ClubFloyd Transcript:
Intro to Belief by Justin de Vesine
As played on ifMUD on September 2, 2012

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

Below is a transcript of the introduction to Belief written by Justin de Vesine. This introduction was entered in the 2012 IntroComp, where it took third place. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.


WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.


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Ellison asks, "what's on the agenda today?"
Jacqueline says, "So, today we begin with vimes' Belief. I think (hear) that it will be rather short. What we do after that is, of course, up to us. We could (a) call it and have Jacq work on transcripts, (b) play some of the honorable mention IntroComp games, or (c) play something else."
DavidW arrives, full of fun, but no funk. Jacqueline says, "But for now, let's play the piece we came to play."
DavidW says, "I may likely be called away soon-ish to eat yummy omelet."
Jacqueline says (to jen), "Ugh. Lovely creatures, aren't they? (I do adore mine, and have managed to not strangle it every time it does things like that.)"
Jacqueline says (to DW), "oooh"
Ellison says, "sounds good"
Jacqueline says, "We should get started then."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask belief"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Well, that was not at all what you expected out of death - no pain,
Floyd | only the mildest of discomfort, and then...an office?
Floyd |
Floyd | Belief
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Justin de Vesine
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120716 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Reception Room
Floyd | A hard metal bench sits against one wall, and a desk against the
Floyd | opposite wall.  Wood-veneer paneling and rough, unyielding carpet lend
Floyd | a stagnant air to the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I have not played this one yet."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       2
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | A pressed-metal desk with a fake wood veneer top.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the desk is a brochure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Nor I."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read brochure"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       3
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ BROCHURE
Floyd |
Floyd | A four-color glossy brochure reading "WELCOME TO LIMBO!"
Floyd |
Floyd | It describes the wonders of limbo (none), the tourist attractions
Floyd | (none), the weather (none), the fine places to eat (none), the
Floyd | nightlife (none), and the boredom (plenty).  There are some coupons on
Floyd | the back.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take coupons"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       4
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE COUPONS
Floyd |
Floyd | a coupon for Paradise: There's not really any reason to go tearing out
Floyd | expired coupons.
Floyd | a coupon for Purgatory: There's not really any reason to go tearing
Floyd | out expired coupons.
Floyd | a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife: You
Floyd | carefully tear a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount
Floyd | Afterlife out of the brochure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x technicolor"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       5
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TECHNICOLOR
Floyd |
Floyd | A coupon good for 50% off your ticket price for a day trip to Joseph
Floyd | and the Technicolor Discount Aftterlife - and a free drink ticket!  It
Floyd | says "No expiration date!" in big, ugly letters. The small print says
Floyd | the normal ticket price is one penny, payable to the ferryman at
Floyd | arrival.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are three brief, muffled metallic noises from somewhere in the
Floyd | corner of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       6
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x corner"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       6
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CORNER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       7
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife
Floyd |   a halfpenny
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x halfpenny"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       8
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X HALFPENNY
Floyd |
Floyd | A tiny sliver of silver worth half a penny, by virtue of being a penny
Floyd | cut in half.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "That's not the usual definition of a ha'penny."
