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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.
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask a18dinnerbell" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 1 | Score: 0 / Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | They must have moved you here in your sleep again. Right now it looks Floyd | uncannily like your grandmother's kitchen, which is a new fact and an Floyd | unnerving one, but you can tell it's the usual test chamber by the Floyd | anatomically correct ichthyosaur you managed to carve into the Floyd | linoleum before they got the knife away from you. You miss that Floyd | knife. Floyd | Floyd | (Man, you're hungry.) Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Beagle taps on the glass to get your attention. When you look at Floyd | him, he points at a grocery bag on a counter behind you, clears his Floyd | throat meaningfully, and starts chewing on the hand-held trigger to Floyd | your shock collar. Floyd | Floyd | You really hate it when he does that. Floyd | Floyd | Dinner Bell Floyd | An Existential Horror/Comedy by Jenni Polodna Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120405 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Test Chamber Floyd | It really does look just like your grandmother's kitchen. The oven, Floyd | fridge, and counter are that same buttery marzipan color, those same Floyd | seven drawers are next to the cabinet under the sink, even the kitten Floyd | wallpaper is the same. That motivational poster belongs to the test Floyd | chamber, though, and has survived its every redecoration including Floyd | "submarine" and "open grave." The only other difference is a Floyd | photograph over the oven where your grandmother used to hang the heads Floyd | of her enemies (mostly crickets). Floyd | Floyd | Oh, and the observation chamber where Dr. Beagle is watching you Floyd | through two-way glass. Your grandmother didn't have one of those. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter are a grocery bag, a bucket of wax pears and a ship in Floyd | a bottle. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** New to interactive fiction? Type HELP *** Floyd | > | inky says (to Johnny), "ha ha" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is this Jenni's first IF as an author?" | |||
| maga says, "it is" | |||
| DavidW says, "cool" | |||
| olethros arrives, full of fun and funk. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 2 | Score: 0 / Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a shock collar (being worn) Floyd | a dinner jacket (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "this is one-room and I don't think there are any timing elements" | ||
| DavidW says, "I assume we need to cook and eat something; hoped there'd be a recipe in our inventory." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open bag" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 3 | Score: 0 / Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BAG Floyd | Floyd | The distinction between things you can open and things you cannot open Floyd | is not actually as subtle as you make it out to be. You can open a Floyd | meat drawer. You can't open a grocery bag. Are we good here? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 4 | Score: 0 / Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You've been leaving on your things, because they took all your other Floyd | things and you would rather not be naked. As a result, there's still Floyd | dinner, as well as every other meal, on your dinner jacket when the Floyd | dinner bell rings. Floyd | Floyd | You hope it rings soon. You're starving. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "search jacket" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 5 | Score: 0 / Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH JACKET Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x drawers" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 6 | Score: 0 / Floyd | Floyd | > X DRAWERS Floyd | Floyd | In your grandmother's kitchen, at least, these were the cutlery Floyd | drawer, the junk drawer, the meat drawer, the doll drawer, the reptile Floyd | drawer, the mitten drawer, and the bird drawer, from top to bottom. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "look in bag" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 7 | Score: 0 / Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN BAG Floyd | Floyd | The grocery bag is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar asks, "reptile drawer?" | ||
| DavidW says, "That's what it said." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x photograph" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 8 | Score: 0 / Floyd | Floyd | > X PHOTOGRAPH Floyd | Floyd | A smiling blond woman holding a tray of enticing-looking bacon. You Floyd | can practically smell it. Floyd | Floyd | The sight of food makes your salivary glands kick into overdrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x heads" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 8 | Score: 0 / Floyd | Floyd | > X HEADS Floyd | Floyd | What heads? What are you even talking about? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x pears" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 9 | Score: 0 / Floyd | Floyd | > X PEARS Floyd | Floyd | You remember Griswold's Legendary Bucket of Wax Pears from the stories Floyd | your grandmother used to tell when your incessant appetite for stories Floyd | had exhausted her supply of more interesting ones about princesses on Floyd | rockets or whatever. Floyd | Floyd | According to legend, this bucket contains one real pear and 37 Floyd | enchanted wax ones, all identical in smell, texture, and appearance. Floyd | Anyone who eats the real pear gets to be king of Reno, Nevada, and Floyd | anyone who eats a wax pear is cursed to spend eternity making out Floyd | under the bleachers with their fifth-grade math teacher. Your blood Floyd | runs cold just thinking about it. Floyd | Floyd | The sight of food makes your mouth fill with saliva and your eyes fill Floyd | with tears. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, ">EAT TEARS" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x groceries" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 9 | Score: 0 / Floyd | Floyd | > X GROCERIES Floyd | Floyd | What groceries? What are you even talking about? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bag" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 10 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X BAG Floyd | Floyd | If this grocery bag could talk, it would inform you in no uncertain Floyd | terms that it was a grocery bag. It's empty, which makes you feel Floyd | strangely anxious. Floyd | Floyd | *whirrrrrrrr* Floyd | You hear the sound of a tiny electric door opening somewhere, and Pat Floyd | the head-patting robot glides into the room. You'd been wondering Floyd | where he'd gotten to. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pat" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 11 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X PAT Floyd | Floyd | This little robot was created to kick ass and pat heads, and he's all Floyd | out of heads. I mean, ass. He sees you looking and does a little Floyd | dance. Floyd | Floyd | (Your stomach makes a noise that, coming from a television, would be Floyd | indicative of a major poltergeist problem.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open meat drawer" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 12 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN MEAT DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | You open the meat drawer, revealing a bag of space beef. Floyd | Floyd | The sight of food makes you drool all over your dinner jacket. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x jacket" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 13 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X JACKET Floyd | Floyd | A once-natty dinner jacket. You've started keeping your diary on it, Floyd | written in a secret code of food stains. Honey mustard means "Today I Floyd | received an electric shock," beef bourguignon means "I want to go Floyd | home." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "smell space beef" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 14 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL SPACE BEEF Floyd | Floyd | The bag of beef smells delicious. You drool a little. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat beef" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 15 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > EAT BEEF Floyd | Floyd | >>ZAP!<< Floyd | Dr. Beagle sees you trying to eat the bag of beef and shocks the crap Floyd | out of you. You think you smell Vienna sausages. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x beef" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 16 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X BEEF Floyd | Floyd | A foil package labeled "Astronaut Beef (for Space Astronauts)." This Floyd | must be what you eat if you want beef in space. Floyd | Floyd | You hear some faint squeaking coming from the fridge, and are Floyd | unsettled. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 17 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | This fridge is almost, but not quite, the color of cheap French Floyd | vanilla ice cream, the kind you get in a bucket with an alarming Floyd | cartoon character on the lid. It is closed. Floyd | Floyd | You hear some faint squeaking coming from the fridge, and are Floyd | unsettled. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar asks, "what happens if we try to remove the shock collar?" | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "remove collar" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 18 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE COLLAR Floyd | Floyd | >>>>ZAP!!!<<<< Floyd | Dr. Beagle sees you trying to remove your collar and hits you with Floyd | maximum voltage. Boy, does that hurt! You flop around for a Floyd | few minutes like a fish who has just been cured of any psychological Floyd | ailments popular in the 1950s, such as homosexuality or feminism. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I dunno. Try it." | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 19 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You open the fridge and the entire kitchen goes dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "close fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 20 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You fumble around until you locate the fridge door, and close it but Floyd | good. The room fills with light and you can see again. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha" | ||
| DavidW asks, "So, any ideas how we can become an astronaut?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ship" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 21 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X SHIP Floyd | Floyd | This bottle contains what appears to be a handsome steamship, churning Floyd | its way happily through placid waters accompanied by squawking gulls. Floyd | Floyd | Pat gets tired of waiting for you to do something patworthy and pats Floyd | the doll drawer on its head-analogue instead. You feel oddly jealous. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "years of study, learn to fly, apply to NASA" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 22 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You open the cabinet under the sink, revealing a complicated knot of Floyd | pipes and a can of everybody's favorite household chemical, Shiptogar. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "x shiptogar" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 23 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X SHIPTOGAR Floyd | Floyd | A bright yellow spray can with an enthusiastic label. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "read label" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 24 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > READ LABEL Floyd | Floyd | Got ship? Need vinegar? Shiptogar turns any ship into vinegar, fast! Floyd | Just spray it on! (WARNING: Use with extreme caution! Messrs. Floyd | Spikeney & Pithhelmet assume no responsibility for accidental creation Floyd | of relationvinegar, internvinegar, vinegarping boxes, two vinegars Floyd | passing in the night, or liver spots. If vinegar-a-dee-doo-dah Floyd | occurs, please return defective can for a full refund.) Floyd | Floyd | You hear some faint squeaking coming from the fridge, and are Floyd | unsettled. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "x pipes" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 25 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X PIPES Floyd | Floyd | A convoluted tangle of pipes. Corncob pipes, looks like. You spot an Floyd | intact ear of corn among their ranks. Floyd | Floyd | The sight of food makes your salivary glands kick into overdrive. Floyd | Floyd | Pat gets tired of waiting for you to do something patworthy and pats Floyd | the meat drawer on its head-analogue instead. You feel oddly jealous. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "spray ship with shiptogar" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spray ship with shiptogar" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 26 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > SPRAY SHIP WITH SHIPTOGAR Floyd | Floyd | A light spritzing of Shiptogar turns the ship in a bottle into a Floyd | bottle of vinegar. No wonder they used to market this stuff as the Floyd | housewife's best friend. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vinegar" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 27 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X VINEGAR Floyd | Floyd | You know how the old saying goes, you'd rather have a bottle of Floyd | vinegar than a family of bears living in your gastrointestinal tract. Floyd | Floyd | (You are so hungry. Maybe you have a useless body part you can eat. Floyd | Could you locate your appendix? Wait, no, that's a terrible idea.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "smell vinegar" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 28 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL VINEGAR Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vinegar smells delicious. It makes you want to cry. Floyd | Floyd | (You fantasize about how you would cook George Lucas. Luau-style, Floyd | probably.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "cry" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 28 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > CRY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "locate appendix" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 29 | Score: 0 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > LOCATE APPENDIX Floyd | Floyd | Dude, I know you don't technically need it for anything, but that's Floyd | still a terrible idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha" | ||
| Gerynar says, "what if we grab some food, open the fridge to turn out the lights and try to eat without Dr. Beagle seeing us" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take beef" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 30 | Score: 1 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BEEF Floyd | Floyd | You take the bag of beef. Some sort of classical conditioning kicks Floyd | in and you immediately drop it into the grocery bag. Floyd | Floyd | (Your stomach growls loudly.) Floyd | Floyd | [Pat the head-patting robot pats your head, and your score goes up one Floyd | point. You feel great! But you're still hungry.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| TheXenographer goes home. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take vinegar" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 31 | Score: 2 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE VINEGAR Floyd | Floyd | You take the bottle of vinegar. Some sort of classical conditioning Floyd | kicks in and you immediately drop it into the grocery bag. That's Floyd | fine, you probably weren't going to drink it anyway. Floyd | Floyd | (Boy, are you hungry.) Floyd | Floyd | [Pat the head-patting robot pats your head, and your score goes up one Floyd | point. You feel great! But you're still hungry.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "take corn" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 32 | Score: 3 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CORN Floyd | Floyd | You wrest the ear of corn from its home amidst the plumbing. Some Floyd | sort of classical conditioning kicks in and you immediately toss the Floyd | thing into the grocery bag. Floyd | Floyd | (You're freaking starving.) Floyd | Floyd | [Pat the head-patting robot pats your head, and your score goes up one Floyd | point. You feel great! But you're still hungry.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| TheXenographer arrives, ready to play with the toys. | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "smell corn" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 33 | Score: 3 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL CORN Floyd | Floyd | >>ZAP!<< Floyd | Dr. Beagle sees you trying to take the ear of corn from the bag and Floyd | activates your shock collar. It would be sort of pleasant if you Floyd | found terribly painful things sort of pleasant. You don't. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "zap" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open junk drawer" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 34 | Score: 3 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN JUNK DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | You open the junk drawer, revealing a flashlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "get flashlight" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 35 | Score: 3 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > GET FLASHLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | TheXenographer asks, "what'd I miss?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We have beef, corn, vinegar, and a flashlight." | |||
