you and asks for the price of a snifter. "Five Floyd | clams," you tell him. He thanks you and swims away. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | A high speed police fish pulls up outside your apartment block. His Floyd | flashing blue light and wailing siren make you feel decidedly uneasy. Floyd | The host-parasite interface weakens momentarily and you catch a glimpse Floyd | of the goldfish bowl. Then you regain control of Roach's body as the Floyd | police fish zooms off. Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Battersea. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Battersea Floyd | Battersea is a place of dreams. The station was built many years ago to Floyd | encourage visits by tourists. Regular tours around the complex leave Floyd | from the north. An access funnel, leading down is fished by a guard who Floyd | is checking tickets, or would be if there were any to check but the Floyd | ticket clerk hasn't sold any. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Welcome to Battersea Power Station." You are met by a tall tour guide, Floyd | who appears to be chewing gum and reading notes off little cue cards. Floyd | She takes you on a guided tour of the entire plant, filling your head Floyd | with facts and figures about throughput, power consumption and blades. Floyd | One thing that stuck in your mind was the interesting, but Floyd | little-known, fact that Battersea is only the secondary power station Floyd | for Hydropolis and is only used during peak demand and to power the Floyd | underground system. After about half an hour, she returns you to the Floyd | power station. Floyd | Power Station Floyd | The power station dwarfs almost anything you have ever seen. Guided Floyd | tours leave from the north, so the citizens of Hydropolis can marvel at Floyd | this fish-made wonder and the sophistication of their engineers. A Floyd | steel door lies to the west near an important gauge and a large switch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gauge" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The important gauge shows the total electricity output of the Battersea Floyd | sub-station. It is currently displaying a value of 100. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x switch" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The switch is just like those seen in fifties science-fiction movies, Floyd | requiring both hands to turn it on or off. It controls the power supply Floyd | to the whole of the tube system. At the moment it is on. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn off switch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With great effort you manage to pull the switch. The light dims Floyd | momentarily and the guppies on the guided tour scream until everything Floyd | returns to normal. The important gauge shows a considerable drop in Floyd | current. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gauge" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The important gauge shows the total electricity output of the Battersea Floyd | sub-station. It is currently displaying a value of 39. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The steel door opens automatically when the pressure from the turbines Floyd | in the area to the west falls below danger levels. For safety reasons, Floyd | it cannot be opened by hand. Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The pressure door is closed to protect fish like you from swimming into Floyd | the proximity of the fast moving blades which lie beyond. You may not Floyd | appreciate this extra protection but I'm sure Dr. Roach is delighted. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Battersea Floyd | Battersea is a place of dreams. The station was built many years ago to Floyd | encourage visits by tourists. Regular tours around the complex leave Floyd | from the north. An access funnel, leading down is fished by a guard who Floyd | is checking tickets, or would be if there were any to check but the Floyd | ticket clerk hasn't sold any. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Only north, down. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Battersea. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Opah University. Floyd | The doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The statue has the University motto, 'Scientia est bona' engraved Floyd | underneath. Floyd | A student sidles up to you. "We've got the principal," he whispers, "if Floyd | you don't donate to rag week we'll let her go." You hastily decide to Floyd | give them all your loose change, then realise you have none. They Floyd | refuse to take your credit card and swim off, laughing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Principal's secretary glances up at you. "Oh dear. I'm sorry Dr. Floyd | Roach but you're too late. The principal seemed most concerned by your Floyd | absence and has taken you off The Project. Take a holiday, we'll Floyd | contact you tomorrow." You are shown out. Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 10:14 Floyd | > | inky says, "dadgummit" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "mer" | ||||||
| inky says, "ok let's see" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | There is a large warp here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter large warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the large warp and your body changes into a strange Floyd | hybrid creature, half-man half-fish. This must be Dr. Roach. Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | There is a fishton here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x shelf" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Roach bought the trendy black shelf from his favourite trendy black Floyd | shelf shop. Floyd | There is a fishofax on it. Floyd | The wall behind your fishton glows, revealing the face of the Floyd | principal's secretary. "Good morning Dr. Roach," she says, "I'm sorry Floyd | to call so early, I just want to confirm that the principal is Floyd | expecting you at ten o'clock this morning. Goodbye." Her face fades Floyd | out, leaving you with the annoying jingle of the Hydropolis Floyd | Telecommunications Network: "HTN, HTN - With your friends you can talk, Floyd | and you won't have to walk, HTN, HTN". Not the most auspicious start to Floyd | a morning. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get fishofax" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the fishofax. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put hand on print" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With a loud whoosh, the door flies up into the ceiling. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and up to the level of your apartment Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | Oh, no! You've been burgled! I hope Dr. Roach was insured. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pass" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the travel pass. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | A high speed police fish pulls up outside your apartment block. His Floyd | flashing blue light and wailing siren make you feel decidedly uneasy. Floyd | The host-parasite interface weakens momentarily and you catch a glimpse Floyd | of the goldfish bowl. Then you regain control of Roach's body as the Floyd | police fish zooms off. Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You wisely decide not to walk onto the tracks. Floyd | An old fish swims up to you and asks for the price of a snifter. "Five Floyd | clams," you tell him. He thanks you and swims away. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Opah University. Floyd | The doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 09:30 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Restaurant Floyd | Bursting to the gills, this restaurant serves the finest plankton meals Floyd | in Hydropolis. For the fabulously wealthy, gas-impregnated oils are on Floyd | sale. They may not be as efficient as snifters, but they certainly put Floyd | everyone else in their place! A waiter floats around near the exit to Floyd | the north. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x waiter" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The waiter bows and scrapes to every customer in the restaurant. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | Your colleague Simon Tench swims into view. Floyd | "Heeyy, Roachie baby," yells Tench, slapping you on the back. "How's my Floyd | main fish? Hanging loose? I'm gonna sniff with Salmon at the Sinker Floyd | today. Fish, this job is a doddle." Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||||
| Ellison asks, "does that mean he *is* the principal?" | ||||||
| inky says, "nah, should still be S" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x metal door" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The metal door remains closed to all except those who are authorised. Floyd | There is a slot next to it. Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Good morning Dr. Roach," says the principal's secretary, "have a seat. Floyd | She won't be long." She finally arrives at ten minutes to ten. "Good Floyd | morning Doctor," says the principal as she closes the door and takes a Floyd | seat, "I'm sorry if this is inconvenient, but it is an emergency. It Floyd | seems this talk about parasiting may not be speculation. We've received Floyd | information that a junior member of your team has been 'taken over' and Floyd | has sabotaged The Project. You don't need me to tell you that this Floyd | could be disastrous for Hydropolis. Naturally, I've suspended everyone Floyd | until further notice. You're the only one I can trust; I want you to Floyd | investigate. I'm going to the government to inform them of the danger. Floyd | I'm not evacuating, so don't worry. I'll be back tomorrow." She gets Floyd | up. "Now please hurry doctor. There's not a second to lose." You walk Floyd | back to the foyer together then go your separate ways. Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | Simon Tench is here. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I... I wouldn't think so, no." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax and a travel pass. Floyd | You are wearing a watch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Containing the sum total of fish knowledge, this library is the best in Floyd | all Hydropolis. As fish only have small brains, it is on the smallish Floyd | side, but students spend a lot of time here delving into what knowledge Floyd | there is - even during rag week. The library's rarest book lies on a Floyd | lectern close to the exit in the north wall. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The book is illustrated with many wondrous things from ages gone by. Floyd | Perhaps you should look some of them up. Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You open the book at random, revealing a full colour picture of a mould Floyd | on page 336. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The book is illustrated with many wondrous things from ages gone by. Floyd | Perhaps you should look some of them up. Floyd | It is open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But the book is already open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is a full colour picture of a mould on page 336. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This sounds large for a subplot." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up mould in book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to page 336, revealing a full colour picture of a mould. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up ring in book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to page 331, revealing a full colour picture of a gold ring. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up me in book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You search through the book but the page you want has been torn out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up case in book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You search through the book but the page you want has been torn out. Floyd | "On your marks, get set, GO!" Three pairs of students, tied together Floyd | come rushing past you. It's a two-tail race, obviously a ploy to raise Floyd | money for rag week. Then hordes of students swim by, rattling Floyd | collecting tins. It's a good job they don't take Fisa. They swim off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x metal door" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The metal door will not open to unauthorised persons. There is a slot Floyd | next to it. Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x slot" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The slot is beside the door. It's about the same size as your identity Floyd | card. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put identity card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | The device almost fills the room, looking like an aquarium filled with Floyd | multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "look up hunans in book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't follow you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gravel" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any gravel here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Roach certainly knows how to build impressive machines - this one Floyd | nearly fills the project room. It looks a bit like a huge aquarium, Floyd | filled to the brim with multi-coloured gravel and, if you and Sir Floyd | Playfair have anything to do with it, it's going to save Hydropolis Floyd | from water evaporation. It almost fills the room, looking like an Floyd | aquarium filled with multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | It contains a stream accelerator. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "look up humans in book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't follow you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x accelerator" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The stream accelerator accelerates particles gathered by the main Floyd | Project machine. Floyd | There is a lok screw on it. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x lok screw" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The lok screw (TM) is a small item for fixing items semi-permanently; Floyd | without the right tool it cannot be removed. Floyd | It is locked. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The right tool." | |||||
| inky says, "well, we found the screwdriver in a previous playthrough" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Is this the same aquarium where we were swimming? Sounds like th setup for a grim surreal ending, which is fine by me." | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | The device almost fills the room, looking like an aquarium filled with Floyd | multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in aquarium" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand aquarium Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | inky says (to ibhr), "I dunno, but I don't *think* so" | |||||
| inky says, "like I think this just looks like an aquarium but isn't one" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Store Room Floyd | Even though Dr. Roach is very clean and tidy, the same cannot be said Floyd | of the rest of the team. They've made this the messiest store room in Floyd | the university. And it's always left for you to straighten things out. Floyd | All the equipment and spares needed for The Project are usually stashed Floyd | here, with a wallchart keeping track of what's in and out of stock. The Floyd | only exit leads northwest. Floyd | There is a protocopier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x protocopier" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The protocopier is a large box with a slot on one side and a simple Floyd | on-off switch where you would expect one, built by Dr. Salmon as a Floyd | prototype Device. While it is indeed remarkable, the University Floyd | authorities took a different view for two reasons: the protocopier used Floyd | so much power that fuel bills reached record levels and secondly, it Floyd | could only teleport in very small amounts of water. It was the downfall Floyd | of Dr. Salmon; he was fired by the principal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wallchart" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The wallchart is an informal record of the equipment held in store for Floyd | The Project. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read wallchart" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | A: filter (out of stock) Floyd | B: photon bridge (out of stock) Floyd | C: focus wheel (out of stock) Floyd | D: tuned crystal (out of stock) Floyd | E: a suitable case (out of stock) Floyd | F: shelf (out of stock) Floyd | G: wallplan (1 in stock) Floyd | > | inky says, "(heh)" | |||||
| inky says, "anyway, still not sure what the deal is here" | ||||||
| inky says, "I guess maybe if the project has been sabotaged, then we should go fiddle with it and try to see" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | The device almost fills the room, looking like an aquarium filled with Floyd | multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x project" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a Project here. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, I think we shan't be getting anything other than perhaps a wallplan here." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Roach certainly knows how to build impressive machines - this one Floyd | nearly fills the project room. It looks a bit like a huge aquarium, Floyd | filled to the brim with multi-coloured gravel and, if you and Sir Floyd | Playfair have anything to do with it, it's going to save Hydropolis Floyd | from water evaporation. It almost fills the room, looking like an Floyd | aquarium filled with multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | It contains a stream accelerator. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x accelerator" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The stream accelerator accelerates particles gathered by the main Floyd | Project machine. Floyd | There is a lok screw on it. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get accelerator" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Even levering with a hoe and a rake tied together won't budge this one! Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "fix accelerator" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | To what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search accelerator" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Which one, the metal door or the store room door? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "metal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The metal door will not open to unauthorised persons. There is a slot Floyd | next to it. Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which one, the Fisa card, the tatty card or the travel pass? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tatty" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | As you arrive Simon Tench greets you cheerfully. Floyd | You notice several students loitering with intent. One of them produces Floyd | a guitar and starts singing: "Come on feel my nose. The girls grab my Floyd | clothes. Go why, why why any more." Oh no, he's started busking! Floyd | Luckily the other students attack and carry him off before you hear too Floyd | much. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is no such tatty. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | A student notices you trying to open the door and beckons you. "Dr. Floyd | Salmon's the only one who's got an id card for the research wing," she Floyd | says helpfully. "He's probably in town getting drunk as usual." She Floyd | trudges off, muttering, "they should never have taken him off The Floyd | Project." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Restaurant Floyd | Bursting to the gills, this restaurant serves the finest plankton meals Floyd | in Hydropolis. For the fabulously wealthy, gas-impregnated oils are on Floyd | sale. They may not be as efficient as snifters, but they certainly put Floyd | everyone else in their place! A waiter floats around near the exit to Floyd | the north. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask waiter about salmon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The waiter says, "I'm sorry sir. I'm far too busy to chat right now. Floyd | I've customers to attend to." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Hardware Shop Floyd | This hardware shop contains everything for the fish with DIY leanings. Floyd | If your DIY is leaning, this is were you can get the tools to mend it. Floyd | If you require anything the assistant will only be too pleased to take Floyd | your credit, if not your credit card. He may even give it back. You can Floyd | leave the shop by swimming west. The assistant offers to sell you a Floyd | black plastic bag. Floyd | A hyperdriver and a screwdriver are for sale. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The hyperdriver is a variant on the standard screwdriver, designed for Floyd | removing lok screws. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy hyperdriver with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 99 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the hyperdriver. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chub" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub wants to be like you in every way. You're his hero and this Floyd | leads to plenty of grovelling on his part. He really needs to get a Floyd | life - of his own preferably, especially since he rented the apartment Floyd | next door to you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask chub about salmon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "The only good thing about Dr. Salmon's departure was Floyd | that we now have a morally stable leader for the Project." He grins an Floyd | obsequious grin. "He he was a brilliant man. It's a shame to see him Floyd | wasting himself on snifters." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask chub about project" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "You're the Project leader, Roach. You tell me." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "sniff gas" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which one, the pink gas or the clear gas? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "pink" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | As you inhale, someone kicks you in the gills. At least, that's what it Floyd | feels like. Actually, you keel over backwards and swim upside down out Floyd | of the pub, but you can't remember that. The drunk thought it was funny Floyd | though. You do remember going round and round the tube network before Floyd | you could get off at Paddlington. Coming up the access funnel was Floyd | difficult, but, now that you're back in your apartment, the snifter has Floyd | thankfully worn off, leaving you with a sore head. Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | Oh, no! You've been burgled! I hope Dr. Roach was insured. Floyd | There is a travel pass and a tatty card here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Just curious what would happen." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sniff clear" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is no such clear. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sniff clear gas" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't reach the clear gas from here. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "crazy" | |||||
| inky says, "so we need to find salmon to get through that other door" | ||||||
| inky says, "but I dunno if/why we need to do that" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a travel pass and a Floyd | hyperdriver. Floyd | You are wearing a watch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | As you arrive Bertie Bream greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bertie" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Though extremely pedantic, Bertie Bream is a capable and valuable Floyd | member of the team, able to spot tiny mistakes that most would consider Floyd | irrelevant. He's also after your job. Floyd | You notice a guppy flounder around for a bit and then swim off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask bertie about project" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bertie Bream says, "Basically 'project' is a transitive verb which can Floyd | be used in many predicative clauses to convey meaning." Bertie smiles a Floyd | smarmy smile and continues. "I'm sure that's sufficient detail for you Floyd | Roach" Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask bertie about salmon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bertie Bream says, "Let me see now, I would guess that drunk is the Floyd | past participle of the verb to drink, though that doesn't mean too much Floyd | to a fish. So we have borrowed the phrase to describe being under the Floyd | influence of a snifter." Floyd | "Oh well," says Bertie Bream suddenly. "I've got to go now. Bye!" Floyd | Your colleague Bertie Bream goes north. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Museum. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | inky says, "man, this map is so big" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Museum. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Museum Station Floyd | This station is the oldest in Hydropolis. The decoration reflects more Floyd | decadent times, when men were men, fish were fish and they got together Floyd | to build underground stations. An exit leads north to the museum while Floyd | a funnel leads down to the platform. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Museum Floyd | Visited by many fish over the course of a year, the museum is a great Floyd | attraction. Maybe this is due to its unique collection of piscean Floyd | relics, the greatest of which is the skeleton of the Floyd | 'Bloodyenormasaurus' which has pride of place in the centre of this Floyd | room. You can explore the museum in your own time by going north, east Floyd | or west. You can return to the station by swimming south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x skeleton" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The bloodyenormasaurus roamed the seas of Hydropolis until fish became Floyd | civilised. Then they killed every single Bloodyenormasaurus they could Floyd | lay their grubby little fins on, simply because they made such great Floyd | museum exhibits. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Alarm Room Floyd | White rooms always have a bad effect on you. If the authorities had had Floyd | their way, your laboratory would have been white. But you were firm. Floyd | You put your tail down and refused. This room is white, and you don't Floyd | like it. It leads north to the museum's finest exhibit and south back Floyd | to the museum. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bells, hooters and whistles sing out from all over the museum bringing Floyd | guards rushing to the crystal room. You try to explain that it was an Floyd | accident; that you just stumbled. Amazingly, the guards believe your Floyd | story though they do look a bit suspicious as they deposit you back at Floyd | the station and go back to their various posts. Floyd | Museum Station Floyd | This station is the oldest in Hydropolis. The decoration reflects more Floyd | decadent times, when men were men, fish were fish and they got together Floyd | to build underground stations. An exit leads north to the museum while Floyd | a funnel leads down to the platform. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim through an exhibition of the use of gravel in modern science. Floyd | The ingenious fish scientists have managed to produce materials so Floyd | cunning that, even though they aren't really gravel, they behave in Floyd | almost exactly the same way. Not entirely impressed, you swim back Floyd | west. Floyd | Alarm Room Floyd | White rooms always have a bad effect on you. If the authorities had had Floyd | their way, your laboratory would have been white. But you were firm. Floyd | You put your tail down and refused. This room is white, and you don't Floyd | like it. It leads north to the museum's finest exhibit and south back Floyd | to the museum. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim lazily into an exhibition of historic gravel, showing many Floyd | pieces of gravel around which great and important events have centred. Floyd | It doesn't interest you in the slightest so you swim back east. Floyd | Alarm Room Floyd | White rooms always have a bad effect on you. If the authorities had had Floyd | their way, your laboratory would have been white. But you were firm. Floyd | You put your tail down and refused. This room is white, and you don't Floyd | like it. It leads north to the museum's finest exhibit and south back Floyd | to the museum. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Museum Floyd | Visited by many fish over the course of a year, the museum is a great Floyd | attraction. Maybe this is due to its unique collection of piscean Floyd | relics, the greatest of which is the skeleton of the Floyd | 'Bloodyenormasaurus' which has pride of place in the centre of this Floyd | room. You can explore the museum in your own time by going north, east Floyd | or west. You can return to the station by swimming south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim lazily into an exhibition of historic gravel, showing many Floyd | pieces of gravel around which great and important events have centred. Floyd | It doesn't interest you in the slightest so you swim back east. Floyd | Museum Floyd | Visited by many fish over the course of a year, the museum is a great Floyd | attraction. Maybe this is due to its unique collection of piscean Floyd | relics, the greatest of which is the skeleton of the Floyd | 'Bloodyenormasaurus' which has pride of place in the centre of this Floyd | room. You can explore the museum in your own time by going north, east Floyd | or west. You can return to the station by swimming south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Museum Station Floyd | This station is the oldest in Hydropolis. The decoration reflects more Floyd | decadent times, when men were men, fish were fish and they got together Floyd | to build underground stations. An exit leads north to the museum while Floyd | a funnel leads down to the platform. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Museum. Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Gah - was massively away unexpectedly... whaddimiss?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Paddlington. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Like, since the principal." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Steve swims by at top speed. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | inky says, "I dunno, still no real pointers as to what to do" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Opah University. Floyd | The doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ok, I haven't added any of this museum stuff, but here's what I have so far: [LINK]" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | As you arrive Simon Tench greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | The device almost fills the room, looking like an aquarium filled with Floyd | multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Roach certainly knows how to build impressive machines - this one Floyd | nearly fills the project room. It looks a bit like a huge aquarium, Floyd | filled to the brim with multi-coloured gravel and, if you and Sir Floyd | Playfair have anything to do with it, it's going to save Hydropolis Floyd | from water evaporation. It almost fills the room, looking like an Floyd | aquarium filled with multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | It contains a stream accelerator. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x accelerator" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The stream accelerator accelerates particles gathered by the main Floyd | Project machine. Floyd | There is a lok screw on it. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock lok with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is no such lok. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock lok screw with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that to the lok screw. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "'my worm' is an interesting expression" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscew lok screw with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand unscew Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew lok screw with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Frack, The Lokscrew(TM) was booby trapped! Bang it goes. Well "BANG!" Floyd | really. Well, to be honest, it's even louder but you get the idea. Floyd | Then, there's silence and blackness. Lots of it. Next, Sir Playfair Floyd | says something. "I think you blew it. You must identify the saboteur. Floyd | He'd know how to disarm the booby trap he set." The voice fades and you Floyd | experience a new sensation, that of falling. There is a sudden woosh Floyd | and you land, somewhat winded, back in the goldfish bowl. The castle Floyd | has gone and someone has cleaned the bowl so you can see further than Floyd | before. Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | The device almost fills the room, looking like an aquarium filled with Floyd | multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "interesting" | |||||
| inky says, "weird" | ||||||
| inky says, "ok, so I guess we have to identify the saboteur first, then try to fix this device" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Store Room Floyd | Even though Dr. Roach is very clean and tidy, the same cannot be said Floyd | of the rest of the team. They've made this the messiest store room in Floyd | the university. And it's always left for you to straighten things out. Floyd | All the equipment and spares needed for The Project are usually stashed Floyd | here, with a wallchart keeping track of what's in and out of stock. The Floyd | only exit leads northwest. Floyd | There is a protocopier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Containing the sum total of fish knowledge, this library is the best in Floyd | all Hydropolis. As fish only have small brains, it is on the smallish Floyd | side, but students spend a lot of time here delving into what knowledge Floyd | there is - even during rag week. The library's rarest book lies on a Floyd | lectern close to the exit in the north wall. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The book is illustrated with many wondrous things from ages gone by. Floyd | Perhaps you should look some of them up. Floyd | It is open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up lok in book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You search through the book but the page you want has been torn out. Floyd | A student sidles up to you. "We've got the principal," he whispers, "if Floyd | you don't donate to rag week we'll let her go." You hastily decide to Floyd | give them all your loose change, then realise you have none. They Floyd | refuse to take your credit card and swim off, laughing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up student in book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't follow you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | As you arrive Bertie Bream greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I guess 'my worm' is the sort of interjection you get when you have a symbiotic relationship" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask bream about sabotage" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand sabotage Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask bream about parasite" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand parasite Floyd | > | inky says, "oh, hmm, I have a theory" | |||||
| Lionheart says, "Also, if you're a Goa'uld." | ||||||
| inky says, "if we can create a loud noise ourselves, we can zap people and see if they react" | ||||||
| inky says, "since that should kick out someone else who has a parasite" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "ok, just got done adding the museum section (haven't uploaded it)" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to inky), "that is exactly what we should do" | ||||||
| inky says, "I don't think we've seen something that lets us do that" | ||||||
| inky says, "but there are various other subway stations" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I think there are some places in the Dace Road area that we haven't seen yet (only going by my memory)" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Bertie Floyd | Bream is here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You try to push your way through to the doors, but can't quite make it Floyd | in time. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Second Hand Shop Floyd | This shop is run by a cool catfish of many talents, most of them Floyd | illegal, who goes by the name of Steve. Steve is a fish who could sell Floyd | stripes to tiger sharks, but would rather sell them his grandmother - Floyd | if he hasn't already. The shop has a bad reputation. It normally sells Floyd | "fins what have fallen off the back of a submarine" if you get my Floyd | drift. The exit from this den of low morals and high prices is to the Floyd | south. Steve catches your eye, and with a knowing wink suggests that Floyd | you might like to buy a "somewhat fruity" film that came in yesterday. Floyd | You recognise the fishton. Floyd | There is a radio case here. Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "when we were pushed onto the tracks earlier, is there anything we can do to avoid that?" | |||||
| inky says, "I don't know why it happened -- I haven't seen it happen again" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "also, I like how this place had Rod in it." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tuna Day's Music Shop Floyd | The music shop is cluttered with amateur musicians, most of whom are Floyd | playing versions of the ancient heavy metal hit "Smoke Underwater", Floyd | very badly, on expensive instruments that they have no intention of Floyd | buying. An assistant is attempting to hide behind the counter. The Floyd | hasty exit from this noisy place is north. The assistant is fondling Floyd | some ear plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy ear plugs with fis" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand fis Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy ear plugs with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Hardware Shop Floyd | This hardware shop contains everything for the fish with DIY leanings. Floyd | If your DIY is leaning, this is were you can get the tools to mend it. Floyd | If you require anything the assistant will only be too pleased to take Floyd | your credit, if not your credit card. He may even give it back. You can Floyd | leave the shop by swimming west. The assistant offers to sell you a Floyd | black plastic bag. Floyd | A screwdriver is for sale. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Hardware Shop Floyd | This hardware shop contains everything for the fish with DIY leanings. Floyd | If your DIY is leaning, this is were you can get the tools to mend it. Floyd | If you require anything the assistant will only be too pleased to take Floyd | your credit, if not your credit card. He may even give it back. You can Floyd | leave the shop by swimming west. The assistant offers to sell you a Floyd | black plastic bag. Floyd | A screwdriver is for sale. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "hmm, games back then were all about horrible random things. could be that." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy bag with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 2 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the bag. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | A group of students swim by with what looks like the principal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Clothing Shop Floyd | Behind a counter stands an assistant, ready to sell you anything in the Floyd | shop. Many racks are filled with exciting jackets, a fashionable Floyd | accessory in Hydropolis at the moment. You can leave the shop by going Floyd | south. A trendy pair of sun glasses are on sale. Floyd | A tie is for sale. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy glasses with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the dark glasses. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | As you step on the road, the cars all accelerate towards you, their Floyd | drivers leaning over the steering wheels with fangs bared. You just Floyd | avoid them by swimming as quick as you can to the safety of Dace Road. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Police Station Floyd | The police station is fished day and night by a stalwart dogfish who is Floyd | ready to solve the troutiest of crimes, especially the really simple Floyd | ones where the villains just confess. You can escape without much Floyd | danger of pursuit to the north. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "hmm, maybe I was wrong" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pickerel Underground Station Floyd | This station is teeming with guppies, nipping in and out of the access Floyd | funnel which leads to the platform. A guard, looking rather bored with Floyd | life, checks all their tickets. You can buy tickets from the ticket Floyd | clerk, behind his counter close to the exit southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Pickerel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Opah University. Floyd | The doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You try to push your way through to the doors, but can't quite make it Floyd | in time. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Museum. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Paddlington. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You try to push your way through to the doors, but can't quite make it Floyd | in time. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Battersea. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Battersea Floyd | Battersea is a place of dreams. The station was built many years ago to Floyd | encourage visits by tourists. Regular tours around the complex leave Floyd | from the north. An access funnel, leading down is fished by a guard who Floyd | is checking tickets, or would be if there were any to check but the Floyd | ticket clerk hasn't sold any. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Welcome to Battersea Power Station." You are met by a tall tour guide, Floyd | who appears to be chewing gum and reading notes off little cue cards. Floyd | She takes you on a guided tour of the entire plant, filling your head Floyd | with facts and figures about throughput, power consumption and blades. Floyd | One thing that stuck in your mind was the interesting, but Floyd | little-known, fact that Battersea is only the secondary power station Floyd | for Hydropolis and is only used during peak demand and to power the Floyd | underground system. After about half an hour, she returns you to the Floyd | power station. Floyd | Power Station Floyd | The power station dwarfs almost anything you have ever seen. Guided Floyd | tours leave from the north, so the citizens of Hydropolis can marvel at Floyd | this fish-made wonder and the sophistication of their engineers. A Floyd | steel door lies to the west near an important gauge and a large switch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn off switch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With great effort you manage to pull the switch. The light dims Floyd | momentarily and the guppies on the guided tour scream until everything Floyd | returns to normal. The important gauge shows a considerable drop in Floyd | current. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Battersea Floyd | Battersea is a place of dreams. The station was built many years ago to Floyd | encourage visits by tourists. Regular tours around the complex leave Floyd | from the north. An access funnel, leading down is fished by a guard who Floyd | is checking tickets, or would be if there were any to check but the Floyd | ticket clerk hasn't sold any. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Battersea. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Opah University. Floyd | The doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 14:15 Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky drops slim wand. | ||||||
| slim wand shimmers and then fades away. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You try to push your way through to the doors, but can't quite make it Floyd | in time. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wand" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand wand Floyd | > | inky says, "er" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Museum. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Museum. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Museum Station Floyd | This station is the oldest in Hydropolis. The decoration reflects more Floyd | decadent times, when men were men, fish were fish and they got together Floyd | to build underground stations. An exit leads north to the museum while Floyd | a funnel leads down to the platform. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Museum Floyd | Visited by many fish over the course of a year, the museum is a great Floyd | attraction. Maybe this is due to its unique collection of piscean Floyd | relics, the greatest of which is the skeleton of the Floyd | 'Bloodyenormasaurus' which has pride of place in the centre of this Floyd | room. You can explore the museum in your own time by going north, east Floyd | or west. You can return to the station by swimming south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x skeleton" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The bloodyenormasaurus roamed the seas of Hydropolis until fish became Floyd | civilised. Then they killed every single Bloodyenormasaurus they could Floyd | lay their grubby little fins on, simply because they made such great Floyd | museum exhibits. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim through an exhibition of the use of gravel in modern science. Floyd | The ingenious fish scientists have managed to produce materials so Floyd | cunning that, even though they aren't really gravel, they behave in Floyd | almost exactly the same way. Not entirely impressed, you swim back Floyd | west. Floyd | Museum Floyd | Visited by many fish over the course of a year, the museum is a great Floyd | attraction. Maybe this is due to its unique collection of piscean Floyd | relics, the greatest of which is the skeleton of the Floyd | 'Bloodyenormasaurus' which has pride of place in the centre of this Floyd | room. You can explore the museum in your own time by going north, east Floyd | or west. You can return to the station by swimming south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Alarm Room Floyd | White rooms always have a bad effect on you. If the authorities had had Floyd | their way, your laboratory would have been white. But you were firm. Floyd | You put your tail down and refused. This room is white, and you don't Floyd | like it. It leads north to the museum's finest exhibit and south back Floyd | to the museum. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x room" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | White rooms always have a bad effect on you. If the authorities had had Floyd | their way, your laboratory would have been white. But you were firm. Floyd | You put your tail down and refused. This room is white, and you don't Floyd | like it. It leads north to the museum's finest exhibit and south back Floyd | to the museum. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x alarm" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | There is no such alarm. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim through an exhibition of the use of gravel in modern science. Floyd | The ingenious fish scientists have managed to produce materials so Floyd | cunning that, even though they aren't really gravel, they behave in Floyd | almost exactly the same way. Not entirely impressed, you swim back Floyd | west. Floyd | Alarm Room Floyd | White rooms always have a bad effect on you. If the authorities had had Floyd | their way, your laboratory would have been white. But you were firm. Floyd | You put your tail down and refused. This room is white, and you don't Floyd | like it. It leads north to the museum's finest exhibit and south back Floyd | to the museum. Floyd | > | inky says, "weird bug" | |||||
| inky says, "or something" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "interesting" | ||||||
