  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
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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ClubFloyd Transcript:
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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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says, "IF Whispers 5 it is, clear winner." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "One moment" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I shall upload it." | ||
| DavidW says, "woot" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask ifwhispers5" | ||
| TheXenographer arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You have been travelling for weeks. Your supplies are running low. You Floyd | had nearly lost all hope -- and then you found the first sign of Floyd | humanity you've seen in days. Floyd | Floyd | IF Whispers 5 Floyd | An Interactive Collaboration by The IF Whispers Team Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120310 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Type "about" for more information on this project. Floyd | Floyd | White Out Floyd | Your tracks lead through the snow back into the distance. Everywhere Floyd | else is blank and undefined; the sky and the ground are one solid, Floyd | flat plane ahead of you. Floyd | Floyd | Something silver is sticking out of the snow. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hi, TheX" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | IF Whispers 5 is a collaborative "Chinese Whispers" / "Telephone" Floyd | style work of interactive fiction. Each section besides the first was Floyd | written by an author who saw only the immediately preceding part. Floyd | However, authorship continued around in a cycle, giving each person a Floyd | chance to write a second time, using their prior knowledge of what Floyd | they and the preceding author wrote to hopefully make the final Floyd | product more cohesive as a whole. Floyd | Floyd | To see the author and subtitle of the current section, type "author". Floyd | You can find the website for this project at Floyd | [LINK] if you'd like to view the Floyd | source code or find more information about the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Have fun. I'll drop in now and then, but I'm going to use this time to eat breakfast, then try to get back on ClubFloyd housekeeping." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x silver" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > X SILVER Floyd | Floyd | A strange thin silver device, smaller than the palm of your hand. Floyd | There is a small depression on one end. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | Something inside rattles as you pick up the strange device. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > X DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | A strange thin silver device, smaller than the palm of your hand. Floyd | There is a small depression on one end. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look in depression" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN DEPRESSION Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake it" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the depression) Floyd | That seems to be a part of the strange device. Floyd | You need to be holding the depression first. Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't holding that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shake device" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | As you start to move the device around, a red light on one end starts Floyd | to flash. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake device" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | With a bit of experimentation, you find that the device blinks fastest Floyd | when it's pointed towards the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "put finger in depression" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > PUT FINGER IN DEPRESSION Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point device west" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > POINT DEVICE WEST Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push depression" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH DEPRESSION Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave device" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > WAVE DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | The device blinks fastest when pointing west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "west" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > WEST Floyd | Floyd | Holding the strange device out in front of you, you trudge ahead for a Floyd | few minutes, until the rate of blinking slows down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "author" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > AUTHOR Floyd | Floyd | Scene 1, "Southern Exposure", was written by Chris Conley. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave device" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > WAVE DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | The device blinks fastest when pointing southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Holding the strange device out in front of you, you trudge ahead for a Floyd | few minutes, until the rate of blinking slows down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave device" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > WAVE DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | The device blinks fastest when pointing west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Holding the strange device out in front of you, you trudge ahead for a Floyd | few minutes, until the rate of blinking slows down. Floyd | Floyd | The device begins vibrating in your hand, as you nearly trip over Floyd | something buried in the snow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd ] White Out score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to dig? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "snow" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Antarctic Research Center score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: down Floyd | Floyd | > SNOW Floyd | Floyd | You don't have anything extremely well-suited to digging, but the snow Floyd | is fortunately dry and lightly packed. Using a bowl from your Floyd | supplies, progress is fairly quick. Within half an hour, you are... Floyd | Floyd | Before the Antarctic Research Center Floyd | The only real landmark of any note here is the research center. At Floyd | last, you have found the site you were searching for. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix asks, "so what was buried in the snow?" | |
| DavidW says, "The center, i think." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Antarctic Research Center score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: down Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a strange device Floyd | an arctic gear (being worn) Floyd | a giant backpack (being worn, and closed) Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "The device." | |
| Johnny asks, "Buried in the snow at the beginning or what we done dug out?" | ||
| phoenix says, "hmm, no David is right, I think" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x center" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Antarctic Research Center score: 0 Floyd ] Exits: down Floyd | Floyd | > X CENTER Floyd | Floyd | Barely anything more than a metal shack with a solid door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 1 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the research center shack) Floyd | After some effort, the door to the research center pops open. You are Floyd | greeted by a blast of stale-but surprisingly not cold-air. Stairs lead Floyd | downward, and you descend... Floyd | Floyd | Airlock Floyd | Your steady search for the research center has not been in vain! The Floyd | airlock is a cool dank chamber, with metal walls, floor, and ceiling. Floyd | The fresh snow that blew in with you melts slowly on the stairs that Floyd | lead up to the outer door that gapes open above. To the north is the Floyd | inner door that presumably leads into the research center proper. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "The device was the shiny at the beginning, the research building is what you unea... unsnow." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close outer door" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 1 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE OUTER DOOR Floyd | Floyd | With a satisfying slam, you shut the outer door and a stale warmth Floyd | fills the airlock. Floyd | Floyd | Now the whistling of the outside wind is no longer a distraction, you Floyd | take a greater stock of your surroundings and note with mounting Floyd | unease a red smear on the floor leading towards the inner door. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "nice. We did something sensible and the game anticipated it" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x smear" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 1 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > X SMEAR Floyd | Floyd | A dried red-brown smear leads in under the inner door. The sight Floyd | brings back your fears about the research center's long radio silence. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "Must be tomato ketchup" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell smear" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 1 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL SMEAR Floyd | Floyd | You lean right in and inhale deeply. The smear has a sharp iron tang Floyd | to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "taste smear" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 1 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > TASTE SMEAR Floyd | Floyd | The smear has a sharp iron tang to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open backpack" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 1 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BACKPACK Floyd | Floyd | You open the giant backpack, revealing some survival supplies and a Floyd | collapsible tent. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny asks, "Do tomatoes have a lot of iron?" | |
| DavidW says, "Blood does." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x inner door" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 1 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > X INNER DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The inner door is narrow, closed and it squats in the northernmost Floyd | wall of the airlock. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "it could be *contaminated* tomato ketchup" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x supplies" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 1 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > X SUPPLIES Floyd | Floyd | MREs, granola bars, a small propane stove and a bowl for making soup Floyd | with melted snow. Nothing glamorous, and there's almost nothing left. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to DavidW), "x stove" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x stove" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 1 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > X STOVE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I see not many options except to open the inner door." | |
| borowski says, "Heh, sorry, the coffee is still brewing." | ||
| TheXenographer says, "Yeah, let's go further in." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open inner door" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 1 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN INNER DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The door is quite fiddly and you won't be able to open it while Floyd | wearing all these layers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "remove gear" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 1 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE GEAR Floyd | Floyd | You remove your arctic gear, leaving you holding the sodden garments. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gear" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 1 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > X GEAR Floyd | Floyd | The arctic gear lies in a damp creased pile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop gear" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 1 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > DROP GEAR Floyd | Floyd | The arctic gear drops with a resounding squelch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 1 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You are weary from the harsh trek through the snowy wastes, but you Floyd | know you've certainly looked worse. You are currently decked out in a Floyd | hooded jacket combo and a giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | DavidW says, "hm, bug there, I assume." | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 1 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open inner door" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 1 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN INNER DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open the inner door and are greeted by a warm waft of stale air. Floyd | Floyd | A slow dripping alerts you to the fact that the snow on the stairs has Floyd | now melted completely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You step out of the airlock and into a dim, narrow corridor. As you Floyd | pass the threshold, the strange device that you'd picked up from the Floyd | snow beeps shrilly before going silent. Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Corridor Floyd | Claustrophobia gropes at your mind with feral claws in this corridor. Floyd | It leads northeast and west from here. The functional, bolted metal of Floyd | the walls continues from the airlock. It's warm in here, far too warm. Floyd | The bloody trail leads to the west. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave device" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > WAVE DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | As you start to move the device around, a red light on one end starts Floyd | to flash. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x red light" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > X RED LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | A tiny hole on the top of one of the broad sides of the device, Floyd | currently blinking red. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x trail" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > X TRAIL Floyd | Floyd | The trail becomes more of a splatter as it moves continues west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close inner door" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE INNER DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You close the inner door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Follow the trail or go nw instead?" | |
| DavidW clears the save counter. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "we've been in character so why not follow it for now" | |
| borowski says, "Yeah, save sounds like a good idea." | ||
| DavidW says, "okay" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You step into the supply room and grow pale. You know the form Floyd | sprawled on the floor, that twisted thing that once was Kira Argmanov. Floyd | Steadying yourself on the doorframe for a second, trying to blink the Floyd | tears away. You take a deep breath, breathing in the smell of her Floyd | death, and stop. Your love, dead in Antarctica. Floyd | Floyd | Then something rumbles in the locker, and at the same time the strange Floyd | device beeps once again. Floyd | Floyd | Supply Room Floyd | This room has been thoroughly and methodically searched. Boxes stand Floyd | open, racks are emptied, balls of plastic wrapping lie on the floor. Floyd | There is a single locker in the corner. Floyd | Floyd | The corpse of the woman you love lies here, exposed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x corpse" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > X CORPSE Floyd | Floyd | You can't bear to look at her too long. Looks like someone or Floyd | something attacked her from behind and cracked her open. You notice a Floyd | birthmark on her shoulder you used to kiss a thousand miles from here, Floyd | and somehow that's the worst. There's a bile taste in your mouth, and Floyd | you can't look anymore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search corpse" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH CORPSE Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I can't bear to look, but I can still search." | |
| TheXenographer exclaims, "well, our dead girlfriend might have been carrying some sweet loot!" | ||
| TheXenographer says, "we can't just let her corpse go unsearched." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "kiss corpse" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > KISS CORPSE Floyd | Floyd | You can't bring yourself to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x locker" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > X LOCKER Floyd | Floyd | It's a functional metal locker. It doesn't have a lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "open locker" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN LOCKER Floyd | Floyd | You carefully open the locker, prepared for everything - then Floyd | something jumps out at you! You screech and cover your face - warm, Floyd | prickly fur on your face, hitting the ground as you stumble backwards. Floyd | As you regain your senses, something small flees into the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open locker" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN LOCKER Floyd | Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "not much of a locker if it doesn't have a lock is it" | |
| DavidW asks, "oh, now, why did you people open the locker?" | ||
| phoenix exclaims, "it was clearly suspicious!" | ||
| DavidW says, "Clearly dangerous!" | ||
| TheXenographer says, "oh, come on, it was probably just a cat or something" | ||
| DavidW says, "There might be an armory elsewhere in here. I would've liked the option to be armed." | ||
| borowski) DavidW says, "Now I'll never find my cat." | ||
| phoenix says, "who says it's a cat? Maybe it's a rat" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose the device is a warmth or life detector." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "wave device" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > WAVE DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | The device blinks fastest when pointing southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "search locker" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH LOCKER Floyd | Floyd | In the locker is a blanket. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Sorry, I got distracted by offline people. What does the device do?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x blanket" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > X BLANKET Floyd | Floyd | It's an olive emergency blanket, made of olive PET, meant to preserve Floyd | heat in wounded personnel. Floyd | Floyd | You sneeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear blanket" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR BLANKET Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the blanket) Floyd | You can't wear that! Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Lies." | |
| genericgeekgirl asks, "How can we avenge our beloved without a cape?" | ||
| phoenix says, "it led us here. Its now pointing us in a direction we can't go" | ||
| borowski says, "heh" | ||
| borowski says, "I wonder where 'outside' leads." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Same way east does, I assume." | |
| borowski says, "Ah." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look outside" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK OUTSIDE Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "search boxes" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH BOXES Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And just 'cause the device points SW doesn't mean something can't be that way if we walk around the rest of the base." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat corpse" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > EAT CORPSE Floyd | Floyd | (first taking Kira Argmanov) Floyd | You'd get her blood on you, and ... things ... might slip. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, ",,ggg ew" | |
| TheXenographer says, "oh, she has a name" | ||
| phoenix says, "i guess we shoudl check out the rest of the base then" | ||
| DavidW says, "Let's give genericzombiegirl to the mutant rats first." | ||
| DavidW says, "Before we sneeze to death, yes." | ||
| DavidW says, "That cat or rat probably started an illness timer." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x racks" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > X RACKS Floyd | Floyd | Empty metal racks. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "But no, you guys had to open the locker first." | |
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Where's your sense of adventure?" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x plastic" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > X PLASTIC Floyd | Floyd | These are just bits of plastic, utterly useless. Floyd | Floyd | You're starting to feel extremely warm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat plastic" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > EAT PLASTIC Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the balls of plastic wrapping) Floyd | They're hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "LOL" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a blanket Floyd | a hooded jacket combo (being worn) Floyd | a strange device Floyd | a giant backpack (being worn, and open) Floyd | some survival supplies (running low) Floyd | a collapsible tent (closed) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "remove jacket" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE JACKET Floyd | Floyd | You remove your hooded jacket combo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x supplies" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > X SUPPLIES Floyd | Floyd | MREs, granola bars, a small propane stove and a bowl for making soup Floyd | with melted snow. Nothing glamorous, and there's almost nothing left. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search jacket" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH JACKET Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a blanket Floyd | a hooded jacket combo Floyd | a strange device Floyd | a giant backpack (being worn, and open) Floyd | some survival supplies (running low) Floyd | a collapsible tent (closed) Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "oh, theres no more clothing layers to remove" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open tent" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN TENT Floyd | Floyd | Now that you've reached the base, you no longer have any need for Floyd | shelter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Corridor Floyd | Claustrophobia gropes at your mind with feral claws in this corridor. Floyd | It leads northeast and west from here. The functional, bolted metal of Floyd | the walls continues from the airlock. It's warm in here, far too warm. Floyd | The bloody trail leads to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The cat is here. She stares at you warily with yellow eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I'd rather not run around nude with a crazed cat on the loose." | |