| DavidW says, "The flashlight will help us with the fridge, I suppose." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on flashlight" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 36 | Score: 3 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON FLASHLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You flip the switch, but nothing happens. According to your Floyd | encyclopedic knowledge of flashlights, this is probably some sort of, Floyd | you know, problem with the, what's it called, innards. Yeah. Floyd | Floyd | This is why no one uses encyclopedias anymore. Floyd | Floyd | > | TheXenographer says, "Thanks, that's good to know." | ||
| Gerynar says, "well, there's all those other drawers (doll drawer, reptile drawer, etc...)" | |||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "open flashlight" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 37 | Score: 3 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FLASHLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You unscrew the top of the flashlight and peer inside, discovering an Floyd | egg. Floyd | Floyd | The sight of food makes your mouth fill with saliva and your eyes fill Floyd | with tears. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "get egg" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 38 | Score: 4 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > GET EGG Floyd | Floyd | You shake the egg gently out of the flashlight. Hey, now that the Floyd | flashlight is empty, you notice it doesn't even take batteries. It'll Floyd | probably work fine now, once you turn it on. You close it up to be Floyd | tidy. Floyd | Floyd | Oh, right, you almost forgot. Some sort of classical conditioning Floyd | kicks in and you chuck the egg into the grocery bag as hard as you Floyd | can. Floyd | Floyd | (Your stomach growls loudly.) Floyd | Floyd | [Pat the head-patting robot pats your head, and your score goes up one Floyd | point. You feel great! But you're still hungry.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "put beef in bag" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 39 | Score: 4 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BEEF IN BAG Floyd | Floyd | (the grocery bag) Floyd | >>ZAP!<< Floyd | Dr. Beagle sees you trying to take the bag of beef from the bag and Floyd | shocks you lightly. You wish you still owned rubber shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "close flashlight" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 40 | Score: 4 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FLASHLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | That's already closed. Floyd | Floyd | (Yup, you're still hungry.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 41 | Score: 4 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You open the fridge and the entire kitchen goes dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "shake flashlight" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 42 | Score: 4 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE FLASHLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | It's too dang dark. You should find a light source or close that Floyd | fridge. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on flashlight" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 43 | Score: 4 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON FLASHLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | The flashlight summons the full force of its bountiful self-esteem and Floyd | lights up like a debutante at a rodeo. Now you can look at anything! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 44 | Score: 4 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | This fridge is almost, but not quite, the color of cheap French Floyd | vanilla ice cream, the kind you get in a bucket with an alarming Floyd | cartoon character on the lid. Scrawled inside of it (the fridge, not Floyd | the bucket of ice cream) are the ravings of a madman. Floyd | Floyd | In the fridge are a bean, a beer and a basket of garlic bread. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "smell beer" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 45 | Score: 4 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL BEER Floyd | Floyd | The beer smells delicious. You drool a little. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "smell garlic bread" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 46 | Score: 4 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL GARLIC BREAD Floyd | Floyd | The basket of garlic bread smells delicious. It makes you want to Floyd | cry. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "get beer and bread" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 47 | Score: 6 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > GET BEER AND BREAD Floyd | Floyd | beer: You take the beer. Some sort of classical conditioning kicks in Floyd | and you immediately drop it into the grocery bag. What a waste of Floyd | liquid bread. Floyd | basket of garlic bread: You take the basket of garlic bread. Some Floyd | sort of classical conditioning kicks in and you immediately drop it Floyd | into the grocery bag. Floyd | Floyd | [Pat the head-patting robot pats your head, and your score goes up two Floyd | points. You feel great! But you're still hungry.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "read ravings" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 48 | Score: 6 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > READ RAVINGS Floyd | Floyd | The mad scrawl is written in something black; old teriyaki maybe? Not Floyd | even you the sauce expert can quite tell what. You don't think Floyd | the crazed manic handwriting is yours. It says: Floyd | Floyd | I (I) re (RE) heat (HEAT) my (MY) soup (SOUP) Floyd | give (GIVE) it (IT) a (A) good (GOOD) look (LOOK) Floyd | and (AND) walk (WALK) a (A) way (WAY) Floyd | Floyd | Without taking his eyes off of you, Dr. Beagle starts scribbling Floyd | frantically on his clipboard. Floyd | Floyd | *whirrrrrrrr* Floyd | You hear the sound of a tiny electric door opening somewhere, and Floyd | Pat's friend Soupbot rolls into the room, bleeping and sloshing. Pat Floyd | greets her with a Christian side hug. Floyd | Floyd | It's getting kind of crowded up in this test chamber. You certainly Floyd | hope this won't compromise whatever science might be happening. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "x bean" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 49 | Score: 6 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X BEAN Floyd | Floyd | It looks up at you with a little dog face. "Ne shitteru?" it asks. Floyd | "Ostriches are the only animals that kiss during mating. When they're Floyd | done mating, they suck each others' eyeballs out." You feel the blood Floyd | drain from your face. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "get it" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 50 | Score: 7 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | You pick up the bean and chuck it into the grocery bag as hard as you Floyd | can. "Did you know?" you hear it ask, faintly. "The inside of this Floyd | grocery bag is really smelly. Know what else is really smelly? A Floyd | kangaroo's di--" You cover your ears and hum. Floyd | Floyd | (Man, are you ever hungry.) Floyd | Floyd | [Pat the head-patting robot pats your head, and your score goes up one Floyd | point. You feel great! But you're still hungry.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "wait a sec." | ||
| TheXenographer says, "mameshibaaa" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x bean" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 51 | Score: 7 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X BEAN Floyd | Floyd | It looks up at you with a little dog face. "Did you know?" it asks. Floyd | "If you put your hand inside a cow, there's a 93% chance you'd be Floyd | touching something pink, and a 100% chance you'd be touching something Floyd | disgusting." You pretend you didn't just hear that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x beer" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 52 | Score: 7 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X BEER Floyd | Floyd | This beer is big, and brown, and furry, with claws on the ends of its Floyd | powerful arms and legs. Wait, I'm thinking of a bear. This beer is a Floyd | bit on the hoppy side, with woodsy undertones. Like a bunny. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x garlic bread" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 53 | Score: 7 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X GARLIC BREAD Floyd | Floyd | Garlic bread is your favourite food. You could honestly eat it for Floyd | every meal. Or just all the time without even stopping. Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Beagle watches you attentively. You're unsure whether it's Floyd | scientific interest or he thinks you're about to throw a ball. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x soupbot" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 54 | Score: 7 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X SOUPBOT Floyd | Floyd | Soupbot is not exactly the latest in autonomous soup-dispensing Floyd | technology, and sometimes she gets overexcited and splatters, but you Floyd | can't fault her enthusiasm, and she gets the job done. The buttons Floyd | above her three nozzles are currently labeled "chowder," "creamed Floyd | cauliflower," and "cup." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x bean" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 55 | Score: 7 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X BEAN Floyd | Floyd | It looks up at you with a little dog face. "Ne shitteru?" it asks. Floyd | "If you've ever had a headache, you're at risk for gelatinosis, a rare Floyd | disease that turns your bones into skin and your skin into jelly." Floyd | Your stomach turns, and you look away. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "press cup button" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 56 | Score: 7 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > PRESS CUP BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | Soupbot stops you from pressing her cup button and presses it herself. Floyd | A terrible clattering noise emanates from the vicinity of her cup Floyd | nozzle, and she begins to vibrate ominously. You frantically look Floyd | around for somewhere to hide from the imminent explosion. Just when Floyd | you've decided there is no safe place and you are going to die here, Floyd | Soupbot stops rattling, opens a convenient drawer in her chassis, and Floyd | hands you a cup. Floyd | Floyd | Pat gets tired of waiting for you to do something patworthy and pats Floyd | the doll drawer on its head-analogue instead. You feel oddly jealous. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cup" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 57 | Score: 7 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X CUP Floyd | Floyd | (the cup) Floyd | You study the cup from all angles, trying to find something remarkable Floyd | about it, but the cup refuses to be at all interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do we want chowder or creamed cauliflower?" | ||
| Gerynar doesn't want to get zapped | |||
| DavidW says, "Personally, I'd prefer chowder" | |||
| Johnny zaps Gerynar. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push chowder button" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 58 | Score: 8 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH CHOWDER BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | Soupbot takes your cup, presses her chowder button, and pours you a Floyd | nice steaming hot cup of chowder, which she immediately tosses into Floyd | the grocery bag. Floyd | Floyd | (Boy, are you hungry.) Floyd | Floyd | [Pat the head-patting robot pats your head, and your score goes up one Floyd | point. You feel great! But you're still hungry.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x bean" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 59 | Score: 8 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X BEAN Floyd | Floyd | It looks up at you with a little dog face. "Did you know?" it asks. Floyd | "If you scrape your face off, it'll take you almost a thousand years Floyd | to grow a new one, cell by painful cell. Fortunately, it'll keep Floyd | growing long after you die, although not necessarily on your skull." Floyd | You feel the blood drain from your face. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push cup button" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 60 | Score: 8 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH CUP BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | Soupbot stops you from pressing her cup button and presses it herself. Floyd | A terrible clattering noise emanates from the vicinity of her cup Floyd | nozzle, but you're not having any of that. "Just give me the cup, Floyd | please," you say, and she hands you one from the drawer in her Floyd | chassis. It's hard to tell with robots, but you think she's pouting. Floyd | Pat pats her head. Floyd | Floyd | (You're so hungry, you'd eat at Arby's. No, wait, no one's Floyd | that hungry.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push creamed button" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 61 | Score: 9 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH CREAMED BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | Soupbot takes your cup, presses her creamed cauliflower button, and Floyd | pours you a nice steaming hot cup of creamed cauliflower. This time Floyd | she fakes like she's going to hand it to you before jerking it away Floyd | and lobbing it into the grocery bag. Harsh! Floyd | Floyd | (Your stomach growls loudly.) Floyd | Floyd | [Pat the head-patting robot pats your head, and your score goes up one Floyd | point. You feel great! But you're still hungry.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Binder arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Johnny says, "Take that, Arby's." | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "open doll drawer" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 62 | Score: 9 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOLL DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | With some trepidation (your grandmother owned some terrifying dolls), Floyd | you open the doll drawer. Fortunately, all you find is Dr. Bagel. Floyd | What's up, Dr. Bagel? Floyd | Floyd | The sight of food makes you drool all over your dinner jacket. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "I admit, I was lured in by the commentary." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bagel" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 63 | Score: 9 Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | > X BAGEL Floyd | Floyd | You think he might be a real doctor, because he's wearing a little Floyd | round labcoat, but he doesn't have a tiny clipboard or stethoscope or Floyd | anything. He's definitely a real bagel, though, unless you're one of Floyd | those jerks that insists a real bagel has to be made in New York with Floyd | Jerusalem tap water or whatever. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bagel" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 64 | Score: 10 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BAGEL Floyd | Floyd | You pick up Dr Bagel. Some sort of classical conditioning kicks in Floyd | and you immediately drop him into the grocery bag, tiny labcoat and Floyd | all. Floyd | Floyd | (Boy, are you hungry.) Floyd | Floyd | [Pat the head-patting robot pats your head, and your score goes up one Floyd | point. You feel great! But you're still hungry.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "open reptile drawer" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 65 | Score: 10 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN REPTILE DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | You open the reptile drawer, revealing a can of snakes. Oh, wow! A Floyd | can of snakes! Floyd | Floyd | The bean clears its throat conspicuously from inside the grocery bag. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take snakes" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 66 | Score: 10 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SNAKES Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You feel like the bean is staring at you from inside the grocery bag. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x can" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 67 | Score: 10 Floyd | Floyd | > X CAN Floyd | Floyd | (the can of snakes) Floyd | The label on this can is written in some weird foreign language, but Floyd | based on the pictures, you deduce that this can is full of deadly Floyd | snakes that are going to spring out and frighten you when you open the Floyd | can. What fun! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Bet it's peanut brittle instead." | ||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "open can" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 68 | Score: 10 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CAN Floyd | Floyd | (the can of snakes) Floyd | The lid comes off the can with a satisfying pop, and a colorful medley Floyd | of poisonous snakes completely fails to come shooting out of the can Floyd | and bite you on the face. Hey, there's no snakes in here at all, just Floyd | this piece of peanut brittle! What the heck. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Called it!" | ||