| Ellison asks, "how many different colleague/suspects have we seen so far?" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bells, hooters and whistles sing out from all over the museum bringing Floyd | guards rushing to the crystal room. You try to explain that it was an Floyd | accident; that you just stumbled. Amazingly, the guards believe your Floyd | story though they do look a bit suspicious as they deposit you back at Floyd | the station and go back to their various posts. Floyd | Museum Station Floyd | This station is the oldest in Hydropolis. The decoration reflects more Floyd | decadent times, when men were men, fish were fish and they got together Floyd | to build underground stations. An exit leads north to the museum while Floyd | a funnel leads down to the platform. Floyd | > | inky says, "three, I think -- the bream guy, the chub guy, and the hippie guy" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's the Chub." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | inky says, "I don't understand what is going on in the museum here" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x crystal" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a crystal here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x crystal room" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a room here. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "yeah, me neither" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Museum Floyd | Visited by many fish over the course of a year, the museum is a great Floyd | attraction. Maybe this is due to its unique collection of piscean Floyd | relics, the greatest of which is the skeleton of the Floyd | 'Bloodyenormasaurus' which has pride of place in the centre of this Floyd | room. You can explore the museum in your own time by going north, east Floyd | or west. You can return to the station by swimming south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get skeleton" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The bloodyenormasaurus steadfastly refuses to be moved. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look in skeleton" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The bloodyenormasaurus roamed the seas of Hydropolis until fish became Floyd | civilised. Then they killed every single Bloodyenormasaurus they could Floyd | lay their grubby little fins on, simply because they made such great Floyd | museum exhibits. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "we might be able to cross to the north side of Dace Road" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Museum Station Floyd | This station is the oldest in Hydropolis. The decoration reflects more Floyd | decadent times, when men were men, fish were fish and they got together Floyd | to build underground stations. An exit leads north to the museum while Floyd | a funnel leads down to the platform. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Only north, down. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Museum. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Paddlington. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Pickerel. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Pickerel Underground Station Floyd | This station is teeming with guppies, nipping in and out of the access Floyd | funnel which leads to the platform. A guard, looking rather bored with Floyd | life, checks all their tickets. You can buy tickets from the ticket Floyd | clerk, behind his counter close to the exit southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You wait for a break in the traffic but it's far too busy so you give Floyd | up. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | As you step on the road, the cars all accelerate towards you, their Floyd | drivers leaning over the steering wheels with fangs bared. You just Floyd | avoid them by swimming as quick as you can to the safety of Dace Road. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You wait for a break in the traffic but it's far too busy so you give Floyd | up. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "hmm" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You wait for a break in the traffic but it's far too busy so you give Floyd | up. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You wait for a break in the traffic but it's far too busy so you give Floyd | up. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | As you step on the road, the cars all accelerate towards you, their Floyd | drivers leaning over the steering wheels with fangs bared. You just Floyd | avoid them by swimming as quick as you can to the safety of Dace Road. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You wait for a break in the traffic but it's far too busy so you give Floyd | up. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You wait for a break in the traffic but it's far too busy so you give Floyd | up. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | As you step on the road, the cars all accelerate towards you, their Floyd | drivers leaning over the steering wheels with fangs bared. You just Floyd | avoid them by swimming as quick as you can to the safety of Dace Road. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I thought for sure I remembered a disco being around here somewhere" | |||||
| inky says, "that does sound promising" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tuna Day's Music Shop Floyd | The music shop is cluttered with amateur musicians, most of whom are Floyd | playing versions of the ancient heavy metal hit "Smoke Underwater", Floyd | very badly, on expensive instruments that they have no intention of Floyd | buying. An assistant is attempting to hide behind the counter. The Floyd | hasty exit from this noisy place is north. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x music" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Don't be foolish! You can't examine music, it's ethereal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen to music" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The noise sounds uncannily like "Smoke Underwater" but you're not sure Floyd | as the 'musicians' can't quite get the hang of the opening. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Second Hand Shop Floyd | This shop is run by a cool catfish of many talents, most of them Floyd | illegal, who goes by the name of Steve. Steve is a fish who could sell Floyd | stripes to tiger sharks, but would rather sell them his grandmother - Floyd | if he hasn't already. The shop has a bad reputation. It normally sells Floyd | "fins what have fallen off the back of a submarine" if you get my Floyd | drift. The exit from this den of low morals and high prices is to the Floyd | south. Steve catches your eye, and with a knowing wink suggests that Floyd | you might like to buy a "somewhat fruity" film that came in yesterday. Floyd | You recognise the fishton. Floyd | There is a radio case here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x radio case" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The radio case is the outer casing of an antique radio. There is a lot Floyd | of space inside where the radio bits used to be. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy film with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Steve charges the sum of 75 Clams to your Fisa account and passes the Floyd | film to you. Floyd | "I hope you enjoy it, sir," he smirks. Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I wonder if this sequence inspired Spongebob Squarepants? It has the same sort of surrealistic underwater human city theme." | |||||
| inky says, "presumably we can use the radio case to smuggle something into his apartment" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter radio case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get in radio case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Watch it," shouts Steve, "that's sold." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is nothing to enter here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a travel pass, some dark Floyd | glasses, some ear-plugs, a hyperdriver, a film and a bag. Floyd | You are wearing a watch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "fishofax" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Are you talking to yourself again? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fishofax" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The fishofax is a really useful item. Honest. It combines all the Floyd | features of a diary and a wallet, for about four or five times the Floyd | price. Floyd | It is open. Floyd | It contains a Fisa card. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read fishofax" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Principal, 10 o'clock. Don't be late" is written on today's diary page Floyd | of your fishofax. You've also written your computer password with the Floyd | letters jumbled up to confuse anyone who reads it. It says "EM". Floyd | > | Ellison says, "yeah, I'm not sure I ever figured out what the use of getting the radio case delivered was" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yell" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Nobody hears you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Hardware Shop Floyd | This hardware shop contains everything for the fish with DIY leanings. Floyd | If your DIY is leaning, this is were you can get the tools to mend it. Floyd | If you require anything the assistant will only be too pleased to take Floyd | your credit, if not your credit card. He may even give it back. You can Floyd | leave the shop by swimming west. Floyd | A screwdriver is for sale. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Museum. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| baf arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Museum. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Museum Station Floyd | This station is the oldest in Hydropolis. The decoration reflects more Floyd | decadent times, when men were men, fish were fish and they got together Floyd | to build underground stations. An exit leads north to the museum while Floyd | a funnel leads down to the platform. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Museum Floyd | Visited by many fish over the course of a year, the museum is a great Floyd | attraction. Maybe this is due to its unique collection of piscean Floyd | relics, the greatest of which is the skeleton of the Floyd | 'Bloodyenormasaurus' which has pride of place in the centre of this Floyd | room. You can explore the museum in your own time by going north, east Floyd | or west. You can return to the station by swimming south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Only north, east, south, west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Alarm Room Floyd | White rooms always have a bad effect on you. If the authorities had had Floyd | their way, your laboratory would have been white. But you were firm. Floyd | You put your tail down and refused. This room is white, and you don't Floyd | like it. It leads north to the museum's finest exhibit and south back Floyd | to the museum. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x exhibit" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a relics here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look north" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see that far from here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x alarm" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | There is no such alarm. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x crystal" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a crystal here. Floyd | > | baf asks, "Have you found the wall with the long description?" | |||||
| inky says, "I don't think so" | ||||||
| baf says, "I don't remember where it is, but there's one place with a wall worth examining." | ||||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||||
| inky says, "well I for one am kind of stuck here" | ||||||
| baf says, "Not for any practical reason." | ||||||
| baf says, "What are your current obstacles? It's been a very long time since I played this, but I might be able to remember something." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "we just know that one of our colleagues are suspected of being a spy for the Fins" | ||||||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||||
| inky says, "and we're trying to identify him" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Also, we have to meet the principal at 10:00, but he is being kidnapped and held for ransom by students." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Museum Floyd | Visited by many fish over the course of a year, the museum is a great Floyd | attraction. Maybe this is due to its unique collection of piscean Floyd | relics, the greatest of which is the skeleton of the Floyd | 'Bloodyenormasaurus' which has pride of place in the centre of this Floyd | room. You can explore the museum in your own time by going north, east Floyd | or west. You can return to the station by swimming south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Museum Station Floyd | This station is the oldest in Hydropolis. The decoration reflects more Floyd | decadent times, when men were men, fish were fish and they got together Floyd | to build underground stations. An exit leads north to the museum while Floyd | a funnel leads down to the platform. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Museum. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Paddlington. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Opah University. Floyd | The doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | inky says, "whoah" | |||||
| inky says, "how did we miss that" | ||||||
| Ellison asks, "what did we miss?" | ||||||
| inky asks, "the disco?" | ||||||
| Alex says (to inky), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that disco is dead." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "oh, I still hadn't seen that" | ||||||
| inky says, "oh, I thought you stopped here on purpose" | ||||||
| inky says, "ok well" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | That was not the right thing to do. The flashing lights blaze into the Floyd | host-parasite interface, stunning you for a moment. You just manage to Floyd | stagger outside before the interface disintegrates completely. That was Floyd | close! Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear glasses" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the dark glasses. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Not entirely the right thing to do, I'm afraid. The thump-thump-thump Floyd | of the bass gnaws steadily away at the host-parasite interface, making Floyd | you feel decidedly uneasy. You lurch outside before it disintegrates Floyd | completely. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear plugs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the ear-plugs. The ear plugs don't work too well. You can Floyd | still work out what people say. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dark glasses and ear plugs provide just enough protection for the Floyd | host-parasite interface from the flashing lights and heavy bass. You Floyd | are completely safe. As long as you keep them on of course. Floyd | Disco Floyd | The university disco is open all day and every day during rag week. The Floyd | students are having a wild and wacky sponsored bop-til-you-drop Floyd | competition. They're having a whale of a time, pretending they're Floyd | robots when the stroboscopic light is on and performing mindless Floyd | synchronised dances to songs they'd normally only dance to if they were Floyd | on holiday where no-one would remember them. You know it's all done for Floyd | charity, but they look suspiciously like they're enjoying themselves. Floyd | Some disco dancers are here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dancers" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The disco dancers are having a whale of a time dancing to the music, Floyd | except the whales, who are forbidden to dance in such confined spaces. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "well, I did, but to play with some other stuff. I was going to go look at the book in the library more and play with the photocopier." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You boogie on down to the rhythm, strutting your funky groove in an Floyd | alarming fashion. Still, it gets you noticed. When the record finishes, Floyd | the students congratulate you on your 'uninhibited' style. Floyd | Glancing towards the toilet you see a trout emerge, adjusting his Floyd | flies. Floyd | > | inky asks, "...ew?" | |||||
| Ellison says, "hee" | ||||||
| Alex says (to inky), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that ew is THAT'S DISGUSTING." | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x trout" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand trout Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ha ha" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Disco Floyd | The university disco is open all day and every day during rag week. The Floyd | students are having a wild and wacky sponsored bop-til-you-drop Floyd | competition. They're having a whale of a time, pretending they're Floyd | robots when the stroboscopic light is on and performing mindless Floyd | synchronised dances to songs they'd normally only dance to if they were Floyd | on holiday where no-one would remember them. You know it's all done for Floyd | charity, but they look suspiciously like they're enjoying themselves. Floyd | Some disco dancers are here. Floyd | > | Firion asks (of Alex), "RE?" | |||||
| Alex says (to Firion), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that re is somethign people say when they connect for the second, or the seventh, time in a row. Also, reply, or regarding." | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | inky says, "so, hmm" | |||||
| inky says, "no obvious purpose in here" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Yay you beat me to it." | ||||||
| inky says, "but it does knock out parasites" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, whoa lag." | ||||||
| Emily goes home. | ||||||
| Emily has disconnected. | inky says, "but we don't have a tape recorder or anything" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a travel pass, a Floyd | hyperdriver, a film and a bag. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "No parrot?" | |||||
| inky says, "it would have to be a parrotfish" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The statue has the University motto, 'Scientia est bona' engraved Floyd | underneath. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | As you arrive Bertie Bream greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask bertie about salmon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bertie Bream says, "Let me see now, I would guess that drunk is the Floyd | past participle of the verb to drink, though that doesn't mean too much Floyd | to a fish. So we have borrowed the phrase to describe being under the Floyd | influence of a snifter." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "The principal's not available at the moment, Dr. Roach," her secretary Floyd | informs you, "I'll tell her you called." She shows you out to the Floyd | foyer. Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | Abruptly, everything starts heading towards a certain point, Floyd | accompanied by a grotesque sucking noise. Before you have time to react Floyd | you are surrounded by a blinding white light which rapidly expands to Floyd | engulf the whole of Hydropolis. Then silence. You are nothing but a Floyd | handful of minute particles floating in free space. "You blew that, Floyd | didn't you?" Sir Playfair Panchax is clearly not amused. "We'll try and Floyd | get you back to your bowl, but I've got some bad news. The Fins have Floyd | located you. They're out for revenge. Keep your head old chap, this Floyd | could be nasty. Panchax out." You are dumped back in the fishbowl. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | There's no way out. Floyd | > | inky asks, "...uh, what happened?" | |||||
| Ellison asks, "so, Salmon is the drunk at the bar?" | ||||||
| inky asks, "oh, is there a drunk at the bar?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | There's no way out. Floyd | > | inky says, "oops" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | There is a large warp here. Floyd | > | inky says, "well, nertz" | |||||
| inky says, "ok let's replay" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter large warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the large warp and your body changes into a strange Floyd | hybrid creature, half-man half-fish. This must be Dr. Roach. Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | There is a fishton here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x shelf" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Roach bought the trendy black shelf from his favourite trendy black Floyd | shelf shop. Floyd | There is a fishofax on it. Floyd | The wall behind your fishton glows, revealing the face of the Floyd | principal's secretary. "Good morning Dr. Roach," she says, "I'm sorry Floyd | to call so early, I just want to confirm that the principal is Floyd | expecting you at ten o'clock this morning. Goodbye." Her face fades Floyd | out, leaving you with the annoying jingle of the Hydropolis Floyd | Telecommunications Network: "HTN, HTN - With your friends you can talk, Floyd | and you won't have to walk, HTN, HTN". Not the most auspicious start to Floyd | a morning. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get fishofax" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the fishofax. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put hand on print" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With a loud whoosh, the door flies up into the ceiling. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and up to the level of your apartment Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | There is a fishton here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | As you arrive Simon Tench greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | As you arrive Simon Tench greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and up to the level of your apartment Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | Oh, no! You've been burgled! I hope Dr. Roach was insured. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pass" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the travel pass. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | As you arrive Simon Tench greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | A group of students swim by with what looks like the principal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | A high speed police fish pulls up outside your apartment block. His Floyd | flashing blue light and wailing siren make you feel decidedly uneasy. Floyd | The host-parasite interface weakens momentarily and you catch a glimpse Floyd | of the goldfish bowl. Then you regain control of Roach's body as the Floyd | police fish zooms off. Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Opah University. Floyd | The doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Good morning Dr. Roach," says the principal's secretary, "have a seat. Floyd | She won't be long." She finally arrives at ten minutes to ten. "Good Floyd | morning Doctor," says the principal as she closes the door and takes a Floyd | seat, "I'm sorry if this is inconvenient, but it is an emergency. It Floyd | seems this talk about parasiting may not be speculation. We've received Floyd | information that a junior member of your team has been 'taken over' and Floyd | has sabotaged The Project. You don't need me to tell you that this Floyd | could be disastrous for Hydropolis. Naturally, I've suspended everyone Floyd | until further notice. You're the only one I can trust; I want you to Floyd | investigate. I'm going to the government to inform them of the danger. Floyd | I'm not evacuating, so don't worry. I'll be back tomorrow." She gets Floyd | up. "Now please hurry doctor. There's not a second to lose." You walk Floyd | back to the foyer together then go your separate ways. Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | inky says, "ok then" | |||||
| Ellison says, "doors are annoying in this" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in lsot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand lsot Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | The device almost fills the room, looking like an aquarium filled with Floyd | multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Roach certainly knows how to build impressive machines - this one Floyd | nearly fills the project room. It looks a bit like a huge aquarium, Floyd | filled to the brim with multi-coloured gravel and, if you and Sir Floyd | Playfair have anything to do with it, it's going to save Hydropolis Floyd | from water evaporation. It almost fills the room, looking like an Floyd | aquarium filled with multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | It contains a stream accelerator. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Store Room Floyd | Even though Dr. Roach is very clean and tidy, the same cannot be said Floyd | of the rest of the team. They've made this the messiest store room in Floyd | the university. And it's always left for you to straighten things out. Floyd | All the equipment and spares needed for The Project are usually stashed Floyd | here, with a wallchart keeping track of what's in and out of stock. The Floyd | only exit leads northwest. Floyd | There is a protocopier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask chub about salmon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "The only good thing about Dr. Salmon's departure was Floyd | that we now have a morally stable leader for the Project." He grins an Floyd | obsequious grin. "He he was a brilliant man. It's a shame to see him Floyd | wasting himself on snifters." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | An old fish swims up to you and asks for the price of a snifter. "Five Floyd | clams," you tell him. He thanks you and swims away. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | As you arrive Bertie Bream greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask bream about salmon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bertie Bream says, "Let me see now, I would guess that drunk is the Floyd | past participle of the verb to drink, though that doesn't mean too much Floyd | to a fish. So we have borrowed the phrase to describe being under the Floyd | influence of a snifter." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | Your colleague Bertie Bream swims into view. Floyd | Bertie Bream greets you with a friendly wave of his fin. Floyd | > | inky says, "oh hey look at that" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x drunk" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | All washed up, Doctor Salmon is a no-good drunk. He hasn't been the Floyd | same since he was taken off The Project. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask salmon about salmon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk says, "I don't know anything about that." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask salmon about project" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk says, "I don't know anything about that." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask salmon about me" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk says, "I don't know anything about that." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask salmon about card" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "If you give me something I might let you have it," he says slyly. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy drink for salmon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to buy? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy snifter for salmon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy snifter for salmon with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card and a travel pass. Floyd | You are wearing a watch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The Fisa card saves you carrying cash around. For this pleasure, you Floyd | have to pay extortionate interest rates on your outstanding balance. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy snifter for salmon with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy snifter with fisa" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "buy snifter with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams, sir. I'll charge it to your Fisa account at Floyd | once. Enjoy your sniff." says Steve as he hands you a mask. Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | "Only one snifter at a time please," says Steve, "you know the law." Floyd | > | Ellison says, "sorry" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give snifter to salmon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk takes the mask, holds it to his face and inhales deeply. Floyd | After several deep breaths he returns the snifter to Steve."I needed Floyd | that," he says, "I'd give you a token of my thanks, but I'm destitute." Floyd | > | inky says, "this parser is usually good but sometimes bogus" | |||||
| Ellison says, "yeah" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask salmon about card" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Salmon lurches slightly. He reaches into his pocket and removes an Floyd | id card a little like your own but in much better condition. Surprised Floyd | at his find he hands it to you saying "fangs very very much". Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card and a travel Floyd | pass. Floyd | You are wearing a watch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x new card" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The new card gives you access to parts of the university other fish Floyd | cannot reach. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Clothing Shop Floyd | Behind a counter stands an assistant, ready to sell you anything in the Floyd | shop. Many racks are filled with exciting jackets, a fashionable Floyd | accessory in Hydropolis at the moment. You can leave the shop by going Floyd | south. A trendy pair of sun glasses are on sale. Floyd | A tie is for sale. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy glasses with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the dark glasses. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You wait for a break in the traffic but it's far too busy so you give Floyd | up. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You wait for a break in the traffic but it's far too busy so you give Floyd | up. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | You notice a guppy flounder around for a bit and then swim off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You wait for a break in the traffic but it's far too busy so you give Floyd | up. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Bertie Bream greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Hardware Shop Floyd | This hardware shop contains everything for the fish with DIY leanings. Floyd | If your DIY is leaning, this is were you can get the tools to mend it. Floyd | If you require anything the assistant will only be too pleased to take Floyd | your credit, if not your credit card. He may even give it back. You can Floyd | leave the shop by swimming west. The assistant offers to sell you a Floyd | black plastic bag. Floyd | A hyperdriver and a screwdriver are for sale. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "yeah, might as well buy everything while we're in this area" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy hyperdriver with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 99 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the hyperdriver. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy screwdriver with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 8 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the screwdriver. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Second Hand Shop Floyd | This shop is run by a cool catfish of many talents, most of them Floyd | illegal, who goes by the name of Steve. Steve is a fish who could sell Floyd | stripes to tiger sharks, but would rather sell them his grandmother - Floyd | if he hasn't already. The shop has a bad reputation. It normally sells Floyd | "fins what have fallen off the back of a submarine" if you get my Floyd | drift. The exit from this den of low morals and high prices is to the Floyd | south. Steve catches your eye, and with a knowing wink suggests that Floyd | you might like to buy a "somewhat fruity" film that came in yesterday. Floyd | You recognise the fishton. Floyd | There is a radio case here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tuna Day's Music Shop Floyd | The music shop is cluttered with amateur musicians, most of whom are Floyd | playing versions of the ancient heavy metal hit "Smoke Underwater", Floyd | very badly, on expensive instruments that they have no intention of Floyd | buying. An assistant is attempting to hide behind the counter. The Floyd | hasty exit from this noisy place is north. The assistant is fondling Floyd | some ear plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy ear plugs with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Second Hand Shop Floyd | This shop is run by a cool catfish of many talents, most of them Floyd | illegal, who goes by the name of Steve. Steve is a fish who could sell Floyd | stripes to tiger sharks, but would rather sell them his grandmother - Floyd | if he hasn't already. The shop has a bad reputation. It normally sells Floyd | "fins what have fallen off the back of a submarine" if you get my Floyd | drift. The exit from this den of low morals and high prices is to the Floyd | south. Steve catches your eye, and with a knowing wink suggests that Floyd | you might like to buy a "somewhat fruity" film that came in yesterday. Floyd | You recognise the fishton. Floyd | There is a radio case here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy film with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Steve charges the sum of 75 Clams to your Fisa account and passes the Floyd | film to you. Floyd | "I hope you enjoy it, sir," he smirks. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Museum. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Paddlington. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Opah University. Floyd | The doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | Steve swims by at top speed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put new card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Research Wing Floyd | This is where a lot of the groundwork for The Project was done by the Floyd | famous Dr. Salmon. Unfortunately his work was shelved to make room for Floyd | your endeavours, and anyway he sniffed far too much. You can swim up Floyd | into the tower from here or pass through the metal door with a slot Floyd | beside it to the south. Floyd | There is a crystal tuna here. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | inky says, "now then" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tuna" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The crystal tuna is a box which lets you adjust the receiving frequency Floyd | of a given crystal. Floyd | It is open. Floyd | > | inky says, "that doesn't really make sense" | |||||
| inky says, "but it's clearly connected to the museum somehow" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "yeah" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get tuna" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crystal tuna is too heavy to lift. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Only up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tower Floyd | Water must be evaporating fast; the tower is only half full! You swim Floyd | up and break the surface to take a look around. In the ceiling, high Floyd | above through the air, is a trapdoor, but there seems no way of getting Floyd | there. You dive quickly back underwater before your gills dry out. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "huh" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Only south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "close tuna" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a tuna here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Research Wing Floyd | This is where a lot of the groundwork for The Project was done by the Floyd | famous Dr. Salmon. Unfortunately his work was shelved to make room for Floyd | your endeavours, and anyway he sniffed far too much. You can swim up Floyd | into the tower from here or pass through the metal door with a slot Floyd | beside it to the south. Floyd | There is a crystal tuna here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "close tuna" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crystal tuna is now closed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open tuna" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crystal tuna is now open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, some dark glasses, some ear-plugs, a hyperdriver and a Floyd | film. Floyd | You are wearing a watch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look in tuna" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crystal tuna contains nothing. Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess we don't have any crystals" | |||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, guess we'll use that later" | ||||||
| inky says, "so we're still kind of stuck" | ||||||
| inky says, "but maybe someone can tell us about the museum" | ||||||
| Ellison asks, "can we order anything at the restaurant?" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put new card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Restaurant Floyd | Bursting to the gills, this restaurant serves the finest plankton meals Floyd | in Hydropolis. For the fabulously wealthy, gas-impregnated oils are on Floyd | sale. They may not be as efficient as snifters, but they certainly put Floyd | everyone else in their place! A waiter floats around near the exit to Floyd | the north. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "order meal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "order meal with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The waiter waves you away. "I'm afraid our facilities are all fully Floyd | booked today. I can sell you a take-away sachet of plankton, if you're Floyd | hungry sir." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "buy sachet" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "buy sachet with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the sachet. Floyd | > | inky says, "good work" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sachet" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The sachet is used by customers who wish to take their food away to eat Floyd | at home. Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open sachet" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You tear open the sachet. The plankton escapes and starts to slowly Floyd | disperse in the water around you. You notice how the plankton deflects Floyd | the light as it spreads. If you act quickly you should be able to eat Floyd | it before it disperses completely. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | inky says, "aha!" | |||||
| inky says, "the old laser thingy" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Museum. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Museum. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Museum Station Floyd | This station is the oldest in Hydropolis. The decoration reflects more Floyd | decadent times, when men were men, fish were fish and they got together Floyd | to build underground stations. An exit leads north to the museum while Floyd | a funnel leads down to the platform. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "this is a spy game, after all" | |||||
| inky says, "the museum really doesn't explain that is what's going on, though" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Museum Floyd | Visited by many fish over the course of a year, the museum is a great Floyd | attraction. Maybe this is due to its unique collection of piscean Floyd | relics, the greatest of which is the skeleton of the Floyd | 'Bloodyenormasaurus' which has pride of place in the centre of this Floyd | room. You can explore the museum in your own time by going north, east Floyd | or west. You can return to the station by swimming south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Alarm Room Floyd | White rooms always have a bad effect on you. If the authorities had had Floyd | their way, your laboratory would have been white. But you were firm. Floyd | You put your tail down and refused. This room is white, and you don't Floyd | like it. It leads north to the museum's finest exhibit and south back Floyd | to the museum. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open sachet" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You tear open the sachet. The plankton escapes and starts to slowly Floyd | disperse in the water around you. You notice how the plankton deflects Floyd | the light as it spreads. If you act quickly you should be able to eat Floyd | it before it disperses completely. Your mouth drops open in amazement. Floyd | In the spreading cloud of plankton is the glimmering of myriad light Floyd | beams - clearly the museum alarm system. Ahem! Floyd | > | Ellison says, "y3qh" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You step past the now visible beams. Floyd | Crystal Room Floyd | This is the most beautiful room you've ever seen. There are no Floyd | decorations, no features, no flaws, and yet the colours shift and swirl Floyd | on every surface creating a hypnotic, soothing ambience. If you ever Floyd | get the urge to leave, the exit is south. Floyd | A crystal is the museum's star exhibit. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get crystal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the crystal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x crystal" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Light catches this crystal in a beautifully irregular manner. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You step past the now visible beams. Floyd | Alarm Room Floyd | White rooms always have a bad effect on you. If the authorities had had Floyd | their way, your laboratory would have been white. But you were firm. Floyd | You put your tail down and refused. This room is white, and you don't Floyd | like it. It leads north to the museum's finest exhibit and south back Floyd | to the museum. Floyd | There are some beams and some plankton here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat plankton" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The plankton is delicious, and soon gone. Bells, hooters and whistles Floyd | sing out from all over the museum bringing guards rushing to the Floyd | crystal room. You try to explain that it was an accident; that you just Floyd | stumbled. On your way out you are interviewed by a guard. "You've Floyd | stolen our crystal haven't you, you thief!" In a moment of weakness, Floyd | which ruins any chance you had of completing the game, you confess and Floyd | tearfully hand the crystal back to him, promising never to do anything Floyd | so naughty again. Floyd | Museum Station Floyd | This station is the oldest in Hydropolis. The decoration reflects more Floyd | decadent times, when men were men, fish were fish and they got together Floyd | to build underground stations. An exit leads north to the museum while Floyd | a funnel leads down to the platform. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Museum Floyd | Visited by many fish over the course of a year, the museum is a great Floyd | attraction. Maybe this is due to its unique collection of piscean Floyd | relics, the greatest of which is the skeleton of the Floyd | 'Bloodyenormasaurus' which has pride of place in the centre of this Floyd | room. You can explore the museum in your own time by going north, east Floyd | or west. You can return to the station by swimming south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Museum Station Floyd | This station is the oldest in Hydropolis. The decoration reflects more Floyd | decadent times, when men were men, fish were fish and they got together Floyd | to build underground stations. An exit leads north to the museum while Floyd | a funnel leads down to the platform. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Museum. Floyd | > | inky says, "the thing is, this crystal seems to me like the sort of thing that would be for fixing the device" | |||||
| inky says, "not for exposing the other spy" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, that is also true" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I think we might be able to ask people to follow us" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "or ask them about the disco" | ||||||
| inky says, "oh hunh" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Museum Station Floyd | This station is the oldest in Hydropolis. The decoration reflects more Floyd | decadent times, when men were men, fish were fish and they got together Floyd | to build underground stations. An exit leads north to the museum while Floyd | a funnel leads down to the platform. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You wisely decide not to walk onto the tracks. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Paddlington. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and up to the level of your apartment Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | Oh, no! You've been burgled! I hope Dr. Roach was insured. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "but I'm not sure if we're supposed to already have our suspect by then or not" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You try to push your way through to the doors, but can't quite make it Floyd | in time. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Pickerel. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Pickerel Underground Station Floyd | This station is teeming with guppies, nipping in and out of the access Floyd | funnel which leads to the platform. A guard, looking rather bored with Floyd | life, checks all their tickets. You can buy tickets from the ticket Floyd | clerk, behind his counter close to the exit southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Bertie Bream and Ernest Chub greet you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask bream about disco" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Yes I've often wondered about those places," says Bertie, "so many Floyd | possibilities for studies of fish behaviour. Seeing how far we've Floyd | evolved, that sort of thing. I'll have to get my equipment sorted out Floyd | first. I'll meet you there at 14:00?" Without waiting for a reply Floyd | Bertie Bream rushes off on his errands. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 13:02 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask chub about disco" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "Sorry, I've already made plans for tonight. Anyway, Floyd | Bertie Bream told me you were going with him." Floyd | > | inky says, "well, ok" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | As you arrive Simon Tench greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "whatever, CHUBS" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Museum. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Paddlington. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Opah University. Floyd | The doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 13:24 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, some dark glasses, some ear-plugs, a hyperdriver, a Floyd | crystal, a film and a sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear glasses" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the dark glasses. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear plugs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the ear-plugs. The ear plugs don't work too well. You can Floyd | still work out what people say. Floyd | "On your marks, get set, GO!" Three pairs of students, tied together Floyd | come rushing past you. It's a two-tail race, obviously a ploy to raise Floyd | money for rag week. Then hordes of students swim by, rattling Floyd | collecting tins. It's a good job they don't take Fisa. They swim off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 13:29 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dark glasses and ear plugs provide just enough protection for the Floyd | host-parasite interface from the flashing lights and heavy bass. You Floyd | are completely safe. As long as you keep them on of course. Floyd | Disco Floyd | The university disco is open all day and every day during rag week. The Floyd | students are having a wild and wacky sponsored bop-til-you-drop Floyd | competition. They're having a whale of a time, pretending they're Floyd | robots when the stroboscopic light is on and performing mindless Floyd | synchronised dances to songs they'd normally only dance to if they were Floyd | on holiday where no-one would remember them. You know it's all done for Floyd | charity, but they look suspiciously like they're enjoying themselves. Floyd | Some disco dancers are here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wait for chub" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub is not here. Try the pub. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wait for bream" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bertie Bream is not here. Try the pub. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Glancing towards the toilet you see a trout emerge, adjusting his Floyd | flies. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z.z.z.z.z" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 13:46 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z.z.z.z.z.z.z.z.z" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 13:56 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Disco Floyd | The university disco is open all day and every day during rag week. The Floyd | students are having a wild and wacky sponsored bop-til-you-drop Floyd | competition. They're having a whale of a time, pretending they're Floyd | robots when the stroboscopic light is on and performing mindless Floyd | synchronised dances to songs they'd normally only dance to if they were Floyd | on holiday where no-one would remember them. You know it's all done for Floyd | charity, but they look suspiciously like they're enjoying themselves. Floyd | Some disco dancers are here. Floyd | You notice several students loitering with intent. One of them produces Floyd | a guitar and starts singing: "Come on feel my nose. The girls grab my Floyd | clothes. Go why, why why any more." Oh no, he's started busking! Floyd | Luckily the other students attack and carry him off before you hear too Floyd | much. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Disco Floyd | The university disco is open all day and every day during rag week. The Floyd | students are having a wild and wacky sponsored bop-til-you-drop Floyd | competition. They're having a whale of a time, pretending they're Floyd | robots when the stroboscopic light is on and performing mindless Floyd | synchronised dances to songs they'd normally only dance to if they were Floyd | on holiday where no-one would remember them. You know it's all done for Floyd | charity, but they look suspiciously like they're enjoying themselves. Floyd | Some disco dancers are here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 14:01 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "I've been standing here for ages," says Bertie Bream , "come on, let's Floyd | go in." Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Bertie Floyd | Bream is here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, Bertie Bream gets very nervous and drags you away from the Floyd | entrance. "I can't go in without a tie," he says, "what will everyone Floyd | think of me?" He starts shaking uncontrollably. "You'll have to get me Floyd | one," he quivers, "I can't swim anywhere right now." Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Bertie Floyd | Bream is here. Floyd | > | inky says, "argh" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal, a film and a sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | inky says, "did I not buy it before? bah" | |||||
