ClubFloyd Transcript:
The Statue Got Me High by Ryan Veeder
Spider by Andrew Schultz
The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) by Alonso, Havasi, and Grimm
As played on ifMUD on April 22, 2012

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

Below is a transcript of The Statue Got Me High written by Ryan Veeder, Spider written by Andrew Schultz, and The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) written by Jason B. Alonso, Catherine Havasi, and Val Grimm. Week two of the Apollo 18+20 IF Tribute Album games. You can learn more about the games, including how to download them, by visiting the ifWiki pages: The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight), Spider, and The Statue Got Me High.


WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing these games, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played these games, 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.

To skip directly to a particular game, click on its title:

The Statue Got Me High by Ryan Veeder
Spider by Andrew Schultz
The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) by Jason B. Alonso, Catherine Havasi, and Val Grimm


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Jacqueline exclaims, "Okay, it's time!"
genericgeekgirl arrives, full of funk, but no fun. Jacqueline says, "So, looks like maybe we have some new folks..."
inky says, "it's time to play the music! it's time to light the lights!"
djfletch arrives, full of fun and funk. * Jacqueline has added ruthling to the channel.
Jacqueline asks, "Hi, ruthling. Here for ClubFloyd?"
ruthling says, "yep, more or less" Jacqueline says, "To speak on the channel, type #CLUBFLOYD HELLO"
Jacqueline says, "(not in caps, though)"
ruthling says, "I"m also doing stuff around the house, so I may not respond" Jacqueline says, "And then after that, you type ;HI AGAIN"
schep says, "HELLO JACQ"
Jacqueline says, "(i.e. first you set the channel by typing #channelname and then after that you can just use your default channel by prefacing what you say with a semi-colon)"
Jacqueline says (to schep), "HI"
JOHNNY SAYS (TO SCHEP), "YOU MEAN [CLUBFLOYD]"
genericgeekgirl says, "I'M THE LOUDEST."
Jacqueline says, "You can just lurk, that's fine, ruthling. But if you want to discuss the game, just know that all conversation needs to take place here on the channel, with only game play in the room. That keeps the transcript clean."
Jacqueline says, "I AM IMAGINING 72 POINT FONT. DO NOT MAKE ME VISUALIZE THE BLINK TAG."
Jacqueline says, "See? The caps lock is useful, sometimes."
DavidW says, "oh, I was reading about the origin of the blink tag today. Sargent posted it via g+"
Jacqueline asks, "So, shall we begin?"
Johnny says, "marquee ... is more fun ... anyway ... BURMA SHAVE"
Jacqueline says, "heehee"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load a18mammal"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You are a lowly human slave, suffering beneath the squamous toes of
Floyd | your new lizard overlords. Patrisnake Kssshsss has charged you with
Floyd | getting rid of all trace of mammals in the back rooms of the Don
Floyd | Quixote Memorial Museum.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mammal
Floyd | An Interactive Song Tribute by Joey Jones
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120324 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Atrium
Floyd | You stand in a vast glass-ceilinged atrium. The main doors stand behind
Floyd | you to the south, in front is the rest of the museum. The part that you
Floyd | actually need to clear is through the little door to the back rooms,
Floyd | behind the information desk to the east. The portrait gallery opens off
Floyd | to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the centre of the atrium is a huge skip, (or garbage dumpster, if
Floyd | you're so inclined), into which you are to place all objects tainted
Floyd | with mammalian DNA, or direct organic bi-products of mammals. Your
Floyd | co-slaves have already gone through most of museum, including
Floyd | thankfully, the toilets. When the job is done, you need only blow the
Floyd | whistle you've been given, and Kssshsss will come and assess your
Floyd | execution of the task.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "wait"
DavidW asks, "This again?"
ASchultz asks, "we played this last week I think>?"
Jacqueline says, "I keep doing this."
Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait - we - right. We had to play out of order, I forgot."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q"
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd |
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" Jacqueline asks, "So, 'The Statue Got Me High,' then?"
Nitku arrives, full of fun, but no funk. ASchultz says, "I think so, yes"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask a18thestatuegotmehigh"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | John was already on his phone by the time you glanced over your
Floyd | shoulder. He had forgotten the whole joke; he wouldn't have noticed if
Floyd | you just turned around and walked back. Which you really wanted to do,
Floyd | for some reason.
Floyd |
Floyd | It felt like a pretty stupid thing to be afraid of.
Floyd |
Floyd | You got up the nerve to walk past the last few headstones, but you kept
Floyd | your head down. You didn't even want to look at the feet. You just kept
Floyd | your eyes on the pedestal, on the exact spot where you finally set down
Floyd | the envelope, and then you turned around.
Floyd |
Floyd | John was still talking to his phone, oblivious. You could feel it,
Floyd | though, like a finger lightly scraping up the back of your neck.
Floyd |
Floyd | And then jabbing into your spine so you had to turn back around and
Floyd | look up at its face. And you thought (right away you told yourself the
Floyd | idea was ridiculous) that it nodded.
Rotonoto arrives, full of fun and funk.
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd | The Statue Got Me High
Floyd | A disaster simulator by Ryan Veeder (with apologies to Johns L & F)
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120316 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | The kitchen, with all its drawers, its cupboards, its sinks and ovens,
Floyd | constitutes Chucky's domain, and he guards it jealously. Usually you
Floyd | use it only as a conduit between the dining room (south) and the tunnel
Floyd | to the cellar (down the stairs).
Floyd |
Floyd | Of course, working in here is part of your job, so you and Chucky have
Floyd | a deal worked out. The deal is: You do not touch anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | Right now is an exception, apparently.
Floyd |
Floyd | "John wants you to take care of these," he squawks, thrusting a stack
Floyd | of cards toward you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I am now thinking of the doll from the horror movie."
schep says (to Floyd), "x cards"
Floyd ]  Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CARDS
Floyd | As you lean in for a closer look, Chucky draws back, repulsed by your
Floyd | intrusion of his personal space.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Just take 'em, will ya?" he growls. He shoves the stack into your
Floyd | hands and then turns to his cooking.
Floyd |
Floyd | The papers are place cards, which are to be set out at the dinner table
Floyd | so everyone knows where to sit. The forms of the names are
Floyd | inconsistent: The men are "John," "Miles," "Ivan," and "Garry," but the
Floyd | women are "Miss Idie" and "Miss O."
Floyd |
Floyd | But that's not your problem. Your job is figuring out where to put
Floyd | these.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "This sounds familiar too."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x chucky"
Floyd ]  Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CHUCKY
Floyd | Chucky's teeth look like a cemetery built on some old marshland, his
Floyd | glass eye is not the same color as his real eye, and he smells like a
Floyd | butchery, but he is a phenomenal cook. Supposedly he used to be a chef
Floyd | in the White House.
Floyd |
Floyd | You'd like to find out more about that, but Chucky isn't the kind of
Floyd | guy who likes to talk. To you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd | You look extremely presentable in your "B" tuxedo: classy, but not too
Floyd | flashy; easy to ignore. Tuxedo B is the most appropriate for these
Floyd | intimate get-togethers with John's close friends. ("Intimate" is the
Floyd | word John uses for mixed groups; the parties to which only women are
Floyd | invited he calls "friendly," and they require a different tuxedo.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Haha"
schep says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a stack of place cards
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "read cards"
Floyd ]  Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ CARDS
Floyd | The papers are place cards, which are to be set out at the dinner table
Floyd | so everyone knows where to sit. The forms of the names are
Floyd | inconsistent: The men are "John," "Miles," "Ivan," and "Garry," but the
Floyd | women are "Miss Idie" and "Miss O."
Floyd |
Floyd | But that's not your problem. Your job is figuring out where to put
Floyd | these.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat cards"
Floyd ]  Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT CARDS
Floyd | That's plainly inedible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "x table"
Floyd ]  Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TABLE
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "The table is presumably south in the dining room. But there's also a hopefully creepy cellar to check out."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x drawers"
Floyd ]  Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DRAWERS
Floyd | If you just stand around looking, Chucky will start getting surly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to ggg), "Always the optimistic one, you are."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "punch chucky"
Floyd ]  Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUNCH CHUCKY
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "we should go south."
schep says (to Floyd), "get surly"
Floyd ]  Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET SURLY
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "All right. South first."
Johnny says, ">CHUCK PUNCHY"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to chucky"
Floyd ]  Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO CHUCKY
Floyd | Chucky isn't big on conversation, even with his friends (you assume).
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "So, wait... *is* it Chucky from Child's play?"
genericgeekgirl says, "He's not friendly enough."
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Johnny says, "I think that's Chuckie."
zarf arrives, full of fun and funk. Johnny says, "wtf, it's not"
genericgeekgirl says, "Going south."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The sun is going down outside the western window, and the huge table,
Floyd | set for six, is aflame in the orange glow. An old portrait hangs on one
Floyd | wall, watching the proceedings with creepy indifference.
Floyd |
Floyd | The kitchen is back north, the den is east from here, and a narrow door
Floyd | leads south to the foyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | Somebody jumps as you walk in. It's John's friend Garry, apparently
Floyd | startled by your entrance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x portrait"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PORTRAIT
Floyd | The frame on the north wall is too big to ignore, and the eyes of the
Floyd | portrait seem to follow you around.
Floyd |
Floyd | This is supposed to be John's ancestor, an Old World nobleman, also
Floyd | named John. John has offered numerous anecdotes about the subject of
Floyd | the painting, many of them outlandish and contradictory, and you would
Floyd | be inclined to believe that really has no idea who this man is, if the
Floyd | family resemblence weren't so unnervingly clear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "ask garry about john"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK GARRY ABOUT JOHN
Floyd | You open your mouth to speak to Garry at just the moment that he
Floyd | apparently gathers the courage to talk to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Do you see that painting up there?" he rasps, indicating the portrait
Floyd | on the north wall. "Don't you think there's something messed up with
Floyd | that guy? He looks really judgmental, right? Like he's judging me. Or
Floyd | you."
Floyd |
Floyd | You take a moment to formulate a diplomatic answer, but other thoughts
Floyd | distract you. Why, Garry, are you standing in here, away from the rest
Floyd | of the party, if you hate that painting so much? What is going on in
Floyd | your life that makes you worried that a painting is judging
Floyd | you?
Floyd |
Floyd | Garry goes on without you. "I don't like him. I feel like he's looking
Floyd | at me. You know what? When we sit down for dinner, try and make sure
Floyd | I'm sitting somewhere where I don't have to look at him. One of these
Floyd | two seats," he says. He points with a shaking hand at the two chairs on
Floyd | the north side of the table.
Floyd |
Floyd | You nod.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl asks, "Oh no. This is going to be a whole sitting arrangement puzzle to make everyone happy, isn't it?"
DavidW says, "Of course."
schep says, "looks like!"
Jacqueline says, "Oh dear."
Rotonoto says, "First clue."
DavidW asks, "Wasn't that obvious from the kitchen?"
genericgeekgirl says, "> sit Alice by her ex-husband and the woman he left her for."
Johnny says, "It'd be awesome to have one of those where the aim is to make everyone maximally grumpy/"
Jacqueline says, "Yeah, but it just got more complimicated."
genericgeekgirl asks (of DW), "No?"
Rotonoto says, "Logic puzzles ... :("
Jacqueline exclaims (at Johnny), "You should play Gloom!"
schep says (to Floyd), "x north seat"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NORTH SEAT
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I guess I should get out a pen and paper."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TABLE
Floyd | At other parties this table has comfortably seated more, but currently
Floyd | there are six high-backed chairs and six table settings: Two each on
Floyd | the north and south sides, one on the west end, and one at the east.
Floyd | This last one, on account of its facing the west wall, has the sunset
Floyd | shining straight at it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x garry"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GARRY
Floyd | Although lacking your boss's level of animal magnetism, Garry Horrible
Floyd | has charm and wit enough to make up for his unfortunate name. Most of
Floyd | the time.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tonight, he looks like a nervous wreck. There are dark circles under
Floyd | his eyes; his breathing is too loud. His is not a demeanour appropriate
Floyd | to a dinner party.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "I was just going to wait five minutes and then DavidW would have figured it all out"
genericgeekgirl says, "Ok. Who do we hate the most? They get to sit in the sunny seat."
Jacqueline says (to inky), "Secretly, that is my true approach."
DavidW says (to inky), "well, I haven't been given my head yet."
Johnny says (to Jacq), "Interesting."
Jacqueline says (to ggg), "I like the sunny seat, I'll take it."
Rotonoto says, ".. #clubfloyd John, since he looks like the portrait, shouldn't be facing Garry." djfletch says, "maybe we can steal the portrait, then he can sit anywhere"
djfletch says (to Floyd), "get portrait"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > T? WHEN WE SiIt would be untoward to try rearranging the portrait
Floyd | while guests are over.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Rotonoto), "You are probably spot on there - nice touch for the game and you. (Also, channel, please...)"
Dave arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. Rotonoto says, "Typo, sorry."
DavidW says, "I further suggest that the other guests are available in other rooms here, and should be talked to."
Jacqueline says, "Np."
genericgeekgirl says, "We should probably go find the other people and find out what they want."
genericgeekgirl says, "Timing."
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Good point."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The sun is going down outside the western window, and the huge table,
Floyd | set for six, is aflame in the orange glow. An old portrait hangs on one
Floyd | wall, watching the proceedings with creepy indifference.
Floyd |
Floyd | The kitchen is back north, the den is east from here, and a narrow door
Floyd | leads south to the foyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | Garry leans forward with both hands on the table, staring into the
Floyd | grain of the wood.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Den first, I think."
DavidW says, "agreed"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Den
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Den
Floyd | This room is well-loved by many of John's friends: from those he's
Floyd | brought home for the first time (because it is cozy and dimly lit) to
Floyd | frequent visitors (because they know there's booze in the credenza).
Floyd | The dining room is west; the parlor is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Captain Miles is here, lining up a shot at the pool table.
Floyd |
Floyd | Ivan leans on his cue and regards the table with something like
Floyd | suspicion.
Floyd |
Floyd | Across the room, fidgiting on a bar stool, is Miss Idie.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to miles"
Floyd ]  Den
Floyd |
Floyd | >  THE WESTERN w"Oh, there you are," says Miles as you approach.
Floyd | "Listen, I don't know if you've decided who's sitting where for dinner.
Floyd | But I've been getting these real bad migraines lately."
Floyd |
Floyd | Ivan looks up from the pool table. "No kidding? I can give you
Floyd | something for that." He pulls a pad of paper from inside his jacket.
Floyd |
Floyd | Miles turns away from you and back toward Ivan. "Well, I don't know for
Floyd | sure if they're migraines. I know that I'm really sensitive to light."
Floyd |
Floyd | Ivan is already writing. "Doesn't matter. How about codeine? You seem
Floyd | to me like a codeine kind of guy." He looks slantways at Miles for a
Floyd | moment, then goes back to scribbling. "Yeah. Here you go. You can get
Floyd | this filled wherever."
Floyd |
Floyd | He rips off the sheet and pushes it into Miles's hand. "Thanks," Miles
Floyd | stutters, before he turns back to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "In the meantime I guess, I'm just saying, I'd rather not sit in that
Floyd | chair that's facing the window while the sun's going down."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "There we go. Sensitive to light."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to ivan"
Floyd ]  Den
Floyd |
Floyd | >  WESTERN W"OhWhen Ivan sees you coming, he puts down his cue and
Floyd | takes you aside.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hey. So. I figure those cards you're carrying are for deciding the
Floyd | seating arrangement? For dinner? Pretty fancy." It is apparent from his
Floyd | breath that he has figured out the secret of the credenza.
Floyd |
Floyd | "The thing is. There's two things. First thing is, that lady friend of
Floyd | John's. I don't want to sit next to her. She creeps me out. Second
Floyd | thing is, please don't put me next to..." He's started whispering, and
Floyd | now he cranes his head around the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You know who I'm talking about. She's a downer. I don't wanna sit next
Floyd | to her either. I don't know what Miles sees in her." He must mean Miss
Floyd | Idie.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I mean, I know what he sees in her. Her mother has that publishing
Floyd | company. And both she and her mother have mitochondrial
Floyd | encephalomyopathy. I mean, look at her. She's like a stick. But with
Floyd | the publishing company, and she's gonna die young. So I can see why
Floyd | Miles would want to get in on that. But that's not really an option for
Floyd | me. So.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Just, don't put me next to either of those women." And with that, he
Floyd | finally lets go of you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto says, "Must go do other less fun Sunday morning things. May everyone be seated ideally. L8rz, y'all."
genericgeekgirl says, "Enjoy"
Rotonoto goes home. vimes says, "regarding the "> WESTERN W"Oh" thing: that's a bug with the terp library that zarf knows about but hasn't fixed yet"
vimes says, "(because he is super busy, not for lack of caring)"
zarf says, "*oh, I know. I know*"
vimes says (to zarf), "i know YOU know that"
schep says, "okay, Ivan is a misogynist. check."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to idie"
Floyd ]  Den
Floyd |
Floyd | >  DOWN OUTSIDeMiss Idie looks down at the cards in your hand. "Oh yes,
Floyd | there's one thing you should know. I am left-handed."
