  
 
Like ClubFloyd, the idea behind NightFloyd is that a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.Unlike ClubFloyd, NightFloyd often (but not always) takes on significantly larger works of interactive fiction, knowing going in that each one will take multiple sessions. NightFloyd is also a bit more informal than ClubFloyd in that it's only announced on the ifMUD #clubfloyd bulletin board, and the time shifts around to meet player's schedules far more than ClubFloyd does. NightFloyd is organized by genericgeekgirl, aka Adri. Below is a transcript of The Multi-Dimensional Thief, written by Joel Finch. The Multi-Dimensional Thief was released in 1991 as shareware and received first place in the Softworks AGT Contest that year You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.Of particularly special note, this historic transcript marks the first time that NightFloyd ever officially met.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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| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "load thief" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Loading game... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | +-------------------------+ Floyd | | The | Floyd | | Multi-Dimensional | Floyd | | Thief | Floyd | | | Floyd | | by | Floyd | | Joel Finch | Floyd | | (c) 1991 | Floyd | +-------------------------+ Floyd | Floyd | Created with Malmberg and Welch's Adventure Game Toolkit Floyd | Floyd | This game is being executed by: Floyd | Floyd | AGiliTy, The (Mostly) Universal AGT Interpreter, Version 1.1.1 Floyd | Copyright (C) 1996-1999,2001 by Robert Masenten Floyd | Glk version Floyd | Floyd | Choose <I>nstructions, <A>GiliTy Information, or <other> to start the Floyd | game Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "other" | ||||
Floyd | o Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ====================================================================== Floyd | ========= Floyd | Here's the plot: You are a thief; an exceptionally good one. Floyd | Naturally, you Floyd | aspire to join the largest and most prestigious of organised thieving Floyd | bodies, Floyd | the Multi-Dimensional Thieves' Guild. One day you are approached by a Floyd | tall man Floyd | wearing a long cloak. His face is hidden in the folds of the hood and Floyd | his voice Floyd | is deliberately muffled. Making no introductions, he tells you that Floyd | your recent Floyd | activities have been monitored with interest, and offers you a Floyd | provisional Floyd | membership in the M-D.T.G. All you have to do is pass a simple test. Floyd | Since this Floyd | is a childhood dream come true, you eagerly accept. Floyd | Floyd | The test goes like this; you begin in a specially prepared set of Floyd | rooms, and your only objective is to get out of them. Your prowess as Floyd | a thief is not in question, however there are other talents to be Floyd | tested. The rooms are pieces "borrowed" from other universes and Floyd | magically spliced together to test your ability to deal with rapid Floyd | changes of scenery, a prerequisite for any work in the Floyd | Multi-Dimensional Thieves' Guild. A number of useful items have been Floyd | added to the rooms, to make your test just that much more interesting. Floyd | Floyd | Oh, and one more thing. Here's a few basic clues: examine everything Floyd | you Floyd | find, read most things, and, above all, think symmetrically. Good Floyd | luck! Floyd | ====================================================================== Floyd | ========= Floyd | --- HIT ANY KEY --- Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 0 ] Floyd | Small Room Floyd | You are in a small room with a low roof. The real distinguishing Floyd | feature of this room lies in its exits. There are doorways to the Floyd | south and east. Floyd | To the north there's a large arched door set into the wall. It's Floyd | closed. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'me' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x self" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'self' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "x you" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'you' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | > [i -> inventory] Floyd | [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 1 ] Floyd | You are empty handed. Floyd | You are wearing: Floyd | your fingers Floyd | | VictorGijsbers says, "Uh." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hmn." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x fingers" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 2 ] Floyd | Five fingers on each hand, and one hand on each arm. All perfectly Floyd | normal. They're all still there. You can count them for yourself, if Floyd | you like. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "count fingers" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'count' as a verb. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "Or not." | |||
| VictorGijsbers says, "It lied to us," | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "'Count off. Fuck on.'" | ||||
| Johnny asks (of DavidW), "Hear that?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh my" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Is someone playing my game?" | ||||
| Johnny says, "No, just a reference." | ||||
| Johnny says, "But what a reference!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "At least my game doesn't have invisible Nazi bunny rabbits." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x roof" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 3 ] Floyd | There isn't any roof here. Floyd | | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "examine door" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 4 ] Floyd | The door is painted a lovely blue, and is set into the archway. It Floyd | doesn't seem to be hinged, but instead runs in grooves in the wall on Floyd | either side. It probably slides upward to open, into the roof. There Floyd | is a small slot in the wall next to the left-hand groove. The door is Floyd | currently closed. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x slot" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 5 ] Floyd | The slot is circular and about an inch in diameter. It's set into the Floyd | wall about a foot to the left of the arch, at waist height. Floyd | | VictorGijsbers says, "Neither does mine." | |||
| VictorGijsbers says, "The bunnies aren't the nazi's," | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "put finger in slot" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 6 ] Floyd | There's no point. As soon as you move your arm, all your careful Floyd | positioning will be undone. This may be because your fingers are Floyd | connected to your hand which is in turn connected to your wrist, which Floyd | is connected to your arm, and so on and so on until you get all the Floyd | way to your rather obsolete head-bone. (Hear the word of the Lord!) Floyd | | ||||
| Gerynar arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "reach in slot" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'reach' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Firion arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Johnny says, "Hitler was a Nazi." | |||
| Johnny says, "(Is that a Godwin?)" | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says, "That has been claimed." | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says, "But according to our populist right, Hitler was a socialist." | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "Ah well." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 7 ] Floyd | You can't get the door open. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "feel slot" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'feel' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 8 ] Floyd | Small Room Floyd | You are in a small room with a low roof. The real distinguishing Floyd | feature of this room lies in its exits. There are doorways to the Floyd | south and east. Floyd | To the north there's a large arched door set into the wall. It's Floyd | closed. Floyd | | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "put head in slot" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand the word 'head' as a noun. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl asks, "south or east?" | |||
| Johnny says, "He was a fascist (who wouldn't eat) pig." | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says, "Whetever you want." | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "put arm in slot" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 9 ] Floyd | There's no arm here. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Low Passageway Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 10 ] Floyd | Low Passageway Floyd | You are currently in a low passage running east-west. The walls are Floyd | made of heavy stone blocks, fitted tightly together. To the west is Floyd | the Small Room that you started in. Who knows what lies to the Floyd | east....? Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x blocks" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'blocks' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "touch wall" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Low Passageway Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 11 ] Floyd | There isn't any wall here. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "All right. Seeing what's to the south." | |||
| Rotonoto says, "Seriously under-implemented. :)" | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says, "Yeah, really old school." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 12 ] Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This room is set up as some kind of inventors' workshop. There are a Floyd | number of benches around the room with various small pieces of Floyd | electronic equipment on them, but they're insignificant. The room is Floyd | dominated by an ungainly machine against the east wall; a modified Floyd | robotic arm, with leads and cables snaking everywhere, and a pointy, Floyd | laser-like object on the end. There's a doorway to the west, and a Floyd | smaller exit marked "Storeroom" to the south. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 13 ] Floyd | The machine consists of a large robot arm, fixed onto the ground. At Floyd | the end of the arm is a pointed nozzle, apparently some kind of laser Floyd | beam device. The arm is covered in leads and cables of various Floyd | colours, joining one component to another. It isn't exactly clear what Floyd | it does, but it sure looks impressive. There is a small lever poking Floyd | out from the side of the machine. It is currently set in the neutral Floyd | position, from which it can be pushed either up or down. There is some Floyd | writing next to the lever. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "past" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'past' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "x writing" | cyberskunk says, "i was hoping the -> syntax meant it would be about programming" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Continuing to the east." | ||||
| Johnny says, "That's the interpreter expanding abbreviations." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "And now we know." | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 14 ] Floyd | The machine consists of a large robot arm, fixed onto the ground. At Floyd | the end of the arm is a pointed nozzle, apparently some kind of laser Floyd | beam device. The arm is covered in leads and cables of various Floyd | colours, joining one component to another. It isn't exactly clear what Floyd | it does, but it sure looks impressive. There is a small lever poking Floyd | out from the side of the machine. It is currently set in the neutral Floyd | position, from which it can be pushed either up or down. There is some Floyd | writing next to the lever. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "read writing" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 15 ] Floyd | The robot arm bears the legend: "Proudly Supplied by Gooseberry Floyd | Brothers." The UP position of the lever is marked "Drink Me", and the Floyd | DOWN position is labelled "Eat Me". The neutral position is unmarked. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "move lever to up position" | ||||
Floyd | > Extra input found: "position..." Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push lever up" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 16 ] Floyd | The arm begins to move, jerking this way and that. There is a steadily Floyd | growing hum coming from deep inside the machine, and the pointed Floyd | laser-bit on the end of the arm begins to glow yellow. Then, without Floyd | warning, it points directly at you and a beam of bright yellow light Floyd | lances out and strikes you. Satisfied that it has made its point, the Floyd | machine falls quiet. Floyd | Floyd | The room appears to be growing smaller. Floyd | | Johnny says, "What a rude lever!" | |||
| cyberskunk says, "curiouser and curiouser" | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says, "Alice," | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Uh. Want me to undo?" | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "Alice references. How original." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | > [l -> look] Floyd | [ Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 16 ] Floyd | It's a bit late for that. Your surroundings continue to shrink (or Floyd | perhaps you're getting bigger), steadily and inexorably, and soon you Floyd | are very uncomfortable, squashed against the roof. The change of scale Floyd | goes on around you, but unfortunately, there isn't enough space in Floyd | here for you any more. What a way to go. Floyd | Floyd | **** You have died **** Floyd | Floyd | Your ranking is Humiliating To Mention In Public. Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 0 (out of 50 possible). Floyd | You have visited 4 locations (out of 100 in the game) Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Would you like to restart, restore, undo, or quit? [ Laboratory Floyd | Score: 0 Moves: 16 ] Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | > UNDOing a turn... Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | > You can only UNDO one turn. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "push lever down" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 16 ] Floyd | It's a bit late for that. Your surroundings continue to shrink (or Floyd | perhaps you're getting bigger), steadily and inexorably, and soon you Floyd | are very uncomfortable, squashed against the roof. The change of scale Floyd | goes on around you, but unfortunately, there isn't enough space in Floyd | here for you any more. What a way to go. Floyd | Floyd | **** You have died **** Floyd | Floyd | Your ranking is Humiliating To Mention In Public. Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 0 (out of 50 possible). Floyd | You have visited 4 locations (out of 100 in the game) Floyd | | VictorGijsbers says, "No, you can probably undo by pushing the lever down." | |||
| Allen says (to VictorG), "exactly! ALICE = Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity" | ||||
| Johnny says (to Rotonoto), "They were surely more original when this game came out." | ||||
| Johnny says, "hooray" | ||||
| Johnny says, "That was quick. Congrats everyone." | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says, "Ok, maybe you do need to undo. :D" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Well." | ||||
| cyberskunk exclaims, "yay!" | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Would you like to restart, restore, undo, or quit? | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Would you like to restart, restore, undo, or quit? [ Laboratory Floyd | Score: 0 Moves: 16 ] Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 16 ] Floyd | It's a bit late for that. Your surroundings continue to shrink (or Floyd | perhaps you're getting bigger), steadily and inexorably, and soon you Floyd | are very uncomfortable, squashed against the roof. The change of scale Floyd | goes on around you, but unfortunately, there isn't enough space in Floyd | here for you any more. What a way to go. Floyd | Floyd | **** You have died **** Floyd | Floyd | Your ranking is Humiliating To Mention In Public. Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 0 (out of 50 possible). Floyd | You have visited 4 locations (out of 100 in the game) Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Would you like to restart, restore, undo, or quit? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 0 ] Floyd | ====================================================================== Floyd | ========= Floyd | Here's the plot: You are a thief; an exceptionally good one. Floyd | Naturally, you Floyd | aspire to join the largest and most prestigious of organised thieving Floyd | bodies, Floyd | the Multi-Dimensional Thieves' Guild. One day you are approached by a Floyd | tall man Floyd | wearing a long cloak. His face is hidden in the folds of the hood and Floyd | his voice Floyd | is deliberately muffled. Making no introductions, he tells you that Floyd | your recent Floyd | activities have been monitored with interest, and offers you a Floyd | provisional Floyd | membership in the M-D.T.G. All you have to do is pass a simple test. Floyd | Since this Floyd | is a childhood dream come true, you eagerly accept. Floyd | Floyd | The test goes like this; you begin in a specially prepared set of Floyd | rooms, and your only objective is to get out of them. Your prowess as Floyd | a thief is not in question, however there are other talents to be Floyd | tested. The rooms are pieces "borrowed" from other universes and Floyd | magically spliced together to test your ability to deal with rapid Floyd | changes of scenery, a prerequisite for any work in the Floyd | Multi-Dimensional Thieves' Guild. A number of useful items have been Floyd | added to the rooms, to make your test just that much more interesting. Floyd | Floyd | Oh, and one more thing. Here's a few basic clues: examine everything Floyd | you Floyd | find, read most things, and, above all, think symmetrically. Good Floyd | luck! Floyd | ====================================================================== Floyd | ========= Floyd | --- HIT ANY KEY --- Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Small Room Floyd | You are in a small room with a low roof. The real distinguishing Floyd | feature of this room lies in its exits. There are doorways to the Floyd | south and east. Floyd | To the north there's a large arched door set into the wall. It's Floyd | closed. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Plain Room Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 1 ] Floyd | Plain Room Floyd | This, as it's title would tend to suggest, is a plain room. There's Floyd | nothing more to say, really. It's just.... plain. The walls are plain, Floyd | the ceiling is plain. The floor's a little dusty, but it's very plain Floyd | dust. The only feature that makes this room at all bearable is that Floyd | you can leave it to the north, east, and west. Floyd | There is an opal ring here. Floyd | | VictorGijsbers says, "Right...." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "How does floyd's magic undo work? Not that we got very far." | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "Aha. An Alice effect indeed." | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says, "Restarting isn't much of a pain." | ||||
| VictorGijsbers asks, "Yeah, didn't Alice die all the time?" | ||||