| Ellison says, "doh" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 13:26 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub and Simon Tench greet you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Clothing Shop Floyd | Behind a counter stands an assistant, ready to sell you anything in the Floyd | shop. Many racks are filled with exciting jackets, a fashionable Floyd | accessory in Hydropolis at the moment. You can leave the shop by going Floyd | south. Floyd | A tie is for sale. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy tie with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 25 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the tie. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pickerel Underground Station Floyd | This station is teeming with guppies, nipping in and out of the access Floyd | funnel which leads to the platform. A guard, looking rather bored with Floyd | life, checks all their tickets. You can buy tickets from the ticket Floyd | clerk, behind his counter close to the exit southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Pickerel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Opah University. Floyd | The doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | That was not the right thing to do. The flashing lights blaze into the Floyd | host-parasite interface, stunning you for a moment. You just manage to Floyd | stagger outside before the interface disintegrates completely. That was Floyd | close! Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 13:54 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear glasses" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the dark glasses. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear plugs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the ear-plugs. The ear plugs don't work too well. You can Floyd | still work out what people say. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | You notice several students loitering with intent. One of them produces Floyd | a guitar and starts singing: "Come on feel my nose. The girls grab my Floyd | clothes. Go why, why why any more." Oh no, he's started busking! Floyd | Luckily the other students attack and carry him off before you hear too Floyd | much. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | Here comes Bertie Bream , clearly ready to shake his booty. Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, Bertie Bream gets very nervous and drags you away from the Floyd | entrance. "I can't go in without a tie," he says, "what will everyone Floyd | think of me?" He starts shaking uncontrollably. "You'll have to get me Floyd | one," he quivers, "I can't swim anywhere right now." Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Bertie Floyd | Bream is here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give tie to bertie" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Thanks," says Bertie Bream , putting on the tie, "I feel quite Floyd | presentable now. Let's go in." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dark glasses and ear plugs provide just enough protection for the Floyd | host-parasite interface from the flashing lights and heavy bass. You Floyd | are completely safe. As long as you keep them on of course. Bertie Floyd | Bream follows you in."Aghhh!" Bertie Bream screams and rushes from the Floyd | disco. You quickly follow, just in time to see his body convulsing. Floyd | There is a popping noise as something escapes through a warp hole then Floyd | Bertie Bream collapses. You slap his gills to bring him round. "What Floyd | happened?" he says, standing up, "I can hardly remember anything. But I Floyd | did something bad to The Project. Something about stream regulators, Floyd | stream accelerators, stream regimentors." "Go on," you say, "It's Floyd | terribly important." "I can't remember," he pleads, getting delirious, Floyd | "it's not my fault, I really can't. I need a shower. I feel dirty." He Floyd | rushes off before you can stop him. Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | ||||||
| Ellison has connected. | inky says, "well, that was good, but I'm not sure exactly what it gets us" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "where is bertie" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Are you talking to yourself again? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "find bertie" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I haven't the faintest idea where to start looking for Bertie Bream. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "The principal's not available at the moment, Dr. Roach," her secretary Floyd | informs you, "I'll tell her you called." She shows you out to the Floyd | foyer. Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Store Room Floyd | Even though Dr. Roach is very clean and tidy, the same cannot be said Floyd | of the rest of the team. They've made this the messiest store room in Floyd | the university. And it's always left for you to straighten things out. Floyd | All the equipment and spares needed for The Project are usually stashed Floyd | here, with a wallchart keeping track of what's in and out of stock. The Floyd | only exit leads northwest. Floyd | There is a protocopier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | The device almost fills the room, looking like an aquarium filled with Floyd | multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x aquarium" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand aquarium Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Roach certainly knows how to build impressive machines - this one Floyd | nearly fills the project room. It looks a bit like a huge aquarium, Floyd | filled to the brim with multi-coloured gravel and, if you and Sir Floyd | Playfair have anything to do with it, it's going to save Hydropolis Floyd | from water evaporation. It almost fills the room, looking like an Floyd | aquarium filled with multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | It contains a stream accelerator. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf14" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew lok with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is no such lok. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x accelerator" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The stream accelerator accelerates particles gathered by the main Floyd | Project machine. Floyd | There is a lok screw on it. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew lok screw with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bertie Bream bangs on the door shouting, "Stop! Stop! Don't touch the Floyd | Device - it's booby trapped." You rush over into the lab and over to Floyd | the door, expecting some kind of trap. "Can you hear me Dr. Roach?" he Floyd | asks desperately, "the Device is booby trapped. It's connected up to a Floyd | computer game called Shutdown which is keeping the Lokscrew locked in Floyd | place. The only way to free it is to stop Shutdown counting down, but I Floyd | don't know how to; the parasite wrote the program. You'll have to log Floyd | in as me; I can't quite remember my password though, I think it's Floyd | 'pondweed' but I'm not sure. The parasite could have deceived me. Did Floyd | you get all that?" "Yes, thank you," you shout and he swims away Floyd | saying, "Good luck Dr. Roach." You return to the project room and look Floyd | with dismay upon the lok screw. Another booby trap! This is getting Floyd | dangerous. Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||||
| inky says, "I don't actually know where a computer is" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | The device almost fills the room, looking like an aquarium filled with Floyd | multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | inky says, "ah here" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x terminal" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The Project terminal gives team members access to the university Floyd | computer. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "use terminal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Please phrase as, "use <object> to <verb> <another object>". Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "access terminal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is no such access terminal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "log in" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand log Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "log in to terminal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand log Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "turn on?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "use computer" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Please phrase as, "use <object> to <verb> <another object>". Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn on terminal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | It's already turned on. What you really need to do is to sit down and Floyd | log in. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sit down" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The login message is on the screen. Floyd | Floyd | "Type LOGIN to enter system". Floyd | Floyd | You are now sitting at the Project terminal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "login" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lax 1803 V1.19 (University of Hydropolis) Floyd | Login (surname)- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "roach" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Password- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "me" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fishtrix V1.19 System 2 Floyd | Welcome to Fishtrix Floyd | Floyd | Time 14:26: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ls" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Command not found - for commands type COMMANDS Floyd | Time 14:26: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "commands" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | LOGOUT COMMANDS PROJECT Floyd | MAIL WHO READ GAMES Floyd | Time 14:26: % | Ellison asks, "don't we want to login as Bream?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "project" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This is The Project file list. To access a file use the READ system Floyd | command. Floyd | PROJECT NOTE STORE EQUIPMENT Floyd | Time 14:26: % | inky says, "yeah, I just wanted to see what this other stuff said" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read project" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which file do you want to read. Floyd | PROJECT - NOTE - STORE - EQUIPMENT Floyd | Or QUIT to exit to COMMAND level Floyd | Time 14:26: # | Ellison says, "oh, gotcha" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which file do you want to read. Floyd | PROJECT - NOTE - STORE - EQUIPMENT Floyd | Or QUIT to exit to COMMAND level Floyd | Time 14:26: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "project" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah University 660/55/4 Floyd | Project notes Floyd | For Project Members Eyes only: Floyd | From - A. Roach Floyd | Project Prime Directive: To save Hydropolis, which is under threat from Floyd | water evaporation, by streaming water from an alternate dimension - Floyd | Fractal Aquaria Two. The inter-dimensional matter streamer will be Floyd | referred to as The Device from now on. Floyd | Time 14:27: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which file do you want to read. Floyd | PROJECT - NOTE - STORE - EQUIPMENT Floyd | Or QUIT to exit to COMMAND level Floyd | Time 14:27: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah university 660/55/6 Floyd | Project notes Floyd | For Project Members Eyes only: Floyd | From - Principal Floyd | Some serious anomalies have arisen in the last batch of data. Someone Floyd | is tampering with the figures and The Project! All staff are advised to Floyd | remain vigilant regarding all suspicious data and misuse of computer Floyd | time. Let's nip this problem in the bud, boys. Floyd | Time 14:27: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which file do you want to read. Floyd | PROJECT - NOTE - STORE - EQUIPMENT Floyd | Or QUIT to exit to COMMAND level Floyd | Time 14:27: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "store" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah university 660/55/3 Floyd | Project notes Floyd | For Project Members Eyes only: Floyd | From - A. Roach Floyd | Store notes: The Stream Regulator has been stolen. This is serious. The Floyd | Project will fail if we don't replace it. At present, we haven't Floyd | located any replacement components. Anyone who can find them will be a Floyd | hero. Here's a list of what's needed: Floyd | Filter. Floyd | Photon bridge - Dr. Salmon worked on this, he may know its whereabouts. Floyd | Focus wheel - stolen days ago. Floyd | Tuned Crystal - There's an untuned one in the museum but they won't let Floyd | us near it. Floyd | We also need a case to keep everything stable. Floyd | Time 14:28: # | inky says, "hmm, ok, so we still need a bunch of stuff" | |||||
| Ellison says, "ah, well, at least we know what we should be working on" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which file do you want to read. Floyd | PROJECT - NOTE - STORE - EQUIPMENT Floyd | Or QUIT to exit to COMMAND level Floyd | Time 14:29: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "equipment" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stream Regulator = ((a+c)+(b+d))+e Floyd | Time 14:29: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Read terminated - all files closed. Floyd | Returning to previous command mode. Floyd | Time 14:29: % | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Uh oh, we never completed the focus wheel in the lab. I think this may be a dead end." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "commands" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | LOGOUT COMMANDS PROJECT Floyd | MAIL WHO READ GAMES Floyd | Time 14:29: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "mail" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | No mail in /usr/spool/mail Floyd | Time 14:29: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "who" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Access permissions available for:- Floyd | A. Roach (Project leader) Floyd | B. Bream Floyd | S. Tench Floyd | E. Chub Floyd | Time 14:29: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "b" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Command not found - for commands type COMMANDS Floyd | Time 14:29: % | Ellison asks, "think case matters there?" | |||||
| baf says, "No." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "COMMANDS" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | LOGOUT COMMANDS PROJECT Floyd | MAIL WHO READ GAMES Floyd | Time 14:30: % | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "WHO BREAM" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Access permissions available for:- Floyd | A. Roach (Project leader) Floyd | B. Bream Floyd | S. Tench Floyd | E. Chub Floyd | Time 14:31: % | Ellison says, "oh, that's just his first name" | |||||
| baf says, "Yeah. Bertie Bream." | ||||||
| inky says, "oops" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "f who b" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Command not found - for commands type COMMANDS Floyd | Time 14:31: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "who b" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Access permissions available for:- Floyd | A. Roach (Project leader) Floyd | B. Bream Floyd | S. Tench Floyd | E. Chub Floyd | Time 14:31: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "b. bream" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Command not found - for commands type COMMANDS Floyd | Time 14:31: % | inky says, "enh whatever" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "commands" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | LOGOUT COMMANDS PROJECT Floyd | MAIL WHO READ GAMES Floyd | Time 14:32: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "games" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Select game - Floyd | Chess, Hack, Prawn, Gilled of Thieves, Fish, Shutdown. QUIT to return Floyd | to command mode. Floyd | Time 14:33: + | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "gilled of thieves" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Gilled of Thieves Floyd | Copyright (c) 1987 Scraggy Necked Moles Ltd. Floyd | You are a perspiring member of the infamous Gilled of Thieves whose Floyd | Floyd | ** INTERRUPTED ** Floyd | Floyd | Message from principal - You and Bertie Bream had better stop playing Floyd | games and start some work on The Project. Floyd | Game aborted. Floyd | Select game - Floyd | Chess, Hack, Prawn, Gilled of Thieves, Fish, Shutdown. QUIT to return Floyd | to command mode. Floyd | Time 14:34: + | Ellison says, "yeah, I don't think it's a menu. it's just telling us who can access the computer- who are colleague suspects are" | |||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| baf says, "'who' just lists the users. The letter at the beginning is part of the name." | ||||||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Returning to previous command mode Floyd | Time 14:35: % | Ellison says, "s/are/our" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You finish your session and the logout message appears on the terminal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "login" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lax 1803 V1.19 (University of Hydropolis) Floyd | Login (surname)- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bream" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Password- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pondweed" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fishtrix V1.19 System 2 Floyd | Welcome to Fishtrix Floyd | Floyd | Time 14:37: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "commands" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | LOGOUT COMMANDS PROJECT Floyd | MAIL WHO READ GAMES Floyd | Time 14:37: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which file do you want to read. Floyd | PROJECT - NOTE - STORE - EQUIPMENT Floyd | Or QUIT to exit to COMMAND level Floyd | Time 14:37: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "store" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah university 660/55/3 Floyd | Project notes Floyd | For Project Members Eyes only: Floyd | From - A. Roach Floyd | Store notes: The Stream Regulator has been stolen. This is serious. The Floyd | Project will fail if we don't replace it. At present, we haven't Floyd | located any replacement components. Anyone who can find them will be a Floyd | hero. Here's a list of what's needed: Floyd | Filter. Floyd | Photon bridge - Dr. Salmon worked on this, he may know its whereabouts. Floyd | Focus wheel - stolen days ago. Floyd | Tuned Crystal - There's an untuned one in the museum but they won't let Floyd | us near it. Floyd | We also need a case to keep everything stable. Floyd | Time 14:37: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "games" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which file do you want to read. Floyd | PROJECT - NOTE - STORE - EQUIPMENT Floyd | Or QUIT to exit to COMMAND level Floyd | Time 14:37: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Read terminated - all files closed. Floyd | Returning to previous command mode. Floyd | Time 14:38: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "games" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Select game - Floyd | Chess, Hack, Prawn, Gilled of Thieves, Fish, Shutdown. QUIT to return Floyd | to command mode. Floyd | Time 14:39: + | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Returning to previous command mode Floyd | Time 14:40: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You finish your session and the logout message appears on the terminal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | baf says, "'Shutdown' sounds like a practical joke along the lines of 'see the Egress'." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "login" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lax 1803 V1.19 (University of Hydropolis) Floyd | Login (surname)- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bream" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Password- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pondweed" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fishtrix V1.19 System 2 Floyd | Welcome to Fishtrix Floyd | Floyd | Time 14:42: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "games" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Select game - Floyd | Chess, Hack, Prawn, Gilled of Thieves, Fish, Shutdown. QUIT to return Floyd | to command mode. Floyd | Time 14:43: + | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shutdown" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to shutdown Bertie Bream Floyd | Floyd | You know the rules. Floyd | The goal is "WATER". Starting position - YZWRA Floyd | You have 19 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | Ellison says, "my friend and I never could beat this puzzle" | |||||
| baf says, "I solved it way back when, but I don't remember the rules today." | ||||||
| inky says, "I don't understand the rules" | ||||||
| inky asks, "are we supposed to find them somewhere?" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "commands" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Invalid input. Numeric entry only. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | baf says, "I think you're supposed to figure them out by experiment." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - AZWRA Floyd | You have 18 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | inky asks, "possibly I advanced the letter by 2?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | Ellison asks, "do we think the equation for the stream regulator is related?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "23" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - XZWRA Floyd | You have 17 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "25" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - WZWRA Floyd | You have 16 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - XAXRA Floyd | You have 15 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | inky says, "oh, so doing later ones also fiddles earlier ones" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "5" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "19" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - BAXVT Floyd | You have 14 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "5" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "24" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - FAXZR Floyd | You have 13 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "5" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - FAAEU Floyd | You have 12 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | baf says, "I guess you should save the first for last, if it doesn't touch anything else." | |||||
| inky says, "hmm, no, 4 affected 5" | ||||||
| inky says, "4 affected 4, 5, and 3" | ||||||
| inky says, "5 affected 1, 4, and 5" | ||||||
| inky says, "1 only affected 1" | ||||||
| baf asks, "So everything except 1 affects its neighbors?" | ||||||
| inky says, "hmm, maybe" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - GBBEU Floyd | You have 11 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | inky says, "yeah, 2 affected 1, 2, and 3" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - GDCGU Floyd | You have 10 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | baf says, "(neighbors with wraparound)" | |||||
| inky says, "oh, and I didn't notice the amount is different here" | ||||||
| inky says, "since doing 3/1 moved 3 by 1, 2 by 2, 4 by 2" | ||||||
| inky says, "but doing 2/1 seems to have moved 1, 2, and 3 by 1" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - HEDGU Floyd | You have 9 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - HEGHX Floyd | You have 8 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | inky says, "doing 4/1 affects 4 by 1, 3 by 3, 5 by 3" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "5" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - LEGLY Floyd | You have 7 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | baf says, "4/5 only moved the neighbord forward 3" | |||||
| inky asks, "5 looks like it moved the neighbors by 4, didn't it?" | ||||||
| inky says, "so I guess moving X by Y moves X by Y, and X's neighbors by X-1" | ||||||
| baf says, "So maybe the neigbors ignore the 'value', yeah" | ||||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||||
| baf says, "So here's an approach that will work: go 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and position each one where it will be pushed to the correct place by the next move." | ||||||
| inky says, "yeah, that sounds right" | ||||||
| baf says, "So you want to put 5 to 4 less than R." | ||||||
| baf says, "Which is to say, N" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "5" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "15" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - PEGPN Floyd | You have 6 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | baf says, "then set 4 to 3 less than E, which is B" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "12" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - PEJBQ Floyd | You have 5 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | inky says, "oops" | |||||
| baf says, "No! My mistake." | ||||||
| baf says, "We can still do this. We only need 5 moves." | ||||||
| inky says, "good point" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "You did save before this puzzle, right?" | ||||||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||||
| inky says, "but still, it'd be cool if we can do it on the first thing" | ||||||
| baf says, "OK. Setting cell 4 will push cell 5 ahead 3, not 4. So we need it to set it to O." | ||||||
| baf says, "Don't harsh our dramatic countdown." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, we don't want to flounder too long with this" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "5" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "23" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - TEJFN Floyd | You have 4 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | inky says, "...dammit" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "5" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - XEJJO Floyd | You have 3 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | baf says, "Then cell 4 to C" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "11" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - XEMUR Floyd | You have 2 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | inky says, "uh, what the hell is my math doing" | |||||
| inky says, "oh, I see" | ||||||
| baf says, "Playing tricks on you." | ||||||
| baf asks, "Time to restore?" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "16" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - XEPKU Floyd | You have 1 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Invalid input. Numeric entry only. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - XGSMU Floyd | Floyd | Shutdown failed. The Project activated. Floyd | Sensors detect Stream Regulator sabotaged. This will cause rapid water Floyd | evaporation. Hydropolis in immediate danger. Red alert. Evacuate! Floyd | Evacuate! Floyd | Floyd | All the water gets sucked towards the Device. You try swimming for it, Floyd | but, with no water, that's more than a little difficult. Suddenly, the Floyd | door caves in under pressure from water outside and a huge wave slams Floyd | your puny body against the far wall. Laboratory (at the Project Floyd | terminal) Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Laboratory (at the Project terminal) Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "login" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lax 1803 V1.19 (University of Hydropolis) Floyd | Login (surname)- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bream" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Password- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pondweed" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fishtrix V1.19 System 2 Floyd | Welcome to Fishtrix Floyd | Floyd | Time 14:42: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "games" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Select game - Floyd | Chess, Hack, Prawn, Gilled of Thieves, Fish, Shutdown. QUIT to return Floyd | to command mode. Floyd | Time 14:42: + | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shutdown" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to shutdown Bertie Bream Floyd | Floyd | You know the rules. Floyd | The goal is "WATER". Starting position - HAPUR Floyd | You have 21 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "5" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "23" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - LAPYO Floyd | You have 20 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - LASCR Floyd | You have 19 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | baf says, "Cell 5 O, then cell 4 C, then cell 3 S" | |||||
| inky says, "hm, weird" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "0" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - LCSER Floyd | You have 18 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | baf asks, "Hm. Can you tell it 0 for value?" | |||||
| Gerynar arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | inky says, "apparently!" | |||||
| baf says, "cool" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "24" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - MATER Floyd | You have 17 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "10" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - WATER Floyd | Floyd | Congratulations Bertie Bream you've won again. Floyd | We must play shutdown again sometime. Project initialisation reset to Floyd | original start time. Floyd | Floyd | Returning to GAMES menu. Floyd | Select game - Floyd | Chess, Hack, Prawn, Gilled of Thieves, Fish, Shutdown. QUIT to return Floyd | to command mode. Floyd | Time 14:42: + | inky says, "hooray" | |||||
| inky says, "whatever that did game-wise" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Returning to previous command mode Floyd | Time 14:43: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You finish your session and the logout message appears on the terminal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You get off. Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | The device almost fills the room, looking like an aquarium filled with Floyd | multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "right on" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew lok screw with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The hyperdriver grips and turns the Lokscrew(TM) in that cunning way Floyd | that only hyperdrivers can. The Lokscrew(TM) is easily removed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Roach certainly knows how to build impressive machines - this one Floyd | nearly fills the project room. It looks a bit like a huge aquarium, Floyd | filled to the brim with multi-coloured gravel and, if you and Sir Floyd | Playfair have anything to do with it, it's going to save Hydropolis Floyd | from water evaporation. It almost fills the room, looking like an Floyd | aquarium filled with multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | It contains a stream accelerator. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x accelerator" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The stream accelerator accelerates particles gathered by the main Floyd | Project machine. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get accelerator" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the stream accelerator. Floyd | > | inky says, "I don't know what the point of this was" | |||||
| inky says, "but I guess it's good to have" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Store Room Floyd | Even though Dr. Roach is very clean and tidy, the same cannot be said Floyd | of the rest of the team. They've made this the messiest store room in Floyd | the university. And it's always left for you to straighten things out. Floyd | All the equipment and spares needed for The Project are usually stashed Floyd | here, with a wallchart keeping track of what's in and out of stock. The Floyd | only exit leads northwest. Floyd | There is a protocopier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wallchart" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The wallchart is an informal record of the equipment held in store for Floyd | The Project. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read wallchart" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | A: filter (out of stock) Floyd | B: photon bridge (out of stock) Floyd | C: focus wheel (out of stock) Floyd | D: tuned crystal (out of stock) Floyd | E: a suitable case (out of stock) Floyd | F: shelf (out of stock) Floyd | G: wallplan (1 in stock) Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "what do we want to do next? ask Salmon about the photon bridge?" | |||||
| inky says, "sure" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ha, 1 wallplan in stock" | |||||
| inky says, "actually, let's tune the crystal" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in lsot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand lsot Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ok" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | "On your marks, get set, GO!" Three pairs of students, tied together Floyd | come rushing past you. It's a two-tail race, obviously a ploy to raise Floyd | money for rag week. Then hordes of students swim by, rattling Floyd | collecting tins. It's a good job they don't take Fisa. They swim off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put new card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Research Wing Floyd | This is where a lot of the groundwork for The Project was done by the Floyd | famous Dr. Salmon. Unfortunately his work was shelved to make room for Floyd | your endeavours, and anyway he sniffed far too much. You can swim up Floyd | into the tower from here or pass through the metal door with a slot Floyd | beside it to the south. Floyd | There is a crystal tuna here. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put crystal in tuna" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crystal is now inside the crystal tuna. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close tuna" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crystal tuna is now closed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open tuna" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crystal tuna is now open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get crystal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the crystal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x crystal" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Light catches this crystal in a beautifully irregular manner. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a lok screw, a stream accelerator, a Floyd | crystal, a film and a sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, that probably didn't work" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put crystal in tuna" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crystal is now inside the crystal tuna. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close tuna" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crystal tuna is now closed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn on tuna" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is a ringing sound which dies away after about twenty seconds. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open tuna" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crystal tuna is now open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get crystal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the tuned crystal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put new card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I only realized that you needed to tune a crystal just so they could make a tuna joke" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub and Simon Tench greet you cheerfully. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "just" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask drunk about photon bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk says, "I don't know anything about that." Floyd | > | Ellison says, "hmm" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask chub about case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "It's a lovely antique I found at the second hand Floyd | shop. Buried under a pile of rubbish it was. The proprietor has no Floyd | sense of value." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask chub about focus wheel" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "The wheel is the product of your own stirling Floyd | efforts sir, I'm sure you know all there is to know about it." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask chub about filter" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "Your mind works in such an amazing way sir. I really Floyd | don't know how you think of such things." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask tench about filter" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Simon Tench says, "Roachie baby, you're really on form. What a Floyd | concept!" Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "maybe Salmon pawned the bridge for drug money?" | |||||
| Ellison says, "(if you have better ideas, just ignore me, of course)" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask chub about bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "Your mind works in such an amazing way sir. I really Floyd | don't know how you think of such things." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask chub about photon bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "The bridge is of so complex a design that I feel Floyd | sure only you truly understand its workings." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask tench about photon bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Simon Tench says, "The photon bridge? Too far out for me fish." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask salmon about photon bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk says, "I don't know anything about that." Floyd | > | inky says, "argrrgrhhr" | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "buy bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a bridge here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask chub about crystal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "It's not nearly as wonderful as you are Dr. Roach." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask chub about crystal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "It's not nearly as wonderful as you are Dr. Roach." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a lok screw, a stream accelerator, a tuned Floyd | crystal, a film and a sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x film" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The film is an original copy of "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes". It's Floyd | more of a vegetable video than a fruity film now you think about it. Floyd | > | inky says, "I don't actually know where the focus wheel is either" | |||||
| inky says, "though maybe that will show up later" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "put accelerator in mask" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But Steve won't let you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put crystal in accelerator" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But the stream accelerator is not a container. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open accelerator" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that to the stream accelerator. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look at accelerator" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The stream accelerator accelerates particles gathered by the main Floyd | Project machine. Floyd | > | inky says, "I don't really even know why I took this" | |||||
| inky says, "just that it was there" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Clothing Shop Floyd | Behind a counter stands an assistant, ready to sell you anything in the Floyd | shop. Many racks are filled with exciting jackets, a fashionable Floyd | accessory in Hydropolis at the moment. You can leave the shop by going Floyd | south. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "well, we could go pick up that radio case and see if it gives us any ideas" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | As you step on the road, the cars all accelerate towards you, their Floyd | drivers leaning over the steering wheels with fangs bared. You just Floyd | avoid them by swimming as quick as you can to the safety of Dace Road. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Second Hand Shop Floyd | This shop is run by a cool catfish of many talents, most of them Floyd | illegal, who goes by the name of Steve. Steve is a fish who could sell Floyd | stripes to tiger sharks, but would rather sell them his grandmother - Floyd | if he hasn't already. The shop has a bad reputation. It normally sells Floyd | "fins what have fallen off the back of a submarine" if you get my Floyd | drift. The exit from this den of low morals and high prices is to the Floyd | south. Floyd | You recognise the fishton. Floyd | There is a radio case here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put crystal in case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Watch it," shouts Steve, "that's sold." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy fishton" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy fishton with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Rod," calls Steve, "come here and put the fishton in the van for Floyd | delivery later on." Rod appears from a back room, gives you a knowing Floyd | wink, and leaves with the goods safely in his charge. Floyd | "It's all right I know your address," Steve says as you offer the Floyd | information. He takes your credit card and partly fills in a sales slip Floyd | which he informs you will be duly completed "Later" and returns the Floyd | card to you with a supercilious "Thank you sir." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Second Hand Shop Floyd | This shop is run by a cool catfish of many talents, most of them Floyd | illegal, who goes by the name of Steve. Steve is a fish who could sell Floyd | stripes to tiger sharks, but would rather sell them his grandmother - Floyd | if he hasn't already. The shop has a bad reputation. It normally sells Floyd | "fins what have fallen off the back of a submarine" if you get my Floyd | drift. The exit from this den of low morals and high prices is to the Floyd | south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub and Simon Tench greet you cheerfully. Floyd | > | baf exclaims, "Which is an entirely appropriate reaction for an adventure game of this vintage!" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask chub about case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "It's a lovely antique I found at the second hand Floyd | shop. Buried under a pile of rubbish it was. The proprietor has no Floyd | sense of value." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | Abruptly, everything starts heading towards a certain point, Floyd | accompanied by a grotesque sucking noise. Before you have time to react Floyd | you are surrounded by a blinding white light which rapidly expands to Floyd | engulf the whole of Hydropolis. Then silence. You are nothing but a Floyd | handful of minute particles floating in free space. "You blew that, Floyd | didn't you?" Sir Playfair Panchax is clearly not amused. "We'll try and Floyd | get you back to your bowl, but I've got some bad news. The Fins have Floyd | located you. They're out for revenge. Keep your head old chap, this Floyd | could be nasty. Panchax out." You are dumped back in the fishbowl. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | baf says, "Was it nailed down? No. Therefore you took it. Well done." | |||||
| inky says, "argh" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Abruptly, everything starts heading towards a certain point, Floyd | accompanied by a grotesque sucking noise. Before you have time to react Floyd | you are surrounded by a blinding white light which rapidly expands to Floyd | engulf the whole of Hydropolis. Then silence. You are nothing but a Floyd | handful of minute particles floating in free space. "You blew that, Floyd | didn't you?" Sir Playfair Panchax is clearly not amused. "We'll try and Floyd | get you back to your bowl, but I've got some bad news. The Fins have Floyd | located you. They're out for revenge. Keep your head old chap, this Floyd | could be nasty. Panchax out." You are dumped back in the fishbowl. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess we hit a time limit" | |||||
| Ellison says, "we ran out of time, yeah" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Apropos of something, let me remind you that we could always pick this back up next week..." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I actually meant to delete that and say it later, though I guess I could say it whenever." | ||||||
| inky says, "heh" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 399 out of 501. Floyd | > | inky says, "I think we're pretty close, but I admit I am kind of fading for tonight" | |||||
| Ellison says, "well, inky is largely driving so I'd say it's up to him" | ||||||
| baf says, "Not bad for one day." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "sounds good" | ||||||
| baf has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||||
| Gerynar has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline asks, "Back to Saturday next week, or do you two want Sunday?" | |||||
| Ellison says, "I am impressed with inky for having the patience to get through the Clearing section." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Since it's you two mostly picking it back up?" | ||||||
| inky says, "the usual time is fine by me" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Sat at 2pm mudtime?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "sounds good" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I am impressed with inky for having the patience to get through the Micky section alone" | ||||||
| inky says, "well, you had the map and stuff" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, but that parser was really annoying there" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I prefer Saturdays." | ||||||
| Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||||
| inky says, "ok anyway" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "who" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Are you talking to yourself again? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Do you want to quit or restart (q/r)? | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||||
Floyd | [q -> quit] Floyd | Floyd | Are you sure (y/n)? | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||||
Floyd | [y -> yes] Floyd | | ||||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline says, "I am not sure, without looking at my work schedule, w/o/n I'm avail on Sat morning, but obviously I'm a spectator on this one (a happy spectator who is enjoying things, mind you, but a spectator) so we'll go with what works for you two and if I end up catching up by transcript, so be it. I can start the transcript (or actually may just let Perry sit here unless someone uses him) regardless." | |||||
| inky says, "okey doke" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Though, hm. Perhaps tomorrow night, after my friend leaves, I'll post the transcript thus far in case people want to join for Part II that were not here (or who bailed from) Part I." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'll figure that out." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I mean, if inky is up for it, I'd be up for us trying to put this game away at some non-standard time and then we can start something new next ClubFloyd, but whatever. I mean, I imagine the game is kind of entertaining to watch for others." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm, well, that could work as well, of course." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm happy either way. I have someone in town next weekend, so you two playing this would actually be great from my point of view." | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain goes home. | ||||||
| Ellison arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||||
| Floyd says (to Ellison), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | ||||||
| canadianpuzzler has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW asks, "Incidentally, where did the copy of Fish! come from?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "oh wait. I think I know." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I closed my ClubFloyd window and recap doesn't go back far enough for me to use the correct location names, but I updated [LINK] to reflect the locations we've found since the last map" | ||||||
| Firion goes home. | ||||||
| Lionheart has had Lionheart's fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | ||||||
| Jacqueline waves and makes an isquiesque departure for home. | gjnave asks, "did you ever figure out "Fish" last night?" | |||||
| baf says, "It's not finished yet. I think there are plans to continue later." | ||||||
| inky says, "yeah, we paused" | ||||||
| inky says, "I think we were reasonably close to the end but not close enough" | ||||||
| gjnave says, "seemed like a really long/involved game" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "there's not so much of it, but it's kind of spread out" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "It was a commercial game. It had to be something longish that made it worth the money." | ||||||
| gjnave asks, "its just called "Fish"?" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "'Fish!'" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "There's an exclamation mark at the end." | ||||||
| gjnave says, "what company is it? Im not getting any hits on google" | ||||||
