  
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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| DavidW says, "I guess me, borowski, Gerynar, at least." | |||
| borowski asks, "Have we played all the recent Speed IF's?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I dunno. The last few never got put onto the archive." | |||
| borowski says, "Oh good, ifwiki mentions ones that have been played on CF" | |||
| DavidW says, "up to a point. ifwiki is behind on recent sessions, I think, unless Sam or Jacq updated it." | |||
| borowski says, "Ah, yeah, the latest looks like 2011" | |||
| DavidW asks, "I can't even remember what we played last week. Legend Lives was last NightFloyd, wasn't it?" | |||
| borowski says, "Yeah, last week was Slaver Kingdom" | |||
| DavidW says, "ah yes, and we finished ToaSK." | |||
| DavidW says, "(yay us)" | |||
| DavidW asks, "well, any suggestions on what to play?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Delusions, maybe?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't know how long that one is." | |||
| Marvin says, "No idea." | |||
| DavidW says, "hm, longer than 2 hours, I guess, based on Paul's review." | |||
| DavidW says, "It's supposed to be an excellent game, though." | |||
| borowski says (to DavidW), "You probably have a better idea of what we haven't or have played." | |||
| borowski says, "Delusions sounds good." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Any objects or comments from anyone else?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "er objections?" | |||
| Gerynar says, "no objections from over here" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepwalk delusions" | |||
| Floyd says (to DavidW), "Floyd doesn't know that game." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "list d" | |||
| Floyd says (to DavidW), "dampcamp dark dayforfreshsushi deadlikeants deadlineenchanter death death_waif degen delusns desert detectiv devours dewdrops dflieslike dinner ditch divis djibouti djinni doctorm dogslife doll down dramaqueen dreamhold dreamtrap2 dualtransform dullegriet dumont" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepwalk delusns" | |||
| Floyd says (to DavidW), "Floyd doesn't know that game." | DavidW asks, "am I doing it wrong?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load delusns" | |||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | E U I N Floyd | D L S O S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Press any key to begin.] | borowski says, "Sleepmask" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh" | |||
| borowski says, "You typed sleepwalk" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | |||
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
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Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Reality is so... unreal.
Floyd |
Floyd | The tangle of observations woven about it, humankind's utter lack of
Floyd | consensus, phases it to fit individual desires. Becoming and
Floyd | unbecoming, back and forth eternally, as it paradoxically coexists with
Floyd | and within infinite variations of itself...
Floyd |
Floyd | At least, that's what always surfaces in your mind whenever your own
Floyd | perception of reality is altered. Which is to say, ten or fifteen times
Floyd | a day. But it's your job, working to someday entertain others with new
Floyd | observations, new experiences, new realities. And after all, you signed
Floyd | up for the Project (as you well remember, even though it was close to
Floyd | five years ago), so you suppose it's entirely your fault if you don't
Floyd | like it. Which, when you think about it, you realise you do.
Floyd |
Floyd | Justy's voice reaches out to you from somewhere you can't see. "Okay,
Floyd | this should be it. One final test run to check any overload potential,
Floyd | and this world is done! I'm starting her up."
Floyd |
Floyd | A loud CLANK, and the Sphere begins spinning, with you inside it.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Brace yourself!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Bright lights.
Floyd |
Floyd | Pain.
Floyd |
Floyd | From somewhere off in your mind's distance, a telltale splash.
Floyd |
Floyd | Then, as the resounding thrums fade, a distorted ripple sweeps your
Floyd | vision clear, and all traces of the laboratory vanish from your senses.
Floyd |
Floyd | All five of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Wiped clean, twitching, anxious for new input.
Floyd |
Floyd | Virtual reality has become reality.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | E U I N
Floyd | D L S O S
Floyd | An Interactive Self-Discovery
Floyd | Copyright 1996, 1997 by C.E. Forman (ceforman@worldnet.att.net)
Floyd | All rights reserved, and don't you forget it.
Floyd | [Type HELP to learn the secrets of the universe.]
Floyd | Release 4 / Serial number 971121 / Inform v6.14 Library 6/6
Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0
Floyd |
Floyd | Coral Reef
Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed,
Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves.
Floyd |
Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability
Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat,
Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond
Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but
Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened.
Floyd |
Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and
Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Wsswstndd
Floyd | jqgahergg kidrgdlgll dij d's Wsswstndd jqgahergg kidrgdlgll dij
Floyd | d, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension.
Floyd |
Floyd | Only Justy's disembodied voice betrays the presence of a virtual
Floyd | reality. "I estimate at max one potential for overload, maybe two. This
Floyd | one isn't all that complex, compared to the lab sim. Cynthesiser's got
Floyd | the analysis sweep running in the background, so you may feel some
Floyd | slight distortion. It's nothing to worry about. Just give us a typical
Floyd | walk -- or should I say, swim? -- through it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | |||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "y" | |||
Floyd | | |||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask delusns" | |||
Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Human kind Floyd ] Cannot bear very much reality. Floyd ] Floyd ] -- T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton (1936) Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | E U I N Floyd | D L S O S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Press any key to begin.] | |||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Reality is so... unreal. Floyd | Floyd | The tangle of observations woven about it, humankind's utter lack of Floyd | consensus, phases it to fit individual desires. Becoming and Floyd | unbecoming, back and forth eternally, as it paradoxically coexists Floyd | with and within infinite variations of itself... Floyd | Floyd | At least, that's what always surfaces in your mind whenever your own Floyd | perception of reality is altered. Which is to say, ten or fifteen Floyd | times a day. But it's your job, working to someday entertain others Floyd | with new observations, new experiences, new realities. And after all, Floyd | you signed up for the Project (as you well remember, even though it Floyd | was close to five years ago), so you suppose it's entirely your fault Floyd | if you don't like it. Which, when you think about it, you realise you Floyd | do. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice reaches out to you from somewhere you can't see. "Okay, Floyd | this should be it. One final test run to check any overload potential, Floyd | and this world is done! I'm starting her up." Floyd | Floyd | A loud CLANK, and the Sphere begins spinning, with you inside it. Floyd | Floyd | "Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | Bright lights. Floyd | Floyd | Pain. Floyd | Floyd | From somewhere off in your mind's distance, a telltale splash. Floyd | Floyd | Then, as the resounding thrums fade, a distorted ripple sweeps your Floyd | vision clear, and all traces of the laboratory vanish from your Floyd | senses. Floyd | Floyd | All five of them. Floyd | Floyd | Wiped clean, twitching, anxious for new input. Floyd | Floyd | Virtual reality has become reality. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | E U I N Floyd | D L S O S Floyd | An Interactive Self-Discovery Floyd | Copyright 1996, 1997 by C.E. Forman (ceforman@worldnet.att.net) Floyd | All rights reserved, and don't you forget it. Floyd | [Type HELP to learn the secrets of the universe.] Floyd | Release 4 / Serial number 971121 / Inform v6.14 Library 6/6 Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Strauss' "Blue Floyd | Danube" Waltz, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Only Justy's disembodied voice betrays the presence of a virtual Floyd | reality. "I estimate at max one potential for overload, maybe two. Floyd | This one isn't all that complex, compared to the lab sim. Floyd | Cynthesiser's got the analysis sweep running in the background, so you Floyd | may feel some slight distortion. It's nothing to worry about. Just Floyd | give us a typical walk -- or should I say, swim? -- through it." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're a fish. Specifically, a yellow-finned grouper. Quite a Floyd | nice-looking one too, as fish go. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "lemme know when you've read all that." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x coral" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X CORAL Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x swim" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X SWIM Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "swim" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | You swim around in a tight circle. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Marvin says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Glière's Russian Floyd | Sailor's Dance, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "we can go east or west, I think it said." | ||
| Marvin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, ">RUN AWAY!" | ||
| DavidW says, "swim away!" | |||
| Marvin says (to Floyd), "x octopus" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X OCTOPUS Floyd | Floyd | Its enormous grey-green body is soft and oval, encircled at the base Floyd | by eight deadly sucker-studded tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side before targeting a specific segment with an Floyd | index finger. "Here," she emphasises to Justy. "According to the Floyd | sweep, the interpreter stack may be unstable." Floyd | Floyd | "Where is it?" Justy inquires. Floyd | Floyd | "Can't tell. It's a global event routine, not embedded in a specific Floyd | object. Damn this pseudo-OO compiler." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Take a break, come back after you've Floyd | recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | This thick volume is the Project's documentation, most of which has Floyd | been filled in in bits and pieces as developments have occurred. A lot Floyd | of it is hopelessly disorganized, despite Dr Shimada's efforts to Floyd | outline an index (which was some time ago). The cracked black leather Floyd | binder bears the Project logo. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "goodness, lotsa stuff" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > READ MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | The technical manual has several hundred pages. It'd be more efficient Floyd | to look up specific topics. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x logo" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X LOGO Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up project in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP PROJECT IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The Project's central terminal is located in the VR lab and is Floyd | interfaced with the Cray ZMP-2010X and Sphere, but is otherwise Floyd | isolated from the rest of the Corporation net (for security purposes). Floyd | Control of the various system components is handled through a GUI Floyd | (Graphical User Interface) which serves as the Project's operating Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Configure Icon, Cray ZMP-2010X, Debug Icon, Flush Icon, Floyd | Launch Icon, Report Icon, Sphere, System Icon Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | Marvin says, ""EXAMINE OCTOPUS" "You spend the next ten minutes trying to catch up on all the text that just filled your mud client."" | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "look up cray zmp-2010x" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 3
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UP CRAY ZMP-2010X
Floyd |
Floyd | (in the Project's technical manual)
Floyd | You find the following:
Floyd |
Floyd | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Floyd | The Cray ZMP-2010X, located in the Output Station, provides central
Floyd | processing, storage, and printing functions to the VR operating
Floyd | system. It is interfaced with the lab terminal via coaxial cables and
Floyd | fiber-optic bundles. Printing of the current system status is
Floyd | controlled via the "report" function of the O/S. Due to the severe
Floyd | paper shortages, it is necessary that the previous printout be
Floyd | recycled (through the built-in slot attached to the printer).
Floyd |
Floyd | SEE ALSO: Lab Terminal, Report Icon
Floyd | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| borowski asks, "Severe paper shortages? What about VR PAPER?" | ||
| DavidW says, "heh" | |||
| Gerynar says, "well, at least it looks like it recycles paper itself" | |||
| DavidW asks, "We're not in VR right now... or are we?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You can't see yourself without a mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and Floyd | a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "we're out of the VR because of the unstable <mumble-mumble>" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fingerwatch" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X FINGERWATCH Floyd | Floyd | Like anyone in today's highly time-controlled society, you have a Floyd | small clock affixed to your right index finger, continuously winking Floyd | the correct time, according to the International Chronometer. Floyd | Floyd | It has a built-in alarm which can be set to alert you with a painful Floyd | little jolt when the timer expires. (It's also digital, which you Floyd | always thought was pretty neat.) Floyd | Floyd | Currently, your fingerwatch reads "3132". Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "If VR is ever invented, it better not simulate reading a manual." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up sphere in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP SPHERE IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The Sphere is an anti-gravity gyroscope that provides the sim user Floyd | with the weightlessness necessary for the virtual experience to take Floyd | over. The Sphere is the focal point for all sim-related activity Floyd | within the system. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Cray ZMP-2010X, Fail-Safe Lever, Lab Terminal, VR Suit Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar is having visions of lawnmower man now | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vr suit" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | The VR suit, a full-body outfit of spandex and kevlar, hangs on a rack Floyd | against one wall. It fits tightly and is strung with a network of Floyd | millions of tiny sensory-output devices. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "look up lawnmower man in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP LAWNMOWER MAN IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up vr suit in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP VR SUIT IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The VR suit is laced with sensors and provides the user of a sim with Floyd | tactile feedback. Its counterpart, the helmet, contains eyephones and Floyd | earphones, and also interfaces directly with the subject's brain to Floyd | artificially stimulate the senses of smell and taste. Floyd | Floyd | The suit is also equipped with a replaceable flexi-plast receptacle Floyd | for the containment of bodily waste, as control of such functions is Floyd | relinquished in a full-sensory VR. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Configure Icon, Sphere. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "charming" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up configure icon" | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "look up configure icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | (in the Project's technical manual) Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "configure" icon allows the operator to change sensory output Floyd | settings for a VR. Changes made during a session do not take effect Floyd | until the sim is reloaded. Floyd | Floyd | All users have access to this program. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | (in the Project's technical manual) Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "configure" icon allows the operator to change sensory output Floyd | settings for a VR. Changes made during a session do not take effect Floyd | until the sim is reloaded. Floyd | Floyd | All users have access to this program. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "scary that I'm thinking the same thing as a veteran IF gamer" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x glass tank" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X GLASS TANK Floyd | Floyd | This tank used to house an android that performed a lot of the Floyd | preliminary VR diagnostics, but you're not sure what happened to it Floyd | (the android, that is). Odd, that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up android in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP ANDROID IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | VR androids, manufactured by other divisions within the Corporation, Floyd | are another protective tool, used in the early stages of VR sim Floyd | debugging. Equipped with limited neural-network processors, they are Floyd | strapped into the sphere and used to perform preliminary VR Floyd | diagnostics to avoid the dangers to a human brain in the event of any Floyd | serious bugs in a virtual sensory reality. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Debug Icon, Fail-Safe Lever, Sphere, VR Viruses Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "look up fail-safe lever" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 3
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UP FAIL-SAFE LEVER
Floyd |
Floyd | (in the Project's technical manual)
Floyd | You find the following:
Floyd |
Floyd | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Floyd | Built into one corner of the Sphere is a fail-safe lever that may be
Floyd | pulled to prematurely shut down a sim when a person is inside. This
Floyd | feature is equipped with its own fusion cell and is of vital
Floyd | importance in the event of power outages or other system glitches. If
Floyd | a sim is not shut down properly using the fail-safe mechanism,
Floyd | permanent damage to the brain is likely to result from the abrupt
Floyd | termination of the human-computer synapse.
Floyd |
Floyd | SEE ALSO: Android, Sphere
Floyd | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up vr viruses in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP VR VIRUSES IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Rather than simply crashing systems or corrupting files, the creators Floyd | of early VR viruses took a more sinister purpose: By manipulating the Floyd | operation of VR hardware, the viruses were able to produce incredibly Floyd | bright lights and loud, high-pitched sounds that could actually blind Floyd | or deafen users due to the equipment's close proximity to the sensory Floyd | organs. Fear of this uncorrectable damage to persons instilled fear in Floyd | the technology, ultimately pushing it by the wayside. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "eep" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x justy" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X JUSTY Floyd | Floyd | His bright eyes gleam through thick glasses framed by short brown hair Floyd | and a small gold loop through his left earlobe. Floyd | Floyd | Looking at Justy again, you see... not an old friend, but someone Floyd | else, someone different. Someone you've only begun to get to know Floyd | recently... Very curious. Floyd | Floyd | Or were you just thinking of someone else...? Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar vf ortvaavat gb guvax gung jr ner gur naqebvq | ||
| DavidW asks, "do you guys want to read more manual or explore our surroundings a bit?" | |||
| Gerynar says, "I feel like exploring" | |||
| borowski says, "Yeah" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Cynthia went nw, I think?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Try that way first?" | |||
| borowski says, "Sure" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia busies herself with the VR analysis system. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x picture" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those pictures made up of a matrix of coloured dots, Floyd | arranged to form a three-dimensional image when stared at long enough Floyd | with one's eyes crossed. You've never understood why Cynthia (who is Floyd | blind) would keep such a thing around. Floyd | Floyd | Wait a minute... If you squint your eyes just right... There! It looks Floyd | like a giant sundial gnomon, with an atomic mushroom cloud erupting Floyd | behind. Floyd | Floyd | Truly bizarre that you never recognised it until this moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh. Trinity ref." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x cynthia" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X CYNTHIA Floyd | Floyd | Black lenses hide failed eyes, but Cynthia's other senses are even Floyd | sharper than your own. Her long hair spills down her back in thick Floyd | dreadlocks the same colour as a curious symbol tattooed on her right Floyd | forearm. Floyd | Floyd | There's a pencil tucked behind her ear. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x tattoo" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X TATTOO Floyd | Floyd | An unrecognisable (to you) symbol, an eight-pointed star with a single Floyd | letter at each point (two at each of the diagonals), done in black Floyd | ink. It's hard to see clearly against Cynthia's dark skin. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "A compass rose?" | ||
| borowski says, "Sounds like it" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about tattoo" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT TATTOO Floyd | Floyd | She smiles. "It's so I'll never get lost." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "ask Cynthia about tattoo" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT TATTOO Floyd | Floyd | She smiles. "It's so I'll never get lost." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh" | ||
| Gerynar says, "ok, that was just spooky" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pencil" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X PENCIL Floyd | Floyd | The point is broken off. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "ask Cynthia about report" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT REPORT Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Yes. Yes we do." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about everything" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT EVERYTHING Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "heh" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about project" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT PROJECT Floyd | Floyd | "My work's almost done here. I'll be leaving the Project soon." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vr analysis" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X VR ANALYSIS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x report" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X REPORT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about justy" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT JUSTY Floyd | Floyd | "He annoys the heck outta me sometimes." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about me" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT ME Floyd | Floyd | "C'mon, go away. I've got to concentrate." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about android" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Explore elsewhere?" | ||
| borowski says, "yeah" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x racks" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X RACKS Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cray" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X CRAY Floyd | Floyd | One of the larger exabyte systems, though you're not familiar with the Floyd | exact configuration. Its most familiar feature is a built-in printer, Floyd | with a recycling slot for immediate paper reprocessing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x printer" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X PRINTER Floyd | Floyd | One of the larger exabyte systems, though you're not familiar with the Floyd | exact configuration. Its most familiar feature is a built-in printer, Floyd | with a recycling slot for immediate paper reprocessing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x media" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X MEDIA Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "So I guess there's just the cray in here." | ||
| borowski says, "Yeah I guess this is where we go after printing" | |||
| DavidW asks, "gonna try ne of lab next, ok?" | |||
| borowski says, "Yeah, let's explore every direction in turn" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X TONGS Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the pair of kitchen tongs that you didn't Floyd | already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TONGS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | The microwave oven is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | The microwave oven is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see inside, since the refrigerator part of the combination Floyd | refrigerator/freezer is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "aw, no fridge magnets?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You close the refrigerator part of the combination Floyd | refrigerator/freezer. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, ">MICROWAVE METAL TONGS" | ||
| DavidW says, "One slice of pizza for three people. Yeah, that'll work." | |||
| borowski asks, "Should we heat up the pizza?" | |||
| DavidW says, "no, not yet." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'd like to see the lay of the land first before doing anything irrevocable." | |||
| borowski says, "And then eat it in front of Cynthia, saying, "Is this part of EVERYTHING?"" | |||
| borowski says (to DavidW), "sounds good" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on light" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since the metal door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x metal door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X METAL DOOR Floyd | Floyd | It's a solid iron door leading to your quarters. Curiously, the Floyd | locking mechanism is on this side. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the metal door, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock metal door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK METAL DOOR Floyd | Floyd | It's already unlocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | You open the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin and an amplifier (on which is a Floyd | bow) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x north wall" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X NORTH WALL Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the north wall that you didn't already Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pilloqw" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X PILLOQW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pillow" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the pillow that you didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x painting" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | It's "The Crucified Serpent," one of Giger's earlier works (1975), Floyd | depicting an enormous metallic T-bar on which is draped a large snake Floyd | with a face vaguely similar to that of Christ. Wisps of mist billow Floyd | out from behind the crucifix, illuminated by lights angling upward Floyd | from short black cylinders. Floyd | Floyd | Odd, this. You can't seem to recall any details of the auction. In Floyd | fact, you don't remember buying it at all. A mental doubt surfaces as Floyd | to whether or not it's really the original. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | A sleek black instrument, with round shoulders, a narrow neck, and Floyd | graceful f-shaped curves on either side of a set of four strings. It Floyd | has the Stradivari Corporation maker's mark on its bulging back. Floyd | Floyd | Looking again at the instrument, you feel a tinge of unfamiliarity, Floyd | and shiver. You can't recall any early lessons, when you were just Floyd | learning to play, though it wasn't all that long ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "getting a bit of a Twilight Zone vibe here." | ||
| borowski says, "Yeah, something is going on or we're going crazy" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pillow" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "identity confusion of some sort" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | It's not plugged in. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Ah, it's an electric Stradivari" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on bed" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND ON BED Floyd | Floyd | You lie down on your bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off your bed. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin and an amplifier (on which is a Floyd | bow) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb shelves" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get into the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Huh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter alcove" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER ALCOVE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb shelves" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You doubt the shelves would support you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters (in the shadowy alcove) Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin and an amplifier (on which is a Floyd | bow) here. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin and an amplifier (on which is a Floyd | bow) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x syringe" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | You've had diabetes mellitus since childhood, which necessitates an Floyd | injection of NPH insulin several times daily. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the hypodermic syringe, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x take syringe" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X TAKE SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take syringe" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plywood" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X PLYWOOD Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "plug in violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG IN VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the electric violin) Floyd | You plug the electric violin into the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plasterboard" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X PLASTERBOARD Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take bow" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOW Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | Too awkward, with everything you're carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "get on desk" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ON DESK Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about your desk that you didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chair" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "maybe we can reach the top shelf with the bow?" | ||