Jacqueline says, "heh. True."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       9
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Reception Room
Floyd | A hard metal bench sits against one wall, and a desk against the
Floyd | opposite wall.  Wood-veneer paneling and rough, unyielding carpet lend
Floyd | a stagnant air to the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the desk is a brochure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bench"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       10
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BENCH
Floyd |
Floyd | One of those industrial pressed-metal benches, carefully designed by
Floyd | ergonomic and physiological research to be as uncomfortable as
Floyd | possible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take brochure"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       11
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BROCHURE
Floyd |
Floyd | You pick up the brochure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paneling"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       12
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PANELING
Floyd |
Floyd | Unnatural coloring, precisely even faux-grain, and a slightly sticky
Floyd | texture.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch it"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       13
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TOUCH IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit it"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       14
Floyd | >
Floyd | > HIT IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       15
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       16
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on bench"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       17
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SIT ON BENCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You get onto the metal bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       18
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.  Probably.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       19
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND
Floyd |
Floyd | You get off the metal bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | Reception Room
Floyd | A hard metal bench sits against one wall, and a desk against the
Floyd | opposite wall.  Wood-veneer paneling and rough, unyielding carpet lend
Floyd | a stagnant air to the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to ferry"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       19
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GO TO FERRY
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "so, do we need to search for an exit?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x carpet"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       20
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CARPET
Floyd |
Floyd | Brownish beige, rough and uncomfortable.  It looks like one corner is
Floyd | a bit loose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull corner"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       21
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PULL CORNER
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull on the loose corner of carpet, and it peels back a little bit
Floyd | more, revealing a little hole in the stained cement beneath.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "One would think there'd be a place to use the ticket."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       22
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | A little hole in the concrete floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the little hole is a tap bell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "tap bell"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       22
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAP BELL
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ring bell"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       23
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RING BELL
Floyd |
Floyd | You ring the tap bell.  It echoes strangely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bell"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       24
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BELL
Floyd |
Floyd | You pick up the tap bell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put bell on desk"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       25
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT BELL ON DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the tap bell on the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ring bell"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       26
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RING BELL
Floyd |
Floyd | You ring the tap bell.  It echoes very strangely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bell"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       27
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BELL
Floyd |
Floyd | A little bell of the sort used to annoy receptionists everywhere.  On
Floyd | the bottom, it says "Ferryman Tours - The Old Firm - Established".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in bell"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       28
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN BELL
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says, "take it to the dock"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bell"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       29
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BELL
Floyd |
Floyd | You pick up the tap bell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       30
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter hole"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       31
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       32
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | A little hole in the concrete floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull corner"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       33
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PULL CORNER
Floyd |
Floyd | The carpet seems to be pretty well glued down everywhere else.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       34
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       35
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       36
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       37
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       37
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pray"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       37
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PRAY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "think"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       38
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's rather astonishing that you still can, considering the last thing
Floyd | you remember was the very start of what seemed likely to be a quite
Floyd | terminal encounter with the ground at high speed.
Floyd |
Floyd | That's pretty much the first thing you remember, too, at least in any
Floyd | detail - there was some falling, and before that there was some kind
Floyd | of  argument, and before that, just a blank space in your mind where a
Floyd | life ought to go.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Ooh, good try with the praying."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       38
Floyd | >
Floyd | > XYZZY
Floyd |
Floyd | Belief is Justin de Vesine's entry in the 2012 Introcomp.  It is also
Floyd | less fully realized than it might be, but the important functional
Floyd | bits are (probably!) all there.  The cover photo is copyright Remy
Floyd | Saglier - Doubleray, and used under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
Floyd | license.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read coupon"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       39
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ COUPON
Floyd |
Floyd | (a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife)
Floyd | A coupon good for 50% off your ticket price for a day trip to Joseph
Floyd | and the Technicolor Discount Aftterlife - and a free drink ticket!  It
Floyd | says "No expiration date!" in big, ugly letters. The small print says
Floyd | the normal ticket price is one penny, payable to the ferryman at
Floyd | arrival.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says, "did we sit, maybe the wall'll spin around if we trigger it"
DavidW says, "I will entertain suggestions on how to get to another location."
Jacqueline says, "We started sitting, I think."