| gjnave says (to Floyd), "load cfish" | ||||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter, version 2.3 Floyd | Written by Niclas Karlsson Floyd | Glk interface by Simon Baldwin Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Well done, Agent 10," said Sir Playfair Panchax, head of Mission HQ. Floyd | "We knew you'd stop the Seven Deadly Fins. Good show! It's a shame they Floyd | got away again. But now I suggest you take a vacation. You've earned Floyd | it, old boy." You agreed with him, the last few months had been a real Floyd | chore. Being an inter-dimensional espionage operative isn't a bad life Floyd | apart from the pain of warping and the inconvenience of host-parasite Floyd | relationships, but you need a spot of R and R every now and then, just Floyd | to stay sane. So you went for the big one - warping into a goldfish for Floyd | a whole month! The peace. The tranquility. And you're still on the Floyd | payroll. Floyd | Floyd | FISH! - Version 1.10 - Copyright (C) 1988, 1990 Magnetic Scrolls Ltd. Floyd | Floyd | Someone's coming. Good, it must be time for food. SPLATTO. A hand as Floyd | big as a bus drops something hard right on your head. Understandably Floyd | dazed, you flip over and, through a swirl of ant eggs, spot what hit Floyd | you: a tacky plastic castle. It looks like a rush job. Sir Playfair Floyd | must be in trouble. And you thought you were on vacation... Floyd | Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | Swimming upside down is good fun, but difficult, even for someone as Floyd | highly trained as yourself. It looks like the pondweed is dangling from Floyd | the gravel above your head. And the ant eggs, wow! Upside down they Floyd | look, so, so much like, well, like exactly the same as if you were the Floyd | right way up actually. Anyway, there's no need to get carried away. Sir Floyd | Playfair has a message for you in the castle if you're not mistaken and Floyd | he hates agents who are late. Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Magnetic Scrolls" | |||||
| Gunther says, "no hits for 'fish' on google? you're doing it wrong." | ||||||
| DavidW says, ">snicker<" | ||||||
| gjnave says, "yeah... not even a picture of a single trout ;)" | ||||||
| gjnave says, "Magnetic Scolls sounds familiar..." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "[LINK]" | ||||||
| gjnave says, "oh.. got it.. Magnetic Scrolls was involved with the ending of Infocom" | ||||||
| gjnave says, "not INVOLVED... but in the picture at the time" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps the word you're looking for is 'contemporaries'." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "(assuming I spelled that correctly)" | ||||||
| gjnave says, "inovled in the sense that some Infocom work got outsourced to them... or the leading of a project got given to them" | ||||||
| gjnave goes back to find article | ||||||
| gjnave says, "here it is.. "But on February 24, management dropped a bomb ? development of Milliways would be moved to the other side of the Atlantic, coded by British game developers Magnetic Scrolls and designed by Michael Bywater. Amy Briggs had declared her intention to leave the company and no suitable replacement could be found, so Infocom would not be involved closely in development."" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "well, Michael Bywater was involved with both companies; I know that much." | ||||||
| gjnave says, "[LINK]" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I don't need to click *that* link." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "That post generated a lot of heat." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "And I'm glad I never responded to any of it." | ||||||
| gjnave says, "yeah.. i scanned through the comments and saw it was quite heated ... i recognized some names from here as well" | ||||||
| gjnave says, "i guess the author pulled the offending article though" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "damage was done" | ||||||
| gjnave asks, "i think its ironic now, in retrospect of 'wikileaks'... Im not saying it was right.. BUT heres a question: if he posted it nowadays, would people (probably many who support the concept of wikileaks) be as appauled at his disclosing of such info?" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "it depends on the respect you have for people" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "No respect for politicians -> leaks good" | ||||||
| gjnave asks, "sidenote... does the Magnetic Scrolls files run with a .dat file? or do you have to have a special interpreter?" | ||||||
| inky says, "it's a separate vm format, yeah" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "entirely different terp" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "They had two virtual machines: 'Magnetic Scrolls' and 'Magnetic Windows'. But I expect the latter has a great deal in common with the former." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Much like the Z-machine had versions 1 through 8." | ||||||
| gjnave says, "i just dl'd MagneticWin23" | ||||||
| gjnave says, "oops.. Magnetic23Win" | ||||||
| Gunther asks, "are you aware that there are all-in-one interpreters that'll play Infocom, Magnetic Scrolls, Level 9, TADS, and many more?" | ||||||
| gjnave says, "head asplodes" | ||||||
| gjnave says, "um.. no" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "Gargoyle's the name" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "I knew, but I've never used it." | ||||||
| gjnave shakes hand .. Nice to meet ya Gargoyle.. gjnave's the name | ||||||
| Gunther says, "[LINK]" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "I would still suggest using the ADRIFT Runner for ADRIFT games, though." | ||||||
| Gunther says, "I would suggest not playing ADRIFT games, but whatever floats your boat" | ||||||
| gjnave says (to gunther), "you beat me to it" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "of course, if you use Gargoyle, you won't get Magnetic Scrolls' graphics/music (although, of course, on Floyd, we don't have those, either)" | ||||||
| gjnave exclaims, "no bitmaps?!" | ||||||
| *** Second Session *** | Jacqueline says, "Perry is logging, though next week I will probably start logging under a different account." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, I will be gone hiking today, but I was not an active player in part I. It may actually kinda just be Ellison and inky today, but... anyway, it's logging. And the first part of the transcript is up at [LINK]" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Just a raw version until I can get some reliable access to plover again - it's not plover's fault, it's my ISP, we think. It's... sort of mysterious." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "ah. sushi1.txt" | ||||||
| Emily is suddenly hungry | ||||||
| DavidW says, "sorry!" | ||||||
| Emily says, "it's not hard" | ||||||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||||
| Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||||
| smartgenes arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||||
| smartgenes disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||||||
| smartgenes arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||||
| Guenni arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||||
| Ellison arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||||
| Ellison says, "it seems we're starting a little late today" | ||||||
| inky arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | inky says, "whoops, it's time" | |||||
| Ellison says, "I am currently at a gyro shop so I don't mind that we haven't started yet" | ||||||
| Allen arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||||
| Allen presses the large red button on the FREE DONUTS machine. Within seconds, the room is flooded with a thousand tiny, happy donuts, running about your feet in an exuberant dance of freedom. They then disappear as quickly as they had arrived. | ||||||
| inky asks, "should we wait for a bit then?" | Ellison asks, "so, recap of where we were. did solving the computer puzzle give us more gameworld time or does the game end some moves later anyway?" | |||||
| inky says, "or are you just saying gyros make you feel relaxed and easy" | inky says, "the recap of where we were is we're this scientist trying to replace a machine" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | Swimming upside down is good fun, but difficult, even for someone as Floyd | highly trained as yourself. It looks like the pondweed is dangling from Floyd | the gravel above your head. And the ant eggs, wow! Upside down they Floyd | look, so, so much like, well, like exactly the same as if you were the Floyd | right way up actually. Anyway, there's no need to get carried away. Sir Floyd | Playfair has a message for you in the castle if you're not mistaken and Floyd | he hates agents who are late. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Laboratory (at the Project terminal) Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "so far, we have the tuned crystal and the parts we retrieved in the first section (which are in a glass box in the goldfish bowl). don't remember what else we need" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "login" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lax 1803 V1.19 (University of Hydropolis) Floyd | Login (surname)- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "roach" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Password- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "me" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fishtrix V1.19 System 2 Floyd | Welcome to Fishtrix Floyd | Floyd | Time 14:42: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which file do you want to read. Floyd | PROJECT - NOTE - STORE - EQUIPMENT Floyd | Or QUIT to exit to COMMAND level Floyd | Time 14:43: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah university 660/55/6 Floyd | Project notes Floyd | For Project Members Eyes only: Floyd | From - Principal Floyd | Some serious anomalies have arisen in the last batch of data. Someone Floyd | is tampering with the figures and The Project! All staff are advised to Floyd | remain vigilant regarding all suspicious data and misuse of computer Floyd | time. Let's nip this problem in the bud, boys. Floyd | Time 14:44: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "project" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah University 660/55/4 Floyd | Project notes Floyd | For Project Members Eyes only: Floyd | From - A. Roach Floyd | Project Prime Directive: To save Hydropolis, which is under threat from Floyd | water evaporation, by streaming water from an alternate dimension - Floyd | Fractal Aquaria Two. The inter-dimensional matter streamer will be Floyd | referred to as The Device from now on. Floyd | Time 14:45: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "equipment" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stream Regulator = ((a+c)+(b+d))+e Floyd | Time 14:46: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "store" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah university 660/55/3 Floyd | Project notes Floyd | For Project Members Eyes only: Floyd | From - A. Roach Floyd | Store notes: The Stream Regulator has been stolen. This is serious. The Floyd | Project will fail if we don't replace it. At present, we haven't Floyd | located any replacement components. Anyone who can find them will be a Floyd | hero. Here's a list of what's needed: Floyd | Filter. Floyd | Photon bridge - Dr. Salmon worked on this, he may know its whereabouts. Floyd | Focus wheel - stolen days ago. Floyd | Tuned Crystal - There's an untuned one in the museum but they won't let Floyd | us near it. Floyd | We also need a case to keep everything stable. Floyd | Time 14:47: # | inky says, "so we have the tuned crystal" | |||||
| inky says, "the focus wheel was what we spent the first part of the game getting" | ||||||
| inky says, "(I don't know where it is, but maybe our boss will beam it in or something)" | ||||||
| inky says, "the case is in the antiques store, or maybe we delivered it" | ||||||
| inky says, "so we need the filter and photon bridge" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Read terminated - all files closed. Floyd | Returning to previous command mode. Floyd | Time 14:48: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You finish your session and the logout message appears on the terminal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You get off. Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But you are not seated. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Gunther arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock door with card" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which one, the metal door or the store room door? Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "is this continuation of previous week?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "metal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which one, the Fisa card, the tatty card, the new card or the travel Floyd | pass? Floyd | > | Ellison says, "so, at this point, I say we play around with the photocopier or try to do more stuff with Dr. Salmon" | |||||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tatty" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But the metal door is already unlocked. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Guenni has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x metal door" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The metal door will not open to unauthorised persons. There is a slot Floyd | next to it. Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "'you smash your nose against the wall/door/etc' messages are so annoying" | |||||
| inky asks, "I don't know what good the photocopier is - have we seen something we need to copy?" | ||||||
| smartgenes asks, "what time is start these days?" | ||||||
| inky says, "20 minutes ago" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "we haven't. I only know from previous knowledge that it doesn't work entirely like a normal photocopier but didn't want to be explicit about it." | ||||||
| inky says, "this is a continuation from last week" | ||||||
| inky says, "oh ok" | ||||||
| inky says, "well let's have a look" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Store Room Floyd | Even though Dr. Roach is very clean and tidy, the same cannot be said Floyd | of the rest of the team. They've made this the messiest store room in Floyd | the university. And it's always left for you to straighten things out. Floyd | All the equipment and spares needed for The Project are usually stashed Floyd | here, with a wallchart keeping track of what's in and out of stock. The Floyd | only exit leads northwest. Floyd | There is a protocopier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x protocopier" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The protocopier is a large box with a slot on one side and a simple Floyd | on-off switch where you would expect one, built by Dr. Salmon as a Floyd | prototype Device. While it is indeed remarkable, the University Floyd | authorities took a different view for two reasons: the protocopier used Floyd | so much power that fuel bills reached record levels and secondly, it Floyd | could only teleport in very small amounts of water. It was the downfall Floyd | of Dr. Salmon; he was fired by the principal. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "guess we could ask Dr. Salmon about it" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The slot contains nothing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn on switch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | It is already! Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal, a film and a sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put new card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The new card won't fit. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put film in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The film won't fit. Floyd | Abruptly, everything starts heading towards a certain point, Floyd | accompanied by a grotesque sucking noise. Before you have time to react Floyd | you are surrounded by a blinding white light which rapidly expands to Floyd | engulf the whole of Hydropolis. Then silence. You are nothing but a Floyd | handful of minute particles floating in free space. "You blew that, Floyd | didn't you?" Sir Playfair Panchax is clearly not amused. "We'll try and Floyd | get you back to your bowl, but I've got some bad news. The Fins have Floyd | located you. They're out for revenge. Keep your head old chap, this Floyd | could be nasty. Panchax out." You are dumped back in the fishbowl. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | inky says, "oops crap" | |||||
| inky says, "well, we'll probably have to restart this playthrough, I guess" | ||||||
| Ellison asks, "oops, I see you responded to my gyro announcement. at some point, I'd like 5-10 minutes to move to a nearby coffee shop. should we do that now?" | ||||||
| inky says, "sure" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "ok, back in a few" | ||||||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Laboratory (at the Project terminal) Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are on your feet. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | "On your marks, get set, GO!" Three pairs of students, tied together Floyd | come rushing past you. It's a two-tail race, obviously a ploy to raise Floyd | money for rag week. Then hordes of students swim by, rattling Floyd | collecting tins. It's a good job they don't take Fisa. They swim off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub and Simon Tench greet you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask salmon about phase bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand phase Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask salmon about phaze bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand phaze Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask salmon about photon bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk says, "I don't know anything about that." Floyd | Abruptly, everything starts heading towards a certain point, Floyd | accompanied by a grotesque sucking noise. Before you have time to react Floyd | you are surrounded by a blinding white light which rapidly expands to Floyd | engulf the whole of Hydropolis. Then silence. You are nothing but a Floyd | handful of minute particles floating in free space. "You blew that, Floyd | didn't you?" Sir Playfair Panchax is clearly not amused. "We'll try and Floyd | get you back to your bowl, but I've got some bad news. The Fins have Floyd | located you. They're out for revenge. Keep your head old chap, this Floyd | could be nasty. Panchax out." You are dumped back in the fishbowl. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | inky says, "rr" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask drunk about filter" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk says, "I don't know anything about that." Floyd | Abruptly, everything starts heading towards a certain point, Floyd | accompanied by a grotesque sucking noise. Before you have time to react Floyd | you are surrounded by a blinding white light which rapidly expands to Floyd | engulf the whole of Hydropolis. Then silence. You are nothing but a Floyd | handful of minute particles floating in free space. "You blew that, Floyd | didn't you?" Sir Playfair Panchax is clearly not amused. "We'll try and Floyd | get you back to your bowl, but I've got some bad news. The Fins have Floyd | located you. They're out for revenge. Keep your head old chap, this Floyd | could be nasty. Panchax out." You are dumped back in the fishbowl. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask chub about filter" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "Oh really sir. You flatter me with such a question. Floyd | I'm not fit to provide an answer." Floyd | Abruptly, everything starts heading towards a certain point, Floyd | accompanied by a grotesque sucking noise. Before you have time to react Floyd | you are surrounded by a blinding white light which rapidly expands to Floyd | engulf the whole of Hydropolis. Then silence. You are nothing but a Floyd | handful of minute particles floating in free space. "You blew that, Floyd | didn't you?" Sir Playfair Panchax is clearly not amused. "We'll try and Floyd | get you back to your bowl, but I've got some bad news. The Fins have Floyd | located you. They're out for revenge. Keep your head old chap, this Floyd | could be nasty. Panchax out." You are dumped back in the fishbowl. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ghogg arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask chub about photon bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "The bridge is of so complex a design that I feel Floyd | sure only you truly understand its workings." Floyd | Abruptly, everything starts heading towards a certain point, Floyd | accompanied by a grotesque sucking noise. Before you have time to react Floyd | you are surrounded by a blinding white light which rapidly expands to Floyd | engulf the whole of Hydropolis. Then silence. You are nothing but a Floyd | handful of minute particles floating in free space. "You blew that, Floyd | didn't you?" Sir Playfair Panchax is clearly not amused. "We'll try and Floyd | get you back to your bowl, but I've got some bad news. The Fins have Floyd | located you. They're out for revenge. Keep your head old chap, this Floyd | could be nasty. Panchax out." You are dumped back in the fishbowl. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x salmon" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | All washed up, Doctor Salmon is a no-good drunk. He hasn't been the Floyd | same since he was taken off The Project. Floyd | Abruptly, everything starts heading towards a certain point, Floyd | accompanied by a grotesque sucking noise. Before you have time to react Floyd | you are surrounded by a blinding white light which rapidly expands to Floyd | engulf the whole of Hydropolis. Then silence. You are nothing but a Floyd | handful of minute particles floating in free space. "You blew that, Floyd | didn't you?" Sir Playfair Panchax is clearly not amused. "We'll try and Floyd | get you back to your bowl, but I've got some bad news. The Fins have Floyd | located you. They're out for revenge. Keep your head old chap, this Floyd | could be nasty. Panchax out." You are dumped back in the fishbowl. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | inky says, "mumble" | |||||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Ghogg says, "I had to use the hints enough on this game that I completely forgot how to solve everything" | |||||
| Ghogg says, "Which is a lesson in something or another" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "my friend and I rot13'd probably every hint in this game and still couldn't beat it" | ||||||
| inky says, "on the one hand I want to replay to get around the time limit, but on the other I don't really want to beat that computer puzzle again" | ||||||
| Ghogg says, "I had the remix version with the windows so you could get them invisiclue style" | ||||||
| inky says, "also I am really not sure what to do about the photon bridge or the filter" | ||||||
| Ghogg says, "Anyhow this was totally the wrong Magnetic Scrolls game to start with" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Laboratory (at the Project terminal) Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal, a film and a sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "well, we can either save the computer stuff for last so we only have to do it one more time or, since I rely on inky so much to drive this thing, if he doesn't want to play this, we don't have to" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sachet" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The sachet is used by customers who wish to take their food away to eat Floyd | at home. Floyd | It is open. Floyd | > | Ellison says (to Ghogg), "really? Guild of Thieves is completely crazy" | |||||
| Ghogg says, "Hey I could solve some puzzles in that" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "and The Pawn just sucks" | ||||||
| Ghogg says, "as opposed to Fish" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory (at the Project terminal) Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "(not all of them, mind you, but I don't beat anything without hints usually)" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't reach the slot from here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You get off. Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | Three students swim by with a rolled-up hang glider under their fins. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | Ellison says, "yeah, but the end section of Guild of Thieves makes the Phobos maze puzzle look good" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "yeah, The Pawn was their first one and it shows" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put new card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a slot here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put new card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Research Wing Floyd | This is where a lot of the groundwork for The Project was done by the Floyd | famous Dr. Salmon. Unfortunately his work was shelved to make room for Floyd | your endeavours, and anyway he sniffed far too much. You can swim up Floyd | into the tower from here or pass through the metal door with a slot Floyd | beside it to the south. Floyd | There is a crystal tuna here. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tower Floyd | Water must be evaporating fast; the tower is only half full! You swim Floyd | up and break the surface to take a look around. In the ceiling, high Floyd | above through the air, is a trapdoor, but there seems no way of getting Floyd | there. You dive quickly back underwater before your gills dry out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x trapdoor" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't reach the trapdoor from here. Floyd | > | inky says, "I don't know if we're supposed to try to get that now, or if it's the endgame" | |||||
| Ellison says, "Jinxter has some brilliant stuff but it's sparsely implemented" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to inky), "I'm guessing that's the endgame" | ||||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Only south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Research Wing Floyd | This is where a lot of the groundwork for The Project was done by the Floyd | famous Dr. Salmon. Unfortunately his work was shelved to make room for Floyd | your endeavours, and anyway he sniffed far too much. You can swim up Floyd | into the tower from here or pass through the metal door with a slot Floyd | beside it to the south. Floyd | There is a crystal tuna here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put new card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Abruptly, everything starts heading towards a certain point, Floyd | accompanied by a grotesque sucking noise. Before you have time to react Floyd | you are surrounded by a blinding white light which rapidly expands to Floyd | engulf the whole of Hydropolis. Then silence. You are nothing but a Floyd | handful of minute particles floating in free space. "You blew that, Floyd | didn't you?" Sir Playfair Panchax is clearly not amused. "We'll try and Floyd | get you back to your bowl, but I've got some bad news. The Fins have Floyd | located you. They're out for revenge. Keep your head old chap, this Floyd | could be nasty. Panchax out." You are dumped back in the fishbowl. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Laboratory (at the Project terminal) Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are on your feet. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf14" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | The device almost fills the room, looking like an aquarium filled with Floyd | multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal, a film and a sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turns" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand turns Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 337 out of 501. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Museum. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Paddlington. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and up to the level of your apartment Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||||
| inky says, "I was hoping the case would show up here" | ||||||
| inky says, "maybe we didn't buy it in this save" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Pickerel. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Pickerel Underground Station Floyd | This station is teeming with guppies, nipping in and out of the access Floyd | funnel which leads to the platform. A guard, looking rather bored with Floyd | life, checks all their tickets. You can buy tickets from the ticket Floyd | clerk, behind his counter close to the exit southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | As you step on the road, the cars all accelerate towards you, their Floyd | drivers leaning over the steering wheels with fangs bared. You just Floyd | avoid them by swimming as quick as you can to the safety of Dace Road. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Second Hand Shop Floyd | This shop is run by a cool catfish of many talents, most of them Floyd | illegal, who goes by the name of Steve. Steve is a fish who could sell Floyd | stripes to tiger sharks, but would rather sell them his grandmother - Floyd | if he hasn't already. The shop has a bad reputation. It normally sells Floyd | "fins what have fallen off the back of a submarine" if you get my Floyd | drift. The exit from this den of low morals and high prices is to the Floyd | south. Floyd | You recognise the fishton. Floyd | There is a radio case here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy fishton with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Rod," calls Steve, "come here and put the fishton in the van for Floyd | delivery later on." Rod appears from a back room, gives you a knowing Floyd | wink, and leaves with the goods safely in his charge. Floyd | "It's all right I know your address," Steve says as you offer the Floyd | information. He takes your credit card and partly fills in a sales slip Floyd | which he informs you will be duly completed "Later" and returns the Floyd | card to you with a supercilious "Thank you sir." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask steve about case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Steve says, "It's sold mate, sorry. Rod is going to deliver it to a Floyd | customer later on." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Museum. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Paddlington. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and up to the level of your apartment Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | There is a radio case here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x case" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The radio case is the outer casing of an antique radio. There is a lot Floyd | of space inside where the radio bits used to be. Floyd | > | inky says, "there we go" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the radio case. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal, a radio case, a film and a Floyd | sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put crystal in case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crystal is now inside the radio case. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x film" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The film is an original copy of "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes". It's Floyd | more of a vegetable video than a fruity film now you think about it. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "interesting" | |||||
| inky says, "not that I really know the point of that" | ||||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||||
| Ghogg goes home. | inky says, "well, there's that stream whatsit we could try to take apart, I guess" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Laboratory (at the Project terminal) Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You get off. Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | The device almost fills the room, looking like an aquarium filled with Floyd | multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Roach certainly knows how to build impressive machines - this one Floyd | nearly fills the project room. It looks a bit like a huge aquarium, Floyd | filled to the brim with multi-coloured gravel and, if you and Sir Floyd | Playfair have anything to do with it, it's going to save Hydropolis Floyd | from water evaporation. It almost fills the room, looking like an Floyd | aquarium filled with multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | It contains a stream accelerator. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x accelerator" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The stream accelerator accelerates particles gathered by the main Floyd | Project machine. Floyd | There is a lok screw on it. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open accelerator" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that to the stream accelerator. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get lok screw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You just can't seem to get a grip on the Lokscrew(TM). You need a Floyd | hyperdriver. Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "that's related to the computer puzzle, though, isn't it?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew lok screw with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | One of the special features of Lokscrews(TM) that make them popular Floyd | with games programmers is their ability to lock tight just when things Floyd | are getting critical. This is one such occasion. The computer is Floyd | counting down the destruction of Hydropolis and time is running out. Floyd | The Lokscrew(TM) won't move when locked. Floyd | > | inky says, "I think we have it handled in this last restore" | |||||
| Ellison says, "ah, ok" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock lok screw with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that to the lok screw. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew lok screw with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | One of the special features of Lokscrews(TM) that make them popular Floyd | with games programmers is their ability to lock tight just when things Floyd | are getting critical. This is one such occasion. The computer is Floyd | counting down the destruction of Hydropolis and time is running out. Floyd | The Lokscrew(TM) won't move when locked. Floyd | > | inky says, "man, I don't understand this" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x lok screw" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The lok screw (TM) is a small item for fixing items semi-permanently; Floyd | without the right tool it cannot be removed. Floyd | It is locked. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock lok screw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The hyperdriver is a variant on the standard screwdriver, designed for Floyd | removing lok screws. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove lok screw with hyperdiver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand hyperdiver Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove lok screw with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | One of the special features of Lokscrews(TM) that make them popular Floyd | with games programmers is their ability to lock tight just when things Floyd | are getting critical. This is one such occasion. The computer is Floyd | counting down the destruction of Hydropolis and time is running out. Floyd | The Lokscrew(TM) won't move when locked. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "weird" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "unlock lok screw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "unlock lok screw with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that to the lok screw. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "maybe that's also connected to the endgame then" | |||||
| inky says, "I guess" | ||||||
| inky says, "if so then presumably the stream accelerator doesn't have any of the parts we need in it" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, I don't think so, either" | ||||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||||
| inky says, "if not I dunno what to do about the filter or the photon bridge then" | ||||||
| inky says, "I guess we could try buying the guy another drink" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "so, to be honest, I peeked at some hints. there's a scene we can trigger at the bar if we buy enough masks (why someone would do that, I don't know)" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Laboratory (at the Project terminal) Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf14" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand cf1 Floyd | > | ||||||
| Gunther disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf14" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | The device almost fills the room, looking like an aquarium filled with Floyd | multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | > | inky says, "well then" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub and Simon Tench greet you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy mask" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy mask with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams, sir. I'll charge it to your Fisa account at Floyd | once. Enjoy your sniff." says Steve as he hands you a mask. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give mask to salmon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk takes the mask, holds it to his face and inhales deeply. Floyd | After several deep breaths he returns the snifter to Steve."I needed Floyd | that," he says, "I'd give you a token of my thanks, but I'm destitute." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask salmon about photon bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk says, "I don't know anything about that." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy mask with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams, sir. I'll charge it to your Fisa account at Floyd | once. Enjoy your sniff." says Steve as he hands you a mask. Floyd | "You're getting through the snifters quickly." adds Steve, "If you Floyd | like, I can sell you a cylinder for only 99 clams." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy cylinder with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 99 clams, me old mate." says Steve. He gives you the Floyd | cylinder and charges the purchase to your Fisa account. A drunk with Floyd | his left arm in a sling lurches into you as you turn round from the Floyd | bar, knocking the cylinder to the floor. "Sorry guv," he slurs, picking Floyd | it up, "I'll get you another one." Floyd | "It's one of the Fins! Stop him Agent 10," screams Sir Playfair in your Floyd | brain as the drunk runs off with the cylinder. You swim frantically Floyd | after him but he disappears. "Well, you really messed that up," Sir Floyd | Playfair scolds. "The cylinder must be important otherwise they Floyd | wouldn't have stolen it. Fortunately, the back room boys got a fix on Floyd | him. He's somewhere in the dimensions. You'll have to go after him, Floyd | Agent 10, and be careful this time." You hear him mumbling in the Floyd | background then he curtly says, "A warp will open up in Dr. Roach's Floyd | apartment. Use that. Panchax out." You should be more careful if you Floyd | want to keep your job. Floyd | > | inky says, "durf" | |||||
| Ellison says, "at least there isn't a limit on our credit to go along with the time limit" | ||||||
| inky says, "I guess that is a little subquest thingy" | ||||||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Finished already?" asks Steve as he takes the snifter. My, Plaice Floyd | Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Only north, northeast, east, southeast, south, west, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Museum. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Paddlington. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and up to the level of your apartment Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | There is a dark warp here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter dark warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You slip through the dark warp into the whirling dimensions. "It's a Floyd | strange place Agent 10," says Sir Playfair's voice in the back of your Floyd | brain. "Those Fins have twisted the dimensions into some kind of Floyd | labyrinth, but it isn't normal. The back room boys are busy trying to Floyd | figure it out. All they can tell me is that the Fins have hidden the Floyd | cylinder in a place where the only way out is up and that if you're Floyd | left in a room with no exits you'll be stuck there until we can get you Floyd | out, which may well be too late to save Hydropolis. You'll have to Floyd | watch your step, Agent 10; we don't want to lose you, old boy. Good Floyd | luck. Panchax out." Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, southeast, southwest, northwest, up. Floyd | > | inky says, "oh noooo" | |||||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf16" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southeast, southwest, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, southeast, southwest, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal, a film and a sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, southeast, south, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, east, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead southeast, south, southwest, west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, southeast, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead southeast, west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, southeast, south, southwest, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, east, west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, southeast, south, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, east, southwest, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Gunther arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | inky says, "ok I give up" | |||||
| Ellison says, "yeah" | ||||||
| Gunther disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||||||
| Gunther arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal, a film and a sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "drop pass" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Travel pass dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | Exits lead north, southeast, south, southwest, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, west, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | Exits lead north, east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, southeast, south, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southwest, west, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, south, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, southeast, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southeast, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southeast, south, southwest, northwest, up. Floyd | > | inky says, "oh hmm" | |||||
| inky says, "so it's a different kind of puzzle where your movements change the exits but you stay in the same room" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, so it would seem" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | Exits lead north, west, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a cylinder and a travel pass here. Floyd | Exits lead up. Floyd | > | inky says, "hooray" | |||||
| Ellison says, "hooray" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get pass, cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the travel pass. Floyd | You are carrying too much already to get the cylinder. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "dang" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The cylinder holds the smoothest, most potent, twenty five year old Floyd | snifter gas known to fish. Floyd | > | Gunther says, "and if you think Fish! is bad, wait for Phish!" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal, a film and a sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "drop film" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Film dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the cylinder. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Well done old boy," says Sir Playfair as you slip back into the Floyd | lounge, "I didn't think you'd make it. That should keep the Fins at bay Floyd | for a while. Top hole. Panchax out." The dark warp swiftly fades. Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal, a sachet and a cylinder. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "I dunno. should we try to sniff this cylinder to see what's special about it? or is it some kind of part?" | |||||
| WeirdBeard arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | inky says, "I'm not sure" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The cylinder holds the smoothest, most potent, twenty five year old Floyd | snifter gas known to fish. Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess we could try to give it to doctor salmon" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sniff cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cylinder smells like a cylinder. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "sounds good" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You wisely decide not to walk onto the tracks. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Pickerel. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Pickerel Underground Station Floyd | This station is teeming with guppies, nipping in and out of the access Floyd | funnel which leads to the platform. A guard, looking rather bored with Floyd | life, checks all their tickets. You can buy tickets from the ticket Floyd | clerk, behind his counter close to the exit southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub and Simon Tench greet you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give cylinder to salmon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you," slurs the drunk as he takes the cylinder . The drunk plays Floyd | with your thoughtful present. He unfortunately finds how to empty the Floyd | cylinder. The gas escapes, all in one go. What a waste. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy mask with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams, sir. I'll charge it to your Fisa account at Floyd | once. Enjoy your sniff." says Steve as he hands you a mask. Floyd | You are carrying too much and the fishofax annoyingly falls to the Floyd | ground. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach mask to cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that with the snifter. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear mask" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the snifter. As you inhale, someone kicks you in the gills. Floyd | At least, that's what it feels like. Actually, you keel over backwards Floyd | and swim upside down out of the pub, but you can't remember that. The Floyd | drunk thought it was funny though. You do remember going round and Floyd | round the tube network before you could get off at Paddlington. Coming Floyd | up the access funnel was difficult, but, now that you're back in your Floyd | apartment, the snifter has thankfully worn off, leaving you with a sore Floyd | head. Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | There is a travel pass and a tatty card here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [You can't "undo" what hasn't been done!] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal, a snifter, a sachet and a Floyd | cylinder. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop mask" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Just as the snifter is about to leave your hand Steve takes it away. Floyd | "I'll look after this," he says shortly. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "maybe there's something we want to inflate or something" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. Floyd | There is a stool and a fishofax here. Simon Tench and Ernest Chub are Floyd | here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get fishofax" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the fishofax. Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You open the cylinder and the gas bubbles away around you. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | inky says, "but I dunno what it would be" | |||||
| Ellison says, "well, when we open it ourself, it seems we might get a move in there to smell it ourselves" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I just didn't want to do it without saving" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "maybe we can attach the cylinder to ourselves and jetpack up to the trapdoor" | ||||||
| inky says, "that would be excellent" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Abruptly, everything starts heading towards a certain point, Floyd | accompanied by a grotesque sucking noise. Before you have time to react Floyd | you are surrounded by a blinding white light which rapidly expands to Floyd | engulf the whole of Hydropolis. Then silence. You are nothing but a Floyd | handful of minute particles floating in free space. "You blew that, Floyd | didn't you?" Sir Playfair Panchax is clearly not amused. "We'll try and Floyd | get you back to your bowl, but I've got some bad news. The Fins have Floyd | located you. They're out for revenge. Keep your head old chap, this Floyd | could be nasty. Panchax out." You are dumped back in the fishbowl. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | inky says, "...well, that answers what I was wondering about whether solving that maze got us an extension on the time limit" | |||||
| Ellison says, "it does not seem like Magnetic Scrolls had good playtesters to tell them when things are crazy dumb" | ||||||
| inky says, "well, in the olden days long games were more popular, seems like" | ||||||
| inky says, "including long from having to replay a bunch" | ||||||
| Gunther disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | Ellison says, "yeah. turn efficiency is just so annoying, though." | |||||
| Ellison says, "at least with something like Lurking Horror, you could extend your playtime by conserving battery life" | ||||||
| Allen says, "I'm mostly doing other stuff, cleaning house... but every time I walk by, every single time, someone is calling me a Halibut" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| inky says, "well, hmm, maybe you could hit the hints again, since I am still feeling stuck here" | ||||||