| TheXenographer says, "ha, I told yo" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pet cat" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > PET CAT Floyd | Floyd | Youch! The cat is hot to the touch. Floyd | Floyd | The cat sees you, and quickly runs off to the Supply Room. Floyd | Floyd | > | TheXenographer says, "*you" | |
| DavidW says, "ah. So it was a cat. Probably still infected us." | ||
| phoenix says, "bloody cats" | ||
| phoenix asks, "wait, why is the cat hot?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Can't trust them. Being all cute and stuff." | ||
| genericgeekgirl bats her eyelashes. | ||
| DavidW says, "nw please" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "touch locker" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH LOCKER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Corridor Floyd | Claustrophobia gropes at your mind with feral claws in this corridor. Floyd | It leads northeast and west from here. The functional, bolted metal of Floyd | the walls continues from the airlock. It's warm in here, far too warm. Floyd | The bloody trail leads to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Everything is strewn about in here as well. The cupboards have been Floyd | left open and there appears to not be anything left in them. A Floyd | refrigerator stands forlornly in the corner. Doorways lead to the east Floyd | and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter is a moldy block of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take cheese" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CHEESE Floyd | Floyd | You can hardly bring yourself to come near it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat cheese" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > EAT CHEESE Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the moldy block of cheese) Floyd | You can hardly bring yourself to come near it. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Bah." | |
| phoenix says, "we don't like touching anything do we" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cheese" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > X CHEESE Floyd | Floyd | You can hardly bring yourself to come near it. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "I can't even look at it?" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "get fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > GET FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, ">POKE CHEESE WITH STICK" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open refrigerator" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN REFRIGERATOR Floyd | Floyd | You open the refrigerator, revealing some meat. Floyd | Floyd | A tickle in the back of your throat becomes a cough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take meat" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MEAT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat meat" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > EAT MEAT Floyd | Floyd | One smell of that meat is enough to keep you from putting it in your Floyd | mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x meat" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > X MEAT Floyd | Floyd | It looks like it may have been a good cut of meat once, but now you're Floyd | not sure. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "x fridge" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > X FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | It was probably a functioning refrigerator at one time, but now it's Floyd | sitting there without the usual hum. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "maybe the cat has indeed infected us" | |
| DavidW says, "If a PC sneezes, assume the worst." | ||
| phoenix says, "fast incubation time..." | ||
| genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Cat scratch fever!" | ||
| DavidW says, "Hopefully there's medicine. Maybe even the cold arctic air might help with the heat." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "search cupboards" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH CUPBOARDS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Light shines in through the kitchen door as you take in the room. The Floyd | shelves are bare and show signs of vandalism, and you cannot see Floyd | anything of interest left on the shelves. You can see a trap door in Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | You find yourself coughing regularly now. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "this research station so far contains a supply room, kitchen and pantry" | |
| borowski prays it's only allergies. | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "open trap door" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN TRAP DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open the trap door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | Dark and bare with a corridor leading east. In the center of the Floyd | basement is a black and white television, currently featuring a Floyd | screaming man. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of phoenix), "I was thinking the same thing. Researching what?" | |
| borowski says (to phoenix), "And a cozy TV room." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x television" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > X TELEVISION Floyd | Floyd | Black and white close-up of a man's screaming mouth, spittle and teeth Floyd | and lips snarling and shrieking through static snow. A cord runs from Floyd | the television and into the shadows east. Floyd | Floyd | The television is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | His teeth are shiny with saliva. His lips are split open and chewed, Floyd | with unkempt stubble spiking around them. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Any bets the man is in a room somewhere to the east too?" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x cord" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > X CORD Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the cord. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "maybe we aren't sick and the air is just bad in here" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "get cord" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > GET CORD Floyd | Floyd | That seems to be a part of the television. Floyd | Floyd | You are consumed by an extreme, hacking cough that leaves you gasping Floyd | for air. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "i suppose we had better get on with it before the game kills us" | |
| DavidW says, "I think so, yes." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | Faint light from the television screen reveals a flickering, Floyd | inconstant path down the narrow corridor. To the east, impenetrable Floyd | gloom swallows up the last licks of static reflection. Beneath your Floyd | feet the cable runs. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "dark doorway or gloomy corridor" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cable" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > X CABLE Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the cable. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. It doesn't say which direction the cable runs." | |
| DavidW says, "I pick north." | ||
| phoenix says, "good point" | ||
| borowski says (to floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "but it's dark and we might be eaten by a grue" | |
| borowski says, "oops, doorway" | ||
| DavidW says, "or a cat" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You lose track of the cord as you stumble in here. Looking back, you Floyd | can see no sign of it at all. Odd. Floyd | Floyd | Dank Room Floyd | The floor is wet with grimy black water. This used to be a storage Floyd | room until the leaking began. Apathy kind of sets in on a base this Floyd | remote, so no one ever bothered sealing the cracks. Floyd | Floyd | You are gripped by a sudden terror. You want to get out of here, to Floyd | get away from everything, all of this, the entire base. Floyd | Floyd | After a moment, the panic passes, but an uneasy feeling of dread Floyd | remains. Floyd | Floyd | You briefly hear something scratching in the wall beside you. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix asks, "noone bothered sealing the cracks in an ANTARCTIC base?" | |
| borowski says (to floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | There's something sinister about the bare rock wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | The rocky walls seem pretty normal here. Perhaps further down the Floyd | corridor? Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "i guess it wants us to go down the corridor" | |
| DavidW says, "I think so, yes" | ||
| DavidW asks, "may I?" | ||
| phoenix says, "let's go before we cough to death yes" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | Faint light from the trapdoor to your west. Damp, musty air to your Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Utility Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Utility Room Floyd | Just a dingy, empty supply room, containing little of note. Floyd | Floyd | The terrible cough is accompanied this time by a sharp pain in your Floyd | abdomen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||
Floyd ] Utility Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | The rocky walls seem pretty normal here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions. | ||
| Gerynar has disconnected. | borowski asks, "Huh, maybe we were supposed to do something to the scary wall?" | |
| phoenix says, "weird" | ||
| Tale arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | DavidW asks, "Maybe, but this is a weird research base. Not a single bed or desk?" | |
| phoenix says, "maybe this is a bioweapon testing base." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | The dodgy light panel from the basement to the west, hitherto Floyd | overpowered by the light from the television, bathes the corridor in Floyd | an anemic glow. Beneath your feet the cable runs eastwards to the Floyd | utility room. Floyd | Floyd | Now it's quiet and you can concentrate properly, there's definitely Floyd | something odd about the wall here. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a fleeting scent of cinnamon and cloves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | There's definitely something wrong with the walls here... Floyd | Floyd | ...Of course! The corridor is a lot narrower than either the basement Floyd | or the utility room. Feeling carefully about the rock face, you Floyd | accidentally push a catch hidden in the bare rock of the corridor. The Floyd | south wall swings open, revealing a small hidey hole. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver involuntarily for a full minute. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x hidey hole" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > X HIDEY HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Shall we go south?" | |
| phoenix says, "ya" | ||
| borowski says, "Yeah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Something squeaks and shuffles in the dark of the Hidey Hole, and you Floyd | are still unnerved by the other things you saw in the base. Better not Floyd | go in there. Floyd | Floyd | > | TheXenographer says, "oh, come on" | |
| borowski asks, "unnerved by the CHEESE?" | ||
| phoenix says, "that was a pretty scary piece of chees" | ||
| TheXenographer exclaims, "what kind of adventurer are we?!" | ||
| DavidW asks, "so, our options are what? Give meat to cat, turn off tv, leave base?" | ||
| phoenix says, "I thought we were supposed to be on some sort of rescue mission too" | ||
| borowski says, "Oh yeah, I forgot about the meat." | ||
| borowski says (to floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some meat Floyd | a blanket Floyd | a hooded jacket combo Floyd | a ascended strange device Floyd | a giant backpack (being worn, and open) Floyd | some survival supplies (running low) Floyd | a collapsible tent (closed) Floyd | Floyd | You are suddenly overcome by an extreme sense of vertigo. You steady Floyd | yourself, and the dizziness passes as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix asks, "push the tv?" | |
| DavidW says, "I suppose the blanket must be useful for something." | ||
| phoenix says, "Wtf is an "ascended" strange device" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > X DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | A strange thin silver device, smaller than the palm of your hand. Floyd | There is a small depression on one end, in which a light is blinking Floyd | red It is vibrating slightly. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver involuntarily for a full minute. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "We could try turning the tv off too." | |
| DavidW asks, "The device is 'ascended' now?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave device" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > WAVE DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | The device blinks fastest when pointing southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "silly device." | |
| phoenix says, "I guess it is bugged" | ||
| phoenix says, "let me see if i can push the TV" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | Dark and bare with a corridor leading east. Floyd | Floyd | You gasp once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Back to the tv?" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "push tv east" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH TV EAST Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix asks, "apparently the TV isn't here anymore... ?" | |
| DavidW says, "TV is gone!" | ||
| borowski says, "Huh" | ||
| borowski says, "The cheese ate the TV..." | ||
| phoenix asks, "someone travelled to antarctica and killed our girlfriend just to steal this crappy TV?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Maybe. Where's that cinnamon and cloves scent now?" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "well whatever took the TV could have gone upstairs" | |
| phoenix says, "Or be in the hole that we're too scared to check out" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure, let's see if more stuff changed." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Light shines in through the kitchen door as you take in the room. The Floyd | shelves are bare and show signs of vandalism, and you cannot see Floyd | anything of interest left on the shelves. You can see a trap door in Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | There is a faint ticking sound coming from a distant part of the base. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Everything is strewn about in here as well. The cupboards have been Floyd | left open and there appears to not be anything left in them. A Floyd | refrigerator stands forlornly in the corner. Doorways lead to the east Floyd | and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter is a moldy block of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Corridor Floyd | Claustrophobia gropes at your mind with feral claws in this corridor. Floyd | It leads northeast and west from here. The functional, bolted metal of Floyd | the walls continues from the airlock. It's warm in here, far too warm. Floyd | The bloody trail leads to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Supply Room Floyd | This room has been thoroughly and methodically searched. Boxes stand Floyd | open, racks are emptied, balls of plastic wrapping lie on the floor. Floyd | There is a single locker in the corner. Floyd | Floyd | The cat is here. She stares at you warily with yellow eyes. Floyd | Floyd | The corpse of the woman you love lies here, exposed. Floyd | Floyd | The cat sniffs toward you at something in your possession. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a fleeting scent of cinnamon and cloves. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "i'm suspecting our character is hallucinating this entire episode" | |
| borowski asks, "Try giving the cat the meat?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give meat to cat" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 3 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE MEAT TO CAT Floyd | Floyd | You toss the piece of hilarious meat to the gnostak cat, who wolfs it Floyd | down quickly. She comes over and gives you a quick rub on your legs Floyd | as thanks. Floyd | Floyd | You cough once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Maybe cat will follow us to hidey-hole now?" | |
| phoenix says, "What's so funny about that meat" | ||
| phoenix says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put blanket on corpse" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 15 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BLANKET ON CORPSE Floyd | Floyd | You tactfully put the blanket over her body. Floyd | Floyd | Then something catches the cat's attention, and she bounds off to the Floyd | outside. Floyd | Floyd | There's something sinister about Kira Argmanov. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by twelve points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x cat" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 15 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > X CAT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "x corpse" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 15 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > X CORPSE Floyd | Floyd | There's a bile taste in your mouth, and you can't look anymore. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "maybe we can put the blanket on the cheese so it's less scary too." | |
| borowski says, "heh" | ||
| phoenix says, "follow cat I guess" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Back to the hole? Or at least, the cat?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 15 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Corridor Floyd | Claustrophobia gropes at your mind with feral claws in this corridor. Floyd | It leads northeast and west from here. The functional, bolted metal of Floyd | the walls continues from the airlock. It's warm in here, far too warm. Floyd | The bloody trail leads to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You are suddenly overcome by an extreme sense of vertigo. You steady Floyd | yourself, and the dizziness passes as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 15 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Everything is strewn about in here as well. The cupboards have been Floyd | left open and there appears to not be anything left in them. A Floyd | refrigerator stands forlornly in the corner. Doorways lead to the east Floyd | and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter is a moldy block of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry score: 15 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Light shines in through the kitchen door as you take in the room. The Floyd | shelves are bare and show signs of vandalism, and you cannot see Floyd | anything of interest left on the shelves. You can see a trap door in Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | You gasp once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 15 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | Dark and bare with a corridor leading east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | The dodgy light panel from the basement to the west bathes the Floyd | corridor in an anemic glow. Beneath your feet the cable runs eastwards Floyd | to the utility room. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall hangs open, revealing a space beyond. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a fleeting scent of cinnamon and cloves. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by sixteen points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh, cable runs east?" | |
| borowski says, "Wow, those are some points." | ||
| phoenix asks, "I dunno, i thought it disappeared earlier. Are we still on the first author?" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "author" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > AUTHOR Floyd | Floyd | Scene 6, "The Best Untold", was written by Joey Jones. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "Aha, no we're on scene 6 lol" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | You briefly hear something scratching in the wall beside you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Something squeaks and shuffles in the dark of the Hidey Hole, and you Floyd | are still unnerved by the other things you saw in the base. Better not Floyd | go in there. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a few words of whispered conversation, but when you turn -- Floyd | nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "No wonder this feels incoherent" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | You hack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Utility Room score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Utility Room Floyd | Just a dingy, empty supply room, containing little of note. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cable" | ||
Floyd ] Utility Room score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X CABLE Floyd | Floyd | The television cord is plugged in to a dodgy looking power outlet Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | You have a pounding headache. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "but where's the tv" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unplug cable" | ||