Floyd |
Floyd | She raises her left hand, by way of evidence.
Floyd |
Floyd | "If you lack experience with left-handed people, of whom there are
Floyd | relatively few, you may not know about the problems that arise when a
Floyd | left-handed person sits to the right of a right-handed person at a
Floyd | meal. Their elbows often bump against each other. It can be very
Floyd | uncomfortable. If two left-handed people sit next to each other, of
Floyd | course, there is no problem. However, I am the only left-handed person
Floyd | here this evening. I have made sure to check. So please make sure that
Floyd | you do not place me with anyone sitting to my left. I would prefer to
Floyd | have someone sitting immediately to my right. If I am made to sit
Floyd | neighborless at the end of a table, I feel like a pariah, excluded from
Floyd | the group because of my unique needs.
Floyd |
Floyd | "John, your employer, claims to be ambidextrous. However, ambidexterity
Floyd | is a myth. I am sure he has only really managed to use his left hand
Floyd | for specific tasks, and only with a great deal of training."
Floyd |
Floyd | She pauses momentarily--not to let you get a word in edgewise, but to
Floyd | furrow her brow. "I thought it was unusual that he would say that about
Floyd | himself. I find that most frivolous claims to ambidexterity are made by
Floyd | Orientals."
Floyd |
Floyd | Well, that certainly took a turn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says, "Maybe more gynophobic"
Johnny says, "Oh, we already tried eating the cards."
genericgeekgirl exclaims, "I was hungry!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kiss idie"
Floyd ]  Den
Floyd |
Floyd | > DON'T LIKeKeep your mind on the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says, "heh"
Johnny says, "what"
genericgeekgirl asks, "Folks taking notes.. got all that?"
djfletch says, "sounds like she can only be in two places"
schep says, "Idie demands sw or ne, yup"
genericgeekgirl asks, "Into the parlor?"
Jacqueline asks, "I, um, never got out that paper and pen. Did someone else?"
genericgeekgirl says, "I assumed DW was."
schep is taking notes in an emacs *scratch* buffer
genericgeekgirl says, "Whatever works :)"
DavidW says, "I am taking notes, yes"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Parlor
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlor
Floyd | This is your favorite room in the house. The décor is classy enough
Floyd | for guests to understand that they should avoid making a mess out of
Floyd | everything.
Floyd |
Floyd | This is due in large part to the magnificent oriental rug, covering
Floyd | most of the floor, and the delicate sabicu coffee table. Both are in an
Floyd | impossibly pristine condition, capable of inspiring respect from the
Floyd | most boorish of John's associates.
Floyd |
Floyd | John is sitting in his favorite easy chair, smiling absentmindedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Across from him is Miss O, lounging on the couch as if it were a day
Floyd | bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
zarf says, "I got your Latin-1 encoding *right here*"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to john"
Floyd ]  Parlor
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO JOHN
Floyd | John looks up at you and switches to a different, broader smile. "Hey,
Floyd | everything going smoothly? Oh, you got the place cards. You know it
Floyd | doesn't matter to me, but you should probably go around and see if
Floyd | anyone has any weird preference about how they sit down. It doesn't
Floyd | matter to me, though, like I said.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But, you know, Ondine here is the guest of honor, right?" (Miss O
Floyd | touches her collarbone: Who, me?) "So, I suppose she would
Floyd | like to be seated to the right of the host. She's a classy lady; she
Floyd | notices that kind of thing."
Floyd |
Floyd | You nod dutifully.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "She certainly does, when you talk about it right in front of her."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to ondine"
Floyd ]  Parlor
Floyd |
Floyd | > AND THE DELICAtMiss O raises a single finger, and shuts you up before
Floyd | you can start talking.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Just a moment, John," she says. "Your associate needs for me to cut
Floyd | off our conversation for a moment. I assume it's something important."
Floyd |
Floyd | She turns to you. "Is this about the seating arrangement of the meal? I
Floyd | hadn't bothered to give it any thought. Hmm."
Floyd |
Floyd | She licks her lips.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I suppose I don't have any strong preferences. I'd hate for any of my
Floyd | silly whims to contradict those of the other guests. But don't you
Floyd | think John should sit at the head of the table? I suppose that goes
Floyd | without saying. After all, you're our gracious host, aren't you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Miss O has directed this last sentence at John, apparently having
Floyd | decided she's wasted enough attention on you. You quietly step
Floyd | backward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl finds the least comfortable chair and puts it in Ondine's spot.
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x john"
Floyd ]  Parlor
Floyd |
Floyd | > ING.
Floyd |
Floyd | TYou've worked for John for so long that you can't decide what you
Floyd | think of him. Is his sarcasm grating, or is it charming? Is he really
Floyd | charming, or just handsome? Does he treat women like bite-sized
Floyd | Snickers because he loves them, or because he hates them?
Floyd |
Floyd | Then when he tilts his head, you realize: It's all confidence. He
Floyd | doesn't need to be handsome or charming. He's just confident.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cards"
Floyd ]  Parlor
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CARDS
Floyd | The papers are place cards, which are to be set out at the dinner table
Floyd | so everyone knows where to sit. The forms of the names are
Floyd | inconsistent: The men are "John," "Miles," "Ivan," and "Garry," but the
Floyd | women are "Miss Idie" and "Miss O."
Floyd |
Floyd | But that's not your problem. Your job is figuring out where to put
Floyd | these.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Is that everyone? I'd still like to check out the foyer and cellar."
DavidW says, "We're gonna have to turn the table or something, 'cause this isn't working."
genericgeekgirl says, "Ok. Let's try that."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Den
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Den
Floyd | This room is well-loved by many of John's friends: from those he's
Floyd | brought home for the first time (because it is cozy and dimly lit) to
Floyd | frequent visitors (because they know there's booze in the credenza).
Floyd | The dining room is west; the parlor is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Captain Miles is here, lining up a shot at the pool table.
Floyd |
Floyd | Ivan leans on his cue and regards the table with something like
Floyd | suspicion.
Floyd |
Floyd | Across the room, fidgiting on a bar stool, is Miss Idie.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Den
Floyd |
Floyd | >  a
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The sun is going down outside the western window, and the huge table,
Floyd | set for six, is aflame in the orange glow. An old portrait hangs on one
Floyd | wall, watching the proceedings with creepy indifference.
Floyd |
Floyd | The kitchen is back north, the den is east from here, and a narrow door
Floyd | leads south to the foyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | Garry leans forward with both hands on the table, staring into the
Floyd | grain of the wood.
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly you hear someone pounding on the front door, with the force
Floyd | and frequency of a lumberjack chopping at a tree trunk. Garry almost
Floyd | jumps out of his skin. "They're coming after me!" he squeaks.
Floyd |
Floyd | You turn to answer the visitor, but through the narrow door you see
Floyd | John jumping up to beat you to it. You listen carefully for who it
Floyd | might be, but you can only barely hear John:
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, hello! Whoa, that's a cold handshake. I didn't expect you! I
Floyd | mean, I didn't expect you this late. Everyone else is already here. But
Floyd | I should have forseen you'd have trouble with transportation. Whatever.
Floyd | Come on in."
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a crunching sound.
genericgeekgirl says, "Uh..."
DavidW asks, "A seventh guest?"
Johnny says, "*The* seventh guest."
genericgeekgirl says, "I suppose so."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn table"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd | It walks in through the narrow door, stooping its head, sending
Floyd | splinters flying from the frame. It lifts its head (it looks at you)
Floyd | and almost touches the ceiling. It looks at Garry. Garry falls to his
Floyd | knees.
Floyd |
Floyd | John grins. "Let me introduce you. Peter, this is my friend Garry.
Floyd | Garry, this is Peter. You remember Peter? Peter whose daughter I
Floyd | boned?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Garry whimpers. John laughs.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Anyway, he died, and this is a statue of him. He got up and walked
Floyd | here! Tell him why you're here, Pete."
Floyd |
Floyd | The statue rumbles: ## Because you invited me.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah! I invited the statue to dinner! And he showed up!" John raises
Floyd | his hands in the air and smirks triumphantly. He is not nearly as
Floyd | bothered by this situation as he should be.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Hahaha."
ruthling says, "*chuckle*"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x statue"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STATUE
Floyd | It's the statue of Peter Ng, from the cemetery. It is cut from granite;
Floyd | it is larger than life. It has no joints, but it moves; its eyes are
Floyd | smooth, without irises, but it blinks.
Floyd |
Floyd | Technically, John wasn't the one who invited it to the party. You were.
Floyd |
Floyd | John's eyes dart around the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh, oh. Look, the table is only set for six. And the place cards
Floyd | haven't been set. This is a disaster. This is inexcusable."
Floyd |
Floyd | He walks over to you and takes the stack of cards from out of your
Floyd | hands. He turns toward "Peter" and grins.
Floyd |
Floyd | "These are pointless," he announces, and he starts ripping apart the
Floyd | cards. "People can sit where they want. I'll have Chucky put out a new
Floyd | setting. Yes. But for now..."
Floyd |
Floyd | He turns to you and pulls a key from out of his pocket. "There is a
Floyd | case of wine downstairs which I have been saving for just this kind of
Floyd | occasion. You like wine, right, Pete?"
Floyd |
Floyd | The statue seems to be trying to furrow its brow. ## I am no longer one
Floyd | of...
Floyd |
Floyd | "Nonsense! You trying to insult my hospitality?" He turns back and
Floyd | stares at you for a second, wiggling his eyebrows, before pressing the
Floyd | key into your hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh, cellar key, probably."
schep says, "ha ha"
DavidW says, "weiiird"
maga says, "as a device to make you hate John, this is pretty dang effective"
genericgeekgirl says, "I still want to peek into the foyer, if John doesn't stop us, and then down to the cellar."
DavidW asks, "I suppose while we're getting wine, the table leaf will be added so it's longer?"
genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe~"
Johnny asks, "Foyer rhymes with how they say "hear ye" in the Supreme Court, right?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd | > M John stops you. "The cellar is through here," he says, pushing you
Floyd | into the kitchen.
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | The kitchen, with all its drawers, its cupboards, its sinks and ovens,
Floyd | constitutes Chucky's domain, and he guards it jealously. Usually you
Floyd | use it only as a conduit between the dining room (south) and the tunnel
Floyd | to the cellar (down the stairs).
Floyd |
Floyd | Of course, working in here is part of your job, so you and Chucky have
Floyd | a deal worked out. The deal is: You do not touch anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | Chucky busies himself with some arcane cooking implements.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Darn."
genericgeekgirl kicks John.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x key"
Floyd ]  Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KEY
Floyd | This "key" is supposed to "unlock" the wine cellar. It is useless. The
Floyd | fiddly piece at the end is too big to fit in any keyhole; the flat
Floyd | piece at the other end is engraved with three symbols: A "female" sign
Floyd | (a circle with a cross sticking out of it), a curvy number 4, and a
Floyd | little devil's trident. They are the astronomical symbols for Venus,
Floyd | Jupiter, and Neptune. In that order. Venus Jupiter Neptune.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Tunnel
Floyd |
Floyd | >  f
Floyd | Tunnel
Floyd | Technically this is more like an antechamber for the main cellar, but
Floyd | the room is longer than it is wide, and the ceiling is pretty low.
Floyd | Besides a boarded-up rathole, there's nothing to look at in here but
Floyd | the stairs up and the (infuriating) door in the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Hm."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x rathole"
Floyd ]  Tunnel
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RATHOLE
Floyd | Those pests probably could chew through these boards if they really
Floyd | wanted, but they seem to have gotten the message and found someone else
Floyd | to harass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "unboard rathole"
Floyd ]  Tunnel
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNBOARD RATHOLE
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Tunnel
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd | (first opening the cellar door)
Floyd | The door does not budge. You must not have the right combination.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x door"
Floyd ]  Tunnel
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd | This thing is ridiculous.
Floyd |
Floyd | The corny combination lock on this door is supposed to keep intruders
Floyd | out of the cellar, protecting the most expensive wines and liquors. It
Floyd | cost thousands of dollars to commission and install. It is a stupid,
Floyd | gaudy piece of junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are three dials. You just turn a dial, and it slides over to the
Floyd | next setting. Each dial has three settings. There are only twenty-seven
Floyd | combinations. Any thief could go through all of them in just a few
Floyd | minutes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The left dial is marked with the astronomical symbols for Mercury,
Floyd | Venus, and Earth. It is currently pointing at Mercury.
Floyd |
Floyd | The center dial has the symbols for Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. It is
Floyd | pointing at Mars.
Floyd |
Floyd | The right dial has settings for Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The symbol
Floyd | for Pluto is the stupidest; it's just a combination of the letters P
Floyd | and L. The dial is currently set to Uranus.
Floyd |
Floyd | A simple padlock would be so much more effective. So much simpler.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn left dial to venus"
Floyd ]  Tunnel
Floyd |
Floyd | > IS YOUR F
Floyd |
Floyd | > TUNNEL
Floyd |
Floyd | > TECHNIcYou turn the left dial until it points at the symbol for
Floyd | Venus.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn middle dial to jupiter"
Floyd ]  Tunnel
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN MIDDLE DIAL TO JUPITER
Floyd | You turn the center dial until it points at the symbol for Jupiter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn right dial to neptune"
Floyd ]  Tunnel
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN RIGHT DIAL TO NEPTUNE
Floyd | You turn the right dial until it points at the symbol for Neptune.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a scream upstairs. Someone must have just been introduced to
Floyd | Peter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
zarf says, "heh"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd | (first opening the cellar door)
Floyd | The door swings open.
Floyd |
Floyd | Wine Cellar
Floyd | John only buys the most expensive wines and spirits he can find. In the
Floyd | eyes of his friends, anyway, that makes him a conoisseur. This room
Floyd | isn't packed to the brim, but what it does contain is worth defending.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sickly red and yellow bottle lying on its side in the corner would
Floyd | seem to be the exception.
Floyd |
Floyd | Nearby is a crate of a particular wine which John apparently thinks is
Floyd | worth saving for a special occasion.
Floyd |
Floyd | A crowbar leans against the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "> take crowbow. bash statue"
Johnny says (to Floyd), "get crowbar"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET CROWBAR
Floyd | It's a crowbar, but you take it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I hope we have to solve this one the same way we had to solve the dinner seating puzzle."
Johnny says (to Floyd), "smash all"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > SMASH ALL
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bottle"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > YOU TURN What is this swill doing here? How did it get past the
Floyd | security system? It probably belongs to Chucky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bottle"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BOTTLE
Floyd | You drop the crowbar so that you can carry the repellent bottle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Oh"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take crowbar"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE CROWBAR
Floyd | You probably shouldn't leave the bottle lying around.
Floyd | You happily discard your bottle, so as to carry the crowbar with both
Floyd | hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open crate with crowbar"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN CRATE WITH CROWBAR
Floyd | You stick the end of the crowbar under the lip of the crate and begin
Floyd | redistributing some force.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a crunching sound. The dining room is right above you; that
Floyd | must be the statue moving around. The back of your neck tingles: it
Floyd | did nod at you, back in the cemetery. How long has it been
Floyd | alive? Is it alive?
Floyd |
Floyd | Your leveraging efforts are rewarded: The nail in one corner of the lid
Floyd | pops up. Three to go.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says, "aww"
Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys.
schep says (to Floyd), "g"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd | You reposition yourself and stick the crowbar under the lid again.
Floyd |
Floyd | From upstairs: a shriek so shrill it could be steel rasping against
Floyd | glass, or a scream, or you don't know what. You should go up and make
Floyd | sure nobody's hurt.
Floyd |
Floyd | But then you hear laughter. They're fine.
Floyd |
Floyd | A little more force, and the second nail comes out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "okay, so maybe the guests are being murdered."
genericgeekgirl says, "So we should stay down here where it's safe."
DavidW says, "Or John is."
schep says, "in either case, none of our business and we have a job to do"
Jacqueline says, "Well, you guys already hate some of the guests, so maybe there would be laughter at their demise."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > UnYou wedge in the crowbar again to tackle the third nail.
Floyd |
Floyd | Now you hear a low scraping, a scraping that can only be someone
Floyd | dragging those heavy dining room chairs over those gorgeous hardwood
Floyd | floors. Your lips twist in rage; you look at the nail and imagine it is
Floyd | Ivan's head.
Floyd |
Floyd | It slides out of the crate with a pop. Just one more.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd | The last one should be easy. You slide in the crowbar...