| inky says, "unless there is something else you'd like to try" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "heh, I was just looking at them" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "turns out that yes, we do use the cylinder towards the trapdoor but not quite how I had guessed" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "we're looking to make a parasail, not a jetpack" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf16" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal, a film and a sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sachet" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The sachet is used by customers who wish to take their food away to eat Floyd | at home. Floyd | It is open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't get out that way! Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal, a film and a sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "weird" | |||||
| inky says, "bwuh" | ||||||
| inky asks, "we restored and are stuck?" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop fishofax" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Fishofax dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a fishofax here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't get out that way! Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a fishofax here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Northeast, southeast, southwest, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get fishofa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand fishofa Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get fishofax" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the fishofax. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, south, west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, southeast, southwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't get out that way! Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, south, southwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, south, southwest, northwest. Floyd | > | inky says, "weird" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf16" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Northeast, southeast, southwest, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, southeast, south, west, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, east, southwest, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, southwest, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead southwest, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, southwest, west, up. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "well, at least they had the 'exits' command" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southeast, south, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, south, southwest, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, east, south, southwest, west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, southeast, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't get out that way! Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, south, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, east, southeast, southwest, west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, south, southwest, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, east, west, northwest, up. Floyd | > | inky says, "grrr" | |||||
| Ellison asks, "want me to have a go at it?" | ||||||
| inky says, "please" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a cylinder here. Floyd | Exits lead up. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ha ha" | |||||
| (from Gunther) Ellison >PLEASE LET ME WIN | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying too much already to get the cylinder. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put cylinder in sachet" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cylinder won't fit. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "huh" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal, a film and a sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Gunther arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop screwdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Screwdriver dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying too much already to get the cylinder. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "there's supposed to be some kind of bag somewhere. I figured the sachet was it." | |||||
| inky says, "argrrghr" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "as far as I know, the film is red herring" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "drop film" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Film dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the cylinder. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Well done old boy," says Sir Playfair as you slip back into the Floyd | lounge, "I didn't think you'd make it. That should keep the Fins at bay Floyd | for a while. Top hole. Panchax out." The dark warp swiftly fades. Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put satchel on cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand satchel Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put satchet on cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand satchet Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put sachet on cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that to the cylinder. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put cylinder in sachet" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cylinder won't fit. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach sachet to cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that with the sachet. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "looks like there's a bag we can buy at the hardware store" | |||||
| inky asks, "hunh, really?" | ||||||
| inky says, "oh yeah, I do remember that" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop sachet" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sachet dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | There is a sachet here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Pickerel. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Pickerel Underground Station Floyd | This station is teeming with guppies, nipping in and out of the access Floyd | funnel which leads to the platform. A guard, looking rather bored with Floyd | life, checks all their tickets. You can buy tickets from the ticket Floyd | clerk, behind his counter close to the exit southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You wait for a break in the traffic but it's far too busy so you give Floyd | up. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | As you step on the road, the cars all accelerate towards you, their Floyd | drivers leaning over the steering wheels with fangs bared. You just Floyd | avoid them by swimming as quick as you can to the safety of Dace Road. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Hardware Shop Floyd | This hardware shop contains everything for the fish with DIY leanings. Floyd | If your DIY is leaning, this is were you can get the tools to mend it. Floyd | If you require anything the assistant will only be too pleased to take Floyd | your credit, if not your credit card. He may even give it back. You can Floyd | leave the shop by swimming west. The assistant offers to sell you a Floyd | black plastic bag. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy bag with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 2 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the bag. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tuna Day's Music Shop Floyd | The music shop is cluttered with amateur musicians, most of whom are Floyd | playing versions of the ancient heavy metal hit "Smoke Underwater", Floyd | very badly, on expensive instruments that they have no intention of Floyd | buying. An assistant is attempting to hide behind the counter. The Floyd | hasty exit from this noisy place is north. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You wait for a break in the traffic but it's far too busy so you give Floyd | up. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub and Simon Tench greet you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pickerel Underground Station Floyd | This station is teeming with guppies, nipping in and out of the access Floyd | funnel which leads to the platform. A guard, looking rather bored with Floyd | life, checks all their tickets. You can buy tickets from the ticket Floyd | clerk, behind his counter close to the exit southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Pickerel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Abruptly, everything starts heading towards a certain point, Floyd | accompanied by a grotesque sucking noise. Before you have time to react Floyd | you are surrounded by a blinding white light which rapidly expands to Floyd | engulf the whole of Hydropolis. Then silence. You are nothing but a Floyd | handful of minute particles floating in free space. "You blew that, Floyd | didn't you?" Sir Playfair Panchax is clearly not amused. "We'll try and Floyd | get you back to your bowl, but I've got some bad news. The Fins have Floyd | located you. They're out for revenge. Keep your head old chap, this Floyd | could be nasty. Panchax out." You are dumped back in the fishbowl. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "man, I drew out that map and I still am impressed with how you 'swim' along this area" | |||||
| Ellison asks, "well, I don't blame you if you are done. if so, should we just wait this end part out so we can see the final losing ending?" | ||||||
| inky asks, "oh, it goes somewhere?" | ||||||
| inky says, "I assumed you were just kind of stuck" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which way: there aren't any obvious exits! Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "no, we are MURDERED" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x computers" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't reach the terminals from here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x eggs" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's a pity that ant eggs are all you've had to eat for the past week, Floyd | otherwise they might look appetising. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x gravel" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any gravel here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The bowl rattles as someone strides over. "It's time for this little Floyd | fish's last meal," says an ominous voice. Then the voice lowers and Floyd | recites menacingly Floyd | "And I am become death, destroyer of worlds." Floyd | Suddenly, some ant eggs are dropped in. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x person" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand person Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x eggs" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | It's a pity that ant eggs are all you've had to eat for the past week, Floyd | otherwise they might look appetising. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "eat eggs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Delicious and there are plenty more. Floyd | Suddenly, the ant eggs start dissipating a pale pink solution. Oh no! Floyd | It's an inter-dimensional espionage operative's worst nightmare - the Floyd | dreaded pink anti inter-dimensional espionage operative poison, Floyd | guaranteed to kill not only an inter-dimensional espionage operative's Floyd | host, but to trap him there for ever. To put it bluntly, the guarantee Floyd | hasn't run out. The poison gags your gills. You'll never see Sir Floyd | Playfair or Mission HQ again. Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 349 out of 501. Floyd | You have died. Floyd | Do you want to quit or restart (q/r)? | Ellison says, "there we go" | |||||
| inky says, "aha" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "damn Fins" | ||||||
| inky says, "well, ok, so" | ||||||
| inky says, "I guess I can replay from a while back now that we know about that cylinder thing" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "cool" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Are you sure (y/n)? | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||||
Floyd | [y -> yes] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Well done, Agent 10," said Sir Playfair Panchax, head of Mission HQ. Floyd | "We knew you'd stop the Seven Deadly Fins. Good show! It's a shame they Floyd | got away again. But now I suggest you take a vacation. You've earned Floyd | it, old boy." You agreed with him, the last few months had been a real Floyd | chore. Being an inter-dimensional espionage operative isn't a bad life Floyd | apart from the pain of warping and the inconvenience of host-parasite Floyd | relationships, but you need a spot of R and R every now and then, just Floyd | to stay sane. So you went for the big one - warping into a goldfish for Floyd | a whole month! The peace. The tranquility. And you're still on the Floyd | payroll. Floyd | Floyd | FISH! - Version 1.10 - Copyright (C) 1988, 1990 Magnetic Scrolls Ltd. Floyd | Floyd | Someone's coming. Good, it must be time for food. SPLATTO. A hand as Floyd | big as a bus drops something hard right on your head. Understandably Floyd | dazed, you flip over and, through a swirl of ant eggs, spot what hit Floyd | you: a tacky plastic castle. It looks like a rush job. Sir Playfair Floyd | must be in trouble. And you thought you were on vacation... Floyd | Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | Swimming upside down is good fun, but difficult, even for someone as Floyd | highly trained as yourself. It looks like the pondweed is dangling from Floyd | the gravel above your head. And the ant eggs, wow! Upside down they Floyd | look, so, so much like, well, like exactly the same as if you were the Floyd | right way up actually. Anyway, there's no need to get carried away. Sir Floyd | Playfair has a message for you in the castle if you're not mistaken and Floyd | he hates agents who are late. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, some dark glasses, some ear-plugs, a hyperdriver, a Floyd | crystal, a film and a sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear glasses and ear-plugs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the dark glasses. Floyd | You put on the ear-plugs. The ear plugs don't work too well. You can Floyd | still work out what people say. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub and Simon Tench greet you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy snifter" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy snifter with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams, sir. I'll charge it to your Fisa account at Floyd | once. Enjoy your sniff." says Steve as he hands you a mask. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give snifter to salmon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk takes the mask, holds it to his face and inhales deeply. Floyd | After several deep breaths he returns the snifter to Steve."I needed Floyd | that," he says, "I'd give you a token of my thanks, but I'm destitute." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy snifter with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams, sir. I'll charge it to your Fisa account at Floyd | once. Enjoy your sniff." says Steve as he hands you a mask. Floyd | "You're getting through the snifters quickly." adds Steve, "If you Floyd | like, I can sell you a cylinder for only 99 clams." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give snifter to salmon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk takes the mask, holds it to his face and inhales deeply. Floyd | After several deep breaths he returns the snifter to Steve."I needed Floyd | that," he says, "I'd give you a token of my thanks, but I'm destitute." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy cylinder with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 99 clams, me old mate." says Steve. He gives you the Floyd | cylinder and charges the purchase to your Fisa account. A drunk with Floyd | his left arm in a sling lurches into you as you turn round from the Floyd | bar, knocking the cylinder to the floor. "Sorry guv," he slurs, picking Floyd | it up, "I'll get you another one." Floyd | "It's one of the Fins! Stop him Agent 10," screams Sir Playfair in your Floyd | brain as the drunk runs off with the cylinder. You swim frantically Floyd | after him but he disappears. "Well, you really messed that up," Sir Floyd | Playfair scolds. "The cylinder must be important otherwise they Floyd | wouldn't have stolen it. Fortunately, the back room boys got a fix on Floyd | him. He's somewhere in the dimensions. You'll have to go after him, Floyd | Agent 10, and be careful this time." You hear him mumbling in the Floyd | background then he curtly says, "A warp will open up in Dr. Roach's Floyd | apartment. Use that. Panchax out." You should be more careful if you Floyd | want to keep your job. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Museum. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Paddlington. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and up to the level of your apartment Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | There is a dark warp here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter dark warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You slip through the dark warp into the whirling dimensions. "It's a Floyd | strange place Agent 10," says Sir Playfair's voice in the back of your Floyd | brain. "Those Fins have twisted the dimensions into some kind of Floyd | labyrinth, but it isn't normal. The back room boys are busy trying to Floyd | figure it out. All they can tell me is that the Fins have hidden the Floyd | cylinder in a place where the only way out is up and that if you're Floyd | left in a room with no exits you'll be stuck there until we can get you Floyd | out, which may well be too late to save Hydropolis. You'll have to Floyd | watch your step, Agent 10; we don't want to lose you, old boy. Good Floyd | luck. Panchax out." Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, south, southwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf17" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, southeast, southwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, southwest, west, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, south, southwest, west, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, west, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, west, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, southeast, south, west, northwest. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "dang it, I'm using up a lot of moves. if you feel you could do it in less, go ahead." | |||||
| inky says, "nah, I dunno" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, southeast, southwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, east, south, southwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead south, southwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead south, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, southwest, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead southwest, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, southwest, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, south, northwest. Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "so, what does up exactly do, does it seem?" | |||||
| Ellison asks, "randomizes the exits?" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, east, southeast, southwest, west, Floyd | northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead southeast, southwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, south, southwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, southeast, southwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, southwest, west, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southeast, south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, southwest, west, up. Floyd | > | inky says, "hm, so up appears every other turn" | |||||
| Ellison says, "let's go back to that save" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf17" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | East, south, southwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead southeast, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, east, south, southwest, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead south, southwest, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, west, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "f w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | No can do! Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southeast, south, southwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, east, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, east, west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, Floyd | northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, west, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, southeast, south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, east, southwest, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, southeast, south, southwest, west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southwest, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, southwest, northwest. Floyd | > | inky says, "man this game" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southwest, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf17" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | East, south, southwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, southeast, southwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, southwest, west, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, south, southwest, west, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, south, southwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, southeast, southwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, southwest, west, northwest. Floyd | > | Allen asks, "a traditional maze?" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, south, southwest, west, northwest, up. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "no" | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Ellison says, "this is all one room. the exits are changing." | |||||
| Allen says, "oh. That's annoying." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, south, up. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "maybe time doesn't pass while we're in this dimension" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x watch" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The time is 14:13 Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Are we still playing Fish?" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x watch" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The time is 14:14 Floyd | > | inky says, "that would be nice" | |||||
| Ellison says (to inured), "yeah" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, southwest, west, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southeast, south, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, east, west, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, southeast, south, southwest. Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Ok, because I liked this game." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, Floyd | northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, east, southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 337 out of 501. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead south, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "cf17" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | East, south, southwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead southeast, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says, "se" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, south, west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead southeast, southwest, up. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I think it affects more directions than I realize" | |||||
| inky says, "oh hmm" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, south, southwest. Floyd | > | inky says, "maybe straight and diagonal affect different numbers" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, southeast, south, west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, south, northwest, up. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "this is one of those things where when I wasn't thinking too hard, it just ended up working but now that I'm trying to really work it, it's just failing on me" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southeast, south, west. Floyd | > | inky says, "there must be a pretty short solution or it'd be too annoying" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "cf17" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | East, south, southwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x watch" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The time is 14:04 Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I was going to just plug in commands from this walkthrough but I see it starts with different exits" | |||||
| inky says, "man, I hope it's not random" | ||||||
| inky says, "that would blow" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead southeast, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, southeast, south, southwest, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, southeast, west, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, south, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, south, southwest, west, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, west. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "grr" | |||||
| Ellison says, "thought I had it there, but that other rule I don't yet understand came into play" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, south, southwest, west. Floyd | > | inky says, "I think if you go north it toggles e, ne, n, nw, w" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, south. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "interesting" | |||||
| Ellison says, "I've been thinking that going 'up' toggles everything but haven't really paid really close attention to know if that's true" | ||||||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "cf17" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead southeast, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, southeast, south, southwest, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southwest, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, south, west, northwest. Floyd | > | Johnny says, "I'd just like to note that I never finished this." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, south, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, southeast. Floyd | > | Johnny says, "I ask you to pretend like I'm Ronald Reagan and win one for me." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, west, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, south, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southeast, southwest, west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, south, southwest, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "cf17" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ah, well, I understand the cardinal directions better now, but so far, that hasn't helped" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | East, south, southwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, southeast, southwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, southwest, west, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, south, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southeast, south, west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, southeast, south, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead northeast, east, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, southeast, south, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southwest, west, northwest. Floyd | > | inky asks, "can I try?" | |||||
| Ellison says, "sure" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf17" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | East, south, southwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, southeast, southwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, southwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, south, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southeast, southwest, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, east, southeast, south, west, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, west, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a cylinder here. Floyd | Exits lead up. Floyd | > | inky says, "huzzah for programming" | |||||
| Ellison says, "right on" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||||
| inky says, "it doesn't get the most efficient solution but whatever" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying too much already to get the cylinder. Floyd | > | inky says, "noo" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop film" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Film dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the cylinder. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Well done old boy," says Sir Playfair as you slip back into the Floyd | lounge, "I didn't think you'd make it. That should keep the Fins at bay Floyd | for a while. Top hole. Panchax out." The dark warp swiftly fades. Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal, a sachet and a cylinder. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop sachet" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sachet dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Pickerel. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Pickerel Underground Station Floyd | This station is teeming with guppies, nipping in and out of the access Floyd | funnel which leads to the platform. A guard, looking rather bored with Floyd | life, checks all their tickets. You can buy tickets from the ticket Floyd | clerk, behind his counter close to the exit southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | As you step on the road, the cars all accelerate towards you, their Floyd | drivers leaning over the steering wheels with fangs bared. You just Floyd | avoid them by swimming as quick as you can to the safety of Dace Road. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Hardware Shop Floyd | This hardware shop contains everything for the fish with DIY leanings. Floyd | If your DIY is leaning, this is were you can get the tools to mend it. Floyd | If you require anything the assistant will only be too pleased to take Floyd | your credit, if not your credit card. He may even give it back. You can Floyd | leave the shop by swimming west. The assistant offers to sell you a Floyd | black plastic bag. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy bag with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 2 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the bag. Floyd | You are carrying too much and the fishofax annoyingly falls to the Floyd | ground. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal and a cylinder. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop screwdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Screwdriver dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy bag with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 2 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the bag. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub and Simon Tench greet you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pickerel Underground Station Floyd | This station is teeming with guppies, nipping in and out of the access Floyd | funnel which leads to the platform. A guard, looking rather bored with Floyd | life, checks all their tickets. You can buy tickets from the ticket Floyd | clerk, behind his counter close to the exit southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Pickerel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Opah University. Floyd | The doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | Gunther says, "the sad thing is that I can think of one game worse than this" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "I've been standing here for ages," says Bertie Bream , "come on, let's Floyd | go in." Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Bertie Floyd | Bream is here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Come on. Let's go in," moans Bertie Bream. Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Bertie Floyd | Bream is here. Floyd | > | Gunther says, "Border Zone" | |||||
| inky says, "oh, here we are" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear glasses" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But you are wearing the dark glasses. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, Bertie Bream gets very nervous and drags you away from the Floyd | entrance. "I can't go in without a tie," he says, "what will everyone Floyd | think of me?" He starts shaking uncontrollably. "You'll have to get me Floyd | one," he quivers, "I can't swim anywhere right now." Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Bertie Floyd | Bream is here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Please get me a tie. I'll wait here for you," says Bertie Bream . Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | Ellison asks (of Gunther), "in terms of move efficiency?" | |||||
| Gunther says, "(er, regar... yes)" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put new card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Research Wing Floyd | This is where a lot of the groundwork for The Project was done by the Floyd | famous Dr. Salmon. Unfortunately his work was shelved to make room for Floyd | your endeavours, and anyway he sniffed far too much. You can swim up Floyd | into the tower from here or pass through the metal door with a slot Floyd | beside it to the south. Floyd | There is a crystal tuna here. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tower Floyd | Water must be evaporating fast; the tower is only half full! You swim Floyd | up and break the surface to take a look around. In the ceiling, high Floyd | above through the air, is a trapdoor, but there seems no way of getting Floyd | there. You dive quickly back underwater before your gills dry out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put bag on cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that to the cylinder. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cylinder in bag" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Are you talking to yourself again? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put cylinder in bag" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cylinder is now inside the bag. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The bag inflates and you hold it tightly closed to prevent the gas Floyd | escaping. You rise up through the tower. There is a loud bang as you Floyd | pass through the trap door, opening it. The roof of the tower lies Floyd | inches below you but you are drifting slowly upwards. Floyd | Roof Floyd | When there was a lot of water around, students came up here to watch Floyd | the teeming city of Hydropolis. A railing around the edge of the roof Floyd | was put here to prevent them being washed away by the deceptively Floyd | strong overcurrent. Now the water has gone that has ceased to be a Floyd | problem. The obvious exit is the trapdoor. Floyd | There is a photon bridge and some railings here. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "we should probably save" | |||||
| inky says, "huzzah" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf18" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah, although we're going to have to replay" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x railings" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | When there was more water in Hydropolis, students used to come up here Floyd | to admire Hydropolis. Lots of them were swept over the edge by the Floyd | overcurrent so some railings were kindly put up. Floyd | This is fun isn't it? You've drifted even higher now. You are finding Floyd | breathing a little difficult, however, but Hydropolis is stunning from Floyd | this height. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "also, yay" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop bag" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You let go of the bag and fall at an alarming pace. Roach is clearly Floyd | disturbed, falling is not one of his greatest skills. With a sickening Floyd | SPLAT you strike the surface, bursting like a balloon full of water Floyd | hitting a concrete floor. That was fun. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | > | inky says, "oops" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open bag" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You let go of the bag and fall at an alarming pace. Roach is clearly Floyd | disturbed, falling is not one of his greatest skills. With a sickening Floyd | SPLAT you strike the surface, bursting like a balloon full of water Floyd | hitting a concrete floor. That was fun. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf18" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Roof Floyd | When there was a lot of water around, students came up here to watch Floyd | the teeming city of Hydropolis. A railing around the edge of the roof Floyd | was put here to prevent them being washed away by the deceptively Floyd | strong overcurrent. Now the water has gone that has ceased to be a Floyd | problem. The obvious exit is the trapdoor. Floyd | There is a photon bridge and some railings here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop bag" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You release the bag, and it floats gently up into the sky. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the photon bridge. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze through the trap door. Not a particularly good move, as Floyd | there's nothing on the other side to support you. Oh well, falling is Floyd | quite good fun. Until you hit the shallow water and slam into the floor Floyd | that is. The host-parasite interface doesn't take too kindly to your Floyd | scant regard for its delicacy and promptly disintegrates, sending you Floyd | hurtling into the dimensions. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 349 out of 501. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | inky says, "man" | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "I won der what happens if we wait around after the warps disappear?" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "climb railings" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any railings here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | inky says (to inuredbyheavyrain), "Ellison tried it a bit ago -- the bad guys eventually kill us" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [You can't "undo" what hasn't been done!] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf18" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Roof Floyd | When there was a lot of water around, students came up here to watch Floyd | the teeming city of Hydropolis. A railing around the edge of the roof Floyd | was put here to prevent them being washed away by the deceptively Floyd | strong overcurrent. Now the water has gone that has ceased to be a Floyd | problem. The obvious exit is the trapdoor. Floyd | There is a photon bridge and some railings here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "drop bag" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You release the bag, and it floats gently up into the sky. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the photon bridge. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "climb railings" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You slide through the railings with your gills about to burst. Roach Floyd | has never practiced falling before, it's a good job your training as an Floyd | inter-dimensional espionage operative has given you the experience to Floyd | be able to survive under such difficult circumstances. You hit the Floyd | water below the tower making a dramatic entrance to Opah. Several of Floyd | the students applaud your efforts. Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Bertie Floyd | Bream is here. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I don't really understand that" | |||||
| inky says, "that was bogus" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "spatial puzzles in text games are terrible when the game does a poor job of explaining the layout" | ||||||
| inky says, "yeash" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "clearly the answer is to turn into a bat" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "so, that just leaves figuring out what to put in the photocopier and that should be everything in the midgame, I think" | ||||||
| inky says, "I wonder if we were supposed to put the film in there" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Please get me a tie. I'll wait here for you," says Bertie Bream . Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | hyperdriver, a crystal and a photon bridge. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I know that's not the proper thing but that'd be awesome if it worked" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Store Room Floyd | Even though Dr. Roach is very clean and tidy, the same cannot be said Floyd | of the rest of the team. They've made this the messiest store room in Floyd | the university. And it's always left for you to straighten things out. Floyd | All the equipment and spares needed for The Project are usually stashed Floyd | here, with a wallchart keeping track of what's in and out of stock. The Floyd | only exit leads northwest. Floyd | There is a protocopier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x protocopier" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The protocopier is a large box with a slot on one side and a simple Floyd | on-off switch where you would expect one, built by Dr. Salmon as a Floyd | prototype Device. While it is indeed remarkable, the University Floyd | authorities took a different view for two reasons: the protocopier used Floyd | so much power that fuel bills reached record levels and secondly, it Floyd | could only teleport in very small amounts of water. It was the downfall Floyd | of Dr. Salmon; he was fired by the principal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x slot" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The slot is about as thick as a piece of paper. Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||||
| inky says, "maybe we were supposed to find plans or something" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "put bridge in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The photon bridge won't fit. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | "On your marks, get set, GO!" Three pairs of students, tied together Floyd | come rushing past you. It's a two-tail race, obviously a ploy to raise Floyd | money for rag week. Then hordes of students swim by, rattling Floyd | collecting tins. It's a good job they don't take Fisa. They swim off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Bertie Floyd | Bream is here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Please get me a tie. I'll wait here for you," says Bertie Bream . Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets | Ellison says, "what phrase do you think 'my worm' is supposed to mirror? I mean, it's strange to equate food to God or something" | |||||
Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub and Simon Tench greet you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask salmon about protocopier" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk says, "I don't know anything about that." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask salmon about chub" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk says, "I don't know anything about that." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask salmon about trench" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand trench Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask chub about protocopier" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "Oh really sir. You flatter me with such a question. Floyd | I'm not fit to provide an answer." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask tench about protocopier" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Simon Tench says, "Roachie baby, you're really on form. What a Floyd | concept!" Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask salmon about water" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk says, "I don't know anything about that." Floyd | > | inky says, "grr" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask salmon about device" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk says, "I don't know anything about that." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask tench about device" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Simon Tench says, "Roachie, I don't like it. Too many things could go Floyd | wrong, it could be a real downer." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "show bridge to tench" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Simon Tench says, "How nice." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "show bridge to salmon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk leans forward to examine the the photon bridge and snatches Floyd | it from you with a mumbled "Thanks." Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | inky says, "interesting" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | hyperdriver, a crystal and a photon bridge. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show new card to salmon" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk leans forward to examine the the new card and snatches it Floyd | from you with a mumbled "Thanks." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | Ellison says, "so, the photocopier was originally used to make water so it has the power to make things from pieces of paper" | |||||
| inky asks, "yeah, but have we seen any paper?" | ||||||
| inky says, "I assume we need a drawing of a bridge or something" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "get fax" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But you are already carrying the fishofax. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "we have seen paper but not (yet) in grabbable form" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask salmon about bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk says, "I don't know anything about that." Floyd | > | inky says, "we have? hmm" | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "fax bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Are you talking to yourself again? Floyd | > | Ellison says, "it's on the University grounds. so, not far from the photocopier." | |||||
| inky says, "okey doke" | ||||||
| inky says, "oh yeah!" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub and Simon Tench greet you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pickerel Underground Station Floyd | This station is teeming with guppies, nipping in and out of the access Floyd | funnel which leads to the platform. A guard, looking rather bored with Floyd | life, checks all their tickets. You can buy tickets from the ticket Floyd | clerk, behind his counter close to the exit southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Pickerel. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Opah University. Floyd | The doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | Abruptly, everything starts heading towards a certain point, Floyd | accompanied by a grotesque sucking noise. Before you have time to react Floyd | you are surrounded by a blinding white light which rapidly expands to Floyd | engulf the whole of Hydropolis. Then silence. You are nothing but a Floyd | handful of minute particles floating in free space. "You blew that, Floyd | didn't you?" Sir Playfair Panchax is clearly not amused. "We'll try and Floyd | get you back to your bowl, but I've got some bad news. The Fins have Floyd | located you. They're out for revenge. Keep your head old chap, this Floyd | could be nasty. Panchax out." You are dumped back in the fishbowl. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | inky :C | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf18" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Roof Floyd | When there was a lot of water around, students came up here to watch Floyd | the teeming city of Hydropolis. A railing around the edge of the roof Floyd | was put here to prevent them being washed away by the deceptively Floyd | strong overcurrent. Now the water has gone that has ceased to be a Floyd | problem. The obvious exit is the trapdoor. Floyd | There is a photon bridge and some railings here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the photon bridge. Floyd | This is fun isn't it? You've drifted even higher now. You are finding Floyd | breathing a little difficult, however, but Hydropolis is stunning from Floyd | this height. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "oh no, Allen is going to see 'Halibut' again" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop bag" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You release the bag, and it floats gently up into the sky. Floyd | > | inky says, "hee hee" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the photon bridge. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter railings" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You slide through the railings with your gills about to burst. Roach Floyd | has never practiced falling before, it's a good job your training as an Floyd | inter-dimensional espionage operative has given you the experience to Floyd | be able to survive under such difficult circumstances. You hit the Floyd | water below the tower making a dramatic entrance to Opah. Several of Floyd | the students applaud your efforts. Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Bertie Floyd | Bream is here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Please get me a tie. I'll wait here for you," says Bertie Bream . Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Containing the sum total of fish knowledge, this library is the best in Floyd | all Hydropolis. As fish only have small brains, it is on the smallish Floyd | side, but students spend a lot of time here delving into what knowledge Floyd | there is - even during rag week. The library's rarest book lies on a Floyd | lectern close to the exit in the north wall. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The book is illustrated with many wondrous things from ages gone by. Floyd | Perhaps you should look some of them up. Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You open the book at random, revealing a full colour picture of a bird Floyd | cage on page 332. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up filter in book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You search through the book but the page you want has been torn out. Floyd | "On your marks, get set, GO!" Three pairs of students, tied together Floyd | come rushing past you. It's a two-tail race, obviously a ploy to raise Floyd | money for rag week. Then hordes of students swim by, rattling Floyd | collecting tins. It's a good job they don't take Fisa. They swim off. Floyd | > | inky says, "hrm" | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "fax page 332" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Are you talking to yourself again? Floyd | > | inky says, "despite the name the fishofax isn't a fax machine" | |||||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 333, revealing a full colour picture Floyd | of a parrot. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 334, revealing a full colour picture Floyd | of Micky Blowtorch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 335, revealing a full colour picture Floyd | of a gold disc. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 336, revealing a full colour picture Floyd | of a mould. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 337, revealing a full colour picture Floyd | of a hammer. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 339, (the intervening pages have been Floyd | torn out), revealing a full colour picture of some feathers. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 340, revealing a full colour picture Floyd | of some asbestos gloves. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 345, (the intervening pages have been Floyd | torn out), revealing a full colour picture of a glass box. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn the last page in the book and close it. Floyd | > | inky says, "man, I hope we're not going to have to recreate all the steps from earlier in the game" | |||||