Floyd ] Utility Room score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > UNPLUG CABLE Floyd | Floyd | You grasp the cable by the outlet to give it a firm yank, but before Floyd | you know it thousands of volts of electricity are coursing through Floyd | your ungrounded body. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died from electrocution! *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 31 out of a possible 1023, in 116 turns. 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 ] Utility Room score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Utility Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix asks, "so it's a naked wire?" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x cable" | ||
Floyd ] Utility Room score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X CABLE Floyd | Floyd | The television cord is plugged in to a dodgy looking power outlet Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | You briefly hear something scratching in the wall beside you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x outlet" | ||
Floyd ] Utility Room score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X OUTLET Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||
Floyd ] Utility Room score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | The rocky walls seem pretty normal here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Maybe the television doesn't have 'tv' as a synonym?" | |
| phoenix says, "maybe" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | The dodgy light panel from the basement to the west bathes the Floyd | corridor in an anemic glow. Beneath your feet the cable runs eastwards Floyd | to the utility room. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall hangs open, revealing a space beyond. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | Dark and bare with a corridor leading east. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver involuntarily for a full minute. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x television" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x television" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > X TELEVISION Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Basement score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > X TELEVISION Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "sorry" | |
| phoenix says, "maybe its in the wet north room" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > X PANEL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | The dodgy light panel from the basement to the west bathes the Floyd | corridor in an anemic glow. Beneath your feet the cable runs eastwards Floyd | to the utility room. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall hangs open, revealing a space beyond. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dank Room Floyd | The floor is wet with grimy black water. This used to be a storage Floyd | room until the leaking began. Apathy kind of sets in on a base this Floyd | remote, so no one ever bothered sealing the cracks. Floyd | Floyd | You cough once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cracks" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > X CRACKS Floyd | Floyd | You could probably smash through if you had some kind of tool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a vibrant hooded jacket combo Floyd | a strange device Floyd | a giant backpack (being worn, and open) Floyd | some select survival supplies (running low) Floyd | a collapsible tent (closed) Floyd | Floyd | There's something sinister about the cracks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "break cracks with tent" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK CRACKS WITH TENT Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to break the cracks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "hit cracks with device" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > HIT CRACKS WITH DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | I don't think you can hit with that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x supplies" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > X SUPPLIES Floyd | Floyd | MREs, granola bars, a small propane stove and a bowl for making soup Floyd | with melted snow. Nothing glamorous, and there's almost nothing left. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "the description of the jacket just changed too" | |
| phoenix says, "I think our character is on drugs" | ||
| DavidW says, "The device is just 'strange'." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x jacket" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > X JACKET Floyd | Floyd | A plain breathable jacket and trousers, with many other layers Floyd | besides. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "the TV has mysteriously vanished" | |
| borowski says, "I wonder if we can exploded the propane." | ||
| phoenix says, "And we got 16 points for wandering back into the basement corridor for no apparent reason." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm drawing a blank." | ||
| DavidW says, "I wonder where the cat disappeared to." | ||
| phoenix says, "the entrance room maybe" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | The dodgy light panel from the basement to the west bathes the Floyd | corridor in an anemic glow. Beneath your feet the cable runs eastwards Floyd | to the utility room. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall hangs open, revealing a space beyond. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You gasp once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x space" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > X SPACE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Something squeaks and shuffles in the dark of the Hidey Hole, and you Floyd | are still unnerved by the other things you saw in the base. Better not Floyd | go in there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | Dark and bare with a corridor leading east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Light shines in through the kitchen door as you take in the room. The Floyd | shelves are bare and show signs of vandalism, and you cannot see Floyd | anything of interest left on the shelves. You can see a trap door in Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Everything is strewn about in here as well. The cupboards have been Floyd | left open and there appears to not be anything left in them. A Floyd | refrigerator stands forlornly in the corner. Doorways lead to the east Floyd | and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter is a off-kilter moldy block of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | There is a faint ticking sound coming from a distant part of the base. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "get cheese" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > GET CHEESE Floyd | Floyd | You can hardly bring yourself to come near it. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "what's with the random adjectives" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Corridor Floyd | Claustrophobia gropes at your mind with feral claws in this corridor. Floyd | It leads northeast and west from here. The functional, bolted metal of Floyd | the walls continues from the airlock. It's warm in here, far too warm. Floyd | The bloody trail leads to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a fleeting scent of cinnamon and cloves. Floyd | Floyd | You wheeze once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the depressed inner door) Floyd | Floyd | Airlock Floyd | The airlock is a cool dank chamber, with metal walls, floor, and Floyd | ceiling. The fresh snow that blew in with you is now a puddle on the Floyd | stairs that lead up to the outer door above. To the north is the inner Floyd | door that leads into the research center proper. Floyd | Floyd | The cat is here. She blinks at you contently. Floyd | Floyd | A disconcerting red smear is splattered beneath the inner door. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an arctic gear here. Floyd | Floyd | The cat climbs into the giant backpack, digging around for something. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "aha" | |
| phoenix says, "ca" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "get cat" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > GET CAT Floyd | Floyd | She jumps out of your arms with practiced elegance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to floyd), "x backpack" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > X BACKPACK Floyd | Floyd | Tall, sturdy, and probably 50 pounds completely empty. Floyd | Floyd | In the giant backpack are a cat, some survival supplies, and a Floyd | collapsible tent. Floyd | Floyd | Your arm itches unbearably. You pull up your sleeve to scratch it, and Floyd | the feeling stops immediately. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "could take the cat downstairs in the pack maybe" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Corridor Floyd | Claustrophobia gropes at your mind with feral claws in this corridor. Floyd | It leads northeast and west from here. The functional, bolted metal of Floyd | the walls continues from the airlock. It's warm in here, far too warm. Floyd | The quality bloody trail leads to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Everything is strewn about in here as well. The cupboards have been Floyd | left open and there appears to not be anything left in them. A Floyd | refrigerator stands forlornly in the corner. Doorways lead to the east Floyd | and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter is a moldy block of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | There is a faint ticking sound coming from a distant part of the base. Floyd | Floyd | The cat licks its paws. Floyd | Floyd | The cat emerges from the giant backpack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x cat" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > X CAT Floyd | Floyd | This is a mangy, tortoiseshell cat. Rips poke through her fur, and she Floyd | limps slightly. However, her yellow eyes are clean and aware. She Floyd | wears no collar or other identifying marks. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a few words of whispered conversation, but when you turn -- Floyd | nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "put cat in backpack" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > PUT CAT IN BACKPACK Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the rippling cat) Floyd | Floyd | She jumps out of your arms with practiced elegance. Floyd | Floyd | You briefly hear something scratching in the wall beside you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "pet cat" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > PET CAT Floyd | Floyd | Youch! The squeezeable cat is hot to the touch. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver involuntarily for a full minute. Floyd | Floyd | You gasp once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "attack cat" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > ATTACK CAT Floyd | Floyd | Animal cruelty was never your forte. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "eat cat" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > EAT CAT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the cat) Floyd | She jumps out of your arms with practiced elegance. Floyd | Floyd | There's something sinister about the cat. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "we've had that sinister description about the corpse" | |
| phoenix says, "so uh" | ||
| DavidW says, "I no longer believe we're on a timer. The messages are repeating." | ||
| phoenix says, "yes but I do think our character is hallucinating or on drugs" | ||
| borowski asks, "Was there anything useful about our 'arctic gear' in the airlock?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "It was sodden; is that useful?" | ||
| phoenix asks, "I don't think we searched it ior anything, maybe there is an ice axe?" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Corridor Floyd | Claustrophobia gropes at your mind with feral claws in this corridor. Floyd | It leads northeast and west from here. The functional, bolted metal of Floyd | the walls continues from the airlock. It's warm in here, far too warm. Floyd | The bloody trail leads to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 31 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Airlock Floyd | The airlock is a cool dank chamber, with metal walls, floor, and Floyd | ceiling. The fresh snow that blew in with you is now a puddle on the Floyd | stairs that lead up to the undulating outer door above. To the north Floyd | is the inner door that leads into the research center proper. Floyd | Floyd | A red smear is splattered beneath the inner door. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an arctic gear here. Floyd | Floyd | The rhythmic cat arrives from the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x gear" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > X GEAR Floyd | Floyd | The arctic gear lies in a damp creased pile. Floyd | Floyd | The cat paces back and forth in the airlock, seemingly testing the Floyd | air. Suddenly, she darts underneath the ecstatic airlock stairs and Floyd | starts chewing on something. After a while she comes to the conclusion Floyd | that it isn't edible, and starts lapping at the melted snow. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by thirty-two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "search gear" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH GEAR Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | You hear what sounds like a scream, coming from somewhere to the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver uncontrollably once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "32 points..." | |
| DavidW asks, "Our points are going up in powers of 2?" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "fullscore" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > FULLSCORE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | You have so far scored 63 out of a possible 1023, in 150 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Airlock Floyd | The airlock is a cool dank chamber, with metal walls, floor, and Floyd | ceiling. The fresh snow that blew in with you is now a puddle on the Floyd | stairs that lead up to the outer door above. To the north is the inner Floyd | door that leads into the research center proper. Floyd | Floyd | The cat is here. She blinks at you contently. Floyd | Floyd | A red smear is splattered beneath the inner door. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a leatherbound diary and an arctic gear here. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a few words of whispered conversation, but when you turn -- Floyd | nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "full score" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > FULL SCORE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Good kitty." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x diary" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > X DIARY Floyd | Floyd | It's still dusty from where it lay under the stairs. You brush it off Floyd | and open the first page. Floyd | I have taken the liberty of starting this private diary - in clear Floyd | violation of corporation policy - to make sense of the things that Floyd | have been happening here. It looks like Kira is having some problems Floyd | with that technician, Dannerham. He's hitting on her, but she has a Floyd | guy back home. As simple as that. Floyd | Floyd | You have a pounding headache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Dannerham is beginning to get on my nerves. He did two tours in Floyd | Iraq, and he isn't bragging, but he doesn't let me forget for a minute Floyd | that I'm not American. Kira tells me that his advances get more Floyd | serious. She is a tough girl and can handle herself, but still, we Floyd | don't need this sort of tension around the base. I don't feel like Floyd | having a fistfight with Dannerham to protect her. I think she'd stand Floyd | a better chance in a fight against him than me, too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > TURN PAGE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read diary" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > READ DIARY Floyd | Floyd | Darn! One of my rats escaped. I thought it was sedated, but this Floyd | new strain seems to be reistant not only to cancer, but also to our Floyd | sedatives. I must try a higher dose tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Aw, it is a rat." | |
| genericgeekgirl didn't do it. | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read diary" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > READ DIARY Floyd | Floyd | Blasted thing escaped into the walls - I can hear it climbing Floyd | through the vents. Kira tells me to catch it and report about it to Floyd | her first thing in the morning. She's getting tense. That's not Floyd | good. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "so there's both a cat AND a rat" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read diary" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > READ DIARY Floyd | Floyd | Dannerham tells me he wants to put me in a movie and grins like an Floyd | imbecile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read diary" | TheXenographer says, "maybe we could get the cat to eat the rat" | |
Floyd ] Airlock score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > READ DIARY Floyd | Floyd | I have taken the liberty of starting this private diary - in clear Floyd | violation of corporation policy - to make sense of the things that Floyd | have been happening here. It looks like Kira is having some problems Floyd | with that technician, Dannerham. He's hitting on her, but she has a Floyd | guy back home. As simple as that. Floyd | Floyd | Your arm itches unbearably. You pull up your sleeve to scratch it, and Floyd | the feeling stops immediately. Floyd | Floyd | You hack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "And it repeats." | |
| borowski asks, "Maybe the rat was the thing making noise in the wall?" | ||
| phoenix says, "as well as dodgy biology research" | ||
| phoenix says, "The cat seemed to be following us now" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a object hooded jacket combo Floyd | a strange device Floyd | a giant backpack (being worn, and open) Floyd | some survival supplies (running low) Floyd | a collapsible tent (closed) Floyd | Floyd | The cat climbs into the giant backpack, digging around for something. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Cats attack rats, usually." | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Corridor Floyd | Claustrophobia gropes at your mind with feral claws in this corridor. Floyd | It leads northeast and west from here. The functional, bolted metal of Floyd | the walls continues from the airlock. It's warm in here, far too warm. Floyd | The bloody trail leads to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Everything is strewn about in here as well. The cupboards have been Floyd | left open and there appears to not be anything left in them. A Floyd | refrigerator stands forlornly in the corner. Doorways lead to the east Floyd | and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter is an moldy block of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Light shines in through the kitchen door as you take in the room. The Floyd | shelves are bare and show signs of vandalism, and you cannot see Floyd | anything of interest left on the shelves. You can see a trap door in Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The cat emerges from the giant backpack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | Dark and bare with a corridor leading east. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a fleeting scent of cinnamon and cloves. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from above. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | The dodgy light panel from the basement to the west bathes the Floyd | corridor in an anemic glow. Beneath your feet the cable runs eastwards Floyd | to the utility room. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall hangs open, revealing a space beyond. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Something squeaks and shuffles in the dark, and you pull back. The Floyd | cat, however, jumps to your aid- there is a quick and fierce shuffle Floyd | in the half-light and the cat emerges with a dead rat in its jaw, Floyd | which she carries off to the Basement. Floyd | Floyd | Hidey Hole Floyd | A small and cramped space, with no exits except the one you came Floyd | through. It's cavelike, damp, dusty and unpleasant. Crude markings Floyd | adorn the walls. A secret panel in the ground is open, and a ladder Floyd | leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Discarded in a corner lies a small, smooth wooden box. Floyd | Floyd | You wheeze once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "rat got pwned" | |
| genericgeekgirl squeaks sadly. | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | There are two hinges along one edge of the box, and a latch on the Floyd | other side of that face. The wood looks expensive, and the bottom Floyd | bears a makers mark: Rosado, Portugal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BOX Floyd | Floyd | You open the box, and something clicks. A delightfully carved little Floyd | ballerina turns on an unseen screw, and tingling, scratchy music plays Floyd | from somewhere inside the box. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a glimpse of something white in the depths of the box. Floyd | Floyd | why won't the music stop Stop STOP. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "That rat was our last hope." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x white" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > X WHITE Floyd | Floyd | It looks like a corner of something is stuck between the wooden floor Floyd | and one side of the musical box, behind the ballerina. Floyd | Floyd | Something seems off about the musical box, like it was put together Floyd | all wrong. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly the cat arrives from the Subterranean Corridor, licking her Floyd | maw. She looks at you innocently. Floyd | Floyd | Quiet, tingling music accompanies the ballerina on her rounds inside Floyd | the musical box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take white" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE WHITE Floyd | Floyd | The ballerina is in the way. It's too awkward and you can't get a good Floyd | grip on that corner of... whatever it is. Floyd | Floyd | why won't the music stop Stop STOP. Floyd | Floyd | The music dies down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take ballerina" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BALLERINA Floyd | Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Stupid ballerina." | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "unscrew ballerina" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > UNSCREW BALLERINA Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pry ballerina with device" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > PRY BALLERINA WITH DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW says, "Tweezers might help if we can find any." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break ballerina" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK BALLERINA Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x supplies" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > X SUPPLIES Floyd | Floyd | MREs, granola bars, a small propane stove and a bowl for making soup Floyd | with melted snow. Nothing glamorous, and there's almost nothing left. Floyd | Floyd | You have a pounding headache. Floyd | Floyd | You gasp once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Why would we not have a med kit?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Irresponsible." | ||