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly the party upstairs is silent. No. Suddenly? It had been silent
Floyd | for a few seconds before you noticed anything. Or maybe it's not
Floyd | silent. You can hear something rustling. Or is that just people
Floyd | talking?
Floyd |
Floyd | You strain to listen, but then all you can hear is your own heartbeat.
Floyd |
Floyd | The last nail slides out, and the whole lid slides away. You drop your
Floyd | crowbar and pull out a bottle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bottle"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOTTLE
Floyd | Which do you mean, the bottle of Prévenge or the bottle of
Floyd | Thunderbird?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x revenge"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > X REVENGE
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl asks, "Sorry, what does that first one say?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x thunderbird"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > X THUNDERBIRD
Floyd | You regard the bottle with disgust. You couldn't possibly serve it to
Floyd | the guests. Maybe you could use it to kill a houseplant.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I see Pr??venge"
schep says (to Floyd), "x provenge"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | >  YOUR MIND You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x prevenge"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PREVENGE
Floyd | (the bottle of Prévenge)
Floyd | You had the pleasure of experiencing Prévenge at the same tasting
Floyd | where John decided he had to buy several crates. It's nothing special.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says, "I see Pr\~A(c)venge"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drink thunderbird"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > DRINK THUNDERBIRD
Floyd | You don't have a corkscrew handy, which is just as well. Just the fumes
Floyd | off of this stuff could be hazardous to your health.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a bottle of Prévenge
Floyd |   a bottle of Thunderbird
Floyd |   an ornate key
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take prevenge"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE PREVENGE
Floyd | (the crate of Prévenge)
Floyd | Taking the entire crate upstairs would be too much--no matter
Floyd | who is visiting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I suppose we should take the Prevenge upstairs."
Jacqueline says, "Yeah, it's Prévenge on my screen - this will be a fun transcript to fix. : )"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bottle of prevenge"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BOTTLE OF PREVENGE
Floyd | You'd better not leave the bottle here; John is expecting you to come
Floyd | back with some liquid.
Floyd | You cannot gracefully carry two wine bottles at once. You drop the
Floyd | other bottle in favor of the Prévenge.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Tunnel
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Tunnel
Floyd | Technically this is more like an antechamber for the main cellar, but
Floyd | the room is longer than it is wide, and the ceiling is pretty low.
Floyd | Besides a boarded-up rathole, there's nothing to look at in here but
Floyd | the stairs up and the (infuriating) door in the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl asks, "Shall we?"
DavidW says, "hmmmm"
genericgeekgirl covers her eyes, just in case.
Jacqueline holds her breath.
Johnny says (to Floyd), "take rathole"
Floyd ]  Tunnel
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLEASURE OF eYou can't save it. You have to escape.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "What."
DavidW says, "I think the crowbar will open the rathole."
djfletch asks, "oh, Prevenge is another TMBG song?"
genericgeekgirl asks, "Would we even fit?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop prevenge"
Floyd ]  Tunnel
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP PREVENGE
Floyd | You'd better not leave the bottle here; John is expecting you to come
Floyd | back with some liquid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "I don't think we can get the crowbar back."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Tunnel
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | Wine Cellar
Floyd | John only buys the most expensive wines and spirits he can find. In the
Floyd | eyes of his friends, anyway, that makes him a conoisseur. This room
Floyd | isn't packed to the brim, but what it does contain is worth defending.
Floyd |
Floyd | Nearby is a crate of a particular wine which John apparently thinks is
Floyd | worth saving for a special occasion.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a crowbar here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take crowbar"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE CROWBAR
Floyd | You'd better not leave the bottle here; John is expecting you to come
Floyd | back with some liquid.
Floyd | You happily discard your bottle, so as to carry the crowbar with both
Floyd | hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "So is the 'PLEASURE OF eYou can't save it. You have to escape.' a sleepmask thing?"
genericgeekgirl says, "Oh. Meh."
olethros arrives, full of funk, but no fun. genericgeekgirl says, "Trying the rathole."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Tunnel
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Tunnel
Floyd | Technically this is more like an antechamber for the main cellar, but
Floyd | the room is longer than it is wide, and the ceiling is pretty low.
Floyd | Besides a boarded-up rathole, there's nothing to look at in here but
Floyd | the stairs up and the (infuriating) door in the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
olethros says, "for the love of god, floyd"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open rathole with crowbar"
Floyd ]  Tunnel
Floyd |
Floyd | > IND YOU CAN'T SEE ANY SUChThat's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pry rathole with crowbar"
Floyd ]  Tunnel
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRY RATHOLE WITH CROWBAR
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Or not."
Johnny says (to Floyd), "prise rathole"
Floyd ]  Tunnel
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRISE RATHOLE
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oh well"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | Wine Cellar
Floyd | John only buys the most expensive wines and spirits he can find. In the
Floyd | eyes of his friends, anyway, that makes him a conoisseur. This room
Floyd | isn't packed to the brim, but what it does contain is worth defending.
Floyd |
Floyd | Nearby is a crate of a particular wine which John apparently thinks is
Floyd | worth saving for a special occasion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bottle of prevenge"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BOTTLE OF PREVENGE
Floyd | You'd better not leave the bottle here; John is expecting you to come
Floyd | back with some liquid.
Floyd | You cannot gracefully carry two wine bottles at once. You drop the
Floyd | other bottle in favor of the Prévenge.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, ".. I wasn't carrying another bottle."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Wine Cellar
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a bottle of Prévenge
Floyd |   a crowbar
Floyd |   a bottle of Thunderbird
Floyd |   an ornate key
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vimes says (to jacq), "more or less - it's not sleepmask itself, but the interpreter(s) it's using, which have a bit of a buffer display bug"
genericgeekgirl says, "Erm."
DavidW says, "buggy"
genericgeekgirl says, "Well. All right.."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Tunnel
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Tunnel
Floyd | Technically this is more like an antechamber for the main cellar, but
Floyd | the room is longer than it is wide, and the ceiling is pretty low.
Floyd | Besides a boarded-up rathole, there's nothing to look at in here but
Floyd | the stairs up and the (infuriating) door in the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd ]  Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd | >  Ra
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | Where's Chucky? It looks like he left in a hurry.
Floyd |
Floyd | There seems to be something happening down in the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says, "We have big hands."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | Everything is on fire. The floor is burning and the walls are burning
Floyd | and the table looks like a big bonfire; all the settings are twinkling
Floyd | in the light of the flames. The room is rapidly filling with smoke.
Floyd |
Floyd | Captain Miles seems to be nursing one of his migraines.
Floyd |
Floyd | Miss Idie is sitting on the floor, staring into the blaze of the table.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you stop that? There are people watching.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vimes says, "and the pr??venge is an issue with character sets - particularly, that floyd doesn't know about or support them"
olethros says, "is this a real '?'"
Johnny says, "Floyd is something of a xenophobe."
olethros says, ";ah"
olethros says (to Floyd), "For the l?ve of G?d, floyd"
schep says (to olethros), "that depends on your ifmud-encoding-setting"
olethros says (to schep), "I see the lounge charset just fine"
Jacqueline says (to olethros), "haha"
DavidW says, "This game seems to set up puzzles only to turn away from them at the last minute and introduce something else."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x smoke"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SMOKE
Floyd | Smoke is rapidly filling the room, but for now you seem to be able to
Floyd | breathe.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you stop that? There are people watching.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jpt arrives, full of funk, but no fun. Jacqueline says, "I know - I like it. I may nominate it for best puzzles next year."
schep says (to Floyd), "ask idie about fire"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK IDIE ABOUT FIRE
Floyd | Hope looks up at you and begins pulling off one of her legs.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I've been informed that I should feel some remorse over my opinions on
Floyd | the Asian race," she says. She throws her leg onto the burning table
Floyd | and begins removing one of her arms.
Floyd |
Floyd | "If all I have to do is apologize, then I apologize. There." She tosses
Floyd | the arm into the flames and gets to work pulling off the other arm.
Floyd |
Floyd | Her expression changes: she glares at you as if in warning. "I am being
Floyd | compelled to apologize against my will. None of this is sincere; I'm
Floyd | just acting this out to make him happy." She jerks her head backward,
Floyd | toward the narrow door. "I don't know how he's doing it. They're crafty
Floyd | that way. But why am I going on like this?"
Floyd |
Floyd | She throws her other arm and leg onto the fire glumly. "There's not
Floyd | much I can do about it now."
Floyd |
Floyd | She throws the rest of herself onto the fire, and in an instant the
Floyd | heat shrivels her like a plastic bag.
Floyd |
Floyd | Have you been paying any attention? At all?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Also, I love thatMiles is nursing his migraine instead of noticing the fire."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "inhale smoke"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > CHTHAT'S NOT That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to miles"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO MILES
Floyd | Miles looks at you through his fingers, still rubbing his head. "Oh,
Floyd | there you are," he says.
Floyd |
Floyd | His fingers are skeleton bones instead of fingers. "I'm supposed to say
Floyd | something, so I'll say it to you. The thing I'm supposed to say is, I'm
Floyd | sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | Now the skin and muscle is gone from his face. "Not sure what I'm
Floyd | supposed to be sorry about. It's really hot in here, and it's hard to
Floyd | think. Maybe I'm supposed to be sorry about Hope, you know."
Floyd |
Floyd | His face comes back for a second so he can squint in frustration.
Floyd | "That's a complicated thing to be sorry for. But the other stuff I did,
Floyd | I don't want to admit to doing. So I'll go with that."
Floyd |
Floyd | He nods his skull a couple times, then his skeleton falls apart and
Floyd | burns up.
Floyd |
Floyd | No. I don't care anymore. Do what you want.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "The statue is upset now."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "throw bottle on fire"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > THROW BOTTLE ON FIRE
Floyd | Which do you mean, the bottle of Prévenge or the bottle of
Floyd | Thunderbird?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Gosh"
Johnny says, "'The statue is growing angrier!'"
Jacqueline says, "This is pretty much full of awesome."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | Everything is on fire. The floor is burning and the walls are burning
Floyd | and the table looks like a big bonfire; all the settings are twinkling
Floyd | in the light of the flames. The room is rapidly filling with smoke.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you really need me to tell you this?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says, "Throw the cheap wine."
schep says (to Floyd), "apologize"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > AD. "OH, tThat's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "throw thunderbird on fire"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > THROW THUNDERBIRD ON FIRE
Floyd | You can't even remember if you're still carrying it.
Floyd |
Floyd | What are you trying to tell me? No. Forget it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "throw prevenge on fire"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > THROW PREVENGE ON FIRE
Floyd | You can't even remember if you're still carrying it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Have you been paying any attention? At all?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a bottle of Prévenge
Floyd |   a crowbar
Floyd |   a bottle of Thunderbird
Floyd |   an ornate key
Floyd |
Floyd | And if it doesn't matter to you, then it doesn't matter at
Floyd | all?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "drink thunderbird"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > DRINK THUNDERBIRD
Floyd | You don't have a corkscrew handy, which is just as well. Just the fumes
Floyd | off of this stuff could be hazardous to your health.
Floyd |
Floyd | You do not talk to me that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "sorry"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > SORRY
Floyd | Oh, don't apologise.
Floyd |
Floyd | No, you listen to me. I'm tired of this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | You wanna let me finish?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You do not talk to me that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "yes"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question.
Floyd |
Floyd | This is serious. Do you think I'm kidding?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny asks, "Where are the tags coming from?"
genericgeekgirl asks, "Should we check out the other rooms?"
DavidW says (to ggg), "okay."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > T (first opening the narrow door)
Floyd | The door is engulfed in flames, impossible to pass.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you really need me to tell you this?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Dining Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd | The door to the foyer is blocked. The only way out is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | I'm done with this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Den
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Den
Floyd | The fire has already spread through here; it's climbing up the sides of
Floyd | the pool table and the credenza.
Floyd |
Floyd | The elephant foot umbrella stand is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Across from him is Miss O, lounging on the couch as if it were a day
Floyd | bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Ivan is leaning on a bar stool, apparently standing only with great
Floyd | effort.
Floyd |
Floyd | You wanna let me finish?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x stand"
Floyd ]  Den
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STAND
Floyd | It must have walked here by itself; it's too heavy to be carried.
Floyd |
Floyd | I've had enough of this attitude.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Johnny), "Sleepmask interprets them from the game, then the transcript I post will use that HTML for the final."
Johnny says, "Aha. Tricky."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to odine"
Floyd ]  Den
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO ODINE
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
olethros says, "I totally misread the tags as though em keeps logging on to the mud"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to miss o"
Floyd ]  Den
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO MISS O
Floyd | Miss O hobbles over to you as fast as she can.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm sorry," she gasps. "I'm sorry." She reaches to touch your face,
Floyd | but her arm suddenly swings wildly.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is made of wood. You can see the veins of the grain working their
Floyd | way up to her head.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I think this might be ironic," she rasps. But now her head is made of
Floyd | wood, and now she's on fire, and now she is a pile of ashes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you really need me to tell you this?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "In theory, things are kind of experimental right now. Thanks for putting up with it as we work through this stuff, folks."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to ivan"
Floyd ]  Den
Floyd |
Floyd | > LE TO PASS.
Floyd |
Floyd | The doctor wobbles, then topples; he manages to save himself by falling
Floyd | backward on the pool table.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I am having an epiphany. Right now I am realizing that I am basically
Floyd | a drug dealer," he says. "Because I never stop hooking these people up
Floyd | with their pills. I mean addicts. They're not people, they're addicts."
Floyd |
Floyd | His spine falls out of his back, and he flops to the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | His eyes widen: he has had another epiphany. "That was a terrible thing
Floyd | to say," he gurgles. "I'm sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | He tries to curl up in a fetal position against a leg of the table, but
Floyd | the table rears back in disgust and stomps him out like an insect.
Floyd |
Floyd | I'm done with this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to olethros), "heehee"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Parlor
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlor
Floyd | The couch and chair are being rapidly consumed by flames; the rug is
Floyd | almost completely gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear people yelling in the foyer to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Garry lies on the coffee table, his eyes closed, his feet hanging off
Floyd | the end awkwardly.
Floyd |
Floyd | I'm done with this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Is any of this really happening?"
genericgeekgirl asks, "Where is John?"
djfletch says, "it seems like the statue got _everyone_ high."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to gerry"
Floyd ]  Parlor
Floyd |
Floyd | > THAT'S NOT (FiYou can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to DW), "good point."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to garry"
Floyd ]  Parlor
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO GARRY
Floyd | "I did something bad," he mumurs, without opening his eyes. "I took
Floyd | something that didn't belong to me."
Floyd |
Floyd | He grimaces. "I stole from my office. I stole a chair."
Floyd |
Floyd | You roll your eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But I don't deserve a chair. Even the electric chair is too good for
Floyd | me. The statue has come to punish me, and I'll wait here for him to do
Floyd | what he will. After he gets done with John." He takes a deep breath.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Message repeats. I did something bad. I took something that didn't
Floyd | belong to me." Oh, for Pete's sake.
Floyd |
Floyd | I've had enough of this attitude.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "whoa, he didn't grossly vanish"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x garry"
Floyd ]  Parlor
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GARRY
Floyd | He's holding your lilies over his chest. He's sweating all over, but
Floyd | there's a smile on his face.
Floyd |
Floyd | Don't think for a minute you're getting away with anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "get away with something"
Floyd ]  Parlor
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET AWAY WITH SOMETHING
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wake up"
Floyd ]  Parlor
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAKE UP
Floyd | The dreadful truth is, this is not a dream.
Floyd |
Floyd | No. I don't care anymore. Do what you want.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sleep"
Floyd ]  Parlor
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd | You aren't feeling especially drowsy.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you really need me to tell you this?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to statue"
Floyd ]  Parlor
Floyd |
Floyd | > I DON'T LIKEKEeYou can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "drink crowbar"
Floyd ]  Parlor
Floyd |
Floyd | > DRINK CROWBAR
Floyd | There's nothing suitable to drink here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Don't think for a minute you're getting away with anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Parlor
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You've almost escaped. The front door is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | John is sitting in one of the high-backed chairs. The one next to him
Floyd | is empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | The statue is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The wall clock is on the floor, shattered.
Floyd |
Floyd | The statue rumbles: ## Repent.
Floyd |
Floyd | John sighs in exasperation. "I already told you, man. I'm sorry for
Floyd | murdering you. I mean, killing you. In self-defense. It was a wrong
Floyd | place, wrong time kind of thing."
Floyd |
Floyd | Repent. roars the statue, and a wave of heat rolls out of it like a
Floyd | sonic boom.
Floyd |
Floyd | "No! I said already! Already I told you this! I cannot apologize for
Floyd | screwing your daughter. I have to be true to myself, man."