| cyberskunk asks, "south again?" | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says, "Let's check south." | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says, "We went east last time." | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "x ring" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Plain Room Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 2 ] Floyd | It consists of a plain silver ring with a smooth, polished opal set Floyd | into it. As you are turning the ring this way and that, to see the Floyd | opal glitter in the light, you notice a tiny inscription on the Floyd | inside. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read inscription" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Plain Room Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 3 ] Floyd | An inscription on the inside of the ring reads: "Second Chance... by Floyd | GB". Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "wear ring" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Plain Room Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 4 ] Floyd | You're now wearing the opal ring. Floyd | | cyberskunk says, "do i look like a navigator 2 u" | |||
| cyberskunk says, "but right" | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says, "If you put it in the fire, it says something else entirely." | ||||
| cyberskunk says, "o! an extra life for when we get big" | ||||
| Johnny says, "I don't like those initials." | ||||
| cyberskunk says, "it should have been an amulet, really." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Chute Room Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 5 ] Floyd | Chute Room Floyd | Built into the south wall here is a small metal chute of the kind used Floyd | for delivering dirty clothes to the laundry. The chute leads steeply Floyd | upward from here. There are exits to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl asks, "west?" | |||
| cyberskunk asks, "is someone making a map?" | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "Live it up." | ||||
| cyberskunk says, "*crickets*" | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "x chute" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Chute Room Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 6 ] Floyd | The chute is small and rectangular. It's made of smooth, shiny metal, Floyd | so the clothes will slide down it without getting caught. It leads Floyd | upward at a very steep angle, possibly to somebody's house. Then Floyd | again, it might just go up about three feet and stop. It might be a Floyd | hologram, or a mirage. Who can tell for sure? That's what this test is Floyd | all about. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "enter chute" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Chute Room Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 7 ] Floyd | You can't do that! Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "climb chute" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Chute Room Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 8 ] Floyd | You can't do that! Floyd | | Rotonoto says, "I am." | |||
| cyberskunk says, "k. thank you" | ||||
| Ellison says, "(catches up on the recap) I hope the robed dude at the beginning is other-dimension us" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "hmpf" | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says, "I tell you, 1991. :)" | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Chute Room Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 9 ] Floyd | The chute is far too small for you to be able to squeeze into. You'd Floyd | have to be pretty silly to want to go up there anyway. You could get Floyd | hit in the face by a load of dirty laundry at any moment! Floyd | | cyberskunk says, "symmetry suggests we have to do half of it backwards" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "continuing west?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Gallery Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 10 ] Floyd | Gallery Floyd | This room was obviously an art gallery at some time in the past. There Floyd | are not-so-faded patches on the walls to show where paintings were Floyd | once hung, and slight dents in the floor to indicate the previous Floyd | positions of pedestals for displaying figurines and vases and the Floyd | like. Now, though, the room is bare, stripped of almost all its Floyd | treasures. There is a doorway to the east. Floyd | Hanging on the south wall is the only surviving painting. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Gallery Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 11 ] Floyd | The painting depicts a typical farmyard setting, with a quaint old Floyd | farm house, and a large red barn in the left of the scene. A tiny, Floyd | ominous tornado is shown in the distant background, approaching the Floyd | farm. The artist has done a truly remarkable job; the painting looks Floyd | so lifelike that it's almost as if you could step right into it. Floyd | There's a title plaque on the bottom of the frame. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "map" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'map' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "read plaque" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Gallery Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 12 ] Floyd | The painting is titled "Kansas". Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter picture" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Gallery Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 13 ] Floyd | You can't do that! Floyd | | VictorGijsbers says, "Sure, walk along," | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks (of cyberskunk), "Hmm?" | ||||
| Johnny says, "Looks like there's an ANSI map." | ||||
| cyberskunk asks, "its multidimensional, right? so maybe we have to go through time and undo half the things we do so we leave the room ready for us when we leave just as we arrive. makes sense?" | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says, "Wizard of Oz." | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says, "I see a pattern." | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "enter painting" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Gallery Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 14 ] Floyd | You can't do that! Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "step in painting" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Kansas Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 15 ] Floyd | You step into the painting, passing through the surface of the canvas Floyd | as if it were fluid, and find yourself in the middle of the scene it Floyd | depicted. Floyd | Floyd | Kansas Floyd | You are in the yard of a small farmhouse. To the east is a big red Floyd | barn, while to the south is the house itself. To the north is a gate, Floyd | which I'll tell you now is closed, and will remain so. Behind the Floyd | house you can see the black funnel of a tornado, approaching rapidly. Floyd | Understandably, there is a great deal of wind, blowing leaves hither Floyd | and thither. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dents" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'dents' as a noun. Floyd | | Johnny says, "In the game archive." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Mhm, ok. It was possible, though :P" | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Kansas Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 16 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x tornado" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'tornado' as a noun. Floyd | | VictorGijsbers asks, "A tornado is fine. We can use it to kill the wicked witch of the west. Or was it the east?" | |||
| VictorGijsbers asks, "Either way, let's see what happens when we wait for the tornado to arrive?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Sure." | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "We'd better be in the house." | ||||
| DavidW says, "In the Wizard of Oz, the house fell on the WW of the East." | ||||
| cyberskunk says, "i dont think we're in kansas any mo--oh wait" | ||||
| VictorGijsbers asks, "Should she have been the Evil Enchantress of the East?" | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x farm house" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'farm' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x house" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'house' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x barn" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'barn' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x south" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Kansas Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 17 ] Floyd | There isn't any south here. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Kansas Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 18 ] Floyd | Kansas Floyd | You are in the yard of a small farmhouse. To the east is a big red Floyd | barn, while to the south is the house itself. To the north is a gate, Floyd | which I'll tell you now is closed, and will remain so. Behind the Floyd | house you can see the black funnel of a tornado, approaching rapidly. Floyd | Understandably, there is a great deal of wind, blowing leaves hither Floyd | and thither. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "x leaves" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'leaves' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "x farmhouse" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'farmhouse' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Kansas Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 19 ] Floyd | There's not much here that you can take. Floyd | | DavidW says, "Oz had witches instead." | |||
| Rotonoto asks, "Does it understand it as an adjective, or what?" | ||||
| cyberskunk frumples | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "count leaves" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'count' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "x tornado" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'tornado' as a noun. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "Well. If the tornado doesn't exist, it can't kill us ;)" | |||
| VictorGijsbers asks, "How can it possibly not understand 'tornado'?" | ||||
| cyberskunk says, "i think we just have to move" | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Kansas Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 20 ] Floyd | You can't go that way! The only exits are east and south. Pay Floyd | attention! Floyd | | Rotonoto says, "The dimensions seem to be literary works, so far." | |||
| DavidW asks (of Victor), "perhaps it's a cyclone instead?" | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says, "Children's fantasy. I dread the moment we enter the works of C. S. Lewis." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Into the barn?" | ||||
| cyberskunk says, "dont board the train" | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says, "Try anything. :)" | ||||
| cyberskunk says, "probably house if we want to hit oz" | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "enter house" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand the word 'house' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "enter barn" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand the word 'barn' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Inside A Barn In Kansas Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 21 ] Floyd | Inside A Barn In Kansas Floyd | This is the interior of the big red barn. It smells very musty and Floyd | disused. There's nothing exciting to be seen here, just the usual Floyd | old-red-barn-inthe-country stuff. The only exit is through the barn Floyd | door to the west. Floyd | There is a small coin here. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take coin" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Inside A Barn In Kansas Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 22 ] Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x coin" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 23 ] Floyd | The tornado roars in, picking up the house, the barn, even the gate Floyd | that was supposed to stay shut (darn it!). Everything is swept up by Floyd | the fury of the twister. You spin in the air, faster and faster, and Floyd | finally faint with dizziness. When you awaken, you find yourself in a Floyd | bright, Technicolor land. Floyd | Floyd | The Yellow Brick Road Floyd | You're standing on a winding path, built of golden bricks, that Floyd | vanishes off toward a faintly green city on the horizon. It is a truly Floyd | beautiful piece of countryside. There are some nice, rolling green Floyd | hills, and a feeling of contentment in the air. Floyd | | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says (to Floyd), "x witch" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 24 ] Floyd | There isn't any witch here. Floyd | | ||||
| inky arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x house" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'house' as a noun. Floyd | | VictorGijsbers says, "Alas." | |||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x bricks" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'bricks' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "follow the yellow brick road" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand the word 'yellow' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'exits' as a verb. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "Because I didn't use it as a noun." | |||
| cyberskunk grunts and headbutts things crankily. | ||||
| VictorGijsbers exclaims, "Well, I'm off to bed. The game couldn't tempt me to stay awake longer, and that is probably a good thing. :) Have fun!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl exclaims, "G'night!" | ||||
| VictorGijsbers goes home. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 25 ] Floyd | Listen, you can't go n. Why not follow the Yellow Brick Road? Floyd | | VictorGijsbers asks, "Are transcripts kept?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah." | ||||
| VictorGijsbers says, "Ok. See you all later." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "trying random directions, since it doesn't list any" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Didn't I do that?" | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "follow the yellow brick road" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand the word 'yellow' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "follow" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 26 ] Floyd | The Yellow Brick Road Floyd | This is another part of the Yellow Brick Road. The sparkling green Floyd | city on the horizon seems a little nearer, and becomes more Floyd | magnificent the closer you get. There is a cornfield nearby, with a Floyd | drooping, straw-stuffed scarecrow standing in the middle of it. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x cornfield" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'cornfield' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x scarecrow" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 27 ] Floyd | The scarecrow is made from an old pair of pants, with a checked shirt, Floyd | some worn-out gloves for hands, and a pair of boots for feet. His head Floyd | is a small canvas sack stuffed with straw, with a bright happy face Floyd | painted on it. Perched on his head is a mouldy straw hat. Floyd | | Firion asks, "What game are we playing?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Multi-dimensional Thief" | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "I have no idea why it didn't work before." | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "get hat" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 28 ] Floyd | You won't find any of that here. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to scarecrow" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 29 ] Floyd | You spend a completely useless 14B= seconds finding out everything the Floyd | scarecrow knows, and then move on to more interesting things. Floyd | | Firion says, "I remember that one." | |||
| Johnny (to map) | [LINK] | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "It needed to be 'follow', with nothing else." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Thanks." | ||||
| Ellison says, "I think we should do the symmetry thing and take a moment to sing 'Somewhere Below the Rainbow'" | ||||
| cyberskunk exclaims, "spoilers! but also yikes!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take scarecrow" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 30 ] Floyd | Listen, even a scarecrow has rights! Leave people alone, will you? Floyd | | genericgeekgirl shrugs. "I consider maps a sanity-saving device, more so than spoilers, assuming there aren't a lot of hidden exits or something." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "How many seconds is 14B=?" | ||||
| cyberskunk says, "yay. im just surprised at the size of the main map" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "punch scarecrow" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'punch' as a verb. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "punch scarecrow" | |||
| Ellison says, "clubfloyd dang, that's a lot of rooms" | ||||
| Johnny says, "(I used PabloDraw to open the ANSI map and save it as a jpeg." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl gets that out of her system early. | ||||
| Johnny says, ")" | ||||
| cyberskunk should not have made a gin & tonic. this is definitely a coffee if | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get hat" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 31 ] Floyd | You won't find any of that here. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask scarecrow about hat" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 32 ] Floyd | The scarecrow seems disinterested in your request for information. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hat" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 33 ] Floyd | There isn't any hat here. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x boots" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'boots' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | > [i -> inventory] Floyd | [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 34 ] Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | small coin Floyd | You are wearing: Floyd | Floyd | opal ring Floyd | your fingers Floyd | | genericgeekgirl pouts. No alcohol for her. | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "continue to follow, maybe?" | ||||
| Ellison asks, "do we have anything we can burn the scarecrow with?" | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "scarecrow, hello" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'hello' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "search scarecrow" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'search' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "take search" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand the word 'search' as a noun. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "not yet" | |||