| DavidW says, "We were gonna save everyone with weak soup." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Haha" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | There are two hinges along one edge of the box, and a latch on the Floyd | other side of that face. The wood looks expensive, and the bottom Floyd | bears a makers mark: Rosado, Portugal. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a fleeting scent of cinnamon and cloves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show box to cat" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW BOX TO CAT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the musical box) Floyd | The cat is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | Your arm itches unbearably. You pull up your sleeve to scratch it, and Floyd | the feeling stops immediately. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "give box to cat" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE BOX TO CAT Floyd | Floyd | The ecstatic cat doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "pull white" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > PULL WHITE Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a few words of whispered conversation, but when you turn -- Floyd | nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x white" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > X WHITE Floyd | Floyd | It looks like a corner of something is stuck between the wooden floor Floyd | and one side of the musical box, behind the ballerina. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "open side" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN SIDE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Take the box and go down the ladder." | |
| phoenix says, "yeah, might as well" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "get box" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 63 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > GET BOX Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver uncontrollably once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | Cupboards are hanging open and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot Floyd | left. The counters are strewn with broken glass and pieces of broken Floyd | lab equipment. There are doors to the north, east and south. A Floyd | closet lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The end of the ladder dangles from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from above. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by sixty-four points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix exclaims, "More points!" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x glass" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > X GLASS Floyd | Floyd | Broken bits are strewn about. There really is nothing of value. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x equipment" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > X EQUIPMENT Floyd | Floyd | Broken bits are strewn about. There really is nothing of value. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open closet" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I bet every pointage marks a new chapter." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "author" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > AUTHOR Floyd | Floyd | Scene 8, "Music and Words", was written by Tom Blawgus. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "this rat made a mess didn't it" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Seems likely." | ||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Closet first?" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Closet score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Closet Floyd | It is not much more than a small room. There are shelves lining the Floyd | walls. The Laboratory is back to the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves is a sledgehammer. Floyd | Floyd | Various bottles of cleaning supplies are scattered on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Yay" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take sledgehammer" | ||
Floyd ] Closet score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SLEDGEHAMMER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The billowing cat climbs into the excrutiating giant backpack, digging Floyd | around for something. Floyd | Floyd | You cough once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x cleaning supplies" | ||
Floyd ] Closet score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > X CLEANING SUPPLIES Floyd | Floyd | Various shapes, sizes, and colors. If the warning labels are any Floyd | indication, this is some powerful stuff. Floyd | Floyd | You hear what sounds like a scream, coming from somewhere outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take cleaning" | ||
Floyd ] Closet score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CLEANING Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The cat emerges from the giant backpack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Closet score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > X SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You can see dust, dust, and more dust. Floyd | Floyd | The cat climbs into the giant backpack, digging around for something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Closet score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some cleaning supplies Floyd | a sledgehammer Floyd | a musical box Floyd | a white something Floyd | a ballerina Floyd | a hooded jacket combo Floyd | a strange device Floyd | a giant backpack (being worn, and open) Floyd | a cat Floyd | some survival supplies (running low) Floyd | a gleaming collapsible tent (closed) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "get dust" | ||
Floyd ] Closet score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > GET DUST Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I love that the cat shows up as inventory when it's in the bag." | |
| phoenix says, "yeah" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | Cupboards are hanging open and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot Floyd | left. The counters are strewn with broken glass and pieces of broken Floyd | lab equipment. There are doors to the north, east and south. A Floyd | closet lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The end of the ladder dangles from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | This doorway leads to a staircase that spirals down, eventually Floyd | opening out into a cavernous area below the test chamber. Floyd | Floyd | Collection Area Floyd | This is a very wide cylindrical room, apparently built to the same Floyd | dimensions as the test chamber above. A dozen or so columns support Floyd | the ceiling, arranged in a circular pattern. The stone walls almost Floyd | look carved from natural stone. Stairs lead back up to the lab. Floyd | Floyd | Something is dripping into a large basin in the center of the room Floyd | from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | The cat emerges from the giant backpack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x basin" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > X BASIN Floyd | Floyd | A squat, wide cylindrical basin, made of something like smoothed white Floyd | cement, with a huge bowl cut into the top of it. You have no idea why Floyd | someone would put this thing here, directly under the test chamber. Floyd | Floyd | In the catchment basin is a scintillating dark pool of liquid. Floyd | Floyd | You gasp once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x liquid" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > X LIQUID Floyd | Floyd | A thin layer of some dark liquid has stained the bottom of the bowl. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "touch liquid" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH LIQUID Floyd | Floyd | It's some kind of dark, sticky, viscous liquid, but too thin to be Floyd | worth collecting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "taste liquid" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > TASTE LIQUID Floyd | Floyd | You taste nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "what test chamber" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x test chamber" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > X TEST CHAMBER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "None of the rooms were named that." | |
| DavidW says, "We haven't been north or east of the lab yet." | ||
| phoenix says, "check East I guess" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x columns" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > X COLUMNS Floyd | Floyd | White concrete, unlike the verbal stone walls around you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | Cupboards are hanging open and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot Floyd | left. The counters are strewn with broken glass and pieces of broken Floyd | lab equipment. There are doors to the north, east and south. A Floyd | closet lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The end of the ladder dangles from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | There's something sinister about the cupboards. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from below. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the solid metal door) Floyd | It doesn't budge. Stuck? Floyd | Floyd | There is a faint ticking sound coming from a distant part of the base. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x metal door" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127
Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down
Floyd |
Floyd | > X METAL DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | This is a solid, heavy metal door, apparently made of something like
Floyd | burnished steel.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your arm itches unbearably. You pull up your sleeve to scratch it, and
Floyd | the feeling stops immediately.
| ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | There's something sinister about the cupboards. Floyd | Floyd | You hack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "hit door with sledgehammer" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > HIT DOOR WITH SLEDGEHAMMER Floyd | Floyd | The tremendously loud sound of a sledgehammer striking the solid metal Floyd | door echoes throughout the base. However, it's also accompanied by a Floyd | cracking sound, and you hear something metal hitting the concrete Floyd | floor on the other side. You've managed to open the door about half a Floyd | foot, enough for you to fit through. Floyd | Floyd | On the other side is a gruesome sight. Floyd | Floyd | You have found the missing Antarctic research team. The dark shapes Floyd | visible within are human bodies... or, at least, they once were. Floyd | Floyd | The cat climbs into the perturbed giant backpack, digging around for Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ew" | |
| phoenix asks, "zombies?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | No. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hahahaha" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x shapes" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > X SHAPES Floyd | Floyd | Misshapen and broken bodies, distorted into sometimes unrecognizable Floyd | shapes, all covered in black pustules, dripping, all with the same Floyd | manic grin on their faces. Floyd | Floyd | You notice a hand, propped up against the door, clutching some kind of Floyd | paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "get paper" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > GET PAPER Floyd | Floyd | (the scrawl) Floyd | You manage to pull the paper from the locked fist, careful not to Floyd | touch what remains of its oozing skin. The arm flops to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The oblong cat emerges from the giant backpack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read paper" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > READ PAPER Floyd | Floyd | (the scrawl) Floyd | Despite its ragged and stained appearance, you recognize this as a Floyd | page cut neatly from the leatherbound diary. Floyd | Floyd | Dannerham's gone crazy. He must have sabotaged the last Floyd | experiment. He locked us in this room. He says we brought this on Floyd | ourselves, that we've created something too terrible to escape, that Floyd | there's no cure. Floyd | Floyd | He's wrong, damn it! If I had access to the original carrier, with Floyd | a few simple blood diagnostics I'm sure I could identify the mutations Floyd | that make this strain unique and develop a vaccine, or at least Floyd | antibodies, within days. Days! And with cold storage, I believe the Floyd | progression of the disease can be greatly slowed or even halted Floyd | indefinitely. The imbecile will kill us all for nothing, he doesn't Floyd | listen to the audio comms system the observ.n. window is too high Floyd | to Floyd | I just need sth.g. wh.ch Floyd | Floyd | ybe destroy the comm. consol. autom.tic send a distr.s signal Floyd | t Floyd | Floyd | If I coud only j.st get out i want get.out.ineedineed Floyd | ineedgetoutGET OUT GET OU Floyd | Floyd | The scrawl becomes illegible beyond this point. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | Cupboards are hanging open and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot Floyd | left. The counters are strewn with broken glass and pieces of broken Floyd | lab equipment. There are doors to the north, east and south. A Floyd | closet lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The cat is here. She blinks at you contently. Floyd | Floyd | The end of the ladder dangles from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | You are suddenly overcome by an extreme sense of vertigo. You steady Floyd | yourself, and the dizziness passes as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | You gasp once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "still north and down" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "And up from the other room." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The stairs through this doorway climb up to the east, ending in an Floyd | observation room above the test chamber. Floyd | Floyd | Observation Room Floyd | This must be where the researchers carried out their work.The southern Floyd | wall is dominated by a giant window overlooking the test chamber. One Floyd | side of the room features a console with a few chairs in front of it. Floyd | Stairs lead back down to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Didn't we do down?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "I don't think so." | ||
| DavidW says, "Down is the same as south from the lab." | ||
| genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Oh!" | ||
| phoenix says, "ah" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ugh. I hate that." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | The console is a drab tan-colored plastic contraption, wide enough to Floyd | seat three people comfortably, with a lot of displays, knobs, Floyd | switches, and levers. You don't know what any of it means, most of the Floyd | displays and digital readouts are blank, anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "do we smash the thing" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | Spanning the whole width of the room, the window is made from some Floyd | thick, heavy-duty glass. It adds a hazy white tint to everything on Floyd | the other side. Floyd | Floyd | It's difficult to make out many details in the test chamber. The light Floyd | panels in that room have apparently failed, and all you can make out Floyd | are a few large, dark shadows covering most of the polished concrete Floyd | flooring. Floyd | Floyd | The quality cat climbs into the giant backpack, digging around for Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chairs" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > X CHAIRS Floyd | Floyd | Perfunctory black chairs, though more comfortable than you might Floyd | expect. They're fixed in place before the console. Floyd | Floyd | The cat emerges from the giant backpack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "This cat is quality." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read console" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > READ CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | The console is a drab tan-colored plastic contraption, wide enough to Floyd | seat three people comfortably, with a lot of displays, knobs, Floyd | switches, and levers. You don't know what any of it means, most of the Floyd | displays and digital readouts are blank, anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > SIT Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to sit on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sit on chair" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | You sit in one of the artistic chairs facing the console. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a few words of whispered conversation, but when you turn -- Floyd | nothing. Floyd | Floyd | You hack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "This cat is insertrandomadjectivehere." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "litsen" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > LITSEN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "litsen" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > LITSEN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. We went north to get here, but the exits are west and down?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ack." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | The cat climbs into the giant backpack, digging around for something. Floyd | Floyd | There is a faint ticking sound coming from a distant part of the base. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "said it curved east or something" | |
| DavidW says, "oh" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah. They "climbed up to the east."" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smash window" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > SMASH WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | You briefly hear something scratching in the wall beside you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "hit console with hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > HIT CONSOLE WITH HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | A display panel shatters with a satisfying crunch. The Floyd | console begins to spark and smoke. Floyd | Floyd | Fire licks at the edges of the destroyed part of the console. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in the base, an alarm begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "There's that cracked wall upstairs, still." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Eeeeee." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Time to go?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "And infect the rest of the planet?" /td> | ||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "I suppose so. Can we undo and save first?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Observation Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smash console" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > SMASH CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver involuntarily for a full minute. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hit console with hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > HIT CONSOLE WITH HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | A display panel shatters with a satisfying crunch. The Floyd | console begins to spark and smoke. Floyd | Floyd | Your arm itches unbearably. You pull up your sleeve to scratch it, and Floyd | the feeling stops immediately. Floyd | Floyd | Fire licks at the edges of the destroyed part of the console. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in the base, an alarm begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | The cat emerges from the giant backpack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "C'mon, kitty." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first getting off the chairs) Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | Cupboards are hanging open and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot Floyd | left. The counters are strewn with broken glass and pieces of broken Floyd | lab equipment. There are doors to the north, east and south. A Floyd | closet lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The end of the ladder dangles from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | There's something sinister about ladder. Floyd | Floyd | The stygian cat arrives. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "aren't we the rescue party" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hidey Hole Floyd | A small and cramped space, with no exits except the one you came Floyd | through. It's cavelike, damp, dusty and unpleasant. Crude markings Floyd | adorn the walls. A secret panel in the ground is open, and a ladder Floyd | leads down. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from below. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | The dodgy light panel from the basement to the west bathes the Floyd | corridor in an anemic glow. Beneath your feet the cable runs eastwards Floyd | to the utility room. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall hangs open, revealing a space beyond. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You wheeze once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dank Room Floyd | The floor is wet with grimy black water. This used to be a storage Floyd | room until the leaking began. Apathy kind of sets in on a base this Floyd | remote, so no one ever bothered sealing the cracks. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the south. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Try closing the backpack once the cat is inside." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Haha, aw. Ok" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hit cracks with hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > HIT CRACKS WITH HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | You take a deep breath and swing. The entire wall rolls over, burying Floyd | you under foul smelling water and heavy bricks. You're pinned, Floyd | helpless to do anything but feel your lungs swell with gritty black Floyd | fluid. Then darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 127 out of a possible 1023, in 218 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dank Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Whoops." | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | The dodgy light panel from the basement to the west bathes the Floyd | corridor in an anemic glow. Beneath your feet the cable runs eastwards Floyd | to the utility room. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall hangs open, revealing a space beyond. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | There is a faint ticking sound coming from a distant part of the base. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Is there a rat corpse in the basement?" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Utility Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Utility Room Floyd | Just a dingy, empty supply room, containing little of note. Floyd | Floyd | Hold on... wasn't there a power generator here before? Floyd | Floyd | You catch a few words of whispered conversation, but when you turn -- Floyd | nothing. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the west. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "oh the power generator disappeared too now" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | DavidW says, "I only remember an outlet." | |