| Gerynar says, "nice one, DavidW" | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "eat peanut brittle" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 69 | Score: 10 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT PEANUT BRITTLE Floyd | Floyd | >>ZAP!<< Floyd | Dr. Beagle sees you trying to eat the piece of peanut brittle and Floyd | shocks the crap out of you. You spontaneously remember your piano Floyd | lessons. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, similar backward logic as the fridge." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take brittle" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 70 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BRITTLE Floyd | Floyd | You take the piece of peanut brittle. Some sort of classical Floyd | conditioning kicks in and you immediately drop it into the grocery Floyd | bag. Good riddance, lousy not-snake peanut brittle. Floyd | Floyd | (You're probably going to die if you don't eat something soon.) Floyd | Floyd | [Pat the head-patting robot pats your head, and your score goes up one Floyd | point. You feel great! But you're still hungry.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says (to Gerynar), "When will you learn." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bag" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 71 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BAG Floyd | Floyd | (the grocery bag) Floyd | The very thought of picking up a less-than-full grocery bag makes you Floyd | want to throw up for some reason. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "I'm old...you know the saying "can't teach an old Gerynar new tricks"" | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "take pears" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 72 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PEARS Floyd | Floyd | You pick up the bucket of pears. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "search pears" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 73 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH PEARS Floyd | Floyd | You spend some time sorting through the pears in an attempt to Floyd | identify the real one, but your search proves... Floyd | Floyd | (narrator puts on sunglasses) Floyd | Floyd | ...fruitless. Floyd | Floyd | (YEAAAAAAAH!) Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "HA" | ||
| DavidW says, "geez" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x pear" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 74 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > X PEAR Floyd | Floyd | Thirty-eight pears are in this bucket. One is real, the other Floyd | thirty-seven are wax. You can't tell them apart by looking, smelling, Floyd | or touching. How will you proceed, player, how will you proceed? Floyd | Floyd | You sense that the bean is trying to get your attention from inside Floyd | the grocery bag. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bean about pears" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 74 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK BEAN ABOUT PEARS Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny asks, "Can we melt the wax pears somehow?" | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x bean" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 75 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > X BEAN Floyd | Floyd | It looks up at you with a little dog face. "Ne shitteru?" it asks. Floyd | "In order to make a baby, a woman has to lick a leather saddle while a Floyd | man dressed as a clown spanks her and calls her "Norman." Your Floyd | parents did this to make you, and knowing them, they liked it." You Floyd | pretend you didn't just hear that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "taste bears" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 75 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > TASTE BEARS Floyd | Floyd | What bears? What are you even talking about? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "taste pears" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 76 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > TASTE PEARS Floyd | Floyd | You don't even try it. Your fifth-grade math teacher was a creepy Floyd | pervert who wore tight purple pants. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "squeeze pears" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 77 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > SQUEEZE PEARS Floyd | Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake pears" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 78 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE PEARS Floyd | Floyd | You're not in the mood for a pears shake. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "melt pears" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 78 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > MELT PEARS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sink" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 79 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > X SINK Floyd | Floyd | Closer examination reveals this to be merely a child's drawing of a Floyd | sink. The drain has been hastily rendered in blue crayon, and near it Floyd | a posse of scrubbing bubbles is fighting a dinosaur. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "open oven" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 80 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN OVEN Floyd | Floyd | You swing the oven door open, interrupting what appears to be a fight Floyd | to the death between a cherry pie and a pepperoni pizza. A minuscule Floyd | tumbleweed falls through a gap in the bottom rack and bursts into Floyd | flame. Floyd | Floyd | The sight of food makes your salivary glands kick into overdrive. Floyd | Floyd | Pat gets tired of waiting for you to do something patworthy and pats Floyd | the mitten drawer on its head-analogue instead. You feel oddly Floyd | jealous. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x pepperoni pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 80 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > X PEPPERONI PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | What pepperoni pizza? What are you even talking about? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "put pears in oven" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 81 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PEARS IN OVEN Floyd | Floyd | You're afraid to put the bucket of wax pears in the oven with those Floyd | other violent foodstuffs. It's very delicate emotionally. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pie" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 82 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIE Floyd | Floyd | It's like four hundred degrees inside that oven. You should find a Floyd | hot mitt or something before you try to take anything out of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| ASchultz arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "open glove drawer" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 82 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN GLOVE DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | What glove drawer? What are you even talking about? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open mitten drawer" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 83 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN MITTEN DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | You open the mitten drawer, revealing an exoskeletal heat absorption Floyd | glove. Sure, why not. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take glove" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 84 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear glove" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 85 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | You stick your hand in the glove and its component nanosentients alter Floyd | its parameters to conform perfectly with the contours of your digits. Floyd | Ace! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x glove" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 86 | Score: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > X GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | You love this glove. It's so bad. Floyd | Floyd | An intern enters the observation chamber to deliver some Floyd | correspondence. Dr. Beagle barks at the poor kid furiously until he Floyd | flees the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pie" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 87 | Score: 12 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIE Floyd | Floyd | You take the pie. Some sort of classical conditioning kicks in and Floyd | you immediately drop it into the grocery bag, which it explodes all Floyd | over the inside of. Floyd | Floyd | (Your stomach growls loudly.) Floyd | Floyd | [Pat the head-patting robot pats your head, and your score goes up one Floyd | point. You feel great! But you're still hungry.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x oven" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 88 | Score: 12 Floyd | Floyd | > X OVEN Floyd | Floyd | This oven's designer got tired of trying to remember if they'd left Floyd | the oven on, so they invented an oven you can't turn off. Its Floyd | internal temperature is a constant 400 degrees Fahrenheit. You know Floyd | this because you are omniscient all of a sudden, but only as regards Floyd | this oven and the names of everyone in New Jersey. Floyd | Floyd | In the oven is a pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 89 | Score: 13 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | You take the pizza. Some sort of classical conditioning kicks in and Floyd | you immediately fold the whole pepperoni mess up and plop it into the Floyd | grocery bag. Floyd | Floyd | (Boy, are you hungry.) Floyd | Floyd | [Pat the head-patting robot pats your head, and your score goes up one Floyd | point. You feel great! But you're still hungry.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| ASchultz comes in late and notices the first game is moving along nicely | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pears in oven" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 90 | Score: 13 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PEARS IN OVEN Floyd | Floyd | You put Griswold's Legendary Bucket of Wax Pears into the hot oven. Floyd | The wax pears melt and run together, there is a really confusing Floyd | couple of seconds where everything goes all swirly and Floyd | Price-is-Right-looking, and you are left with a single, presumably Floyd | real, magical, and very hot pear in a bucket. Well done you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pear" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 91 | Score: 14 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PEAR Floyd | Floyd | You take the pear. Some sort of classical conditioning kicks in and Floyd | you immediately drop it into the grocery bag. Oh well, being king of Floyd | Reno, Nevada probably isn't all it's cracked up to be anyway. Floyd | Floyd | (Man, are you ever hungry.) Floyd | Floyd | [Pat the head-patting robot pats your head, and your score goes up one Floyd | point. You feel great! But you're still hungry.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "yay magical pear" | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x drawers" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 92 | Score: 14 Floyd | Floyd | > X DRAWERS Floyd | Floyd | In your grandmother's kitchen, at least, these were the cutlery Floyd | drawer, the junk drawer, the meat drawer, the doll drawer, the reptile Floyd | drawer, the mitten drawer, and the bird drawer, from top to bottom. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open bird drawer" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 93 | Score: 14 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BIRD DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | You open the bird drawer, revealing a broken vinyl record. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x record" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 94 | Score: 14 Floyd | Floyd | > X RECORD Floyd | Floyd | Useless pieces of a vinyl record labeled "101 Different Varieties of Floyd | Morning Birdsong as performed by Henry Boyd." This must have been Floyd | what they would play over the loudspeaker to make you think it was Floyd | morning. Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Beagle watches you attentively. You're unsure whether it's Floyd | scientific interest or he thinks you're about to throw a ball. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "get record" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 95 | Score: 14 Floyd | Floyd | > GET RECORD Floyd | Floyd | It's worthless. Forget about it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "open meat drawer" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 96 | Score: 14 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN MEAT DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cutlery drawer" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 97 | Score: 14 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CUTLERY DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | You open the cutlery drawer, expecting the shining spoons of this town Floyd | all to point in your direction. Sadly, though, the drawer is empty. Floyd | This is not at all surprising, given what happened the last time they Floyd | were dumb enough to let you have silverware. Floyd | Floyd | Pat gets tired of waiting for you to do something patworthy and pats Floyd | the photograph on its head-analogue instead. You feel oddly jealous. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pat pat" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 98 | Score: 14 Floyd | Floyd | > PAT PAT Floyd | Floyd | You pat the head-patting robot on his little robot head. He seems Floyd | confused by this bizarre shift in circumstances. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 99 | Score: 14 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Test Chamber Floyd | It really does look just like your grandmother's kitchen. The oven, Floyd | fridge, and counter are that same buttery marzipan color, those same Floyd | seven drawers are next to the cabinet under the sink, even the kitten Floyd | wallpaper is the same. That motivational poster belongs to the test Floyd | chamber, though, and has survived its every redecoration including Floyd | "submarine" and "open grave." The only other difference is a Floyd | photograph over the oven where your grandmother used to hang the heads Floyd | of her enemies (mostly crickets). Floyd | Floyd | Oh, and the observation chamber where Dr. Beagle is watching you Floyd | through two-way glass. Your grandmother didn't have one of those. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a grocery bag. Floyd | Floyd | Soupbot is here to keep Pat company. Floyd | Floyd | Pat the head-patting robot is here waiting for you to do something Floyd | worthy of a head-pat. Floyd | Floyd | You smell bacon. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bacon" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 100 | Score: Floyd | 15 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BACON Floyd | Floyd | You reach out towards the delicious-looking bacon and discover it is Floyd | actual bacon, taped to the photo. That will certainly make taking it Floyd | a lot easier! Floyd | Floyd | You untape the bacon from the photo. Some sort of classical Floyd | conditioning kicks in and you immediately drop it greasily into the Floyd | grocery bag. Floyd | Floyd | [Pat the head-patting robot pats your head, and your score goes up one Floyd | point. You feel great! But you're still hungry.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bag" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 100 | Score: Floyd | 15 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BAG Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the grocery bag or the bag of beef? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "grocery" | |||
Floyd | (Press any key to continue)
Floyd |
Floyd | The lights, even the flashlight, suddenly flicker and go out...