| Ellison says, "no, we're fine in that respect, I'm pretty sure" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You open the book at random, revealing a full colour picture of a head Floyd | cleaner on page 274. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 286, (the intervening pages have been Floyd | torn out), revealing a full colour picture of an old blanket. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 287, revealing a full colour picture Floyd | of a torch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 288, revealing a full colour picture Floyd | of some jeans. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 289, revealing a full colour picture Floyd | of some socks. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 290, revealing a full colour picture Floyd | of a tee-shirt. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 293, (the intervening pages have been Floyd | torn out), revealing a full colour picture of a note. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 294, revealing a full colour picture Floyd | of an interior light. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 299, (the intervening pages have been Floyd | torn out), revealing a full colour picture of a poster. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 304, (the intervening pages have been Floyd | torn out), revealing a full colour picture of a gargoyle. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 309, (the intervening pages have been Floyd | torn out), revealing a full colour picture of a ceremonial cord. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 310, revealing a full colour picture Floyd | of some debris. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 312, (the intervening pages have been Floyd | torn out), revealing a full colour picture of a sarcophagus lid. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 313, revealing a full colour picture Floyd | of an ancient altar. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 323, (the intervening pages have been Floyd | torn out), revealing a full colour picture of a shirt. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 327, (the intervening pages have been Floyd | torn out), revealing a full colour picture of a herringbone overcoat. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 330, (the intervening pages have been Floyd | torn out), revealing a full colour picture of a crucible. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 331, revealing a full colour picture Floyd | of a gold ring. Floyd | Three students swim by with a rolled-up hang glider under their fins. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the next page, number 332, revealing a full colour picture Floyd | of a bird cage. Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "ok, that's everything. so, do we want any of these things?" | |||||
| inky says, "man, hell if I know" | ||||||
| inky says, "there's the poster, I guess we could then put that into the machine" | ||||||
| inky says, "I forget what's on it, though" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "heh, ok, we want the glass box since that has all of the device parts in it" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I guess the logic there is kind of weak" | ||||||
| inky says, "oh yeah" | ||||||
| inky says, "no, no, that makes sense" | ||||||
| inky says, "I was trying to figure out how we'd get the whaddyacall" | ||||||
| inky says, "but this still doesn't explain how we get the filter" | ||||||
| inky asks, "or do we have that already?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, I have no idea about the filter." | ||||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I thought that last week, when we beat the computer, we successfully removed the screw. I'm going to go check the log now." | ||||||
| inky says, "oh yeah, that was weird too" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "We are a fish, so the coat seems likethe most logical choice, or at least one that will probably elicit funny responses." | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Ellison says, "ok, we did remove the screw. inside was the stream accellerator, which we grabbed." | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "We are a fish, so the coat seems likethe most logical choice, or at least one that will probably elicit funny responses." | ||||||
| inky asks, "could that be the filter?" | ||||||
| inky says (to inuredbyheavyrain), "we are a weird human/fish hybrid" | ||||||
| Ellison asks, "possibly. should we look at the poster again?" | ||||||
inky | Floyd | The poster has a psychedelic picture of purple and green goldfish inky | Floyd | swimming around the Seven Deadly Fins logo. The fish form the words, inky | Floyd | "No rules. No war. No profit." Underneath is scrawled, "The Fins are in inky | Floyd | town. Place: just listen. Price: what can you afford? Anarchy: only if inky | Floyd | my mum says it's ok." | Ellison says, "er, actually, it looks like the filter is at the power station" | |||||
| inky says, "oh yeah, I only went there a bit" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Containing the sum total of fish knowledge, this library is the best in Floyd | all Hydropolis. As fish only have small brains, it is on the smallish Floyd | side, but students spend a lot of time here delving into what knowledge Floyd | there is - even during rag week. The library's rarest book lies on a Floyd | lectern close to the exit in the north wall. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Bertie Floyd | Bream is here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Please get me a tie. I'll wait here for you," says Bertie Bream . Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You try to push your way through to the doors, but can't quite make it Floyd | in time. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Museum. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Paddlington. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You try to push your way through to the doors, but can't quite make it Floyd | in time. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Abruptly, everything starts heading towards a certain point, Floyd | accompanied by a grotesque sucking noise. Before you have time to react Floyd | you are surrounded by a blinding white light which rapidly expands to Floyd | engulf the whole of Hydropolis. Then silence. You are nothing but a Floyd | handful of minute particles floating in free space. "You blew that, Floyd | didn't you?" Sir Playfair Panchax is clearly not amused. "We'll try and Floyd | get you back to your bowl, but I've got some bad news. The Fins have Floyd | located you. They're out for revenge. Keep your head old chap, this Floyd | could be nasty. Panchax out." You are dumped back in the fishbowl. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | inky says, "nyru" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf18" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Roof Floyd | When there was a lot of water around, students came up here to watch Floyd | the teeming city of Hydropolis. A railing around the edge of the roof Floyd | was put here to prevent them being washed away by the deceptively Floyd | strong overcurrent. Now the water has gone that has ceased to be a Floyd | problem. The obvious exit is the trapdoor. Floyd | There is a photon bridge and some railings here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop bag" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You release the bag, and it floats gently up into the sky. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the photon bridge. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get railings" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The railings steadfastly refuse to be moved. Floyd | Fish cannot survive without water. Roach's gills dry out and are Floyd | rendered useless. The effect is fatal. These things happen, don't blame Floyd | yourself. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter railings" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You slide through the railings with your gills about to burst. Roach Floyd | has never practiced falling before, it's a good job your training as an Floyd | inter-dimensional espionage operative has given you the experience to Floyd | be able to survive under such difficult circumstances. You hit the Floyd | water below the tower making a dramatic entrance to Opah. Several of Floyd | the students applaud your efforts. Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Bertie Floyd | Bream is here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Please get me a tie. I'll wait here for you," says Bertie Bream . Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Museum. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Paddlington. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You try to push your way through to the doors, but can't quite make it Floyd | in time. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Pickerel. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Battersea. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Battersea Floyd | Battersea is a place of dreams. The station was built many years ago to Floyd | encourage visits by tourists. Regular tours around the complex leave Floyd | from the north. An access funnel, leading down is fished by a guard who Floyd | is checking tickets, or would be if there were any to check but the Floyd | ticket clerk hasn't sold any. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Welcome to Battersea Power Station." You are met by a tall tour guide, Floyd | who appears to be chewing gum and reading notes off little cue cards. Floyd | She takes you on a guided tour of the entire plant, filling your head Floyd | with facts and figures about throughput, power consumption and blades. Floyd | One thing that stuck in your mind was the interesting, but Floyd | little-known, fact that Battersea is only the secondary power station Floyd | for Hydropolis and is only used during peak demand and to power the Floyd | underground system. After about half an hour, she returns you to the Floyd | power station. Floyd | Power Station Floyd | The power station dwarfs almost anything you have ever seen. Guided Floyd | tours leave from the north, so the citizens of Hydropolis can marvel at Floyd | this fish-made wonder and the sophistication of their engineers. A Floyd | steel door lies to the west near an important gauge and a large switch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The steel door opens automatically when the pressure from the turbines Floyd | in the area to the west falls below danger levels. For safety reasons, Floyd | it cannot be opened by hand. Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gauge" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The important gauge shows the total electricity output of the Battersea Floyd | sub-station. It is currently displaying a value of 100. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x switch" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The switch is just like those seen in fifties science-fiction movies, Floyd | requiring both hands to turn it on or off. It controls the power supply Floyd | to the whole of the tube system. At the moment it is on. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn off switch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With great effort you manage to pull the switch. The light dims Floyd | momentarily and the guppies on the guided tour scream until everything Floyd | returns to normal. The important gauge shows a considerable drop in Floyd | current. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The pressure door is closed to protect fish like you from swimming into Floyd | the proximity of the fast moving blades which lie beyond. You may not Floyd | appreciate this extra protection but I'm sure Dr. Roach is delighted. Floyd | Abruptly, everything starts heading towards a certain point, Floyd | accompanied by a grotesque sucking noise. Before you have time to react Floyd | you are surrounded by a blinding white light which rapidly expands to Floyd | engulf the whole of Hydropolis. Then silence. You are nothing but a Floyd | handful of minute particles floating in free space. "You blew that, Floyd | didn't you?" Sir Playfair Panchax is clearly not amused. "We'll try and Floyd | get you back to your bowl, but I've got some bad news. The Fins have Floyd | located you. They're out for revenge. Keep your head old chap, this Floyd | could be nasty. Panchax out." You are dumped back in the fishbowl. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf18" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Roof Floyd | When there was a lot of water around, students came up here to watch Floyd | the teeming city of Hydropolis. A railing around the edge of the roof Floyd | was put here to prevent them being washed away by the deceptively Floyd | strong overcurrent. Now the water has gone that has ceased to be a Floyd | problem. The obvious exit is the trapdoor. Floyd | There is a photon bridge and some railings here. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "there are two power-related things we've seen so far. there's that switch in our apartment that somehow controls power for the rest of the city, and the photocopier uses a bunch of power." | |||||
| inky says, "oh, so we have to turn everything off? that would make sense" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, I dunno. I don't entirely understand the logic to this, either." | ||||||
| inky says, "hmm ok" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Archway Floyd | You're about thirty feet above ground. It feels as if the world is Floyd | swaying which you put down to vertigo. Only when you realise that you Floyd | don't suffer from vertigo do you realise that the world really IS Floyd | swaying. This place isn't safe. Floyd | A gargoyle stares at you with sightless eyes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | There is a large warp here. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "fair warning, though. we'll need our screwdriver." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, some dark glasses, some ear-plugs, a hyperdriver, a Floyd | crystal, a film and a sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 13:27 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Containing the sum total of fish knowledge, this library is the best in Floyd | all Hydropolis. As fish only have small brains, it is on the smallish Floyd | side, but students spend a lot of time here delving into what knowledge Floyd | there is - even during rag week. The library's rarest book lies on a Floyd | lectern close to the exit in the north wall. Floyd | "On your marks, get set, GO!" Three pairs of students, tied together Floyd | come rushing past you. It's a two-tail race, obviously a ploy to raise Floyd | money for rag week. Then hordes of students swim by, rattling Floyd | collecting tins. It's a good job they don't take Fisa. They swim off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You open the book at random, revealing a full colour picture of some Floyd | socks on page 289. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ook up box in book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand ook Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up box in book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to page 345, revealing a full colour picture of a glass box. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You will have to tear the page out first. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tear page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is a loud ripping noise as you tear the page from the book. Floyd | Several of the students look your way. One of them wanders over. Floyd | "What's going on here?" he demands, noticing your vandalism. Floyd | "Destroying library property, eh?" he continues, pushing you out into Floyd | the corridor. "Sod off and don't come back." Floyd | For some reason he doesn't take the page from you. Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Store Room Floyd | Even though Dr. Roach is very clean and tidy, the same cannot be said Floyd | of the rest of the team. They've made this the messiest store room in Floyd | the university. And it's always left for you to straighten things out. Floyd | All the equipment and spares needed for The Project are usually stashed Floyd | here, with a wallchart keeping track of what's in and out of stock. The Floyd | only exit leads northwest. Floyd | There is a protocopier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put page in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The page is drawn quietly into the slot on the side of the protocopier. Floyd | There is a humming noise followed by a whirring. The protocopier starts Floyd | to vibrate. Then there is a loud bang and suddenly, on the protocopier Floyd | there appears a glass box. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn off protocopier" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The switch is now off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which one, the glass box or the protocopier? Floyd | > | Ellison says, "hooray" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "glass" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying too much already to get the glass box. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x equipment" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | There is no such equipment. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, some dark glasses, some ear-plugs, a hyperdriver, a Floyd | crystal, a film and a sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x crystal" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Light catches this crystal in a beautifully irregular manner. Floyd | > | inky says, "I forget if this is tuned or not" | |||||
| Ellison says, "I don't think it is" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear plugs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the ear-plugs. The ear plugs don't work too well. You can Floyd | still work out what people say. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear glasses" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the dark glasses. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I think it becomes a 'tuned crystal' when it's tuned. I could be wrong, though." | |||||
| inky says, "that would be nice" | ||||||
| inky says, "ok, hmm" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal, a film and a sachet. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop film" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Film dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop film and sachet" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Film dropped. Floyd | Sachet dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Hardware Shop Floyd | This hardware shop contains everything for the fish with DIY leanings. Floyd | If your DIY is leaning, this is were you can get the tools to mend it. Floyd | If you require anything the assistant will only be too pleased to take Floyd | your credit, if not your credit card. He may even give it back. You can Floyd | leave the shop by swimming west. The assistant offers to sell you a Floyd | black plastic bag. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy bag with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 2 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the bag. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Second Hand Shop Floyd | This shop is run by a cool catfish of many talents, most of them Floyd | illegal, who goes by the name of Steve. Steve is a fish who could sell Floyd | stripes to tiger sharks, but would rather sell them his grandmother - Floyd | if he hasn't already. The shop has a bad reputation. It normally sells Floyd | "fins what have fallen off the back of a submarine" if you get my Floyd | drift. The exit from this den of low morals and high prices is to the Floyd | south. Floyd | You recognise the fishton. Floyd | There is a radio case here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy fishton with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Rod," calls Steve, "come here and put the fishton in the van for Floyd | delivery later on." Rod appears from a back room, gives you a knowing Floyd | wink, and leaves with the goods safely in his charge. Floyd | "It's all right I know your address," Steve says as you offer the Floyd | information. He takes your credit card and partly fills in a sales slip Floyd | which he informs you will be duly completed "Later" and returns the Floyd | card to you with a supercilious "Thank you sir." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub and Simon Tench greet you cheerfully. Floyd | > | inky says, "I wonder if it's always that Bertie guy who's the spy" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "where is bertie" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ernest Chub says, "Bertie's an absolute genius. I know because he told Floyd | me himself." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "find bertie" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I haven't the faintest idea where to start looking for Bertie Bream. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Clothing Shop Floyd | Behind a counter stands an assistant, ready to sell you anything in the Floyd | shop. Many racks are filled with exciting jackets, a fashionable Floyd | accessory in Hydropolis at the moment. You can leave the shop by going Floyd | south. Floyd | A tie is for sale. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy tie with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 25 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the tie. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub and Simon Tench greet you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy cylinder with fisa" | Ellison says, "I think it is. I don't remember how we're supposed to know, though." | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry guv," says Steve "The cylinder can only be sold to dedicated Floyd | sniffers. I don't know if you can hold your sniffs, do I?" Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | inky says, "well, we can test by going to the disco, but I was wondering if we got lucky picking him first" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy mask with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams, sir. I'll charge it to your Fisa account at Floyd | once. Enjoy your sniff." says Steve as he hands you a mask. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give mask to drunk" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk takes the mask, holds it to his face and inhales deeply. Floyd | After several deep breaths he returns the snifter to Steve."I needed Floyd | that," he says, "I'd give you a token of my thanks, but I'm destitute." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy mask with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams, sir. I'll charge it to your Fisa account at Floyd | once. Enjoy your sniff." says Steve as he hands you a mask. Floyd | "You're getting through the snifters quickly." adds Steve, "If you Floyd | like, I can sell you a cylinder for only 99 clams." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give mask to drunk" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk takes the mask, holds it to his face and inhales deeply. Floyd | After several deep breaths he returns the snifter to Steve."I needed Floyd | that," he says, "I'd give you a token of my thanks, but I'm destitute." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "yeah, I imagine there are some other clues so you know to ask him, but maybe not" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a tie, a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel Floyd | pass, a screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal and a bag. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Museum. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Paddlington. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and up to the level of your apartment Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | There is a radio case here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the radio case. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | There is a fishton here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn off switch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The switch is now off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You try to push your way through to the doors, but can't quite make it Floyd | in time. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Battersea. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Battersea Floyd | Battersea is a place of dreams. The station was built many years ago to Floyd | encourage visits by tourists. Regular tours around the complex leave Floyd | from the north. An access funnel, leading down is fished by a guard who Floyd | is checking tickets, or would be if there were any to check but the Floyd | ticket clerk hasn't sold any. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Welcome to Battersea Power Station." You are met by a tall tour guide, Floyd | who appears to be chewing gum and reading notes off little cue cards. Floyd | She takes you on a guided tour of the entire plant, filling your head Floyd | with facts and figures about throughput, power consumption and blades. Floyd | One thing that stuck in your mind was the interesting, but Floyd | little-known, fact that Battersea is only the secondary power station Floyd | for Hydropolis and is only used during peak demand and to power the Floyd | underground system. After about half an hour, she returns you to the Floyd | power station. Floyd | Power Station Floyd | The power station dwarfs almost anything you have ever seen. Guided Floyd | tours leave from the north, so the citizens of Hydropolis can marvel at Floyd | this fish-made wonder and the sophistication of their engineers. A Floyd | steel door lies to the west near an important gauge and a large switch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf19" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn off switch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With great effort you manage to pull the switch. The light dims Floyd | momentarily and the guppies on the guided tour scream until everything Floyd | returns to normal. The important gauge shows a considerable drop in Floyd | current. Whoom! The pressure door opens. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tunnel Floyd | You'll have to be very careful in this tunnel; the sharp blades of a Floyd | giant turbine are all around you. They aren't spinning but the turbine Floyd | could start up again at any moment so it's important not to panic. Just Floyd | make up your mind quickly whether you're going to swim east back to the Floyd | power station or further along the tunnel to the west. Floyd | There is a turbine here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Curve Floyd | The tunnel curves upwards here through still, calm water, coming to a Floyd | halt at a series of grilles. The turbine's sharp blades lie to the Floyd | east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x grilles" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The grilles are an intricate criss-cross of filters, screwed together, Floyd | designed to stop bits of rubbish getting into the turbine. Floyd | There is a filter on them. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew grilles with screwdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that to the grilles. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew filter with screwdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The screw is a little sticky to begin with but after a good twist it Floyd | loosens up. The screw drops into your hands and with a little extra Floyd | pressure you remove the filter. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tunnel Floyd | You'll have to be very careful in this tunnel; the sharp blades of a Floyd | giant turbine are all around you. They aren't spinning but the turbine Floyd | could start up again at any moment so it's important not to panic. Just Floyd | make up your mind quickly whether you're going to swim east back to the Floyd | power station or further along the tunnel to the west. Floyd | There is a turbine here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Power Station Floyd | The power station dwarfs almost anything you have ever seen. Guided Floyd | tours leave from the north, so the citizens of Hydropolis can marvel at Floyd | this fish-made wonder and the sophistication of their engineers. A Floyd | steel door lies to the west near an important gauge and a large switch. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "nice" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn on switch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The switch is now on. The automatic door shuts with a woosh. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a tie, a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel Floyd | pass, a screwdriver, a hyperdriver, a crystal, a radio case, a filter, Floyd | a screw and a bag. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop screwdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Screwdriver dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put crystal in case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crystal is now inside the radio case. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undoi" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand undoi Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undoi" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand undoi Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put filter in case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The filter is now inside the radio case. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Battersea Floyd | Battersea is a place of dreams. The station was built many years ago to Floyd | encourage visits by tourists. Regular tours around the complex leave Floyd | from the north. An access funnel, leading down is fished by a guard who Floyd | is checking tickets, or would be if there were any to check but the Floyd | ticket clerk hasn't sold any. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Battersea. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Opah University. Floyd | The doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub and Simon Tench greet you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy cylinder with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 99 clams, me old mate." says Steve. He gives you the Floyd | cylinder and charges the purchase to your Fisa account. A drunk with Floyd | his left arm in a sling lurches into you as you turn round from the Floyd | bar, knocking the cylinder to the floor. "Sorry guv," he slurs, picking Floyd | it up, "I'll get you another one." Floyd | "It's one of the Fins! Stop him Agent 10," screams Sir Playfair in your Floyd | brain as the drunk runs off with the cylinder. You swim frantically Floyd | after him but he disappears. "Well, you really messed that up," Sir Floyd | Playfair scolds. "The cylinder must be important otherwise they Floyd | wouldn't have stolen it. Fortunately, the back room boys got a fix on Floyd | him. He's somewhere in the dimensions. You'll have to go after him, Floyd | Agent 10, and be careful this time." You hear him mumbling in the Floyd | background then he curtly says, "A warp will open up in Dr. Roach's Floyd | apartment. Use that. Panchax out." You should be more careful if you Floyd | want to keep your job. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a tie, a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel Floyd | pass, a hyperdriver, a radio case, a screw and a bag. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Hardware Shop Floyd | This hardware shop contains everything for the fish with DIY leanings. Floyd | If your DIY is leaning, this is were you can get the tools to mend it. Floyd | If you require anything the assistant will only be too pleased to take Floyd | your credit, if not your credit card. He may even give it back. You can Floyd | leave the shop by swimming west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Museum. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Abruptly, everything starts heading towards a certain point, Floyd | accompanied by a grotesque sucking noise. Before you have time to react Floyd | you are surrounded by a blinding white light which rapidly expands to Floyd | engulf the whole of Hydropolis. Then silence. You are nothing but a Floyd | handful of minute particles floating in free space. "You blew that, Floyd | didn't you?" Sir Playfair Panchax is clearly not amused. "We'll try and Floyd | get you back to your bowl, but I've got some bad news. The Fins have Floyd | located you. They're out for revenge. Keep your head old chap, this Floyd | could be nasty. Panchax out." You are dumped back in the fishbowl. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | inky says, "oh come on!" | |||||
| Ellison says, "dang" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x time" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The time is 16:00 Floyd | Abruptly, everything starts heading towards a certain point, Floyd | accompanied by a grotesque sucking noise. Before you have time to react Floyd | you are surrounded by a blinding white light which rapidly expands to Floyd | engulf the whole of Hydropolis. Then silence. You are nothing but a Floyd | handful of minute particles floating in free space. "You blew that, Floyd | didn't you?" Sir Playfair Panchax is clearly not amused. "We'll try and Floyd | get you back to your bowl, but I've got some bad news. The Fins have Floyd | located you. They're out for revenge. Keep your head old chap, this Floyd | could be nasty. Panchax out." You are dumped back in the fishbowl. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | "You complete Halibut!" shouts Sir Playfair Panchax. He doesn't sound Floyd | happy at all. "We warned you not to damage Dr. Roach's body. He was the Floyd | only one who could save Hydropolis. The Fins have won and are out to Floyd | get you. There is nothing we at Mission HQ can do." The good news is Floyd | you've been sent back to the bowl. The bad news is that the dimensional Floyd | warps have disappeared. It looks like you're in big trouble. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Archway Floyd | You're about thirty feet above ground. It feels as if the world is Floyd | swaying which you put down to vertigo. Only when you realise that you Floyd | don't suffer from vertigo do you realise that the world really IS Floyd | swaying. This place isn't safe. Floyd | A gargoyle stares at you with sightless eyes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Castle Floyd | Inside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless Floyd | with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, Floyd | the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed Floyd | randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative Floyd | like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications Floyd | across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Floyd | Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the Floyd | room here, this looks like Panchax's work. Floyd | There is a large warp here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter large warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the large warp and your body changes into a strange Floyd | hybrid creature, half-man half-fish. This must be Dr. Roach. Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | There is a fishton here. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "we probably could have saved some turns by initiating the canister thing the first time we went into the bar, but still, yeah, that is pretty annoying" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x watch" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The time is 09:01 Floyd | The wall behind your fishton glows, revealing the face of the Floyd | principal's secretary. "Good morning Dr. Roach," she says, "I'm sorry Floyd | to call so early, I just want to confirm that the principal is Floyd | expecting you at ten o'clock this morning. Goodbye." Her face fades Floyd | out, leaving you with the annoying jingle of the Hydropolis Floyd | Telecommunications Network: "HTN, HTN - With your friends you can talk, Floyd | and you won't have to walk, HTN, HTN". Not the most auspicious start to Floyd | a morning. Floyd | > | inky says, "so basically we have, hmm, 420 turns" | |||||
| Ellison says, "also, if you want to take a break, let me know" | ||||||
| inky says, "well, if we're going to take a break we should probably just give up, unless somebody is going to want to play it later" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "well, I'll play some when I come back but I have to run to the story for a father's day present" | ||||||
| inky says, "oho" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "sorry that this was so frustrating for you" | ||||||
| inky says, "ok, well, have fun, I'll probably play for a bit more" | ||||||
| inky says, "no biggie, thanks for checking for hints all those times or we'd never have gotten anywhere" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "cool" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get fishofax" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the fishofax. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn off lights" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The switch is now off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put hand on print" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With a loud whoosh, the door flies up into the ceiling. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and up to the level of your apartment Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | Oh, no! You've been burgled! I hope Dr. Roach was insured. Floyd | There is a travel pass here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pass" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the travel pass. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s.d." | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | A high speed police fish pulls up outside your apartment block. His Floyd | flashing blue light and wailing siren make you feel decidedly uneasy. Floyd | The host-parasite interface weakens momentarily and you catch a glimpse Floyd | of the goldfish bowl. Then you regain control of Roach's body as the Floyd | police fish zooms off. Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | Steve swims by at top speed. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 09:20 Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Pickerel. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf20" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Pickerel Underground Station Floyd | This station is teeming with guppies, nipping in and out of the access Floyd | funnel which leads to the platform. A guard, looking rather bored with Floyd | life, checks all their tickets. You can buy tickets from the ticket Floyd | clerk, behind his counter close to the exit southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Clothing Shop Floyd | Behind a counter stands an assistant, ready to sell you anything in the Floyd | shop. Many racks are filled with exciting jackets, a fashionable Floyd | accessory in Hydropolis at the moment. You can leave the shop by going Floyd | south. A trendy pair of sun glasses are on sale. Floyd | A tie is for sale. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy glasses with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the dark glasses. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy tie with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 25 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the tie. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy mask with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams, sir. I'll charge it to your Fisa account at Floyd | once. Enjoy your sniff." says Steve as he hands you a mask. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give mask to drunk" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk takes the mask, holds it to his face and inhales deeply. Floyd | After several deep breaths he returns the snifter to Steve."I needed Floyd | that," he says, "I'd give you a token of my thanks, but I'm destitute." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy mask with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams, sir. I'll charge it to your Fisa account at Floyd | once. Enjoy your sniff." says Steve as he hands you a mask. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give mask to drunk" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk takes the mask, holds it to his face and inhales deeply. Floyd | After several deep breaths he returns the snifter to Steve."I needed Floyd | that," he says, "I'd give you a token of my thanks, but I'm destitute." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy mask with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams, sir. I'll charge it to your Fisa account at Floyd | once. Enjoy your sniff." says Steve as he hands you a mask. Floyd | "You're getting through the snifters quickly." adds Steve, "If you Floyd | like, I can sell you a cylinder for only 99 clams." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give mask to drunk" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The drunk takes the mask, holds it to his face and inhales deeply. Floyd | After several deep breaths he returns the snifter to Steve."I needed Floyd | that," he says, "I'd give you a token of my thanks, but I'm destitute." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask drunk about card" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Salmon lurches slightly. He reaches into his pocket and removes an Floyd | id card a little like your own but in much better condition. Surprised Floyd | at his find he hands it to you saying "fangs very very much". Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 09:37 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Second Hand Shop Floyd | This shop is run by a cool catfish of many talents, most of them Floyd | illegal, who goes by the name of Steve. Steve is a fish who could sell Floyd | stripes to tiger sharks, but would rather sell them his grandmother - Floyd | if he hasn't already. The shop has a bad reputation. It normally sells Floyd | "fins what have fallen off the back of a submarine" if you get my Floyd | drift. The exit from this den of low morals and high prices is to the Floyd | south. Steve catches your eye, and with a knowing wink suggests that Floyd | you might like to buy a "somewhat fruity" film that came in yesterday. Floyd | You recognise the fishton. Floyd | There is a radio case here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy fishton with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Rod," calls Steve, "come here and put the fishton in the van for Floyd | delivery later on." Rod appears from a back room, gives you a knowing Floyd | wink, and leaves with the goods safely in his charge. Floyd | "It's all right I know your address," Steve says as you offer the Floyd | information. He takes your credit card and partly fills in a sales slip Floyd | which he informs you will be duly completed "Later" and returns the Floyd | card to you with a supercilious "Thank you sir." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Hardware Shop Floyd | This hardware shop contains everything for the fish with DIY leanings. Floyd | If your DIY is leaning, this is were you can get the tools to mend it. Floyd | If you require anything the assistant will only be too pleased to take Floyd | your credit, if not your credit card. He may even give it back. You can Floyd | leave the shop by swimming west. The assistant offers to sell you a Floyd | black plastic bag. Floyd | A hyperdriver and a screwdriver are for sale. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Gunther has disconnected. | ||||||
| Gunther has connected. | ||||||