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | The dodgy light panel from the basement to the west bathes the Floyd | corridor in an anemic glow. Beneath your feet the cable runs eastwards Floyd | to the utility room. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall hangs open, revealing a space beyond. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the east. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "i guess the author is implying that the outlet was part of the generator" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | Dark and bare with a corridor leading east. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver involuntarily for a full minute. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "nope, no dead rat" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Light shines in through the kitchen door as you take in the room. The Floyd | shelves are bare and show signs of vandalism, and you cannot see Floyd | anything of interest left on the shelves. You can see a trap door in Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from below. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver uncontrollably once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Everything is strewn about in here as well. The cupboards have been Floyd | left open and there appears to not be anything left in them. A Floyd | refrigerator stands forlornly in the corner. Doorways lead to the east Floyd | and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter is a moldy block of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "hit cheese with hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > HIT CHEESE WITH HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | You can hardly bring yourself to come near it. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "Hmm, if we set off the distress signal by brekaing the console, it doesn't strike me that theres anything we HAVE to do" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "throw hammer at cheese" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > THROW HAMMER AT CHEESE Floyd | Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | > | TheXenographer says, "man, this is some seriously scary cheese." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "melt cheese" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > MELT CHEESE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show cheese to cat" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW CHEESE TO CAT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the moldy block of cheese) Floyd | You can hardly bring yourself to come near it. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I object to not being able to show something without taking it first." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push cheese" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH CHEESE Floyd | Floyd | You can hardly bring yourself to come near it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hold nose" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > HOLD NOSE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I guess we continue to evacuate?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Sure." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Corridor Floyd | Claustrophobia gropes at your mind with feral claws in this corridor. Floyd | It leads northeast and west from here. The functional, bolted metal of Floyd | the walls continues from the airlock. It's warm in here, far too warm. Floyd | The bloody trail leads to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You briefly hear something scratching in the wall beside you. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | You cough once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Airlock Floyd | The airlock is a cool dank chamber, with savage metal walls, floor, Floyd | and ceiling. The fresh snow that blew in with you is now a puddle on Floyd | the stairs that lead up to the outer door above. To the north is the Floyd | inner door that leads into the research center proper. Floyd | Floyd | A red smear is splattered beneath the inner door. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a leatherbound diary and an quizzical arctic gear Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | There's something sinister about the leatherbound diary. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take diary" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE DIARY Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The cat climbs into the giant backpack, digging around for something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "close backpack" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE BACKPACK Floyd | Floyd | You close the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | There is a rustling, bumping sound coming from the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hehehe" | |
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Is there any place the cat wouldn't go?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take gear" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE GEAR Floyd | Floyd | It's too warm to bother with the arctic gear. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a single, tentative scratching sound from inside the giant Floyd | backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "cat is not pleased" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You can't bring yourself to go out into that weather unless you're Floyd | properly geared up. Floyd | Floyd | Your arm itches unbearably. You pull up your sleeve to scratch it, and Floyd | the feeling stops immediately. Floyd | Floyd | "Yow?" asks the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "No, it followed us all over the lab as far as I remember" | |
| TheXenographer says, "that's sort of adorable" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "They clearly meant for us to be able to do this. I just wonder if there's a reason." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear jacket" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR JACKET Floyd | Floyd | You put on the hooded jacket combo. Floyd | Floyd | The scratching from the giant backpack becomes more insistent. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear gear" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR GEAR Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the minimal arctic gear) Floyd | It's too warm to bother with the arctic gear. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | You hack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You can't bring yourself to go out into that weather unless you're Floyd | properly geared up. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver involuntarily for a full minute. Floyd | Floyd | Black smoke oozes in from the north. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Kitty, you can come out when you solve the puzzle of the music box." | |
| phoenix says, "maybe we put the box in the pack" | ||
| phoenix says, "and let the cat play with it" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a ascended leatherbound diary Floyd | an scrawl Floyd | some cleaning supplies Floyd | an sledgehammer Floyd | a musical box Floyd | a white something Floyd | a rippling ballerina Floyd | a hooded jacket combo (being worn) Floyd | a rippling strange device Floyd | a giant backpack (being worn, and closed) Floyd | Floyd | There's something sinister about the bloody smear. Floyd | Floyd | There is a rumbling from somewhere to the north. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Place is filling with smoke and the game won't let us leave." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, maybe. Also.. cleaning supplies, hm." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drink cleaning" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK CLEANING Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing suitable to drink here. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cleaning" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > X CLEANING Floyd | Floyd | Various shapes, sizes, and colors. If the warning labels are any Floyd | indication, this is some powerful stuff. Floyd | Floyd | You are suddenly overcome by an extreme sense of vertigo. You steady Floyd | yourself, and the dizziness passes as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | td> | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "open pack" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN PACK Floyd | Floyd | The cat leaps out of the giant backpack, shakes her head, and looks Floyd | around as if nothing had happened. Floyd | Floyd | There is another explosion-you're sure it's an explosion this Floyd | time-from somewhere to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put music box in pack" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > PUT MUSIC BOX IN PACK Floyd | Floyd | You put the musical box into the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix asks, "Hmm now the base is exploding?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Whee." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Corridor Floyd | Claustrophobia gropes at your mind with feral claws in this corridor. Floyd | It leads northeast and west from here. The functional, bolted metal of Floyd | the walls continues from the airlock. It's warm in here, far too warm. Floyd | The bloody trail leads to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Thick black smoke fills the area. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a few words of whispered conversation, but when you turn -- Floyd | nothing. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the south. Floyd | Floyd | You wheeze once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "author" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > AUTHOR Floyd | Floyd | Scene 8, "Music and Words", was written by Tom Blawgus. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I guess we still need that white something in the music box." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake box" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE BOX Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the musical box) Floyd | You look ridiculous waving the musical box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from box" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL FROM BOX Floyd | Floyd | ballerina: That's fixed in place. Floyd | white something: The ballerina is in the way. It's too awkward and you Floyd | can't get a good grip on that corner of... whatever it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn ballerina" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > TURN BALLERINA Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | The cat climbs into the giant backpack, digging around for something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "put box in pack" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BOX IN PACK Floyd | Floyd | You put the musical box into the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver involuntarily for a full minute. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "see if the cat messes with it" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Supply Room Floyd | This room has been thoroughly and methodically searched. Boxes stand Floyd | open, racks are emptied, vicious balls of plastic wrapping lie on the Floyd | floor. There is a single locker in the corner. Floyd | Floyd | Thick black smoke fills the area. Floyd | Floyd | Kira lies here, covered by a blanket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The cat purrs. Floyd | Floyd | The cat emerges from the giant backpack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Supply Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "close backpack" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE BACKPACK Floyd | Floyd | You close the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | The smoke down here is becoming too thick to breathe. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Supply Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The cat purrs. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We should be in the airlock and close the inner door." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Corridor Floyd | Claustrophobia gropes at your mind with feral claws in this corridor. Floyd | It leads northeast and west from here. The functional, bolted metal of Floyd | the walls continues from the airlock. It's warm in here, far too warm. Floyd | The bloody trail leads to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Thick black smoke fills the area. Floyd | Floyd | Your arm itches unbearably. You pull up your sleeve to scratch it, and Floyd | the feeling stops immediately. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | You hack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Airlock Floyd | The airlock is a cool dank chamber, with metal walls, floor, and Floyd | ceiling. The fresh snow that blew in with you is now a puddle on the Floyd | stairs that lead up to the outer door above. To the north is the inner Floyd | door that leads into the research center proper. Floyd | Floyd | Thick black smoke fills the area. Floyd | Floyd | A red smear is splattered beneath the inner door. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an arctic gear here. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "close inner" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE INNER Floyd | Floyd | You close the scintillating inner door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open outer" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN OUTER Floyd | Floyd | You open the outer door, and are met by a fierce breeze. Floyd | Floyd | You have a pounding headache. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the jaunty giant Floyd | backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear gear" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR GEAR Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the arctic gear) Floyd | You put on the perturbed arctic gear. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You came here to investigate the Antarctic Research Center, and you Floyd | don't intend to leave until your curiosity is satisfied. Floyd | That, and it's colder than a brass suppository out there. Floyd | Floyd | You hear what sounds like a scream, coming from somewhere to the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "huh. A scream?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "We've been hearing that for a while." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Like the whispers." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BOX Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I don't know if it means something other than atmospheric." | |
| TheXenographer says, "we're probably just hallucinating it" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an arctic gear (being worn) Floyd | a leatherbound diary Floyd | a scrawl Floyd | some cleaning supplies Floyd | a sledgehammer Floyd | a notable hooded jacket combo (being worn) Floyd | a strange device Floyd | a giant backpack (being worn, and closed) Floyd | Floyd | The delightful cat rubs against your leg. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "LOL" | |
| phoenix says, "at the cat rubbing against our leg" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hee." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean smear" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN SMEAR Floyd | Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a fleeting scent of cinnamon and cloves. Floyd | Floyd | The smoke here is quickly becoming too much to bear. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Huh. May I smash the music box?" | |
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open pack" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN PACK Floyd | Floyd | The cat leaps out of the giant backpack, shakes her head, and looks Floyd | around as if nothing had happened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take box" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOX Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Your arm itches unbearably. You pull up your sleeve to scratch it, and Floyd | the feeling stops immediately. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smash box with sledgehammer" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > SMASH BOX WITH SLEDGEHAMMER Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to smash the heavenly musical Floyd | box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smash box with hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > SMASH BOX WITH HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to smash the musical box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hit box with hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 255 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > HIT BOX WITH HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | You smash the musical box into several pieces and you find a note Floyd | among the pieces, which you pick up. Floyd | Floyd | There's something sinister about the cat. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one hundred twenty-eight points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Whoo." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "I can't believe we didn't try that. Too busy smashing windows and consoles." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > X NOTE Floyd | Floyd | "The cat is the carrier. I can't leave this room to tell anybody Floyd | because the cat is scratching outside. I'm the only one around here Floyd | who ever paid it any attention and now I'm going to die for it. No gas Floyd | mask in here, no nothing. Just some lab results like a death warrant." Floyd | Floyd | You are suddenly overcome by an extreme sense of vertigo. You steady Floyd | yourself, and the dizziness passes as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two hundred fifty-six points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Fantastic." | |
| TheXenographer says, "aww, kitty, why you gotta do that to us :(" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Stupid cat." | ||
| phoenix says, "we figured that bit out already" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "kill cat" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > KILL CAT Floyd | Floyd | Animal cruelty was never your forte. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Apparently a whole team of scientists couldn't figure it out :P" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "hit cat with hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > HIT CAT WITH HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | Animal cruelty is not the answer. Floyd | Floyd | The smoke becomes too much for you. You fall to the ground, gasping Floyd | for air, but never find it. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have suffocated *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 511 out of a possible 1023, in 263 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Uh oh." | |
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Aren't we out of the smoke?" | ||
| phoenix says, "i thought we cloesd it" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Airlock Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Perhaps we're not supposed to hit the console so soon?" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Antarctic Research Center score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: down Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You stagger out into the wilderness, smoke billowing from the surface Floyd | structure behind you. You hear the distant whining drone of the Floyd | extraction team's transport approaching. Looking up to try to make Floyd | them out in the sky, you lose your balance and fall back onto the Floyd | snow. Floyd | Floyd | Cool, calming, comforting snow. Floyd | Floyd | You're barely conscious when the team arrives, but are vaguely aware Floyd | of coughing as the team attempts to move you. Then, only blackness. Floyd | Floyd | Within a week, the plague has reached Europe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have sparked a pandemic *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 511 out of a possible 1023, in 263 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl considers that a good ending ;) | |
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Restore before hitting console and smash music box instead?" | ||
| phoenix says, "i think we have to kill the cat" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suspect we're supposed to cure this thing." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Kill the cat? I obviously dropped in at just the wrong moment." | ||