| DavidW asks, "eep. Why do you want to burn the scarecrow? Has he gone evil?" | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "He ain't followin' the script." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x coin" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 35 ] Floyd | The coin is small, round, and silver in colour. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "follow" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 36 ] Floyd | Just as you're leaving, the Scarecrow jumps down from his pole and Floyd | shouts, Floyd | "Hey, wait a minute! Aren't you supposed to take me to the Emerald Floyd | City to Floyd | get some brains? Isn't that how it goes? Hey, wait up!" He runs after Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | The Yellow Brick Road Floyd | Here, the road passes through the woods. It's cool and shady, with a Floyd | pleasant fragrance in the air. The path is forced to twist in and out, Floyd | yet it remains smooth and unbroken. Through occasional gaps in the Floyd | trees you can see the shining, emerald-coloured city, closer and more Floyd | beautiful than ever. Standing completely immobile amongst the trees is Floyd | a slightly corroded man made entirely out of tin. He's carrying a Floyd | large axe, and there's a can of oil at his feet. Floyd | The Scarecrow is here, smiling inanely. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask tin man about heart" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand the word 'tin' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask tinman about heart" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand the word 'heart' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "oil man" | genericgeekgirl says, "NOW he talks." | |||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'oil' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get can" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 37 ] Floyd | It belongs to the Tinman, and you can't have it. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "use can" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'use' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "help tinman" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 38 ] Floyd | Just follow the Yellow Brick Road. How hard can it be? Floyd | | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "oil man" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'oil' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "lubricate tinman" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'lubricate' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "talk to tinman" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 39 ] Floyd | You spend a completely useless 14B= seconds finding out everything the Floyd | tinman knows, and then move on to more interesting things. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x axe" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 40 ] Floyd | The axe is large, and of the type used for cutting down trees. It is Floyd | extremely rusty after the exposure to the elements it's had. The Floyd | Tinman doesn't seem to care, and keeps a firm grip on the wooden Floyd | handle of the axe. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take axe" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 41 ] Floyd | It belongs to the Tinman, and you can't have it. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask scarecrow about brains" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand the word 'brains' as a noun. Floyd | | Johnny says (to Ellison), "You should by the next Paul and Alex game." | |||
| Johnny says, "Er (to Floyd)" | ||||
| Johnny says, "Jesus." | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "knock on tinman" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 42 ] Floyd | There's nobody home. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "follow" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 43 ] Floyd | As you walk away, the Tinman suddenly starts to move. Floyd | "Ha ha!" he says. "I was only fooling! I'm going with you to the Floyd | Emerald City, Floyd | to ask for a heart." He picks up his oil can and follows you through Floyd | the trees. Great. Another loony tune added to your entourage. Floyd | Floyd | The Yellow Brick Floyd | On this stretch of the Yellow Brick Road, the view is filled by the Floyd | Emerald City. It glints and sparkles in the sunlight, casting a Floyd | beautiful soft green light out across the countryside. Marring an Floyd | otherwise perfect scene is a grey stone castle far off to the west, Floyd | shrouded in despair. Just looking at it gives you the screaming Floyd | heebie-jeebies. Oh, there's also a rather large lion, with a lovely Floyd | pink ribbon tied carefully in its mane, cowering wholeheartedly a Floyd | short distance away. Floyd | The Scarecrow is here, smiling inanely. Floyd | The Tinman is here too. Floyd | | Ellison says, "maybe following does everything that needs to be done" | |||
| Rotonoto says, "Seems likely." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Sure." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Onward?" | ||||
| cyberskunk says, "lets just assume its scenery until we die" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x lion" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ The Yellow Brick Road Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 44 ] Floyd | The lion is very large, bigger than the average person. He has a Floyd | golden mane, carefully tied back in a pink ribbon. There's also a look Floyd | of abject terror on his face; a very un-lion-like expression indeed. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "Continuing onward." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "follow" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Wicked Witch's Castle Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 45 ] Floyd | As you walk off, the Cowardly Lion stumbles meekly after you, mumbling Floyd | something about wanting some courage, but always being too scared to Floyd | do anything about it. Just as the four of you set out toward the Floyd | Emerald City, a dark shadow sweeps across the sun. A swarm of winged Floyd | monkeys swoops from the sky, lifting you and your companions. You Floyd | consider struggling, but it would defeat the purpose if you actually Floyd | managed to escape while you were still 200 feet above the ground. Soon Floyd | you are heading toward the bleak castle you saw to the west. When you Floyd | finally arrive, after hours in the air, your companions are flown into Floyd | the castle through a lower window, while you are taken Floyd | less-than-gently to the top of the castle's tower, to be horribly Floyd | tortured by the Wicked Witch of the West, I expect. Floyd | Floyd | You are thrust through the only window of the tower. The monkey who Floyd | carried you all this way gives you a wink and flaps off. Floyd | Floyd | The Wicked Witch's Castle Floyd | This is the summer residence of the Wicked Witch of the West. You're Floyd | here. It's a nasty place. Need I say more? There don't seem to be any Floyd | doors leading out of this room; in fact the only opening at all is the Floyd | narrow window through which you were so unceremoniously deposited, and Floyd | it's about twelve storeys up. The room is cluttered with all the Floyd | miscellaneous arcana that you'd usually associate with evil Floyd | practitioners of magic from the western quarter of non-existent, Floyd | storybook lands. Floyd | The Wicked Witch of the West looks at you and cackles evilly. Floyd | | ||||
| Gerynar has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x witch" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ The Wicked Witch's Castle Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 46 ] Floyd | The Wicked Witch of the West is a small, bent woman with a long, Floyd | pointy nose, and fingernails like you wouldn't believe. She's wearing Floyd | a black, sack-like dress and the traditional pointed witch's hat. On Floyd | her nose is the mandatory wart. She's not a pretty woman by any Floyd | stretch of the imagination. (And she has bad breath besides.) Floyd | | Johnny says, "Gerynar dislikes flying monkeys." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Monkeys are scary :(" | ||||
| Johnny says, "Not the one that dresses like a cowboy and rides a dog." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to witch" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Wicked Witch's Castle Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 47 ] Floyd | You are interrupted by a sudden cry from below. The Scarecrow is Floyd | screaming in terror as his straw stuffing is pulled out by the Witch's Floyd | assistants and used to start a barbecue. You stand frozen by the Floyd | horror of what you are hearing as the Scarecrow gives his all to cook Floyd | fifteen sausages and a nice piece of fillet steak. The Wicked Witch Floyd | begins cackling uncontrollably. Floyd | | Johnny says, "Actually, that sounds like one dangerous monkey." | |||
| Gerynar is actually chatting with some long-lost friends in a new IRC chat room | ||||
| cyberskunk says, "f ask for glass of water >_>" | ||||
| Gerynar says, "so, I can't concentrate on the game" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | > [l -> look] Floyd | [ The Wicked Witch's Castle Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 48 ] Floyd | The Wicked Witch's Castle Floyd | This is the summer residence of the Wicked Witch of the West. You're Floyd | here. It's a nasty place. Need I say more? There don't seem to be any Floyd | doors leading out of this room; in fact the only opening at all is the Floyd | narrow window through which you were so unceremoniously deposited, and Floyd | it's about twelve storeys up. The room is cluttered with all the Floyd | miscellaneous arcana that you'd usually associate with evil Floyd | practitioners of magic from the western quarter of non-existent, Floyd | storybook lands. Floyd | The Wicked Witch of the West looks at you and cackles evilly. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cackle" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'cackle' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "talk to witch" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Wicked Witch's Castle Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 49 ] Floyd | You're not going to get much out of the witch, you know. Floyd | | Rotonoto asks, "Where's a bucket when you need it?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "No worries." | ||||
| Gerynar says, "and yes, flying monkeys *are* scary" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Well. She beat us to it." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "escape" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'escape' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "pick pocket" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand the word 'pocket' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Wicked Witch's Castle Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 50 ] Floyd | Again you are interrupted by the sound of screaming from below. The Floyd | Witch's assistants are picking on the Tinman this time. He is being Floyd | used to make the tin coating on a batch of soup cans, electroplating Floyd | the plain steel. Inch by agonising inch the Tinman is eaten away, and Floyd | you can only stand by, listening helplessly. The Witch, meanwhile, is Floyd | having another laughing fit. Floyd | | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "strangle witch" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'strangle' as a verb. Floyd | | DavidW says (to Rotonoto), "The usual place for a bucket is in a well." | |||
| Rotonoto asks, "Humph. What's a thief to do?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | > [i -> inventory] Floyd | [ The Wicked Witch's Castle Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 51 ] Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | small coin Floyd | You are wearing: Floyd | Floyd | opal ring Floyd | your fingers Floyd | | Rotonoto asks (of DavidW), "Have we heard of a well around here?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I haven't played the game you're playing." | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Wicked Witch's Castle Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 52 ] Floyd | You can't go up. Floyd | | DavidW says, "I'm not even watching the game." | |||
| inky says, "pretty sure you have to bring something in from outside the oz sequence to win this" | ||||
| Ellison says, "oh, that stuff is on a timer, not related to the commands we are throwing at it" | ||||
| inky says, "although I don't remember what" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "touch ring" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Wicked Witch's Castle Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 53 ] Floyd | This time it is the roars of the Cowardly Lion that stop you in Floyd | mid-action. The poor creature dies of heart failure as he is strapped Floyd | down and forced to watch an entire late night horror movie marathon. Floyd | The Wicked Witch finds the whole thing incredibly amusing, and almost Floyd | ends up rolling on the floor. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "rub ring" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Wicked Witch's Castle Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 54 ] Floyd | An Arabian Genie does NOT appear, whereupon you are NOT granted three Floyd | wishes, which you do NOT use to acquire fabulous riches, power over Floyd | all people, and a set of true non-stick frypans (in order of Floyd | difficulty). What DOES happen is that you rub some skin off your Floyd | fingers, and stop before you ruin your nails. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kick witch" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Wicked Witch's Castle Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 55 ] Floyd | If you break it, you pay for it. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "Haha." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm gonna guess (wildly) that you have to steal the bucket from Jack and Jill." | ||||
| Ellison says, "oh yeah" | ||||
| Ellison asks, "I guess we can probably go different places from that first area, eh?" | ||||
| Ellison asks, "is there a way to get back from this one?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "I think we might be trapped?" | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "Internet went out on me." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | > [ The Wicked Witch's Castle Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 56 ] Floyd | You won't need that direction here. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "You haven't missed much. I think we're a bit lost." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hm." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Plain Room Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 57 ] Floyd | The Wicked Witch yawns loudly at this point, displaying teeth that Floyd | would give the most hardened dentist nightmares. Floyd | "I'm beginning to tire of this," she says in a bored voice. Floyd | "Adventurers are Floyd | no fun these days. No imagination at all. Get out of here." She waves Floyd | her hands in the air, tracing complex patterns, and the castle starts Floyd | to fade around you. It is replaced by another room which becomes Floyd | increasingly solid until the Witch's depressing home is gone Floyd | altogether. Floyd | Floyd | Plain Room Floyd | This, as it's title would tend to suggest, is a plain room. There's Floyd | nothing more to say, really. It's just.... plain. The walls are plain, Floyd | the ceiling is plain. The floor's a little dusty, but it's very plain Floyd | dust. The only feature that makes this room at all bearable is that Floyd | you can leave it to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | Rotonoto asks, "Still standing around, unable to do anything?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "All right." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Try another direction?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Chute Room Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 58 ] Floyd | Chute Room Floyd | Built into the south wall here is a small metal chute of the kind used Floyd | for delivering dirty clothes to the laundry. The chute leads steeply Floyd | upward from here. There are exits to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Gallery Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 59 ] Floyd | Gallery Floyd | This room was obviously an art gallery at some time in the past. There Floyd | are not-so-faded patches on the walls to show where paintings were Floyd | once hung, and slight dents in the floor to indicate the previous Floyd | positions of pedestals for displaying figurines and vases and the Floyd | like. Now, though, the room is bare, stripped of almost all its Floyd | treasures. There is a doorway to the east. Floyd | Hanging on the south wall is the only surviving painting. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl asks, "North? Was there anything else west other than the painting?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Chute Room Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 60 ] Floyd | Chute Room Floyd | Built into the south wall here is a small metal chute of the kind used Floyd | for delivering dirty clothes to the laundry. The chute leads steeply Floyd | upward from here. There are exits to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Turnstile Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 61 ] Floyd | Turnstile Floyd | This is more of a passageway than a room. It curves from the south and Floyd | goes to the west. Alternatively, it could curve from the west and go Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Barring the western exit is a shiny metal turnstile. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x turnstile" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Turnstile Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 62 ] Floyd | The turnstile is one of those revolving arrangements, where you put Floyd | the coin in the slot, and the little metal bars turn around to let you Floyd | through. This one has been designed to be impossible to climb over or Floyd | under. There's a small, thin, rectangular slot set into the turnstile Floyd | where you'd put your coin, if you had one. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put coin in slot" | ||||