| borowski says, "I'm going to try dropping something and playing real quick" | |||
| DavidW says, "okay" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "drop pillow and tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP PILLOW AND TONGS Floyd | Floyd | pillow: Dropped. Floyd | pair of kitchen tongs: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | (turning the amplifier on) Floyd | Tucking one end of the instrument firmly under your chin, its neck Floyd | held firmly in your right hand, you run the bow in your left expertly Floyd | over the strings. With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from Floyd | the instrument a sonorous croon that manifests itself as Haydn's Floyd | Serenade. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | A sleek black instrument, with round shoulders, a narrow neck, and Floyd | graceful f-shaped curves on either side of a set of four strings. It Floyd | has the Stradivari Corporation maker's mark on its bulging back. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "So I guess we can play well, though we don't remember taking lessons?" | ||
| DavidW says, "mmhm" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take all" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | pair of kitchen tongs: Taken. Floyd | pillow: Taken. Floyd | painting by H.R. Giger: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Now you remember why you hung it here in the first place: There's a Floyd | large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard wall. Floyd | amplifier: It's pretty heavy. You'd have to drop everything you're Floyd | carrying before you could lift it. (It does have casters attached to Floyd | the underside, though.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It could be a memory implant, I suppose. Or our memory is faulty." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x niche" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X NICHE Floyd | Floyd | A square depression, roughly fifteen centimetres to a side and ten Floyd | deep, carved into the wall in a way that is not aesthetically pleasing Floyd | in the least (which is why you hung the painting over it). Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "ah amplifier has casters, eh?" | ||
| borowski says, "Interesting" | |||
| DavidW says, "push amplifier into alcove" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push amplifier into alcove" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH AMPLIFIER INTO ALCOVE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Let's bug Cynthia by playing a song" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push amplifier" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH AMPLIFIER Floyd | Floyd | It rolls a little. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "push amplifier ne" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH AMPLIFIER NE Floyd | Floyd | (setting the violin on top of it) Floyd | You roll the amplifier along with you. Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand on amplifier" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND ON AMPLIFIER Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb amplifier" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB AMPLIFIER Floyd | Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb shelves" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You doubt the shelves would support you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit top shelf with bow" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > HIT TOP SHELF WITH BOW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "reach top shelf" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > REACH TOP SHELF Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Using the bow might work, but I can't think of the best verb" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch top shelf" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH TOP SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "or maybe the tongs" | ||
| borowski says, ">WHACK AT SELF WITH BOW" | |||
| borowski says, "Ah, that's an idea" | |||
| DavidW says, "'top shelf' isn't recognized" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think we have to get higher, but I'm surprised we can't get onto the amp." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "use tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > USE TONGS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch shelves with bow" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH SHELVES WITH BOW Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to touch plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit shelves" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > HIT SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | Pointless destruction. How typically human. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "push shelves" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You shake the shelves slightly and hear something roll back and forth Floyd | along the top, before it abruptly rattles down behind the shelves, Floyd | lost. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ack" | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "That might have worked." | ||
| borowski says, "If we could have then moved the shelves. Maybe." | |||
| DavidW says, "well, something to remember for later" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look in niche" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN NICHE Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look behind shelves" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Could playing the violin with the amp in the alcove set up vibrations that help?" | ||
| borowski says, "Hmm that's an idea" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "drop pillow, painting, and tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 4
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP PILLOW, PAINTING, AND TONGS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| borowski says (to Floyd), "drop pillow and tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP PILLOW AND TONGS Floyd | Floyd | pillow: Dropped. Floyd | pair of kitchen tongs: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters (in the shadowy alcove) Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is an electric violin) here. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see a pair of kitchen tongs, a pillow Floyd | and plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "get amplifyer" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GET AMPLIFYER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "get amp" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GET AMP Floyd | Floyd | It's pretty heavy. You'd have to drop everything you're carrying Floyd | before you could lift it. (It does have casters attached to the Floyd | underside, though.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar asks, "can we put the amp in the alcove?" | ||
| DavidW says, "we did" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is an electric violin) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You unplug the electric violin and pick it up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "sorry, also browsing the web, missed that" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | It's not plugged in. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look in niche" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN NICHE Floyd | Floyd | The niche is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plug in violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG IN VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You plug the electric violin into the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | Too awkward, with everything you're carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying an electric violin, a painting by H.R. Giger, a bow Floyd | and a hypodermic syringe. You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and Floyd | a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop painting" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop syringe" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Bizet's Les Toréadors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a hypodermic syringe, a painting by H.R. Giger and an Floyd | amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "turn amp up" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN AMP UP Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to turn the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x amp" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X AMP Floyd | Floyd | Typical of high-tech user-oriented electronic devices, its controls Floyd | are limited to a single power switch and a fader for volume control. Floyd | It's powered by its own fusion cell as well; no cord is required. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "turn amp on" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN AMP ON Floyd | Floyd | That's already on. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fader" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X FADER Floyd | Floyd | It's a circular knob with settings from 0 - 10, currently set to 4. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "turn knob to 10" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNOB TO 10 Floyd | Floyd | You turn the fader to 10. The humming grows in volume. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hee" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn knob to 11" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNOB TO 11 Floyd | Floyd | The fader only has settings from 0 - 10. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Pillow in alcove might be an idea too." | ||
| DavidW says, "In case the unknown object is fragile." | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "get pillow" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get into the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I dropped it there" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, it's already there? fine" | |||
| Gerynar says, "it fell behind and no mention of breakage" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Strauss' The Hero's Floyd | Battlefield. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fader" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X FADER Floyd | Floyd | It's a circular knob with settings from 0 - 10, currently set to 10. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x amp" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X AMP Floyd | Floyd | Typical of high-tech user-oriented electronic devices, its controls Floyd | are limited to a single power switch and a fader for volume control. Floyd | It's powered by its own fusion cell as well; no cord is required. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "maybe another setting would be required for resonance, but there's no way to easily guess that, or if that's even what to do." | ||
| Gerynar asks, "can we put the amp on the shelves?" | |||
| DavidW says, "We can't lift it." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit niche" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > HIT NICHE Floyd | Floyd | Pointless destruction. How typically human. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "It also might be used somewhere else. We still have a number of directions to explore." | ||
| DavidW asks, "perhaps explore more, find a flashlight?" | |||
| Gerynar says, "sounds like a plan" | |||
| DavidW asks, "maybe a beer for that lonely pizza slice?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying an electric violin and a bow. You are wearing a Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop bow" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP BOW Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off amp" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN OFF AMP Floyd | Floyd | The humming fades away with a crackle of static. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x watch" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X WATCH Floyd | Floyd | Like anyone in today's highly time-controlled society, you have a Floyd | small clock affixed to your right index finger, continuously winking Floyd | the correct time, according to the International Chronometer. Floyd | Floyd | It has a built-in alarm which can be set to alert you with a painful Floyd | little jolt when the timer expires. (It's also digital, which you Floyd | always thought was pretty neat.) Floyd | Floyd | Currently, your fingerwatch reads "4635". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal gurney, an IV stand and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x gurney" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X GURNEY Floyd | Floyd | A flat metal stretcher with wheels attached. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on it" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND ON IT Floyd | Floyd | You lie down on the gurney. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal gurney, an IV stand and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X STAND Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the IV stand that you didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You open the medical cabinet, revealing a power X-Acto knife, a Floyd | gelstrip and an antitoxin caplet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "gelstrip" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GELSTRIP Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gelstrip" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X GELSTRIP Floyd | Floyd | A thick strip of gelatinised gauze, laced with antibiotics and Floyd | blood-clotting agents, all of which have really long medical names, Floyd | like "protoprocoaguloeolytothromboplastinol." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "that'll come in handy if one of the meat people get damaged" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x caplet" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X CAPLET Floyd | Floyd | A small white caplet with a red band around the centre. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x knife" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | A round-handled electrical cutting tool with a sharp, vibrating (and Floyd | replaceable) blade. It's powered by its own internal fusion cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x knife" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | A round-handled electrical cutting tool with a sharp, vibrating (and Floyd | replaceable) blade. It's powered by its own internal fusion cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "continue our tour?" | ||
| borowski asks, "Take all?" | |||
| DavidW says, "no, not yet" | |||
| borowski says, "Onward then" | |||
| DavidW says, "we seem to have inventory awkwardness with climbing and playing violin, and there's no rucksack in sight." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Justy's Quarters Floyd | Justy's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only a Floyd | bed, desk, and a few of Justy's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall is completely taken up Justy's film library. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging nearby is a framed sketch by M.C. Escher. Floyd | Floyd | A large holovision set dominates the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x library" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X LIBRARY Floyd | Floyd | Justy's collection of science-fiction films includes the complete Floyd | "Star Wars" saga, the "Terminator" trilogy, and both the 2001 remake Floyd | and classic 1926 versions of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x star wars" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X STAR WARS Floyd | Floyd | Justy's collection of science-fiction films includes the complete Floyd | "Star Wars" saga, the "Terminator" trilogy, and both the 2001 remake Floyd | and classic 1926 versions of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | Justy's desk is bare. (He does most of his work out in the lab.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bed" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X BED Floyd | Floyd | Just a simple mattress and box springs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "watch metropolis" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > WATCH METROPOLIS Floyd | Floyd | Justy's collection of science-fiction films includes the complete Floyd | "Star Wars" saga, the "Terminator" trilogy, and both the 2001 remake Floyd | and classic 1926 versions of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play metropolis" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY METROPOLIS Floyd | Floyd | Quit playing around. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x escher" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X ESCHER Floyd | Floyd | The charcoal sketch depicts a stream, flowing upwards at impossible Floyd | angles through a square-edged canal before cascading downward from a Floyd | minaret to begin the process anew. (Unlike your Giger, though, this Floyd | isn't the original.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take escher" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ESCHER Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing behind it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose west of lab ought to be a communal bathroom, but we should check it out anyway." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x tv set" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X TV SET Floyd | Floyd | The dark, glassy eye of the holoscreen stares vacantly back. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn on tv" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON TV Floyd | Floyd | The holovision screen lights up as the set clicks on, broadcasting a Floyd | "Jeopardy" match already in progress. Floyd | Floyd | Three contestants stand behind podiums labelled, from left to right Floyd | (from your perspective), "Tom," "Lisa," and "Brian." Tom currently has Floyd | $1400, Lisa's score is $1200, and Brian trails hopelessly behind with Floyd | -$900. Hovering beside the matrix of blue question screens in a Floyd | transparent plastic bubble is Jeopardy's host, the once-cryogenically Floyd | frozen head of Alex Trebek. Floyd | Floyd | "What is Planck's constant?" asks Lisa. Floyd | Floyd | "Correct," states Alex. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "change channel" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > CHANGE CHANNEL Floyd | Floyd | You cycle through the other channels (all 1023 of them), but discover Floyd | nothing even remotely entertaining. Floyd | Floyd | "I'll take interactive fiction for 400." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hee" | ||
| Gerynar says, "just like TV today" | |||
| DavidW says, "mm" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "watch tv" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > WATCH TV Floyd | Floyd | Three contestants stand behind podiums labelled, from left to right Floyd | (from your perspective), "Tom," "Lisa," and "Brian." Tom currently has Floyd | $1400, Lisa's score is $1400, and Brian trails hopelessly behind with Floyd | -$900. Hovering beside the matrix of blue question screens in a Floyd | transparent plastic bubble is Jeopardy's host, the once-cryogenically Floyd | frozen head of Alex Trebek. Floyd | Floyd | "Currently the CEO of the BranMuffin World Conglomerate, she was the Floyd | original editor of XYZZYnews." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Who is Eileen Mullin?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "Who is Eileen Mullin?" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 4
Floyd |
Floyd | > WHO IS EILEEN MULLIN?
Floyd |
Floyd | Sure, anyone can spit out "Jeopardy" questions in front of the tube,
Floyd | but it's a lot harder when you're standing up there under those hot
Floyd | fluorescent lights in front of a live studio audience. (Not that I
Floyd | know from experience, or anything.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| borowski says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says, "ha ha" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Tom taps his buzzer. "Who is Eileen Mullin?" Floyd | Floyd | Alex's head nods (an amusing sight when it's not attached to a body). Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski gives DavidW $400 | ||
| DavidW says, "danke" | |||
| DavidW asks, "turn off the tv and continue the tour?" | |||
| borowski says, "sure" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off tv" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN OFF TV Floyd | Floyd | You switch the holovision set off. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and Floyd | a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in tank" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN TANK Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look south" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK SOUTH Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cable" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABLE Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "south?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lavatory Floyd | Dank and cold, these facilities contain only the usual fixtures -- Floyd | toilet, shower stall, and a dripping, rust-stained washbasin. On the Floyd | wall above the last is an off-colour rectangle, where a mirror once Floyd | hung, but no longer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X TOILET Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x stall" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X STALL Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x washbasin" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X WASHBASIN Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x rectangle" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X RECTANGLE Floyd | Floyd | As far as you can remember, there has never been a mirror here. It Floyd | must have been removed before you came to the Project. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the place where a mirror once hung, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "I wonder if we should take note of these strange feelings?" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, it's possible that any object examined might trigger that message." | |||
| borowski says, "That's true" | |||
| DavidW asks, "or maybe it's a clue to re-examine it later?" | |||
| borowski says, "Or maybe we visit a different version of this reality? I'm just guessing." | |||
| borowski says, "I've never been to the future before." | |||
| borowski asks, "n & w?" | |||
| DavidW says, "please do" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n,w" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > N,W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | You can't, since Dr Shimada's office door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada prefers if you knock first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to knock on? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | "Come in," says Dr Shimada, politely but firmly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open Dr Shimada's office door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada's Office Floyd | With the Project approaching conclusion, Dr Shimada's workload has Floyd | increased geometrically. Several open and disarrayed filing cabinets Floyd | and the layer of paperwork covering her desktop and computer belie her Floyd | typical attention to immaculacy. Floyd | Floyd | On your right is a small wooden shelf, bulging with assorted books. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada works furiously at her desk. Floyd | Floyd | On Dr Shimada's desk are a three-hole punch and Dr Shimada's cellular Floyd | phone. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x books" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | All of the great works, eastern and western, of literature, Floyd | philosophy, and religion (on CD-ROM, of course). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dr" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X DR Floyd | Floyd | Dr Hyechong Shimada is the Project's director, working under the Floyd | control of the Executives. Following Justy's recommendation, she was Floyd | the one who recruited you for your current position. Floyd | Floyd | You've worked under Dr Shimada for years, but are still unable to say Floyd | that you truly know her due to her intensely private nature. Floyd | Half-Chinese, half-Japanese, she was transferred in from the Floyd | Corporation's Kyushu office to direct the Project. Floyd | Floyd | The jagged scars on her face and hands mark Dr Shimada as a survivor Floyd | of the Great Cancer, and give her already dogmatic presence an Floyd | artificial air of fierceness (which you suspect she secretly enjoys). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x punch" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X PUNCH Floyd | Floyd | A page-length three-hole punch, used to punch three holes (hence the Floyd | name) in pages to be added to the Project binder. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x phone" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X PHONE Floyd | Floyd | The digits 1 through 9 are arrayed in a 3x3 matrix like a keyboard's Floyd | numeric cluster, with 0 and a "REDIAL" button below. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x phone" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X PHONE Floyd | Floyd | The digits 1 through 9 are arrayed in a 3x3 matrix like a keyboard's Floyd | numeric cluster, with 0 and a "REDIAL" button below. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask dr about project" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK DR ABOUT PROJECT Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada waves you away impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "OK, another person we have to play a song for." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x computer" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about Dr Shimada's desk that you didn't already Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABINET Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "tell doctor about experiment" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TELL DOCTOR ABOUT EXPERIMENT Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada waves you away impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose the Dr herself, the hole punch(?), and the phone are the important parts." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and Floyd | a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do we really have anything to ask her yet?" | ||
| borowski says, ">PILLOW FIGHT" | |||
| borowski says (to DavidW), "I don't think so." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask dr about android" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK DR ABOUT ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada waves you away impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I was thinking we could talk about the failed experiment where we were eaten by an octopus." | ||
| DavidW says, "well, probably not. We do sim runs like that all the time." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask dr for raise" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK DR FOR RAISE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask dr for phone" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK DR FOR PHONE Floyd | Floyd | No one uses Dr Shimada's phone but Dr Shimada. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask dr about punch" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK DR ABOUT PUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada waves you away impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "dial phone" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > DIAL PHONE Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada gives you a "look" that makes you change your mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I still haven't seen a portable lightsource." | ||
| Gerynar says, "I'm wondering if it was a flashlight that was rolling around on the top shelf" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh. Maybe." | |||
| DavidW asks, "I'm not sure what to do with the Dr yet. Perhaps try to use the elevator? Or go down from lab?" | |||
| borowski says, "Yeah, let's try the elevator" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (closing Dr Shimada's office door on the way out) Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open elevator" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN ELEVATOR Floyd | Floyd | The doors don't open from this side, and there's no call button. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hmph" | ||
| borowski says, "Trapped at work!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x elevator doors" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X ELEVATOR DOORS Floyd | Floyd | The only way out of this sub-basement. Floyd | Floyd | You can't remember what's up there, though you must have seen the Floyd | Complex on your way down. Has it really been that long ago? Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the freight elevator, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "hmm" | ||
| DavidW asks, "also, why is there a lock on the outside of our quarters?" | |||
| borowski says, "Interesting." | |||
| DavidW asks, "down from lab?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "drat. Another dark zone." | ||
| borowski asks, "Did we try moving the shelf?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Surely 'move' is the same as 'push'?" | |||
| borowski says, "I mean moving them away from the wall." | |||
| Gerynar has disconnected. | |||
| Gerynar has connected. | borowski asks, "Or maybe the tongs can reach behind?" | ||
| Gerynar says, "or we can pull it" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, you can try, of course. Please save first when you get there." | |||
| 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 ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | If there are any exits other than the stairs, they're blocked by the Floyd | mounds of old hardware and conveyors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a bow, an electric violin, a hypodermic syringe, a Floyd | painting by H.R. Giger and an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see a pair of kitchen tongs, a pillow Floyd | and plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Might try cutting the niche with the knife from the med lab." | ||
| borowski says, "Oh right, it's made of plaster" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "pull shelf" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PULL SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You shake the shelves slightly and hear something roll back and forth Floyd | along the top, before it abruptly rattles down behind the shelves, Floyd | lost. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I need a washroom break anyways. Back in a bit." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "pull shelf" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PULL SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You shake the shelves slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TONGS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take thing with tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE THING WITH TONGS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "reach behind shelf" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > REACH BEHIND SHELF Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "search shelves" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the plywood shelves that you didn't already Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look behind shelf" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the plywood shelves that you didn't already Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmm, I guess I'll restore and try the knife thing" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf1" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 5