| DavidW says, "And no, I think we need the cat to create the antidote." | ||
| phoenix says, "all the lab equipment got trashed, though" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I *was* going to ask how it's going." | ||
| phoenix says, "but yeah, let's restore" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf2" | TheXenographer says, "yeah, I agree with David" | |
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127
Floyd ] Exits: west down
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hit box with hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 255 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > HIT BOX WITH HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | You smash the musical box into several pieces and you find a note Floyd | among the pieces, which you pick up. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one hundred twenty-eight points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > READ NOTE Floyd | Floyd | "The cat is the carrier. I can't leave this room to tell anybody Floyd | because the cat is scratching outside. I'm the only one around here Floyd | who ever paid it any attention and now I'm going to die for it. No gas Floyd | mask in here, no nothing. Just some lab results like a death warrant." Floyd | Floyd | There's something sinister about the chairs. Floyd | Floyd | The cat emerges from the giant backpack once more. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two hundred fifty-six points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | TheXenographer says, "there was that note we found on the dead scientist..." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x scrawling" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > X SCRAWLING Floyd | Floyd | Despite its ragged and stained appearance, you recognize this as a Floyd | page cut neatly from the leatherbound diary. Floyd | Floyd | Dannerham's gone crazy. He must have sabotaged the last Floyd | experiment. He locked us in this room. He says we brought this on Floyd | ourselves, that we've created something too terrible to escape, that Floyd | there's no cure. Floyd | Floyd | He's wrong, damn it! If I had access to the original carrier, with Floyd | a few simple blood diagnostics I'm sure I could identify the mutations Floyd | that make this strain unique and develop a vaccine, or at least Floyd | antibodies, within days. Days! And with cold storage, I believe the Floyd | progression of the disease can be greatly slowed or even halted Floyd | indefinitely. The imbecile will kill us all for nothing, he doesn't Floyd | listen to the audio comms system the observ.n. window is too high Floyd | to Floyd | I just need sth.g. wh.ch Floyd | Floyd | ybe destroy the comm. consol. autom.tic send a distr.s signal Floyd | t Floyd | Floyd | If I coud only j.st get out i want get.out.ineedineed Floyd | ineedgetoutGET OUT GET OU Floyd | Floyd | The scrawl becomes illegible beyond this point. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "maybe we cna go into the test chamber now" | |
| DavidW asks, "Is there a test chamber we missed?" | ||
| phoenix says, "the room with the dead bodies that the game wouldn't let us enter" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh. hm." | ||
| phoenix says, "now maybe it will let us since our character knows baout the cat" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first getting off the chairs) Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | Cupboards are hanging open and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot Floyd | left. The counters are strewn with broken glass and pieces of broken Floyd | lab equipment. There are doors to the north, east and south. A Floyd | closet lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The end of the ladder dangles from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | You are suddenly overcome by an extreme sense of vertigo. You steady Floyd | yourself, and the dizziness passes as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | No! Floyd | Floyd | You wheeze once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull ladder" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > PULL LADDER Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "f s" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | This doorway leads to a staircase that spirals down, eventually Floyd | opening out into a cavernous area below the test chamber. Floyd | Floyd | Collection Area Floyd | This is a very wide cylindrical room, apparently built to the same Floyd | dimensions as the test chamber above. A dozen or so columns support Floyd | the ceiling, arranged in a circular pattern. The stone walls almost Floyd | look carved from natural stone. Stairs lead back up to the lab. Floyd | Floyd | Something is dripping into a large basin in the center of the room Floyd | from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | There is a faint ticking sound coming from a distant part of the base. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from above. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | A small hole-maybe half an inch across-and perfectly round. It seems Floyd | to serve as some sort of intentional collection outlet for the test Floyd | chamber above. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "we can see if "up" goes to the test chamber" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | Cupboards are hanging open and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot Floyd | left. The counters are strewn with broken glass and pieces of broken Floyd | lab equipment. There are doors to the north, east and south. A Floyd | closet lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The end of the ladder dangles from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from below. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "no" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | This doorway leads to a staircase that spirals down, eventually Floyd | opening out into a cavernous area below the test chamber. Floyd | Floyd | Collection Area Floyd | This is a very wide cylindrical room, apparently built to the same Floyd | dimensions as the test chamber above. A dozen or so columns support Floyd | the ceiling, arranged in a circular pattern. The stone walls almost Floyd | look carved from natural stone. Stairs lead back up to the lab. Floyd | Floyd | Something is dripping into a large basin in the center of the room Floyd | from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | Your arm itches unbearably. You pull up your sleeve to scratch it, and Floyd | the feeling stops immediately. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from above. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take basin" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BASIN Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | You cough up ropy black spatters of blood. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix asks, "put the cat in there while it's in the backpakc?" | |
| DavidW says, "I don't think the liquid is an automatic blood tester and analysis machine." | ||
| phoenix says, "I havn't seen one of those though" | ||
| DavidW says, "but I don't have any better idea." | ||
| phoenix says, "or anything we could put the cat in" | ||
| phoenix says, "to test it" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "put backpack in basin" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BACKPACK IN BASIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking it off) Floyd | You remove your giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | You put the giant backpack into the catchment basin. Floyd | Floyd | Hot. Hot. Burning up. Floyd | Floyd | You gasp once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Obviously something ought to go ion the basin." | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a note Floyd | a scrawl Floyd | some serious cleaning supplies Floyd | a huggable sledgehammer Floyd | a hooded jacket combo Floyd | a strange device Floyd | Floyd | You briefly hear something scratching in the wall beside you. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix asks, "cleaning supplies?" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "hug sledgehammer" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > HUG SLEDGEHAMMER Floyd | Floyd | Keep your mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | You cough up ropy black spatters of blood. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's the only other liquid we've found, I guess." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I keep glancing at this at the wrong moments." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, not counting the flooded room." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "put cleaning supplies in basin" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > PUT CLEANING SUPPLIES IN BASIN Floyd | Floyd | You put the cleaning supplies into the catchment basin. Floyd | Floyd | Hot. Hot. Burning up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Collection Area Floyd | This is a very wide cylindrical room, apparently built to the same Floyd | dimensions as the test chamber above. A dozen or so columns support Floyd | the ceiling, arranged in a circular pattern. The stygian stone walls Floyd | almost look carved from natural stone. Stairs lead back up to the lab. Floyd | Floyd | The cat is here. She blinks at you contently. Floyd | Floyd | Something is dripping into a large basin in the center of the room Floyd | from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in basin" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN BASIN Floyd | Floyd | In the catchment basin are some cleaning supplies, a giant backpack, Floyd | and a dark pool of liquid. Floyd | Floyd | There's something sinister about the stone walls. Floyd | Floyd | You slump to the floor, coppery drool oozing from your lips. Blindly Floyd | you reach out and pet the cat with a trembling hand. It licks your Floyd | fingers. "There there, kitty kitty." You stay that way until the end. Floyd | Kind of peaceful. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 511 out of a possible 1023, in 228 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I kinda need to go eat something." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ok." | ||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Maybe we can clean the muck? Did we try that?" | ||
| phoenix says, "so I don't see a better solution to this game at the moment than trying to kill the cat before we die so it doesn't infect the next rescue team" | ||
| DavidW asks, "muck?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "In the room with the crack, the floor was icky?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Hitting that wall killed us, but I don't think we tried to clean anything there." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127
Floyd ] Exits: west down
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| phoenix says, "it was an empty room with water on the floor though" | |
| DavidW says, "Dank Room. North of the Subterranean Corridor." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first getting off the ecstatic chairs) Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | Cupboards are hanging open and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot Floyd | left. The counters are strewn with broken glass and pieces of broken Floyd | lab equipment. There are doors to the north, east and south. A Floyd | closet lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The end of the ladder dangles from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | The cat rubs against your leg. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hidey Hole Floyd | A small and cramped space, with no exits except the one you came Floyd | through. It's cavelike, damp, dusty and unpleasant. Crude markings Floyd | adorn the walls. A secret panel in the ground is open, and a ladder Floyd | leads down. Floyd | Floyd | The cat emerges from the serious giant backpack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | The dodgy light panel from the basement to the west bathes the Floyd | corridor in an anemic glow. Beneath your feet the cable runs eastwards Floyd | to the utility room. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall hangs open, revealing a space beyond. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dank Room Floyd | The floor is wet with grimy black water. This used to be a storage Floyd | room until the leaking began. Apathy kind of sets in on a base this Floyd | remote, so no one ever bothered sealing the cracks. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x water" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > X WATER Floyd | Floyd | A layer of muck covers the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The cat climbs into the giant backpack, digging around for something. Floyd | Floyd | You wheeze once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pour cleaning on water" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > POUR CLEANING ON WATER Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the bleak grimy black water would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | You hear what sounds like a scream, coming from somewhere outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "clean muck" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN MUCK Floyd | Floyd | You're not here to play janitor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "try searching more things like the smashed equipment in the lab." | |
| phoenix says, "maybe we can use the death-method here to kill ourselves and the cat if it's trapped in the backpack once we've learned it's responeible" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smash box with hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 127 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > SMASH BOX WITH HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to smash the musical box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hit box with hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 255 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > HIT BOX WITH HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | You smash the musical box into several pieces and you find a note Floyd | among the pieces, which you pick up. Floyd | Floyd | You have a pounding headache. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one hundred twenty-eight points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > READ NOTE Floyd | Floyd | "The cat is the carrier. I can't leave this room to tell anybody Floyd | because the cat is scratching outside. I'm the only one around here Floyd | who ever paid it any attention and now I'm going to die for it. No gas Floyd | mask in here, no nothing. Just some lab results like a death warrant." Floyd | Floyd | The cat emerges from the giant backpack once more. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two hundred fifty-six points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 255 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dank Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "close bag" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 255 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE BAG Floyd | Floyd | You close the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a fleeting scent of cinnamon and cloves. Floyd | Floyd | There is a rustling, bumping sound coming from the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > READ NOTE Floyd | Floyd | "The cat is the carrier. I can't leave this room to tell anybody Floyd | because the cat is scratching outside. I'm the only one around here Floyd | who ever paid it any attention and now I'm going to die for it. No gas Floyd | mask in here, no nothing. Just some lab results like a death warrant." Floyd | Floyd | You are suddenly overcome by an extreme sense of vertigo. You steady Floyd | yourself, and the dizziness passes as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a single, tentative scratching sound from inside the giant Floyd | backpack. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two hundred fifty-six points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hit crack with hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > HIT CRACK WITH HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Dank Room Floyd | The floor is wet with grimy black water. This used to be a storage Floyd | room until the leaking began. Apathy kind of sets in on a base this Floyd | remote, so no one ever bothered sealing the cracks. Floyd | Floyd | Your arm itches unbearably. You pull up your sleeve to scratch it, and Floyd | the feeling stops immediately. Floyd | Floyd | "Yow?" asks the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hit cracks with hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > HIT CRACKS WITH HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | You take a deep breath and swing. The entire wall rolls over, burying Floyd | you under foul smelling water and heavy bricks. You're pinned, Floyd | helpless to do anything but feel your lungs swell with gritty black Floyd | fluid. Then darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 511 out of a possible 1023, in 223 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dank Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Nope" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "hit backpack with hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Dank Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > HIT BACKPACK WITH HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | That wouldn't be helpful. Floyd | Floyd | The scratching from the minimal giant backpack becomes more insistent. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | You gasp once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "Or we could just try to leave without calling for help" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | The dodgy light panel from the basement to the west bathes the Floyd | corridor in an anemic glow. Beneath your feet the cable runs eastwards Floyd | to the utility room. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall hangs open, revealing a space beyond. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a fleeting scent of cinnamon and cloves. Floyd | Floyd | The savage cat purrs. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | Dark and bare with a corridor leading east. Floyd | Floyd | You have a pounding headache. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Light shines in through the kitchen door as you take in the room. The Floyd | shelves are bare and show signs of vandalism, and you cannot see Floyd | anything of interest left on the shelves. You can see a trap door in Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | There is a faint ticking sound coming from a distant part of the base. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Everything is strewn about in here as well. The cupboards have been Floyd | left open and there appears to not be anything left in them. A Floyd | refrigerator stands forlornly in the corner. Doorways lead to the east Floyd | and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter is a moldy block of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | The stygian cat licks its paws. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | Hot. Hot. Burning up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Corridor Floyd | Claustrophobia gropes at your mind with feral claws in this corridor. Floyd | It leads northeast and west from here. The functional, bolted metal of Floyd | the walls continues from the airlock. It's warm in here, far too warm. Floyd | The minimal bloody trail leads to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The cat purrs. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Airlock Floyd | The airlock is a cool dank chamber, with metal walls, floor, and Floyd | ceiling. The fresh snow that blew in with you is now a puddle on the Floyd | stairs that lead up to the outer door above. To the north is the inner Floyd | door that leads into the research center proper. Floyd | Floyd | A red smear is splattered beneath the inner door. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a leatherbound diary and an arctic gear here. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the notable giant Floyd | backpack. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "wear arctic gear" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR ARCTIC GEAR Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the arctic gear) Floyd | It's too warm to bother with the arctic gear. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver involuntarily for a full minute. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | Hot. Hot. Burning up. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver uncontrollably once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Can we leave with the cat in the bag and/or leave the bag behind and leave?" | |
| genericgeekgirl asks, "So it's not loose and/or coming with us?" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "open outside door" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN OUTSIDE DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to open outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Or throw the backpack with the cat in it into the flames?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "I guess we're sick too, though, but eh." | ||