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| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd | The lights, even the flashlight, suddenly flicker and go out...
Floyd |
Floyd | Then they come back on.
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| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd | Then they come back on.
Floyd |
Floyd | Then they go out again.
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| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 101 | Score:
Floyd | 15
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A small flame cuts through the darkness. As it draws closer you see
Floyd | it's composed of several even smaller flames, attached to a cake. The
Floyd | air around you is suddenly thick with the sounds of noisemakers and
Floyd | Perry Como singing "Happy Birthday to You."
Floyd |
Floyd | Is... is it your birthday?
Floyd |
Floyd | The lights come back on, and you see that Dr. Beagle and the robots
Floyd | are wearing party hats. In front of you, on Cakebot's head platter,
Floyd | is an elaborately frosted cake with sixteen lit candles and the words
Floyd | "HAPPY BITRHDAY CONTROL 15" in blue icing. Everyone seems to be
Floyd | waiting for you to blow out the candles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW asks, "For me!?" | ||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "x cake" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 102 | Score: Floyd | 15 Floyd | Floyd | > X CAKE Floyd | Floyd | It's a beautiful cake. They really went all out, what with the icing Floyd | and the flowers and the almost spelling "BIRTHDAY" right. The candles Floyd | flicker cheerfully. Floyd | Floyd | The sight of food makes you salivate uncontrollably. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat cake" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 103 | Score: Floyd | 15 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT CAKE Floyd | Floyd | You'll need to pick it up first. Go ahead. Pick up your cake. Happy Floyd | birthday, by the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cake" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 104 | Score: Floyd | 15 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CAKE Floyd | Floyd | You pick up the elaborately frosted birthday cake, knowing full well Floyd | you're just going to chuck it into the grocery bag when your classical Floyd | conditioning kicks in, because your entire life is a sad farce. Yup. Floyd | Any second now, you're going to throw the cake into the bag. Floyd | Floyd | Any second now? Floyd | Floyd | Okay. Don't freak out, but by some miracle, you are still holding on Floyd | to the cake. I repeat, you are still holding on to the cake. Floyd | Floyd | So... now what do you do? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat cake" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 104 | Score: Floyd | 15 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT CAKE Floyd | Floyd | You shove the cake at your face, taking minimal care not to set your Floyd | hair on fire. Your tongue almost touches icing when -- Floyd | Floyd | >>%>#>ZAP!!!!!<*<&<< Floyd | Dr. Beagle shocks you so hard that the wiring in your brain scrambles Floyd | and you have to really quickly reform all of your neural connections, Floyd | which is totally a thing that can happen. (Later, in your room, you Floyd | will have to test whether or not this has given you superpowers, which Floyd | is also totally a thing that can happen.) As you lie twitching on the Floyd | linoleum, you feel a familiar cold metal hug around your left calf, Floyd | and barely have time to whisper hello to Sedatebot before everything Floyd | goes white and fuzzy. Floyd | Floyd | You are just conscious enough as they wheel you past the kitchen to Floyd | see that it's burritos in your IV tube again tonight. "Oh good, Floyd | burritos," you think, passing out. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Still waiting for the dinner bell to do the bell thing... Floyd | *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 15 out of a possible 16, in 104 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, UNDO the last command or read Dr. Floyd | Beagle's REPORT? Floyd | > | Gerynar asks, "undo?" | ||
| Lionheart arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Gerynar says, "I think we should have blown out the candles" | ||
| DavidW says, "undo a few. We never tried to blow out the candles." | |||
| maga says, "the cake is a lie" | |||
| Binder says, "or thrown it in the bag" | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 104 | Score: Floyd | 15 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Test Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 105 | Score: Floyd | 15 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a cake Floyd | an exoskeletal heat absorption glove (being worn) Floyd | a can of snakes (open but empty) Floyd | a flashlight (providing light and closed) Floyd | a shock collar (being worn) Floyd | a dinner jacket (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x grocery bag" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 106 | Score: Floyd | 15 Floyd | Floyd | > X GROCERY BAG Floyd | Floyd | If this grocery bag could talk, it would inform you in no uncertain Floyd | terms that it was a grocery bag. Floyd | Floyd | In the grocery bag are an order of bacon, a pear, a pizza, a pie, a Floyd | piece of peanut brittle, Dr Bagel, a cup of creamed cauliflower, a cup Floyd | of chowder, a bean, a basket of garlic bread, a beer, an egg, an ear Floyd | of corn, a bottle of vinegar and a bag of beef. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x bean" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 107 | Score: Floyd | 15 Floyd | Floyd | > X BEAN Floyd | Floyd | It looks up at you with a little dog face. "Did you know?" it asks. Floyd | "If you scrape your face off, it'll take you almost a thousand years Floyd | to grow a new one, cell by painful cell. Fortunately, it'll keep Floyd | growing long after you die, although not necessarily on your skull." Floyd | You feel the blood drain from your face. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put cake in bag" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 107 | Score: Floyd | 16 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT CAKE IN BAG Floyd | Floyd | (the grocery bag) Floyd | You drop the lit birthday cake into the grocery bag, which surprises Floyd | you by going whoosh up in flames, as though it were made out Floyd | of 1970s kids' Halloween costumes. You can feel your eyebrows sizzle Floyd | as you instinctively leap back from the column of fire. The Floyd | countertop begins to melt, and the scrubbing bubbles flee down the Floyd | drain before the sink catches. The dinosaur remains behind fighting Floyd | fire with fire, which doesn't actually work very well. Soupbot pulls Floyd | a hose attachment out of somewhere and starts spraying chicken broth Floyd | everywhere in a twenty-foot radius. To her firefighting credit, she Floyd | even gets some on the flames. Floyd | Floyd | "Did you know?" you hear a faint voice say from the inferno. "I'm on Floyd | fire!" Floyd | Floyd | Pat pats your head quickly, then beats a strategic retreat through the Floyd | robot flap. You think your score went up by one point, although you Floyd | could barely feel it through the heat of the blaze, or hear it over Floyd | the slow clapping of Slowclapbot. The ceiling crashes down around you Floyd | as you stand perfectly still in the center of the burning kitchen, Floyd | staring at your own reflection in Dr. Beagle's mirrored sunglasses. Floyd | (Wait, where'd he get those?) Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Beagle's tail is wagging. Who's a good test subject? You are. Floyd | You're a good test subject. Now he's reaching for the Bell... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Ding! Ding! Ding! *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 16 out of a possible 16, in 107 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, UNDO the last command or read Dr. Floyd | Beagle's REPORT? Floyd | > | |||
| phoenix arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW says, "woot!" | ||
| ASchultz waves to Phoenix, who seems to be new | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "amusing" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 107 | Score: Floyd | 16 Floyd | Floyd | > AMUSING Floyd | Floyd | Did you try: Floyd | Putting the cake on your head? Floyd | Putting other things on your head? Floyd | Spraying the sink with Shiptogar, then examining the bubbles? Floyd | (Twice?) Floyd | Reading all the creepy bean messages? Floyd | Referring to the glove as a mitten? Floyd | Searching the pears? Floyd | Making a wish? Floyd | Locating your appendix? Floyd | Eating your arm? Floyd | Opening the bag of beef? Floyd | Screwing things? Floyd | Putting something in the flashlight? Floyd | Or the ship in the bottle? Floyd | Examining the correspondence? Floyd | Or the sticker? Floyd | Or the tumbleweed? Floyd | Or absolutely everything else? Floyd | Floyd | Ne shitteru? You can turn commentary on at any time by typing "I WANT Floyd | TO HEAR ALL YOUR DARKEST SECRETS." Don't tell your friends, make 'em Floyd | play the game and earn it for themselves. It'll build character. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, UNDO the last command or read Dr. Floyd | Beagle's REPORT? Floyd | > | |||
| ASchultz has disconnected. | |||
| ASchultz has connected. | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "report" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 107 | Score: Floyd | 16 Floyd | Floyd | > REPORT Floyd | Floyd | PROJECT: Marzipan | Administrator: S. Beagle | Subject: Control Floyd | 15 | Date: 780905 | Floyd | Floyd | Elapsed time in minutes: 107 (reasonable) Floyd | Electrical admonishments administered: 4 (reasonably compliant) Floyd | Floyd | 15 is making amazing (sniff sniff sniff) progress compared to Floyd | the (weird smell, weird smell) others in the control group. Floyd | This is very (gooood dog) exciting. I'm really going to Floyd | (pant pant pant) rub it in that (gooood dog) smug Floyd | jerk McKenna's face. How you (weird smell, weird smell) like Floyd | your psychotropic mushrooms now, McKenna? Floyd | Floyd | Oh, right, the (who's a good dog I'm a good dog) subject. Floyd | I'm going to recommend 15 for (sniff sniff sniff) Project Floyd | Double Super Secret. They won't say no, not while (woof) Floyd | Marzipan is proving so successful. Beagle out. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, UNDO the last command or read Dr. Floyd | Beagle's REPORT? Floyd | > | |||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "amusing" | |||
Floyd ] Test Chamber | Hunger Level: Starving | Turns: 107 | Score: Floyd | 16 Floyd | Floyd | > AMUSING Floyd | Floyd | Did you try: Floyd | Putting the cake on your head? Floyd | Putting other things on your head? Floyd | Spraying the sink with Shiptogar, then examining the bubbles? Floyd | (Twice?) Floyd | Reading all the creepy bean messages? Floyd | Referring to the glove as a mitten? Floyd | Searching the pears? Floyd | Making a wish? Floyd | Locating your appendix? Floyd | Eating your arm? Floyd | Opening the bag of beef? Floyd | Screwing things? Floyd | Putting something in the flashlight? Floyd | Or the ship in the bottle? Floyd | Examining the correspondence? Floyd | Or the sticker? Floyd | Or the tumbleweed? Floyd | Or absolutely everything else? Floyd | Floyd | Ne shitteru? You can turn commentary on at any time by typing "I WANT Floyd | TO HEAR ALL YOUR DARKEST SECRETS." Don't tell your friends, make 'em Floyd | play the game and earn it for themselves. It'll build character. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, UNDO the last command or read Dr. Floyd | Beagle's REPORT? Floyd | > | TheXenographer says, "oh, whoops, we did that already, didn't we" | ||
| TheXenographer exclaims, "sorry!" | |||
| DavidW says, "s'okay" | |||
| DavidW says, "cool game" | |||
| Binder says, "very amusing" | |||
| Johnny says, "That was great." | |||
| Johnny says, "I... suppose we're not going to do a commentary run-through." | |||
| DavidW says (to Johnny), "well, I am curious, but it seems perhaps we shouldn't so it's not part of the transcript." | |||
| ASchultz says, "what DavidW said...though I want to try it offline" | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | |||
| Johnny says (to readers), "The games are on pr-if.org" | |||
| DavidW says, "The next game ought to be Narrow Your Eyes, but I hear that one will be impossible to play via Floyd." | |||
| phoenix goes home. | DavidW says, "Since it uses graphics and sound effects." | ||
| maga says, "extremely impossible" | |||
| maga says, "it is the unFloydest game ever" | |||
| DavidW asks, "so, the next game will be Hall of Heads?" | |||
| phoenix arrives, ready to play with the toys. | |||
| DavidW 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?" | Johnny says, "Wel, it says "to really play this". It's still playable online." | ||
| Johnny says, "Which makes me curious as to what the graphics are." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm curious too, but maga confirms it's unFloydable." | |||
| Johnny says, "Hall of Heads it looks like." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask a18hallofheads" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | --and I stumbled backward, my throat deeply slashed, my life's blood Floyd | draining away as I fell into darkness-- Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Heads Floyd | An Interactive Crisis by Dan Efran with 'Becca Stallings Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120304 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Track 11 of Apollo 18+20: The IF Tribute Album Floyd | (New to Interactive Fiction? Try typing ABOUT.) Floyd | Floyd | --dark...and light...and...red... Floyd | Floyd | ...so red... Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere Floyd | Shattered glass on polished marble; a spray of my reddest blood in a Floyd | piercing shaft of moonlight. Beyond...I narrowed my eyes, straining to Floyd | penetrate the darkness-- Floyd | Floyd | ...busts...busted heads...heds on peds...headestals... Floyd | Floyd | Losing blood fast, I tried to make sense of-- Floyd | Floyd | --rows upon rows of pale, lifeless, life-like busts of stately heads Floyd | on fluted headestals, all different, yet oddly alike-- Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 2 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I was empty-handed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Searing pain, a red haze clouding my vision within and without: my Floyd | throat slashed, my head nearly severed, I clung to life by the fraying Floyd | cable of my will. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "I think we're hurt." | ||
| Binder says, "maybe we're just malingering" | |||
| DavidW says, "This is just a guess, but an emergency head transplant might be in order." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x heads" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X HEADS Floyd | Floyd | The ranks of stately busts receded into the gloom in all directions. Floyd | Those on the headestals nearest me appeared to depict the March of Floyd | Progress: the headestal of a stern King was nearest to where I stood. Floyd | To the left of the King's resting place, I saw a famous Prime Floyd | Minister, stately and opulent, and beyond her a modern Head of Floyd | State...and to the right, a scarred and tattooed Witch's head, and on Floyd | the headestal beyond that primitive wise woman...an ape, some Floyd | antediluvian chieftain. Floyd | Floyd | The oddest thing, in a gallery of historical busts...all their eyes Floyd | were closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I vote >wear witch's head" | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x ape" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X APE Floyd | Floyd | The animal's face was creased with the unmistakable lines of wisdom Floyd | and long duty: a sagacious sovereign from our race's distant, Floyd | forgotten ancestry. Floyd | Floyd | Softest stone I ever-- Floyd | Floyd | No. Floyd | Floyd | These heads were pale, but not stone. Not busts. True heads, real, Floyd | living heads, preserved in deathless stillness by some arcane Floyd | art. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "We could try shopping around first." | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x witch" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X WITCH Floyd | Floyd | A shrewd and shriveled crone, her face scarred and tattooed with a Floyd | pattern of dots and lines. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I imagine different heads will have different info/skills." | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x king" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X KING Floyd | Floyd | The pale king's grim visage betokened the rule of might. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x prime minister" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X PRIME MINISTER Floyd | Floyd | Her saintly features revealed no weakness. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x head of state" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X HEAD OF STATE Floyd | Floyd | A determined, stately countenance. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "I'll forego smelling and tasting the heads." | ||