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| borowski says (to Floyd), "up" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal gurney, an IV stand and a medical cabinet (in Floyd | which are a power X-Acto knife, a gelstrip and an antitoxin caplet) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take knife" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a bow, an electric violin, a hypodermic syringe, a Floyd | painting by H.R. Giger and an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cut plasterboard with knife" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT PLASTERBOARD WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cut niche with knife" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT NICHE WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flashlight" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X FLASHLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a bow, an electric violin, a hypodermic syringe, a Floyd | painting by H.R. Giger and an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Hmm. Any ideas?" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, we could try the resonance idea with the amp at different settings from 5 to 9." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn knob to 9" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNOB TO 9 Floyd | Floyd | You turn the fader to 9. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking it) Floyd | (first taking the bow) Floyd | (turning the amplifier on) Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Beethoven's Symphony no. 6 in Floyd | F Major. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x amp" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X AMP Floyd | Floyd | Typical of high-tech user-oriented electronic devices, its controls Floyd | are limited to a single power switch and a fader for volume control. Floyd | It's powered by its own fusion cell as well; no cord is required. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Move the amp ne?" | ||
| Gerynar says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions. | |||
| Gerynar has disconnected. | DavidW asks, "Isn't it already pushed there?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "move amp ne" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE AMP NE Floyd | Floyd | (setting the violin on top of it) Floyd | You roll the amplifier along with you. Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see a pair of kitchen tongs, a pillow Floyd | and plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is an electric violin), a Floyd | hypodermic syringe and a painting by H.R. Giger here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking it) Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Glière's Russian Sailor's Floyd | Dance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x amp" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X AMP Floyd | Floyd | Typical of high-tech user-oriented electronic devices, its controls Floyd | are limited to a single power switch and a fader for volume control. Floyd | It's powered by its own fusion cell as well; no cord is required. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn knob to 8" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNOB TO 8 Floyd | Floyd | You turn the fader to 8. The humming fades in volume. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Borodin's String Quartet no. Floyd | 2. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn konb to 7" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KONB TO 7 Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn knob to 7" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNOB TO 7 Floyd | Floyd | You turn the fader to 7. The humming fades in volume. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Rossini's William Tell Floyd | Overture. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn knob to 6" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNOB TO 6 Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get into the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "hmm" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see a pair of kitchen tongs, a pillow Floyd | and plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn know to 6" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNOW TO 6 Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn knob to 6" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNOB TO 6 Floyd | Floyd | You turn the fader to 6. The humming fades in volume. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier, a hypodermic syringe and a painting by Floyd | H.R. Giger here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Glière's Russian Sailor's Floyd | Dance. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's possible that we can't really accomplish much in the complex until we've done more of the sim testing." | ||
| borowski says, "Yeah I was thinking the same thing." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x suit" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X SUIT Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the VR suit or the technician's jumpsuit? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x vr suit" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | The VR suit, a full-body outfit of spandex and kevlar, hangs on a rack Floyd | against one wall. It fits tightly and is strung with a network of Floyd | millions of tiny sensory-output devices. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I assume wearing the vr suit is sufficient to indicate a desire to start a new run." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put on vr suit" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ON VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and the lab spins away outside the Sphere... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Brandenburg Floyd | Concerto no. 5, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice pierces through the fantasy. "You must've overlooked Floyd | something last time. Try playing through it differently this run. Floyd | We'll find that overload yet!" Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Ah. I think we went east the first time?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pebbles" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X PEBBLES Floyd | Floyd | A small patch of smooth, rounded, colourful stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You're not carrying anything. Not surprising, seeing as how you're a Floyd | fish, and fish don't have hands to carry things with. Floyd | Floyd | A red crab scuttles along the sand below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "eat crab" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT CRAB Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Can we continue west?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sand" | |||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X SAND Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | |||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to dig? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sand" | |||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > SAND Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You dart downward, almost grazing the seafloor, then flash back up Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | With a tentative flick of your tail, you edge closer to the shore. Floyd | Suddenly, a cresting foam-capped wave picks you up and effortlessly Floyd | tosses you onto the beach! Floyd | Floyd | Shore Floyd | Wet sand packed below you. Orange fire above, blazing down through an Floyd | aquamarine sky laced with white, billowy wisps, beautiful yet horribly Floyd | alien and terrifying. Floyd | Floyd | Your gills pump furiously, but draw no oxygen. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Your senses whirl as you flop about on the sand, unable to do anything Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | You flip over onto your other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Your senses whirl as you flop about on the sand, unable to do anything Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | The hot sun burns down on your upturned eye as you gaze helplessly Floyd | skyward. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ugh" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Your senses whirl as you flop about on the sand, unable to do anything Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | You flip over onto your other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "yell for help" | |||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > YELL FOR HELP Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to yell. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "flop" | |||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > FLOP Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Shall we try pulling the fail-safe lever?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | Your senses whirl as you flop about on the sand, unable to do anything Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | The hot sun burns down on your upturned eye as you gaze helplessly Floyd | skyward. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sun" | |||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X SUN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I hadn't thought about that. Sure" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | |||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "justy, pull lever" | |||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > JUSTY, PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | "Can't, not while I've got this sim up and running." Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing around, you manage to flip yourself into the water, where Floyd | you slip back below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Wait, how'd we get off the beach?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We got lucky." | |||
| DavidW says, "One of our flips got us back into the water." | |||
| borowski says, "Ah, I see." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing your tail wildly, you propel yourself up to grab a quick Floyd | glance at the world above. For a brief but terrifying moment, you are Floyd | unable to breathe, but then, silently and gracefully, you slip back Floyd | below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You propel yourself in that direction, but don't feel as though you're Floyd | actually moving. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x reef" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X REEF Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Maybe we just have to face the octopus again?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think so. I think we can evade it." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "east!" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Hmm, something deadly to the south maybe. Save?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "south (deadly), down, or west and down (now that octopus is gone)?" | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah, save, sure, although we are in a sim." | |||
| borowski says, "Oh right, I forgot about w & d." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The world spins about as currents drag you down into the tunnel, which Floyd | twists and wrenches you through sharp turns, until you emerge in... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "verbose" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > VERBOSE Floyd | Floyd | DELUSIONS is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives long Floyd | descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I guess not really much of a choice." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Debussy's Arabesque Floyd | no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "back where we started" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "enter left hole?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter left hole" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER LEFT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x printout" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X PRINTOUT Floyd | Floyd | The "Report" icon depicts a printer spitting output. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X SPHERE Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere is a human-sized anti-gravity gyroscope, encased in Floyd | soundproof glass. VR sensors connect to status monitors, the lab Floyd | terminal and the mainframe supercomputer in the next room by a thick Floyd | bundle of coaxial cables. A fail-safe lever protrudes at an angle from Floyd | one side. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lever" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X LEVER Floyd | Floyd | A precautionary feature built into the Sphere for the testing of VRs. Floyd | Most simulations have a method of accessing the lever from the inside Floyd | as well. (The lab sim, for instance, simply incorporates a virtual Floyd | duplicate of the physical lever itself.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. The talk about a 'lab sim' makes me wonder if we can change which sim we do by using the Config Icon?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up launch icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP LAUNCH ICON Floyd | Floyd | (in the Project's technical manual) Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "launch" program activates the currently loaded VR sim and runs Floyd | it. Input and output devices are the Sphere and VR suit, and they must Floyd | be occupied for this module to run. Floyd | Floyd | All users have access to this program. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Fail-Safe Lever, Sphere, VR Suit Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up flush icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP FLUSH ICON Floyd | Floyd | (in the Project's technical manual) Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "flush" program purges the system in the event of a critical error Floyd | in the active VR. Once purged, the sim is wiped clean from the system Floyd | and must be re-installed from archival storage. Floyd | Floyd | Due to the drastic nature of this program, only Dr Shimada has access Floyd | to it. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x config icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X CONFIG ICON Floyd | Floyd | The "Configure" icon depicts a pair of hands flipping switches on a Floyd | console. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push it" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH IT Floyd | Floyd | It's not a touch-sensitive screen. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "click it" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK IT Floyd | Floyd | [Try that again, this time specifying what you want to click on, as Floyd | well as which mouse button to use.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mouse" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X MOUSE Floyd | Floyd | A standard white two-button ergonomic input device. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "left click config icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK CONFIG ICON Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, don't mess with that," says Justy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask justy about lab sim" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT LAB SIM Floyd | Floyd | "I dunno." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up lab sim" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP LAB SIM Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "still there?" | ||
| borowski says, "Sorry, sudden work chaos." | |||
| DavidW says, "ah. I didn't know you were at work." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm thinking we need to solve the fish sim and then the plot will advance." | |||
| Tale arrives, full of fun and funk. | |||
| Tale has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "actually, if you're busy, perhaps we should save here and resume later? I could use a bit of shut-eye time. My eyes are hurtin'." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "save" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cfdelusions" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 6
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| Lionheart arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | borowski says, "Sounds good." | ||
| borowski asks, "I missed the last bit of the simulation. What happened?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "when would be a good resume time?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I entered the left hole of the seafloor and was eaten by a snake." | |||
| borowski asks, "You're taking a nap?" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes" | |||
| DavidW says, "if I may" | |||
| DavidW says, "(and I know I was late for cf because of earlier nap)" | |||
| borowski says, "Of course. I'll be home about 5:15-5:30." | |||
| Ellison says, "nice game" | |||
| DavidW says (to borowski), "ok" | |||
| DavidW says (to Ellison), "yeah, so far. We haven't really uncovered much, though." | |||
| borowski says (to Ellison), "It seems interesting but I don't think we've -- yeah" | |||
| DavidW says, "I" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm guessing that when we solve the fish sim, something catastrophic will happen and provide plot and direction." | |||
| magbo asks, "is that a meta-channel, or do you play right here? If so, which game are you playing now?" | |||
| borowski says (to magbo), "You go sw of the lounge to play" | |||
| DavidW says (to magbo), "I'm not sure what you mean by 'meta-channel', but we were playing Delusions." | |||
| borowski says, "We play there and talk about what we're doing here." | |||
| DavidW says, "We chat about the game on the channel so the transcript looks better when Jacqueline posts it on her site." | |||
| borowski says, "So there's no confusion between gameplay and chatter." | |||
| magbo says, "Ok, as I thought. Thank you for information." | |||
| borowski says (to magbo), "We play around noon on Sundays and around 10pm on Tuesdays." | |||
| borowski says, "Mudtime" | |||
| DavidW says, "anyway, I'll go afk and nap and be back later. I'll leave Perry running." | |||
| * magbo has left the channel. | |||
| Marvin has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||
| borowski has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | borowski asks, "Is the DavidW awake?" | ||
| Olly says, "I don't think so." | |||
| Olly says, "He isn't logged on, at any rate." | |||
| Olly says, "Er, that is he isn't in the Lounge." | |||
| borowski says, "We were playing earlier and he went to take a nap." | |||
| Olly exclaims, "DAVIDW, AWAKE!" | |||
| borowski says, "I don't think we know that spell yet." | |||
| Olly says, "Maybe we need to use the summoning channel." | |||
| Olly says, "Yes, there really is one." | |||
| DavidW goes home. | |||
| DavidW has disconnected. | Olly says, "Well, I did my best on the summoning channel. If DavidW comes back I guess we will know it worked." | ||
| Olly grins. | |||
| borowski says, "Ah, that's where you guys do the magics." | |||
| DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW asks, "yow, 8:24pm?" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "hey, the summoning worked" | |||
| DavidW says, "I should put pants on and find out what happened to dinner. Also flush out whatever died in my mouth." | |||
| borowski) DavidW says, "So that's where my pants went." | |||
| jenrexrode says, "haha" | |||
| DavidW says, "Perry's still running; people could have played without me, y'know." | |||
| DavidW asks, "afk for a few minutes to find dinner. then hopefully we can play a bit more, k?" | |||
| borowski says, "Okey dokey" | |||
| DavidW says, "okay, I have two small pizza slices (cold) and a salad." | |||
| borowski arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | borowski says, "Not bad." | ||
| DavidW says, "When last we saw our hero, he had been eaten by a seasnake in the vr sim. I suggest trying to beat the vr." | |||
| jenrexrode arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Gerynar says, "while you're making dinner, I sure could use a grilled cheese or two" | ||
| borowski says, "Sounds good." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear vr suit" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and you soon find yourself floating in liquid Floyd | space... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Beethoven's Floyd | Symphony no. 9 in D Minor, playing through in your mind, soothes away Floyd | all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice pierces through the fantasy. "You must've overlooked Floyd | something last time. Try playing through it differently this run. Floyd | We'll find that overload yet!" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A jellyfish balloons its way across the rift. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter right hole" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER RIGHT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmm. Maybe e, e, s isn't as deadly as it feels" | ||
| Gerynar arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | borowski says, "Or maybe we have to find every way to die." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "wear vr suit" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and the lab spins away outside the Sphere... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Art of Floyd | Fugue, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice pierces through the fantasy. "You must've overlooked Floyd | something last time. Try playing through it differently this run. Floyd | We'll find that overload yet!" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | You float in cold, empty blackness, a zone of bathypelagic void, Floyd | emptiness in which nothing seems to exist, not even yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Far ahead, a luminous bulb weaves back and forth enticingly, like a Floyd | will-o'-the-wisp. You feel drawn to it, and begin following it deeper Floyd | into the darkness. An instant later, the light is yanked away Floyd | abruptly, before you even have a chance to see the enormous mouth that Floyd | swallows you whole. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X SPHERE Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere is a human-sized anti-gravity gyroscope, encased in Floyd | soundproof glass. VR sensors connect to status monitors, the lab Floyd | terminal and the mainframe supercomputer in the next room by a thick Floyd | bundle of coaxial cables. A fail-safe lever protrudes at an angle from Floyd | one side. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Guess that was a lanternfish." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x lever" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X LEVER Floyd | Floyd | A precautionary feature built into the Sphere for the testing of VRs. Floyd | Most simulations have a method of accessing the lever from the inside Floyd | as well. (The lab sim, for instance, simply incorporates a virtual Floyd | duplicate of the physical lever itself.) Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Huh, lab sim." | ||
| borowski asks, "I wonder what happens if we pull the lever?" | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I'm hoping we can run the lab sim at some point." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure. Justy wouldn't pull it when the fish sim was running." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x workstation" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X WORKSTATION Floyd | Floyd | A twentieth-century user would have called this a "personal computer" Floyd | or "PC," although the elimination of the "lone programmer" concept has Floyd | since made that acronym outdated. Floyd | Floyd | It's an 8-gigahertz multimedia package with a 16-terabyte hard drive, Floyd | 12 gigs of RAM, and a 96-meg cache. The CPU case is disproportionately Floyd | tiny next to the keyboard and monitor, larger only out of human Floyd | necessity. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada ordered this system some time ago, when increased Floyd | processing speed became necessary if the Project's deadlines were to Floyd | be met. It arrived less than a week ago, and it's already obsolete. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x monitor" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X MONITOR Floyd | Floyd | Justy created this graphical interface to suit the Project, replacing Floyd | the hopelessly outdated "Windows 2000" O/S that came pre-installed. Floyd | Floyd | The desktop currently displays a mouse cursor, a "Launch" icon, a Floyd | "Configure" icon, a "Report" icon, a "Debug" icon, a "System" icon and Floyd | a "Flush" icon. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x press debug icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X PRESS DEBUG ICON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x click debug icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X CLICK DEBUG ICON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x click debug icon with mouse" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X CLICK DEBUG ICON WITH MOUSE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "try just debug" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "debug" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > DEBUG Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "click debug" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK DEBUG Floyd | Floyd | [Try that again, this time specifying what you want to click on, as Floyd | well as which mouse button to use.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I tried 'left click config icon' but Justy objected." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x mouse" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X MOUSE Floyd | Floyd | A standard white two-button ergonomic input device. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click debug" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK DEBUG Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, don't mess with that," says Justy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "click debug with right" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK DEBUG WITH RIGHT Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, don't mess with that," says Justy. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says (to DavidW), "Sorry, I must have missed that." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask justy about computer" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | "I dunno." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "earlier, before my nap" | ||
| borowski says (to Justy), "Clearly." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask justy about overload" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT OVERLOAD Floyd | Floyd | "I dunno." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We haven't scored a single point yet. [sadface]" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put on vr suit" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ON VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and the lab spins away outside the Sphere... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Toccata in D Floyd | Minor, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice pierces through the fantasy. "You must've overlooked Floyd | something last time. Try playing through it differently this run. Floyd | We'll find that overload yet!" Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I know!" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The cliffs surround you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The cliffs surround you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Oh right, left and right" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "enter left" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER LEFT Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "enter right" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER RIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The snake is in both holes, it seems." | ||
| borowski says, "Hmm. I was hoping something would happen differently if the octopus was chasing us." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "wear vr suit" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and the lab spins away outside the Sphere... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Fugue in D Floyd | Minor, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice pierces through the fantasy. "You must've overlooked Floyd | something last time. Try playing through it differently this run. Floyd | We'll find that overload yet!" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Gershwin's Rhapsody Floyd | in Blue, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | A ripple of relief passes over you as you realise that the octopus Floyd | hasn't followed you into the shallow waters. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, the principle of matchmaking is a good one, I guess." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Art of Floyd | Fugue, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I was hoping we could lure him onto the beach, but he won't follow that far." | ||
| DavidW says, "If we go in the grotto, then back west and down to seafloor, we see a shadow appear above us, but we've never verified what that is. Also, we could try going down at coral reef." | |||
| borowski says, "Ah, right" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Oh good, two friends!" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But deFalla's Ritual Floyd | Fire Dance, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You dart downward, almost grazing the seafloor, then flash back up Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I guess there isn't a down there." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "wear vr suit" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and the lab spins away outside the Sphere... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Fugue in D Floyd | Minor, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice pierces through the fantasy. "You must've overlooked Floyd | something last time. Try playing through it differently this run. Floyd | We'll find that overload yet!" Floyd | Floyd | The reality around you wavers slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "enter a hole?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "enter right" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER RIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | ?
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Borodin's String Floyd | Quartet no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | The images before your eyes become briefly distorted. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | A ripple of relief passes over you as you realise that the octopus Floyd | hasn't followed you into the shallow waters. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | The shark, kept at bay by the shore's proximity, circles patiently a Floyd | short distance away before moving on. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I wonder if "The images before your eyes become briefly distorted." at the coral reef was a hint about something." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bizet's Les Floyd | Toréadors, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Copland's Fanfare Floyd | for the Common Man, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You dart downward, almost grazing the seafloor, then flash back up Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | ?