Floyd |
Floyd | But you must-- the statue attempts, but John is on a roll.
Floyd |
Floyd | "And what myself is, is, a lover. Of ladies. You can't take that away
Floyd | from me. And I can't apologize for that. I mean, I can, but I'm not
Floyd | gonna."
Floyd |
Floyd | The statue creaks. It turns toward you.
Floyd |
Dave has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, there we go. I didn't know there was a parlor-foyer door."
schep says (to Floyd), "hit john"
Floyd ]  Foyer
Floyd | You.
Floyd |
Floyd | It points at the chair next to John. ## It is your turn. Sit. Join your
Floyd | master.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh, hey!" Now John notices you. "Look, this guy wants us to apologize
Floyd | for all the terrible stuff we did. I don't know if it's a religious
Floyd | thing, or if he's just angsty about being dead, or what. Either way,
Floyd | we're gonna burn to death, so..."
Floyd |
Floyd | Sit, insists the statue.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not listening. You're not listening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "dazzle statue with parlor tricks"
Floyd ]  Foyer
Floyd |
Floyd | > DAZZLE STATUE WITH PARLOR TRICKS
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to john"
Floyd ]  Foyer
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO JOHN
Floyd | "Nothing right now, thanks," John says, keeping his eyes on Miss O.
Floyd | "Remember, though, about the guest of honor, on the host's right."
Floyd |
Floyd | Sit, and repent. The statue seems to want to throw you bodily into
Floyd | the chair.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Come on!" cries John. "Let's get this over with!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Have you been paying any attention? At all?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "let's have a seat"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sit"
Floyd ]  Foyer
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT
Floyd | What do you want to sit on?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sit on chair"
Floyd ]  Foyer
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT ON CHAIR
Floyd | You sit down next to John. The statue looks at you. The flames rise.
Floyd |
Floyd | John leans back and smiles: his body turns into a pile of ashes. Then
Floyd | yours does too; then the chairs, and then the rest of the house.
Floyd | Everything is gone, except the statue.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     ## *** Well. Huh. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Eep"
Johnny asks, "Undo?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Foyer
Floyd |
Floyd | > S US ## Foyer
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Foyer
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd | You must name something more substantial.
Floyd |
Floyd | The statue and John both regard you expectantly. The fire is spreading.
Floyd |
Floyd | No. We're not finished.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ]  Foyer
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | The statue and John both regard you expectantly. The fire is spreading.
Floyd |
Floyd | This is serious. Do you think I'm kidding?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "talk to statue"
Floyd ]  Foyer
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO STATUE
Floyd | You can't think of anything to say.
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x front door"
Floyd |
Floyd | The statue and John both regard you expectantly. The fire is spreading.
Floyd |
Floyd | I'm done with this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Foyer
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FRONT DOOR
Floyd | The door isn't on fire, yet; outside is the lawn, and safety.
Floyd |
Floyd | The statue and John both regard you expectantly. The fire is spreading.
Floyd |
Floyd | This is serious. Do you think I'm kidding?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open front door"
Floyd ]  Foyer
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN FRONT DOOR
Floyd | As you open the door, cool night air rushes in from outside. If John or
Floyd | the statue reacts, you don't know; they are behind you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The statue and John both regard you expectantly. The fire is spreading.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not listening. You're not listening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > Jo
Floyd | Lawn
Floyd | You run out across the lawn: you fall on your face in the grass before
Floyd | you reach the street.
Floyd |
Floyd | But you're safe. It's dark out here, and cold, and the guests and John
Floyd | and the statue are all behind you. You lie in the grass and breathe in
Floyd | huge gulps as the screaming fire engine sirens fill the air.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     ## *** You have escaped. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "And now I bet we go to jail for arson."
DavidW says, "Strange game."
genericgeekgirl says, ""The statue did it." "Oh, you don't say?""
Johnny says, "Firefighters can't arrest you."
Johnny asks, "Or can they?"
genericgeekgirl asks (of DW), "The only winning move is to.. get high?"
Jacqueline says, "That was great."
genericgeekgirl says, "I feel like if an entire house is on fire, the cops are going to show up, too."
genericgeekgirl says, "At some point, to find out wtf."
DavidW says, "I wonder if there was something else we shoulda or coulda done."
Guenni arrives, full of fun, but no funk. genericgeekgirl says, "I wonder what happens if we go upstairs sooner."
Afterward says, "um, don't try that please"
Jacqueline asks, "Before all the nails are pried?"
Johnny says, "Brain everyone with the crowbar."
DavidW says, "I suspect it won't let us go up without a bottle."
Jacqueline asks (of Afterward), "Why?"
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Hm, yeah. Probably."
Afterward says, "I don't clearly remember making an allowance for that case"
genericgeekgirl says, "Ah. Heh, ok."
maga says, "yeah, I think it's a little breaky"
schep says, "it seemed to try to prevent us from holding everything at once but then we did"
Jacqueline says, "Ah. Check."
Afterward says, "oh actually"
Afterward says, "there is one thing you may have missed."
Afterward says, "although obviously I haven't been here."
DavidW asks, "The safe behind the portrait?"
Afterward says, "No, the cave behind the waterfall."
schep asks, "uh. waterfall?"
DavidW says, "ah, well, I missed the waterfall too. If I'd seen a waterfall, I would've looked for a cave."
Afterward says, "haha I am just being a jerk, sorry"
Afterward says, "When you asked me about the portrait I... forgot there was a portrait in the game."
genericgeekgirl says, "Hee."
Afterward says, "Anyway there's a special ending if you manage to accomplish some sequence-breaking,"
Johnny says, "S-S-S-Sequence-breaker"
Afterward says, "but if you really spent an hour on this game just now then maybe that should be left as an exercise to the transcript-reader."
Jacqueline says, "Prolly."
Jacqueline says, "Prolly time to do the next one."
Jacqueline asks, "Everyone good with that?"
Jacqueline says, "Next one would be... Spider."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit"
Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask a18spider"
Floyd ]  Main Quad                                            0/1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Math camp's been cool so far, and not because it's far away from your
Floyd | parents. A grant from some governmental symposium for the math and the
Floyd | arts paid for it. You got to meet new people like you, except most of
Floyd | them seem to have had more cool experiences.
Floyd |
Floyd | Spider
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Andrew Schultz
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120324 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Quad
Floyd | You are in the center of the Main Quad at Hicksville Tech. Paths lead
Floyd | in all directions. You've been here a few days, but you still haven't
Floyd | really explored west and northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Afternoon classes for Math Camp are over, and you just feel like
Floyd | wandering around a bit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Main Quad                                            0/2
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd | Shorts and a plain gray t-shirt. You've come under a bit of fire for
Floyd | having no T-shirts with clever writing.
Floyd |
Floyd | This after hearing it for having too many back at high school.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Heh - Hicksville Tech."
Guenni says (to floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Main Quad                                            0/3
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   your summer program ID
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "pssht. Math Camp is not that judgemental"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Main Quad                                            0/4
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   your summer program ID
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x id"
Floyd ]  Main Quad                                            0/5
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ID
Floyd | It really could have been worse. It will make a decent souvenir of
Floyd | summer camp, if you find nothing better.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
(from maga) Jacqueline says, "they were our greatest rivals when I was at Hicksville U"
genericgeekgirl says, "Heh."
schep asks, "west?"
Jacqueline says, "snrk"
Guenni says (to floyd), "read program"
Floyd ]  Main Quad                                            0/6
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ PROGRAM
Floyd | It hasn't changed since last you looked. It's like laminated or
Floyd | something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Given that the only Hicksville I know is in Long Island.. I'm sure they are that judgemental!"
DavidW asks, "I suppose our goal is to find a better souvenir?"
genericgeekgirl says, "Westing."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Main Quad                                            0/7
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd | That way look promising enough to get sort-of lost in, but it's not
Floyd | really a forest. You see the Admissions Office just past. It ruins the
Floyd | feeling of exploration completely. You return to the Quad.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Aw. Northwesting."
ASchultz says, "Oh man, there really is a Hicksville? I just thought up the name a long time ago, then never bothererd to google for, oh, 5-10 odd years"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  Big Forest                                           0/8
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | Big Forest
Floyd | You're only lost enough to feel a little adventurous. You think. One
Floyd | direction is as good as any other.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "I'm sure there are several Hicksvilles"
ASchultz says, ".. notes 'That way look' for later"
Guenni says (to floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Big Forest                                           0/9
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd | You wander around for a bit. It's a fun experience, being a bit lost.
Floyd | It reminds you of Boy Scout camp, back when you were still a
Floyd | Tenderfoot, and you didn't know a thing about tracking. Of course
Floyd | you'll find your way out of here, though.
Floyd |
Floyd | Big Forest
Floyd | You're only lost enough to feel a little adventurous. You think. One
Floyd | direction is as good as any other.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I wouldn't have thought there'd be one at all."
genericgeekgirl says, "There are at least three, according to Wikipedia."
schep says (to Floyd), "clime tree"
Floyd ]  Big Forest                                           0/9
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIME TREE
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "climb tree"
Floyd ]  Big Forest                                           0/9
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB TREE
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "x forest"
Floyd ]  Big Forest                                           0/9
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FOREST
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says, "Hicks is a pretty common name"
DavidW says, "Sounds like we want to be lost more."
schep says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Big Forest                                           0/10
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd | You wander around for a bit. Hmm, this is more of a challenge than you
Floyd | thought. Still, it's some exercise, especially with team sports not
Floyd | really being an option at this camp.
Floyd |
Floyd | Big Forest
Floyd | You're only lost enough to feel a little adventurous. You think. One
Floyd | direction is as good as any other.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Big Forest                                           0/11
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd | You wander around for a bit. You aren't really lost, of course. If you
Floyd | were, you'd have gone in circles by now. You are pretty sure you can
Floyd | backtrack.
Floyd |
Floyd | Big Forest
Floyd | You're only lost enough to feel a little adventurous. You think. One
Floyd | direction is as good as any other.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
ASchultz says (to I'll), "have to implement those. Those are good ideas."
Jacqueline says (to maga), "Hm, true."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about"
Floyd ]  Big Forest                                           0/12
Floyd |
Floyd | > ABOUT
Floyd | This game was written for the intfiction.org TMBG Apollo 18 20th
Floyd | anniversary tribute. It's a silly little physics puzzle, with some
Floyd | various attempts at humor and also some small memories of a nice time I
Floyd | spent at the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics. Where
Floyd | people let me fit in right away.
Floyd |
Floyd | People who helped me with beta testing are listed in the CREDITS. They
Floyd | helped make this game better.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "spin me"
Floyd ]  Big Forest                                           0/12
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPIN ME
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "get lost"
Floyd ]  Big Forest                                           0/12
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET LOST
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "credits"
Floyd ]  Big Forest                                           0/13
Floyd |
Floyd | > CREDITS
Floyd | First, I would like to thank my beta-testers. So might you--any bugs
Floyd | and nuisances and parser stupidity you find would've been worse (e.g.
Floyd | unwinnable) without them. They (the testers, not the bugs) are, in
Floyd | random order: Melvin Rangamasy and Ed Blair. I hope you enjoy their
Floyd | games in this collection too.
Floyd |
Floyd | However, this game would not have been conceived without Kevin
Floyd | Jackson-Mead organizing the entire album tribute.
Floyd |
Floyd | I would also like to thank Ryan Veeder for creating a document of ideas
Floyd | for each song/game, and all the people on IFMud and intfiction.org who
Floyd | helped with coding and implementation details that often led to bigger
Floyd | realizations. There are too many people to name.
Floyd |
Floyd | Of course, general thanks go to Graham Nelson for creating Inform 7,
Floyd | David Kinder for creating the Windows front-end, and Aaron Reed for his
Floyd | wonderful book Programming in Inform 7. If you'd like to try your hand
Floyd | at writing, check the IDE out on inform7.com, or Sand-Dancer, Aaron's
Floyd | excellent sample game from the book at [LINK]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove shirt"
Floyd ]  Big Forest                                           0/13
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMOVE SHIRT
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "this is not I-0"
genericgeekgirl says, "Hahaha."
Jacqueline says, "There was a Veeder doc of ideas? I never saw that."
DavidW says, "I wants me summer GWS."
Guenni says (to floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Big Forest                                           0/14
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd | You wander around for a bit. Uh oh... the campus isn't that big,
Floyd | though, is it? I mean, eventually you can hit a road and just go back
Floyd | perpendicular from it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Big Forest
Floyd | You're only lost enough to feel a little adventurous. You think. One
Floyd | direction is as good as any other.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Big Forest                                           0/15
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd | You wander around for a bit. And there that road is. You aren't sure if
Floyd | you were going in the directions you thought you were going, but you
Floyd | found somewhere new.
Floyd |
Floyd | Big Forest
Floyd | You're only lost enough to feel a little adventurous. You think. One
Floyd | direction is as good as any other.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x road"
Floyd ]  Big Forest                                           0/15
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ROAD
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Road                                                 0/16
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd | You wander around for a bit. And there that road is. You aren't sure if
Floyd | you were going in the directions you thought you were going, but you
Floyd | found somewhere new.
Floyd |
Floyd | Road
Floyd | Hey, kind of odd to see a limousine parked here. It's not an
Floyd | obnoxiously rich limousine, more the forbiddingly secret type.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, good."
Guenni says (to floyd), "x car"
Floyd ]  Road                                                 0/16
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CAR
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x limousine"
Floyd ]  Road                                                 0/17
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LIMOUSINE
Floyd | It's dark all over, of course.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "open limo"
Floyd ]  Road                                                 0/18
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN LIMO
Floyd | You approach the limousine. A man in a black suit jumps out of the
Floyd | limousine and grabs you. "You're with that math program, right?" You
Floyd | suspect he knows the answer, so you nod. "We need you for something,"
Floyd | he says, as he flashes some sort of governmental badge. "Just to check.
Floyd | You do have ID?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Well, at least these questions are easier than the ones you get in
Floyd | class or at the daily theorem presentation.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show id to man"
Floyd ]  Back seat                                            0/19
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW ID TO MAN
Floyd | "Good. Will you come with us, please?"
Floyd |
Floyd | No choice, really. You climb in the back seat, and the FBI agent joins
Floyd | a CIA agent in the front, who drives off.
Floyd |
Floyd | Back seat
Floyd | Tinted soundproof glass divides you from the agents in the front. You
Floyd | probably can't do much except wait.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a FBI agent and a CIA agent here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
ASchultz says (to Floyd), "version"
Floyd ]  Back seat                                            0/19
Floyd |
Floyd | > VERSION
Floyd | Spider
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Andrew Schultz
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120324 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd | Identification number: //A30EECAD-98F0-440F-BB0D-4BD711D6AC24//
Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 (6b) / Library serial number 080126
Floyd | Standard Rules version 2/090402 by Graham Nelson
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Adventure!"
schep says, "your nation desparately needs you to prove this inequality"
DavidW says, "I Did Math Problems For America!"
genericgeekgirl says, "> prove P = NP"
ASchultz asks, "We seem to have an old version of the game...is there any way to update to a later one?"
schep says, "> APPLY PIGEONHOLE PRINCIPLE"
maga says (to DW), "that sounds like a Canadian charity"
Jacqueline says, "Well, I could - but we'd have to start over."
maga says, "like Water for Africa or something"
Jacqueline says, "I downloaded the zip as it existed last Saturday morning, April 15th."
maga says, "now I am picturing a bunch of Canadians sitting around a campfire, cackling to themselves 'those dumb Yanks will never solve these'"
DavidW cackles.
ASchultz says, "Hmm. The basic way through isn't affected, but the narrative makes more sense. I don't want to be a bottleneck, though"
schep says, "hmm"
Jacqueline says, "If you want to send me the file, I will upload it, though - if there's show-stopping stuff in here."
schep says, "either way is fine with me"
Jacqueline asks (of Folks), "What do you want, to continue or have me upload v2?"
ASchultz says, "Nothing show-stopping. Or nothing I've found."
Jacqueline says (to maga), "haha"
DavidW says, "We haven't seen that much of the game yet. A restart shouldn't hurt much."
schep asks, "maybe we can continue and you can make comments on the changes in the channel?"
Jacqueline asks (of ASchultz), "Hm, can we stick with this one, then?"
ASchultz exclaims, "Yes. That'll be okay. Thanks!"
Jacqueline says, "mmkay, cool."
schep says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Back seat                                            0/19
Floyd |
Floyd | >## Back seat
Floyd | Tinted soundproof glass divides you from the agents in the front. You
Floyd | probably can't do much except wait.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a FBI agent and a CIA agent here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Apparently, you spent more time figuring out what to do than you
Floyd | thought. The limousine takes a turn off to a side road and enters some
Floyd | sort of garage. You can feel it going down a hill, and then it comes to
Floyd | a halt. The agents beckon for you to get out, and you do. What have you
Floyd | gotten yourself in for?