| Binder says, "these are all great heads, heads I'd be proud to top myself off with" | |||
| Johnny says (to DavidW), "You're on!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chieftain" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X CHIEFTAIN Floyd | Floyd | I couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear witch" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 10 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR WITCH Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the Witch's Head) Floyd | I moved to take the Witch's Head, but my legs gave way, and instead I Floyd | tumbled to the floor, my skull striking something quite unyielding on Floyd | the way down. My vision blurred and darkened-- Floyd | Floyd | ...for the last time? I wondered... Floyd | Floyd | --and then my senses slowly surged back, like a drowning ocean wave Floyd | receding. A dull thump...something hard and round had fallen into my Floyd | hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 11 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I was carrying an Ape's Head. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hunh" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 12 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Searing pain, a red haze clouding my vision within and without: my Floyd | throat slashed, my head nearly severed, I clung to life by the fraying Floyd | cable of my will. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| phoenix says, "I thought that was going to be the PC's head" | Binder asks, "perhaps there's a forced order?" | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 13 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Heads Floyd | Shattered glass on polished marble; a spray of my reddest blood in a Floyd | piercing shaft of moonlight. All around were rows of pale, lifeless, Floyd | life-like busts of stately heads on fluted headestals, all different, Floyd | yet oddly alike. And at the periphery I could see one small doorway Floyd | leading out. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to phoenix), "Channel, please." | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x heads" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 14 Floyd | Floyd | > X HEADS Floyd | Floyd | The ranks of stately busts receded into the gloom in all directions. Floyd | Those on the headestals nearest me appeared to depict the March of Floyd | Progress: I had fallen against the headestal of a stern King. To the Floyd | left of the King's resting place, I saw a famous Prime Minister, Floyd | stately and opulent, and beyond her a modern Head of State...and to Floyd | the right, a scarred and tattooed Witch's head, and on the headestal Floyd | beyond that primitive wise woman...a place even for an ape, some Floyd | antediluvian chieftain. Floyd | Floyd | The oddest thing, in a gallery of historical busts...all their eyes Floyd | were closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 15 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | One doorway leading out into...darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear ape" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 16 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR APE Floyd | Floyd | I put on the Ape's Head. Floyd | Floyd | Somehow it seemed the right -- the only -- thing to do. I raised the Floyd | pale head to my throat, nestled it in the gaping wound beside my own. Floyd | At once I felt it seizing my flesh, drinking in my blood-- Floyd | Floyd | --I saw the eyes snap open-- Floyd | Floyd | --an instant of crazy double vision...looking myself in the eye, Floyd | before my weakening eyes fluttered shut at last-- Floyd | Floyd | --the old head falling like an autumn leaf, the blade barely needed, Floyd | barely, barely-- Floyd | Floyd | --done all I could...the New Ones come-- Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Heads Floyd | A polished cave of the New Ones: silent tomb of living Deadfathers. Floyd | Uncountable pale heads on little ivory menhirs. Blood and ice...no, Floyd | glass...on the hard stone floor. A moon-hole above let in Floyd | fresh forest air, too. Floyd | Floyd | The nearest menhir was streaked with blood where the stranger had Floyd | fallen against it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x glass" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 17 Floyd | Floyd | > X GLASS Floyd | Floyd | A remnant of the shattered skylight: a long, curved shard of broken Floyd | glass, like a dagger. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "oh wow" | ||
| Binder says, "Nice perception shift" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x stranger" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 18 Floyd | Floyd | > X STRANGER Floyd | Floyd | I knew him... Floyd | Floyd | --looking myself in the eye-- Floyd | Floyd | ...no, the flicker of identification was gone. A stranger. Floyd | Floyd | The head's agony was fading as its vitality ebbed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 19 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I was carrying a long shard of broken glass and the stranger's head. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put stranger's head on menhir" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 20 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT STRANGER'S HEAD ON MENHIR Floyd | Floyd | I put the stranger's head on the nearest menhir. Floyd | Floyd | --slowly, the skin grew pale; the face relaxed. Now the stranger was Floyd | one of us. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "one of us, one of us" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x heads" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 21 Floyd | Floyd | > X HEADS Floyd | Floyd | Little ivory menhirs, like rows of tree stumps after a fire. Each with Floyd | its Deadfather's Head. So many...and all of them New Ones. Floyd | Floyd | All but me. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x king" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 22 Floyd | Floyd | > X KING Floyd | Floyd | The pale king's grim visage betokened the rule of might. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x witch" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 23 Floyd | Floyd | > X WITCH Floyd | Floyd | Oooo...! Floyd | Floyd | It was her! My Star Pupil, my little New One successor. Floyd | Floyd | She saved me...us...her crazy dream, she made it come true-- Floyd | Floyd | > | * phoenix has joined the channel. | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x stranger's head" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 24
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STRANGER'S HEAD
Floyd |
Floyd | The stranger's head was pale and still.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Johnny says (to Floyd), "noogie stranger" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 24 Floyd | Floyd | > NOOGIE STRANGER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x head of state" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 25 Floyd | Floyd | > X HEAD OF STATE Floyd | Floyd | A determined, stately countenance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 26 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | A second life! But wearing the body of a New One. No tail, no proper Floyd | hinds...at least I still had my own face, my own eyes and teeth and Floyd | mind! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "ugh. I suppose if we want to change heads again, we'll have to cut our own throat?" | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 27 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | One doorway leading out into...darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Well, from ape we could probably go witch." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x blood" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 28 Floyd | Floyd | > X BLOOD Floyd | Floyd | Blood dappled the floor, bright red in the white moonlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x skylight" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 29 Floyd | Floyd | > X SKYLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | Just overhead, the broken moon-hole smelled of freedom. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 30 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | I leaped for the moon-hole. In my own body it would have been easy; in Floyd | this new body it was too far above me. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "If this is really something we have to do." | ||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push save" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 30 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH SAVE Floyd | Floyd | I couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | |||
Floyd | %% File to save: Floyd | %% Save file: cf1 Floyd ] Hall of Heads 30 Floyd | Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We can try to leave, I guess" | ||
| Johnny says, "There is that door." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 31 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | The doorway...smelled of worse troubles. Better not. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell door" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 32 Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The dark doorway smelled of worse troubles. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Oh." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb menhir" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 33 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB MENHIR Floyd | Floyd | I got onto the nearest menhir. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 34 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | I leaped from the menhir toward the moon-hole. I touched the ceiling Floyd | easily...but much too far from the hole's rim. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 35 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Heads Floyd | A polished cave of the New Ones: silent tomb of living Deadfathers. Floyd | Uncountable pale heads on little ivory menhirs. Blood and ice...no, Floyd | glass...on the hard stone floor. A moon-hole above let in Floyd | fresh forest air, too. Floyd | Floyd | The nearest menhir was streaked with blood. Floyd | Floyd | On the nearest menhir was the stranger's head. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "push menhir" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 36 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH MENHIR Floyd | Floyd | I pushed the nearest menhir out of its row, into the moonlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "yay push" | ||
| DavidW says, "u" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 37 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | I leaped for the moon-hole. In my own body it would have been easy; in Floyd | this new body it was too far above me. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x menhir" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 38 Floyd | Floyd | > X MENHIR Floyd | Floyd | A little ivory menhir, streaked with blood. Floyd | Floyd | On the nearest menhir was the stranger's head. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push menhir" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 39 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH MENHIR Floyd | Floyd | I pushed the nearest menhir back where I had found it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 38 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Heads Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on menhir" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 39 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ON MENHIR Floyd | Floyd | I got onto the nearest menhir. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Forest 40 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | I leaped from my perch atop the blood-streaked menhir, easily caught Floyd | the moon-hole's rim and swung myself up and out. Floyd | Floyd | Forest Floyd | Dark shadows and bright moonlight; the little sounds and smells of Floyd | freedom. From the hole leading down I thought I heard all those Floyd | heads...the sleeping Deadfathers of my Longchildren... calling to me, Floyd | please don't leave-- Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||
Floyd ] Forest 41 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | I thought I could hear those myriad heads quietly singing to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | |||
Floyd ] Forest 42 Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | I smelled nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" | |||
Floyd ] Forest 42 Floyd | Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | I couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shadows" | |||
Floyd ] Forest 42 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHADOWS Floyd | Floyd | I couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x moon" | |||
Floyd ] Forest 42 Floyd | Floyd | > X MOON Floyd | Floyd | I couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Forest 42 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The forest called to me. I walked toward the dark trees... Floyd | Floyd | --but after all, what more could I give out there? I led our race Floyd | out of the darkness...isn't that the glow of city lights beyond the Floyd | trees? I've done enough. Floyd | Floyd | I returned to the hole, and after a long last look at the trees, I Floyd | climbed back down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Forest 42 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Forest Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Go back down?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Forest 42 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The forest called to me. I walked toward the dark trees... Floyd | Floyd | --but after all, what more could I give out there? I led our race Floyd | out of the darkness...isn't that the glow of city lights beyond the Floyd | trees? I've done enough. Floyd | Floyd | I returned to the hole, and after a long last look at the trees, I Floyd | climbed back down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I guess we need to restore." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | |||
Floyd | %% File to restore: Floyd | %% Restore file: cf1 Floyd ] Hall of Heads 30 Floyd | Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "remove head" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 31 Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE HEAD Floyd | Floyd | (the Ape's Head) Floyd | No. This body could not withstand another transfer so soon. Floyd | Floyd | Not for a year... Floyd | Floyd | ...at least.. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Well, that answers that." | ||
| DavidW asks, "hmm. Restart then?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Perhaps each head escapes a different way?" | |||
| Johnny says, "Well, I'm having a hard time picturing how much we haven't seen." | |||
| Johnny says, "Sure." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 31
Floyd |
Floyd | > RESTART
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart?