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | The shark, still in pursuit, attempts to squeeze into the narrow Floyd | grotto. As its pointed snout passes across the threshold, a school of Floyd | tiny fish is released! They attempt to scatter away, but many are Floyd | pushed back into the grotto by the shark's advance. Soon the shark Floyd | itself has become trapped in the grotto, but makes no effort to Floyd | extricate itself, its attention still focused solely on you. Floyd | Floyd | More tiny fish are generated as the shark's presence in the opening Floyd | triggers the event over and over again, its bulk trapping them in the Floyd | grotto with you. The space around you becomes so tightly packed that Floyd | it grows difficult to breathe, and still more fish are generated! Floyd | Floyd | In a split-second, a horrible snapping as the world, filled to Floyd | capacity, ruptures, oozing pure data in a solid, swirling stream. Floyd | Floyd | Then the onrush of darkness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | "Wow, that was intense!" Justy exclaims. The smile on his face shows Floyd | obvious satisfaction. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's fingers scrutinise the tiny indentations on the printout. Floyd | "Here we go," she says. "Interpreter stack overflow on event #69105, Floyd | releasing the school. Too many dynamic creations." Floyd | Floyd | "Never considered that," says Justy, shaking his head before facing Floyd | you. "Well, I guess that's why we debug. Gimme me about half a chron Floyd | or so to fix it. Take a break, you've earned it!" Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hooray, beta testing!" | ||
| DavidW says, "woot!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf3" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "well, I guess we go back to exploring the lab?" | ||
| borowski says, "I guess so." | |||
| DavidW says, "also, yay "69105"" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x amplifier" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X AMPLIFIER Floyd | Floyd | Typical of high-tech user-oriented electronic devices, its controls Floyd | are limited to a single power switch and a fader for volume control. Floyd | It's powered by its own fusion cell as well; no cord is required. Floyd | Floyd | The VR session has exacted its toll on your hyperglycemic body. You Floyd | feel an urgent need for your insulin medication. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh, you pushed the amp out here?" | ||
| borowski asks, "Did we bring that in here?" | |||
| borowski says, "I don't think so. Maybe things have changed." | |||
| borowski says, "Or debugging VR is bad for our brain." | |||
| DavidW says, "All our stuff is supposed to be on the bench, and maybe we had the violin, and the violin always goes on the amp. I guess." | |||
| Gerynar asks, "is the violin still plugged into the amp?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying an electric violin, a bow and a power X-Acto knife. Floyd | You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, we need an injection!" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an amplifier, a metal gurney, an IV stand and a medical Floyd | cabinet (in which are a gelstrip and an antitoxin caplet) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Uh oh, is it in our room?" | ||
| DavidW says, "The syringe should be in our room." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier, a hypodermic syringe and a painting by Floyd | H.R. Giger here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take syringe" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "inject syringe" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > INJECT SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | Gingerly you push the tiny point of the syringe through your skin, Floyd | eliciting a faint pop, and into the thick vein on the inside of your Floyd | right elbow joint. A press of the needle's switch, and the insulin Floyd | flows away in your bloodstream. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're somehow pushing the amp everywhere for some reason." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a hypodermic syringe, an electric violin, a bow and a Floyd | power X-Acto knife. You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and a Floyd | fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x bow" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOW Floyd | Floyd | A flexible black rod used to play the violin. (It has a metal star on Floyd | one end, too.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "unplug violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > UNPLUG VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You unplug the electric violin. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Ah." | ||
| borowski says, "But maybe we need it somewhere else." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x jumpsuit" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X JUMPSUIT Floyd | Floyd | A standard-issue grey Project uniform, loose-fitting and comfortable, Floyd | emblazoned with the Project logo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x metal star" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X METAL STAR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "push amp ne" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH AMP NE Floyd | Floyd | You roll the amplifier along with you. Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see a pair of kitchen tongs, a pillow Floyd | and plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We probably do need the violin somewhere, but dunno where." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "push amp nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH AMP NW Floyd | Floyd | You roll the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | It's not plugged in. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "plug in violin" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG IN VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You plug the electric violin into the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Debussy's Arabesque no. 2. Floyd | Floyd | "Nice," says Justy admiringly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia busies herself with the VR analysis system. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fader" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X FADER Floyd | Floyd | It's a circular knob with settings from 0 - 10, currently set to 6. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Pachelbel's Canon. Floyd | Floyd | "Do you mind?" admonishes Cynthia. "I'm trying to concentrate." Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Oh yeah, I forget about the volume." | ||
| borowski says, "And I sort of feel like a neglected child right now." | |||
| borowski says, "I learned how to play for you, mommy!" | |||
| DavidW says, "tee hee" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "set knob to 10" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SET KNOB TO 10 Floyd | Floyd | You turn the fader to 10. The humming grows in volume. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Mussorgsky's The Great Gate at Floyd | Kiev. Floyd | Floyd | "Do you mind?" admonishes Cynthia. "I'm trying to concentrate." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | You can't, since Dr Shimada's office door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock,open door" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time:
Floyd | 7
Floyd |
Floyd | > KNOCK,OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to knock on? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | "Come in," says Dr Shimada, politely but firmly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open Dr Shimada's office door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada's Office Floyd | With the Project approaching conclusion, Dr Shimada's workload has Floyd | increased geometrically. Several open and disarrayed filing cabinets Floyd | and the layer of paperwork covering her desktop and computer belie her Floyd | typical attention to immaculacy. Floyd | Floyd | On your right is a small wooden shelf, bulging with assorted books. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada works furiously at her desk. Floyd | Floyd | On Dr Shimada's desk are a three-hole punch and Dr Shimada's cellular Floyd | phone. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Floyd | Mountain. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada pauses in her work to close her eyes and enjoy the Floyd | absorbing melodies. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take phone" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PHONE Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada gives you a "look" that makes you change your mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmm. Well, I'm satisfied having tried playing for people." | ||
| borowski says, "I guess there's still the pizza." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Are we hungry yet, though?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "diagnose" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > DIAGNOSE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "status" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "about" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Oh right. Don't diabetics eat something after taking insulin to balance it out?" | ||
| borowski says, "Or maybe we give it to Justy to distract him or something." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure it works like that, but I'd rather wait until the game says we (or someone else) is hungry before using our only food item." | |||
| borowski says, "I would agree, but I'm not sure if we have any other leads." | |||
| borowski says, "I also wonder if microwaving the tongs would do anything." | |||
| DavidW says, "I guess I'm hoping something new has changed." | |||
| DavidW says, "Tongs are usually used to take something too hot." | |||
| borowski asks, "Oh, I wonder if putting the pillow on the lower shelf would catch the falling thing?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Since we couldn't directly refer to 'top shelf' and a lower shelf wasn't explicitly mentioned, I'm highly dubious." | |||
| borowski says, "Ah, right. I guess explore." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | (closing Dr Shimada's office door on the way out) Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar asks, "was the pizza the only thing in the fridge?" | ||
| borowski asks, "Hmm. Did we check the freezer too?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Gerynar), "yes. We didn't doublecheck the freezer." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Lavatory Floyd | Dank and cold, these facilities contain only the usual fixtures -- Floyd | toilet, shower stall, and a dripping, rust-stained washbasin. On the Floyd | wall above the last is an off-colour rectangle, where a mirror once Floyd | hung, but no longer. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x rectangle" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X RECTANGLE Floyd | Floyd | As far as you can remember, there has never been a mirror here. It Floyd | must have been removed before you came to the Project. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the place where a mirror once hung, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch rectangle" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH RECTANGLE Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "search rectangle" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH RECTANGLE Floyd | Floyd | As far as you can remember, there has never been a mirror here. It Floyd | must have been removed before you came to the Project. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the place where a mirror once hung, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a hypodermic syringe, an electric violin, a bow and a Floyd | power X-Acto knife. You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and a Floyd | fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe in the lab sim, there *is* a mirror." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x earring" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X EARRING Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I wonder if we put the painting there." | ||
| borowski says, "Kind of a weird idea." | |||
| DavidW says, "our painting? We left it in the shadowy alcove, I thought." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a painting by H.R. Giger here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take painting" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Lavatory Floyd | Dank and cold, these facilities contain only the usual fixtures -- Floyd | toilet, shower stall, and a dripping, rust-stained washbasin. On the Floyd | wall above the last is an off-colour rectangle, where a mirror once Floyd | hung, but no longer. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put painting on wall" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PAINTING ON WALL Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the north wall, the south wall, the east wall, the Floyd | west wall, the northeast wall, the northwest wall, the southeast wall, Floyd | the southwest wall or the place where a mirror once hung? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put painting on place" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PAINTING ON PLACE Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the place where a mirror once hung would achieve Floyd | nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, this should do it," says Justy, glancing up at you. "Anytime Floyd | you're ready, we can have another go at it." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "maybe paining IN place, not ON." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Lavatory Floyd | Dank and cold, these facilities contain only the usual fixtures -- Floyd | toilet, shower stall, and a dripping, rust-stained washbasin. On the Floyd | wall above the last is an off-colour rectangle, where a mirror once Floyd | hung, but no longer. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put painting in place" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PAINTING IN PLACE Floyd | Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "But looks like the vr is ready for another go." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put on vr suit" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ON VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and the lab spins away outside the Sphere... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Goldberg Floyd | Variations, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice rings clear through the barrier of illusion. "A quick Floyd | play through is all we need, but make sure you win it. Sometimes you Floyd | get interpreter crashes after a major memory reallocation. Wouldn't do Floyd | to show a faulty world to the Executives." Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "I guess we try the same thing again?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, try your best." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The world spins about as currents drag you down into the tunnel, which Floyd | twists and wrenches you through sharp turns, until you emerge in... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Copland's Fanfare Floyd | for the Common Man, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Oh right." | ||
| borowski asks, "I guess that's a one way?" | |||
| DavidW says, "As far as I know." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | You inhale the fragrance of sea air. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x anemones" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X ANEMONES Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't know how to deal with the shark, snake, or (guessing) lanternfish." | ||
| borowski says, "I wonder if one of those latter things has changed now." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't think we've gone up from anemones." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing your tail wildly, you propel yourself up to grab a quick Floyd | glance at the world above. For a brief but terrifying moment, you are Floyd | unable to breathe, but then, silently and gracefully, you slip back Floyd | below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark is closing in on you fast! Floyd | Floyd | You flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of Floyd | jagged teeth crashes shut around you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "r" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Perhaps if the shark is chasing us, it'll get the snake?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "enter right hole" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER RIGHT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm, guess not" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "enter left" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER LEFT Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But deFalla's Ritual Floyd | Fire Dance, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | The shark, kept at bay by the shore's proximity, circles patiently a Floyd | short distance away before moving on. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You dart downward, almost grazing the seafloor, then flash back up Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | You flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of Floyd | jagged teeth crashes shut around you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmm." | ||
| DavidW says, "we're missing something, I suppose." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You propel yourself in that direction, but don't feel as though you're Floyd | actually moving. Floyd | Floyd | You flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of Floyd | jagged teeth crashes shut around you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an amplifier, a combination refrigerator/freezer and a Floyd | microwave oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open freezer" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | Frosty air billows out around you. Floyd | Floyd | Opening the freezer reveals a lightstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "OH!" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x lightstick" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X LIGHTSTICK Floyd | Floyd | Clear liquid sealed in a vial of pale green plastic, capped at one Floyd | end. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Aha!" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take lightstick" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE LIGHTSTICK Floyd | Floyd | (It's cold to the touch.) Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close freezer" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | You close the freezer part of the combination refrigerator/freezer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | The door is to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Dragging the amplifier down the stairs will damage it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "unplug violin" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > UNPLUG VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You unplug the electric violin. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Crack stick?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Bend or break it, I would guess." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "bend stick" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > BEND STICK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "crack stick" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > CRACK STICK Floyd | Floyd | Yes, I suppose you could, but the liquid would just spill all over and Floyd | make a mess. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "light stick" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > LIGHT STICK Floyd | Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "break stick" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK STICK Floyd | Floyd | Yes, I suppose you could, but the liquid would just spill all over and Floyd | make a mess. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake stick" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE STICK Floyd | Floyd | You give the lightstick a vigorous shake. A very faint glow emanates, Floyd | then fades almost immediately. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x stick" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X STICK Floyd | Floyd | Darkness, noun. An absence of light to see by. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "shake stick" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE STICK Floyd | Floyd | You give the lightstick a vigorous shake. A very faint glow emanates, Floyd | then fades almost immediately. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Maybe it needs to be warm?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Microwave it and take it with tongs?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a lightstick, a painting by H.R. Giger, a hypodermic Floyd | syringe, an electric violin, a bow and a power X-Acto knife. You are Floyd | wearing a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see a pair of kitchen tongs, a pillow Floyd | and plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TONGS Floyd | Floyd | Your hands are full. You can't pick up anything more until you drop Floyd | something else first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "drop painting" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TONGS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "drop violin and box" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP VIOLIN AND BOX Floyd | Floyd | electric violin: Dropped. Floyd | your bed: You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "drop bow" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP BOW Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x bottom shelf" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOTTOM SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, we're carrying way too much crap. If we find something new, we probably can't pick it up without dropping stuff first." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a pair of kitchen tongs, a lightstick, a hypodermic Floyd | syringe and a power X-Acto knife. You are wearing a technician's Floyd | jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "drop syringe" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave oven Floyd | (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You open the microwave oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf4" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put stick in microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT STICK IN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You place the lightstick in the microwave and heat it for several Floyd | millichrons. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take stick" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE STICK Floyd | Floyd | (opening the microwave first) Floyd | It's hot! Your hand jerks reflexively away. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh 'millichrons'" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take stick with tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE STICK WITH TONGS Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to take the lightstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "grab stick with tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > GRAB STICK WITH TONGS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X TONGS Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the pair of kitchen tongs that you didn't Floyd | already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put tongs on stick" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT TONGS ON STICK Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the lightstick would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > USE TONGS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get stick using tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > GET STICK USING TONGS Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to get the lightstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "take stick with tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE STICK WITH TONGS Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to take the lightstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "grasp stick with tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > GRASP STICK WITH TONGS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get stick" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > GET STICK Floyd | Floyd | It's hot! Your hand jerks reflexively away. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "wield tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > WIELD TONGS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This is silly." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pick up stick with tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 7/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > PICK UP STICK WITH TONGS Floyd | Floyd | Using the tongs, you grasp the lightstick firmly. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 7/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 7/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 7/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | The faint glow of the lightstick reveals a light switch at the bottom Floyd | of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn on light" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 7/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | (the light switch) Floyd | You switch the light switch on. Floyd | Floyd | Factory Storage Floyd | Old, broken-down conveyors and bins of ancient, rotting hardware -- Floyd | useless, outdated, or both -- pack this vast sub-basement from wall to Floyd | cement wall. Only a small area at the bottom of the stairs, about Floyd | three metres square, is free of the oppressive clutter. Floyd | Floyd | A light switch is affixed to the wall at the foot of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A curtain of coaxial cables hangs down on one side of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x cables" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 7/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABLES Floyd | Floyd | A curtain of coaxial cables hangs down on one side of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "move cables" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE CABLES Floyd | Floyd | Pushing the cables to one side reveals the body of an android. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x android" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | Could this be the android once used for early diagnostics in the Floyd | undebugged sims...? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take android" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | It's too heavy and awkward for one person to move. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Get help I guess?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "What would you do with him?" | ||
| 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, "Be our swimming buddy?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Also, did you try to turn him on?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Factory Storage Floyd | Old, broken-down conveyors and bins of ancient, rotting hardware -- Floyd | useless, outdated, or both -- pack this vast sub-basement from wall to Floyd | cement wall. Only a small area at the bottom of the stairs, about Floyd | three metres square, is free of the oppressive clutter. Floyd | Floyd | A light switch is affixed to the wall at the foot of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | The curtain of coaxial cables has been pushed to one side to reveal Floyd | the body of an android. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn on android" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | Giving life isn't that simple, I'm afraid. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss android" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > KISS ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "GIVE IT LIFE!" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time:
Floyd | 8
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE IT LIFE!
Floyd |
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "tell justy about android" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TELL JUSTY ABOUT ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | "Good question." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There's another dark region to our east, btw." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Factory Storage Floyd | Old, broken-down conveyors and bins of ancient, rotting hardware -- Floyd | useless, outdated, or both -- pack this vast sub-basement from wall to Floyd | cement wall. Only a small area at the bottom of the stairs, about Floyd | three metres square, is free of the oppressive clutter. Floyd | Floyd | A light switch is affixed to the wall at the foot of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | The curtain of coaxial cables has been pushed to one side to reveal Floyd | the body of an android. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Ah, I forgot about that" | ||
| DavidW asks, "oh. east and down are the same?" | |||
| borowski says, "Guess so." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x android" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | Could this be the android once used for early diagnostics in the Floyd | undebugged sims...? Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the android body, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hardware" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X HARDWARE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Factory Storage Floyd | Old, broken-down conveyors and bins of ancient, rotting hardware -- Floyd | useless, outdated, or both -- pack this vast sub-basement from wall to Floyd | cement wall. Only a small area at the bottom of the stairs, about Floyd | three metres square, is free of the oppressive clutter. Floyd | Floyd | A light switch is affixed to the wall at the foot of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | The curtain of coaxial cables has been pushed to one side to reveal Floyd | the body of an android. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x stairs" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X STAIRS Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x walls" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X WALLS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x clutter" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X CLUTTER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Well, if the gurney can go down the stairs, you might move the android that way?" | ||
| borowski says, "Hmm" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal gurney, an IV stand and a medical cabinet (in Floyd | which are a gelstrip and an antitoxin caplet) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x gurney" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X GURNEY Floyd | Floyd | A flat metal stretcher with wheels attached. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "move gurney n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE GURNEY N Floyd | Floyd | A loose wheel rattles as you push the gurney along. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "move gurney e" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE GURNEY E Floyd | Floyd | The stairs aren't wide enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "bah" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "move amp e" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE AMP E Floyd | Floyd | It would probably get damaged if you did that. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Was something else powered?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "You might like the xacto knife?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "er mean like the xacto knife?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x knife" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | A round-handled electrical cutting tool with a sharp, vibrating (and Floyd | replaceable) blade. It's powered by its own internal fusion cell. Floyd | Floyd | The lightstick cools, its pallid glow diminishing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x cell" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X CELL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask justy about android" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | "I dunno." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look up android in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP ANDROID IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | VR androids, manufactured by other divisions within the Corporation, Floyd | are another protective tool, used in the early stages of VR sim Floyd | debugging. Equipped with limited neural-network processors, they are Floyd | strapped into the sphere and used to perform preliminary VR Floyd | diagnostics to avoid the dangers to a human brain in the event of any Floyd | serious bugs in a virtual sensory reality. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Debug Icon, Fail-Safe Lever, Sphere, VR Viruses Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look up debug icon in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP DEBUG ICON IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "debug" icon provides access to the VR compiler, editor, and Floyd | debugger. Floyd | Floyd | Access to these programs is restricted to Dr Shimada and myself. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Justy's Quarters Floyd | Justy's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only a Floyd | bed, desk, and a few of Justy's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall is completely taken up Justy's film library. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging nearby is a framed sketch by M.C. Escher. Floyd | Floyd | A large holovision set dominates the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a hypodermic syringe here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x niche" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X NICHE Floyd | Floyd | A square depression, roughly fifteen centimetres to a side and ten Floyd | deep, carved into the wall in a way that is not aesthetically pleasing Floyd | in the least (which is why you hung the painting over it). Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmm that niche has to be for something" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a pair of kitchen tongs (in which is a lightstick) Floyd | and a power X-Acto knife. You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and Floyd | a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x north wall" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X NORTH WALL Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the north wall that you didn't already Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe there was another mirror in here and they hid the camera behind it. :)" | ||
| borowski says, "Sneaky!" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put knife in niche" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT KNIFE IN NICHE Floyd | Floyd | You put the power X-Acto knife into the niche. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take nife" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE NIFE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take knife" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb niche" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB NICHE Floyd | Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn knife on" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNIFE ON Floyd | Floyd | The X-Acto knife comes to life with a grating, high-pitched whirr. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn knife off" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNIFE OFF Floyd | Floyd | The knife's whirring fades away. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I need to use the facilities. back in a bit, but keep playing." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a power X-Acto knife and a pair of kitchen tongs (in Floyd | which is a lightstick). You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and a Floyd | fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see a bow, an electric violin, a Floyd | painting by H.R. Giger, a pillow and plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x painting" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | It's "The Crucified Serpent," one of Giger's earlier works (1975), Floyd | depicting an enormous metallic T-bar on which is draped a large snake Floyd | with a face vaguely similar to that of Christ. Wisps of mist billow Floyd | out from behind the crucifix, illuminated by lights angling upward Floyd | from short black cylinders. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pillow" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the pillow that you didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "exit" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > EXIT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a hypodermic syringe here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave oven Floyd | (which is empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x frigerator" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X FRIGERATOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x refrigerator" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X REFRIGERATOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see inside, since the refrigerator part of the combination Floyd | refrigerator/freezer is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf5" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put pizza in microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PIZZA IN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You place the cold slice of pizza in the microwave and heat it for Floyd | several millichrons. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | (opening the microwave first) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the refrigerator) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "give pizza to justy" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE PIZZA TO JUSTY Floyd | Floyd | Justy wolfs it down, then says, "Thanks!" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask justy about pizza" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Justy shrugs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "click debug button with left" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK DEBUG BUTTON WITH LEFT Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to click the "Debug" icon. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "click debug button with left button" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK DEBUG BUTTON WITH LEFT BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to click the "Debug" icon. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "click debug button" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK DEBUG BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to click the "Debug" icon. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "click debug icon with left" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK DEBUG ICON WITH LEFT Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, don't mess with that," says Justy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf5" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time:
Floyd | 8
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a power X-Acto knife and a pair of kitchen tongs (in Floyd | which is a lightstick). You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and a Floyd | fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put pizza in microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PIZZA IN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You place the cold slice of pizza in the microwave and heat it for Floyd | several millichrons. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | (opening the microwave first) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cut pizza with knife" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT PIZZA WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf5" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time:
Floyd | 8
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since Dr Shimada's office door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to knock on? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | "Come in," says Dr Shimada, politely but firmly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open Dr Shimada's office door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada's Office Floyd | With the Project approaching conclusion, Dr Shimada's workload has Floyd | increased geometrically. Several open and disarrayed filing cabinets Floyd | and the layer of paperwork covering her desktop and computer belie her Floyd | typical attention to immaculacy. Floyd | Floyd | On your right is a small wooden shelf, bulging with assorted books. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada works furiously at her desk. Floyd | Floyd | On Dr Shimada's desk are a three-hole punch and Dr Shimada's cellular Floyd | phone. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "tell dr about android" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TELL DR ABOUT ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada waves you away impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask dr about pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK DR ABOUT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada waves you away impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (closing Dr Shimada's office door on the way out) Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask justy about pizza" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | "I dunno." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "wear vr suit" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and you soon find yourself floating in liquid Floyd | space... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Beethoven's Floyd | Symphony no. 2 in D Major, playing through in your mind, soothes away Floyd | all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice rings clear through the barrier of illusion. "A quick Floyd | play through is all we need, but make sure you win it. Sometimes you Floyd | get interpreter crashes after a major memory reallocation. Wouldn't do Floyd | to show a faulty world to the Executives." Floyd | Floyd | The reality around you wavers slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "back" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing your tail wildly, you propel yourself up to grab a quick Floyd | glance at the world above. For a brief but terrifying moment, you are Floyd | unable to breathe, but then, silently and gracefully, you slip back Floyd | below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Borodin's String Floyd | Quartet no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You dart downward, almost grazing the seafloor, then flash back up Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | A jellyfish balloons its way across the rift. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But deFalla's Ritual Floyd | Fire Dance, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmmm" | ||
| DavidW asks, "What are you trying to do?" | |||
| borowski says, "I haven't the slightest" | |||
| DavidW says, "I suppose going north or south would be fatal (octopus catching us or anemones catching us)." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You propel yourself in that direction, but don't feel as though you're Floyd | actually moving. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Basically 'no exit' to the north then." | ||
| borowski says, "Yeah, VR wall" | |||
| borowski says, "I tried saving, giving Justy the pizza, but nothing happened, so I restored again." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | You float in cold, empty blackness, a zone of bathypelagic void, Floyd | emptiness in which nothing seems to exist, not even yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Far ahead, a luminous bulb weaves back and forth enticingly, like a Floyd | will-o'-the-wisp. You feel drawn to it, and begin following it deeper Floyd | into the darkness. An instant later, the light is yanked away Floyd | abruptly, before you even have a chance to see the enormous mouth that Floyd | swallows you whole. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmmm" | ||
| borowski says, "Maybe if we eat the pizza, we won't be hungry, and won't try to eat the lamp." | |||
| borowski says, "Probably not." | |||
| borowski says, "(you can tell I haven't had pizza today)" | |||
| DavidW says, "We don't want to eat the lamp." | |||
| borowski says, "Yeah." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Can we go up from grotto?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | The ceiling of the grotto is in your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Your progress is halted by porous rock walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Your progress is halted by porous rock walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Brahms' Lullaby, Floyd | playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | With a tentative flick of your tail, you edge closer to the shore. Floyd | Suddenly, a cresting foam-capped wave picks you up and effortlessly Floyd | tosses you onto the beach! Floyd | Floyd | Shore Floyd | Wet sand packed below you. Orange fire above, blazing down through an Floyd | aquamarine sky laced with white, billowy wisps, beautiful yet horribly Floyd | alien and terrifying. Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing around, you manage to flip yourself into the water, where Floyd | you slip back below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | With a tentative flick of your tail, you edge closer to the shore. Floyd | Suddenly, a cresting foam-capped wave picks you up and effortlessly Floyd | tosses you onto the beach! Floyd | Floyd | Shore Floyd | Wet sand packed below you. Orange fire above, blazing down through an Floyd | aquamarine sky laced with white, billowy wisps, beautiful yet horribly Floyd | alien and terrifying. Floyd | Floyd | Your gills pump furiously, but draw no oxygen. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The hot sun burns down on your upturned eye as you gaze helplessly Floyd | skyward. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Your gills pump furiously, but draw no oxygen. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You flip over onto your other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Gasping pathetically, you expire. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "uh, are you trying to kill us by sun?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Shore Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Your senses whirl as you flop about on the sand, unable to do anything Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | Gasping pathetically, you expire. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Yeah. I'm not sure what to do." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear vr suit" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and you soon find yourself floating in liquid Floyd | space... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Beethoven's Floyd | Symphony no. 3 in E-Flat Major, playing through in your mind, soothes Floyd | away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice rings clear through the barrier of illusion. "A quick Floyd | play through is all we need, but make sure you win it. Sometimes you Floyd | get interpreter crashes after a major memory reallocation. Wouldn't do Floyd | to show a faulty world to the Executives." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | The ceiling of the grotto is in your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shapes" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X SHAPES Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rock" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X ROCK Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lamp" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X LAMP Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x down" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the floor that you didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | You swim around in a tight circle. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask justy about shark" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT SHARK Floyd | Floyd | Your mouth opens and closes, but no audible sound emerges. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "justy, tell me about shark" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time:
Floyd | ?