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/20
Floyd |
Floyd | "Okay, here's the deal," says the FBI man. "We had this problem in this
Floyd | one weapons facility. The laser guns worked ok but the mutant robot
Floyd | spiders...not so much. We need to wipe all traces of 'em from this here
Floyd | research facility. Then we need to sort of destroy the facility. But we
Floyd | can't just bomb it. Too suspicious. We need someone to go in there,
Floyd | clear the spiders, and get out."
Floyd |
Floyd | You know who that someone is.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh, if you're wondering what you get out of it, the budget for your
Floyd | precious camp doesn't get cut. This year. We've done statistical
Floyd | studies, and Hicksville's program provides the worst return on
Floyd | investment for--well--people who go out in the world and do something
Floyd | constructive. How bout it?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You have no choice. The FBI agent disappears after handing you a bag
Floyd | labeled SPIDER COMBATING KIT.
Floyd |
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way
Floyd | except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where
Floyd | you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch
Floyd | of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing sort of between north and northeast--we'll call
Floyd | it NNE, NEN or even ENN) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x kit"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/21
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KIT
Floyd | It sort of reminds you of what you guess Douglas Adams was thinking
Floyd | about when he came up with the Thing Your Aunt Gave You Which You Don't
Floyd | Know What It Is. It's bulky and maybe a bit spiky and can be zipped
Floyd | open or closed. It's maybe twice the size of a school backpack and
Floyd | probably more than twice as fun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open kit"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/22
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN KIT
Floyd | Man! There's all kinds of weird stuff in here! Stuff so weird you just
Floyd | have to examine it for yourself!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Ooohh."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x kit"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/23
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KIT
Floyd | It's cool enough you'd like one, but the government types will probably
Floyd | confiscate it if you figure out how to leave anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the Spider combating Kit are a recursive data chip, a pack of 104
Floyd | cards, a leg steroid pill, a juicy gourmet fly casserole, an In-a-Pinch
Floyd | Infrasound Generator, a mini-vacuum, Packet of instant lemonade and a
Floyd | spray bottle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x chip"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/24
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CHIP
Floyd | You see nothing special about the recursive data chip.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cards"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/25
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CARDS
Floyd | Strange. They're all the same suit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "x buttons"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/26
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BUTTONS
Floyd | There's a big button at the top, then six more in a sort of hexagon.
Floyd | Hm, seven buttons, seven guns, seven exits.
Floyd |
Floyd |    ## 7
Floyd |   ## 1 ## 2
Floyd |  ## 3   ## 4
Floyd |   ## 5 ## 6
Floyd |
Floyd | [BOLD buttons are still active, and * means the button's gun is
Floyd | destroyed. To see an individual button, X BUTTON (1-7).]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pill"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/27
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PILL
Floyd | Probably small enough to sneak into something. It's one of those hard
Floyd | capsules, not easily dissolvable gel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x casserole"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/28
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CASSEROLE
Floyd | It looks worse than the stuff in the cafeteria. Well, to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x generator"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/29
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GENERATOR
Floyd | It has writing saying ONE USE ONLY on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The In-a-Pinch Infrasound Generator is currently switched off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "We have a weird idea of fun."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x vacuum"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/30
Floyd |
Floyd | > X VACUUM
Floyd | It's got a bag about the size of a basketball. You probably won't be
Floyd | using it to clean dust.
Floyd |
Floyd | The mini-vacuum is currently switched off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x lemonade"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/31
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LEMONADE
Floyd | You see nothing special about Packet of instant lemonade.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bottle"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/32
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOTTLE
Floyd | You can see a soapy solution in there (you shook it up a bit.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Also, we need a SWT team, not a maths major."
genericgeekgirl says, "Innnnntersting."
schep asks, "should we save?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf9"
Floyd | %% File to save:
Floyd | %% Save file: cf9
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/32
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline clears the save counter.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1"
Floyd | %% File to save:
Floyd | %% Save file: cf1
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/32
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl asks, "Oh, does that work now?"
Jacqueline says, "It's supposed to, but yeah, I forgot about not clearing."
Jacqueline says, "I guess I could make sure."
Jacqueline says, "We were up to 9..."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2"
Floyd | %% File to save:
Floyd | %% Save file: cf2
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/32
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf3"
Floyd | %% File to save:
Floyd | %% Save file: cf3
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/32
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf4"
Floyd | %% File to save:
Floyd | %% Save file: cf4
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/32
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf5"
Floyd | %% File to save:
Floyd | %% Save file: cf5
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/32
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf6"
Floyd | %% File to save:
Floyd | %% Save file: cf6
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/32
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf7"
Floyd | %% File to save:
Floyd | %% Save file: cf7
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/32
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf8"
Floyd | %% File to save:
Floyd | %% Save file: cf8
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/32
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf9"
Floyd | %% File to save:
Floyd | %% Save file: cf9
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/32
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "There."
Jacqueline says, "heh - sorry."
Jacqueline says, "Completely forgot."
Jacqueline says, "Though vimes does think it's fixed."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x button 1"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/33
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BUTTON 1
Floyd | It's in the upper left of the panel. It is currently lit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "What was that all about?"
genericgeekgirl says, "Ok."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x mirror"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/34
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MIRROR
Floyd | It is facing northnortheast at the moment, but it looks like you can
Floyd | tilt it--feel free to abbreviate directions, too, e.g. N or NNE.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Never you mind, civilian."
ASchultz says, "Incidentally the packet is described in the latest version. "It's white, with the words GOVERNMENT ISSUE LEMONADE POWDER stamped over it.""
schep says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/35
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way
Floyd | except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where
Floyd | you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch
Floyd | of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing NNE) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pictures"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/36
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PICTURES
Floyd | It's got a picture of a bigger gun firing at a smaller gun, with a big
Floyd | smiley face. Then one of a much bigger gun firing at a smaller one,
Floyd | with a frowny face above a shattered gun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Heee."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gun"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/37
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GUN
Floyd | Back when you loved GI Joe and thought all lasers missed, you'd have
Floyd | thought the super-big gun to the north was all that. Now, it's a bit
Floyd | scary.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "I propose starting in the ne (or any other direction someone prefers other than north) and working our way clockwise."
Guenni nods
schep says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                0/38
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | Near Right Spider Leg
Floyd | You are on a small circular platform between narrow railed catwalks
Floyd | leading southwest and east.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing north) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a vicious red spider here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x spider"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                0/39
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SPIDER
Floyd | (the vicious red spider)
Floyd | You see nothing special about the vicious red spider.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to spider"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                0/39
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO SPIDER
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "What's this 'platform' that's mentioned?"
DavidW says, "I'm not visualizing this properly yet."
genericgeekgirl says, "I presume we can work our way around without going back to the hub room."
genericgeekgirl says, "Unless I'm mis-picturing that."
schep says, "I think we are standing on the platform which is between catwalks. Unclear if the red spider is on this level or below."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x mirror"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                0/40
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MIRROR
Floyd | It is facing north at the moment, but it looks like you can tilt it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "x platform"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                0/40
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PLATFORM
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hug spider"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                0/41
Floyd |
Floyd | > HUG SPIDER
Floyd | (the vicious red spider)
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "but... where did the catwalks come from? Were we on a catwalk before?"
Jacqueline says, "AFK - small work emergency, back soon."
schep says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                0/42
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd | That spider won't let you by.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Ok, no, I misread."
Guenni says (to floyd), "switch on vacuum"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                0/43
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWITCH ON VACUUM
Floyd | It sucks the spider into the bag.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "But anyway, there's the central hub with paths leading in various directions out to these platforms. The path is catwalk."
genericgeekgirl says, "Poor spider."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                0/44
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd | You probably don't want to walk so close to a loaded gun that big.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x gun"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                0/44
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GUN
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "You probably shouldn't've used any of our tools just yet."
genericgeekgirl asks, "Gun?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                0/45
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd | Near Right Spider Leg
Floyd | You are on a small circular platform between narrow railed catwalks
Floyd | leading southwest and east.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing north) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I see no gun mentioned."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gun"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                0/45
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GUN
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "well, we can explore more now and restore once we have a bigger picture"
genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah"
Guenni says (to floyd), "look in mirror"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                0/46
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK IN MIRROR
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                0/47
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd | You probably don't want to walk so close to a loaded gun that big.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep scratches head.
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/48
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way
Floyd | except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where
Floyd | you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch
Floyd | of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing NNE) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/49
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd | The catwalk is too narrow for you to really explore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nne"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/50
Floyd |
Floyd | > NNE
Floyd | The catwalk is too narrow for you to really explore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "East next, I guess"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Middle Right Spider Leg                              0/51
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Middle Right Spider Leg
Floyd | You are on a small circular platform between narrow railed catwalks
Floyd | leading southeast and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing SW) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a spider with some disturbing toupee thing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl asks, "I suppose we'll need to bounce the laser off the mirrors?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x spider"
Floyd ]  Middle Right Spider Leg                              0/52
Floyd |
Floyd | > KS LEADIn(a spider with some disturbing toupee thing)
Floyd | At least it doesn't have sideburns or anything. You're not sure where
Floyd | they'd go, but hey, small things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "yes, likely."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x toupee"
Floyd ]  Middle Right Spider Leg                              0/53
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TOUPEE
Floyd | You see nothing special about toupee.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take toupee"
Floyd ]  Middle Right Spider Leg                              0/54
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE TOUPEE
Floyd | That seems to be a part of a spider with some disturbing toupee thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "yes, but be sure not to hit the little laser with the very very big laser"
ASchultz says, "Hm, the latest version does have these bits implemented :(. Sorry, everyone. I put myself in a time crunch with this one."
genericgeekgirl says, "No worries."
schep says (to Floyd), "turn on vacuum"
Floyd ]  Middle Right Spider Leg                              0/55
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN ON VACUUM
Floyd | The bag is too full.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/56
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way
Floyd | except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where
Floyd | you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch
Floyd | of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing NNE) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Middle Right Spider Leg                              0/55
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd | Middle Right Spider Leg
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Not what I meant to do."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Middle Right Spider Leg                              0/56
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd | That spider won't let you by.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Middle Right Spider Leg                              0/57
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a Spider combating Kit (open)
Floyd |     a recursive data chip
Floyd |     a pack of 104 cards
Floyd |     a leg steroid pill
Floyd |     a juicy gourmet fly casserole
Floyd |     an In-a-Pinch Infrasound Generator
Floyd |     a mini-vacuum
Floyd |     Packet of instant lemonade
Floyd |     a spray bottle
Floyd |   your summer program ID
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on generator"
Floyd ]  Middle Right Spider Leg                              0/58
Floyd |
Floyd | > DIN(A SPIDER WITH It reduces the spider to a weeping mess.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
ASchultz says, "And your tries are giving me a lot of good ideas for cheap fun jokes to throw in, so thanks."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pet spider"
Floyd ]  Middle Right Spider Leg                              0/58
Floyd |
Floyd | > PET SPIDER
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Middle Right Spider Leg                              0/59
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd | You probably don't want to walk so close to a loaded gun that big.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn off generator"
Floyd ]  Middle Right Spider Leg                              0/60
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN OFF GENERATOR
Floyd | That's already off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl asks, "Next one?"
Jacqueline says, "Back."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/61
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way
Floyd | except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where
Floyd | you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch
Floyd | of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing NNE) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/62
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | Lower Right Spider Leg
Floyd | You are on a small circular platform between narrow railed catwalks
Floyd | leading northwest and south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing sort of between north and northwest--we'll call
Floyd | it NNW, NWN or even WNN) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a wheezing metallic spider here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x spider"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/63
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SPIDER
Floyd | (the wheezing metallic spider)
Floyd | You see nothing special about the wheezing metallic spider.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x spray"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/64
Floyd |
Floyd | >  SPIDER You can see a soapy solution in there (you shook it up a
Floyd | bit.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "give deck to spider"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/64
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE DECK TO SPIDER
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "spray spider"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/64
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPRAY SPIDER
Floyd | What do you want to spray the wheezing metallic spider at?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "spray spray at spider"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/65
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPRAY SPRAY AT SPIDER
Floyd | (the wheezing metallic spider)
Floyd | There's no liquid in the bottle to spray right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x lemonade"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/66
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LEMONADE
Floyd | You see nothing special about Packet of instant lemonade.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
ASchultz says, "Ouch. deck=pack, of course"
schep says (to Floyd), "x bottle"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/67
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOTTLE
Floyd | You can see a soapy solution in there (you shook it up a bit.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put lemonade in bottle"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/68
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT LEMONADE IN BOTTLE
Floyd | (first taking Packet of instant lemonade)
Floyd |
Floyd | That can't contain things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Upon rereading, I am picturing my grandmother, who used to deal with spiders by sucking them up in a Dustbuster, rather than just tossing them outside to be free."
DavidW says, "ick"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open lemonade"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/69
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN LEMONADE
Floyd | Just say where you want to POUR it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "I think the lemonade is to help us take the leg-boost pill"
genericgeekgirl says, "Hm. I guess."
genericgeekgirl says, "I thought we could spray it at things."
schep says (to Floyd), "pour lemonade in bottle"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/70
Floyd |
Floyd | > POUR LEMONADE IN BOTTLE
Floyd | You pour the lemonade powder in the spray bottle. You put the ripped
Floyd | packet in your shorts pocket, where you will forget about it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Since it's pourable, apparently."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "spray spray at spider"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/71
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPRAY SPRAY AT SPIDER
Floyd | (the wheezing metallic spider)
Floyd | It's a vicious battle, but after pumping all of the lemony scent onto
Floyd | the spider, you finally make it run away.
Floyd | There's no liquid in the bottle to spray right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/70
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd | Lower Right Spider Leg
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "or maybe not"
schep says, "that seemed good"
genericgeekgirl says, "Just not sure if it's the right time to use it."
genericgeekgirl says, "Or if it matters at all."
DavidW asks, "Would the pill go into the casserole?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pill"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/71
Floyd |
Floyd | > RAY AT Probably small enough to sneak into something. It's one of
Floyd | those hard capsules, not easily dissolvable gel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put pill in casserole"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/72
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT PILL IN CASSEROLE
Floyd | (Taking the pill first)
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | The spider probably won't notice it there. Good thinking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Seems it."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/73
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a Spider combating Kit (open)
Floyd |     a recursive data chip
Floyd |     a pack of 104 cards
Floyd |     a juicy gourmet fly casserole
Floyd |     an In-a-Pinch Infrasound Generator
Floyd |     a mini-vacuum
Floyd |     a spray bottle
Floyd |   your summer program ID
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Nice."
Jacqueline says, "Also, damn, now I would like some casserole, but I'm trapped in a Starbucks."
genericgeekgirl says, "That leaves us with cards and chip."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on generator"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/74
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN ON GENERATOR
Floyd | It's broken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, single use. Cool."
DavidW says, "There's a card game called Spider."
schep says (to Floyd), "give cards to spider"
Floyd ]  Lower Right Spider Leg                               0/75
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE CARDS TO SPIDER
Floyd | (the wheezing metallic spider)
Floyd | (first taking the pack of 104 cards)
Floyd | The spider grabs the pack. It schleps them into eight piles and then
Floyd | starts laying them down suit by suit. Then it starts trying to put them
Floyd | in K-Q-J-10 order. It doesn't seem to be having any fun, but it can't
Floyd | stop doing it. There's also some deal where it splatters eight cards at
Floyd | a time. The spider becomes increasingly agitated until it explodes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You aren't sure what the hell happened, but--man--that looked even less
Floyd | fun than solitaire. Oh, you can probably futz with that mirror now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "yup, that was a spider playing Spider."
genericgeekgirl says, "Hehehe"
genericgeekgirl says, "I guess we should go pick off the rest."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nw.s"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/77
Floyd |
Floyd | > SOLUt
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way
Floyd | except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where
Floyd | you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch
Floyd | of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing NNE) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a big tall shiny wall that way. But you can go pretty much any
Floyd | other way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Oh"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Lower Left Spider Leg                                0/78
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd | Lower Left Spider Leg
Floyd | You are on a small circular platform between narrow railed catwalks
Floyd | leading northeast and south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing east) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a spider with two noses or maybe three here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x spider"
Floyd ]  Lower Left Spider Leg                                0/79
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SPIDER
Floyd | (a spider with two noses or maybe three)
Floyd | You're not sure which noses share which nostril, or what. You picture
Floyd | the spider wearing a fake glasses-and-moustache, for no particular
Floyd | reason.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give casserole to spider"
Floyd ]  Lower Left Spider Leg                                0/80
Floyd |
Floyd | > ERBRAIN CENTER
Floyd |
Floyd | > YOU ARE In(a spider with two noses or maybe three)
Floyd | (first taking the juicy gourmet fly casserole)
Floyd | The spider eats the casserole, and then its legs swell. It falls over,
Floyd | unable to guard you from the mirror any more. You kick it off to the
Floyd | side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says, "Ok, real live awaits, later."