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | --and I stumbled backward, my throat deeply slashed, my life's blood Floyd | draining away as I fell into darkness-- Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Heads Floyd | An Interactive Crisis by Dan Efran with 'Becca Stallings Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120304 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Track 11 of Apollo 18+20: The IF Tribute Album Floyd | (New to Interactive Fiction? Try typing ABOUT.) Floyd | Floyd | --dark...and light...and...red... Floyd | Floyd | ...so red... Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere Floyd | Shattered glass on polished marble; a spray of my reddest blood in a Floyd | piercing shaft of moonlight. Beyond...I narrowed my eyes, straining to Floyd | penetrate the darkness-- Floyd | Floyd | ...busts...busted heads...heds on peds...headestals... Floyd | Floyd | Losing blood fast, I tried to make sense of-- Floyd | Floyd | --rows upon rows of pale, lifeless, life-like busts of stately heads Floyd | on fluted headestals, all different, yet oddly alike-- Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take king" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 2 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KING Floyd | Floyd | I moved to take the King's Head, but my legs gave way, and instead I Floyd | tumbled to the floor, my skull striking something quite unyielding on Floyd | the way down. My vision blurred and darkened-- Floyd | Floyd | ...for the last time? I wondered... Floyd | Floyd | --and then my senses slowly surged back, like a drowning ocean wave Floyd | receding. A dull thump...something hard and round had fallen into my Floyd | hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 3 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I was carrying an Ape's Head. Floyd | Floyd | > | TheXenographer asks, "Can we wear other heads?" | ||
| TheXenographer goes home. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put ape on headestal" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT APE ON HEADESTAL Floyd | Floyd | I put the head on a nearby column. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take king" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KING Floyd | Floyd | I tried to reach the King's Head, but I did not have the strength to Floyd | move from where I lay. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "The witch's head was sort of rejected." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take witch" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 6 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE WITCH Floyd | Floyd | I tried to reach the Witch's Head, but I did not have the strength to Floyd | move from where I lay. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hmm" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 7 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I was empty-handed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny asks, "What'd we do last time?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We tried to take the witch's head, fell down and had the ape instead." | |||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "wear king" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 8 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR KING Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the King's Head) Floyd | I tried to reach the King's Head, but I did not have the strength to Floyd | move from where I lay. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Searing pain, a red haze clouding my vision within and without: my Floyd | throat slashed, my head nearly severed, I clung to life by the fraying Floyd | cable of my will. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x busts" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 10 Floyd | Floyd | > X BUSTS Floyd | Floyd | The ranks of stately busts receded into the gloom in all directions. Floyd | Those on the headestals nearest me appeared to depict the March of Floyd | Progress: I had fallen against the headestal of a stern King. To the Floyd | left of the King's resting place, I saw a famous Prime Minister, Floyd | stately and opulent, and beyond her a modern Head of State...and to Floyd | the right, a scarred and tattooed Witch's head, and on the headestal Floyd | beyond that primitive wise woman...an ape, some antediluvian Floyd | chieftain. Floyd | Floyd | The oddest thing, in a gallery of historical busts...all their eyes Floyd | were closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| TheXenographer arrives, ready to play with the toys. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push king" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 11 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH KING Floyd | Floyd | That would have been less than courteous. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push king's headestal" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH KING'S HEADESTAL
Floyd |
Floyd | I couldn't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 12 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | I strained for the edge of the shattered skylight, but it was Floyd | hopelessly beyond my reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take king's head" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 13
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE KING'S HEAD
Floyd |
Floyd | I tried to reach the King's Head, but I did not have the strength to
Floyd | move from where I lay.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Johnny says (to Floyd), "exit" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 14 Floyd | Floyd | > EXIT Floyd | Floyd | I longed to escape this place, but my legs would not move me from Floyd | where I had fallen. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear my head" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 15 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR MY HEAD Floyd | Floyd | (my original head) Floyd | I was already wearing that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "doff head" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 15 Floyd | Floyd | > DOFF HEAD Floyd | Floyd | (my original head) Floyd | I put my hands to my throat. The cord holding my head to my body Floyd | seemed but a thread. Little enough blood and air could cross that Floyd | gulf...best to make a clean break-- Floyd | Floyd | Then I can put myself on a pedestal, I thought with frantic Floyd | amusment, and see about putting a tourniquet around my neck! Wait, Floyd | what am I forgetting-- Floyd | Floyd | --falling, tumbling-- Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** I had died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 15 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Heads Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x legs" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 15 Floyd | Floyd | > X LEGS Floyd | Floyd | I couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "roll" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 16 Floyd | Floyd | > ROLL Floyd | Floyd | (the long shard of broken glass) Floyd | Nothing obvious happened. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut ape" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 17 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT APE Floyd | Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut me" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 18 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT ME Floyd | Floyd | I had nothing to cut with. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take glass" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 19 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE GLASS Floyd | Floyd | I picked up the largest shard of glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut me" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 19 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT ME Floyd | Floyd | I put the shard of glass to my throat. The cord holding my head to my Floyd | body seemed but a thread. Little enough blood and air could cross that Floyd | gulf...best to make a clean break-- Floyd | Floyd | Then I can put myself on a pedestal, I thought with frantic Floyd | amusment, and see about putting a tourniquet around my neck! Wait, Floyd | what am I forgetting-- Floyd | Floyd | --falling, tumbling-- Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** I had died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 19 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Heads Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take ape" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 20 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE APE Floyd | Floyd | I tried to reach the Ape's Head, but I did not have the strength to Floyd | move from where I lay. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. once the ape's head is back, we can't get it either." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 20
Floyd |
Floyd | > RESTART
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart?
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | --and I stumbled backward, my throat deeply slashed, my life's blood Floyd | draining away as I fell into darkness-- Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Heads Floyd | An Interactive Crisis by Dan Efran with 'Becca Stallings Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120304 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Track 11 of Apollo 18+20: The IF Tribute Album Floyd | (New to Interactive Fiction? Try typing ABOUT.) Floyd | Floyd | --dark...and light...and...red... Floyd | Floyd | ...so red... Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere Floyd | Shattered glass on polished marble; a spray of my reddest blood in a Floyd | piercing shaft of moonlight. Beyond...I narrowed my eyes, straining to Floyd | penetrate the darkness-- Floyd | Floyd | ...busts...busted heads...heds on peds...headestals... Floyd | Floyd | Losing blood fast, I tried to make sense of-- Floyd | Floyd | --rows upon rows of pale, lifeless, life-like busts of stately heads Floyd | on fluted headestals, all different, yet oddly alike-- Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x ape" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 2 Floyd | Floyd | > X APE Floyd | Floyd | The animal's face was creased with the unmistakable lines of wisdom Floyd | and long duty: a sagacious sovereign from our race's distant, Floyd | forgotten ancestry. Floyd | Floyd | Softest stone I ever-- Floyd | Floyd | No. Floyd | Floyd | These heads were pale, but not stone. Not busts. True heads, real, Floyd | living heads, preserved in deathless stillness by some arcane Floyd | art. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push king's headestal" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 2
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH KING'S HEADESTAL
Floyd |
Floyd | I couldn't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to king" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 2 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO KING Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wake king" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 3 Floyd | Floyd | > WAKE KING Floyd | Floyd | That seemed unnecessary. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Searing pain, a red haze clouding my vision within and without: my Floyd | throat slashed, my head nearly severed, I clung to life by the fraying Floyd | cable of my will. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "push pedestal" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH PEDESTAL Floyd | Floyd | They were fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "take king" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 6 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KING Floyd | Floyd | I moved to take the King's Head, but my legs gave way, and instead I Floyd | tumbled to the floor, my skull striking something quite unyielding on Floyd | the way down. My vision blurred and darkened-- Floyd | Floyd | ...for the last time? I wondered... Floyd | Floyd | --and then my senses slowly surged back, like a drowning ocean wave Floyd | receding. A dull thump...something hard and round had fallen into my Floyd | hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 7 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I was carrying an Ape's Head. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "It forces your hand." | ||
| Johnny says, "Er, head." | |||
| DavidW says, "hm. Maybe we don't get any options." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "about" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 7 Floyd | Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | This game is Interactive Fiction: we take turns telling a story. I Floyd | tell you where you are and describe the situation a bit. Then, Floyd | at the >, you tell me what you (that is, the protagonist) did Floyd | next: a simple command like TAKE SHOVEL or GO NORTHEAST (NE, for Floyd | short). Floyd | Floyd | Several other commands are usually important: LOOK, EXAMINE something, Floyd | and TAKE INVENTORY - which you may abbreviate as l, x, Floyd | and i, respectively. Beyond those, experiment with any Floyd | plausible actions; I'll do my best to understand and comply. You may Floyd | even UNDO a command if you find it was a mistake. (And don't forget Floyd | CREDITS!) Floyd | Floyd | (See also [LINK] if you're just getting Floyd | started playing Interactive Fiction games.) Floyd | Floyd | This particular story is told in past tense prose, so I'd also accept Floyd | TOOK SHOVEL, WENT NORTHEAST, LOOKED, etc. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "credits" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 7 Floyd | Floyd | > CREDITS Floyd | Floyd | This game is track 11 of Apollo 18+20: The IF Tribute Album, a Floyd | collection of Interactive Fiction homages to Apollo 18, a Floyd | wonderfully energetic and surreal album by They Might Be Floyd | Giants. The tribute album project was devised and curated by Kevin Floyd | Jackson-Mead to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the album's release. Floyd | Floyd | This particular game, Hall of Heads, was written by Dan Floyd | Efran, with additional story by 'Becca Stallings. It is, of course, Floyd | inspired by the TMBG song of the same title. It is dedicated to They Floyd | Might Be Giants, in gratitude for their many excitingly weird songs. Floyd | Floyd | This game is implemented in Inform 7, and relies on several Inform Floyd | extensions: Floyd | Standard Rules version 2/090402 by Graham Nelson Floyd | Extended Banner version 5 by Stephen Granade Floyd | Custom Library Messages version 4/120212 by Ron Newcomb (with special Floyd | thanks to David Fisher) Floyd | Extended Grammar version 6/110706 by Aaron Reed Floyd | Past Tense Commands version 2 by Dan Efran Floyd | Pronouns version 4 by Ron Newcomb Floyd | Second Gender version 1 by Felix Larsson (based on original Inform 6 Floyd | code by Fredrik Ramsberg) Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Heads was beta-tested by Jack Welch, Melvin Rangasamy, Floyd | E. Joyce, Ruth, and Zarf. Floyd | Floyd | Comments and bug reports for Hall of Heads are welcome at Floyd | games@efran.org Floyd | Floyd | Enjoy! Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Gender: Ape" | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess Second Gender might let something be both a 'he' and an 'it'." | |||