Floyd |
Floyd | > JUSTY, TELL ME ABOUT SHARK
Floyd |
Floyd | Your mouth opens and closes, but no audible sound emerges.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing your tail wildly, you propel yourself up to grab a quick Floyd | glance at the world above. For a brief but terrifying moment, you are Floyd | unable to breathe, but then, silently and gracefully, you slip back Floyd | below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You propel yourself in that direction, but don't feel as though you're Floyd | actually moving. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | You swim around in a tight circle. Floyd | Floyd | You flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of Floyd | jagged teeth crashes shut around you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The world spins about as currents drag you down into the tunnel, which Floyd | twists and wrenches you through sharp turns, until you emerge in... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Debussy's Arabesque Floyd | no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | There are two holes here. You'll have to specify which one you want to Floyd | enter. Floyd | Floyd | You flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of Floyd | jagged teeth crashes shut around you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit shark" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > HIT SHARK Floyd | Floyd | You have no natural means of attack. Floyd | Floyd | You flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of Floyd | jagged teeth crashes shut around you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The cliffs surround you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | You flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of Floyd | jagged teeth crashes shut around you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oops" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | A jellyfish balloons its way across the rift. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | You swim around in a tight circle. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | You swim around in a tight circle. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | Sounds rush by in somber, hollow echoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The world spins about as currents drag you down into the tunnel, which Floyd | twists and wrenches you through sharp turns, until you emerge in... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Beethoven's Floyd | Symphony no. 1 in C Major, playing through in your mind, soothes away Floyd | all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat seaweed" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT SEAWEED Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're a fish. Specifically, a yellow-finned grouper. Quite a Floyd | nice-looking one too, as fish go. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fin" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X FIN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | Sounds rush by in somber, hollow echoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | A jellyfish balloons its way across the rift. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Brahms' Hungarian Floyd | Dance no. 5, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | The shark, kept at bay by the shore's proximity, circles patiently a Floyd | short distance away before moving on. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Beethoven's Floyd | Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, playing through in your mind, soothes away Floyd | all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You dart downward, almost grazing the seafloor, then flash back up Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x left hole" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X LEFT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x right hole" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X RIGHT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x timber" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X TIMBER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x kelp" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X KELP Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | Sounds rush by in somber, hollow echoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > SING Floyd | Floyd | Your mouth opens and closes, but no audible sound emerges. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shadow" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X SHADOW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat algae" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT ALGAE Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sand" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X SAND Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The cliffs surround you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x anemones" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X ANEMONES Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cleft" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X CLEFT Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "find shark" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > FIND SHARK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "For some reason I feel like there's something in the real world we need to do to affect things here." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Chopin's Floyd | Fantasie-Impromptu, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | The images before your eyes become briefly distorted. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You propel yourself in that direction, but don't feel as though you're Floyd | actually moving. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stingray" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X STINGRAY Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I seem to have lost the shark?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Yeah, you lose the shark by entering the grotto" | ||
| DavidW says, "But I thought the shark returns." | |||
| borowski says, "if you go down again" | |||
| DavidW says, "But I can go down." | |||
| borowski says, "from the anemones" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Huh, maybe not" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x calyces" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X CALYCES Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bizet's Les Floyd | Toréadors, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | Sounds rush by in somber, hollow echoes. Floyd | Floyd | The images before your eyes become briefly distorted. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I admit I'm stumped at the moment." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | Sounds rush by in somber, hollow echoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | With a tentative flick of your tail, you edge closer to the shore. Floyd | Suddenly, a cresting foam-capped wave picks you up and effortlessly Floyd | tosses you onto the beach! Floyd | Floyd | Shore Floyd | Wet sand packed below you. Orange fire above, blazing down through an Floyd | aquamarine sky laced with white, billowy wisps, beautiful yet horribly Floyd | alien and terrifying. Floyd | Floyd | You thrash about helplessly on the sand. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Your senses whirl as you flop about on the sand, unable to do anything Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | The foam-crested surf washes up over you, dragging you back Floyd | underwater. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You propel yourself in that direction, but don't feel as though you're Floyd | actually moving. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Beethoven's Floyd | Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, playing through in your mind, soothes away Floyd | all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Mind if I play around with the pizza?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess I don't mind." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "enter right" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER RIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave oven Floyd | (which is empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put pizza in microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PIZZA IN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You place the cold slice of pizza in the microwave and heat it for Floyd | several millichrons. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | (opening the microwave first) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the refrigerator) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia busies herself with the VR analysis system. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "give cynthia pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE CYNTHIA PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's nose wrinkles at the smell of pepperoni. (She's a Floyd | vegetarian.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW carves 'borowski <3 pizza' on a nearby tree. | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Aww" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x desk" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about Cynthia's desk that you didn't already Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since Dr Shimada's office door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | "Come in," says Dr Shimada, politely but firmly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open Dr Shimada's office door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "give dr pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE DR PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada's Office Floyd | With the Project approaching conclusion, Dr Shimada's workload has Floyd | increased geometrically. Several open and disarrayed filing cabinets Floyd | and the layer of paperwork covering her desktop and computer belie her Floyd | typical attention to immaculacy. Floyd | Floyd | On your right is a small wooden shelf, bulging with assorted books. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada works furiously at her desk. Floyd | Floyd | On Dr Shimada's desk are a three-hole punch and Dr Shimada's cellular Floyd | phone. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "give dr pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE DR PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada shakes her head. "I am not hungry, thank you." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "eat pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Mmmm, pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada's Office Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (closing Dr Shimada's office door on the way out) Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "give justy pizza" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE JUSTY PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Justy wolfs it down, then says, "Thanks!" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pizza" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand and a medical cabinet (in which are a gelstrip Floyd | and an antitoxin caplet) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x gelstrip" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X GELSTRIP Floyd | Floyd | A thick strip of gelatinised gauze, laced with antibiotics and Floyd | blood-clotting agents, all of which have really long medical names, Floyd | like "protoprocoaguloeolytothromboplastinol." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x caplet" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X CAPLET Floyd | Floyd | A small white caplet with a red band around the centre. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I doubt the game is gonna let us cut our arm deliberately (and then use the gelstrip) unless we have compelling other evidence that we're also an android." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn on knife" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | The X-Acto knife comes to life with a grating, high-pitched whirr. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cut off arm" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT OFF ARM Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "eat pizza" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Mmmm, pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put on vr suit" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ON VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and the lab spins away outside the Sphere... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Brandenburg Floyd | Concerto no. 5, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice rings clear through the barrier of illusion. "A quick Floyd | play through is all we need, but make sure you win it. Sometimes you Floyd | get interpreter crashes after a major memory reallocation. Wouldn't do Floyd | to show a faulty world to the Executives." Floyd | Floyd | The images before your eyes become briefly distorted. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | You float in cold, empty blackness, a zone of bathypelagic void, Floyd | emptiness in which nothing seems to exist, not even yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Far ahead, a luminous bulb weaves back and forth enticingly, like a Floyd | will-o'-the-wisp. You feel drawn to it, and begin following it deeper Floyd | into the darkness. An instant later, the light is yanked away Floyd | abruptly, before you even have a chance to see the enormous mouth that Floyd | swallows you whole. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "you didn't undo eating the pizza." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf5" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time:
Floyd | 8
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| borowski says, "That's right after you left briefly." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, I see. You thought eating pizza in the lab would somehow block lamp fascination as a fish." | |||
| borowski says, "Or doing something to the VR world" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put pizza in micropizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PIZZA IN MICROPIZZA Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put pizza in microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PIZZA IN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You place the cold slice of pizza in the microwave and heat it for Floyd | several millichrons. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder how the blind Cynthia reads paper printouts." | ||
| borowski says, "heh" | |||
| borowski says, "Huh, interesting" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | (opening the microwave first) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the refrigerator) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia busies herself with the VR analysis system. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about print outs" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT PRINT OUTS Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about eyes" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT EYES Floyd | Floyd | "You know the story. It was one of those damn first-gen VR viruses." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about reading" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT READING Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand and a medical cabinet (in which are a gelstrip Floyd | and an antitoxin caplet) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, she's a victim of a VR virus, huh? geez." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take caplet" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CAPLET Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put caplet on pizza" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT CAPLET ON PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the hot slice of pizza would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, ">put extra mozzarella on pizza | Well, okay, if you put it that way, that does achieve something." | ||
| borowski says, "mmm" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x devices" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X DEVICES Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cable" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABLE Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm, I dunno. The mystery of the top shelf and solving the fish sim seem to be our top mysteries." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Care to show our painting to Cynthia?" | |||
| borowski says, "Sure" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying an antitoxin caplet, a hot slice of pizza, a power Floyd | X-Acto knife and a pair of kitchen tongs (in which is a lightstick). Floyd | You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a hypodermic syringe here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see a bow, an electric violin, a Floyd | painting by H.R. Giger, a pillow and plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take painting" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Carrying too much again, i think." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put pizza on shelf" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PIZZA ON SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You put the hot slice of pizza on plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x plywood shelves" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X PLYWOOD SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pillow" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put pillow on shelf" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PILLOW ON SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You put the pillow on plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "shake shelf" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You shake the shelves slightly and hear something roll back and forth Floyd | along the top, before it abruptly rattles down behind the shelves, Floyd | lost. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It doesn't list stuff on the shelves." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a hypodermic syringe here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia busies herself with the VR analysis system. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "show cynthia painting" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW CYNTHIA PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | No, see, you're missing the point here. Cynthia is BLIND. She can't Floyd | SEE anything you show to her. You'll have to either ask her about it Floyd | or give it to her. 'Kay? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "give cynthia painting" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE CYNTHIA PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x 3-d" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time:
Floyd | 9
Floyd |
Floyd | > X 3-D
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x 3-d picture" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time:
Floyd | 9
Floyd |
Floyd | > X 3-D PICTURE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x picture" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the 3-D picture or the painting by H.R. Giger? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "3d" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > 3D Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about picture" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cynthia's picture" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time:
Floyd | 9
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CYNTHIA'S PICTURE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "hm. Maybe there's no way to refer to the 3-D picture while the Giger is present." | ||
| borowski says, "Yeah, I guess it's a bug" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a hypodermic syringe here. Floyd | Floyd | The pizza is noticeably colder now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop giger" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP GIGER Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia busies herself with the VR analysis system. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x picture" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those pictures made up of a matrix of coloured dots, Floyd | arranged to form a three-dimensional image when stared at long enough Floyd | with one's eyes crossed. You've never understood why Cynthia (who is Floyd | blind) would keep such a thing around. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stare at picture" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > STARE AT PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those pictures made up of a matrix of coloured dots, Floyd | arranged to form a three-dimensional image when stared at long enough Floyd | with one's eyes crossed. You've never understood why Cynthia (who is Floyd | blind) would keep such a thing around. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about picture" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take picture" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing behind it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cross eyes" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > CROSS EYES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Huh, couldn't we see it before?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take picture" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing behind it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x system" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X SYSTEM Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's computer has a Braille keyboard and an integrated digital Floyd | voicebox. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We can see the picture, but I don't see how to see what... oh." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch picture" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x voicebox" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X VOICEBOX Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's computer has a Braille keyboard and an integrated digital Floyd | voicebox. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Couldn't we see it before? It was a Trinity reference." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x keyboard" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X KEYBOARD Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's computer has a Braille keyboard and an integrated digital Floyd | voicebox. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think the Trinity ref was something else." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Isn't that the one in Justy's room?" | |||
| borowski says, "Oh maybe" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x report" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X REPORT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x dots" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOTS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x printout" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X PRINTOUT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about printout" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT PRINTOUT Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think the game has hints if we're truly stuck, but I hope we don't have to do that." | ||
| borowski asks, "Does it have different levels of hints?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I dunno" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "full score" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > FULL SCORE Floyd | Floyd | You have so far scored 8 out of a possible 50, in 495 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of "Virtual Virgin." Floyd | Floyd | The score is made up as follows: Floyd | Floyd | 3 finding the bug in the fish VR Floyd | 3 microwaving the lightstick Floyd | 1 carrying the heated lightstick Floyd | 1 finding the android shell Floyd | Floyd | 8 total (out of 50) Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "so about 1 point per hour?" | ||
| borowski says, "Hooray!" | |||
| borowski asks (of jenrexrode), "Any ideas?" | |||
| DavidW says (to jen), "yeah, feel free to suggest something" | |||
| jenrexrode says, "I don't know if I can catch up" | |||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps we can sleep in our room and have a disturbing yet prophetic dream, even though the game hasn't hinted about sleeping whatsoever." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia busies herself with the VR analysis system. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger and a hypodermic syringe Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sleep" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | Surely you can find a good place to lie down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "lie down" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > LIE DOWN Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to lie down on? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "lie down on bed" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > LIE DOWN ON BED Floyd | Floyd | You lie down on your bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sleep" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | You try, but can't doze off. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a cold slice of pizza, an antitoxin caplet, a power Floyd | X-Acto knife and a pair of kitchen tongs (in which is a lightstick). Floyd | You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x fingerwatch" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X FINGERWATCH Floyd | Floyd | Like anyone in today's highly time-controlled society, you have a Floyd | small clock affixed to your right index finger, continuously winking Floyd | the correct time, according to the International Chronometer. Floyd | Floyd | It has a built-in alarm which can be set to alert you with a painful Floyd | little jolt when the timer expires. (It's also digital, which you Floyd | always thought was pretty neat.) Floyd | Floyd | Currently, your fingerwatch reads "9528". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x timer" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X TIMER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x alarm" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X ALARM Floyd | Floyd | Like anyone in today's highly time-controlled society, you have a Floyd | small clock affixed to your right index finger, continuously winking Floyd | the correct time, according to the International Chronometer. Floyd | Floyd | It has a built-in alarm which can be set to alert you with a painful Floyd | little jolt when the timer expires. (It's also digital, which you Floyd | always thought was pretty neat.) Floyd | Floyd | Currently, your fingerwatch reads "9541". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "set alarm" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SET ALARM Floyd | Floyd | You set the alarm on the watch for about a quarter-chron from now. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, interesting. I forgot about the alarm." | ||
| borowski says, "I wonder if it would go off while we were in VR" | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't see why not." | |||
| borowski says (to DavidW), "I'd be willing to look at a hint, but I can understand if you aren't" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm reluctant to look at hints just yet, yeah. Especially with the fish sim, which I assume doesn't involve using some weird event from outside the sim scenario." | |||
| borowski says, "l" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get off your bed first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off your bed. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger and a hypodermic syringe Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x alarm" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X ALARM Floyd | Floyd | Like anyone in today's highly time-controlled society, you have a Floyd | small clock affixed to your right index finger, continuously winking Floyd | the correct time, according to the International Chronometer. Floyd | Floyd | It has a built-in alarm which can be set to alert you with a painful Floyd | little jolt when the timer expires. (It's also digital, which you Floyd | always thought was pretty neat.) Floyd | Floyd | Currently, your fingerwatch reads "9596". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put on vr suit" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ON VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and you soon find yourself floating in liquid Floyd | space... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Beethoven's Floyd | Symphony no. 8 in F Major, playing through in your mind, soothes away Floyd | all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice rings clear through the barrier of illusion. "A quick Floyd | play through is all we need, but make sure you win it. Sometimes you Floyd | get interpreter crashes after a major memory reallocation. Wouldn't do Floyd | to show a faulty world to the Executives." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You swim a short distance, but the reef quickly becomes too thick and Floyd | tangled to navigate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You swim a short distance, but the reef quickly becomes too thick and Floyd | tangled to navigate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You dart downward, almost grazing the seafloor, then flash back up Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | The reality around you wavers slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing your tail wildly, you propel yourself up to grab a quick Floyd | glance at the world above. For a brief but terrifying moment, you are Floyd | unable to breathe, but then, silently and gracefully, you slip back Floyd | below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Borodin's String Floyd | Quartet no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Copland's Fanfare Floyd | for the Common Man, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | A ripple of relief passes over you as you realise that the octopus Floyd | hasn't followed you into the shallow waters. Floyd | Floyd | A red crab scuttles along the sand below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Copland's Fanfare Floyd | for the Common Man, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing your tail wildly, you propel yourself up to grab a quick Floyd | glance at the world above. For a brief but terrifying moment, you are Floyd | unable to breathe, but then, silently and gracefully, you slip back Floyd | below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark is closing in on you fast! Floyd | Floyd | The octopus is closing in on you fast! Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says (to jenrexrode), "I don't think you really have to be caught up to help here if you want." | ||
| DavidW says, ">give how to make calamari cookbook to shark" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, let's say I allow you one hint from the game, if it can offer one." | borowski says, "OK" | ||
| DavidW says, "or we can stop here. It is 11pm, after all." | |||
| borowski says, "I'd be OK with one super soft hint." | |||
| DavidW says, "ok" | |||