Guenni goes home.
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/81
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way
Floyd | except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where
Floyd | you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch
Floyd | of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing NNE) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Middle Left Spider Leg                               0/82
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Middle Left Spider Leg
Floyd | You are on a small circular platform between narrow railed catwalks
Floyd | leading southwest and east.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing east) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a confusingly mustachioed spider here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x spider"
Floyd ]  Middle Left Spider Leg                               0/83
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SPIDER
Floyd | (the confusingly mustachioed spider)
Floyd | The mustache seems asymmetrical, a cross between a standard brush
Floyd | mustache and a handlebar. You wonder if people did this, or the spider
Floyd | groomed itself. It's disturbing either way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give chip to spider"
Floyd ]  Middle Left Spider Leg                               0/84
Floyd |
Floyd | > W RAILED CATWALKS Le(the confusingly mustachioed spider)
Floyd | (first taking the recursive data chip)
Floyd | The spider latches onto it and begins to crawl all over it and process
Floyd | it. But because the chip is recursive, the spider can't stop. It tries
Floyd | to calculate faster and faster but winds up blowing itself out, and the
Floyd | chip with it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl snrks. "One left."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/85
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way
Floyd | except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where
Floyd | you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch
Floyd | of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing NNE) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Leg                                 0/86
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | Near Left Spider Leg
Floyd | You are on a small circular platform between narrow railed catwalks
Floyd | leading southeast and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing sort of between south and southeast--we'll call
Floyd | it SSE, SES or even ESS) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an accordion-legged spider here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x spider"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Leg                                 0/87
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPIDER)
Floyd | ((the accordion-legged spider)
Floyd | You see nothing special about the accordion-legged spider.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "spray spider"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Leg                                 0/87
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPRAY SPIDER
Floyd | What do you want to spray the accordion-legged spider at?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "I don't get the recursive chip one"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "spray spray spider"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Leg                                 0/87
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPRAY SPRAY SPIDER
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "spray spray at spider"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Leg                                 0/88
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPRAY SPRAY AT SPIDER
Floyd | (the accordion-legged spider)
Floyd | It's a vicious battle, but after pumping all of the lemony scent onto
Floyd | the spider, you finally make it run away.
Floyd | There's no liquid in the bottle to spray right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "The spider got stuck in a loop and ran out of resources."
DavidW says, "The map looks like a spider, I guess. A six-legged spider."
ASchultz says, "Ugh, I don't like saying "Spray Spray." Will fix."
schep says, "that's not an issue, it's an option"
DavidW says (to ASchultz), "That's not an error."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf10"
Floyd | %% File to save:
Floyd | %% Save file: cf10
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Leg                                 0/88
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "So, now we need to tilt the mirrors and figure out what order to fire the guns, I guess."
schep says, "let's check out the north"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Leg                                 0/89
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd | The catwalk is too narrow for you to really explore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Leg                                 0/90
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd | The catwalk is too narrow for you to really explore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Leg                                 0/91
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd | Near Left Spider Leg
Floyd | You are on a small circular platform between narrow railed catwalks
Floyd | leading southeast and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing SSE) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/92
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way
Floyd | except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where
Floyd | you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch
Floyd | of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing NNE) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  So Close                                             0/93
Floyd |
Floyd | > Le
Floyd | So Close
Floyd | A large mirror (facing east) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "x gun"
Floyd ]  So Close                                             0/94
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GUN
Floyd | Back when you loved GI Joe and thought all lasers missed, you'd have
Floyd | thought the super-big gun to the north was all that. Now, it's a bit
Floyd | scary.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  So Close                                             0/95
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd | So Close
Floyd | A large mirror (facing east) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "at this point I'm thinking push a button at random, see what happens, undo"
genericgeekgirl says, "Go for it."
schep says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/96
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way
Floyd | except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where
Floyd | you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch
Floyd | of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing NNE) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "x buttons"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/97
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BUTTONS
Floyd | There's a big button at the top, then six more in a sort of hexagon.
Floyd | Looks like zero aren't really functional any more.
Floyd |
Floyd |    ## 7
Floyd |   ## 1 ## 2
Floyd |  ## 3   ## 4
Floyd |   ## 5 ## 6
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "push button 1"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/98
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON 1
Floyd | You hear a hum, then a cough, and a buzz. Sounds like you might not
Floyd | have prepared fully.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "It would help if we knew where the guns were and how big and which way they're pointing."
DavidW says, "Also, lasers aren't visible like in Star Trek."
schep says (to Floyd), "push button 7"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/99
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON 7
Floyd | The distant gun really starts to hum--in fact, you can see red light
Floyd | rays bouncing all over the place. But it doesn't fully kick--you feel
Floyd | you almost have a clear shot on whatever you want to hit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
ASchultz says, "Good point, both. I think the interpreter sort of shuffled the button diagram a bit."
schep says, "they are if the wavelength is visible and the quantity of photons * quantity of room dust are sufficient"
ASchultz says, "But there is definitely another way to make things clear. I've done that in the revision, but I see ways to make it clearer."
ASchultz says (to schep), "Mind if I crib part of that if I want to update some descriptions? I like that."
schep asks, "is there a way to X any laser other than enormous number 7?"
schep says, "no problem."
DavidW asks, "Once a spider is gone, can't we go past it?"
schep says (to DW), "not while the gun in that direction is loaded, it seems"
genericgeekgirl says, "That allows us to tilt the mirror, but the ones we tried said we didn't want to get that close to the gun."
genericgeekgirl says, "We didn't try tilting the mirrors with the spiders around, but I suspect they might have stopped us."
DavidW says, "Well we can't do this at random. We have to get the info somehow."
schep says, "you can see the beam from a weak laser like a pointer by clapping chalk erasers next to it. or a really powerful laser can be seen in an ordinary room. I'm guessing these are the really insanely powerful type."
schep says (to Floyd), "x buttons"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/100
Floyd |
Floyd | > E EDGE OF There's a big button at the top, then six more in a sort of
Floyd | hexagon. Looks like zero aren't really functional any more.
Floyd |
Floyd |    ## 7
Floyd |   ## 1 ## 2
Floyd |  ## 3   ## 4
Floyd |   ## 5 ## 6
Floyd |
Floyd | [BOLD buttons are still active, and * means the button's gun is
Floyd | destroyed. To see an individual button, X BUTTON (1-7).]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I unfortunately missed a bunch of this, so I am now completely relegated to watching."
schep says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                0/101
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | Near Right Spider Leg
Floyd | You are on a small circular platform between narrow railed catwalks
Floyd | leading southwest and east.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing north) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "tilt mirror nnw"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                0/102
Floyd |
Floyd | > TILT MIRROR NNW
Floyd | turn mirror nnw
Floyd | Moved. But you're not sure if you did anything.
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/103
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way
Floyd | except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where
Floyd | you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch
Floyd | of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing NNE) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Jacq), "We're actually at a newish point. We got rid of the spiders, and now have a physicsy puzzle regarding lasers and mirrors."
schep says (to Floyd), "push button w"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/103
Floyd |
Floyd | > KS LE
Floyd |
Floyd | > SO CLOSeWhich do you mean, Button 1, Button 2, Button 3, Button 4,
Floyd | Button 5, Button 6 or Button 7?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "push button 2"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   0/104
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON 2
Floyd | You hear a hum, then a cough, and a buzz. Sounds like you might not
Floyd | have prepared fully.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
ASchultz says, "no problem. And if you guys want to speed things up for the next game, no problem there either. This version is missing more than I thought."
schep says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                0/105
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | Near Right Spider Leg
Floyd | You are on a small circular platform between narrow railed catwalks
Floyd | leading southwest and east.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing NNW) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "tilt mirror sse"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                9/106
Floyd |
Floyd | > TILT MIRROR SSE
Floyd | turn mirror sse
Floyd | It slides in with a satisfying CLICK. How satisfying, you're not sure.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by nine points.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Or, you know, we tilt the mirrors until they give us points."
schep says, "I guess that's something"
schep says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   9/107
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way
Floyd | except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where
Floyd | you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch
Floyd | of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing NNE) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Gosh, now I'm feeling a touch bad for not sounding more open to uploading the v2."
schep says (to Floyd), "tilt mirror n"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   9/108
Floyd |
Floyd | > TILT MIRROR N
Floyd | turn mirror n
Floyd | Moved...the mirror seems to wobble a bit, as if it's been moved around
Floyd | a lot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "well, lessee. Assuming we want the lasers to follow the catwalk..."
schep says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Leg                                 9/109
Floyd |
Floyd | >  Le
Floyd | Near Left Spider Leg
Floyd | You are on a small circular platform between narrow railed catwalks
Floyd | leading southeast and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing SSE) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Sorry about that, ASchultz."
schep says (to Floyd), "tilt mirror ssw"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Leg                                 18/110
Floyd |
Floyd | > TILT MIRROR SSW
Floyd | turn mirror ssw
Floyd | It slides in with a satisfying CLICK. Not as satisfying as the last,
Floyd | but still getting good.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by nine points.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   18/111
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way
Floyd | except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where
Floyd | you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch
Floyd | of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing north) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "push button 2"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   23/112
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON 2
Floyd | Vzzz...whirr...you hear a gun humming and warming up. You take the
Floyd | opportunity to duck.
Floyd |
Floyd | Blam! You hear a crack, then a thud--you managed to rig the mirrors so
Floyd | one gun would take out another. That gun you fired looks tired out now,
Floyd | though.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I just thought the zip file was up to date, but I think I've since heard that perhaps only the individual games were getting replaced with rebuilds."
ASchultz says, "NP, Jacq. I really procrastinated on this one, and if I'd sent it in earlier, it'd have been fixed well before the deadline."
Johnny says, "The zip was updated the 16th."
olethros asks, "is this Space Pirates?"
schep asks, "so do the button numbers relate to the gun size?"
schep says (to Floyd), "x buttons"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   23/113
Floyd |
Floyd | > S LE
Floyd |
Floyd | > NEAR There's a big button at the top, then six more in a sort of
Floyd | hexagon. Looks like two aren't really functional any more.
Floyd |
Floyd |    ## 7
Floyd |   * 2
Floyd |  ## 3   ## 4
Floyd |   ## 5 ## 6
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to schep), "oh, that's a thought."
DavidW asks, "So gun 1 fires at gun 2, then gun 2 fires at gun 3, etc.?"
Johnny says (to olethros), "It's Spider."
schep says, "if so, it would be nice if there were a hint of that. Maybe a later version already does something about that."
Johnny says, "There's no Space Pirates. There's a Space Suit."
ASchultz says, "Yes, I think it's hinted better. The NSA agent gives you the breakdown."
schep asks, "someone else want to do the next one?"
DavidW says, "Like, we can preset all the side mirrors, but the central mirror will need to move before each fire."
Jacqueline says (to Johnny), "Ah, man. The day after I uploaded all the games to Floyd. :/"
DavidW asks, "Have all the side mirrors been set?"
schep says, "no, just NE(1) and NW(2)"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Middle Left Spider Leg                               23/114
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Middle Left Spider Leg
Floyd | You are on a small circular platform between narrow railed catwalks
Floyd | leading southwest and east.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing east) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
ASchultz says, "Hm, there's an idea ... let you see what's tilted where by just looking at the panel. It's more than a bit clumsy this way."
schep says, "oh actually, let's see if we can go NE.E now"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn mirror to SSE"
Floyd ]  Middle Left Spider Leg                               23/115
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN MIRROR TO SSE
Floyd | You will want to specify a compass direction--something like right,
Floyd | left, clockwise or counterclockwise doesn't quite work.
Floyd |
Floyd | Alas, widdershins and deiseil don't work either. Just dull stuff like
Floyd | TURN MIRROR N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn mirror SSE"
Floyd ]  Middle Left Spider Leg                               31/116
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN MIRROR SSE
Floyd | It slides in with a satisfying CLICK. Or maybe it's just a more
Floyd | relieved click you're still doing things right.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by eight points.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/117
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way
Floyd | except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where
Floyd | you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch
Floyd | of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing north) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep asks, "widdershins is from Pratchett. What's deiseil?"
zarf says, "they're both old terms"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn mirror wnw"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/118
Floyd |
Floyd | >  THEN SIX MORE iMoved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I think they predate Pratchett."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button 2"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/119
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON 2
Floyd | You hear a clink, but nothing else. You already fired this button's
Floyd | gun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vimes says, "this buffer bug produces poetry sometimes"
genericgeekgirl says, "I was just thinking that they'd make great Spam headlines."
vimes says, ""THEN SIX MORE I MOVED""
Jacqueline says (to vimes), "heehee"
schep says, "3 destroys 2"
Lucea arrives, full of fun, but no funk.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button 3"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/119
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON 3
Floyd | You hear the hum of a distant gun, then buzzing. You hear a satisfying
Floyd | crackle, but it doesn't stop there--there's an explosion that's much
Floyd | too loud. You managed to disintegrate a gun that'd already been
Floyd | hampered! The shrapnel and smoke fly through the hallways, and the heat
Floyd | knocks you unconscious. When you wake up, you're at the entry to
Floyd | Hicksville Tech. You're apparently the last to know that funding has
Floyd | been cut, and you're the only person without an incisive theory why.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     ## *** The End ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 31 out of a possible 100, in 119 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Oh no!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/119
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to schep), "Because 7 8 9? Oh."
schep says, "huh"
DavidW says, "sorry, I guess I misunderstood what had happened so far."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x buttons"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/120
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BUTTONS
Floyd | There's a big button at the top, then six more in a sort of hexagon.
Floyd | Looks like two aren't really functional any more.
Floyd |
Floyd |    ## 7
Floyd |   * 2
Floyd |  ## 3   ## 4
Floyd |   ## 5 ## 6
Floyd |
Floyd | [BOLD buttons are still active, and * means the button's gun is
Floyd | destroyed. To see an individual button, X BUTTON (1-7).]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x 2"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/121
Floyd |
Floyd | > TTOnIt's in the upper right of the panel. It is currently unlit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "I fired #2 to blow up #1"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x 1"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/122
Floyd |
Floyd | > X 1
Floyd | It's in the upper left of the panel. It is currently unlit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
two-star arrives, full of funk, but no fun. schep says, "aha! and now I think I know what to do with #7."
DavidW asks, "but, isn't that backwards? Shouldn't you have fired 2 at 1?"
schep says, "I did."
DavidW says, "I mean 1 at 2. sorry."
ASchultz says, "If you fired 2 at 1 the game is still winnable, yeah, unless something's wrong"
ASchultz says, "1 second."
ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x mirror"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/123
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MIRROR
Floyd | It is facing westwestnorth at the moment, but it looks like you can
Floyd | tilt it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
ruthling goes home. ASchultz says, "Ok, that looks good too. I'm not sure what's up here. You guys are doing it right."
DavidW asks, "oh wait, are we doing 2 at 1, 4 at 3, 5 at 6, 7 at 7?"
schep says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                31/124
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | Near Right Spider Leg
Floyd | You are on a small circular platform between narrow railed catwalks
Floyd | leading southwest and east.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing SSE) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Foot                               31/125
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd | You tiptoe along the catwalk, no longer scared of the gun that can no
Floyd | longer fire.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near Right Spider Foot
Floyd | You can see LaserGun2 here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "get gun"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Foot                               31/126
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET GUN
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "Awesome camp souvenir: acquired."
DavidW says, "ha ha"
genericgeekgirl says, "Hee."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x gun"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Foot                               31/127
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GUN
Floyd | You see a 4-foot-wide laser gun barrel pointing west here, and you
Floyd | smell ozone faintly--from when it fired, probably.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "I suppose we could just have each laser fire at itself?"
schep says, "maybe"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Foot                               31/128
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd | Near Right Spider Foot
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Foot                               31/129
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd | The catwalk is too narrow for you to really explore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Foot                               31/130
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd | Near Right Spider Foot
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "exits plz"
schep says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Near Right Spider Leg                                31/131
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Near Right Spider Leg
Floyd | You are on a small circular platform between narrow railed catwalks
Floyd | leading southwest and east.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing SSE) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/132
Floyd |
Floyd | >  Si
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way
Floyd | except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where
Floyd | you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch
Floyd | of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing sort of between west and northwest--we'll call
Floyd | it WWN, WNW, or even NWW) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  So Close                                             31/133
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | So Close
Floyd | A large mirror (facing east) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  So Close                                             31/134
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd | So Close
Floyd | A large mirror (facing east) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "No exits listed here either. What's this mirror for?"
schep says (to Floyd), "tilt mirror n"
Floyd ]  So Close                                             31/135
Floyd |
Floyd | > TILT MIRROR N
Floyd | turn mirror n
Floyd | It's where it should be. No need to tinker.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "idgi"
ASchultz says, "Do you guys mind if I drive? I'm starting to worry that something happened to break the game, here."