Floyd | > Do you mean the round slot or the metal turnstile? Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put coin in turnstile" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Railway Station Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 63 ] Floyd | There is a clank from inside the mechanism as the coin slips into the Floyd | slot. You push against the bars, which now rotate freely, and step Floyd | through. Floyd | Floyd | Railway Station Floyd | This is the platform of a suburban railway station. The rails are to Floyd | the west, three feet lower than the level of the platform. There is a Floyd | bench of the extremely uncomfortable type that Railway Authorities Floyd | around the world seem to delight in providing, fixed to the platform Floyd | to prevent it being stolen, I suppose. As if anyone would bother. To Floyd | the north and south, the platform is abruptly cut off by stone walls, Floyd | while to the east is a doorway labelled "Exit". The rails lie to the Floyd | west, as I said, but there's also a large sign ordering you to stay Floyd | away, it might be dangerous. Floyd | There is a piece of paper here. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh. We *do* have one." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Railway Station Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 64 ] Floyd | The piece of paper is actually an invoice, slightly dirty from having Floyd | been on the floor. I know you're curious about what it's an invoice Floyd | for, so why don't you just get on with reading the thing? Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read paper" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Railway Station Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 65 ] Floyd | The invoice reads as follows: Floyd | Floyd | Gooseberry Brothers - Makers Of Fine Magical Equipment Floyd | Floyd | To: The Multi-Dimensional Thieves' Guild ACC#: 55748761 Floyd | Floyd | /-------------------------------------------------------+---------+--- Floyd | -\ Floyd | | 1 (one) only Containment Cube, mirror style, | 1605 Floyd | | 50 | Floyd | | by special arrangement | Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | | Less trade discount - 20% | 321 Floyd | | 10 | Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | Floyd | +-------------------------------------------------------+---------+--- Floyd | -+ Floyd | | Total | 1284 Floyd | | 40 | Floyd | Floyd | TERMS: strictly thirty days only. Floyd | Remit via any reputable Lending Establishment Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get paper" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Railway Station Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 66 ] Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Turnstile Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 67 ] Floyd | You climb carefully down onto the rails. Suddenly there is a blinding Floyd | light from the northern section of the tunnel, and a freight train Floyd | rockets out. Your opal ring glows blue at this point, giving you a Floyd | second chance, and the train miraculously stops, just in time to avoid Floyd | spoiling its paintwork. The driver proceeds to poke his head out the Floyd | window and hurl abuse at you in three languages. Shaken by your brush Floyd | with death (not to mention the train driver), you leave the station Floyd | quickly, vowing to take the bus from now on. Floyd | Floyd | Turnstile Floyd | This is more of a passageway than a room. It curves from the south and Floyd | goes to the west. Alternatively, it could curve from the west and go Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Barring the western exit is a shiny metal turnstile. Floyd | | Ellison asks, "think the ring saves us unlimitedly or should we undo?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hm, dunno." | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand '/undo' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Railway Station Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 66 ] Floyd | UNDOing a turn... Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Railway Station Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 67 ] Floyd | Suddenly a four foot egg with arms and legs rushes into the room. It's Floyd | dressed in a purple velvet waistcoat, with black shoes and knee high Floyd | socks. It runs around for a while clutching its head and screaming Floyd | incoherently about the cracks in its shell, proclaiming its hatred for Floyd | all brick walls everywhere. It also mentions something about the total Floyd | incompetence of the equestrian mounts and male employees of some Floyd | obscure King. Finally, after bumping into the walls a few times and Floyd | cursing with words you didn't think eggs knew, it runs from the room, Floyd | still yelling. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Railway Station Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 68 ] Floyd | Railway Station Floyd | This is the platform of a suburban railway station. The rails are to Floyd | the west, three feet lower than the level of the platform. There is a Floyd | bench of the extremely uncomfortable type that Railway Authorities Floyd | around the world seem to delight in providing, fixed to the platform Floyd | to prevent it being stolen, I suppose. As if anyone would bother. To Floyd | the north and south, the platform is abruptly cut off by stone walls, Floyd | while to the east is a doorway labelled "Exit". The rails lie to the Floyd | west, as I said, but there's also a large sign ordering you to stay Floyd | away, it might be dangerous. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "read sign" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Railway Station Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 69 ] Floyd | The sign reads: Floyd | Floyd | STAY AWAY FROM THE RAILS. IT MIGHT BE DANGEROUS. Floyd | by order the Station Master Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x bench" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Railway Station Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 70 ] Floyd | This particular Extremely Uncomfortable Bench is painted just the Floyd | wrong shade of green. It's made of wooden planks, two each for the Floyd | seat and backrest (ha!), with wrought iron legs and armrests (ha!). Floyd | The legs are set into the platform to prevent the bench being removed Floyd | by the unscrupulous and incredibly stupid sort of person possibly Floyd | steal a bench such as this. Floyd | | Rotonoto exclaims, "My wireless is being tempermental, so I'm gonna call it a night. Good luck with the dimensional thievery!" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sit on bench" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Railway Station Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 71 ] Floyd | There's no time for relaxing! You have to get out of here! Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x walls" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'walls' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Turnstile Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 72 ] Floyd | Turnstile Floyd | This is more of a passageway than a room. It curves from the south and Floyd | goes to the west. Alternatively, it could curve from the west and go Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Barring the western exit is a shiny metal turnstile. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Chute Room Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 73 ] Floyd | Chute Room Floyd | Built into the south wall here is a small metal chute of the kind used Floyd | for delivering dirty clothes to the laundry. The chute leads steeply Floyd | upward from here. There are exits to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Plain Room Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 74 ] Floyd | Plain Room Floyd | This, as it's title would tend to suggest, is a plain room. There's Floyd | nothing more to say, really. It's just.... plain. The walls are plain, Floyd | the ceiling is plain. The floor's a little dusty, but it's very plain Floyd | dust. The only feature that makes this room at all bearable is that Floyd | you can leave it to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Small Room Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 75 ] Floyd | Small Room Floyd | You are in a small room with a low roof. The real distinguishing Floyd | feature of this room lies in its exits. There are doorways to the Floyd | south and east. Floyd | To the north there's a large arched door set into the wall. It's Floyd | closed. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Small Room Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 76 ] Floyd | You can't get the door open. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "push door" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Small Room Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 77 ] Floyd | You try to push the door open, but it doesn't move. There's be no Floyd | point in having a door if you could open it, just like that. If that's Floyd | all you can think of, then you're not getting through this door, let Floyd | me tell you. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Low Passageway Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 78 ] Floyd | Low Passageway Floyd | You are currently in a low passage running east-west. The walls are Floyd | made of heavy stone blocks, fitted tightly together. To the west is Floyd | the Small Room that you started in. Who knows what lies to the Floyd | east....? Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Laboratory Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 79 ] Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This room is set up as some kind of inventors' workshop. There are a Floyd | number of benches around the room with various small pieces of Floyd | electronic equipment on them, but they're insignificant. The room is Floyd | dominated by an ungainly machine against the east wall; a modified Floyd | robotic arm, with leads and cables snaking everywhere, and a pointy, Floyd | laser-like object on the end. There's a doorway to the west, and a Floyd | smaller exit marked "Storeroom" to the south. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Storeroom Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 80 ] Floyd | Storeroom Floyd | I'm sure you're familiar with storerooms and what they're for, so I Floyd | won't go into great detail (they're self-explanatory, really). The Floyd | exit's to the north. Floyd | There are a few rows of wooden shelving attached to the south wall. Floyd | There is a portable hole here. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get hole" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Storeroom Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 81 ] Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | ||||
| Rotonoto goes home. | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Storeroom Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 82 ] Floyd | The portable hole is about two feet in diameter and is completely Floyd | black. It's slightly sticky to the touch, and has a rubbery feel to Floyd | it. That's about all there is to tell; it's a fairly straightforward Floyd | portable hole. Floyd | | Ellison says, "hmm" | |||
| Ellison says, "I prefer not to drive but I will if nobody else wants to" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Sorry, a little distracted." | ||||
| Ellison says, "s'ok" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh. That looks useful." | ||||
| cyberskunk asks, "do we have a bag of holding?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | > [l -> look] Floyd | [ Storeroom Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 83 ] Floyd | Storeroom Floyd | I'm sure you're familiar with storerooms and what they're for, so I Floyd | won't go into great detail (they're self-explanatory, really). The Floyd | exit's to the north. Floyd | There are a few rows of wooden shelving attached to the south wall. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x shelving" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Storeroom Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 84 ] Floyd | The shelves are made of plain, ordinary old wood, and spaced about two Floyd | feet apart, all the way up the wall. They appear fairly sturdy. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "climb shelving" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Storeroom Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 85 ] Floyd | You can't do that! Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Storeroom Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 86 ] Floyd | You can't go up. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | > [i -> inventory] Floyd | [ Storeroom Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 87 ] Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | piece of paper Floyd | portable hole Floyd | You are wearing: Floyd | opal ring Floyd | your fingers Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Storeroom Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 88 ] Floyd | You're not inside anything that you can exit. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Laboratory Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 89 ] Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This room is set up as some kind of inventors' workshop. There are a Floyd | number of benches around the room with various small pieces of Floyd | electronic equipment on them, but they're insignificant. The room is Floyd | dominated by an ungainly machine against the east wall; a modified Floyd | robotic arm, with leads and cables snaking everywhere, and a pointy, Floyd | laser-like object on the end. There's a doorway to the west, and a Floyd | smaller exit marked "Storeroom" to the south. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read writing" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Laboratory Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 90 ] Floyd | The robot arm bears the legend: "Proudly Supplied by Gooseberry Floyd | Brothers." The UP position of the lever is marked "Drink Me", and the Floyd | DOWN position is labelled "Eat Me". The neutral position is unmarked. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl clears the save counter. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | > Enter saved game to store: | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push down" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Laboratory Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 91 ] Floyd | The arm starts to move, swaying this way and that. From deep inside Floyd | the machine there comes a growing hum, and the pointy laser-nozzle Floyd | thing on the end of the arm begins to glow yellow. Then, without Floyd | warning, it points directly at you, and a beam of bright yellow light Floyd | lances out and strikes you. Satisfied that it has made its point, the Floyd | machine falls quiet. Floyd | Floyd | The room appears to be growing larger. Floyd | | cyberskunk says, "Gooseberry is the name on the ring" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | > [l -> look] Floyd | [ Inch Tall: Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 92 ] Floyd | Pay attention! The room continues to grow smoothly in size (or are you Floyd | shrinking?) until it is difficult to make out the roof any longer. The Floyd | walls seem a huge distance away. Finally, the change comes to a halt. Floyd | Things look totally different from down here. Unfortunately, whatever Floyd | you were carrying didn't shrink along with you. Floyd | Floyd | You're now an inch tall. Floyd | Floyd | Inch Tall: Laboratory Floyd | This room as become extremely large, relatively speaking. The legs of Floyd | what used to be small benches appear as huge, rough wooden pillars, Floyd | and the machine that got you into this mess now looks like a Floyd | thirty-five storey piece of modern sculpture. To the south and west Floyd | are openings, which you assume to be doorways. Floyd | A very large expanse of paper is lying on the floor here. Floyd | There's a big, polished chunk of opal here, set into a wide circle Floyd | of silver. Floyd | Your portable hole, now some fifty yards across, is lying on the Floyd | floor. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Inch Tall: Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 93 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Inch Tall: Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 94 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Inch Tall: Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 95 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Inch Tall: Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 96 ] Floyd | You propose to fly, perhaps? Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Inch Tall: Low Passageway Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 97 ] Floyd | Inch Tall: Low Passageway Floyd | This is a large room, open to the east and west. Normally it would be Floyd | a perfectly ordinary east-west passageway, but at your present height Floyd | the stone blocks that make up the walls seem like five-storey Floyd | buildings. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Inch Tall: Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 98 ] Floyd | Inch Tall: Small Room Floyd | It may have been small before you shrank, but now you could hang-glide Floyd | in here without difficulty. There's very little here worthy of note. Floyd | There are relatively small rectangular gaps in the walls to the south Floyd | and east. Floyd | To the north there's a large blue arched door, blocking the way. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x gaps" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'gaps' as a noun. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "Just curious (hence the save)." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Inch Tall: Plain Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 99 ] Floyd | Inch Tall: Plain Room Floyd | The room is big, and very uninteresting. Except for the really tiny Floyd | letters on the bottom of the south wall, that is. They're so small Floyd | that if you weren't an inch tall you'd never see them. They read: Floyd | "This wall has been made holeproof using New Spray-Pak No-More-Holes Floyd | (tm) courtesy of Gooseberry Brothers." The exits are to the north, Floyd | east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Inch Tall: Chute Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 100 ] Floyd | Inch Tall: Chute Room Floyd | High up on the south wall is a large rectangular opening. It's lined Floyd | with smooth, shiny metal, and leads upward, into the unknown. On the Floyd | top edge of the giant chute is a huge red warning label reading "Stand Floyd | Well Clear", while on the bottom edge are the words "Petersen's Floyd | Laundry Equipment", in four foot high letters. There are exits to the Floyd | north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Inch Tall: Chute Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 101 ] Floyd | You propose to fly, perhaps? Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter chute" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Chute Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 102 ] Floyd | Without warning, you begin to get taller again. The room seems to be Floyd | shrinking smoothly back to its usual size around you, and in seconds Floyd | you have returned to your normal height. What a relief! Floyd | Floyd | You're no longer an inch tall. Floyd | Floyd | Chute Room Floyd | Built into the south wall here is a small metal chute of the kind used Floyd | for delivering dirty clothes to the laundry. The chute leads steeply Floyd | upward from here. There are exits to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "Heh." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Oh." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Nevermind." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Is that like a Roddenberry?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "did we try to do stuff with the small door while we were small" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "My plan was to see if I could crawl up the laundry chute." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "There's a small door?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "hm. Most IF chutes are one-way, but I suppose there could be an exception." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | > [i -> inventory] Floyd | [ Chute Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 103 ] Floyd | You are empty handed. Floyd | You are wearing: Floyd | your fingers Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Gallery Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 104 ] Floyd | Gallery Floyd | This room was obviously an art gallery at some time in the past. There Floyd | are not-so-faded patches on the walls to show where paintings were Floyd | once hung, and slight dents in the floor to indicate the previous Floyd | positions of pedestals for displaying figurines and vases and the Floyd | like. Now, though, the room is bare, stripped of almost all its Floyd | treasures. There is a doorway to the east. Floyd | Hanging on the south wall is the only surviving painting. Floyd | | Ellison says, "the room to the north, I think. I doubt we can do anything with it but who knows." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Chute Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 105 ] Floyd | Chute Room Floyd | Built into the south wall here is a small metal chute of the kind used Floyd | for delivering dirty clothes to the laundry. The chute leads steeply Floyd | upward from here. There are exits to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Turnstile Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 106 ] Floyd | Turnstile Floyd | This is more of a passageway than a room. It curves from the south and Floyd | goes to the west. Alternatively, it could curve from the west and go Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Barring the western exit is a shiny metal turnstile. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Chute Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 107 ] Floyd | Chute Room Floyd | Built into the south wall here is a small metal chute of the kind used Floyd | for delivering dirty clothes to the laundry. The chute leads steeply Floyd | upward from here. There are exits to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Plain Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 108 ] Floyd | Plain Room Floyd | This, as it's title would tend to suggest, is a plain room. There's Floyd | nothing more to say, really. It's just.... plain. The walls are plain, Floyd | the ceiling is plain. The floor's a little dusty, but it's very plain Floyd | dust. The only feature that makes this room at all bearable is that Floyd | you can leave it to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 109 ] Floyd | Small Room Floyd | You are in a small room with a low roof. The real distinguishing Floyd | feature of this room lies in its exits. There are doorways to the Floyd | south and east. Floyd | To the north there's a large arched door set into the wall. It's Floyd | closed. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl asks, "North of here?" | |||