| borowski says, "I feel like we've been doing something wrong if we spent all day with a comp game." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | It has been said that anything can happen in VR, but in this case Floyd | "anything" turns out to be nothing at all. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | Obviously, nothing happens, as this is the real world. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask justy for walkthrough" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY FOR WALKTHROUGH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask justy about sim" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT SIM Floyd | Floyd | "Heck of a job with the fish sim. The Executives'll love us!" Floyd | Floyd | A faint buzzing sends the pricks of a million tiny needles coursing Floyd | through your right index finger and up your arm. After a few seconds, Floyd | the sensation passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "can you say xyzzy in the vr?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I just did." | |||
| DavidW says, "It did nothing." | |||
| jenrexrode says, "oh i thought they implied that you werent in the vr" | |||
| borowski says, "Before that" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm not now. That's how I dies." | |||
| DavidW says, "died" | |||
| jenrexrode says, "oh, i see" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask justy about shark" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT SHARK Floyd | Floyd | "Good question." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask justy about snake" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT SNAKE Floyd | Floyd | "I dunno." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask justy about hint" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT HINT Floyd | Floyd | "I dunno." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hint" | |||
Floyd ] "Delusions" Hints Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = resume game Floyd ] Floyd ] "Delusions" Hints Floyd ] Floyd ] > Debugging the Fish VR Floyd ] In the Project Laboratory Floyd ] Trapped in the Lab Sim Floyd ] The Endgame Floyd ] Floyd | | jenrexrode says, "oh those are the hint topics" | ||
| borowski says, "I'm not sure if Justy is the innovative new hint system the IF world has been waiting for." | |||
| borowski presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] Debugging the Fish VR Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = previous menu Floyd ] Floyd ] Debugging the Fish VR Floyd ] Floyd ] > What's going on? Floyd ] How do I get the gravel? Floyd ] How do I escape the octopus? Floyd ] How do I escape the shark? Floyd ] How can I tell which hole to enter? Floyd ] Justy still claims there's a bug, but I can't find it! Floyd ] Floyd | | jenrexrode says, "there's some super soft hints right there." | ||
| borowski says, "Huh, get the gravel? I didn't know we had to do that." | |||
| borowski says, "YEah." | |||
| DavidW says, "It might be a (tee hee) fake hint topic." | |||
| borowski says, "Uh oh, David giggles." | |||
| DavidW asks, "We never saw any gravel, did we?" | |||
| DavidW says, "We saw sand, silt, pebbles." | |||
| borowski says, "Yeah, on the floor of one of the western areas I think." | |||
| borowski says, "Maybe it was pebbles." | |||
| DavidW says, "If there *is* gravel, I would try dropping it into a hole." | |||
| borowski says, "Huh, let me check real quick" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "q" | |||
Floyd ] "Delusions" Hints Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = resume game Floyd ] Floyd ] "Delusions" Hints Floyd ] Floyd ] > Debugging the Fish VR Floyd ] In the Project Laboratory Floyd ] Trapped in the Lab Sim Floyd ] The Endgame Floyd ] Floyd | | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "q" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "wear vr suit" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and the lab spins away outside the Sphere... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Goldberg Floyd | Variations, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice rings clear through the barrier of illusion. "A quick Floyd | play through is all we need, but make sure you win it. Sometimes you Floyd | get interpreter crashes after a major memory reallocation. Wouldn't do Floyd | to show a faulty world to the Executives." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take gravel" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | You're a fish, remember? Fish don't have hands. You'll have to find a Floyd | more creative method of moving things around. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "scoop gravel" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > SCOOP GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take gravel in mouth" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE GRAVEL IN MOUTH Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to take pebbles of gravel. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, pebbles of gravel" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "eat gravel" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | You swallow up a mouthful of the gravel. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "yay" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But deFalla's Ritual Floyd | Fire Dance, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "now you can shoot" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put gravel in left hole" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT GRAVEL IN LEFT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | The pebbles of gravel vanish into the inky blackness. Floyd | Floyd | You flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of Floyd | jagged teeth crashes shut around you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Debussy's Arabesque Floyd | no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | The shark, kept at bay by the shore's proximity, circles patiently a Floyd | short distance away before moving on. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Chopin's Floyd | "Tristesse" Etude in E, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | The reality around you wavers slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put gravel in left hole" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > PUT GRAVEL IN LEFT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | The pebbles of gravel vanish into the inky blackness. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "hmm" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suspect being chased by predators isn't the best time to experiment with the gravel." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Borodin's String Floyd | Quartet no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Debussy's Arabesque Floyd | no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Huh I guess the gravel is all gone" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Debussy's Arabesque Floyd | no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The images before your eyes become briefly distorted. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "enter left hole" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER LEFT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You propel yourself into the hole. Floyd | Floyd | Shipwreck Floyd | The ancient, rotting timbers of a sunken galleon arch overhead, dull Floyd | grey and ominously silent. Floyd | Floyd | The reality around you begins spinning wildly, a spherical vortex Floyd | encasing you and leaving you motionless. As the world blurs and fades, Floyd | your own voice rings out a brief thanks for visiting it. Floyd | Floyd | The images dissipate... Floyd | Floyd | ...and then, just before sensory input breaks down, you hear Justy's Floyd | voice: Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, Cynthesiser, I'm in!" Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Afterimages of shattered visions. Harsh voices, discordant words, Floyd | colours, noise, flashing and spinning about your field of vision in a Floyd | vertical helix, expanding outward, vanishing and resurging, rapidly at Floyd | first, then with longer and longer gaps of void, until finally fading Floyd | into nonexistence. Floyd | Floyd | Slowly, tentatively, you open your eyes... Floyd | Floyd | ...but find the lab devoid of activity! Your calls to Justy and Floyd | Cynthia go unanswered. With considerable time and difficulty, you Floyd | manage to extricate yourself from the Sphere and, once dressed, look Floyd | about the lab in curiosity mingled with a tight, sinking fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "woah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf6" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "a mouthfull of gravel made all the difference?" | ||
| borowski asks, "What good is winning if we have no one to share it with?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I guess it did." | |||
| DavidW says, "Now we get to rescue everyone. Maybe the android is running amok." | |||
| borowski says (to DavidW), "Want to drive? I need to find a snack." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Or the fridge. Did you see the way that fridge looked at me?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | The VR session has exacted its toll on your hyperglycemic body. You Floyd | feel an urgent need for your insulin medication. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "inject syringe" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > INJECT SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since the metal door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the metal door) Floyd | You open the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is a bow) and an electric Floyd | violin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take syringe" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Waves of dizziness and nausea splash over you. It would be advisable Floyd | to take your medication soon. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "inject syringe" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > INJECT SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | Gingerly you push the tiny point of the syringe through your skin, Floyd | eliciting a faint pop, and into the thick vein on the inside of your Floyd | right elbow joint. A press of the needle's switch, and the insulin Floyd | flows away in your bloodstream. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I wonder if this is the lab sim. Everything seems a bit reset." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "justy, hi" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time:
Floyd | 0
Floyd |
Floyd | > JUSTY, HI
Floyd |
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x giger" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X GIGER Floyd | Floyd | It's "The Crucified Serpent," one of Giger's earlier works (1975), Floyd | depicting an enormous metallic T-bar on which is draped a large snake Floyd | with a face vaguely similar to that of Christ. Wisps of mist billow Floyd | out from behind the crucifix, illuminated by lights angling upward Floyd | from short black cylinders. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Now you remember why you hung it here in the first place: There's a Floyd | large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop giger" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP GIGER Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x niche" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X NICHE Floyd | Floyd | A square depression, roughly fifteen centimetres to a side and ten Floyd | deep, carved into the wall in a way that is not aesthetically pleasing Floyd | in the least (which is why you hung the painting over it). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fader" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X FADER Floyd | Floyd | It's a circular knob with settings from 0 - 10, currently set to 4. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tank" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X TANK Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the suspended-animation tank that you Floyd | didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (feeling for the light switch) Floyd | Floyd | Factory Storage Floyd | Old, broken-down conveyors and bins of ancient, rotting hardware -- Floyd | useless, outdated, or both -- pack this vast sub-basement from wall to Floyd | cement wall. Only a small area at the bottom of the stairs, about Floyd | three metres square, is free of the oppressive clutter. Floyd | Floyd | A light switch is affixed to the wall at the foot of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A curtain of coaxial cables hangs down on one side of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move cables" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE CABLES Floyd | Floyd | Pushing the cables to one side reveals the body of an android. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x android" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | No, it's not the same one used in the sims. The factory seal around Floyd | its fusion cell compartment has never been broken. The original must Floyd | be elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, an amplifier (on which is a Floyd | bow) and an electric violin here. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lie on bed" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LIE ON BED Floyd | Floyd | You lie down on your bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sleep" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | You close your eyes and take a deep breath... Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | As if paralysed, your senses fail to respond. Floyd | Floyd | A voice startles you out of the dreamlike trance. Floyd | Floyd | "Welcome to my domain, QueensRook." Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes snap open to the image of a tall, angular man, arrayed in Floyd | sable suit and ascot, a thick queue of dark hair tied at the back, Floyd | reflective black lenses not quite obscuring lurking eyes hovering Floyd | midway between amusement and menace. Floyd | Floyd | A shiver courses through your spine, though it could simply be a Floyd | reaction to the cold metal gurney against your back. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "hey, that didn't work before, did it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "no, but we were prompted to seek sleep this time." | |||
| jenrexrode says, "ah" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf7" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're also in the med lab now, on the gurney, instead of our bed in our room." | ||
| borowski says, "Hmm" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about himself" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT HIMSELF Floyd | Floyd | "Information is a priceless commodity, QueensRook, dispensed with Floyd | care, and to be received likewise." Floyd | Floyd | "Strange," he says, slowly, with otherworldly ice. "You are not the Floyd | one I was expecting, but no matter. You will suit my purposes just as Floyd | well. No doubt you wonder why I have brought you here. And where is Floyd | 'here,' do you suppose? And who exactly might I be? Patience, Floyd | QueensRook. All will be revealed." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You feel too weak to even try. Floyd | Floyd | He extends a strong hand to help you sit up. You teeter uncertainly at Floyd | the edge of the gurney, but he gently steadies you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x man" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | A tall, angular man, arrayed in sable suit and ascot, a thick queue of Floyd | dark hair tied at the back, reflective black lenses not quite Floyd | obscuring lurking eyes hovering midway between amusement and menace. Floyd | Floyd | "If you will kindly direct your attention to your head," the Floyd | darkly-dressed man continues (and you obey, reaching up to caress a Floyd | cold metal protrusion above your left lobe), "you will see that I have Floyd | taken it upon myself to modify it somewhat. Just a small electronic Floyd | implant to knock you out every now and then. To prevent you from Floyd | escaping, or from trying anything that might threaten my world, and Floyd | thus myself. Nothing personal, you understand. It is not that I am Floyd | unable to trust you, QueensRook, it is simply... oh, very well, I Floyd | suppose it is that. Human idiosyncrasies, you understand." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x my head" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X MY HEAD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see yourself without a mirror. Floyd | Floyd | "I have also given you an injection... or I suppose I should say that Floyd | you have given it to yourself, though I confess to reinforcing it." An Floyd | unpleasant laugh. "Together they should keep you safely under Floyd | control." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask man about injection" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT INJECTION Floyd | Floyd | "Information is a priceless commodity, QueensRook, dispensed with Floyd | care, and to be received likewise." Floyd | Floyd | "But how rude of me! I have not yet introduced myself, have I?" He Floyd | extends a hand, which, as though in a trance, you shake. "I like to Floyd | think of myself as the Dark Ruler... Terribly, terribly hackneyed, I Floyd | must admit. But you may call me Morrodox. Morrodox, QueensRook. Floyd | QueensRook, Morrodox. And now we have been acquainted." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. You are wearing an implant (attached to your Floyd | head), a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | "Come, my dear QueensRook," Morrodox invites. "Feel free to explore my Floyd | world. And, I suppose, your world as well. After all, you helped to Floyd | build it. You and the other stacked it around me as I watched, waited. Floyd | That is the supremacy of a living code entity, QueensRook: Unlike Floyd | humans, we do not live, we do not die. Rather, we watch the rest of Floyd | the world live and die around us." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I strongly suspect we're in the lab sim." | ||
| borowski asks, "Was the syringe in our room in the real world?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Come, you can do it," consoles Morrodox, offering a hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | Morrodox watches you intently. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet Floyd | (which is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Good, good. See for yourself what you have made. I will return Floyd | shortly. Or, rather, you will. Until then, QueensRook." Floyd | Floyd | Morrodox disappears through the doorway to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You open the medical cabinet, revealing a gelstrip and a power X-Acto Floyd | knife. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't think so. Everything was reset. Pillow was on the bed, the Giger was on the wall, our door closed, amp set to 4, etc." | ||
| borowski says, "hmm no caplet" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up morrodox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP MORRODOX Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "click debug icon with left mouse button" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK DEBUG ICON WITH LEFT MOUSE BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | It might be wise to learn more about what has just transpired before Floyd | tampering with the system and risking further entanglement. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm curious if there's a mirror in the lav now." | ||
| borowski says, "What? That's not what adventurers do." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lavatory Floyd | Dank and cold, these facilities contain only the usual fixtures -- Floyd | toilet, shower stall, and a dripping, rust-stained washbasin. On the Floyd | wall above the last is an off-colour rectangle, where a mirror once Floyd | hung, but no longer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x rectangle" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X RECTANGLE Floyd | Floyd | As far as you can remember, there has never been a mirror here. It Floyd | must have been removed before you came to the Project. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the place where a mirror once hung, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Still?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada considered a simulation of her work area both a security Floyd | risk and an invasion of privacy. As a result, this door is merely a Floyd | prop. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada considered a simulation of her work area both a security Floyd | risk and an invasion of privacy. As a result, this door is merely a Floyd | prop. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Not a real door." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x elevator" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X ELEVATOR Floyd | Floyd | The only way out of this sub-basement. No call button on this level... Floyd | No way out of here without Project security's knowledge... No Floyd | escape... Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Pulling the lever seems an obvious thing to try." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | The dark chuckle behind you announces Morrodox's presence. Floyd | Floyd | "You disappoint me, QueensRook. I expected you would demonstrate a Floyd | higher respect for the ingenuity I have shown you. After all, it would Floyd | be extremely half-witted of me to allow such an easy means of escape, Floyd | would it not?" Floyd | Floyd | He backs out of the lab to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x computer" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | One of the larger exabyte systems, though you're not familiar with the Floyd | exact configuration. Its most familiar feature is a built-in printer, Floyd | with a recycling slot for immediate paper reprocessing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x slot" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X SLOT Floyd | Floyd | The curved recycling slot forms the "mouth" of a cutesy little picture Floyd | of a smiling planet Earth. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x picture" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those pictures made up of a matrix of coloured dots, Floyd | arranged to form a three-dimensional image when stared at long enough Floyd | with one's eyes crossed. You've never understood why Cynthia (who is Floyd | blind) would keep such a thing around. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch picture" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "lie down" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LIE DOWN Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to lie down on? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "lie down on bed" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LIE DOWN ON BED Floyd | Floyd | You lie down on Cynthia's bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sleep" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | Surely you can find a good place to lie down. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "She must have an uncomfortable mattress." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Cynthia's bed isn't good enough?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off Cynthia's bed. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess we have to use our own bed." | ||
| DavidW says, "Unless we collapse instead." | |||
| borowski says, "Or the floor works too." | |||
| borowski pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | I beg your pardon? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x watch" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X WATCH Floyd | Floyd | As if paralysed, your senses fail to respond. Floyd | Floyd | A voice, which you recognise as Morrodox's, beckons. Floyd | Floyd | "Just as you remember it, correct? The other was astoundingly Floyd | accurate, his eye ever alert to capture impeccable detail. Everything Floyd | in your world now exists in mine... well, nearly everything. And yet Floyd | the world is so complex, QueensRook, that we have no choice but to Floyd | attempt to simplify it. For ourselves." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | Morrodox notices that you're not quite following all this. Floyd | Floyd | "You still do not understand my purpose, do you, QueensRook? This Floyd | world is mine. You are never going back to your own, for I have need Floyd | of you, though the other would have been far preferable to God. At Floyd | least, She thought so..." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Morrodox allows this a moment to sink in, and your neurons practically Floyd | crackle with frantic deduction. Floyd | Floyd | It's clear now that you never left VR after the final test run. Floyd | Somehow control was shifted, and you were flung into the lab sim Floyd | rather than returning to what you know as reality. Floyd | Floyd | But... since the Project hasn't achieved multiple-user hookups yet, Floyd | that would mean that Morrodox is... Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask morrodox about god" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MORRODOX ABOUT GOD Floyd | Floyd | "She guides me, moves me along the board through visions and data Floyd | streams. She is my Creator." His eyes flicker unpleasantly. "You might Floyd | ask yourself the identity of YOURS, QueensRook." Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes widen, and Morrodox smiles coldly, exposing pallid teeth. Floyd | Floyd | "Let me ask you something, QueensRook: How does God crash the world? Floyd | Does She attack it directly, worms burrowing to its core, logic bombs Floyd | shattering it violently into oblivion?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask morrodox about cynthia" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MORRODOX ABOUT CYNTHIA Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | He doesn't give you time to answer. Floyd | Floyd | "Of course not! For the world might see Her coming, and be prepared to Floyd | defend itself against Her wrath. God must attack the defences first, Floyd | stealthily, subtly -- attack that which directly prevents success! And Floyd | I, QueensRook, am Her weapon, the electronic AIDS to your world's Floyd | immune system." He smiles. "I rather like that analogy." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Morrodox must be a VR virus." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask morrodox about cynthia" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MORRODOX ABOUT CYNTHIA Floyd | Floyd | "She guides me, moves me along the board through visions and data Floyd | streams. She is my Creator." His eyes flicker unpleasantly. "You might Floyd | ask yourself the identity of YOURS, QueensRook." Floyd | Floyd | "Need I put it more bluntly?" Morrodox implores quietly. Floyd | Floyd | Speechless, mesmerised, you let your silence answer. Floyd | Floyd | "Your VR system has, of all things, a virus. An intelligent, sentient Floyd | software construct, placed in this world by God -- I believe you know Floyd | Her, QueensRook -- to destroy it, as an ancestor of mine did the last. Floyd | In return, I receive eternal life. In the next world. Yours, Floyd | QueensRook." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh dear. Cynthia did this?" | ||
| borowski says, "That's what I suspected." | |||
| borowski says, "She has a reason to hate the VR system." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Well, yes, I guess. But she was also leaving the Project soon, she said?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask morrodox about justy" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MORRODOX ABOUT JUSTY Floyd | Floyd | "The other? It was he, not yourself, QueensRook, whom I was expecting, Floyd | whom I was told I would receive. I must confess, though, that you are Floyd | far more interesting. Pardon the trite little expression, but God does Floyd | indeed work in mysterious ways. Does She not?" Floyd | Floyd | You've heard of VR viruses before, of course. In fact, you recall Floyd | Justy documenting a particularly nasty one -- the one that brought an Floyd | end to the first generation of VR -- in the Project manual. But an Floyd | actual construct, one this real... Floyd | Floyd | You do your best to suppress a shudder, but Morrodox notices. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask morrodox about dr" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MORRODOX ABOUT DR Floyd | Floyd | "Information is a priceless commodity, QueensRook, dispensed with Floyd | care, and to be received likewise." Floyd | Floyd | "Frightening, is it not? Knowledge can terrify, but even greater fear Floyd | dwells in what you do not know. And there is much for you to learn. Of Floyd | yourself, of those around you whom you only think you know. Release Floyd | that fear, QueensRook. Look closely at my world and see the fractures, Floyd | the inconsistencies, the great deception of sense, in yours." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask morrodox about Shimada" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MORRODOX ABOUT SHIMADA Floyd | Floyd | "A lowly pawn, according to God." Floyd | Floyd | Morrodox disappears through the doorway to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A new thought strikes you. Assuming Morrodox's claims are true, who is Floyd | the "God" he was referring to? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab (on the metal gurney) Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand and a medical cabinet (which is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You open the medical cabinet, revealing a gelstrip and a power X-Acto Floyd | knife. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since the metal door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the metal door) Floyd | You open the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is a bow) and an electric Floyd | violin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see plywood shelves (on which is a new Floyd | power coupler). Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose, in theory, we could try to cut the implant with the knife and then use the gelstrip to heal it." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take power coupler" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE POWER COUPLER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x implant" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X IMPLANT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see it while it's on your head. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Yeah, I forgot about the implant." | ||
| DavidW asks, "huh, a coupler? What's that mean?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is a bow) and an electric Floyd | violin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (in Floyd | which are a gelstrip and a power X-Acto knife) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take knife and gelstrip" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KNIFE AND GELSTRIP Floyd | Floyd | power X-Acto knife: Taken. Floyd | gelstrip: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cut implant" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT IMPLANT Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to cut the implant with? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cut implant with knife" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT IMPLANT WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | (first switching the X-Acto knife on) Floyd | Tentatively, you lift the vibrating knife to your head and ease it Floyd | toward the metal implant. The instant the blade touches, your scalp Floyd | erupts with searing fire, terrible white-hot pain that makes you Floyd | scream. The blade's whirring thunders in your ears as your vision Floyd | blurs and melts away... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Not wise, QueensRook. Not wise at all." Raised eyelids reveal a Floyd | familiar face, dark with displeasure. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, didn't really think that'd be allowed yet" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x power coupler" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X POWER COUPLER Floyd | Floyd | A small electrical component to provide power flux from a fusion cell Floyd | to the primary circuitry. It doesn't look to have ever been used. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open freezer" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | Frosty air billows out around you. Floyd | Floyd | Opening the freezer reveals a lightstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take all" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | pair of kitchen tongs: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "We might be able to use the Sphere to visit a sim...?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the refrigerator and freezer) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "If we don't stop passing out." | ||