| DavidW asks, "hm. Once we have an ape's head, can we *then* try to take another head?" | |||
| Johnny says, "Mebbe." | |||
| Johnny says, "I don't think we tried it." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm gonna take a quick bathroom break. Feel free to experiment." | |||
| Johnny says, "I'd be surprised." | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x ape" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X APE Floyd | Floyd | The animal's face was creased with the unmistakable lines of wisdom Floyd | and long duty: a sagacious sovereign from our race's distant, Floyd | forgotten ancestry. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "wear ape" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 9 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR APE Floyd | Floyd | I put on the Ape's Head. Floyd | Floyd | Somehow it seemed the right -- the only -- thing to do. I raised the Floyd | pale head to my throat, nestled it in the gaping wound beside my own. Floyd | At once I felt it seizing my flesh, drinking in my blood-- Floyd | Floyd | --I saw the eyes snap open-- Floyd | Floyd | --an instant of crazy double vision...looking myself in the eye, Floyd | before my weakening eyes fluttered shut at last-- Floyd | Floyd | --the old head falling like an autumn leaf, the blade barely needed, Floyd | barely, barely-- Floyd | Floyd | --done all I could...the New Ones come-- Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Heads Floyd | A polished cave of the New Ones: silent tomb of living Deadfathers. Floyd | Uncountable pale heads on little ivory menhirs. Blood and ice...no, Floyd | glass...on the hard stone floor. A moon-hole above let in Floyd | fresh forest air, too. Floyd | Floyd | The nearest menhir was streaked with blood where the stranger had Floyd | fallen against it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x witch" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 10 Floyd | Floyd | > X WITCH Floyd | Floyd | Oooo...! Floyd | Floyd | It was her! My Star Pupil, my little New One successor. Floyd | Floyd | She saved me...us...her crazy dream, she made it come true-- Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "take witch" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 11 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE WITCH Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 12 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I was carrying a long shard of broken glass and a Witch's Head and the Floyd | stranger's head. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Anyone else feel free to jump in." | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x stranger's head" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 13 Floyd | Floyd | > X STRANGER'S HEAD Floyd | Floyd | I knew him... Floyd | Floyd | --looking myself in the eye-- Floyd | Floyd | ...no, the flicker of identification was gone. A stranger. Floyd | Floyd | The head's agony was fading as its vitality ebbed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x witch's head" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 14
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WITCH'S HEAD
Floyd |
Floyd | It's Star Pupil, my little New One successor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Johnny says (to Floyd), "take king" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 15 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KING Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ASchultz says, "attack witch" | ||
| ASchultz says, "sorry, been a while :/" | |||
| ASchultz says (to Floyd), "attack witch" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 16 Floyd | Floyd | > ATTACK WITCH Floyd | Floyd | Never! Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Floyd told you." | ||
| ASchultz says (to Floyd), "attack king" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 17 Floyd | Floyd | > ATTACK KING Floyd | Floyd | Violence wasn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "take heads" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 18 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE HEADS Floyd | Floyd | They were hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "wear witch's head" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 19 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR WITCH'S HEAD Floyd | Floyd | No. This body could not withstand another transfer so soon. Floyd | Floyd | Not for a year... Floyd | Floyd | ...at least.. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||
Floyd | %% File to save: Floyd | %% Save file: cf2 Floyd ] Hall of Heads 19 Floyd | Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "I, uh, want to try escaping with all of the heads." | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "take prime minister" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 20 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PRIME MINISTER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "take head of state" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 21 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE HEAD OF STATE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "back" | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "push menhir" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 22 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH MENHIR Floyd | Floyd | I pushed the nearest menhir out of its row, into the moonlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ASchultz says, "Sounds like a cool plan to me" | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "climb menhir" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 23 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB MENHIR Floyd | Floyd | I got onto the nearest menhir. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "yeah, they didn't want to be left behind, did they?" | ||
| Johnny says, "Nope." | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Forest 24 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | I leaped from my perch atop the blood-streaked menhir, easily caught Floyd | the moon-hole's rim and swung myself up and out. Floyd | Floyd | Forest Floyd | Dark shadows and bright moonlight; the little sounds and smells of Floyd | freedom. From the hole leading down I thought I heard all those Floyd | heads...the sleeping Deadfathers of my Longchildren... calling to me, Floyd | please don't leave-- Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny asks, "What?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Forest 25 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I was carrying a long shard of broken glass and a Head of State's Floyd | Head, a Prime Minister's Head, a King's Head, a Witch's Head, and the Floyd | stranger's head. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "I thought that was all the heads." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm guessing the author didn't think of anyone trying this, nor did the testers." | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Forest 26 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Forest Floyd | Dark shadows and bright moonlight; the little sounds and smells of Floyd | freedom. From the hole leading down I thought I heard all those Floyd | heads...the sleeping Deadfathers of my Longchildren... calling to me, Floyd | please don't leave-- Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Or maybe there's more heads than the one's mentioned." | ||
| DavidW says, "er ones" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Forest 25 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Forest Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Forest 24 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Forest Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 23 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Heads Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 24 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Heads (on the nearest menhir) Floyd | A polished cave of the New Ones: silent tomb of living Deadfathers. Floyd | Uncountable pale heads on little ivory menhirs. Blood and ice...no, Floyd | glass...on the hard stone floor. A moon-hole above let in Floyd | fresh forest air, too. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x heads" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 25 Floyd | Floyd | > X HEADS Floyd | Floyd | Little ivory menhirs, like rows of tree stumps after a fire. Each with Floyd | its Deadfather's Head. So many...and all of them New Ones. Floyd | Floyd | All but me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah, 'uncountable' pale heads." | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "take all" | |||
Floyd ] Hall of Heads 25 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | There are none at all available. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| TheXenographer goes home. | DavidW says, "So, there's more than just the five or so of 'em." | ||
| Johnny says, "d'oh" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Forest 26 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | I leaped from my perch atop the blood-streaked menhir, easily caught Floyd | the moon-hole's rim and swung myself up and out. Floyd | Floyd | Forest Floyd | Dark shadows and bright moonlight; the little sounds and smells of Floyd | freedom. From the hole leading down I thought I heard all those Floyd | heads...the sleeping Deadfathers of my Longchildren... calling to me, Floyd | please don't leave-- Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Forest 26 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | The forest called to me. I walked toward the dark trees... Floyd | Floyd | --but after all, what more could I give out there? I led our race Floyd | out of the darkness...isn't that the glow of city lights beyond the Floyd | trees? I've done enough. Floyd | Floyd | I returned to the hole, and after a long last look at the trees, I Floyd | climbed back down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Yeah, I think that's all." | ||
| DavidW says, "okay." | |||
| Johnny 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?" | DavidW says, "The next is 'Which Describes How You're Feeling' by Adam Parrish." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask a18whichdescribes" | |||
Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0 | |||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask a18whichdescribes" | |||
Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0 | |||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load a18whichdescribes" | |||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Glulxe fatal error: This Blorb file contains an executable chunk, but Floyd | it is not a Glulx file. | |||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Johnny says, "whoop" | ||
| DavidW says, "hm. I guess we can't play that one. Either it really isn't a Glulx game, or the file upload was in error." | |||
| ASchultz says, "Well, it contains some interesting glulx features that might clash with Floyd" | |||
| DavidW says, "lessee, 'See the Constellation' by Ed Blair is the next after that." | |||
| Johnny asks, "Are we sure about that file name?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask a18seetheconstellation" | |||
Floyd ] Train Yard 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Vega was unusually bright tonight, and you followed it all the way to Floyd | the trainyard. Hopped the fence, and now you're standing in front of Floyd | an open boxcar headed... somewhere. The city hasn't been the same Floyd | since they left. Not a hurried exodus. More like a gradual diaspora, Floyd | in a traditional sense. Graduate programs, marriages, new jobs, and Floyd | all of a sudden, you're on your own. Floyd | Floyd | see the constellation Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by ed blair Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120323 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Train Yard Floyd | The train yard is lit exclusively by shrill halogen lights. Floyd | The freight train in front of you is carrying grain and Floyd | departing at 2100. The afore-mentioned boxcar is a dusty blue, with Floyd | some scrawled graffiti along the bottom. From the limited view Floyd | afforded by the open door, the boxcar appears to be empty. Floyd | Your sense of direction is a little shaky right now, but if you had to Floyd | guess, the boxcar would be north of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Johnny), "well, hard to see what else a18whichdescribes would be." | ||
| phoenix asks, "What's with the italics?" | |||
| DavidW says, "We can let Jacqueline doublecheck." | |||
| DavidW says (to phoenix), "That's for the transcript." | |||
| DavidW says, "Also it lets us know when italics are in the game." | |||
| phoenix says, "I mean, why does this game feel it needs to italicize those words" | |||
| DavidW says, "I guess they got a shoutout so we know they're first-level nouns. Stuff we can name in our commands." | |||
| ASchultz says, "It's to emphasize that the words are implemented--I think Ed used Aaron Reed's one interface extension, and it's clickable in Gargoyle" | |||
| Johnny says, "Hm. The game's folder has a ZIP file with the 'release with interpreter' junk in it." | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x graffiti:nods" | |||
Floyd ] Train Yard 2
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GRAFFITI:NODS
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone has scrawled R.I.P. WARREN in white paint on the boxcar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x boxcar" | |||
Floyd ] Train Yard 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOXCAR Floyd | Floyd | Journey! Adventure! An escape. The boxcar's open door beckons. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] Train Yard 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Haggard might be the most charitable way of describing your face right Floyd | now. Sleep hasn't been easy this past month. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lights" | |||