| Ellison says, "yeah, I think" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ah. I zoned out during this bit." | ||||
| Ellison says, "oh, I guess not" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "All of our stuff is in the lab." | ||||
| Ellison says, "oh, it's a large door" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Plain Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 110 ] Floyd | Plain Room Floyd | This, as it's title would tend to suggest, is a plain room. There's Floyd | nothing more to say, really. It's just.... plain. The walls are plain, Floyd | the ceiling is plain. The floor's a little dusty, but it's very plain Floyd | dust. The only feature that makes this room at all bearable is that Floyd | you can leave it to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Chute Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 111 ] Floyd | Chute Room Floyd | Built into the south wall here is a small metal chute of the kind used Floyd | for delivering dirty clothes to the laundry. The chute leads steeply Floyd | upward from here. There are exits to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Gallery Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 112 ] Floyd | Gallery Floyd | This room was obviously an art gallery at some time in the past. There Floyd | are not-so-faded patches on the walls to show where paintings were Floyd | once hung, and slight dents in the floor to indicate the previous Floyd | positions of pedestals for displaying figurines and vases and the Floyd | like. Now, though, the room is bare, stripped of almost all its Floyd | treasures. There is a doorway to the east. Floyd | Hanging on the south wall is the only surviving painting. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get painting" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Gallery Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 113 ] Floyd | The painting is firmly attached to the wall. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Gallery Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 114 ] Floyd | The painting shows a scene of total devastation. Wreckage is strewn Floyd | all over; bits of wood and metal have been blown around the yard, and Floyd | the farmhouse has been carried away altogether. In the background is a Floyd | tornado, and if tornadoes could look smug and self-satisfied, this one Floyd | would. It's a very realistic painting of a pretty horrible situation. Floyd | A plaque is attached to the frame. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Chute Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 115 ] Floyd | Chute Room Floyd | Built into the south wall here is a small metal chute of the kind used Floyd | for delivering dirty clothes to the laundry. The chute leads steeply Floyd | upward from here. There are exits to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Plain Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 116 ] Floyd | Plain Room Floyd | This, as it's title would tend to suggest, is a plain room. There's Floyd | nothing more to say, really. It's just.... plain. The walls are plain, Floyd | the ceiling is plain. The floor's a little dusty, but it's very plain Floyd | dust. The only feature that makes this room at all bearable is that Floyd | you can leave it to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | Ellison says, "never mind" | |||
| Ellison asks, "oh, that's how we got to Kansas, I take it?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yup." | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Aquarium Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 117 ] Floyd | Aquarium Floyd | In the centre of the room is a large fishtank, so named because of the Floyd | many little fishies currently swimming in it. It occupies most of the Floyd | room, and appears to rate at "hernia" in weight. There is a doorway to Floyd | the west. Floyd | You note that the tank is completely sealed. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look tank" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Aquarium Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 118 ] Floyd | The aquarium is quite large, about eight feet on a side and four feet Floyd | high. It is made of thick glass, with metal bindings at the corners, Floyd | and rests on a stand about three feet off the ground. The water, which Floyd | is sealed inside the tank, appears slightly murky. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "look tank" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I guess we'll get water here, if we ever find something to carry it in." | ||||
| Ellison says, "let's put the portable hole on this, maybe" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "We'll have to go get it. (Or just restore and come back here)" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Plain Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 119 ] Floyd | Plain Room Floyd | This, as it's title would tend to suggest, is a plain room. There's Floyd | nothing more to say, really. It's just.... plain. The walls are plain, Floyd | the ceiling is plain. The floor's a little dusty, but it's very plain Floyd | dust. The only feature that makes this room at all bearable is that Floyd | you can leave it to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 120 ] Floyd | Small Room Floyd | You are in a small room with a low roof. The real distinguishing Floyd | feature of this room lies in its exits. There are doorways to the Floyd | south and east. Floyd | To the north there's a large arched door set into the wall. It's Floyd | closed. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Low Passageway Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 121 ] Floyd | Low Passageway Floyd | You are currently in a low passage running east-west. The walls are Floyd | made of heavy stone blocks, fitted tightly together. To the west is Floyd | the Small Room that you started in. Who knows what lies to the Floyd | east....? Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Laboratory Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 122 ] Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This room is set up as some kind of inventors' workshop. There are a Floyd | number of benches around the room with various small pieces of Floyd | electronic equipment on them, but they're insignificant. The room is Floyd | dominated by an ungainly machine against the east wall; a modified Floyd | robotic arm, with leads and cables snaking everywhere, and a pointy, Floyd | laser-like object on the end. There's a doorway to the west, and a Floyd | smaller exit marked "Storeroom" to the south. Floyd | There is a piece of paper here. Floyd | There is an opal ring here. Floyd | There is a portable hole here. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Laboratory Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 123 ] Floyd | piece of paper: taken. Floyd | opal ring: taken. Floyd | portable hole: taken. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Low Passageway Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 124 ] Floyd | Low Passageway Floyd | You are currently in a low passage running east-west. The walls are Floyd | made of heavy stone blocks, fitted tightly together. To the west is Floyd | the Small Room that you started in. Who knows what lies to the Floyd | east....? Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Small Room Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 125 ] Floyd | Small Room Floyd | You are in a small room with a low roof. The real distinguishing Floyd | feature of this room lies in its exits. There are doorways to the Floyd | south and east. Floyd | To the north there's a large arched door set into the wall. It's Floyd | closed. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Plain Room Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 126 ] Floyd | Plain Room Floyd | This, as it's title would tend to suggest, is a plain room. There's Floyd | nothing more to say, really. It's just.... plain. The walls are plain, Floyd | the ceiling is plain. The floor's a little dusty, but it's very plain Floyd | dust. The only feature that makes this room at all bearable is that Floyd | you can leave it to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Aquarium Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 127 ] Floyd | Aquarium Floyd | In the centre of the room is a large fishtank, so named because of the Floyd | many little fishies currently swimming in it. It occupies most of the Floyd | room, and appears to rate at "hernia" in weight. There is a doorway to Floyd | the west. Floyd | You note that the tank is completely sealed. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put hole on tank" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Aquarium Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 128 ] Floyd | The portable hole will only stick to the interior of a room (ie. the Floyd | walls, the floor, the ceiling). They're very temperamental, these Floyd | portable holes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x fish" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Aquarium Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 129 ] Floyd | The fish are small, and crimson in colour. There must be a couple of Floyd | hundred of them in the tank, but they're all swimming around quite Floyd | happily, totally oblivious to your presence. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat fish" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Aquarium Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 130 ] Floyd | Suddenly, a hoard of tiny red imps, armed with pitchforks, appears in Floyd | the room. They swarm all over you, knock you to the ground, and begin Floyd | kicking and prodding you in a number of sensitive areas. Then, just as Floyd | suddenly as they appeared, the imps are gone. You get to your feet, Floyd | rubbing the sore spots, and only then do you realise that the imps Floyd | have stolen some of your possessions. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "whoa" | |||
| Ellison says, "weird" | ||||
| cyberskunk says, "the hell?! (exactly)" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Aquarium Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 129 ] Floyd | UNDOing a turn... Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Aquarium Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 130 ] Floyd | Suddenly, a hoard of tiny red imps, armed with pitchforks, appears in Floyd | the room. They swarm all over you, knock you to the ground, and begin Floyd | kicking and prodding you in a number of sensitive areas. Then, just as Floyd | suddenly as they appeared, the imps are gone. You get to your feet, Floyd | rubbing the sore spots, and only then do you realise that the imps Floyd | have stolen some of your possessions. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | > [i -> inventory] Floyd | [ Aquarium Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 131 ] Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | portable hole Floyd | You are wearing: Floyd | Floyd | your fingers Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "Ok. I guess it was inevitable. Not because I tried to eat their fish." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Glad they didn't take our *fingers*." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop hole" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Aquarium Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 132 ] Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Aquarium Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 133 ] Floyd | I'm sorry to interrupt, but I'd just like to let you know at this Floyd | point that these small crimson fish are actually red herrings. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter hole" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Aquarium Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 134 ] Floyd | You can't do that! Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | > [l -> look] Floyd | [ Aquarium Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 135 ] Floyd | Aquarium Floyd | In the centre of the room is a large fishtank, so named because of the Floyd | many little fishies currently swimming in it. It occupies most of the Floyd | room, and appears to rate at "hernia" in weight. There is a doorway to Floyd | the west. Floyd | You note that the tank is completely sealed. Floyd | There is a portable hole here. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take hole" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Aquarium Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 136 ] Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put hole on floor" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Aquarium Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 137 ] Floyd | There isn't any floor here to put the hole on. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put hole on ground" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Aquarium Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 138 ] Floyd | There isn't any ground here to put the hole on. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "Going, uh. Down." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "..." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "So much for that idea." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Aquarium Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 139 ] Floyd | There isn't any floor here. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Plain Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 140 ] Floyd | Plain Room Floyd | This, as it's title would tend to suggest, is a plain room. There's Floyd | nothing more to say, really. It's just.... plain. The walls are plain, Floyd | the ceiling is plain. The floor's a little dusty, but it's very plain Floyd | dust. The only feature that makes this room at all bearable is that Floyd | you can leave it to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put hole on floor" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Plain Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 141 ] Floyd | There isn't any floor here to put the hole on. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 142 ] Floyd | Small Room Floyd | You are in a small room with a low roof. The real distinguishing Floyd | feature of this room lies in its exits. There are doorways to the Floyd | south and east. Floyd | To the north there's a large arched door set into the wall. It's Floyd | closed. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put hole on door" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 143 ] Floyd | The hole begins to cringe as you bring it close to the door. It Floyd | wriggles and writhes in your hand, before finally curling up into a Floyd | ball and refusing to come out until you take it away. It uncurls again Floyd | when it feels it is a safe distance from the door, but it won't attach Floyd | itself there for you or anybody. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Plain Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 144 ] Floyd | Plain Room Floyd | This, as it's title would tend to suggest, is a plain room. There's Floyd | nothing more to say, really. It's just.... plain. The walls are plain, Floyd | the ceiling is plain. The floor's a little dusty, but it's very plain Floyd | dust. The only feature that makes this room at all bearable is that Floyd | you can leave it to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Chute Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 145 ] Floyd | Chute Room Floyd | Built into the south wall here is a small metal chute of the kind used Floyd | for delivering dirty clothes to the laundry. The chute leads steeply Floyd | upward from here. There are exits to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Turnstile Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 146 ] Floyd | Turnstile Floyd | This is more of a passageway than a room. It curves from the south and Floyd | goes to the west. Alternatively, it could curve from the west and go Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Barring the western exit is a shiny metal turnstile. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Turnstile Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 147 ] Floyd | I think you'll find there's something in the way. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "jump over turnstile" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Turnstile Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 148 ] Floyd | You can't do that! Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put coin on turnstile" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Turnstile Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 149 ] Floyd | There's no coin here. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put hole on turnstile" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Turnstile Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 150 ] Floyd | The portable hole will only stick to the interior of a room (ie. the Floyd | walls, the floor, the ceiling). They're very temperamental, these Floyd | portable holes. Floyd | | Ellison says, "thought maybe the coin had bought us permanent passage" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Sadly, turnstiles do not work that way." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "And apparently not the floor, either, because it doesn't exist." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put hole on wall" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Turnstile Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 151 ] Floyd | The portable hole connects to the next room with a barely audible Floyd | "pop". Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | > [l -> look] Floyd | [ Turnstile Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 152 ] Floyd | Turnstile Floyd | This is more of a passageway than a room. It curves from the south and Floyd | goes to the west. Alternatively, it could curve from the west and go Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Barring the western exit is a shiny metal turnstile. Floyd | You can climb through the portable hole attached to the north wall. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Turnstile Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 153 ] Floyd | I think you'll find there's something in the way. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take hole" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Turnstile Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 154 ] Floyd | As you remove the hole, the exit it had created in the wall vanishes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put hole on floor" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Turnstile Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 155 ] Floyd | There isn't any floor here to put the hole on. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put hole on ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Turnstile Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 156 ] Floyd | There isn't any ceiling here to put the hole on. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "Aight." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | > [l -> look] Floyd | [ Turnstile Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 157 ] Floyd | Turnstile Floyd | This is more of a passageway than a room. It curves from the south and Floyd | goes to the west. Alternatively, it could curve from the west and go Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Barring the western exit is a shiny metal turnstile. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Turnstile Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 158 ] Floyd | I think you'll find there's something in the way. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Turnstile Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 159 ] Floyd | I think you'll find there's something in the way. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Chute Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 160 ] Floyd | Chute Room Floyd | Built into the south wall here is a small metal chute of the kind used Floyd | for delivering dirty clothes to the laundry. The chute leads steeply Floyd | upward from here. There are exits to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Gallery Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 161 ] Floyd | Gallery Floyd | This room was obviously an art gallery at some time in the past. There Floyd | are not-so-faded patches on the walls to show where paintings were Floyd | once hung, and slight dents in the floor to indicate the previous Floyd | positions of pedestals for displaying figurines and vases and the Floyd | like. Now, though, the room is bare, stripped of almost all its Floyd | treasures. There is a doorway to the east. Floyd | Hanging on the south wall is the only surviving painting. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put hole on floor" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Gallery Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 162 ] Floyd | There isn't any floor here to put the hole on. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Gallery Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 163 ] Floyd | The painting shows a scene of total devastation. Wreckage is strewn Floyd | all over; bits of wood and metal have been blown around the yard, and Floyd | the farmhouse has been carried away altogether. In the background is a Floyd | tornado, and if tornadoes could look smug and self-satisfied, this one Floyd | would. It's a very realistic painting of a pretty horrible situation. Floyd | A plaque is attached to the frame. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take painting" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Gallery Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 164 ] Floyd | The painting is firmly attached to the wall. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | > [l -> look] Floyd | [ Gallery Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 165 ] Floyd | Gallery Floyd | This room was obviously an art gallery at some time in the past. There Floyd | are not-so-faded patches on the walls to show where paintings were Floyd | once hung, and slight dents in the floor to indicate the previous Floyd | positions of pedestals for displaying figurines and vases and the Floyd | like. Now, though, the room is bare, stripped of almost all its Floyd | treasures. There is a doorway to the east. Floyd | Hanging on the south wall is the only surviving painting. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Chute Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 166 ] Floyd | Chute Room Floyd | Built into the south wall here is a small metal chute of the kind used Floyd | for delivering dirty clothes to the laundry. The chute leads steeply Floyd | upward from here. There are exits to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Turnstile Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 167 ] Floyd | Turnstile Floyd | This is more of a passageway than a room. It curves from the south and Floyd | goes to the west. Alternatively, it could curve from the west and go Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Barring the western exit is a shiny metal turnstile. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "I think I'm lost." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Chute Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 168 ] Floyd | Chute Room Floyd | Built into the south wall here is a small metal chute of the kind used Floyd | for delivering dirty clothes to the laundry. The chute leads steeply Floyd | upward from here. There are exits to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl w | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Gallery Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 169 ] Floyd | Gallery Floyd | This room was obviously an art gallery at some time in the past. There Floyd | are not-so-faded patches on the walls to show where paintings were Floyd | once hung, and slight dents in the floor to indicate the previous Floyd | positions of pedestals for displaying figurines and vases and the Floyd | like. Now, though, the room is bare, stripped of almost all its Floyd | treasures. There is a doorway to the east. Floyd | Hanging on the south wall is the only surviving painting. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Gallery Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 170 ] Floyd | There's a wall there. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Chute Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 171 ] Floyd | Chute Room Floyd | Built into the south wall here is a small metal chute of the kind used Floyd | for delivering dirty clothes to the laundry. The chute leads steeply Floyd | upward from here. There are exits to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Plain Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 172 ] Floyd | Plain Room Floyd | This, as it's title would tend to suggest, is a plain room. There's Floyd | nothing more to say, really. It's just.... plain. The walls are plain, Floyd | the ceiling is plain. The floor's a little dusty, but it's very plain Floyd | dust. The only feature that makes this room at all bearable is that Floyd | you can leave it to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "map" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'map' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 173 ] Floyd | Small Room Floyd | You are in a small room with a low roof. The real distinguishing Floyd | feature of this room lies in its exits. There are doorways to the Floyd | south and east. Floyd | To the north there's a large arched door set into the wall. It's Floyd | closed. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put hole on ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 174 ] Floyd | There isn't any ceiling here to put the hole on. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put hole on door" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Small Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 175 ] Floyd | The hole begins to cringe as you bring it close to the door. It Floyd | wriggles and writhes in your hand, before finally curling up into a Floyd | ball and refusing to come out until you take it away. It uncurls again Floyd | when it feels it is a safe distance from the door, but it won't attach Floyd | itself there for you or anybody. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Low Passageway Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 176 ] Floyd | Low Passageway Floyd | You are currently in a low passage running east-west. The walls are Floyd | made of heavy stone blocks, fitted tightly together. To the west is Floyd | the Small Room that you started in. Who knows what lies to the Floyd | east....? Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 177 ] Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This room is set up as some kind of inventors' workshop. There are a Floyd | number of benches around the room with various small pieces of Floyd | electronic equipment on them, but they're insignificant. The room is Floyd | dominated by an ungainly machine against the east wall; a modified Floyd | robotic arm, with leads and cables snaking everywhere, and a pointy, Floyd | laser-like object on the end. There's a doorway to the west, and a Floyd | smaller exit marked "Storeroom" to the south. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x laser" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 178 ] Floyd | The machine consists of a large robot arm, fixed onto the ground. At Floyd | the end of the arm is a pointed nozzle, apparently some kind of laser Floyd | beam device. The arm is covered in leads and cables of various Floyd | colours, joining one component to another. It isn't exactly clear what Floyd | it does, but it sure looks impressive. There is a small lever poking Floyd | out from the side of the machine. It is currently set in the neutral Floyd | position, from which it can be pushed either up or down. There is some Floyd | writing next to the lever. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Storeroom Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 179 ] Floyd | Storeroom Floyd | I'm sure you're familiar with storerooms and what they're for, so I Floyd | won't go into great detail (they're self-explanatory, really). The Floyd | exit's to the north. Floyd | There are a few rows of wooden shelving attached to the south wall. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 180 ] Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This room is set up as some kind of inventors' workshop. There are a Floyd | number of benches around the room with various small pieces of Floyd | electronic equipment on them, but they're insignificant. The room is Floyd | dominated by an ungainly machine against the east wall; a modified Floyd | robotic arm, with leads and cables snaking everywhere, and a pointy, Floyd | laser-like object on the end. There's a doorway to the west, and a Floyd | smaller exit marked "Storeroom" to the south. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put hole on floor" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 181 ] Floyd | There isn't any floor here to put the hole on. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put hole on wall" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 182 ] Floyd | The portable hole connects to the next room with a barely audible Floyd | "pop". Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | > [l -> look] Floyd | [ Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 183 ] Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This room is set up as some kind of inventors' workshop. There are a Floyd | number of benches around the room with various small pieces of Floyd | electronic equipment on them, but they're insignificant. The room is Floyd | dominated by an ungainly machine against the east wall; a modified Floyd | robotic arm, with leads and cables snaking everywhere, and a pointy, Floyd | laser-like object on the end. There's a doorway to the west, and a Floyd | smaller exit marked "Storeroom" to the south. Floyd | You can climb through the portable hole attached to the north wall. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 184 ] Floyd | There's a wall there. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter hole" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Laboratory Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 185 ] Floyd | You can't do that! Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "climb through hole" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Antechamber Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 186 ] Floyd | You climb through the portable hole. Floyd | Floyd | I'd like to take this opportunity to point out one of the advanced Floyd | features of this game. Now that you are aware that the portable hole Floyd | can be used just like any other exit, you'll probably want to climb Floyd | through it often. To make this process as painless as possible, the Floyd | Function key F5 has been defined as "HOLE" which is equivalent to Floyd | typing "CLIMB THROUGH THE HOLE" or "STEP INTO THE HOLE", or any of the Floyd | many other valid variants. Of course, you can always type it out in Floyd | full if you're still wary of all this new-fangled technology, but it's Floyd | nice to know that F5 is there if you want it. Floyd | Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | This room is the reception area for a large hall. Marks on the walls Floyd | indicate where posters once hung, advertising functions in the hall, Floyd | but they have long since been stripped down. You can hear a strange Floyd | muffled noise here. There is a doorway to the north, leading into the Floyd | hall, and another to the west. Floyd | The portable hole to the south will allow you to climb into the Floyd | next room. Floyd | There is a very large stool sitting here. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take stool" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Antechamber Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 187 ] Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x stool" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Antechamber Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 188 ] Floyd | The seat of the stool is two and a half feet wide, and it's four feet Floyd | tall. It's made of wood: four poles as legs, attached to the circular Floyd | seat, with crosspieces between the legs for stability. It would be an Floyd | uncomfortable seat for you, even if the wood wasn't as rough as it is, Floyd | since this stool was designed for a person of above average height. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "It's about time." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'listen' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Plant Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 189 ] Floyd | Plant Room Floyd | In the middle of the room is a gigantic plant, a kind of exotic Venus Floyd | Flytrap, I guess. It's about seven feet tall, including its red Floyd | ceramic pot, and has long thin runners spreading out across the whole Floyd | floor. The plant seems to be moving slightly, and there's a faint Floyd | murmuring sound. There are doorways to the north, east and west. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x plant" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Plant Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 190 ] Floyd | The plant has a large pod on the end of a thick stalk. The pod is Floyd | clam-shaped, and opens slightly every so often to reveal row upon row Floyd | of razor sharp, spiky teeth. This plant is obviously closely related Floyd | to its smaller look-alike, the Venus Flytrap. It's planted in a large Floyd | red ceramic pot, and there are numerous runners spreading through Floyd | cracks in the pot, out across the floor. The plant is moving slightly Floyd | and making a soft murmuring noise. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take plant" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Plant Room Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 191 ] Floyd | I'm not so sure that would be in your best interests. The plant might Floyd | take exception to being treated like that. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "And this is how we lose our fingers." | |||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Statue Room Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 192 ] Floyd | The plant moves its pod slightly to one side, and regards you for a Floyd | moment. Floyd | "Guy sure looks like plant food to me," it says in a deep, menacing Floyd | voice. Floyd | Floyd | Statue Room Floyd | A bronze statue of a man on horseback is displayed against the north Floyd | wall. It shows the horse rearing up on its hind legs in an aggressive Floyd | pose, while the man, apparently a royal personage, has a sword drawn Floyd | above his head. The statue is likely a war memorial of some kind. Floyd | There are exits to the south and west. Floyd | There is a thin leaflet lying here. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Statue Room Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 193 ] Floyd | This six page leaflet is actually the Summer Catalogue from Gooseberry Floyd | Brothers. It's a glossy production, full of brand new items, with lots Floyd | of descriptions and colour photos. Very nice. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | > Look, there's six pages to this catalogue. You'll have to be more Floyd | specific about which page number you'd like to read. Okay? Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read page 1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter a number: | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | Please enter a *number*. [ Statue Room Floyd | Score: 3 Moves: 194 ] Floyd | Gooseberry Brothers - Summer Catalogue, Page 1 Floyd | ====================================================== Floyd | Makers Of Fine Magical Equipment Floyd | Floyd | Spectacles Of See Invisible Floyd | (Item #7765d) - a hot seller, this item. With these glasses, all Floyd | things invisible are yours to view. Limit: one per customer. Floyd | Floyd | Spectacles Of X-Ray Floyd | (Item #4456a) - ever wanted to make like Superman and check the Floyd | colour of other people's underwear? With this item, it's all possible. Floyd | Floyd | Thinking Cap Floyd | (Item #574) - improves your mental processes by 400%. Very popular. Floyd | Floyd | Portable Hole Floyd | (Item #3764e) - you've seen them in the cartoons, now get one for Floyd | real. Just slap this little beauty on any wall, floor, or ceiling, and Floyd | zappo! An instant passage you can climb straight through. Infinitely Floyd | re-useable. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Statue Room Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 195 ] Floyd | Please specify a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read page" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand the word 'page' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read page 2" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand the word 'page' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand '2' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "read" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Statue Room Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 196 ] Floyd | Please specify a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "read lefalet" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand the word 'lefalet' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "read leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | > Look, there's six pages to this catalogue. You'll have to be more Floyd | specific about which page number you'd like to read. Okay? Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter a number: [ Statue Room Floyd | Score: 3 Moves: 197 ] Floyd | Gooseberry Brothers - Summer Catalogue, Page 2 Floyd | ====================================================== Floyd | Makers Of Fine Magical Equipment Floyd | Floyd | Shrinking Machine Floyd | (Item #64334c) - a robot arm that blends science and magic together. Floyd | The science makes it look fantastic, and the magic makes it work. Floyd | Floyd | Enchanted Armour Floyd | (Item #6436) - to save you from werewolves, vampires, ghosts, and Floyd | goblins, this armour is enchanted with 16 different spells of Floyd | protection. Available in Silver, Gold, and Gleaming Black. Floyd | Floyd | Vanishing Cream Floyd | (Item #114c) - great for parties! Make the chairs come to life and Floyd | disappear! Rub a little on the hostess and watch her clothes vamoose! Floyd | Various methods of vanishing available. Floyd | Floyd | Golden Amulet Floyd | (Item #9984) - ideal item for any adventure. Carries a 12 month Floyd | guarantee. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | > Look, there's six pages to this catalogue. You'll have to be more Floyd | specific about which page number you'd like to read. Okay? Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter a number: [ Statue Room Floyd | Score: 3 Moves: 198 ] Floyd | Gooseberry Brothers - Summer Catalogue, Page 3 Floyd | ====================================================== Floyd | Makers Of Fine Magical Equipment Floyd | Floyd | Containment Cube Floyd | (Item #1145d) - evildoers are fooled by the innocent facade, and Floyd | then sucked in by the powerful containment void. A number of styles Floyd | available, including Mirror, Painting, and Clock, to suit any decor. Floyd | Floyd | Bronze Guardsman Floyd | (Item #1278a) - for low level security operations, the Bronze Floyd | Guardsman is just the thing. Tracks all evil persons within a four Floyd | yard range. Floyd | Floyd | Silver Guardsman Floyd | (Item #1278b) - the Silver Guardsman has a scanning range of 30 Floyd | yards, and keeps tabs on all moving objects right down to mouse size. Floyd | Floyd | Golden Guardsman Floyd | (Item #1278c) - the Golden Guardsman; premier security from GB, with Floyd | a huge one mile scanning range, and the ability to track individual Floyd | molecules. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | > Look, there's six pages to this catalogue. You'll have to be more Floyd | specific about which page number you'd like to read. Okay? Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter a number: [ Statue Room Floyd | Score: 3 Moves: 199 ] Floyd | Gooseberry Brothers - Summer Catalogue, Page 4 Floyd | ====================================================== Floyd | Makers Of Fine Magical Equipment Floyd | Floyd | Magic Hand Crank Floyd | (Item #78543) - tired of having to crank everything by hand? Our Floyd | Magic Hand Crank is the answer, taking all the manual labour out of Floyd | the job. Floyd | Floyd | Black Belt Floyd | (Item #7590) - instant proficiency in any martial art! Improves your Floyd | own skill a hundredfold. Immensely popular. Floyd | Floyd | Magic Finger & Refill Curses Floyd | (Item # 752e) - incredible power at your fingertips. Just point and Floyd | wham! Instant curse. Comes with three assorted curses. Re-useable. Floyd | Floyd | (Item 753a) - two dozen mild curses, for use with the Magic Finger. Floyd | Floyd | Double Whammy Floyd | (Item # 753b) - the most powerful curse available for the Magic Floyd | Finger. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | > Look, there's six pages to this catalogue. You'll have to be more Floyd | specific about which page number you'd like to read. Okay? Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter a number: [ Statue Room Floyd | Score: 3 Moves: 200 ] Floyd | Gooseberry Brothers - Summer Catalogue, Page 5 Floyd | ====================================================== Floyd | Makers Of Fine Magical Equipment Floyd | Floyd | Holeproof Door Floyd | (Item #9537a) - portable holes pack up and go home when faced with Floyd | this magical wonder. Available in a wide range of styles and colours. Floyd | Floyd | Invisible Door Floyd | (Item #9537b) - an extremely popular item. This month's best seller. Floyd | Floyd | Mystery Object Floyd | (Item #2471) - we know what it does, but we're not telling! Try it Floyd | and find out for yourself. Satisfaction guaranteed. Floyd | Floyd | Sphere Of Dispel Darkness Floyd | (Item #4387c) - specifically designed to remove all traces of Floyd | magically induced darkness, our sphere discharges in one brilliant Floyd | flash. Note: caution is recommended in the use of this item. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | > Look, there's six pages to this catalogue. You'll have to be more Floyd | specific about which page number you'd like to read. Okay? Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter a number: [ Statue Room Floyd | Score: 3 Moves: 201 ] Floyd | Gooseberry Brothers - Summer Catalogue, Page 6 Floyd | ====================================================== Floyd | +++ Special Movie Items +++ Floyd | Floyd | By special arrangement, Gooseberry Brothers is proud to be able to Floyd | offer: Floyd | Floyd | Lightsabre Floyd | (Item #001) - the famous energy sword. Cuts through anything you can Floyd | carry, and then some. Collectors' item! Floyd | Floyd | Ruby Slippers Floyd | (Item #002) - magical shoes with fantastic powers. All sizes, but Floyd | unfortunately no choice of colour available. Floyd | Floyd | Ordering Instructions Floyd | Prompt delivery is assured by our new Magicomputer 2000 (tm) Floyd | order-handling system. Simply type the word ORDER followed by the item Floyd | number you wish to receive, for example: ORDER #6436 would cause you Floyd | to receive one suit of our fine Enchanted Armour. Our Magicomputer Floyd | (tm) will deal with your order the instant it arrives. Please have Floyd | your account number ready when ordering. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | > [l -> look] Floyd | [ Statue Room Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 202 ] Floyd | Statue Room Floyd | A bronze statue of a man on horseback is displayed against the north Floyd | wall. It shows the horse rearing up on its hind legs in an aggressive Floyd | pose, while the man, apparently a royal personage, has a sword drawn Floyd | above his head. The statue is likely a war memorial of some kind. Floyd | There are exits to the south and west. Floyd | There is a thin leaflet lying here. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Statue Room Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 203 ] Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl goes to make some tea. "Feel free to futz around. I'm just sort of wandering around at this point, unless someone asks me to stop." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Statue Room Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 204 ] Floyd | The man is a Prince, as indicated by the plaque at the base of he Floyd | statue. He is quite handsome (just like every other Prince there ever Floyd | was). The horse is a fine animal, sleek and well muscled. It's hard to Floyd | tell what colour it was, since the statue is made of bronze, but a Floyd | horse like this could only have been midnight black. The entire Floyd | sculpture looks remarkably lifelike; so much so, in fact, that I think Floyd | I'll remark on it: My, isn't that statue lifelike! The artist was a Floyd | genius. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | > [l -> look] Floyd | [ Statue Room Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 205 ] Floyd | Statue Room Floyd | A bronze statue of a man on horseback is displayed against the north Floyd | wall. It shows the horse rearing up on its hind legs in an aggressive Floyd | pose, while the man, apparently a royal personage, has a sword drawn Floyd | above his head. The statue is likely a war memorial of some kind. Floyd | There are exits to the south and west. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Forest Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 206 ] Floyd | Forest Floyd | This area looks just like an old English forest. In fact, given the Floyd | abilities of those testing you, it probably IS an old English forest. Floyd | Small trails twist off between the trees to the north, south, east, Floyd | and west. Floyd | The trees tower above you, casting dappled shadows on the ground. Floyd | | Ellison says, "that's cool. I'm kind of tired and watching tv so I am happy to watch." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x trees" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Forest Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 207 ] Floyd | You must know what a tree looks like, so I'm not going to bother Floyd | describing them, if you don't mind. These particular trees are huge, Floyd | probably hundreds of years old. They cut off most of the light from Floyd | above with their spreading branches and thick foliage. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Forest Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 208 ] Floyd | You could climb the trees, I suppose, but you'd find that there was Floyd | nothing up there. Just a trunk, and branches, and leaves and all those Floyd | other tree things. And then you'd get angry, because I let you climb Floyd | the trees and there was nothing there to do. And you'd probably end up Floyd | taking it out on me, and I really don't need the stress. So I'm not Floyd | going to let you climb the trees. It's the best thing for everybody, Floyd | really. You can't do that! Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Temple Score: 3 Floyd | Moves: 209 ] Floyd | Temple Floyd | Huge stone pillars are spaced evenly around the room to support the Floyd | very high roof. Incredibly ugly gargoyle faces, carved into the Floyd | pillars, seem to glare back at you malevolently as you look at them. Floyd | Against the north wall there is a large, high-backed seat, also carved Floyd | out of stone. Presumably a person of great power would sit in this Floyd | seat, and all the other, less powerful people would come and pray to Floyd | him or her. Those days are long since past, however, and no-one has Floyd | used this temple in quite some time. To the south and west there are Floyd | small, darkened doorways between the pillars. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ High Passageway Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 210 ] Floyd | High Passageway Floyd | You are in a high-roofed passage, with heavy stone blocks making up Floyd | the walls. From here you can go east or west. Floyd | There is a wooden pail here. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take pail" | ||||
Floyd | > [ High Passageway Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 211 ] Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pail" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ High Passageway Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 212 ] Floyd | The pail is a foot and a half deep and the same in diameter. It's made Floyd | of wood, and there's a handle to make carrying it easy. Now, just so Floyd | that you can't say I'm being unfair, I'll make this clear right now: Floyd | buckets are designed specifically for holding water. If you were to Floyd | fill this pail with water you'd probably be doing something useful Floyd | (unless you've already done that bit, of course, in which case you'd Floyd | already have a pail full of water). Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Ocean Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 213 ] Floyd | Ocean Floyd | This room is unique, in that it contains an entire ocean. (I think Floyd | this is taking dimensional mis-matching just a little too far!) There Floyd | is a south wall, and an east wall, but where the north and west walls Floyd | should be there is only a vast expanse of deep blue water. The ground Floyd | changes gradually from the usual hard floor to bright yellow sand, Floyd | which then gives way to the waves that lap gently upon the beach. It's Floyd | a nice sunny day here, wherever here is. When you've finished Floyd | improving your suntan, there's a doorway in the east wall. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Ocean Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 214 ] Floyd | If you want to go for a swim, say so. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Ocean Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 215 ] Floyd | You drop all your belongings on the beach and dive into the surf. You Floyd | spend some time swimming and splashing in the water, and come out Floyd | feeling much better. After drying off in the sun, you reclaim your Floyd | things. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ High Passageway Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 216 ] Floyd | High Passageway Floyd | You are in a high-roofed passage, with heavy stone blocks making up Floyd | the walls. From here you can go east or west. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Temple Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 217 ] Floyd | Temple Floyd | Huge stone pillars are spaced evenly around the room to support the Floyd | very high roof. Incredibly ugly gargoyle faces, carved into the Floyd | pillars, seem to glare back at you malevolently as you look at them. Floyd | Against the north wall there is a large, high-backed seat, also carved Floyd | out of stone. Presumably a person of great power would sit in this Floyd | seat, and all the other, less powerful people would come and pray to Floyd | him or her. Those days are long since past, however, and no-one has Floyd | used this temple in quite some time. To the south and west there are Floyd | small, darkened doorways between the pillars. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Forest Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 218 ] Floyd | Forest Floyd | This area looks just like an old English forest. In fact, given the Floyd | abilities of those testing you, it probably IS an old English forest. Floyd | Small trails twist off between the trees to the north, south, east, Floyd | and west. Floyd | The trees tower above you, casting dappled shadows on the ground. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Statue Room Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 219 ] Floyd | Statue Room Floyd | A bronze statue of a man on horseback is displayed against the north Floyd | wall. It shows the horse rearing up on its hind legs in an aggressive Floyd | pose, while the man, apparently a royal personage, has a sword drawn Floyd | above his head. The statue is likely a war memorial of some kind. Floyd | There are exits to the south and west. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Forest Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 220 ] Floyd | Forest Floyd | This area looks just like an old English forest. In fact, given the Floyd | abilities of those testing you, it probably IS an old English forest. Floyd | Small trails twist off between the trees to the north, south, east, Floyd | and west. Floyd | The trees tower above you, casting dappled shadows on the ground. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl exclaims, "!!!!" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Large Room Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 221 ] Floyd | Large Room Floyd | This is a cavernous room with an enormously high ceiling. It is Floyd | stupendously large. The walls are smooth and white, as is the floor. Floyd | It's hard to tell with the roof; at that distance it could be blue Floyd | with pink stripes and you still wouldn't be able to make it out Floyd | clearly. You could build a tennis court in here without difficulty, Floyd | with enough room left over for an Olympic swimming pool (and I think Floyd | we'll put a spa and sauna in THAT corner, and maybe an ice-skating Floyd | rink over THERE). When you get bored with this prodigious size, there Floyd | are doorways leading to the north, east, and west. Floyd | There's an arched door to the south, which is currently closed. Floyd | | Ellison says, "a lot of rooms to remember" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Plant Room Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 222 ] Floyd | Plant Room Floyd | In the middle of the room is a gigantic plant, a kind of exotic Venus Floyd | Flytrap, I guess. It's about seven feet tall, including its red Floyd | ceramic pot, and has long thin runners spreading out across the whole Floyd | floor. The plant seems to be moving slightly, and there's a faint Floyd | murmuring sound. There are doorways to the north, east and west. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Large Room Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 223 ] Floyd | Large Room Floyd | This is a cavernous room with an enormously high ceiling. It is Floyd | stupendously large. The walls are smooth and white, as is the floor. Floyd | It's hard to tell with the roof; at that distance it could be blue Floyd | with pink stripes and you still wouldn't be able to make it out Floyd | clearly. You could build a tennis court in here without difficulty, Floyd | with enough room left over for an Olympic swimming pool (and I think Floyd | we'll put a spa and sauna in THAT corner, and maybe an ice-skating Floyd | rink over THERE). When you get bored with this prodigious size, there Floyd | are doorways leading to the north, east, and west. Floyd | There's an arched door to the south, which is currently closed. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Kitchen Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 224 ] Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Now this game has everything, INCLUDING the kitchen sink. It's against Floyd | the south wall, sparkling in the light. It looks almost brand new. The Floyd | rest of the room is fairly unremarkable, and not worth bothering with, Floyd | so I'm not going to. There are doorways to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Dim Room Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 225 ] Floyd | Dim Room Floyd | The lighting in this room is poor, hence the title. It's difficult to Floyd | see in here, with large dark areas and huge shadows cast from the Floyd | adjoining rooms. Straining your eyes in the gloom, you make out exits Floyd | to the east and south. Floyd | There is a magic crank here. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take crank" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Dim Room Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 226 ] Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x crank" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Dim Room Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 227 ] Floyd | It's a crank, like they used to have for old cars. In fact, that could Floyd | well be what it's for. It has a nice wooden handle, and a drop-forged Floyd | shaft about an inch in diameter, for maximum strength. You just don't Floyd | find cranks like this any more. I'd be proud to own this crank. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | > [l -> look] Floyd | [ Dim Room Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 228 ] Floyd | Dim Room Floyd | The lighting in this room is poor, hence the title. It's difficult to Floyd | see in here, with large dark areas and huge shadows cast from the Floyd | adjoining rooms. Straining your eyes in the gloom, you make out exits Floyd | to the east and south. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah. I'm not mapping, but am trying to be somewhat thorough. HOpefully most of these rooms are just there to make it extra confusing. (100 locations, I guess.)" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "As opposed to rooms where we have to remember little things. "And that's where the sink was."" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Forest Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 229 ] Floyd | Forest Floyd | This area looks just like an old English forest. In fact, given the Floyd | abilities of those testing you, it probably IS an old English forest. Floyd | Small trails twist off between the trees to the north, south, east, Floyd | and west. Floyd | The trees tower above you, casting dappled shadows on the ground. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Dim Room Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 230 ] Floyd | Dim Room Floyd | The lighting in this room is poor, hence the title. It's difficult to Floyd | see in here, with large dark areas and huge shadows cast from the Floyd | adjoining rooms. Straining your eyes in the gloom, you make out exits Floyd | to the east and south. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Kitchen Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 231 ] Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Now this game has everything, INCLUDING the kitchen sink. It's against Floyd | the south wall, sparkling in the light. It looks almost brand new. The Floyd | rest of the room is fairly unremarkable, and not worth bothering with, Floyd | so I'm not going to. There are doorways to the north, east, and west. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Guardsman's Room Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 232 ] Floyd | Guardsman's Room Floyd | This particular room has a very austere feel about it, like a bank or Floyd | a museum, which is almost certainly due to the Silver Guardsman Floyd | standing in front of the doorway to the west. There is the feeling Floyd | that if you were to step out of line, you'd be in trouble. There are Floyd | other, unguarded doorways to the north and east, which you can use Floyd | without fear. Probably. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x guardsman" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Guardsman's Room Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 233 ] Floyd | The Guardsman is humanoid, about seven feet tall, and is standing Floyd | immobile in front of the doorway to the west. It has its arms crossed Floyd | and feet apart in an aggressive stance. Its skin is shiny silver, so Floyd | polished that you can see your reflection. It has no features; its Floyd | head, like the rest of its body, is smooth silver, with only slight Floyd | bumps and irregularities to indicate a face, and it's not wearing any Floyd | clothes (but that's okay, because it doesn't need to anyway). The Floyd | Guardsman is heavily built, with smooth silver muscles bulging on its Floyd | arms and legs. It looks much like a nightclub bouncer (or "decorum Floyd | officer") and is obviously here specifically to stop people getting Floyd | through the door. It'll leave you unmolested as long as you don't Floyd | annoy it. So don't annoy it. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to guardsman" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Guardsman's Room Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 234 ] Floyd | You really enjoy this kind of thing, do you, talking to objects like Floyd | the guardsman? (I think you could be a few cards short of a deck.) Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "annoy guardsman" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'annoy' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Mosaic Room Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 235 ] Floyd | Mosaic Room Floyd | The floor here is distinctive; a colourful mosaic pattern made up of Floyd | thousands of tiny ceramic tiles, meticulously fitted together by hand Floyd | (or possibly even several) to give a perfectly smooth surface. The Floyd | doorway is to the south. Floyd | On the floor is a huge stone cube, with an ornate mirror on the Floyd | east face. Floyd | | cyberskunk says, "aw" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cube" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Mosaic Room Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 236 ] Floyd | The stone cube is about eight feet on a side, made of granite, and Floyd | completely featureless, except for the mirror on the east face. It's Floyd | also immensely heavy, and couldn't be moved if you tried. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Mosaic Room Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 237 ] Floyd | The mirror is oval in shape, as tall as you, and has an ornately Floyd | carved wooden frame. You can see your reflection in it, and wish you Floyd | couldn't. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x reflection" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | I don't understand the word 'reflection' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x frame" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Mosaic Room Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 238 ] Floyd | There isn't any frame here. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | > [l -> look] Floyd | [ Mosaic Room Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 239 ] Floyd | Mosaic Room Floyd | The floor here is distinctive; a colourful mosaic pattern made up of Floyd | thousands of tiny ceramic tiles, meticulously fitted together by hand Floyd | (or possibly even several) to give a perfectly smooth surface. The Floyd | doorway is to the south. Floyd | On the floor is a huge stone cube, with an ornate mirror on the Floyd | east face. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "touch mirror" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 240 ] Floyd | At that moment, the ornate mirror stops reflecting and turns Floyd | completely black. There is a sudden gale-force wind, pulling you Floyd | toward the stone cube, and you are sucked through the surface of the Floyd | mirror. Floyd | Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 241 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 242 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | > [l -> look] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 243 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "float" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'float' as a verb. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "There we go." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 244 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 245 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 246 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | > [i -> inventory] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 247 ] Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | magic crank Floyd | wooden pail Floyd | thin catalogue Floyd | very large stool Floyd | You are wearing: Floyd | your fingers Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "This is not what I was expecting." | |||
| Ellison says, "I guess that would make that the mirror cube" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "It'll eventually time out and restore us to the room, I think." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 248 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 249 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 250 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 251 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 252 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wait 10" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 253 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 254 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 255 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 256 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'xyzzy' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "plugh" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'plugh' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "hole" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 257 ] Floyd | You can't do that! Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | > [i -> inventory] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 258 ] Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | magic crank Floyd | wooden pail Floyd | thin catalogue Floyd | very large stool Floyd | You are wearing: Floyd | your fingers Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "Really." | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 259 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 260 ] Floyd | You can't do that! Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "yell" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 261 ] Floyd | Aargh. Floyd | Floyd | (You indulge in a little therapeutic noise-making.) Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cry" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'cry' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 262 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'sing' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 263 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "We used the hole to get here. And didn't take it back." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Usually it eventually kicks us out of these things after enough turns." | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 264 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 265 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 266 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'fly' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 267 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 268 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 269 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 270 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | Ellison says, "huh" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 271 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 272 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | > [l -> look] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 273 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 274 ] Floyd | You can't do that! Floyd | | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "open eyes" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand the word 'eyes' as a noun. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wake up" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'wake' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 275 ] Floyd | Your score is 9 (out of 50 possible). Floyd | You have visited 35 locations (out of 100 in the game) Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 276 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "order" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 277 ] Floyd | Please use a valid item number. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | > [i -> inventory] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 278 ] Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | magic crank Floyd | wooden pail Floyd | thin catalogue Floyd | very large stool Floyd | You are wearing: Floyd | your fingers Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "help" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 279 ] Floyd | You are floating in a DARK, endless void. Floyd | Floyd | [Try 'glk help' for help on special interpreter commands] | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "order 2471" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 280 ] Floyd | Please use a valid item number. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'hint' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "order #2471" | ||||
Floyd | > I hope you have your account number handy (0 cancels). Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "glk help" | ||||
Floyd | Enter a number: Floyd | Glk commands are summary, script, inputlog, readlog, abbreviations, Floyd | fonts, delays, width, replacements, statusline, version, commands, Floyd | license, and help. Floyd | Floyd | Glk commands may be abbreviated, as long as the abbreviation is Floyd | unambiguous. Use glk help followed by a Glk command name for help on Floyd | that command. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "commands" | ||||
Floyd | Please enter a *number*. | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "glk commands" | ||||
Floyd | Please enter a *number*. Floyd | Glk commands are on. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "glk commands" | ||||
Floyd | Please enter a *number*. Floyd | Glk commands are on. Floyd | | Ellison says, "oops" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "glk help commands" | ||||
Floyd | Please enter a *number*. Floyd | Turn off Glk commands. Floyd | Floyd | Use glk commands off to disable all Glk commands, including this one. Floyd | Once turned off, there is no way to turn Glk commands back on while Floyd | inside the game. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "rank" | ||||
Floyd | Please enter a *number*. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "rank 1" | ||||
Floyd | Please enter a *number*. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | Please enter a *number*. [ Void Floyd | Score: 6 Moves: 281 ] Floyd | A message slowly forms in large, glowing red letters that hang in the Floyd | air: Floyd | Floyd | "INVALID ACCOUNT NUMBER - YOUR CATALOGUE HAS BEEN REVOKED" Floyd | Gooseberry Brothers Floyd | Floyd | The catalogue suddenly disappears in a tiny puff of white smoke. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 280 ] Floyd | UNDOing a turn... Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x catalogue" | ||||
Floyd | > [x -> examine] Floyd | [ Void Score: 9 Floyd | Moves: 281 ] Floyd | This six page leaflet is actually the Summer Catalogue from Gooseberry Floyd | Brothers. It's a glossy production, full of brand new items, with lots Floyd | of descriptions and colour photos. Very nice. Floyd | | Ellison says, "oh hey" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "order #002" | ||||
Floyd | > I hope you have your account number handy (0 cancels). Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "We don't have an account number yet, I think" | |||
| Ellison says, "oh" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "55748761" | ||||
Floyd | Enter a number: [ Void Floyd | Score: 6 Moves: 282 ] Floyd | A message slowly forms in large, glowing red letters that hang in the Floyd | air: Floyd | Floyd | "INVALID ACCOUNT NUMBER - YOUR CATALOGUE HAS BEEN REVOKED" Floyd | Gooseberry Brothers Floyd | Floyd | The catalogue suddenly disappears in a tiny puff of white smoke. Floyd | | Ellison says, "let me see if anything was on that invoice" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Eek." | ||||
| Ellison says, "that's the number from the invoice. maybe it changes every game" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 283 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 284 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 285 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 286 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | > [z -> wait] Floyd | [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 287 ] Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | > [i -> inventory] Floyd | [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 288 ] Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | magic crank Floyd | wooden pail Floyd | very large stool Floyd | You are wearing: Floyd | your fingers Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "drop stool" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 289 ] Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sit on stool" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 290 ] Floyd | There's no time for relaxing! You have to get out of here! Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get stool" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 291 ] Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 292 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 293 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 294 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 295 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 296 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 297 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 298 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "Probably. I really object to dead ends like this." | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 299 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 300 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 301 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 302 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 303 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 304 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 305 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 306 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 307 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 308 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'listen' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 309 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 310 ] Floyd | You are floating in a dark, endless void. Floyd | | Ellison says, "yeah, who knows" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I'm inclined to give up on this." | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "float up" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'float' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "open eyes" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand the word 'eyes' as a noun. Floyd | | cyberskunk asks, "well is it DARK yet?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks (of cyberskunk), "Hm?" | ||||
| cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "click heels" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 311 ] Floyd | You aren't wearing that! Floyd | | ||||
| Firion has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "touch mirror" | ||||
Floyd | > [ Void Score: 6 Floyd | Moves: 312 ] Floyd | There isn't any mirror here. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "I'm going to shut this down, if nobody objects." | |||
| DavidW asks, "How'd you guys do?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "We got stuck floating in the darkness." | ||||
| DavidW says, "hm." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "No idea where to go from here. We were hoping it would time out and spit us back into the main room like the other "worlds", but no." | ||||
| Johnny asks, "Did it throw something at you not on the map?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "we got stuck in a place which probably was exit-able if we had certain things going in" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I touched a mirror on a cube in one of the rooms to the north of the locked archway door." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I suppose it could be a listen-smell-taste-touch exericse, or maybe you need a lightsource, or maybe you need a thing/person that acts like a magic compass." | ||||
| Ellison says, "but I think we already used up how many times we were willing to restart" | ||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, 'listen' wasn't implemented" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "More that I wasn't saving often enough, because I didn't expect this to happen." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "We got robbed earlier by an imp, so some of our gear is missing, and we don't have the account code for the catalog." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "taste" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'taste' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | > I don't understand 'smell' as a verb. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | > Yes or no? Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | y Floyd | Fine then, stop playing. Turn me off, even. See if I care. Floyd | Floyd | Your ranking is Pickpocket. Floyd | Floyd | Your score is 6 (out of 50 possible). Floyd | You have visited 35 locations (out of 100 in the game) Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "Anyway." | |||
| genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Would you like to restart, restore, undo, or quit? | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
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