DavidW says, "I tried sitting on the bench. Nowhere else, though."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x desk"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       40
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | A pressed-metal desk with a fake wood veneer top.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull veneer"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       40
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PULL VENEER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open desk"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       41
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open drawer"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       41
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search desk"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       42
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nothing on the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look under desk"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       43
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       43
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | There are none at all available!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode asks, "climb on?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       44
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You look remarkably good, considering.  Not, for instance, entirely
Floyd | flat.  And you're still thinking, too.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bench"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       45
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BENCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on bench"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       46
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND ON BENCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You get onto the metal bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       46
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CEILING
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x roof"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       46
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ROOF
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x walls"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       46
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WALLS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       47
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the metal bench)
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wall"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       47
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WALL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       48
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paneling"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       49
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PANELING
Floyd |
Floyd | Unnatural coloring, precisely even faux-grain, and a slightly sticky
Floyd | texture.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       50
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       51
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "lick paneling"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       51
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LICK PANELING
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "taste it"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       52
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TASTE IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You taste nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub it"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       53
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RUB IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick it"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       53
Floyd | >
Floyd | > KICK IT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Now we're desperate. :)"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat it"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       54
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT IT
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the wood-veneer paneling)
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x hole"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       55
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | A little hole in the concrete floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hole"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       56
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wish"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       56
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WISH
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says, "stick the coupon to it"
Jacqueline asks, "to the...?"
jenrexrode says, "sticky wall"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put coupon on paneling"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       57
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT COUPON ON PANELING
Floyd |
Floyd | (a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife on the
Floyd | wood-veneer paneling)
Floyd | Putting things on the wood-veneer paneling would achieve nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says, "aw"
DavidW says, "Interesting idea, though."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read coupon"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       58
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ COUPON
Floyd |
Floyd | (a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife)
Floyd | A coupon good for 50% off your ticket price for a day trip to Joseph
Floyd | and the Technicolor Discount Aftterlife - and a free drink ticket!  It
Floyd | says "No expiration date!" in big, ugly letters. The small print says
Floyd | the normal ticket price is one penny, payable to the ferryman at
Floyd | arrival.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake bell"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       58
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHAKE BELL
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says, "maybe we can spiderman the sticky panelling"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb paneling"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       59
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CLIMB PANELING
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       60
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull paneling"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       61
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PULL PANELING
Floyd |
Floyd | It is fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter hole"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       62
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search paneling"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       63
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH PANELING
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       64
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       65
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       66
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       67
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       68
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a tap bell
Floyd |   a brochure
Floyd |   a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife
Floyd |   a halfpenny
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "curse"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       68
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CURSE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ring bell"
Floyd ]  Reception Room                                       69
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RING BELL
Floyd |
Floyd | You ring the tap bell.  The echo seems to last a very long time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says, "hm"
DavidW says, "oh, that's new"
Jacqueline asks, "That's different, isn't it?"
Jacqueline says, "Let's... ring it again."
DavidW says, "ok"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ring bell"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           70
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RING BELL
Floyd |
Floyd | You ring the tap bell.
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly, a swirling rush of dark water surges past you, knocking you
Floyd | off-balance and sending the bell flying.  A rough wooden platform
Floyd | glides soundlessly through the wall, as though the wall were nothing
Floyd | more than mist, and settles itself in front of you as the room fades
Floyd | slowly from view.
Floyd |
Floyd | Black Mist
Floyd | Deep mist obscures everything but the rough-hewn wooden platform and
Floyd | the dark water below it from view.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife
Floyd | and a halfpenny here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "aha"
DavidW says, "hooray"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           71
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife: You pick
Floyd | up a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife.
Floyd | halfpenny: You pick up the halfpenny.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x platform"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           72
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | A rough wooden platform.  A dark figure seems to be standing at the
Floyd | far end, concealed by the mists.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x figure"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           73
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FIGURE
Floyd |
Floyd | A dark figure standing in the mists, draped in a tattered robe and
Floyd | carrying a long pole.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give coupon to figure"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           73
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE COUPON TO FIGURE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to figure"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           73
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TALK TO FIGURE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x robe"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           73
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ROBE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ferryman"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           73
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FERRYMAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pole"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           73
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X POLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Perhaps we need to go north or something first."
jenrexrode says, "yeah"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x figure"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           74
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FIGURE
Floyd |
Floyd | A dark figure standing in the mists, draped in a tattered robe and
Floyd | carrying a long pole.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to figure"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           74
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GO TO FIGURE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I can see what was meant by 'speed if nature' references to this."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           75
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           76
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mists"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           76
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER MISTS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mists"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           76
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MISTS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mist"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           76
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MIST
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           77
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Black Mist
Floyd | Deep mist obscures everything but the rough-hewn wooden platform and
Floyd | the dark water below it from view.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x water"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           78
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WATER
Floyd |
Floyd | The dark water is cold but strangely not wet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch water"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           79
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TOUCH WATER
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           79
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SWIM
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x boat"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           79
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BOAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode asks, "are we on the platform?"