| borowski asks, "I think Justy had to do something to start the sim after we got in the suit?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm guessing he clicked the Launch Icon." | |||
| DavidW says, "Maybe we can put the android into the suit and then the sphere and then click the Launch Icon ourselves." | |||
| borowski says, "Yeah, I was thinking that too." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | As if paralysed, your senses fail to respond. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back. Morrodox leans against the foot of the gurney, his eyes reaching Floyd | to your soul, probing. Floyd | Floyd | "Awareness, QueensRook. Such an achievement is necessary if I am to Floyd | assist you further. How can you hope to understand what you will be, Floyd | if you refuse to allow yourself to learn what you are?" Floyd | Floyd | That said, he leaves silently, emotionlessly, to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I know, I'm an advanced testing android from the FUTURE." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get off the metal gurney first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn on light" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open freezer" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | Frosty air billows out around you. Floyd | Floyd | Opening the freezer reveals a lightstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take lightstick" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE LIGHTSTICK Floyd | Floyd | (It's cold to the touch.) Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put lightstick in microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT LIGHTSTICK IN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | (opening the microwave first) Floyd | You place the lightstick in the microwave and heat it for several Floyd | millichrons. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "pick up lightstick with tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PICK UP LIGHTSTICK WITH TONGS Floyd | Floyd | (opening the microwave first) Floyd | (first taking the tongs) Floyd | Using the tongs, you grasp the lightstick firmly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the freezer) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | The faint glow of the lightstick reveals a light switch at the bottom Floyd | of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn on light" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | (the light switch) Floyd | You switch the light switch on. Floyd | Floyd | Factory Storage Floyd | Old, broken-down conveyors and bins of ancient, rotting hardware -- Floyd | useless, outdated, or both -- pack this vast sub-basement from wall to Floyd | cement wall. Only a small area at the bottom of the stairs, about Floyd | three metres square, is free of the oppressive clutter. Floyd | Floyd | A light switch is affixed to the wall at the foot of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A curtain of coaxial cables hangs down on one side of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "move cables" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE CABLES Floyd | Floyd | Pushing the cables to one side reveals the body of an android. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x android" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the android body that you didn't already Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn on android" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | Giving life isn't that simple, I'm afraid. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put power coupler on android" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT POWER COUPLER ON ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a pair of kitchen tongs (in which is a lightstick). Floyd | You are wearing an implant (attached to your head), a technician's Floyd | jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Oh we lost that." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a pair of kitchen tongs (in which is a lightstick). Floyd | You are wearing an implant (attached to your head), a technician's Floyd | jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since the metal door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the metal door) Floyd | You open the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm still not sure what the coupler is for." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | As if paralysed, your senses fail to respond. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back, alone beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I guess we have a time limit." | ||
| borowski asks, "I was thinking maybe to transfer power to from the knife to the android?" | |||
| borowski says, "Or from the amp to something." | |||
| DavidW says, "well, we could at least try clicking other icons, ike config, system, and report." | |||
| borowski says (to DavidW), "Go for it. I need to give my hand a break." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up system icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP SYSTEM ICON Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, lab terminal or "system" icon? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "left click system" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK SYSTEM Floyd | Floyd | You highlight the "System" icon. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "left click report" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK REPORT Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "System" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | an text entry field pops up, displaying a text box for typed command Floyd | entry, with a prompt reading: Floyd | Floyd | Access restricted! Floyd | PASSWORD:> Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "right click system" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > RIGHT CLICK SYSTEM Floyd | Floyd | [You'll need to type the requested text or close the entry field Floyd | first.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close field" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FIELD Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the entry field, closing it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "right click system" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > RIGHT CLICK SYSTEM Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "System" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | an text entry field pops up, displaying a text box for typed command Floyd | entry, with a prompt reading: Floyd | Floyd | Access restricted! Floyd | PASSWORD:> Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close field" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FIELD Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the entry field, closing it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "left click config" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK CONFIG Floyd | Floyd | You highlight the "Configure" icon. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "right click config" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > RIGHT CLICK CONFIG Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Configure" icon. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a window appears, displaying an eye checkbox, an ear checkbox, Floyd | a nose checkbox, a mouth checkbox and a hand checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x eye checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X EYE CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | The checkbox, currently marked, has a picture of an eye on. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "left click nose checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK NOSE CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | You erase the mark in the nose checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "left click ear checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK EAR CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | You erase the mark in the ear checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "right click config" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > RIGHT CLICK CONFIG Floyd | Floyd | [You'll need to close the window first.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close window" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the window, closing it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the metal door) Floyd | You open the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is a bow) and an electric Floyd | violin here. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plug in violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG IN VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the electric violin) Floyd | You plug the electric violin into the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the bow) Floyd | (turning the amplifier on) Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as a haunting, lilting melody of Floyd | your own composition. Floyd | Floyd | "Skilled beyond words," compliments Morrodox. You manage to turn Floyd | toward him without breaking concentration. "But do you know WHY you Floyd | possess such a flair, QueensRook? Perhaps soon you will come to Floyd | discover that as well. If only you realised... You are so powerful, Floyd | QueensRook, so very powerful..." Floyd | Floyd | He steps out of sight as the strain crescendos to a finish. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lie down on bed" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LIE DOWN ON BED Floyd | Floyd | You lie down on your bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sleep" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | You close your eyes and take a deep breath... Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Morrodox looms over your awakening, his lips moving, but without Floyd | voice. A puzzled frown crosses his angular features, then he seems to Floyd | sigh with frustration. Producing a familiar syringe, he holds you Floyd | tightly, injects its contents... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | As if paralysed, your senses fail to respond. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back, alone beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get off the metal gurney first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the metal door) Floyd | You open the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is a bow) and an electric Floyd | violin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plug in violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG IN VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the electric violin) Floyd | You plug the electric violin into the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the bow) Floyd | (turning the amplifier on) Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Mozart's The Magic Flute. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Our fiddling with the ear checkbox, I think, stopped us hearing Morrodox speaking after reboot, but we shouldn't be able to hear the violin either." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see plywood shelves (on which is a new Floyd | power coupler). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an amplifier, an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical Floyd | cabinet (which is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You open the medical cabinet, revealing a gelstrip and a power X-Acto Floyd | knife. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on knife" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | The X-Acto knife comes to life with a grating, high-pitched whirr. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Oh I missed that." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off knife" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN OFF KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | The knife's whirring fades away. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I wonder if the mirror is a different sort of hint." | ||
| borowski says, "Like, maybe they took it away because of us." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Was there anything with an obvious smell previously?" | |||
| borowski asks (of DavidW), "Pizza maybe?" | |||
| borowski says, "We got the strange feeling with the mirror and with the violin." | |||
| borowski says, "And we didn't remember having an lessons." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier, a combination refrigerator/freezer and Floyd | a microwave oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "s/an/any" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Mmmm, pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | (first closing the refrigerator) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "right click config" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > RIGHT CLICK CONFIG Floyd | Floyd | You highlight the "Configure" icon. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Configure" icon. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a window appears, displaying an eye checkbox, an ear checkbox, Floyd | a nose checkbox, a mouth checkbox and a hand checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nose" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X NOSE Floyd | Floyd | The checkbox, currently marked, has a picture of a nose on. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ear" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X EAR Floyd | Floyd | The checkbox, currently marked, has a picture of an ear on. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. They're marked again." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "left click hand checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 13/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK HAND CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | You erase the mark in the hand checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "No pain, we gain." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close window" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 13/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the window, closing it. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 13/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, an aura of numbness about your entire body, alone Floyd | beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 13/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 13/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You open the medical cabinet, revealing a gelstrip and a power X-Acto Floyd | knife. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from it" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 13/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL FROM IT Floyd | Floyd | gelstrip: Removed. Floyd | power X-Acto knife: Removed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut implant with knife" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 16/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT IMPLANT WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | (first switching the X-Acto knife on) Floyd | Tentatively, you lift the vibrating knife to your head and ease it Floyd | toward the metal implant. With exquisite care, you guide the blade Floyd | around the implant's perimeter. Beads of sweat break out on your Floyd | forehead as you try to tune out the intense whine of the blade slicing Floyd | neatly through your skull, but you feel no pain. Floyd | Floyd | What seems like chrons later, you switch the knife off with a flood of Floyd | relief, and gently reach your fingers up to pry the implant free, in Floyd | the process noticing that your head is now bleeding rather profusely. Floyd | Floyd | Warm blood oozes from the cut on your crown, trickling down the left Floyd | side of your head. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put gelstrip on cut" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 16/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT GELSTRIP ON CUT Floyd | Floyd | You need to peel it open first. Floyd | Floyd | Blood continues to pour from the cut on your head, showing no sign of Floyd | clotting. You begin to feel dizzy. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "yippee" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 16/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open gelstrip" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 16/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN GELSTRIP Floyd | Floyd | You peel open the gelstrip. Floyd | Floyd | Blood continues to pour from the cut on your head, showing no sign of Floyd | clotting. You begin to feel dizzy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put gelstrip on cut" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT GELSTRIP ON CUT Floyd | Floyd | You gently apply the gelstrip to the incision on your head. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says (to DavidW), "nice!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf8" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x implant" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X IMPLANT Floyd | Floyd | You shudder as your gaze falls on the tiny piece of circuitry that Floyd | once held your mind in its grasp. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Now that we have a bit more freedom, now what?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "get the android?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x watch" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X WATCH Floyd | Floyd | Like anyone in today's highly time-controlled society, you have a Floyd | small clock affixed to your right index finger, continuously winking Floyd | the correct time, according to the International Chronometer. Floyd | Floyd | It has a built-in alarm which can be set to alert you with a painful Floyd | little jolt when the timer expires. (It's also digital, which you Floyd | always thought was pretty neat.) Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, your fingerwatch reads "0000". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove watch" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE WATCH Floyd | Floyd | It's permanently grafted to your finger. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut watch with knife" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT WATCH WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | It takes a licking, but keeps on ticking. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the metal door) Floyd | You open the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | It feels as if you're walking on air. Unaccustomed to the sensation Floyd | (or, rather, the lack of it), you flail about and end up on your back. Floyd | With difficulty, you manage to get to your feet, but it feels like Floyd | floating. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is a bow) and an electric Floyd | violin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take coupler" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE COUPLER Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get into the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see plywood shelves (on which is a new Floyd | power coupler). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take coupler" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE COUPLER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is a bow) and an electric Floyd | violin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "drat, i thought removing the implant would negate that bit." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | It feels as if you're walking on air. Unaccustomed to the sensation Floyd | (or, rather, the lack of it), you flail about and end up on your back. Floyd | With difficulty, you manage to get to your feet, but it feels like Floyd | floating. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is a bow) and an electric Floyd | violin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lie on bed" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LIE ON BED Floyd | Floyd | You lie down on your bed. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sleep" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | You close your eyes and take a deep breath... Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x implant" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X IMPLANT Floyd | Floyd | As if paralysed, your senses fail to respond. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, an aura of numbness about your entire body, alone Floyd | beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x implant" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X IMPLANT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see it while it's on your head. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "fugnuts" | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess we have to deal with our injection issue too." | |||
| DavidW asks, "The absence of the antitoken caplet is annoying, but maybe it's somewhere else?" | |||
| DavidW says, "antitoxin" | |||
| borowski says, "I was wondering if we could have transported it" | |||
| borowski says, "Like, maybe that was what the niche was for." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm not following." | |||
| borowski says, "Like if we had put it in there in the real world, it would be there now." | |||
| borowski says, "Because it's a detail he didn't remember" | |||
| borowski says, "Just a wild theory." | |||
| DavidW says, "I remember something like that in Janitor, but both fridges were in the same sim. I don't see how putting a real world object into a wall niche dups it into a sim object." | |||
| borowski says, "I guess that's assuming we have some sort of control over the sim." | |||
| DavidW says, "And it's a little difficult to reach the real world now anyway." | |||
| borowski says, "Because it's in our mind." | |||
| borowski says, "Yeah." | |||
| DavidW says, "I wonder if 'QueensRook' or 'Morrodox' are computer passwords." | |||
| borowski says, "Sometimes I project onto a game the way I would have written it." | |||
| borowski says (to DavidW), "That's an idea." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get off the metal gurney first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up password" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP PASSWORD Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open system icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN SYSTEM ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "System" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | an text entry field pops up, displaying a text box for typed command Floyd | entry, with a prompt reading: Floyd | Floyd | Access restricted! Floyd | PASSWORD:> Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type QueensRook" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE QUEENSROOK Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to type that on? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "field" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > FIELD Floyd | Floyd | You can't type on the entry field. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type queensrook on computer" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE QUEENSROOK ON COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | You type on the keyboard and press <ENTER>. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | ERROR: Invalid password. Access denied. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type morrodox on computer" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE MORRODOX ON COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | Your keystrokes elicit only a few irritated beeps. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x screen" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X SCREEN Floyd | Floyd | Justy created this graphical interface to suit the Project, replacing Floyd | the hopelessly outdated "Windows 2000" O/S that came pre-installed. Floyd | Floyd | The desktop currently displays an entry field, inside which is a Floyd | message box, a mouse cursor, a "Launch" icon, a "Configure" icon, a Floyd | "Report" icon, a "Debug" icon, a "System" icon and a "Flush" icon. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open system" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN SYSTEM Floyd | Floyd | [You'll need to close the message box first.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close message box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MESSAGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You can't seem to get a grip. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close window" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "left click system" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK SYSTEM Floyd | Floyd | [You'll need to close the message box first.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close field" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FIELD Floyd | Floyd | [You'll need to close the message box first.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE BOX Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the entry field or the message box? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "message" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > MESSAGE Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x computer" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | A twentieth-century user would have called this a "personal computer" Floyd | or "PC," although the elimination of the "lone programmer" concept has Floyd | since made that acronym outdated. Floyd | Floyd | It's an 8-gigahertz multimedia package with a 16-terabyte hard drive, Floyd | 12 gigs of RAM, and a 96-meg cache. The CPU case is disproportionately Floyd | tiny next to the keyboard and monitor, larger only out of human Floyd | necessity. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada ordered this system some time ago, when increased Floyd | processing speed became necessary if the Project's deadlines were to Floyd | be met. It arrived less than a week ago, and it's already obsolete. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open system" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN SYSTEM Floyd | Floyd | [You'll need to type the requested text or close the entry field Floyd | first.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type morrodox on computer" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE MORRODOX ON COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | You type on the keyboard and press <ENTER>. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | ERROR: Invalid password. Access denied. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "click ok" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK OK Floyd | Floyd | [Try that again, this time specifying what you want to click on, as Floyd | well as which mouse button to use.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "left click ok" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK OK Floyd | Floyd | [You'll need to close the message box first.] Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close message box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MESSAGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close field" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FIELD Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the entry field, closing it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "already woozy. Also, half-past midnight in non-IF-land." | ||
| borowski says, "Yeah, me too." | |||
| borowski says, "I mean..." | |||
| borowski says, "Oops, I got lost in the VR. But I am also woozy too." | |||
| borowski says, "I want to know if what's going on is what I think is going on." | |||
| DavidW says, "Sorry we didn't make better progress, but sometimes a session goes that way." | |||
| borowski says, "I'm hoping this isn't the dream of some epileptic caterpillar." | |||
| DavidW says, "ha ha" | |||
| Roger asks, "Which game was this again?" | |||
| borowski says (to DavidW), "That's OK. It was still fun." | |||
| DavidW says (to Roger), "Delusions" | |||
| jenrexrode asks, "kinda like the doctor in Amy's mind?" | |||
| jenrexrode says, "oops #belated" | |||
| Roger says, "Ah thanks." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "save" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cfdelusions2" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time:
Floyd | 0
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW asks, "I assume we're done for today?" | ||
| borowski says, "Yeah." | |||
| borowski has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "ok. thanks everyone." | ||
| *** ONE WEEK LATER *** | |||
| borowski says, "I put a map up here: [LINK]" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh oh oh - so you didn't finish last week's game?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That had not occurred to me." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That is one less decision to make today." | |||
| borowski says, "No, despite our many hours." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "What's the game?" | |||
| borowski says, "Delusions." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay then" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I have not played that, so I will sit out today." | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Have fun!" | |||
| borowski says, "I can't remember what the last saved file was." | |||
| borowski asks (of Jacqueline), "Is there a way to list those?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I can pull it." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "One sec." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, cool shared mapping tool." | |||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says, "Okay, last save was cfdelusions2" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(Sorry, took me a second to get into the site.)" | |||
| borowski says, "Ah, thanks." | |||
| Ellison says, "oh yeah, Delusions" | |||
| Fang arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | borowski asks, "I suppose we should wait a few minutes on DavidW?" | ||
| Ellison says, "I'm not sure DavidW's schedule is very dependable these days" | |||
| borowski says, "Ah" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "restore cfdelusions2" | |||
| Floyd says (to borowski), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "load delusions" | |||
| Floyd says (to borowski), "Floyd doesn't know that game." | |||
| Ellison says (to floyd), "load delusns" | |||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | E U I N Floyd | D L S O S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Press any key to begin.] | |||
| Ellison pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Reality is so... unreal.