| Gunther disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy hyperdriver with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 99 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the hyperdriver. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy screwdriver with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 8 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the screwdriver. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy bag with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 2 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the bag. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tuna Day's Music Shop Floyd | The music shop is cluttered with amateur musicians, most of whom are Floyd | playing versions of the ancient heavy metal hit "Smoke Underwater", Floyd | very badly, on expensive instruments that they have no intention of Floyd | buying. An assistant is attempting to hide behind the counter. The Floyd | hasty exit from this noisy place is north. The assistant is fondling Floyd | some ear plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy ear plugs with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the ear-plugs. Floyd | You notice several students loitering with intent. One of them produces Floyd | a guitar and starts singing: "Come on feel my nose. The girls grab my Floyd | clothes. Go why, why why any more." Oh no, he's started busking! Floyd | Luckily the other students attack and carry him off before you hear too Floyd | much. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pickerel Underground Station Floyd | This station is teeming with guppies, nipping in and out of the access Floyd | funnel which leads to the platform. A guard, looking rather bored with Floyd | life, checks all their tickets. You can buy tickets from the ticket Floyd | clerk, behind his counter close to the exit southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Pickerel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Opah University. Floyd | The doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Good morning Doctor," says the principal as she closes the door and Floyd | takes a seat, "I'm sorry if this is inconvenient, but it is an Floyd | emergency. It seems this talk about parasiting may not be speculation. Floyd | We've received information that a junior member of your team has been Floyd | 'taken over' and has sabotaged The Project. You don't need me to tell Floyd | you that this could be disastrous for Hydropolis. Naturally, I've Floyd | suspended everyone until further notice. You're the only one I can Floyd | trust; I want you to investigate. I'm going to the government to inform Floyd | them of the danger. I'm not evacuating, so don't worry. I'll be back Floyd | tomorrow." She gets up. "Now please hurry doctor. There's not a second Floyd | to lose." You walk back to the foyer together then go your separate Floyd | ways. Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 10:34 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push save" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand save in that context. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf21" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Containing the sum total of fish knowledge, this library is the best in Floyd | all Hydropolis. As fish only have small brains, it is on the smallish Floyd | side, but students spend a lot of time here delving into what knowledge Floyd | there is - even during rag week. The library's rarest book lies on a Floyd | lectern close to the exit in the north wall. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up case in book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You search through the book but the page you want has been torn out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up box in book" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You turn to page 345, revealing a full colour picture of a glass box. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tear page" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is a loud ripping noise as you tear the page from the book. Floyd | Several of the students look your way. One of them wanders over. Floyd | "What's going on here?" he demands, noticing your vandalism. Floyd | "Destroying library property, eh?" he continues, pushing you out into Floyd | the corridor. "Sod off and don't come back." Floyd | For some reason he doesn't take the page from you. Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | Three students swim by with a rolled-up hang glider under their fins. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is no such tatty. Floyd | > | inky says, "oops" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open fishofax" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But the fishofax is already open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get tatty" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is no such tatty. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Store Room Floyd | Even though Dr. Roach is very clean and tidy, the same cannot be said Floyd | of the rest of the team. They've made this the messiest store room in Floyd | the university. And it's always left for you to straighten things out. Floyd | All the equipment and spares needed for The Project are usually stashed Floyd | here, with a wallchart keeping track of what's in and out of stock. The Floyd | only exit leads northwest. Floyd | There is a protocopier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put page in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The page is drawn quietly into the slot on the side of the protocopier. Floyd | There is a humming noise followed by a whirring. The protocopier starts Floyd | to vibrate. Then there is a loud bang and suddenly, on the protocopier Floyd | there appears a glass box. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn off protocopier" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The switch is now off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a tie, a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel Floyd | pass, a screwdriver, some dark glasses, some ear-plugs, a hyperdriver Floyd | and a bag. Floyd | You are wearing a watch. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | The device almost fills the room, looking like an aquarium filled with Floyd | multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Roach certainly knows how to build impressive machines - this one Floyd | nearly fills the project room. It looks a bit like a huge aquarium, Floyd | filled to the brim with multi-coloured gravel and, if you and Sir Floyd | Playfair have anything to do with it, it's going to save Hydropolis Floyd | from water evaporation. It almost fills the room, looking like an Floyd | aquarium filled with multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | It contains a stream accelerator. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x accelerator" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The stream accelerator accelerates particles gathered by the main Floyd | Project machine. Floyd | There is a lok screw on it. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock lok with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is no such lok. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock lok screw with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that to the lok screw. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew lok screw with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Frack, The Lokscrew(TM) was booby trapped! Bang it goes. Well "BANG!" Floyd | really. Well, to be honest, it's even louder but you get the idea. Floyd | Then, there's silence and blackness. Lots of it. Next, Sir Playfair Floyd | says something. "I think you blew it. You must identify the saboteur. Floyd | He'd know how to disarm the booby trap he set." The voice fades and you Floyd | experience a new sensation, that of falling. There is a sudden woosh Floyd | and you land, somewhat winded, back in the goldfish bowl. The castle Floyd | has gone and someone has cleaned the bowl so you can see further than Floyd | before. Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | The device almost fills the room, looking like an aquarium filled with Floyd | multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | A tingle runs up and down your scales here. It's definitely not your Floyd | vacation bowl. True, it does have gravel, ant eggs and pondweed, but Floyd | then so has every goldfish bowl. The difference is you can see out of Floyd | this bowl and it doesn't have a tacky plastic castle. It looks like Floyd | you're in a computer room of some kind, with terminals lining the Floyd | walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hyperdriver dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "The principal's not available at the moment, Dr. Roach," her secretary Floyd | informs you, "I'll tell her you called." She shows you out to the Floyd | foyer. Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "The principal's not available at the moment, Dr. Roach," her secretary Floyd | informs you, "I'll tell her you called." She shows you out to the Floyd | foyer. Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [You can't "undo" what hasn't been done!] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Restaurant Floyd | Bursting to the gills, this restaurant serves the finest plankton meals Floyd | in Hydropolis. For the fabulously wealthy, gas-impregnated oils are on Floyd | sale. They may not be as efficient as snifters, but they certainly put Floyd | everyone else in their place! A waiter floats around near the exit to Floyd | the north. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy plankton with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 5 clams exactly sir." You type in your Fish Identity Floyd | Number to authorise the debit. The assistant waits for authorisation Floyd | then returns your card, together with the sachet. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Your colleague Ernest Chub swims into view. Floyd | "Hello," shouts Ernest, "I'm going to spend the day in the pub. Awful Floyd | place but there's no work to do." Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Museum. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Museum. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Museum Station Floyd | This station is the oldest in Hydropolis. The decoration reflects more Floyd | decadent times, when men were men, fish were fish and they got together Floyd | to build underground stations. An exit leads north to the museum while Floyd | a funnel leads down to the platform. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Museum Floyd | Visited by many fish over the course of a year, the museum is a great Floyd | attraction. Maybe this is due to its unique collection of piscean Floyd | relics, the greatest of which is the skeleton of the Floyd | 'Bloodyenormasaurus' which has pride of place in the centre of this Floyd | room. You can explore the museum in your own time by going north, east Floyd | or west. You can return to the station by swimming south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Alarm Room Floyd | White rooms always have a bad effect on you. If the authorities had had Floyd | their way, your laboratory would have been white. But you were firm. Floyd | You put your tail down and refused. This room is white, and you don't Floyd | like it. It leads north to the museum's finest exhibit and south back Floyd | to the museum. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open sachet" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You tear open the sachet. The plankton escapes and starts to slowly Floyd | disperse in the water around you. You notice how the plankton deflects Floyd | the light as it spreads. If you act quickly you should be able to eat Floyd | it before it disperses completely. Your mouth drops open in amazement. Floyd | In the spreading cloud of plankton is the glimmering of myriad light Floyd | beams - clearly the museum alarm system. Ahem! Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You step past the now visible beams. Floyd | Crystal Room Floyd | This is the most beautiful room you've ever seen. There are no Floyd | decorations, no features, no flaws, and yet the colours shift and swirl Floyd | on every surface creating a hypnotic, soothing ambience. If you ever Floyd | get the urge to leave, the exit is south. Floyd | A crystal is the museum's star exhibit. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get crystal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the crystal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You step past the now visible beams. Floyd | Alarm Room Floyd | White rooms always have a bad effect on you. If the authorities had had Floyd | their way, your laboratory would have been white. But you were firm. Floyd | You put your tail down and refused. This room is white, and you don't Floyd | like it. It leads north to the museum's finest exhibit and south back Floyd | to the museum. Floyd | There are some beams and some plankton here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop sachet" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sachet dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Museum Floyd | Visited by many fish over the course of a year, the museum is a great Floyd | attraction. Maybe this is due to its unique collection of piscean Floyd | relics, the greatest of which is the skeleton of the Floyd | 'Bloodyenormasaurus' which has pride of place in the centre of this Floyd | room. You can explore the museum in your own time by going north, east Floyd | or west. You can return to the station by swimming south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Museum Station Floyd | This station is the oldest in Hydropolis. The decoration reflects more Floyd | decadent times, when men were men, fish were fish and they got together Floyd | to build underground stations. An exit leads north to the museum while Floyd | a funnel leads down to the platform. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Museum. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 11:19 Floyd | A group of students swim by with what looks like the principal. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Paddlington. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Battersea. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Battersea Floyd | Battersea is a place of dreams. The station was built many years ago to Floyd | encourage visits by tourists. Regular tours around the complex leave Floyd | from the north. An access funnel, leading down is fished by a guard who Floyd | is checking tickets, or would be if there were any to check but the Floyd | ticket clerk hasn't sold any. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Welcome to Battersea Power Station." You are met by a tall tour guide, Floyd | who appears to be chewing gum and reading notes off little cue cards. Floyd | She takes you on a guided tour of the entire plant, filling your head Floyd | with facts and figures about throughput, power consumption and blades. Floyd | One thing that stuck in your mind was the interesting, but Floyd | little-known, fact that Battersea is only the secondary power station Floyd | for Hydropolis and is only used during peak demand and to power the Floyd | underground system. After about half an hour, she returns you to the Floyd | power station. Floyd | Power Station Floyd | The power station dwarfs almost anything you have ever seen. Guided Floyd | tours leave from the north, so the citizens of Hydropolis can marvel at Floyd | this fish-made wonder and the sophistication of their engineers. A Floyd | steel door lies to the west near an important gauge and a large switch. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The pressure door is closed to protect fish like you from swimming into Floyd | the proximity of the fast moving blades which lie beyond. You may not Floyd | appreciate this extra protection but I'm sure Dr. Roach is delighted. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn off switch" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With great effort you manage to pull the switch. The light dims Floyd | momentarily and the guppies on the guided tour scream until everything Floyd | returns to normal. The important gauge shows a considerable drop in Floyd | current. Whoom! The pressure door opens. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tunnel Floyd | You'll have to be very careful in this tunnel; the sharp blades of a Floyd | giant turbine are all around you. They aren't spinning but the turbine Floyd | could start up again at any moment so it's important not to panic. Just Floyd | make up your mind quickly whether you're going to swim east back to the Floyd | power station or further along the tunnel to the west. Floyd | There is a turbine here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Curve Floyd | The tunnel curves upwards here through still, calm water, coming to a Floyd | halt at a series of grilles. The turbine's sharp blades lie to the Floyd | east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew filter with screwdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The screw is a little sticky to begin with but after a good twist it Floyd | loosens up. The screw drops into your hands and with a little extra Floyd | pressure you remove the filter. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tunnel Floyd | You'll have to be very careful in this tunnel; the sharp blades of a Floyd | giant turbine are all around you. They aren't spinning but the turbine Floyd | could start up again at any moment so it's important not to panic. Just Floyd | make up your mind quickly whether you're going to swim east back to the Floyd | power station or further along the tunnel to the west. Floyd | There is a turbine here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Power Station Floyd | The power station dwarfs almost anything you have ever seen. Guided Floyd | tours leave from the north, so the citizens of Hydropolis can marvel at Floyd | this fish-made wonder and the sophistication of their engineers. A Floyd | steel door lies to the west near an important gauge and a large switch. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub greets you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop screwdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Screwdriver dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Battersea Floyd | Battersea is a place of dreams. The station was built many years ago to Floyd | encourage visits by tourists. Regular tours around the complex leave Floyd | from the north. An access funnel, leading down is fished by a guard who Floyd | is checking tickets, or would be if there were any to check but the Floyd | ticket clerk hasn't sold any. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Battersea. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Opah University. Floyd | The doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Bertie Bream and Simon Tench greet you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask bream about disco" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Yes I've often wondered about those places," says Bertie, "so many Floyd | possibilities for studies of fish behaviour. Seeing how far we've Floyd | evolved, that sort of thing. I'll have to get my equipment sorted out Floyd | first. I'll meet you there at 13:00?" Without waiting for a reply Floyd | Bertie Bream rushes off on his errands. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 12:25 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | Ellison says, "eh, I'll go to the store later. I mainly wanted to leave the coffee shop I was at." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You dart across Dace Road while nobody's looking. Floyd | Plaza Floyd | Noisy, dirty, fishy and grimy. Well, what did you expect a downtown Floyd | Hydropolis shopping precinct to be like? You expected shops? OK, I'll Floyd | give you some shops. To the north is a clothing shop, to the south is a Floyd | pub and to the west is a cinema. Is that enough? No? Well, you'll have Floyd | to go across Dace Road to the southeast if you want some more or Floyd | northwest to Pickerel Underground Station if you want to go somewhere Floyd | else. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Clothing Shop Floyd | Behind a counter stands an assistant, ready to sell you anything in the Floyd | shop. Many racks are filled with exciting jackets, a fashionable Floyd | accessory in Hydropolis at the moment. You can leave the shop by going Floyd | south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pickerel Underground Station Floyd | This station is teeming with guppies, nipping in and out of the access Floyd | funnel which leads to the platform. A guard, looking rather bored with Floyd | life, checks all their tickets. You can buy tickets from the ticket Floyd | clerk, behind his counter close to the exit southeast. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Pickerel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear glasses" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the dark glasses. Floyd | An old fish swims up to you and asks for the price of a snifter. "Five Floyd | clams," you tell him. He thanks you and swims away. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear earplugs" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You put on the ear-plugs. The ear plugs don't work too well. You can Floyd | still work out what people say. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | inky says, "well, hopefully we can make this fast, let's see" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Opah University. Floyd | The doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 12:36 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf22" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "oh, I'm in no hurry now. don't worry." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Gunther arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop filter" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Filter dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a tie, a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel Floyd | pass, a crystal, a screw and a bag. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 12:44 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put new card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Research Wing Floyd | This is where a lot of the groundwork for The Project was done by the Floyd | famous Dr. Salmon. Unfortunately his work was shelved to make room for Floyd | your endeavours, and anyway he sniffed far too much. You can swim up Floyd | into the tower from here or pass through the metal door with a slot Floyd | beside it to the south. Floyd | There is a crystal tuna here. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open tuna" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | But the crystal tuna is already open. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put crystal in tuna" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crystal is now inside the crystal tuna. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close tuna then turn on tuna" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crystal tuna is now closed. Floyd | There is a ringing sound which dies away after about twenty seconds. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "anyhow, it is annoying that MS games have cool moments. like, the disco scene in this one is kind of a neat idea. it's just too bad that the game is bogged down by all of this turn efficiency and stuff." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open tuna then get crystal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The crystal tuna is now open. Floyd | You have now got the tuned crystal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put new card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 12:57 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "On your marks, get set, GO!" Three pairs of students, tied together Floyd | come rushing past you. It's a two-tail race, obviously a ploy to raise Floyd | money for rag week. Then hordes of students swim by, rattling Floyd | collecting tins. It's a good job they don't take Fisa. They swim off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | Here comes Bertie Bream , clearly ready to shake his booty. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, Bertie Bream gets very nervous and drags you away from the Floyd | entrance. "I can't go in without a tie," he says, "what will everyone Floyd | think of me?" He starts shaking uncontrollably. "You'll have to get me Floyd | one," he quivers, "I can't swim anywhere right now." Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Bertie Floyd | Bream is here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give tie to bertie" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Thanks," says Bertie Bream , putting on the tie, "I feel quite Floyd | presentable now. Let's go in." Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The dark glasses and ear plugs provide just enough protection for the Floyd | host-parasite interface from the flashing lights and heavy bass. You Floyd | are completely safe. As long as you keep them on of course. Bertie Floyd | Bream follows you in."Aghhh!" Bertie Bream screams and rushes from the Floyd | disco. You quickly follow, just in time to see his body convulsing. Floyd | There is a popping noise as something escapes through a warp hole then Floyd | Bertie Bream collapses. You slap his gills to bring him round. "What Floyd | happened?" he says, standing up, "I can hardly remember anything. But I Floyd | did something bad to The Project. Something about stream regulators, Floyd | stream accelerators, stream regimentors." "Go on," you say, "It's Floyd | terribly important." "I can't remember," he pleads, getting delirious, Floyd | "it's not my fault, I really can't. I need a shower. I feel dirty." He Floyd | rushes off before you can stop him. Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | There is a filter here. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop crystal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tuned crystal dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | There is a hyperdriver and the device almost fills the room, looking Floyd | like an aquarium filled with multi-coloured gravel here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew lok screw with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You must have the hyperdriver Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the hyperdriver. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew lok screw with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bertie Bream bangs on the door shouting, "Stop! Stop! Don't touch the Floyd | Device - it's booby trapped." You rush over into the lab and over to Floyd | the door, expecting some kind of trap. "Can you hear me Dr. Roach?" he Floyd | asks desperately, "the Device is booby trapped. It's connected up to a Floyd | computer game called Shutdown which is keeping the Lokscrew locked in Floyd | place. The only way to free it is to stop Shutdown counting down, but I Floyd | don't know how to; the parasite wrote the program. You'll have to log Floyd | in as me; I can't quite remember my password though, I think it's Floyd | 'pondweed' but I'm not sure. The parasite could have deceived me. Did Floyd | you get all that?" "Yes, thank you," you shout and he swims away Floyd | saying, "Good luck Dr. Roach." You return to the project room and look Floyd | with dismay upon the lok screw. Another booby trap! This is getting Floyd | dangerous. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | There is a tuned crystal and a filter here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "login" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have to sit at a terminal before you can login. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't sit just anywhere. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sit at terminal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The login message is on the screen. Floyd | Floyd | "Type LOGIN to enter system". Floyd | Floyd | You are now sitting at the Project terminal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "login" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lax 1803 V1.19 (University of Hydropolis) Floyd | Login (surname)- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bream" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Password- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pondweed" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fishtrix V1.19 System 2 Floyd | Welcome to Fishtrix Floyd | Floyd | Time 13:15: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "games" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Select game - Floyd | Chess, Hack, Prawn, Gilled of Thieves, Fish, Shutdown. QUIT to return Floyd | to command mode. Floyd | Time 13:16: + | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shutdown" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to shutdown Bertie Bream Floyd | Floyd | You know the rules. Floyd | The goal is "WATER". Starting position - GBWBG Floyd | You have 40 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "5" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "7" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - KBWFN Floyd | You have 39 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "0" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - KBZFQ Floyd | You have 38 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "5" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "24" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - OBZJO Floyd | You have 37 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "23" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - OBCGR Floyd | You have 36 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "19" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - ODVIR Floyd | You have 35 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | inky says, "hrm, my program isn't coded right, apparently" | |||||
| Ellison asks, "dang, and we didn't save, eh?" | ||||||
| inky says, "yeah, not too recently" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | There is a tuned crystal and a filter here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push save" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand save in that context. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf23" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "login" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have to sit at a terminal before you can login. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sit at terminal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The login message is on the screen. Floyd | Floyd | "Type LOGIN to enter system". Floyd | Floyd | You are now sitting at the Project terminal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "login" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lax 1803 V1.19 (University of Hydropolis) Floyd | Login (surname)- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bream" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Password- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pondweed" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fishtrix V1.19 System 2 Floyd | Welcome to Fishtrix Floyd | Floyd | Time 13:16: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "games" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Select game - Floyd | Chess, Hack, Prawn, Gilled of Thieves, Fish, Shutdown. QUIT to return Floyd | to command mode. Floyd | Time 13:16: + | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shutdown" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to shutdown Bertie Bream Floyd | Floyd | You know the rules. Floyd | The goal is "WATER". Starting position - ZCZAP Floyd | You have 41 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "5" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "25" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - DCZEO Floyd | You have 40 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - DCCGR Floyd | You have 39 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | inky says, "hrmrmrm" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "19" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - DEVIR Floyd | You have 38 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | Ellison says, "here are the rules, in case it helps your program:" | |||||
| inky says, "what we said last time was you want to set #5 to O, so setting #4 would advance it to R" | ||||||
| inky says, "so then you should want to set #4 to C" | ||||||
| Ellison | You must alter one cell at a time. If you add one to cell 1, that is all that happens but adding 1 to cell 2 adds 2 to cells 1 and 3. Similarly, adding 1 to cell 3 adds 3 to cells 2 and 4 and adding 1 to cell 5 adds 4 to cells 4 and 1. | ||||||
| Ellison says, "(sorry, my computer froze for a moment there)" | ||||||
| Ellison asks, "I don't even get the rules (unless this is wrong). why doesn't adding 1 to cell 5 add 5 to 4 and 1?" | ||||||
| inky says, "the rules that you posted are actually wrong, I think" | ||||||
| inky says, "I think when you add to cell N, it adds N-1 to the ones on either side" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "oh, okay" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "5" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "23" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - HEVMO Floyd | You have 37 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "20" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - HEYGR Floyd | You have 36 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | inky says, "man, I'm doing something stupid here and can't figure out what" | |||||
| Ellison says, "eh, the puzzle is stupid" | ||||||
| inky says, "oh, I know" | ||||||
| inky says, "I forgot setting 5 also sets 4" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "login" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have to sit at a terminal before you can login. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sit at terminal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The login message is on the screen. Floyd | Floyd | "Type LOGIN to enter system". Floyd | Floyd | You are now sitting at the Project terminal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "login" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lax 1803 V1.19 (University of Hydropolis) Floyd | Login (surname)- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bream" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Password- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pondweed" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fishtrix V1.19 System 2 Floyd | Welcome to Fishtrix Floyd | Floyd | Time 13:16: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "games" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Select game - Floyd | Chess, Hack, Prawn, Gilled of Thieves, Fish, Shutdown. QUIT to return Floyd | to command mode. Floyd | Time 13:16: + | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shutdown" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to shutdown Bertie Bream Floyd | Floyd | You know the rules. Floyd | The goal is "WATER". Starting position - NOPUX Floyd | You have 41 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | Ellison says, "man. it is nice having your programming skills for these puzzles." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "5" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "17" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - ROPYO Floyd | You have 40 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "4" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - ROSCR Floyd | You have 39 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "0" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - RQSER Floyd | You have 38 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "10" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - SATER Floyd | You have 37 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "5" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - XATER Floyd | You have 36 minute(s) until The Project is activated. Floyd | Floyd | Cell - | inky says, "...dammit" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Value - | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "25" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your current position is - WATER Floyd | Floyd | Congratulations Bertie Bream you've won again. Floyd | We must play shutdown again sometime. Project initialisation reset to Floyd | original start time. Floyd | Floyd | Returning to GAMES menu. Floyd | Select game - Floyd | Chess, Hack, Prawn, Gilled of Thieves, Fish, Shutdown. QUIT to return Floyd | to command mode. Floyd | Time 13:16: + | Ellison says, "yay" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Returning to previous command mode Floyd | Time 13:17: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You finish your session and the logout message appears on the terminal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf24" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x time" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The time is 13:19 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain I need to learn to program: I was good at Basic, but bad at C++, and I think I could make an interesting independent game if I had the skill. I enjoyed Cave Story, Eternal Daughter, Super Meat Boy, Super Mario Brothers X, and Passage. | inky says, "ok I dunno what good that did, but whatever" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are on your feet. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | The device almost fills the room, looking like an aquarium filled with Floyd | multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew lok screw with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The hyperdriver grips and turns the Lokscrew(TM) in that cunning way Floyd | that only hyperdrivers can. The Lokscrew(TM) is easily removed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hyperdriver dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get stream accelerator" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the stream accelerator. Floyd | > | inky says, "I'm not sure what good that did, but oh well" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | There is a tuned crystal and a filter here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop accelerator" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stream accelerator dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x time" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The time is 13:27 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Store Room Floyd | Even though Dr. Roach is very clean and tidy, the same cannot be said Floyd | of the rest of the team. They've made this the messiest store room in Floyd | the university. And it's always left for you to straighten things out. Floyd | All the equipment and spares needed for The Project are usually stashed Floyd | here, with a wallchart keeping track of what's in and out of stock. The Floyd | only exit leads northwest. Floyd | There is a glass box and a protocopier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which one, the glass box or the protocopier? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | There is a tuned crystal, a filter and a stream accelerator here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get glass box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the glass box. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | There is a tuned crystal, a filter and a stream accelerator here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop glass box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Glass box dropped. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "what good how? doing the program unlocks the screw" | |||||
| inky says, "yeah, but I don't get what we needed to do that for" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | lok screw, a brass screw and a bag. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You smash your nose against the door. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop lok screw and brass screw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lok screw dropped. Floyd | Brass screw dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | You notice a guppy flounder around for a bit and then swim off. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Angel. The doors Floyd | slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Eelpout. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Pub Floyd | The Hook, Line and Sinker is a good old-fashioned boozer, with a clean Floyd | bar and filthy customers. One of them, a sorry drunk leaning unsteadily Floyd | against the bar, seems familiar to your host. Steve, the cool catfish Floyd | from the second hand shop, is serving behind the bar. Or is it his twin Floyd | brother? He sells masks, filled with gas from behind the bar, for the Floyd | customers to sniff. Hence, the masks are known to the locals as Floyd | "snifters" and the state of drunkeness as being "sniffed to the gills" Floyd | or "completely finless". Exits lead north and east. An interesting Floyd | looking cylinder is behind the bar. Floyd | There is a stool here. Floyd | As you arrive Ernest Chub and Simon Tench greet you cheerfully. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | With what? Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy cylinder with fisa" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "That will be 99 clams, me old mate." says Steve. He gives you the Floyd | cylinder and charges the purchase to your Fisa account. A drunk with Floyd | his left arm in a sling lurches into you as you turn round from the Floyd | bar, knocking the cylinder to the floor. "Sorry guv," he slurs, picking Floyd | it up, "I'll get you another one." Floyd | "It's one of the Fins! Stop him Agent 10," screams Sir Playfair in your Floyd | brain as the drunk runs off with the cylinder. You swim frantically Floyd | after him but he disappears. "Well, you really messed that up," Sir Floyd | Playfair scolds. "The cylinder must be important otherwise they Floyd | wouldn't have stolen it. Fortunately, the back room boys got a fix on Floyd | him. He's somewhere in the dimensions. You'll have to go after him, Floyd | Agent 10, and be careful this time." You hear him mumbling in the Floyd | background then he curtly says, "A warp will open up in Dr. Roach's Floyd | apartment. Use that. Panchax out." You should be more careful if you Floyd | want to keep your job. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Gunther lets you kill people with a combination of snakes and porn. | ||||||
| Gunther has disconnected. | inky says, "this "with what?" error is so irritating" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | My, Plaice Street is busy! In the end you succeed in crossing. Floyd | Dace Road Floyd | You are swimming along the south side of Dace Road. The police station Floyd | is to the south, west across Plaice Street is a pub, and east lies Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shark Street Floyd | This is the seedier part of town with shops to match, so watch who Floyd | you're dealing with. South is a music shop, north is a second hand Floyd | shop, across the road to the east is the hardware shop and southeast is Floyd | the nearest underground station, Eelpout. Dace Road, a much safer place Floyd | to be, is to the west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The traffic on Shark Street is really busy but eventually you notice a Floyd | small gap and swim hastily across. Floyd | Eelpout Underground Station Floyd | In the ticket hall, commuters are busily swimming up and down the Floyd | access funnel which leads to the platform. The ticket counter stands in Floyd | the centre with a clerk behind it. Northwest an exit leads out onto Floyd | Shark Street. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Eelpout. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Museum. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Paddlington. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This fish has not been modified to swim through walls. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and up to the level of your apartment Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | There is a radio case here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the radio case. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | Oh, no! You've been burgled! I hope Dr. Roach was insured. Floyd | There is a dark warp and a fishton here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf25" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter dark warp" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You slip through the dark warp into the whirling dimensions. "It's a Floyd | strange place Agent 10," says Sir Playfair's voice in the back of your Floyd | brain. "Those Fins have twisted the dimensions into some kind of Floyd | labyrinth, but it isn't normal. The back room boys are busy trying to Floyd | figure it out. All they can tell me is that the Fins have hidden the Floyd | cylinder in a place where the only way out is up and that if you're Floyd | left in a room with no exits you'll be stuck there until we can get you Floyd | out, which may well be too late to save Hydropolis. You'll have to Floyd | watch your step, Agent 10; we don't want to lose you, old boy. Good Floyd | luck. Panchax out." Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, south, northwest. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, south, northwest, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead north, northeast, southeast, southwest, west. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, southwest, west, up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | Exits lead east, southeast, south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | In The Dimensions Floyd | A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains Floyd | would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. Floyd | But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who Floyd | has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are Floyd | easy to spot. Floyd | There is a cylinder here. Floyd | Exits lead up. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the cylinder. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Well done old boy," says Sir Playfair as you slip back into the Floyd | lounge, "I didn't think you'd make it. That should keep the Fins at bay Floyd | for a while. Top hole. Panchax out." The dark warp swiftly fades. Floyd | Lounge Floyd | Some would call this apartment small and pretentious, but with house Floyd | prices in Hydropolis the way they are, small and pretentious was all Floyd | Dr. Roach could afford. Anyway, he managed to get a view of Hydropolis Floyd | - not many places have even that. The room is decorated in a minimalist Floyd | style but, as Dr. Roach would say if he weren't under your control, "I Floyd | am a man of minimal needs." The only excesses he has allowed himself Floyd | are a painting, a trendy black shelf, a switch to control the lights Floyd | and, most important, a door to get out. Floyd | There is a fishton here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | There are two doors on this level of the apartment block - one to your Floyd | apartment and one to your new neighbour, Ernest Chub's. Beside each Floyd | door is a handprint and an access shaft leads down to the lobby. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You swim into the access shaft and down to the ground floor. Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With no security guard, no intercom and no doors, any old eel could Floyd | slip in here and break into every apartment in the block. It's a wonder Floyd | it hasn't happened yet! Mind you, it wouldn't be all bad. At least Dr. Floyd | Roach could get some new furniture with the insurance money. The exit Floyd | out to Paddlington is to the south and the access shaft leads up to the Floyd | landing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Floyd | This is the up and coming place to live in Hydropolis. It's also one of Floyd | the busiest, teaming with guppies. Your apartment block is to the north Floyd | and the entrance to the underground station bearing the logo of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company stands to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Paddlington Station Floyd | This station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to Floyd | the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The Floyd | ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad Floyd | rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be Floyd | swimming against the tide of commuters. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Paddlington. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bag" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The bag is for wrapping rubbish for disposal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put cylinder in bag" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The cylinder is now inside the bag. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the Floyd | station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get Floyd | on and off. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way, sardine like, onto the train with the other Floyd | commuters. Floyd | Tube Floyd | Always busy, the tube trains are packed solid with guppies. Rules have Floyd | been passed strictly governing the number of fish allowed in each Floyd | carriage but these are often disregarded, especially by sardines and Floyd | pilchards. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Barbellican. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "did we do the power stuff in this one? did we turn off the switch while we were there?" | |||||