| phoenix says, "my thought was both us and the cat die of exposure" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You can't bring yourself to go out into that weather unless you're Floyd | properly geared up. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the quality giant Floyd | backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "wear jacket" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR JACKET Floyd | Floyd | You put on the hooded jacket combo. Floyd | Floyd | There's something sinister about the outer door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "wear arctic" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR ARCTIC Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the arctic gear) Floyd | It's too warm to bother with the arctic gear. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | Hot. Hot. Burning up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You can't bring yourself to go out into that weather unless you're Floyd | properly geared up. Floyd | Floyd | Your arm itches unbearably. You pull up your sleeve to scratch it, and Floyd | the feeling stops immediately. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | You cough up ropy black spatters of blood. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "well" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "open outer door" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN OUTER DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The door won't budge. The way an airlock works is that you have to Floyd | close one door before you can open the other. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | You gasp once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "close inner door" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE INNER DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You close the inner door. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a fleeting scent of cinnamon and cloves. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | You slump to the floor, coppery drool oozing from your lips. After Floyd | listening to your fever-distorted moans echo through the base for what Floyd | feels like an eternity, you finally die a lonely death. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 511 out of a possible 1023, in 236 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | phoenix says, "blah - too much fumbling with the door while I tried to figure out why it wasnt letting me leave" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "uno" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > UNO Floyd | Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Airlock Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > X HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | A nine-pound hammer. Looks like it might have once been featured in a Floyd | bluegrass number. Perfect for hitting things with. Floyd | Floyd | The cat rubs against your leg. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | You slump to the floor, coppery drool oozing from your lips. After Floyd | listening to your fever-distorted moans echo through the base for what Floyd | feels like an eternity, you finally die a lonely death. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 511 out of a possible 1023, in 236 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 127
Floyd ] Exits: west down
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "hit box with hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 255 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > HIT BOX WITH HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | You smash the musical box into several pieces and you find a note Floyd | among the pieces, which you pick up. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one hundred twenty-eight points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > READ NOTE Floyd | Floyd | "The cat is the carrier. I can't leave this room to tell anybody Floyd | because the cat is scratching outside. I'm the only one around here Floyd | who ever paid it any attention and now I'm going to die for it. No gas Floyd | mask in here, no nothing. Just some lab results like a death warrant." Floyd | Floyd | The cat emerges from the giant backpack once more. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two hundred fifty-six points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "So the generator vanished, right?" | |
| phoenix says, "I think we were hallucinating it" | ||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "That it was gone, or that it existed?" | ||
| phoenix says, "that it ever existed in the first place" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Because the note said something about cold storage, so maybe if we could cool everything down again, we'd last longer." | ||
| phoenix says, "there's no one alive to have moved it, apparently" | ||
| phoenix says, "Hmm we can't break the cracks nor can we let the outside air past the airlock" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hm. One second." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | (first getting off the chairs) Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | Cupboards are hanging open and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot Floyd | left. The counters are strewn with broken glass and pieces of broken Floyd | lab equipment. There are doors to the north, east and south. A Floyd | closet lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The end of the ladder dangles from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | The heavenly cat arrives. Floyd | Floyd | You gasp once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hidey Hole Floyd | A small and cramped space, with no exits except the one you came Floyd | through. It's cavelike, damp, dusty and unpleasant. Crude markings Floyd | adorn the walls. A secret panel in the ground is open, and a ladder Floyd | leads down. Floyd | Floyd | You hear what sounds like a scream, coming from somewhere below. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from below. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | The dodgy light panel from the basement to the west bathes the Floyd | corridor in an anemic glow. Beneath your feet the cable runs eastwards Floyd | to the utility room. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall hangs open, revealing a space beyond. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | There is a faint ticking sound coming from a distant part of the base. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Utility Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Utility Room Floyd | Just a dingy, empty supply room, containing little of note. Floyd | Floyd | Hold on... wasn't there a power generator here before? Floyd | Floyd | There's something sinister about the plug. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the west. Floyd | Floyd | You cough up ropy black spatters of blood. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x walls" | ||
Floyd ] Utility Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X WALLS Floyd | Floyd | The rocky walls seem pretty normal here. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver involuntarily for a full minute. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x plug" | ||
Floyd ] Utility Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X PLUG Floyd | Floyd | The television cord is plugged in to a dodgy looking power outlet Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "I'm not sure if the tv stuff isn't just badly coded because it doesn't make sense that the cord would still be here" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "A cord, but no tv." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cord" | ||
Floyd ] Utility Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X CORD Floyd | Floyd | The television cord is plugged in to a dodgy looking power outlet Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | Your arm itches unbearably. You pull up your sleeve to scratch it, and Floyd | the feeling stops immediately. Floyd | Floyd | Hot. Hot. Burning up. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "And it claims to be plugged in." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "I think it's just borked." | ||
| phoenix asks, "shall we try leaving with the cat again?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Sure?" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | The dodgy light panel from the basement to the west bathes the Floyd | corridor in an anemic glow. Beneath your feet the cable runs eastwards Floyd | to the utility room. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall hangs open, revealing a space beyond. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | The rhythmic cat arrives from the east. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | You hack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | Dark and bare with a corridor leading east. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the east. Floyd | Floyd | Hot. Hot. Burning up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Light shines in through the kitchen door as you take in the room. The Floyd | shelves are bare and show signs of vandalism, and you cannot see Floyd | anything of interest left on the shelves. You can see a trap door in Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver involuntarily for a full minute. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from below. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Everything is strewn about in here as well. The cupboards have been Floyd | left open and there appears to not be anything left in them. A Floyd | refrigerator stands forlornly in the corner. Doorways lead to the east Floyd | and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter is a expectant moldy block of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Corridor Floyd | Claustrophobia gropes at your mind with feral claws in this corridor. Floyd | It leads northeast and west from here. The functional, bolted metal of Floyd | the walls continues from the airlock. It's warm in here, far too warm. Floyd | The bloody trail leads to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | You cough up ropy black spatters of blood. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Airlock Floyd | The airlock is a cool dank chamber, with metal walls, floor, and Floyd | ceiling. The fresh snow that blew in with you is now a puddle on the Floyd | stairs that lead up to the outer door above. To the north is the inner Floyd | door that leads into the research center proper. Floyd | Floyd | A red smear is splattered beneath the inner door. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a delicious leatherbound diary and an ticklish arctic Floyd | gear here. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the north. Floyd | Floyd | You slump to the floor, coppery drool oozing from your lips. Blindly Floyd | you reach out and pet the cat with a trembling hand. It licks your Floyd | fingers. "There there, kitty kitty." You stay that way until the end. Floyd | Kind of peaceful. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 511 out of a possible 1023, in 228 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | phoenix says, "some pretty tight timer here" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511
Floyd ] Exits: west down
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first getting off the chairs) Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | Cupboards are hanging open and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot Floyd | left. The counters are strewn with broken glass and pieces of broken Floyd | lab equipment. There are doors to the north, east and south. A Floyd | closet lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The end of the ladder dangles from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | The vibrant cat arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hidey Hole Floyd | A small and cramped space, with no exits except the one you came Floyd | through. It's cavelike, damp, dusty and unpleasant. Crude markings Floyd | adorn the walls. A secret panel in the ground is open, and a ladder Floyd | leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Your arm itches unbearably. You pull up your sleeve to scratch it, and Floyd | the feeling stops immediately. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from below. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | The dodgy light panel from the basement to the west bathes the Floyd | corridor in an anemic glow. Beneath your feet the cable runs eastwards Floyd | to the utility room. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall hangs open, revealing a space beyond. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives. Floyd | Floyd | You cough up ropy black spatters of blood. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver uncontrollably once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | Dark and bare with a corridor leading east. Floyd | Floyd | You briefly hear something scratching in the wall beside you. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Light shines in through the kitchen door as you take in the room. The Floyd | shelves are bare and show signs of vandalism, and you cannot see Floyd | anything of interest left on the shelves. You can see a trap door in Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | There's something sinister about the trap door. Floyd | Floyd | The jaunty cat arrives from below. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Everything is strewn about in here as well. The cupboards have been Floyd | left open and there appears to not be anything left in them. A Floyd | refrigerator stands forlornly in the corner. Doorways lead to the east Floyd | and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter is a moldy block of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Corridor Floyd | Claustrophobia gropes at your mind with feral claws in this corridor. Floyd | It leads northeast and west from here. The functional, bolted metal of Floyd | the walls continues from the airlock. It's warm in here, far too warm. Floyd | The bloody trail leads to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Airlock Floyd | The airlock is a cool dank chamber, with droning metal walls, floor, Floyd | and ceiling. The delightful fresh snow that blew in with you is now a Floyd | puddle on the stairs that lead up to the outer door above. To the Floyd | north is the inner door that leads into the research center proper. Floyd | Floyd | A red smear is splattered beneath the inner door. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a leatherbound diary and a arctic gear here. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the north. Floyd | Floyd | Hot. Hot. Burning up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "close inner" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE INNER Floyd | Floyd | You close the inner door. Floyd | Floyd | The cat climbs into the perturbed giant backpack, digging around for Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "open outer" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN OUTER Floyd | Floyd | You open the outer door, and are met by a fierce breeze. Floyd | Floyd | This sudden chill makes you feel strangely at ease. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "close pack" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE PACK Floyd | Floyd | You close the billowing giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | There is a rustling, bumping sound coming from the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "wear jacket" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR JACKET Floyd | Floyd | You put on the hooded jacket combo. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a few words of whispered conversation, but when you turn -- Floyd | nothing. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a single, tentative scratching sound from inside the giant Floyd | backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "wear arctic" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR ARCTIC Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the arctic gear) Floyd | You put on the arctic gear. Floyd | Floyd | "Yow?" asks the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Antarctic Research Center score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: down Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You stagger out into the frozen waste, blinking in the setting sun. Floyd | You take a few trudging steps forward before you remember that you Floyd | don't have enough supplies to make the weeks-long trek back to the Floyd | dropoff site-and there will be no one there waiting for you, anyway. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You are alone *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 511 out of a possible 1023, in 227 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | phoenix says, "hmm - no" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Aw" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Airlock Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "version" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > VERSION Floyd | Floyd | IF Whispers 5 Floyd | An Interactive Collaboration by The IF Whispers Team Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120310 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Type "about" for more information on this project. Floyd | Identification number: //087C77C8-3EA1-4517-9798-6E70297032E0// Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 (6b) / Library serial number 080126 Floyd | Standard Rules version 2/090402 by Graham Nelson Floyd | Exit Lister version 10 by Eric Eve Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "but we stopped dying" | |
| phoenix says, "or at least, immediately dying" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Airlock Floyd | The airlock is a cool dank chamber, with metal walls, floor, and Floyd | ceiling. The fresh snow that blew in with you is now a puddle on the Floyd | stairs that lead up to the stygian outer door that gapes open above. Floyd | To the north is the inner door that leads into the research center Floyd | proper. Floyd | Floyd | A red smear is splattered beneath the inner door. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a leatherbound diary here. Floyd | Floyd | The scratching from the giant backpack becomes more insistent. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "but i'm not sure what we can do" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an arctic gear (being worn) Floyd | a note Floyd | a scrawl Floyd | some cleaning supplies Floyd | a sledgehammer Floyd | a hooded jacket combo (being worn) Floyd | a strange device Floyd | a serious giant backpack (being worn, and closed) Floyd | Floyd | You hear what sounds like a scream, coming from somewhere above. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shake device" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | The device blinks fastest when pointing southwest. Floyd | Floyd | The ticklish cat purrs. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the delicious inner door) Floyd | The door won't budge. The way an airlock works is that you have to Floyd | close one door before you can open the other. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "close outer" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE OUTER Floyd | Floyd | With a satisfying slam, you shut the outer door and a stale warmth Floyd | fills the airlock. Floyd | Floyd | You are suddenly overcome by an extreme sense of vertigo. You steady Floyd | yourself, and the dizziness passes as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open inner" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN INNER Floyd | Floyd | The door is quite fiddly and you won't be able to open it while Floyd | wearing all these layers. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove gear" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE GEAR Floyd | Floyd | You remove your arctic gear, leaving you holding the sodden garments. Floyd | Floyd | There is a faint ticking sound coming from a distant part of the base. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open inner" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN INNER Floyd | Floyd | You wont be able to open the door while holding all these wet clothes. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | You cough up ropy black spatters of blood. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ew. I guess we're about to die again." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the inner door) Floyd | You wont be able to open the door while holding all these wet clothes. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop gear" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > DROP GEAR Floyd | Floyd | The arctic gear drops with a resounding squelch. Floyd | Floyd | You are suddenly overcome by an extreme sense of vertigo. You steady Floyd | yourself, and the dizziness passes as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the inner door) Floyd | You open the inner door. Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Corridor Floyd | Claustrophobia gropes at your mind with feral claws in this corridor. Floyd | It leads northeast and west from here. The functional, bolted metal of Floyd | the walls continues from the airlock. It's warm in here, far too warm. Floyd | The bloody trail leads to the west. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | You cough once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Everything is strewn about in here as well. The cupboards have been Floyd | left open and there appears to not be anything left in them. A Floyd | refrigerator stands forlornly in the corner. Doorways lead to the east Floyd | and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter is a moldy block of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver involuntarily for a full minute. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Light shines in through the kitchen door as you take in the room. The Floyd | shelves are bare and show signs of vandalism, and you cannot see Floyd | anything of interest left on the shelves. You can see a trap door in Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | You have a pounding headache. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | Dark and bare with a corridor leading east. Floyd | Floyd | The cat licks its paws. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | You cough up ropy black spatters of blood. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | The dodgy light panel from the basement to the west bathes the Floyd | corridor in an anemic glow. Beneath your feet the cable runs eastwards Floyd | to the utility room. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall hangs open, revealing a space beyond. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | The cat rubs against your leg. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hidey Hole Floyd | A small and cramped space, with no exits except the one you came Floyd | through. It's cavelike, damp, dusty and unpleasant. Crude gloomy Floyd | markings adorn the walls. A secret ignoble panel in the ground is Floyd | open, and a ladder leads down. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the perturbed giant Floyd | backpack. Floyd | Floyd | Hot. Hot. Burning up. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "maybe exposure to the outside air reset our timer" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | Cupboards are hanging open and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot Floyd | left. The counters are strewn with broken glass and pieces of broken Floyd | lab equipment. There are doors to the north, east and south. A Floyd | closet lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The end of the ladder dangles from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | You cough up ropy black spatters of blood. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "That would be useful." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The stairs through this doorway climb up to the east, ending in an Floyd | observation room above the test chamber. Floyd | Floyd | Observation Room Floyd | This must be where the researchers carried out their work.The southern Floyd | wall is dominated by a giant window overlooking the test chamber. One Floyd | side of the room features a console with a few chairs in front of it. Floyd | Stairs lead back down to the west. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the quality giant Floyd | backpack. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "clean console" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | You shiver involuntarily for a full minute. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | You cough up ropy black spatters of blood. Floyd | Floyd | You hack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pour cleaning on console" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > POUR CLEANING ON CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | You dump the contents of the bottles of cleaning supplies onto the Floyd | console, which begins to spark and smoke. Floyd | Floyd | The cat licks its paws. Floyd | Floyd | Fire licks at the edges of the destroyed part of the console. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in the base, an alarm begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | You slump to the floor, coppery drool oozing from your lips. After Floyd | listening to your fever-distorted moans echo through the base for what Floyd | feels like an eternity, you finally die a lonely death. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 511 out of a possible 1023, in 246 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Observation Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hm. That also destroys it." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You hear what sounds like a scream, coming from somewhere Floyd | *** Run-time problem P47 (at paragraph 1127 in the source text): Floyd | Phrase applied to an incompatible kind of value. Floyd | Floyd | . Floyd | Floyd | There is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | You slump to the floor, coppery drool oozing from your lips. After Floyd | listening to your fever-distorted moans echo through the base for what Floyd | feels like an eternity, you finally die a lonely death. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 511 out of a possible 1023, in 246 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Observation Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511