DavidW asks, "Which way is laser 7 facing, then?"
ASchultz says, "It should be at the north and facing south."
schep says, "but it has always been facing east"
DavidW says, "The mirror faces east."
schep says, "if you have something to check, go ahead"
ASchultz says, "Thanks."
ASchultz says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/136
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way
Floyd | except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where
Floyd | you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch
Floyd | of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing WWN) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "yeah, the mirror. I guess I don't know which way #7 is pointing"
ASchultz says (to Floyd), "push 3"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/136
Floyd |
Floyd | > BIG BUtYou hear the hum of a distant gun, then buzzing. You hear a
Floyd | satisfying crackle, but it doesn't stop there--there's an explosion
Floyd | that's much too loud. You managed to disintegrate a gun that'd already
Floyd | been hampered! The shrapnel and smoke fly through the hallways, and the
Floyd | heat knocks you unconscious. When you wake up, you're at the entry to
Floyd | Hicksville Tech. You're apparently the last to know that funding has
Floyd | been cut, and you're the only person without an incisive theory why.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     ## *** The End ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 31 out of a possible 100, in 136 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >
ASchultz says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/136
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x panel"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/137
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PANEL
Floyd | There's a big button at the top, then six more in a sort of hexagon.
Floyd | Looks like two aren't really functional any more.
Floyd |
Floyd |    ## 7
Floyd |   * 2
Floyd |  ## 3   ## 4
Floyd |   ## 5 ## 6
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says, "big but"
ASchultz says (to Floyd), "tilt mirror nnw"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/138
Floyd |
Floyd | > TILT MIRROR NNW
Floyd | turn mirror nnw
Floyd | Moved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
ASchultz says (to Floyd), "tilt mirror nnw"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/139
Floyd |
Floyd | > TILT MIRROR NNW
Floyd | turn mirror nnw
Floyd | It already is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
ASchultz says (to Floyd), "push 3"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/140
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH 3
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Run-time problem P31: Attempt to use a property of the 'nothing'
Floyd | non-object: property size
Floyd |
Floyd | Vzzz...whirr...you hear a gun humming and warming up. You take the
Floyd | opportunity to duck.
Floyd |
Floyd | A huge explosion! You duck and cover a bit. Perhaps you overdid things?
Floyd | Eh, well, one gun down--though the one that fires appears to be out of
Floyd | commision. You hear a clinking from its direction, and what you see
Floyd | through the mirror doesn't look too hot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
ASchultz says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Spiderbrain Center                                   31/139
Floyd |
Floyd | > 'S Mu## Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "eep"
ASchultz says, "Oh. Yeah, I think I fixed this :/"
ASchultz says, "Guys, you have the basic idea down...it's just not clear enough. I'm ok with moving to another game."
ASchultz says, "Clearly enough explained in this version. If you want the full explanation of what's going on, let me know"
schep asks, "would a plan like 2->1 4->3 6->5 7->7 work?"
ASchultz says, "It's actually 2-1 3-2 4-3 5-4 6-5 7-6. The updated version accounts for 2-1 4-3 6-5. Including why you can't take out 7."
ASchultz says, "Basically, you need to destroy all evidence the government facility was ever there."
Jacqueline says, "Because 7 is fearsome and 7 8 9 ."
schep says, "I thought we tried 2-1 3-2 and that ended the game"
ASchultz says, "Hmm. I'll need to look at the transcript. Because I made sure to test the winning path before submitting, so at least that worked."
ASchultz says, "This is too much wrangling for you guys though I think."
schep says, "then again, when I went ne I expected to find the remains of #1, not gun #2"
ASchultz says (to Floyd), "l"
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Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd | Spiderbrain Center
Floyd | You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way
Floyd | except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where
Floyd | you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch
Floyd | of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing NNW) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Hrm. Sorry I didn't have the latest, ASchultz. I figured waiting a couple of weeks was enough time for bugs to iron out. Should we plunge ahead, or should I try to upload new ones? Maybe I'll do that for next week, I'm thinking."
DavidW says, "I don't know if we did 1-2 or 2-1; I was trying to work something out when people were experimenting."
schep says, "I pushed button 2 when those three mirrors were set"
schep says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Leg                                 31/141
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | Near Left Spider Leg
Floyd | You are on a small circular platform between narrow railed catwalks
Floyd | leading southeast and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large mirror (facing sort of between south and southwest--we'll call
Floyd | it SSW, SWS or even WSS) is at the edge of the platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
ASchultz says, "NP, funny thing was, I submitted the update on March 27...well, these things happen."
schep says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Foot                                31/142
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd | You tiptoe along the catwalk, no longer scared of the gun that can no
Floyd | longer fire.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near Left Spider Foot
Floyd | You can see LaserGun1 here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "x gun1"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Foot                                31/142
Floyd |
Floyd | > NG. YOuYou can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "x gun"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Foot                                31/143
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GUN
Floyd | You see a 4-foot-wide laser gun barrel pointing west here, and you
Floyd | smell ozone faintly--from when it fired, probably.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Foot                                31/144
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   LaserGun2
Floyd |   a juicy gourmet fly casserole
Floyd |   a pack of 104 cards
Floyd |   a Spider combating Kit (open)
Floyd |     an In-a-Pinch Infrasound Generator
Floyd |     a mini-vacuum
Floyd |     a spray bottle
Floyd |   your summer program ID
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "get gun"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Foot                                31/145
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET GUN
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "x gun"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Foot                                31/146
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GUN
Floyd | You see a 3-foot-wide laser gun barrel pointing east here, though it's
Floyd | sort of wrecked, which is your fault.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
ASchultz says, "Oh, I bet I know what it was. Moving the gun-1 to a different location changed where the program thought it would be"
schep asks, "so gun 1 was NW and gun 2 was NE? do other people have them swapped in their notes from the button panel?"
ASchultz says, "It didn't consider the rooms, only which room the gun was in. Basically the code says, when you fire, run through the list of guns to see if anything is hit"
Emily arrives, full of fun, but no funk. schep says, "we didn't move any guns before firing though"
ASchultz says, "Well, I think you sort of did...you took one, which I shouldn't have let happen :)"
DavidW says, "oh, I was confused. My attempt was firing 3 at 1."
schep says, "ah. that explains it"
ASchultz says, "That moves its location."
maga says, "hey Em" ASchultz says, "Ah never mind then. 3 at 1 should leave the game winnable, as well"
Emily says, "hi"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Foot                                31/146
Floyd |
Floyd | > WHO
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "well, 1 had already been hit. So I guess hitting it again ended the game."
Jacqueline says (to maga), "Channel..."
maga says (to Jacqueline), "werewolf reflexes"
Jacqueline exclaims, "ClubFloyd is so popular people think it's the lounge!"
vimes says, "it's way more exciting than the lounge!"
DavidW says, "yeah"
DavidW says, "anyway, sorry for my confusion."
schep says, "I can be done with this one now"
ASchultz says, "Thanks for working through this, guys. I got a lot of notes."
ASchultz says, "What's the next one? I think it's Dinner Bell, and that should be a lot of fun"
Jacqueline says, "Okay then."
Jacqueline says, "Thanks, ASchultz - I'm glad you were here to help us."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit"
Floyd ]  Near Left Spider Foot                                31/146
Floyd |
Floyd | > QUIT
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?"
Johnny says (to Floyd), "Yes"
Floyd says (to Johnny), "Floyd doesn't know that trick."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask a18theguitar"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The Deva Loka is locked in a fierce battle with the mind-controlling
Floyd | Sirens.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are Lieutenant Commander Gruntik Hauror, though everyone just calls
Floyd | you "The Lion."  The captain and first mate are largely to blame: they
Floyd | never refer to you as anything but "The Lion," even when giving orders
Floyd | to others.  It's not an inaccurate nickname, as you are the only
Floyd | leonoid in a crew otherwise made entirely of canoids (and what a bunch
Floyd | of dogs they are).  Your nickname isn't even disrespectful--a massive
Floyd | lion a full head taller than anyone else aboard the ship commands
Floyd | respect regardless of rank.  Even so, you would appreciate hearing your
Floyd | rank once in a while.
Floyd |
Floyd | Now, though, was not the time.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Guitar
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Jason B. Alonso, Catherine Havasi, and Val
Floyd | Grimm
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120325 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Bridge
Floyd | This is the bridge of the Alliance starship Deva Loka, in orbit around
Floyd | Earth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a Command Station, Flight Control, Operations Management,
Floyd | Tactical Control, Mission Operations, Captain Bok, Lieutenant Rynin,
Floyd | and Lieutenant Jeldysh here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep asks, "oh, when the guy asks whether you have ID, does the game respond to >YES instead of >SHOW ID ?"
DavidW says, "afk for quick washroom break"
ASchultz says (to schep), "Yes, good call."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               2
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd | A massive lion a full head taller than anyone else aboard the ship.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is silence.  In space.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep asks, "Orders, captain?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               3
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | The FTL drive officers have resorted to barking.  Their comm has been
Floyd | turned off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "x tactical"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               4
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TACTICAL
Floyd | Tactical thinks tactically.  Also, tactical takes care of communication
Floyd | both inside and outside the ship.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lieutenant Rynin is stationed here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Commander Bok turns to you and says "Lion!  I need you to figure out
Floyd | how we fight these Sirens!  Get us more information on them, maybe you
Floyd | can find an answer!"
Floyd |
Floyd | A red light turns on at one of the unattended stations.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x light"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               4
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LIGHT
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, ">google sirens"
schep says (to Floyd), "ask tactical about sirens"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               4
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK TACTICAL ABOUT SIRENS
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "pause"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               4
Floyd |
Floyd | > PAUSE
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, ">put beeswax in ears"
schep says (to Floyd), "l up sirens in tactical"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               5
Floyd |
Floyd | > L UP SIRENS IN TACTICAL
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Tactical Control.
Floyd |
Floyd | You note that this is not one of those missions that end with everyone
Floyd | admiring the scenery out the window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Hm, brb. Biobreak."
Johnny says (to Floyd), "admire scenery"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               5
Floyd |
Floyd | > ADMIRE SCENERY
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl snrks at DW.
schep says (to Floyd), "l up sirens in mission"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               6
Floyd |
Floyd | > L UP SIRENS IN MISSION
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Mission Operations.
Floyd |
Floyd | "That was close" barks Jeldysh.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "ask jeldysh about sirens"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               7
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK JELDYSH ABOUT SIRENS
Floyd | Their ships have better technology.  But, I think we just happen to be
Floyd | in the way - they seem to be interested in the planet.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the monitor, sparks can be seen in some far-away compartment
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "ask ryldin about sirens"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               7
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK RYLDIN ABOUT SIRENS
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               8
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd | Bridge
Floyd | This is the bridge of the Alliance starship Deva Loka, in orbit around
Floyd | Earth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a Command Station, Flight Control, Operations Management,
Floyd | Tactical Control, Mission Operations, Captain Bok, Lieutenant Rynin,
Floyd | and Lieutenant Jeldysh here.
Floyd |
Floyd | A red light turns on at one of the unattended stations.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "ask rynin about sirens"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               9
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK RYNIN ABOUT SIRENS
Floyd | He's walking with the Sirens to the bridge sir.  He appears to be...
Floyd | mind controlled.  The Sirens are using him to disable our security.
Floyd | And.... he's singing sir.  Singing!?
Floyd |
Floyd | A red light turns on at one of the unattended stations.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "turn on ftl"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               9
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN ON FTL
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Was that Rynin talking about someone else, or someone else talking about Rynin?"
schep says (to Floyd), "x station"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               10
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STATION
Floyd | This is where the captain sits.
Floyd |
Floyd | Captain Bok is stationed here.
Floyd |
Floyd | A red light turns on at one of the unattended stations.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "That's him not responding to our question, I believe."
DavidW asks, "So shouldn't we stop him?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit rynin"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               11
Floyd |
Floyd | > HIT RYNIN
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | Perhaps you should go to Mission Ops and try to look up sirens in the
Floyd | database?
Floyd |
Floyd | The FTL drive officers have resorted to barking.  Their comm has been
Floyd | turned off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up sirens in mission ops"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               12
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UP SIRENS IN MISSION OPS
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Mission Operations.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the subordinate officers has spilt their drink.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny asks, "Is Captain Bok's origin that he was attacked by a space chicken?"
Johnny says, "(Or she?)"
schep says (to Floyd), "x mission ops"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               13
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MISSION OPS
Floyd | Mission Ops is used to do research and coordinate mission specific
Floyd | information.  This is where the computer's database console is located.
Floyd |
Floyd | You may look up something in the database here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The FTL drive officers have resorted to barking.  Their comm has been
Floyd | turned off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up sirens in database"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               14
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UP SIRENS IN DATABASE
Floyd | You can only access the database while at Mission Ops.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is silence.  In space.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "go mission ops"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               15
Floyd |
Floyd | > GO MISSION OPS
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ship rocks ominously from side to side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit at mission ops"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               16
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT AT MISSION OPS
Floyd | You hurry over to Mission Operations.
Floyd |
Floyd | Somewhere in the distance a bulkhead falls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up sirens in database"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               17
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UP SIRENS IN DATABASE
Floyd | A roughly humanoid, oxygen-breathing, carbon-based life form
Floyd | originating from Manzel. Their name for themselves, if rendered in the
Floyd | Latin alphabet utilized by a number of Terran cultures, is
Floyd | Xnehézfémekx. See also siren etymology, siren history, cacophony, the
Floyd | chorus, and siren biology.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is silence.  In space.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "l up siren biology in database"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               18
Floyd |
Floyd | > L UP SIREN BIOLOGY IN DATABASE
Floyd | Measures between 218 to 270 centimeters in height and weighs between 70
Floyd | and 90 kilos. Locomotes and manipulates tools with four arrays of
Floyd | prehensile tentacles. Possesses thick, rubbery dermal substrates
Floyd | ranging from gray-green to blue-purple, covered in a fine layer of pale
Floyd | vibriassae extremely sensitive to changes in air pressure. Rudimentary
Floyd | eyespots permit awareness of light levels, and it has been proposed
Floyd | that their primary means of navigation is echolocation. At least four
Floyd | distinct auditory reception orifices have been identified, distributed
Floyd | in a radially symmetrical fashion. Eyewitness reports have compared the
Floyd | appearance of these sunken cavities to suppurating wounds as observed
Floyd | in Terran mammals. Respiratory anatomy appears to permit simultaneous
Floyd | intermission of gases from multiple orifices into multiple lung or
Floyd | lunglike structures, thus preventing these life forms from ever running
Floyd | out of breath. It has been proposed that a large portion of their
Floyd | muscular weight is devoted to their laryngeal anatomy, as they are
Floyd | capable of producing acoustic pressures in excess of 140 dB in a range
Floyd | from 16 to 16745 Hz. It has been proposed that they may possess a
Floyd | thoracic sac which allows them to generate such notably low
Floyd | frequencies, but although there are no external morphological
Floyd | indications to the contrary, this theory is unlikely to be proven by
Floyd | any means other than dissection.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is silence.  In space.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Emily has disconnected.
Emily has connected.
Emily disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again.
Emily arrives, full of funk, but no fun.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up cacophony in database"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               18
Floyd |
Floyd | >  DISTINCT AUDITORY RECEPTION oOf course!  The Sirens can't stand bad
Floyd | music!
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Garage                                               19
Floyd |
Floyd | Garage (in the band)
Floyd | You're in the detached garage of your friend's small Cambridge home.