Floyd ] Train Yard 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X LIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | Staring into the train-yard lights is not advised. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x graffiti" | |||
Floyd ] Train Yard 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X GRAFFITI Floyd | Floyd | Someone has scrawled R.I.P. WARREN in white paint on the boxcar. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x train" | |||
Floyd ] Train Yard 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X TRAIN Floyd | Floyd | The train stretches on forever, but the only thing you're really Floyd | interested in is the boxcar straight ahead. Sometimes motion is the Floyd | only thing that keeps us alive, right? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Riding the Rails 8 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Boxcar Interior Floyd | The inside of the boxcar is dusty and empty. Spacious. Perfect for a Floyd | jaunt. Floyd | Floyd | The boxcar shudders into motion, and you watch your city shrink in Floyd | size through the open doors. Floyd | Floyd | Riding the Rails Floyd | The boxcar hums with motion, swaying gently from side to side. The Floyd | moon and the stars shine with an almost unnatural Floyd | brilliance, filling your conveyance with soft blue light. You haven't Floyd | seen this many stars in a very long time. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "moon" | |||
Floyd ] Riding the Rails 9 Floyd | Floyd | > MOON Floyd | Floyd | There's a theory that aberrant behavior increases during the full Floyd | moon. With the strange light filling the boxcar, it's almost Floyd | believable. You've also just hopped a train with no real plan. Floyd | Things to consider. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Keywords." | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "stars" | |||
Floyd ] Riding the Rails 10 Floyd | Floyd | > STARS Floyd | Floyd | Living in Chicago means that the only lights you see in the sky are Floyd | from planes or the moon, with sometimes a small smattering of stars or Floyd | satellites. Out here in the in-between, you notice constellations you Floyd | haven't seen since childhood. Leo, Hercules, and Floyd | Lyra are all visible. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "see the constellation" | |||
Floyd ] Riding the Rails 10 Floyd | Floyd | > SEE THE CONSTELLATION Floyd | Floyd | That's neither a verb I recognise nor a keyword you can use right Floyd | now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "leo" | |||
Floyd ] Riding the Rails 11 Floyd | Floyd | > LEO Floyd | Floyd | The Nemean Lion. Hercules strangled this guy to death to redeem Floyd | himself in the eyes of the gods. It's always more difficult being the Floyd | one left behind. Trying to clean up the empty space, constantly being Floyd | reminded of ghosts. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh, so we don't even need 'x' in the command?" | ||
| Johnny says, "Nope." | |||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "hercules" | |||
Floyd ] Riding the Rails 12 Floyd | Floyd | > HERCULES Floyd | Floyd | One of the most famous murderers of all time is remembered as a hero. Floyd | All before the time of publicists. The gods made me do it doesn't fly Floyd | nearly as well these days. Unless you're campaigning to be president. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lyra" | |||
Floyd ] Riding the Rails 13 Floyd | Floyd | > LYRA Floyd | Floyd | Orpheus. Couldn't take the pain of being abandoned, so he fought his Floyd | way to the side of his love. Traversed the world beyond, and still Floyd | ended up alone. Maybe his example isn't the best one to follow. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stars" | |||
Floyd ] Moving Right Along 14 Floyd | Floyd | > STARS Floyd | Floyd | Living in Chicago means that the only lights you see in the sky are Floyd | from planes or the moon, with sometimes a small smattering of stars or Floyd | satellites. Out here in the in-between, you notice constellations you Floyd | haven't seen since childhood. Leo, Hercules, and Floyd | Lyra are all visible. Floyd | Floyd | The train rushes along, and clouds begin rolling in. They cover the Floyd | moon, and stars, and a sprinkle of rain begins to fall. Luckily, not Floyd | much of it makes it through the boxcar's open doors. You settle down Floyd | for the rest of your journey, and close your eyes. Sleep comes Floyd | quickly. Floyd | Floyd | Moving Right Along Floyd | You wake from your nap suddenly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Moving Right Along 15 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Moving Right Along Floyd | It's still night, but you seemed to have passed through the storm. Floyd | The wind is surprisingly gentle for the fast pace the engineer seems Floyd | to be setting. You glance at the sky, and... everything seems Floyd | different. The constellations you were observing are gone, replaced Floyd | by unfamiliar stars. Shapes you've only read about, but never seen in Floyd | person. The constellations you recognize are Carina, Floyd | Pegasus, and Aquarius. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| TheXenographer arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW says, "I'm guessing these constellations will offer a new philosophy of life to follow." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "carina" | |||
Floyd ] Moving Right Along 16 Floyd | Floyd | > CARINA Floyd | Floyd | Carina is the keel of the Argo, formally part of the largest Floyd | constellation in the night sky. They broke it apart in 1752. Now Floyd | the hull, the sails, and the decking are separate star structures, Floyd | adrift in space. Can something like that ever really be repaired, or Floyd | is some distance untraversable? Maybe hopping the next train back to Floyd | Chicago is your best bet. Concentrate on making a home. Floyd | Banish your ghosts. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "formally? Or formerly?" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "pegasus" | |||
Floyd ] Moving Right Along 17 Floyd | Floyd | > PEGASUS Floyd | Floyd | You haven't felt this alive in a long time. The train flies along Floyd | into the night, and you could go anywhere from here. Create an Floyd | entirely new existence, free from the weight of history. Floyd | Escape the same way your friends did. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't know." | ||
| Binder says, "I suppose either is plausible there." | |||
| DavidW says, "I hope Aquarius doesn't suggest backspace or shift." | |||
| Binder says, "*rimshot*" | |||
| phoenix says, "well, "home" sounds like a quick game over" | |||
| Binder asks, "Don't all of these constellations suggest Space, though?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think escape is also an ending move." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "aquarius" | |||
Floyd ] Moving Right Along 18 Floyd | Floyd | > AQUARIUS Floyd | Floyd | Truism: Life is like a river. Actuality: Life isn't like anything Floyd | else. You should probably make a decision here. Either hop the next Floyd | train back to Chicago, and work to persevere, to create a place worth Floyd | moving back to, a place worth living in, or take a gamble. Keep Floyd | traveling, create a new life, re-invent your history. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah. So our choices are home or escape." | ||
| ASchultz says, "Good idea Binder--I didn't try that when I played." | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "cf3" | |||
Floyd | %% File to save: Floyd | %% Save file: cf3 Floyd ] Moving Right Along 18 Floyd | Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x space" | |||
Floyd ] Moving Right Along 18 Floyd | Floyd | > X SPACE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tab" | |||
Floyd ] Moving Right Along 18 Floyd | Floyd | > TAB Floyd | Floyd | That's neither a verb I recognise nor a keyword you can use right Floyd | now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "aww" | ||
| ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x boxcar" | |||
Floyd ] Moving Right Along 19 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOXCAR Floyd | Floyd | Empty and dusty. Not very homey, but perfect for your purposes right Floyd | now. The wood is worn smooth from years of heavy use. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "let's just live here, in the boxcar" | ||
| DavidW says, "That's escape by default, I'd think." | |||
| phoenix says, "or we could wait and see if the train ends up anywhere. I suppose that is escape" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, we can do home, undo, escape." | |||
| Johnny says, "There's a save game..." | |||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "escape" | |||
Floyd ] Moving Right Along 19 Floyd | Floyd | > ESCAPE Floyd | Floyd | Here's to not waiting around for things to get better. The idea of a Floyd | future on the rails, an open and expansive life, filled with adventure Floyd | and hardship. Romanticization sometimes gets you on a train to Floyd | Milwaukee, apparently. Milwaukee and beyond. This is something Floyd | you've always dreamed of doing, and now is the perfect chance. You'll Floyd | send everyone postcards, and have incredible stories to tell at Floyd | weddings, or reunions. You will get sun-burned, and hungry, and carry Floyd | everything you own. It is a good thing you are wearing your sturdiest Floyd | shoes. Here's to the open road, and all the chances in the world. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Which I guess is overkill when you have undo." | ||
| Binder says, "overkill is the best kill" | |||
| DavidW asks, "So, someone do the honours and show us the 'home' option?" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Moving Right Along 19 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Moving Right Along Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "home" | |||
Floyd ] Moving Right Along 19 Floyd | Floyd | > HOME Floyd | Floyd | It's decided. You'll hop the next train back, and turn your city into Floyd | a home. Make new friends, write to your old ones, craft something Floyd | impressive. Sometimes you need to get away to remember what you Floyd | really miss. Streets and the scars that come along with them. Things Floyd | you've built, the home you'll earn. It's important to leave, if only Floyd | for a little bit, just so you can remember everything you're leaving Floyd | behind, everything you miss. The record store clerk that knows your Floyd | name, the bit of pavement on Fullerton that provides a smooth path on Floyd | your way to work, sugar-cane based soda from the corner store. The Floyd | little bits of Chicago that draw your smile across your whole face, Floyd | the bits that are solely and entirely yours. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ASchultz asks, "I never tried waiting a lot instead of the 2 main options...anyone mind?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Go ahead." | |||
| Johnny says, "I'm getting something to drink." | |||
| ASchultz says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Moving Right Along 19 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Moving Right Along Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| ASchultz says (to Floyd), "z.z.z.z.z.z.z" | |||
Floyd ] Moving Right Along 26
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z.Z.Z.Z.Z.Z.Z
Floyd |
Floyd | You didn't hop a train in the middle of the night to sit like a lump.
Floyd | Perhaps it's time to see the constellations.
Floyd |
Floyd | You didn't hop a train in the middle of the night to sit like a lump.
Floyd | Perhaps it's time to see the constellations.
Floyd |
Floyd | You didn't hop a train in the middle of the night to sit like a lump.
Floyd | Perhaps it's time to see the constellations.
Floyd |
Floyd | You didn't hop a train in the middle of the night to sit like a lump.
Floyd | Perhaps it's time to see the constellations.
Floyd |
Floyd | You didn't hop a train in the middle of the night to sit like a lump.
Floyd | Perhaps it's time to see the constellations.
Floyd |
Floyd | You didn't hop a train in the middle of the night to sit like a lump.
Floyd | Perhaps it's time to see the constellations.
Floyd |
Floyd | You didn't hop a train in the middle of the night to sit like a lump.
Floyd | Perhaps it's time to see the constellations.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| phoenix says, "Not much of a game." | ||
| ASchultz says, "Well, these were meant to be solved pretty quickly, hopefully" | |||
| Binder says, "SimExistentialism" | |||
| ASchultz says, "Not take too much time from the other 37 :)" | |||
| Binder says, "I enjoyed the rhapsodic prose about the constellations" | |||
| ASchultz says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Moving Right Along 27 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Moving Right Along Floyd | It's still night, but you seemed to have passed through the storm. Floyd | The wind is surprisingly gentle for the fast pace the engineer seems Floyd | to be setting. You glance at the sky, and... everything seems Floyd | different. The constellations you were observing are gone, replaced Floyd | by unfamiliar stars. Shapes you've only read about, but never seen in Floyd | person. The constellations you recognize are Carina, Floyd | Pegasus, and Aquarius. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x sky" | |||
Floyd ] Moving Right Along 27 Floyd | Floyd | > X SKY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Believe it or not, we're at the two hour mark. Do we want to stop here or continue with the next game?" | ||
| ASchultz says, "This is tricky. The next one is pretty short, but the author himself might be in next week." | |||
| Binder votes stop, then | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm okay either way." | |||
| Binder says, "Though maybe I'll just vote absent, so if you want to carry on, that's fine, too." | |||
| Binder has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ASchultz says, "If people want to play through a couple fingertips, that might be an option" | ||
| ASchultz says, "But I think we got through a lot--maybe we can see later why Adam Parrish's game didn't work, too" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, I don't think we should jump out of order too much." | |||
| ASchultz says, "Good point--this looks like a good place to stop, then." | |||
| DavidW says, "If we stop here, we can all privately try Dinner Bell's commentary mode." | |||
| Johnny says, "Race you to the lounge!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | |||
Floyd ] Moving Right Along 27
Floyd |
Floyd | > QUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0 | |||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | |||