| inky says, "yeah, I got the filter before you came back" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "cool" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Pickerel. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "All aboard," shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish Floyd | fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the Floyd | station. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Battersea. The Floyd | doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. Floyd | > | inky says, "I think this might be the last piece we need" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Mind the gap," shouts the guard. A pike stops the doors closing to Floyd | allow his aggressive mates on then the train rushes off into the Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The train speeds through the tunnel then clatters into Opah University. Floyd | The doors slide open and the commuters swim in and out. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | > Floyd | [z -> wait] Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The last few fish, pilchards by the look of them, squeeze onto the Floyd | train. "Mind the doors," shouts the guard as they close. The train Floyd | clatters off into the tunnel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | The tracks, leading off into the dark tunnel, lie beyond the northern Floyd | edge of the platform. Trains arrive quite frequently, once every three Floyd | minutes on average, a fact not unnoticed by the section of the Floyd | Hydropolis Underground Omnibus Company responsible for advertising. You Floyd | can go up to ground level via the access funnel to Opah University. Floyd | An underground train is here but looks likely to leave at any moment. Floyd | The train is so crowded that the doors just miss your tail when they Floyd | close. The train rumbles into the tunnel with its heavy, sweating load. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You show your pass to the guard and go through. Floyd | Opah Station Floyd | Commuters are busily swimming up and down the access funnel which leads Floyd | to the platform. A ticket clerk sits behind a counter selling tickets Floyd | to fish who lack the simple foresight to buy a pass. You can leave the Floyd | station through the exit to the east. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put new card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Research Wing Floyd | This is where a lot of the groundwork for The Project was done by the Floyd | famous Dr. Salmon. Unfortunately his work was shelved to make room for Floyd | your endeavours, and anyway he sniffed far too much. You can swim up Floyd | into the tower from here or pass through the metal door with a slot Floyd | beside it to the south. Floyd | There is a crystal tuna here. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tower Floyd | Water must be evaporating fast; the tower is only half full! You swim Floyd | up and break the surface to take a look around. In the ceiling, high Floyd | above through the air, is a trapdoor, but there seems no way of getting Floyd | there. You dive quickly back underwater before your gills dry out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf26" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The time is 14:39 Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The bag inflates and you hold it tightly closed to prevent the gas Floyd | escaping. You rise up through the tower. There is a loud bang as you Floyd | pass through the trap door, opening it. The roof of the tower lies Floyd | inches below you but you are drifting slowly upwards. Floyd | Roof Floyd | When there was a lot of water around, students came up here to watch Floyd | the teeming city of Hydropolis. A railing around the edge of the roof Floyd | was put here to prevent them being washed away by the deceptively Floyd | strong overcurrent. Now the water has gone that has ceased to be a Floyd | problem. The obvious exit is the trapdoor. Floyd | There is a photon bridge and some railings here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop bag" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You release the bag, and it floats gently up into the sky. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the photon bridge. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter railings" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You slide through the railings with your gills about to burst. Roach Floyd | has never practiced falling before, it's a good job your training as an Floyd | inter-dimensional espionage operative has given you the experience to Floyd | be able to survive under such difficult circumstances. You hit the Floyd | water below the tower making a dramatic entrance to Opah. Several of Floyd | the students applaud your efforts. Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | There is a brass screw and a lok screw here. Floyd | A student sidles up to you. "We've got the principal," he whispers, "if Floyd | you don't donate to rag week we'll let her go." You hastily decide to Floyd | give them all your loose change, then realise you have none. They Floyd | refuse to take your credit card and swim off, laughing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | There is a glass box, a tuned crystal, a filter and a stream Floyd | accelerator here. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "according to the walkthrough, the proper way to assemble stuff is 'join PIECE to PIECE'" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get tuned crystal then put it in case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the tuned crystal. Floyd | The tuned crystal is now inside the radio case. Floyd | > | inky says, "ah" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "join tuned crystal to case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This doesn't feel right to me. I thought we were involved in hi-tech Floyd | science not surrealist sculpture! Still you're the boss. Floyd | > | inky says, "hrm" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "join filter to case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a case here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get filter" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the filter. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | filter and a photon bridge. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | There is a glass box and a stream accelerator here. Floyd | > | inky says, "uhh" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | There is a hyperdriver and the device almost fills the room, looking Floyd | like an aquarium filled with multi-coloured gravel here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Roach certainly knows how to build impressive machines - this one Floyd | nearly fills the project room. It looks a bit like a huge aquarium, Floyd | filled to the brim with multi-coloured gravel and, if you and Sir Floyd | Playfair have anything to do with it, it's going to save Hydropolis Floyd | from water evaporation. It almost fills the room, looking like an Floyd | aquarium filled with multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | > | inky asks, "the case disappeared?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf26" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Tower Floyd | Water must be evaporating fast; the tower is only half full! You swim Floyd | up and break the surface to take a look around. In the ceiling, high Floyd | above through the air, is a trapdoor, but there seems no way of getting Floyd | there. You dive quickly back underwater before your gills dry out. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cylinder" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The bag inflates and you hold it tightly closed to prevent the gas Floyd | escaping. You rise up through the tower. There is a loud bang as you Floyd | pass through the trap door, opening it. The roof of the tower lies Floyd | inches below you but you are drifting slowly upwards. Floyd | Roof Floyd | When there was a lot of water around, students came up here to watch Floyd | the teeming city of Hydropolis. A railing around the edge of the roof Floyd | was put here to prevent them being washed away by the deceptively Floyd | strong overcurrent. Now the water has gone that has ceased to be a Floyd | problem. The obvious exit is the trapdoor. Floyd | There is a photon bridge and some railings here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop bag" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You release the bag, and it floats gently up into the sky. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the photon bridge. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter railings" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You slide through the railings with your gills about to burst. Roach Floyd | has never practiced falling before, it's a good job your training as an Floyd | inter-dimensional espionage operative has given you the experience to Floyd | be able to survive under such difficult circumstances. You hit the Floyd | water below the tower making a dramatic entrance to Opah. Several of Floyd | the students applaud your efforts. Floyd | Opah Floyd | If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where Floyd | they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of Floyd | a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students Floyd | swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive Floyd | restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. Floyd | It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university Floyd | itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west. Floyd | A statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | University Foyer Floyd | The foyer is lined with ancient busts of important looking fish from Floyd | the university's past, an ugly bunch of egg-headed reprobates if ever Floyd | you saw some. West, an impressive arch will take you out of the Floyd | university. A corridor continues east, and a metal door blocks any Floyd | access to the north. The principal's office is to the south. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Windows line the north wall of this corridor which continues east and Floyd | west. They look out onto the quad, and stream light on to an archway Floyd | which leads south to the library. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | My worm, it's dark in this corridor. A metal door to the east prevents Floyd | you from swimming directly into your laboratory and the corridor Floyd | returns west. Floyd | There is a brass screw and a lok screw here. Floyd | A student sidles up to you. "We've got the principal," he whispers, "if Floyd | you don't donate to rag week we'll let her go." You hastily decide to Floyd | give them all your loose change, then realise you have none. They Floyd | refuse to take your credit card and swim off, laughing. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tatty card in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The card fits neatly into the slot. After a few reassuring buzzes the Floyd | door slides open smoothly and the card is returned to your waiting Floyd | hand. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | There is a glass box, a tuned crystal, a filter and a stream Floyd | accelerator here. Floyd | After allowing time for someone to pass the door closes. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the stream accelerator. Floyd | Filter taken. Floyd | Tuned crystal taken. Floyd | Glass box taken. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "that is weird" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | There is a hyperdriver and the device almost fills the room, looking Floyd | like an aquarium filled with multi-coloured gravel here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf27" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | stream accelerator, a radio case, a filter, a tuned crystal, a photon Floyd | bridge and a glass box. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "join bridge to device" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that with the photon bridge. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "join bridge to case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This doesn't feel right to me. I thought we were involved in hi-tech Floyd | science not surrealist sculpture! Still you're the boss. Floyd | You are carrying too much and the stream accelerator annoyingly falls Floyd | to the ground. Floyd | You are carrying too much and the travel pass annoyingly falls to the Floyd | ground. Floyd | You are carrying too much and the new card annoyingly falls to the Floyd | ground. Floyd | You are carrying too much and the tatty card annoyingly falls to the Floyd | ground. Floyd | You are carrying too much and the glass box annoyingly falls to the Floyd | ground. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a filter, a tuned crystal and some twisted Floyd | metal. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x twisted metal" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The twisted metal is a cross between a Henry Moore sculpture and an Floyd | Anderson bomb shelter. Fine if you like that sort of thing, but it Floyd | doesn't look like it's going to save Hydropolis. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "join tuned crystal to twisted metal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This doesn't feel right to me. I thought we were involved in hi-tech Floyd | science not surrealist sculpture! Still you're the boss. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get glass box then join it to twisted metal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying too much already to get the glass box. Floyd | You can't do that with the glass box. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a filter and some twisted metal. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "join filter to twisted metal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This doesn't feel right to me. I thought we were involved in hi-tech Floyd | science not surrealist sculpture! Still you're the boss. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get glass box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying too much already to get the glass box. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop twisted metal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Twisted metal dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get glass box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the glass box. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "join it to twisted metal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that with the glass box. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "join glass box to twisted metal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that with the glass box. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x glass box" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The glass box shows all the hallmarks of a rush assembly. There are Floyd | loads of electrical components in it and yards and yards of wiring. You Floyd | can only hope the back-room boys didn't economise on waterproofing. Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | [l -> look] Floyd | Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | There is some twisted metal, a stream accelerator, a hyperdriver, a Floyd | travel pass, a new card and a tatty card and the device almost fills Floyd | the room, looking like an aquarium filled with multi-coloured gravel Floyd | here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open glass box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't open the box - try breaking it. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "break glass box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You try and try with all your might (really, you do) but you just can't Floyd | break the box with your fist. Floyd | > | inky says, "grrr" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax and a glass box. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the hyperdriver. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "break glass box with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You hack the box to bits and break the hyperdriver in the process. The Floyd | focus wheel falls to the floor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| Gunther arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get focus wheel" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the focus wheel. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "join focus wheel to twisted metal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | This doesn't feel right to me. I thought we were involved in hi-tech Floyd | science not surrealist sculpture! Still you're the boss. Stunning. A Floyd | tingle of pure ecstasy runs down your spine, across the room and out of Floyd | the window as you realise that you hold in your hands that most Floyd | treasured of possessions - a food blender. Wow! Floyd | > | Gunther says (to inky), "your patience truly is boundless" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x food blender" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | But there aren't any here. Floyd | > | inky blinks | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a hyperdriver and a blender. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x blender" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The blender is the biggest you have seen in you're whole life. Well Floyd | done. Now you've got it you might as well mix something until the world Floyd | blows up. Which it undoubtedly will. Floyd | > | inky says, "this seems to imply we screwed up" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach blender to device" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that with the blender. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "join blender to device" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that with the blender. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "yeah, I think we have to trial-and-error join things until something is not a sculpture" | |||||
| inky says, "bah" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf27" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | There is a hyperdriver and the device almost fills the room, looking Floyd | like an aquarium filled with multi-coloured gravel here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | stream accelerator, a radio case, a filter, a tuned crystal, a photon Floyd | bridge and a glass box. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, let's see" | |||||
| inky says, "maybe the terminal has instructions" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sit at terminal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The login message is on the screen. Floyd | Floyd | "Type LOGIN to enter system". Floyd | Floyd | You are now sitting at the Project terminal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "login" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lax 1803 V1.19 (University of Hydropolis) Floyd | Login (surname)- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "roach" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Password- | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "me" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fishtrix V1.19 System 2 Floyd | Welcome to Fishtrix Floyd | Floyd | Time 14:53: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which file do you want to read. Floyd | PROJECT - NOTE - STORE - EQUIPMENT Floyd | Or QUIT to exit to COMMAND level Floyd | Time 14:54: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "project" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah University 660/55/4 Floyd | Project notes Floyd | For Project Members Eyes only: Floyd | From - A. Roach Floyd | Project Prime Directive: To save Hydropolis, which is under threat from Floyd | water evaporation, by streaming water from an alternate dimension - Floyd | Fractal Aquaria Two. The inter-dimensional matter streamer will be Floyd | referred to as The Device from now on. Floyd | Time 14:55: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "equopment" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Which file do you want to read. Floyd | PROJECT - NOTE - STORE - EQUIPMENT Floyd | Or QUIT to exit to COMMAND level Floyd | Time 14:55: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "equipment" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stream Regulator = ((a+c)+(b+d))+e Floyd | Time 14:55: # | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "store" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Opah university 660/55/3 Floyd | Project notes Floyd | For Project Members Eyes only: Floyd | From - A. Roach Floyd | Store notes: The Stream Regulator has been stolen. This is serious. The Floyd | Project will fail if we don't replace it. At present, we haven't Floyd | located any replacement components. Anyone who can find them will be a Floyd | hero. Here's a list of what's needed: Floyd | Filter. Floyd | Photon bridge - Dr. Salmon worked on this, he may know its whereabouts. Floyd | Focus wheel - stolen days ago. Floyd | Tuned Crystal - There's an untuned one in the museum but they won't let Floyd | us near it. Floyd | We also need a case to keep everything stable. Floyd | Time 14:55: # | inky says, "ok, so | Stream Regulator = ((a+c)+(b+d))+e" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Read terminated - all files closed. Floyd | Returning to previous command mode. Floyd | Time 14:55: % | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You finish your session and the logout message appears on the terminal. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You get off. Floyd | Store Room Floyd | Even though Dr. Roach is very clean and tidy, the same cannot be said Floyd | of the rest of the team. They've made this the messiest store room in Floyd | the university. And it's always left for you to straighten things out. Floyd | All the equipment and spares needed for The Project are usually stashed Floyd | here, with a wallchart keeping track of what's in and out of stock. The Floyd | only exit leads northwest. Floyd | There is a protocopier here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wallchart" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The wallchart is an informal record of the equipment held in store for Floyd | The Project. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read wallchart" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | A: filter (out of stock) Floyd | B: photon bridge (out of stock) Floyd | C: focus wheel (out of stock) Floyd | D: tuned crystal (out of stock) Floyd | E: a suitable case (out of stock) Floyd | F: shelf (out of stock) Floyd | G: wallplan (1 in stock) Floyd | > | Ellison says, "oh, yeah, so that's what it means" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "join filter to focus wheel" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a wheel here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This lab is exceptionally clean. Dr. Roach must be remarkably Floyd | fastidious. The water is constantly decontaminated and recycled to Floyd | protect The Project equipment and your terminal from damage by grit, Floyd | fluff and dirt. Exits are northeast, southeast and west through the Floyd | metal door to the corridor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | There is a hyperdriver and the device almost fills the room, looking Floyd | like an aquarium filled with multi-coloured gravel here. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "break box with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You hack the box to bits and break the hyperdriver in the process. The Floyd | focus wheel falls to the floor. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "join filter to focus wheel" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Well done! The focus wheel connects to the filter making a focus Floyd | filter. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "join photon bridge to tuned crystal" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Brilliant! The photon bridge and the tuned crystal seem to meld before Floyd | your eyes leaving you with a crystal bridge. Floyd | > | Gunther says, "I'm reading the walkthrough and ... whatttt" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "join focus filter to crystal bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ah, such dexterity. You have made the only crystal filter in fish Floyd | world. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x crystal filter" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The crystal filter gathers energy from various sources which it filters Floyd | and refines. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "join crystal filter to case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Congratulations! The two items fuse to form a stream regulator! Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stream regulator" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The stream regulator controls the flow of particles from one dimension Floyd | to another. Floyd | > | inky says, "huzzah" | |||||
| inky says, "now what was the point of that, and did I screw up breaking the hyperdriver" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "yay" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put regulator in device" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The stream regulator is now inside the device. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn on device" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hey, I really dig you device. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Roach certainly knows how to build impressive machines - this one Floyd | nearly fills the project room. It looks a bit like a huge aquarium, Floyd | filled to the brim with multi-coloured gravel and, if you and Sir Floyd | Playfair have anything to do with it, it's going to save Hydropolis Floyd | from water evaporation. It almost fills the room, looking like an Floyd | aquarium filled with multi-coloured gravel. Floyd | It contains a stream regulator. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get device" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The device steadfastly refuses to be moved. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "use device" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Please phrase as, "use <object> to <verb> <another object>". Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "activate device" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand activate Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I guess we have to 'attach regulator with lok screw'" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x regulator" | ||||||
Floyd | [x -> examine] Floyd | Floyd | The stream regulator controls the flow of particles from one dimension Floyd | to another. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach regulator with lok screw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Lokscrew(TM) snaps resolutely into place. Floyd | It seems you have done all you need to do to save Hydropolis so you Floyd | rest on your laurels for a while, then your laurels start to ache so Floyd | you start filing your credentials when suddenly... Nothing happened. Floyd | It's four o'clock, the Project has been activated and nothing happened. Floyd | You did it! You saved Hydropolis! It's time for celebration, time to Floyd | party! But professionals don't party; they leave that to the Dr. Floyd | Roaches of this dimension. You return to Mission HQ, to a hero's Floyd | de-briefing from Sir Playfair Panchax. "Absolutely splendid job, Agent Floyd | 10," he chuffs, "a marvellous piece of work. One of your finest Floyd | missions. As a reward, we at the Department, are allowing you three Floyd | month's vacation with a goldfish of your choice." He winks. "And we Floyd | guarantee no interruptions this time." You are warped off to a Floyd | spacious, warm aquarium with all the pondweed, ant eggs and gravel you Floyd | could want. And of course, the most beautiful creature in all the Floyd | dimensions to spend time with. After three months of this kind of Floyd | pleasure, you might not be up to another mission... Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 491 out of 501. Floyd | Do you want to quit or restart (q/r)? | inky asks, "...wait, that's it?" | |||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, I guess so." | ||||||
| Gunther says, "from this walkthrough this doesn't seem to be the optimum ending" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "Magnetic Scroll endings are horrible." | ||||||
| inky says, "well, huzzah for us" | ||||||
| inky asks (of Gunther), "oh?" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I liked the amusingly abrupt saving of the world until I realized that was the ending." | ||||||
| Gunther asks, "did you play something called Shutdown?" | ||||||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "oh, ok then" | ||||||
| inky says, "that was the thing with the letter codes" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "in that case that IS is" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "it" | ||||||
| inky says, "we did miss ten points somewhere" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "strange that we missed ten points, yeah" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "I'm not sure if this is a lamer ending than The Pawn" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "The Pawn is worse, yeah" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "there seems to be a bug where you need to drop then pick up the thing you made" | ||||||
| inky asks, "to get the points?" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "yes" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "r" | ||||||
Floyd | [r -> drop] Floyd | Floyd | Are you sure (y/n)? | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||||
Floyd | [y -> yes] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Well done, Agent 10," said Sir Playfair Panchax, head of Mission HQ. Floyd | "We knew you'd stop the Seven Deadly Fins. Good show! It's a shame they Floyd | got away again. But now I suggest you take a vacation. You've earned Floyd | it, old boy." You agreed with him, the last few months had been a real Floyd | chore. Being an inter-dimensional espionage operative isn't a bad life Floyd | apart from the pain of warping and the inconvenience of host-parasite Floyd | relationships, but you need a spot of R and R every now and then, just Floyd | to stay sane. So you went for the big one - warping into a goldfish for Floyd | a whole month! The peace. The tranquility. And you're still on the Floyd | payroll. Floyd | Floyd | FISH! - Version 1.10 - Copyright (C) 1988, 1990 Magnetic Scrolls Ltd. Floyd | Floyd | Someone's coming. Good, it must be time for food. SPLATTO. A hand as Floyd | big as a bus drops something hard right on your head. Understandably Floyd | dazed, you flip over and, through a swirl of ant eggs, spot what hit Floyd | you: a tacky plastic castle. It looks like a rush job. Sir Playfair Floyd | must be in trouble. And you thought you were on vacation... Floyd | Floyd | Goldfish Bowl Floyd | Swimming upside down is good fun, but difficult, even for someone as Floyd | highly trained as yourself. It looks like the pondweed is dangling from Floyd | the gravel above your head. And the ant eggs, wow! Upside down they Floyd | look, so, so much like, well, like exactly the same as if you were the Floyd | right way up actually. Anyway, there's no need to get carried away. Sir Floyd | Playfair has a message for you in the castle if you're not mistaken and Floyd | he hates agents who are late. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf27" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Floyd | Project Room Floyd | Considering how important this place is for the future of all fishkind, Floyd | you are stunned by how little has been done to make it look Floyd | significant. A lick of paint, although distasteful for the fish licking Floyd | it on, wouldn't have gone amiss. The only exit is southwest. Floyd | There is a hyperdriver and the device almost fills the room, looking Floyd | like an aquarium filled with multi-coloured gravel here. Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I was hoping for some sort of grim surrealistic recursive ending after the doctor's house seemed to be the fish's house." | |||||
| Ellison says, "it's possible that we could have just opened the glass box, but I'm not sure" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open glass box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't open the box - try breaking it. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "break glass box" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You try and try with all your might (really, you do) but you just can't Floyd | break the box with your fist. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | [i -> inventory] Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a new card, a travel pass, a Floyd | stream accelerator, a radio case, a filter, a tuned crystal, a photon Floyd | bridge and a glass box. Floyd | You are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "break glass box with fishofax" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You try and try with all your might (really, you do) but you just can't Floyd | break the box with your fishofax. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "break glass box with hyperdriver" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You hack the box to bits and break the hyperdriver in the process. The Floyd | focus wheel falls to the floor. Floyd | > | Gunther says, "I think for grim recursive surrealistic endings you want Jinxter" | |||||
| Ellison says, "crazy" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach wheel to filter" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Well done! The focus wheel connects to the filter making a focus Floyd | filter. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach crystal to bridge" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Brilliant! The photon bridge and the tuned crystal seem to meld before Floyd | your eyes leaving you with a crystal bridge. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach bridge to filter" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ah, such dexterity. You have made the only crystal filter in fish Floyd | world. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach filter to case" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Congratulations! The two items fuse to form a stream regulator! Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop regulator" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stream regulator dropped. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get regulator" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You have now got the stream regulator. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 475 out of 501. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach regulator to device" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that with the stream regulator. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put regulator in device" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The stream regulator is now inside the device. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach regulator to device" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that with the stream regulator. Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach regulator with lok screw" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Lokscrew(TM) snaps resolutely into place. Floyd | It seems you have done all you need to do to save Hydropolis so you Floyd | rest on your laurels for a while, then your laurels start to ache so Floyd | you start filing your credentials when suddenly... Nothing happened. Floyd | It's four o'clock, the Project has been activated and nothing happened. Floyd | You did it! You saved Hydropolis! It's time for celebration, time to Floyd | party! But professionals don't party; they leave that to the Dr. Floyd | Roaches of this dimension. You return to Mission HQ, to a hero's Floyd | de-briefing from Sir Playfair Panchax. "Absolutely splendid job, Agent Floyd | 10," he chuffs, "a marvellous piece of work. One of your finest Floyd | missions. As a reward, we at the Department, are allowing you three Floyd | month's vacation with a goldfish of your choice." He winks. "And we Floyd | guarantee no interruptions this time." You are warped off to a Floyd | spacious, warm aquarium with all the pondweed, ant eggs and gravel you Floyd | could want. And of course, the most beautiful creature in all the Floyd | dimensions to spend time with. After three months of this kind of Floyd | pleasure, you might not be up to another mission... Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 483 out of 501. Floyd | Do you want to quit or restart (q/r)? | inky says, "mysterious" | |||||
| Gunther asks, "huh, is that less?" | ||||||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "bizarro" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "too strange" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "now I wonder if there's ANY MS game without a crappy ending" | ||||||
| inky says, "oh well, we win, yay for us" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||||
Floyd | [q -> quit] Floyd | Floyd | Are you sure (y/n)? | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||||
Floyd | [y -> yes] Floyd | | ||||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Gunther says, "signs point to no" | |||||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Ellison says, "well, thanks, inky, for giving me some closure after all of these years. I should have known Fish! would be like the rest." | |||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I liked that game." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I played through Myth so I know that one has a crappy ending" | ||||||
| Gunther has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Gunther says, "I played The Pawn and Jinxter and they do" | |||||
| Ellison says, "there are still things I like about Fish! but the flaws really hurt it" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I would like to try more of this company's games, even if they have horrible endings." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to inured), "you can play them all here: [LINK]" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Thanks" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "Jinxter has one of my most memorable moments in IF but the midgame is an unimplemented mess" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "and what moment is that ellison" | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is kind of the same way. Great game overall, though." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Gunther), "the phone call. I thought it was a nice change-of-pace from the game's atmosphere. I use it as an example of how IF mood can change in an instant." | ||||||
| Gunther says, "not sure I recall" | ||||||
| Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||||
| smartgenes goes home. | ||||||
| smartgenes has disconnected. | ||||||
| inuredbyheavyrain goes home. | Ellison says, "man, remember when we beat Fish! those were the days" | |||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I wonder what non-Infocom games have especially satisfying endings. Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I. was pretty decent, but that makes sense. the bar seems pretty low in general." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Grim Fandango's ending worked for me." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "heh, yeah, that ending is great. I was particularly thinking about IF, though." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I think next, I'm going to try to beat a Synapse game and see how well they handle endings" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Endings are tricky buggers." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Most of the time it's one of get the girl, or get the big treasure, or find your way home, or defeat the big bad." | ||||||
| K-Y says, "in my experience adventure games like the humble endings" | ||||||
| K-Y says, "like 'now you can finally get to sleep'" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "I suppose the more memorable endings are ones where you get one of those plus a loss of some sort." | ||||||
| K-Y says, "or 'well, you didn't get the treasure/girl after all, but it was the PUZZLES that counted'" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Or the trip." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I thought Tryst of Fate was horrible in that respect" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "hm. I can't quite remember how that one ends." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "I remember clearly how it begins, since I recently wrote that up for ifwiki." | ||||||
| K-Y says, "I can't remember how it begins" | ||||||
| K-Y says, "even though this is presumably from the era when I was playing everything" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "You step on a toy car and knock yourself out, then a gnome steals your watch when you try to get up and he drops a gumball, then a 2nd gnome grabs the gumball." | ||||||
| K-Y says, "weird" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I think, basically, you wake up and go on with your life and nothing is different. you might have gotten a 'thank you' letter." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Ellison), "hm. That's poor." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "There should be a status change of some sort." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I think my disappointment with the ending was compounded by the guilt I had over never being able to get into that game and the resentment that the game was so long, so I was kind of imagining another me who had actually played the game, only to see that." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "anyhow, it's not so much a surprise that treasure hunt games don't do anything spectacular with their endings. it's just funny in cases like Magnetic Scrolls where they were obviously inspired by the narrative aspect of Infocom games and then drop the ball on proper narrative arcs" | ||||||
| inky asks, "isn't there one MS game where when you win you enter debug mode and can go wandering around?" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "I wasn't playing Fish! along with the rest of you, but I assume the ending is most likely a) bad guys arrested/dead/declawed plus b) back to your vacation as a goldfish, plus c) raise/promotion/extension on the vacation." | ||||||
| inky says, "yeah, pretty much" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "I suppose it could be sweetened with d) new love interest." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to inky), "Can you jump through the corners diagonally and get outside the world grid? (which would be weird in a text game, but not impossible)." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to inky), "that was The Pawn, yeah" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "they don't even really mention the bad guys, even" | ||||||
| DavidW asks, "Is The Pawn set on a chessboard?" | ||||||
| inky says, "it seems to be a pretty straight fantasy adventure" | ||||||
| inky says, "I cannot explain the name" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "it's called The Pawn because you have to do some quests for people and one person is particularly manipulative" | ||||||
| Allen asks, "which is better thought of these days, The Pawn or Guild of Thieves?" | ||||||
| Allen says, "I haven't played either since the 80s. I liked Guild of Thieves more" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "hmmm, good question. Guild of Thieves is definitely more exciting." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "it's only reading a walkthrough and seeing what somebody has to do to get through the last portion of the game that really makes me roll my eyes" | ||||||
| Allen says, "It was tough. I don't think I ever finished it" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "for Jacqueline's Indigo comp, I wanted to do a game/puzzle that paid homage to GoT's rainbow room but couldn't think of a clever twist." | ||||||
| Firion arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||||
| Firion has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||||
| WeirdBeard says, "Bleah! Too noisy with the windows open, not hot enough to justify AC." | ||||||
| Mary hollers, "I didn't change it very much." | ||||||
| Allen has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline asks, "How'd it go?" | |||||
| inky says, "we triumphed at last" | ||||||
| inky says, "after much restarting" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "those Fins may rock but not as much as us" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Nice." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Enjoyed it, ultimately, I guess?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I wouldn't say it's designed well as a game but it has some writing and things that I enjoyed" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I was surprised by the writing in a way I can't quite articulate." | ||||||
| inky says, "they had clearly put a lot of effort into fish puns" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||||
| Binder says, "It might not have required so much effort. Perhaps fish puns scale." | ||||||
| inky says, "rr" | ||||||
| Everyone has left the channel. | ||||||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| Ellison arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "load spur" | ||||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In retrospect, maybe all that cheap whiskey last night in Grady's Floyd | wasn't such a brilliant idea. Not the way the evil, glowing orb of the Floyd | morning sun is burning a hole through your squinting eyes and right Floyd | into the back of your head. And especially since there's a guy with a Floyd | six-shooter on his belt, ready to draw, standing thirty feet away and Floyd | facing you. Your body keeps screaming at you that you should still be Floyd | in bed. The dimly lit cage of your memory tells you that all of this Floyd | has something to do with you standing up for some woman in the saloon Floyd | last night, and right now you wish like hell you could remember. Floyd | Floyd | No one ever said you were lucky, but you are... Floyd | Floyd | SPUR Floyd | A Western Misadventure by Kent Tessman (c) 1995-1997 Floyd | Written using the Hugo Compiler v2.5 Floyd | Release 9 04-27-99 Floyd | (New players should type "help".) Floyd | Floyd | Main Street Floyd | The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a Floyd | town with only one street. The sun beats down from above, lighting up Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of Floyd | here. On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings. Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel. Floyd | Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously. Somewhere in the distance, Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "help" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
| Ellison presses the yellow enter button. | ||||||
Floyd | SPUR
Floyd | A Western Misadventure
Floyd | Copyright (c) 1995-1997 by Kent Tessman
Floyd |
Floyd | Hugo Compiler and Engine
Floyd | Copyright (c) 1995-1997 by Kent Tessman
Floyd |
Floyd | This game ("Spur") is copyright (c) 1995-1997 by Kent Tessman (the
Floyd | author). The author reserves all rights regarding duplication,
Floyd | distribution, and modification of "Spur" or any of its parts
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Distribution
Floyd |
Floyd | Free distribution of "Spur" is allowable provided that it is modified
Floyd | in no manner and no fee is charged.
Floyd |
Floyd | (Similar distribution of the Hugo Compiler and Engine is also
Floyd | allowable, given the same provisions. Additionally, distribution of
Floyd | programs created with the Hugo Compiler and/or using the Hugo Library
Floyd | must correspond to the terms of use specified by the author, primarily
Floyd | that commercial distribution of the Hugo Engine or elements of the Hugo
Floyd | Library is prohibited without the express written consent of the
Floyd | author. See the Hugo Manual for more details.)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Warranty
Floyd |
Floyd | Since "Spur" and the Hugo Compiler and Engine are available free of
Floyd | charge, there is no warranty whatsoever pertaining to their use.
Floyd |
| ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||||
Floyd | Main Street Floyd | The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a Floyd | town with only one street. The sun beats down from above, lighting up Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of Floyd | here. On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings. Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel. Floyd | Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously. Somewhere in the distance, Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| 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?" | ||||||
| Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Ellison says, "there should be an ifdb list of Best IF Puzzles to Solve With A Handy Program" | |||||
| Tale asks, "Hm?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "inky wrote programs to help us beat two puzzles at ClubFloyd yesterday" | ||||||
| inky says, "that would be pretty cool" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "which I feel is just as satisfying as beating such puzzles yourself and gets me thinking about other puzzles that are like that" | ||||||
| inky says, "I feel like we have written programs for a few other games" | ||||||
| Gunther asks, "you realize all of these are definitionally "worst puzzle"?" | ||||||
| Gunther asks, "as they're not clever, just brute-force?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "like, some of those Phoenix games have puzzles that could definitely be solved with programs, but most of the ones I've seen aren't quite so annoying that you'd need to do that" | ||||||
| Jota says, "I solved a puzzle in one of the Sorcerer games with a computer program, but in that case, I am pretty sure it was cheating." | ||||||
| Jota says, "Since my solution was, 'generate a transcript of every possible combination in sequence and paste it into the 'terp, to find out which one is right'." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||||
| Jota says, "And furthermore, I later discovered that said puzzle was actually part of the copy protection." | ||||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "(recapping) I remember writing a short program to solve the Peggleboz puzzle in Zork Zero." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Gunther), "anyhow, as long as the correct solution doesn't take a ton of moves (like a tower of Hanoi puzzle), I can't completely hate it" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "I can." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "I'm terrible at most pegboard puzzles." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "the Fish! ones are ones that I would never get on my own (despite accidentally solving the 'maze' one a couple times) but they have semi-clear rules and could conceivably be solved within a handful of turns" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to DW), "the maze puzzle from yesterday was kind of a combination pegboard/twisty-passage thing" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "bleah" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "it was really just one room, but what exit you used switched other exits on and off and you were trying to get rid of them all" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "huh. Unusual." | ||||||
| inky says, "it's kind of like this one puzzle that sometimes appears in crpgs" | ||||||
| inky says, "where you have N switches and they each toggle multiple outputs" | ||||||
| inky says, "and the object is to get all the outputs toggled on or off" | ||||||
| inky says, "but here the switches and the outputs were the same" | ||||||
| inky says, "which is an interesting twist" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "they appear in many games as "oops, game to short, need to throw in shitty puzzle that takes forever to make it longer"" | ||||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| inky says, "yeah pretty much" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "much like fifteen puzzles and switch-places puzzles and" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to inky), "I don't think I know the puzzle type you're describing. I haven't really played many crpgs." | ||||||
| Gunther says, "[LINK])" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "it was especially frustrating to have these puzzles in a game with a hard turn limit, of course" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "basically like that" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Gunther), "oh. That. ick." | ||||||
| Tale says, "There was a game called Realms of the Haunting, a puzzle shooter. It was great, till you reached Hell. It had a maze and it had a series of annoying puzzles." | ||||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| inky says, "so appropriate" | ||||||
| Tale says, "indeed" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "Realms of the fffFFFFUUUUUU" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "'course, the one game that did this right was Zork: Grand Inquisitor" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "first, you get an idiotically complex puzzle that you simplify with the simplification spell" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "then, you get an annoying 3d chess puzzle" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "which you bash to pieces with a club" | ||||||
| Tale says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "now I kind of want to do a game where you can either solve the puzzles or apply violence" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "to each and every puzzle" | ||||||
| DavidW asks, "I solved Hell's telephone puzzle the hard way. I heard that it can be simplified too?" | ||||||
| Gunther says (to DavidW), "I think it can" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "yeah" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "you cast it then press *" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Would've saved so much time if I'd known." | ||||||
| Gunther says, "you can use KENDALL at least those two times" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "oh, three, there's the "how to win at double fanucci" book" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "I remember simplifing the train map and the book." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "I can't spell today." | ||||||
| K-Y says, "oh, yes" | ||||||
| K-Y says, "RPG lights out puzzles" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "hm. I'm now thinking it would be satisfying to have a game where you have to solve a fuckton of puzzles to get some big-ass club or gun or whatever at the top of a mountain, and then smash the crap out of everything on the way back to the start." | ||||||
| K-Y asks, "you mean Ico?" | ||||||
| K-Y says, "or at least in Ico all the puzzles got smashed the crap out of without any action on my part at the end" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "ugh, Ico" | ||||||
| K-Y asks, "what?" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "I still have no idea who said "You know what every gamer loves? Escort missions! Let's make a game that's ALL ESCORT MISION!"" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "+S" | ||||||
| Gunther says, "see also [LINK]" | ||||||
| K-Y says, "I appreciated the tension the once or twice that happened" | ||||||
| K-Y says, "if it had happened more than that, and unavoidably..." | ||||||
| Gunther says, "yeah, I played for 10 minutes before I let the monsters have her." | ||||||
| Gunther says, "just... just no." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "heh. Never even heard of this Ico." | ||||||
| K-Y says, "look, in some games you can theoretically die from falling a foot-wide pit" | ||||||
| K-Y says, "theoretically" | ||||||
| K-Y says, "I thought it sounded horrible, but then I realized all the impressions were written ten years ago when people were still running into walls in Super Mario 64" | ||||||
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