Floyd ] Exits: west down
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| phoenix says, "the only other thing I can think of pouring the cleaning fluid into the basin but I'm not sure why that would help" | |
| phoenix says, "it's not like cleaning ourselves or the cat should stop the virus" | ||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "I think we tried that earlier?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Observation Room (on the chairs) Floyd | This must be where the researchers carried out their work.The southern Floyd | wall is dominated by a giant window overlooking the test chamber. One Floyd | side of the room features a console with a few chairs in front of it. Floyd | Stairs lead back down to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The cat is here. She blinks at you contently. Floyd | Floyd | The cat rubs against your leg. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pour cleaning on console" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > POUR CLEANING ON CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | You dump the contents of the bottles of cleaning supplies onto the Floyd | console, which begins to spark and smoke. Floyd | Floyd | Fire licks at the edges of the destroyed part of the console. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in the base, an alarm begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hit console with hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > HIT CONSOLE WITH HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | You bash another section. The flames grow higher. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You gasp once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You bash another section. The flames grow higher. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You bash another section. The flames grow higher. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You bash another section. The flames grow higher. Floyd | Floyd | The cat climbs into the giant backpack, digging around for something. Floyd | Floyd | There's something sinister about the console. Floyd | Floyd | Hot. Hot. Burning up. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hmpf" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511
Floyd ] Exits: west down
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first getting off the chairs) Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | Cupboards are hanging open and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot Floyd | left. The counters are strewn with broken glass and pieces of broken Floyd | lab equipment. There are doors to the north, east and south. A Floyd | closet lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The end of the ladder dangles from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | No! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Closet score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: east outside Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Closet Floyd | It is not much more than a small room. There are shelves lining the Floyd | walls. The Laboratory is back to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There is a faint ticking sound coming from a distant part of the base. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the east. Floyd | Floyd | You wheeze once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | Cupboards are hanging open and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot Floyd | left. The counters are strewn with broken glass and pieces of broken Floyd | lab equipment. There are doors to the north, east and south. A Floyd | closet lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The end of the ladder dangles from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | The blunt cat arrives. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | This doorway leads to a staircase that spirals down, eventually Floyd | opening out into a cavernous area below the test chamber. Floyd | Floyd | Collection Area Floyd | This is a very wide cylindrical room, apparently built to the same Floyd | dimensions as the test chamber above. A dozen or so columns support Floyd | the ceiling, arranged in a circular pattern. The stone walls almost Floyd | look carved from natural stone. Stairs lead back up to the lab. Floyd | Floyd | Something is dripping into a large basin in the center of the room Floyd | from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from above. Floyd | Floyd | Hot. Hot. Burning up. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "A ha" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pour cleaning in basin" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > POUR CLEANING IN BASIN Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to pour the cleaning supplies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pour cleaning on cat" | ||
Floyd ] Collection Area score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > POUR CLEANING ON CAT Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the expectant cat would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | Cupboards are hanging open and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot Floyd | left. The counters are strewn with broken glass and pieces of broken Floyd | lab equipment. There are doors to the north, east and south. A Floyd | closet lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The end of the ladder dangles from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from below. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "search counters" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH COUNTERS Floyd | Floyd | There is nothing on the counters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | NO Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | nO Floyd | Your arm itches unbearably. You pull up your sleeve to scratch it, and Floyd | the feeling stops immediately. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | ~no~ Floyd | You hear what sounds like a scream, coming from somewhere above. Floyd | Floyd | You cough up ropy black spatters of blood. Floyd | Floyd | You hack once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I like that the response changes a tiny bit." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "~no~" | ||
| phoenix says, "yeah" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smell test chamber" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL TEST CHAMBER Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look east" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK EAST Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look through door" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK THROUGH DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | Hot. Hot. Burning up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x shadows" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > X SHADOWS Floyd | Floyd | Misshapen and broken bodies, distorted into sometimes unrecognizable Floyd | shapes, all covered in black pustules, dripping, all with the same Floyd | manic grin on their faces. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a fleeting scent of cinnamon and cloves. Floyd | Floyd | You slump to the floor, coppery drool oozing from your lips. Blindly Floyd | you reach out and pet the cat with a trembling hand. It licks your Floyd | fingers. "There there, kitty kitty." You stay that way until the end. Floyd | Kind of peaceful. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 511 out of a possible 1023, in 228 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "maybe destroy console first before taking the cat outside with us" | |
| phoenix says, "I dont think we had it the first time" | ||
| phoenix says, "maybe if we get rescued and have the cat they can cure us" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hm." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ok." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511
Floyd ] Exits: west down
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hit console with hammer" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > HIT CONSOLE WITH HAMMER Floyd | Floyd | A display panel shatters with a satisfying crunch. The Floyd | console begins to spark and smoke. Floyd | Floyd | Fire licks at the edges of the destroyed part of the console. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in the base, an alarm begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pour cleaning on console" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > POUR CLEANING ON CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | You dump the contents of the bottles of cleaning supplies onto the Floyd | console, which begins to spark and smoke. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Might as well be thorough ;)" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511
Floyd ] Exits: west down
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
| phoenix says, "wouldn't do to leave an item unused" | |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd | a note
Floyd | a flippant scrawl
Floyd | a sledgehammer
Floyd | a blunt hooded jacket combo
Floyd | a strange device
Floyd | a illuminating giant backpack (being worn, and open)
Floyd | some survival supplies (running low)
Floyd | a delicious collapsible tent (closed)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You shiver uncontrollably once more.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| inky says (to Floyd), "x tent" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > X TENT Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the collapsible tent. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I'm sure it'll crawl in at some point" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Observation Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Laboratory score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west up down Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first getting off the chairs) Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | Cupboards are hanging open and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot Floyd | left. The counters are strewn with broken glass and pieces of broken Floyd | lab equipment. There are doors to the north, east and south. A Floyd | closet lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The end of the ladder dangles from a hole above. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hot. Hot. Burning up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Hidey Hole score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north down outside Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hidey Hole Floyd | A small and cramped space, with no exits except the one you came Floyd | through. It's cavelike, damp, dusty and unpleasant. Crude markings Floyd | adorn the walls. A secret panel in the ground is open, and a ladder Floyd | leads down. Floyd | Floyd | There's something sinister about the excrutiating ladder. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from below. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | The dodgy light panel from the basement to the west bathes the Floyd | corridor in an anemic glow. Beneath your feet the cable runs eastwards Floyd | to the utility room. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall hangs open, revealing a space beyond. Floyd | Floyd | More obviously, a dark doorway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hot. Hot. Burning up. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "did you try getting in the tent as an isolation chamber?" | |
| phoenix says, "can't open tent indoors" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Utility Room score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Utility Room Floyd | Just a dingy, empty supply room, containing little of note. Floyd | Floyd | Hold on... wasn't there a power generator here before? Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the west. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Subterranean Corridor score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north south east west Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Subterranean Corridor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Basement score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: east up Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | Dark and bare with a corridor leading east. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the east. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Light shines in through the kitchen door as you take in the room. The Floyd | shelves are bare and show signs of vandalism, and you cannot see Floyd | anything of interest left on the shelves. You can see a trap door in Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from below. Floyd | Floyd | You cough up ropy black spatters of blood. Floyd | Floyd | You gasp once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: west down Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | You have a pounding headache. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Everything is strewn about in here as well. The cupboards have been Floyd | left open and there appears to not be anything left in them. A Floyd | refrigerator stands forlornly in the corner. Doorways lead to the east Floyd | and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter is a moldy block of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | You are suddenly overcome by an extreme sense of vertigo. You steady Floyd | yourself, and the dizziness passes as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Narrow Corridor score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south west Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narrow Corridor Floyd | Claustrophobia gropes at your mind with feral claws in this corridor. Floyd | It leads northeast and west from here. The functional, bolted metal of Floyd | the walls continues from the airlock. It's warm in here, far too warm. Floyd | The bloody trail leads to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | Hot. Hot. Burning up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Airlock Floyd | The airlock is a cool dank chamber, with metal walls, floor, and Floyd | ceiling. The fresh snow that blew in with you is now a puddle on the Floyd | stairs that lead up to the outer door above. To the north is the inner Floyd | door that leads into the research center proper. Floyd | Floyd | A red smear is splattered beneath the inner door. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a serious leatherbound diary and an fulminating Floyd | arctic gear here. Floyd | Floyd | The cat arrives from the north. Floyd | Floyd | Black smoke oozes in from the north. Floyd | Floyd | Piercing pain jets through your body like flashes of lightning, Floyd | subsiding to a dull ache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "close inner" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE INNER Floyd | Floyd | You close the inner door. Floyd | Floyd | You cough up ropy black spatters of blood. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear gear" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR GEAR Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the arctic gear) Floyd | It's too warm to bother with the arctic gear. Floyd | Floyd | The cat climbs into the ecstatic giant backpack, digging around for Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "close bag" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "open outer" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE BAG Floyd | Floyd | You close the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | There is a rumbling from somewhere to the north. Floyd | Floyd | There is a rustling, bumping sound coming from the elysian giant Floyd | backpack. Floyd | Floyd | You slump to the floor, coppery drool oozing from your lips. After Floyd | listening to your fever-distorted moans echo through the base for what Floyd | feels like an eternity, you finally die a lonely death. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 511 out of a possible 1023, in 228 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN OUTER Floyd | Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Airlock Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "open outer" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511
Floyd ] Exits: north up
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN OUTER
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the outer door, and are met by a fierce breeze.
| genericgeekgirl says, "Not enough turns." | |
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear what sounds like a scream, coming from somewhere to the
Floyd | north.
Floyd |
Floyd | This sudden chill makes you feel strangely at ease.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| phoenix says (to Floyd), "close bag" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE BAG Floyd | Floyd | You close the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a fleeting scent of cinnamon and cloves. Floyd | Floyd | There is a rustling, bumping sound coming from the giant backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear gear" | ||
Floyd ] Airlock score: 511 Floyd ] Exits: north up Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR GEAR Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the arctic gear) Floyd | You put on the arctic gear. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a single, tentative scratching sound from inside the giant Floyd | backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, good." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Antarctic Research Center score: 1023 Floyd ] Exits: down Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | You stagger out into the wilderness, smoke billowing from the surface Floyd | structure behind you. You hear the distant whining drone of the Floyd | extraction team's transport approaching. Looking up to try to make Floyd | them out in the sky, you lose your balance and fall back onto the Floyd | snow. Floyd | Floyd | Cool, calming, comforting snow. Floyd | Floyd | You're barely conscious when the team arrives, but are vaguely aware Floyd | of coughing as the team attempts to move you. Then, only blackness. Floyd | Floyd | The cat, clinging to your body, protected inside the arctic gear, is Floyd | the second and last to be rescued from the Antarctic Research Center. Floyd | By isolating the sample taken from her, the team is soon able to find Floyd | a treatment for the plague. You and Kira may not be so lucky, but at Floyd | least, perhaps, your efforts were not in vain. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have brought hope *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 1023 out of a possible 1023, in 231 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Yay!" | |
| DavidW says, "wow" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I guess no one comes to get us if we don't cause chaos." | ||
| phoenix says, "so, erm" | ||
| phoenix says, "the extraction team can get here in hours" | ||
| phoenix says, "by direct helicopter" | ||
| DavidW asks, "What did you do differently from what I saw earlier?" | ||
| phoenix asks, "and we have to trek ages to get here?" | ||
| phoenix says, "previously we left after destroying console, and left with cat without destroying console" | ||
| phoenix says, "this time we both took the cat and destroyed console" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, when we left earlier, it told us no one was coming to get us. So I guess the fire draws their attention, so they pick us up. Presumably we die otherwise from the disease/cold." | ||
| phoenix says, "we don't have a radio/satphone either which is odd." | ||
| phoenix says, "yeah... I guess the plague was loose on the outside world" | ||
| phoenix says, "Which wasn't really very clear" | ||
| phoenix says, "but that's why we had to save the cat to get full points" | ||
| phoenix says, "Up until the end I thought that the plague had been created (purposely or accidentally) at the lab" | ||
| TheXenographer says, "Yeah, that was what I thought too" | ||
| DavidW says, "good session" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||
| phoenix says, "i felt like we started off trying to solve a crime and then it turned into something else entirely" | ||