Floyd | It's a warm, sunny, clear day and the quiet makes it an ideal day for
Floyd | some practice.  Around the garage is a garage door.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the band you can see an amp, a mixer, a drum machine, Karl, Abby,
Floyd | and Pamela.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a warm summer day in Cambridge, Massachusetts and light is
Floyd | streaming in through the open garage door.  It's the sort of day where
Floyd | the air would be full of the sounds of the melodious sounds of birds if
Floyd | you hadn't scared them all away with the cacophonous sound of guitars
Floyd | failing to harmonize. Your rock and roll band, Quazar Beam, is
Floyd | practicing again, much to the chagrin of the neighborhood.  It's
Floyd | probably time to practice more.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW BLINK
genericgeekgirl says, "What."
schep says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               20
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd | You see nothing special about yourself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "it's a concept album"
schep says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               21
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   your guitar
Floyd |   the violet phone
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "at a guess, if our band is wretched enough, we'll be beamed up to save the universe."
inky says (to Floyd), "practice"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               22
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRACTICE
Floyd | You encourage your band-mates to start practicing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear your guitar.  Its notes echo loudly through Garage producing a
Floyd | sounds just like your standard screaming rock guitar.  But it sounded
Floyd | awful when played with the others in the band just then.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear Karl's guitar.  Its notes echo loudly through Garage producing
Floyd | a your typical screaming rock guitar.  Maybe a bit too screaming in
Floyd | pain, but it doesn't seem to be the problem.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear Abby's guitar.  Its notes echo loudly through Garage producing
Floyd | a you would expect it be punk.  But it's really not.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear Pamela's guitar.  Its notes echo loudly through Garage
Floyd | producing a unexpected.  Very eerie and electronic but certainly not
Floyd | the problem.
Floyd |
Floyd | That sounds horrible. Maybe you should check guitar players and
Floyd | equipment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Yeah, that was unexpected."
inky says, "ok, I've found the problem with our band: it has four people on guitars and nobody on anything else"
schep says (to Floyd), "x mixer"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               23
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MIXER
Floyd | Bought at the Apple Store.
Floyd |
Floyd | The mixer is currently switched on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vimes asks, "maybe some of them are hitting drums with a guitar?"
inky says, "hee hee"
schep says (to Floyd), "x drum machine"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               24
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DRUM MACHINE
Floyd | So very 80s it hurts.  Ah, nostalgia.
Floyd |
Floyd | The drum machine is currently switched on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Drums GOOD"
Jacqueline says, "heh"
DavidW asks, "Why is Pamela's guitar producing a unexpected? Did it have a unprotected sex outside a wedlock?"
vimes says, "also i wonder what's up with "producing a you would expect it be punk""
schep says (to Floyd), "play drum machine"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               24
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY DRUM MACHINE
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x guitar"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               25
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GUITAR
Floyd | You see nothing special about your guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x abby's guitar"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               25
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ABBY'S GUITAR
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x amp"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               26
Floyd |
Floyd | > X AMP
Floyd | That amp Karl just got in a second hand shop.  The brand is Unearthly
Floyd | Deharmonizer 11.
Floyd |
Floyd | The amp is currently switched on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "tune guitar"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               26
Floyd |
Floyd | > TUNE GUITAR
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "switch amp"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               27
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWITCH AMP
Floyd | You switch the amp off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
vimes says, "ha ha"
schep says (to Floyd), "turn off guitar"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               28
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN OFF GUITAR
Floyd | That's not something you can switch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to abby"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               28
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO ABBY
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "practice"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               28
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRACTICE
Floyd | You encourage your band-mates to start practicing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear your guitar.  Its notes echo loudly through Garage producing a
Floyd | sounds just like your standard screaming rock guitar.  But it sounded
Floyd | awful when played with the others in the band just then.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear Karl's guitar.  Its notes echo loudly through Garage producing
Floyd | a your typical screaming rock guitar.  Maybe a bit too screaming in
Floyd | pain, but it doesn't seem to be the problem.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear Abby's guitar.  Its notes echo loudly through Garage producing
Floyd | a you would expect it be punk.  But it's really not.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear Pamela's guitar.  Its notes echo loudly through Garage
Floyd | producing a unexpected.  Very eerie and electronic but certainly not
Floyd | the problem.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sounds fine.  How could that have horrible amp have gotten there?
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
olethros has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge.
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               29
Floyd |
Floyd | Bridge
Floyd | This is the bridge of the Alliance starship Deva Loka, in orbit around
Floyd | Earth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a Command Station, Flight Control, Operations Management,
Floyd | Tactical Control, Mission Operations, Lieutenant Rynin, and Lieutenant
Floyd | Jeldysh here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Sirens have boarded, and they are making their way through the
Floyd | ship.  Deafening the crew with earplugs, loud noises, and anything else
Floyd | the medical team could think of didn't work: something in the Sirens'
Floyd | song can be heard and understood where the panicked barking of orders
Floyd | and warnings cannot.
Floyd |
Floyd | What's worse, however, is that the captain and first officer left the
Floyd | bridge to serenade the Sirens with their abysmal musical skills.  Your
Floyd | console showed the Sirens visibly wincing their crooning, but their
Floyd | song quickly overpowered your superiors.
Floyd |
Floyd | The mangy dogs of this ship are in a panic.  You should be in command,
Floyd | but the dogs can't hear you over their own howling and attempts at
Floyd | deafness.  You do not bark orders: you are the Lion, and a lion can
Floyd | always manage to be heard...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline blinks again.
schep says (to Floyd), "ROAR"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               30
Floyd |
Floyd | > ROAR
Floyd | "In the spaceship, the silver spaceship, the Lion takes
Floyd | control."
Floyd |
Floyd | You let out a tremendous roar, silencing all of the subordinates around
Floyd | you.  Clearly, the Lion is now the Captain.
Floyd |
Floyd | Now what to do?  Rynin reports that the sirens are encroaching coming
Floyd | closer to the bridge.  It appears that the mind-controlled Bok is with
Floyd | them, singing beautifully.  You wince, fighting the urge to panic.
Floyd | Jeldysh brings you back to reality by reporting the ship is taking
Floyd | heavy fire and you need to find a solution now.  You turn your
Floyd | attention to the planet below.  Maybe a solution can be found there.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ship rocks ominously from side to side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "We are totally going to save the world, aren't we?"
Jacqueline says, "Or maybe not."
schep says (to Floyd), "look up Earth in database"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               31
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UP EARTH IN DATABASE
Floyd | Earth formed approximately 4.54 billion years ago by accretion from the
Floyd | solar nebula, and life appeared on its surface within one billion
Floyd | years. The planet is home to millions of species, including humans.
Floyd | Earth's biosphere has significantly altered the atmosphere and other
Floyd | abiotic conditions on the planet, enabling the proliferation of aerobic
Floyd | organisms as well as the formation of the ozone layer which, together
Floyd | with Earth's magnetic field, blocks harmful solar radiation, permitting
Floyd | life on land.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is silence.  In space.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Would operations management have comm gear?"
schep says, "Tactical had some comm function"
DavidW says, "Let's sit at tactical then."
schep says (to Floyd), "sit at tactical"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               32
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT AT TACTICAL
Floyd | You hurry over to Tactical Control.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is silence.  In space.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "x tactical"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               33
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TACTICAL
Floyd | Tactical thinks tactically.  Also, tactical takes care of communication
Floyd | both inside and outside the ship.
Floyd |
Floyd | You and Lieutenant Rynin is stationed here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Perhaps you should order someone to scan for bad music? Need "help"
Floyd | with giving orders?
Floyd |
Floyd | You note that this is not one of those missions that end with everyone
Floyd | admiring the scenery out the window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "rynin, scan for bad music"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               33
Floyd |
Floyd | > RYNIN, SCAN FOR BAD MUSIC
Floyd | I could easily scan to find the least harmonious music on earth. Then
Floyd | we would need to contact them - I could patch you through to their
Floyd | comm.
Floyd |
Floyd | That's it!  That's the band you need.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
inky says, "hmm"
inky says, "I guess we should turn the amp back on then"
DavidW says, "I dunno"
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Garage                                               34
Floyd | Hey!  Who's that playing the guitar?
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, I guess that explains it," you say, feeling a bit glum.  "Maybe
Floyd | we'll be better now, but we could really use some inspiration."  As if
Floyd | on cue, your phone begins to ring.  Now whom have you lent it to?
Floyd |
Floyd | Garage (in the band)
Floyd | You're in the detached garage of your friend's small Cambridge home.
Floyd | It's a warm, sunny, clear day and the quiet makes it an ideal day for
Floyd | some practice.  Around the garage is a garage door.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the band you can see an amp, a mixer, a drum machine, Karl, Abby,
Floyd | and Pamela.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear your phone ringing insistently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               35
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear your phone ringing insistently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "answer phone"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               36
Floyd |
Floyd | > ANSWER PHONE
Floyd | (the violet phone)
Floyd | It isn't ringing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear your phone ringing insistently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "open phone"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               37
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN PHONE
Floyd | (the violet phone)
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear your phone ringing insistently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x karl"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               38
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KARL
Floyd | Karl is thoroughly unremarkable.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear your phone ringing insistently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "phone, hello"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               38
Floyd |
Floyd | > PHONE, HELLO
Floyd | You can't talk to the violet phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x abby"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               39
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ABBY
Floyd | Abby is rebelling against corporate life in the most conservative way
Floyd | possible. Her long hair is carefully groomed to look like it wasn't.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear your phone ringing insistently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Wait, is it ringing or not?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pamela"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               40
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PAMELA
Floyd | Pamela has been in many bands before and is the most experienced of the
Floyd | bunch.  She happily goes along with all your great ideas, cringing only
Floyd | once.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear your phone ringing insistently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pick up phone"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               40
Floyd |
Floyd | > PICK UP PHONE
Floyd | Which do you mean, the white phone, the red phone, the blue phone, or
Floyd | the violet phone?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh."
genericgeekgirl says, "The violet phone isn't ours."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x white phone"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               41
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WHITE PHONE
Floyd | Upon inspecting the phone, you determine that it's actually Pamela's.
Floyd | It is not ringing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear your phone ringing insistently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x red phone"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               42
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RED PHONE
Floyd | Upon inspecting the phone, you determine that it's actually Karl's.
Floyd | It is not ringing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear your phone ringing insistently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x blue phone"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               43
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BLUE PHONE
Floyd | It's your phone!
Floyd | It is ringing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear your phone ringing insistently.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you need a "hint"?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "answer blue phone"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               44
Floyd |
Floyd | > ANSWER BLUE PHONE
Floyd | You're not holding it.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear your phone ringing insistently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take blue phone"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               45
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BLUE PHONE
Floyd | That seems to belong to Pamela.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear your phone ringing insistently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "....."
schep says (to Floyd), "ask pamela for blue phone"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               46
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK PAMELA FOR BLUE PHONE
Floyd | Pamela gives the blue phone to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear your phone ringing insistently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "answer blue phone"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               46
Floyd |
Floyd | > ANSWER BLUE PHONE
Floyd | You answer the blue phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, who is it?" asks Abby, annoyed.
Floyd |
Floyd |   "Um guys..." you stammer.
Floyd |
Floyd | "The Lion's on the phone."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
genericgeekgirl says, "Oh."
DavidW says, "This is awkwardly set up."
Jacqueline says, "Well, but everyone has a phone these days."
genericgeekgirl asks, "But why do we have each other's phones?"
schep says, "they were playing Phone Swap earlier"
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd |
Floyd | As soon as you answer the phone, the world seemed to dissolve around
Floyd | you, and suddenly you, your friends, and all your equipment is standing
Floyd | in what looks to be the set of the worst science fiction television
Floyd | show ever.  Standing by the Captain's chair is a giant, humanoid lion.
Floyd | Not only that, he is talking.  Not only is he talking, he is insulting
Floyd | you.  "Quazar Beam", he bellows. "I have found one of the most
Floyd | cacophonous sounds on earth.  To save the world, I need you to play as
Floyd | badly as possible."  You stare. "Time is short", says the Lion.  "You
Floyd | must hurry." Well, what else are you going to do?
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
DavidW says, "But examining the people didn't show any phones."
schep says (to DW), "that is unfortunate, yes"
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               47
Floyd |
Floyd | Bridge (in the band)
Floyd | This is the bridge of the Alliance starship Deva Loka, in orbit around
Floyd | Earth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a Command Station, Flight Control, Operations Management,
Floyd | Tactical Control, Mission Operations, Captain Hauror, Lieutenant Rynin,
Floyd | and Lieutenant Jeldysh here.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the band you can see an amp, a mixer, a drum machine, Karl, Abby,
Floyd | and Pamela.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the monitor, sparks can be seen in some far-away compartment
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on amp"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               48
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN ON AMP
Floyd | You switch the amp on.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is silence.  In space.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to ggg), "go for it"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "play guitar"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               49
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY GUITAR
Floyd | You hear your guitar.  Its notes echo loudly through Bridge producing a
Floyd | sounds just like your standard screaming rock guitar.  But it sounded
Floyd | awful when played with the others in the band just then.
Floyd |
Floyd | Somewhere in the background an alarm begins to honk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "play"
Floyd ]  Bridge                                               49
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY
Floyd | You begin to play your music, and it sounds horrible.  The Sirens,
Floyd | leading a mindless horde of singing crew members, have entered the
Floyd | bridge in their terrifying chorus.
Floyd |
Floyd |   You and your band find yourselves swept into their song.
Floyd |
Floyd |  You burst into the eerie chant that is the Sirens' song, and you feel
Floyd | your fear melt away.  Your garage, the ship, and the Lion are all but
Floyd | distant memories.  The notes and rhythm rise and fall in what feels
Floyd | like inexorable harmony: like a song you can't get out of your head.
Floyd | The song is your world, and your world is this song.  You sing it, and
Floyd | you sing with the thralls.
Floyd |
Floyd |  The Sirens, however, do not share your musical rapture.  They writhe
Floyd | in pain, fighting to sing, until at last one collapses onto the ground
Floyd | and starts to scream.  The scream jolts you back to your senses as the
Floyd | other Sirens fall to the ground in cacophonous wails.  The noise is so
Floyd | awful, you hope you never remember them.
Floyd |
Floyd |  Suddenly the Sirens are gone.  Everyone slowly and cautiously takes
Floyd | their fingers out of their ears.  "Thank you." says the Lion.
Floyd |
Floyd | "In the spaceship, the silver spaceship, the Lion waves
Floyd | goodbye."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Wait!", you say. "What's going on?  Are we safe now? What were those
Floyd | things? How does space travel work? And are our cats and dogs...
Floyd | well... "  Before you can finish the bridge dissolves...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
schep asks, "does this band-leader kid have a name?"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Garage                                               49
Floyd | ...and suddenly, you're home.
Floyd |
Floyd | Garage (in the band)
Floyd | You're in the detached garage of your friend's small Cambridge home.
Floyd | It's a warm, sunny, clear day and the quiet makes it an ideal day for
Floyd | some practice.  Around the garage is a garage door.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the band you can see an amp, a mixer, a drum machine, Karl, Abby,
Floyd | and Pamela.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boston, four months later: In the center of the city, a new band is
Floyd | playing at the music festival.  The sound is distinctly different: a
Floyd | prog rock for the modern era.  The crowd, enraptured by the anthem-like
Floyd | melody of worry-free joy, joins in on the top song of the festival: The
Floyd | Sirens' Song.  Passersby turn to look at the band they've never heard
Floyd | before.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hey! Who's that playing the guitar?
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     ## *** You have won ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "That was weird. #cf somehow went muted."
DavidW says, "who knows"
schep says (to Floyd), "ADMIRE SCENERY"
Floyd ]  Garage                                               49
Floyd |
Floyd | > ADMIRE SCENERY
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I had a Tookie's Song flashback just now."
Jacqueline asks, "So... more poking, done for today, or moving on to yet another?"
genericgeekgirl says, "I'd play another one."
DavidW says, "I'm feeling a bit spent, but I'll yield to the majority."
Jacqueline says, "Oh man, the next one."
Jacqueline says, "The next one is great."
schep asks, "short?"
Jacqueline says, "I have played it, but will deeply enjoy watching."
Jacqueline says, "Hm... not short, but not long."
Jacqueline asks, "What's short?"
Jacqueline says, "I'd say an hour or less."
genericgeekgirl says, "Well, I won't be here next weekend, so I'd like to have mine played either today or pushed back an extra week (with thexenographer's, I guess)."
genericgeekgirl asks, "But at this rate, there will probably be a fourth week, yeah?"
Jacqueline asks, "I get the pseudonyms mixed up - which one is yours, ggg?"
Jacqueline says (to ggg), "I suspect so, yes."
Jacqueline says, "Possibly five."
Jacqueline says, "They're fun, though."
genericgeekgirl says, "22 and 25. Waiting is fine, too."
DavidW says, "actually, I think I need to lie down immediately."
Jacqueline says, "Oh, you have 2? That late in the queue, I suspect we won't hit them next week."
genericgeekgirl says, "Ok, cool."
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Okay, take care."
Jacqueline says, "Maybe we should just call it a day. We're at 3 hours."
genericgeekgirl nods.
Jacqueline says, "I'd be fine with that."
inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. Jacqueline says, "Okay. See most of you next week. I should be here, given that I've found a spot to play from."
genericgeekgirl disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. Jacqueline says, "Though I have a bunch of friends in next weekend, so there's a chance I'll be with them. Maybe. Not sure."
Jacqueline says, "See you around, folks."


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