Jacqueline says, "Not sure."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on platform"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           79
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | You get onto the wooden ferry.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dark figure bends forward for a moment, staring at the coupon in
Floyd | your hand, then straightens and nods, plunging his pole into the
Floyd | water.  The wooden platform trembles, and there is a sensation of
Floyd | movement.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have begun your journey ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the
Floyd | last command?
Floyd | >
Jacqueline exclaims, "Oh, I guess not!"
DavidW says, "Omelet's ready! I'll be back later."
Ellison says, "huh, I didn't really understand most of that"
Jacqueline asks (of Ellison), "No?"
Jacqueline asks, "What, specifically?"
Ellison says, "like, the significance of the bell, mainly"
Jacqueline says, "I believe that's part of the myth."
Jacqueline says, "Ringing a bell to cross over."
Jacqueline says, "Sadly, the only reference I can come up with respect to this is also from IF."
Jacqueline <--- Lame
Jacqueline asks, "Remember in Zork I, ringing the bell to open the gates of hell?"
Jacqueline says, "I think that was Z I."
Ellison says, "oh yeah. of course, I didn't really know that was a reference to anything, either."
Jacqueline says, "Anyway, and then Charon is another myth thing, the ferryman."
Ellison says, "the Arthur Yahtzee game also mixes Christian belief with Greek mythology while you are wandering around the Afterlife"
Jacqueline) Jacqueline says, "You know, the ferryman. As we all know from the Chris DeBurgh song."
Ellison asks, "I just think it's kind of crazy that such a sparse game supports >THINK. since when did >THINK become such an important verb?"
Jacqueline says, "I clearly need to go back and review some of this stuff, since I'm only remembering third and fourth source pop culture references."
Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Yeah, >THINK and >REMEMBER seem to have become somewhat common."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           79
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Black Mist
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "remember"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           79
Floyd | >
Floyd | > REMEMBER
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison says (to Floyd), "think about bell"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           79
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THINK ABOUT BELL
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "That, too, is sparsely implemented."
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Ellison says, "(just making sure >THINK ABOUT wasn't also supported)"
Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
Jacqueline asks, "Well, that was incredibly short, as reported - twenty minutes. What now, kids?"
Jacqueline says, "Also, I totally have Don't Pay the Ferryman in my head now. Thanks, vimes."
Ellison says, "I'm cool with starting something else or you getting a head start on transcripts"
Jacqueline says, "Head start is funny, given that I'm months behind."
Jacqueline says, "But yeah, that might be a good thing."
Jacqueline says, "I was churning through them on our primary computer, but it crashed and we're in limbo with it."
Jacqueline says, "So I think I may just start over on this machine."
Ellison says, "well, now you know how to get out of limbo so you should be fine"
Jacqueline says, "hahaha"
Jacqueline says, "TRUE"
Jacqueline says, "Okay, I'll do that, then. I'll leave the transcript going, if you guys want to play something else, feel free."
Jacqueline wanders off.
Ellison says, "sounds good. have fun."
jenrexrode says, "we never got the full score on speculative fiction"
jenrexrode says, "oh but dw is in omeletland"
DavidW says, "back"
DavidW says, "Omelet, zucchini slices, and walnut square eaten."
jenrexrode says, "yum"
DavidW says, "They don't use white sugar, but instead coconut sugar and agave honey."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "score"
Floyd ]  Black Mist                                           79
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SCORE
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no score in this story.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. borowski asks, "I guess clubfloyd was short today?"
Jacqueline says, "Very, yes."
Ellison says, "if you count the time Jacqueline worked on transcripts, it was very long"
Jacqueline says, "Heh."


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