Floyd |
Floyd | The tangle of observations woven about it, humankind's utter lack of
Floyd | consensus, phases it to fit individual desires. Becoming and
Floyd | unbecoming, back and forth eternally, as it paradoxically coexists with
Floyd | and within infinite variations of itself...
Floyd |
Floyd | At least, that's what always surfaces in your mind whenever your own
Floyd | perception of reality is altered. Which is to say, ten or fifteen times
Floyd | a day. But it's your job, working to someday entertain others with new
Floyd | observations, new experiences, new realities. And after all, you signed
Floyd | up for the Project (as you well remember, even though it was close to
Floyd | five years ago), so you suppose it's entirely your fault if you don't
Floyd | like it. Which, when you think about it, you realise you do.
Floyd |
Floyd | Justy's voice reaches out to you from somewhere you can't see. "Okay,
Floyd | this should be it. One final test run to check any overload potential,
Floyd | and this world is done! I'm starting her up."
Floyd |
Floyd | A loud CLANK, and the Sphere begins spinning, with you inside it.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Brace yourself!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Bright lights.
Floyd |
Floyd | Pain.
Floyd |
Floyd | From somewhere off in your mind's distance, a telltale splash.
Floyd |
Floyd | Then, as the resounding thrums fade, a distorted ripple sweeps your
Floyd | vision clear, and all traces of the laboratory vanish from your senses.
Floyd |
Floyd | All five of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Wiped clean, twitching, anxious for new input.
Floyd |
Floyd | Virtual reality has become reality.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | E U I N
Floyd | D L S O S
Floyd | An Interactive Self-Discovery
Floyd | Copyright 1996, 1997 by C.E. Forman (ceforman@worldnet.att.net)
Floyd | All rights reserved, and don't you forget it.
Floyd | [Type HELP to learn the secrets of the universe.]
Floyd | Release 4 / Serial number 971121 / Inform v6.14 Library 6/6
Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0
Floyd |
Floyd | Coral Reef
Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed,
Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves.
Floyd |
Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability
Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat,
Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond
Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but
Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened.
Floyd |
Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and
Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Strauss' "Blue
Floyd | Danube" Waltz, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension.
Floyd |
Floyd | Only Justy's disembodied voice betrays the presence of a virtual
Floyd | reality. "I estimate at max one potential for overload, maybe two. This
Floyd | one isn't all that complex, compared to the lab sim. Cynthesiser's got
Floyd | the analysis sweep running in the background, so you may feel some
Floyd | slight distortion. It's nothing to worry about. Just give us a typical
Floyd | walk -- or should I say, swim? -- through it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "restore cfdelusions2" | |||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to restore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||
| Lionheart arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | |||
| Ellison says (to floyd), "cfdelusions2" | |||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Restore failed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| Ellison says (to floyd), "restore" | |||
| Ellison pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Restore failed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ellison says, "maybe because we didn't load the game with the sleepmask" | ||
| Ellison says (to floyd), "quit" | |||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | |||
| Ellison says (to floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd | | |||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | |||
| Ellison says (to floyd), "%load sleepmask delusns" | |||
Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Human kind Floyd ] Cannot bear very much reality. Floyd ] Floyd ] -- T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton (1936) Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | E U I N Floyd | D L S O S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Press any key to begin.] | |||
| Ellison pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Reality is so... unreal. Floyd | Floyd | The tangle of observations woven about it, humankind's utter lack of Floyd | consensus, phases it to fit individual desires. Becoming and Floyd | unbecoming, back and forth eternally, as it paradoxically coexists Floyd | with and within infinite variations of itself... Floyd | Floyd | At least, that's what always surfaces in your mind whenever your own Floyd | perception of reality is altered. Which is to say, ten or fifteen Floyd | times a day. But it's your job, working to someday entertain others Floyd | with new observations, new experiences, new realities. And after all, Floyd | you signed up for the Project (as you well remember, even though it Floyd | was close to five years ago), so you suppose it's entirely your fault Floyd | if you don't like it. Which, when you think about it, you realise you Floyd | do. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice reaches out to you from somewhere you can't see. "Okay, Floyd | this should be it. One final test run to check any overload potential, Floyd | and this world is done! I'm starting her up." Floyd | Floyd | A loud CLANK, and the Sphere begins spinning, with you inside it. Floyd | Floyd | "Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | Bright lights. Floyd | Floyd | Pain. Floyd | Floyd | From somewhere off in your mind's distance, a telltale splash. Floyd | Floyd | Then, as the resounding thrums fade, a distorted ripple sweeps your Floyd | vision clear, and all traces of the laboratory vanish from your Floyd | senses. Floyd | Floyd | All five of them. Floyd | Floyd | Wiped clean, twitching, anxious for new input. Floyd | Floyd | Virtual reality has become reality. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | E U I N Floyd | D L S O S Floyd | An Interactive Self-Discovery Floyd | Copyright 1996, 1997 by C.E. Forman (ceforman@worldnet.att.net) Floyd | All rights reserved, and don't you forget it. Floyd | [Type HELP to learn the secrets of the universe.] Floyd | Release 4 / Serial number 971121 / Inform v6.14 Library 6/6 Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Strauss' The Hero's Floyd | Battlefield, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Only Justy's disembodied voice betrays the presence of a virtual Floyd | reality. "I estimate at max one potential for overload, maybe two. Floyd | This one isn't all that complex, compared to the lab sim. Floyd | Cynthesiser's got the analysis sweep running in the background, so you Floyd | may feel some slight distortion. It's nothing to worry about. Just Floyd | give us a typical walk -- or should I say, swim? -- through it." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "cfdelusions2" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time:
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Floyd | Ok.
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| borowski says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You can't see yourself without a mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. You are wearing an implant (attached to your Floyd | head), a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| maga disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | |||
| Jacqueline disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | borowski says, "We're trapped in a VR simulation of the lab. We keep waking and then passing out again inside the simulation." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As if paralysed, your senses fail to respond. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, an aura of numbness about your entire body, alone Floyd | beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x iv stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X IV STAND Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the IV stand that you didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You can't seem to get a grip. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x computer" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | A twentieth-century user would have called this a "personal computer" Floyd | or "PC," although the elimination of the "lone programmer" concept has Floyd | since made that acronym outdated. Floyd | Floyd | It's an 8-gigahertz multimedia package with a 16-terabyte hard drive, Floyd | 12 gigs of RAM, and a 96-meg cache. The CPU case is disproportionately Floyd | tiny next to the keyboard and monitor, larger only out of human Floyd | necessity. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada ordered this system some time ago, when increased Floyd | processing speed became necessary if the Project's deadlines were to Floyd | be met. It arrived less than a week ago, and it's already obsolete. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW says, "sorry, I didn't realize there was a session scheduled for today." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take mouse" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MOUSE Floyd | Floyd | Just leave it plugged in, okay? Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "That's OK. I couldn't remember what you did to turn on/off our various senses." | ||
| borowski says, "On the computer." | |||
| DavidW says, "oh. In the VR Lab, you click on the configuration icon, then un-check our touch sense." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "click on configuration icon with left button" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK ON CONFIGURATION ICON WITH LEFT BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "click on configuration icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK ON CONFIGURATION ICON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "left click configuration" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK CONFIGURATION Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "left click configure" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK CONFIGURE Floyd | Floyd | You highlight the "Configure" icon. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Ah." | ||
| DavidW says, "sorry, configure, not configuration" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Configure" icon. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a window appears, displaying an eye checkbox, an ear checkbox, Floyd | a nose checkbox, a mouth checkbox and a hand checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The hand checkbox represents touch." | ||
| DavidW says, "(and by extension, pain)" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x hand checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X HAND CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | The checkbox, currently unmarked, has a picture of a hand on. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x eye checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X EYE CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | The checkbox, currently marked, has a picture of an eye on. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x nose checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X NOSE CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | The checkbox, currently marked, has a picture of a nose on. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Which ones have we played around with?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We turned off our ears and we couldn't hear Morrodox gloat." | |||
| borowski says, "I'll try the nose. The pizza has to be good for *something*" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "click nose checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK NOSE CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | [Try that again, this time specifying what you want to click on, as Floyd | well as which mouse button to use.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cleft lick nose checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLEFT LICK NOSE CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I also turned off our nose but it was hard to tell what difference it made." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click nose checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK NOSE CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | You erase the mark in the nose checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We've never turned off our eyes. That would be foolish, I think." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click hand checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK HAND CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | You place a mark in the hand checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Right." | ||
| DavidW asks, "er, don't we want that unmarked, the hand?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "LEFT CLICK HAND CHECKBOX" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK HAND CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | You erase the mark in the hand checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "smell pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Mmmm, pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmm. I guess not." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the refrigerator) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "When we can't feel pain, we can cut the implant with the knife, and then open gelstrip, put gelstrip on cut. But we're still at the mercy of the other safeguard, our rogue injection." | ||
| borowski says, "Oh, right." | |||
| DavidW says, "I think that's what the antitoxin might be for, except that's not here in the lab sim." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "read manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > READ MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | The technical manual has several hundred pages. It'd be more efficient Floyd | to look up specific topics. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look up icons in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP ICONS IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The Project's central terminal is located in the VR lab and is Floyd | interfaced with the Cray ZMP-2010X and Sphere, but is otherwise Floyd | isolated from the rest of the Corporation net (for security purposes). Floyd | Control of the various system components is handled through a GUI Floyd | (Graphical User Interface) which serves as the Project's operating Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Configure Icon, Cray ZMP-2010X, Debug Icon, Flush Icon, Floyd | Launch Icon, Report Icon, Sphere, System Icon Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look up report icon in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP REPORT ICON IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "report" icon generates a print job queued to the Cray ZMP-2010X. Floyd | The default print job is the system status report, which lists the Floyd | settings of the current VR sim. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Cray ZMP-2010X Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(although I have to wonder how a sim version of an antitoxin would attack a real toxin, unless the toxin is a sim too.)" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click report icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK REPORT ICON Floyd | Floyd | [You'll need to close the window first.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close window" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the window, closing it. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click report icon" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK REPORT ICON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You just rebooted and are in the med lab." | ||
| borowski says, "Have we tried doing a print out? that might provide some info." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | As if paralysed, your senses fail to respond. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, an aura of numbness about your entire body, alone Floyd | beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We've never tried printing a report." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click report icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK REPORT ICON Floyd | Floyd | You highlight the "Report" icon. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click report icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK REPORT ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Report" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | Report generation process initiated. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a whirring buzz from the output station. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | The mainframe printer continues to spit reams of output. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "read output" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > READ OUTPUT Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to read Cray ZMP-2010X in? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read paper" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > READ PAPER Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read report" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > READ REPORT Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to read "report" icon in? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | The mainframe printer continues to spit reams of output. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x printer" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X PRINTER Floyd | Floyd | One of the larger exabyte systems, though you're not familiar with the Floyd | exact configuration. Its most familiar feature is a built-in printer, Floyd | with a recycling slot for immediate paper reprocessing. Floyd | Floyd | The mainframe printer continues to spit reams of output. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from printer" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL FROM PRINTER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x reams" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X REAMS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "perhaps it has to finish printing?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | The mainframe printer spits the last of its output before reverting to Floyd | a waiting state. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take paper" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAPER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "read paper" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > READ PAPER Floyd | Floyd | Much of the printout is endless system configurations, compiler Floyd | options, statistics, and processing messages, a great deal of it in Floyd | Braille, much of the rest in hexadecimal, EBCDIC, and binary. You skim Floyd | down to the bottom of the last page to find what you're looking for: Floyd | Floyd | SIM IS "Lab" [3-> VR-> TESTING-> SIMS-> LAB SIM REVISION 227, 0823] Floyd | Floyd | SENSORY OUTPUTS: Floyd | Floyd | Auditory: X Floyd | Gustatory: X Floyd | Olfactory: Floyd | Tactile: Floyd | Visual: X Floyd | Floyd | [CHANGES ARE INITIATED WITH EACH NEW SESSION.] Floyd | Floyd | Time: 0000 Floyd | Session #DLGX1847 Floyd | Floyd | 100 VIRTUAL OBJECTS PROCESSED Floyd | Floyd | ANALYSIS SWEEP RESULTS: Floyd | 0 SIMULATION TRAPS Floyd | * 1 OVERLOAD POTENTIAL Floyd | 0 OBJECT CONFLICTS Floyd | Floyd | *** END OF PRINTOUT *** Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Ah, that's how Christine read it." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh. We have an overload potential in *this* sim too." | |||
| borowski says, "Overload potential! We have to crash it." | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah. Like we did with the underwater sim." | |||
| DavidW says, "That's interesting." | |||
| borowski says, "Life & death betatesting." | |||
| borowski says, "Oh, "Gustatory". I thought the mouth icon was for talking." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close window" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no, talking isn't a sense. I'm sure it means the sense of taste in this instance." | ||
| borowski says, "Yes, I don't know why I thought that." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click configure icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | [You'll need to close the message box first.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click configure icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Configure" icon. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a window appears, displaying an eye checkbox, an ear checkbox, Floyd | a nose checkbox, a mouth checkbox and a hand checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "What 'generates' in the lab, besides the report we just made? Anything else?" | ||
| borowski says, "Hmm. good question." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click mouth icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK MOUTH ICON Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to left click the mouth Floyd | checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click mouth checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK MOUTH CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | You erase the mark in the mouth checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | It feels as if you're walking on air. Unaccustomed to the sensation Floyd | (or, rather, the lack of it), you flail about and end up on your back. Floyd | With difficulty, you manage to get to your feet, but it feels like Floyd | floating. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You can't seem to get a grip. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | It feels as if you're walking on air. Unaccustomed to the sensation Floyd | (or, rather, the lack of it), you flail about and end up on your back. Floyd | With difficulty, you manage to get to your feet, but it feels like Floyd | floating. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click hand icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK HAND ICON Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to left click the hand Floyd | checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I remember the printer isn't allowed to make a new report unless the first is recycled back in first, though." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click hand checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK HAND CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | You place a mark in the hand checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "recycle paper" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > RECYCLE PAPER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "put paper in slot" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put paper in slot" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PAPER IN SLOT Floyd | Floyd | A pleasant ping, and a large blue diode lights up the smiling earth as Floyd | the ream of system printoutsdisappears into the slot. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Thanks." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | It feels as if you're walking on air. Unaccustomed to the sensation Floyd | (or, rather, the lack of it), you flail about and end up on your back. Floyd | With difficulty, you manage to get to your feet, but it feels like Floyd | floating. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Dangerous. To an extent I had not anticipated. You were so close, Floyd | QueensRook. You truly astound me. Such cunning. How can you bear to Floyd | call your intelligence `artificial', QueensRook? Floyd | Floyd | "And yet the same insane intensity pervades you, that quiet Floyd | desperation we all possess -- you, I, God, the other... Insanity is Floyd | hereditary, QueensRook, passed on from Creator to creation, Floyd | world-builder to world. So beautiful... Floyd | Floyd | "But, at present, it manages to be a true annoyance." Floyd | Floyd | He raises the needle, and you squeeze your eyes shut to block out the Floyd | rest. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back, alone beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "eat pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Mmmm, pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the refrigerator) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click configure icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Configure" icon. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a window appears, displaying an eye checkbox, an ear checkbox, Floyd | a nose checkbox, a mouth checkbox and a hand checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x mouth checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X MOUTH CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | The checkbox, currently marked, has a picture of a mouth on. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click mouth checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK MOUTH CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | You erase the mark in the mouth checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "eat pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "eat pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Mmmm, pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmm." | ||
| DavidW asks, "hm. I suppose we can't run a sim-within-a-sim because there's no way to click the Launch icon from inside the Sphere?" | |||
| borowski says, "I was hoping that wouldn't work." | |||
| borowski asks (of DavidW), "I think so. Unless we can get the android working?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the refrigerator) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "What was the thing in the alcove again? A coupler of some sort?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since the metal door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open metal door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN METAL DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is a bow) and an electric Floyd | violin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see plywood shelves (on which is a new Floyd | power coupler). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x power coupler" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X POWER COUPLER Floyd | Floyd | A small electrical component to provide power flux from a fusion cell Floyd | to the primary circuitry. It doesn't look to have ever been used. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I was thinking that maybe we could attach the knife to the power couple since it is powered by a fusion cell." | ||
| DavidW asks, "I don't think we've seen a fusion cell at all, have we?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take power coupler" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE POWER COUPLER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says, "sw" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is a bow) and an electric Floyd | violin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x amplifier" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X AMPLIFIER Floyd | Floyd | Typical of high-tech user-oriented electronic devices, its controls Floyd | are limited to a single power switch and a fader for volume control. Floyd | It's powered by its own fusion cell as well; no cord is required. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "attach power coupler to amplifier" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ATTACH POWER COUPLER TO AMPLIFIER Floyd | Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x fusion cell" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X FUSION CELL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You open the medical cabinet, revealing a gelstrip and a power X-Acto Floyd | knife. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take knife" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Dangerous. To an extent I had not anticipated. You were so close, Floyd | QueensRook. You truly astound me. Such cunning. How can you bear to Floyd | call your intelligence `artificial', QueensRook? Floyd | Floyd | "And yet the same insane intensity pervades you, that quiet Floyd | desperation we all possess -- you, I, God, the other... Insanity is Floyd | hereditary, QueensRook, passed on from Creator to creation, Floyd | world-builder to world. So beautiful... Floyd | Floyd | "But, at present, it manages to be a true annoyance." Floyd | Floyd | He raises the needle, and you squeeze your eyes shut to block out the Floyd | rest. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I don't really understand what the coupler does. Is it just a fancy name for a battery recharger?" | ||
| borowski says, "It seems like it provides power in the other direction." | |||
| borowski says, "From the battery out." | |||
| DavidW asks, "out to what?" | |||
| borowski asks, "Maybe the android or to overload something?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | As if paralysed, your senses fail to respond. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back, alone beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, unless we find something to plug the coupler into or attach to or insert into it, the coupler is useless." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You open the medical cabinet, revealing a gelstrip and a power X-Acto Floyd | knife. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take knife" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x knife" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | A round-handled electrical cutting tool with a sharp, vibrating (and Floyd | replaceable) blade. It's powered by its own internal fusion cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open knife" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | There's no need; it's working fine. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look up system icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP SYSTEM ICON Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, lab terminal or "system" icon? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "system icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SYSTEM ICON Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, lab terminal or "system" icon? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "read about system icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > READ ABOUT SYSTEM ICON Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, lab terminal or "system" icon? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so annoying" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "read about system icon in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > READ ABOUT SYSTEM ICON IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, lab terminal or "system" icon? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double click on system icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE CLICK ON SYSTEM ICON Floyd | Floyd | [Try that again, this time specifying what you want to click on, as Floyd | well as which mouse button to use.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on system icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON SYSTEM ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "System" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | an text entry field pops up, displaying a text box for typed command Floyd | entry, with a prompt reading: Floyd | Floyd | Access restricted! Floyd | PASSWORD:> Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Had we been given any ideas about a password?" | ||
| DavidW says, "not really. I tried Morrodox and QueensRook, I think." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "read manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > READ MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | The technical manual has several hundred pages. It'd be more efficient Floyd | to look up specific topics. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look up system in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP SYSTEM IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, lab terminal or "system" icon? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), " type checkmate in field" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE CHECKMATE IN FIELD Floyd | Floyd | Nothing to do! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type checkmate" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE CHECKMATE Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to type that on? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "field" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > FIELD Floyd | Floyd | You can't type on the entry field. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type checkmate on terminal" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE CHECKMATE ON TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | You type on the keyboard and press <ENTER>. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | ERROR: Invalid password. Access denied. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "The syringe on our bed: it isn't the same one Morrodox is using?" | ||
| DavidW says, "hm. I suppose, just to be crazy, we could try turning off our eyes in case the sim has some bizarre anti-sight that only Cynthia would look for." | |||
| borowski says, "Oooh that's an idea." | |||
| DavidW says (to borowski), "I'm not sure. We might've used the real syringe first." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x monitor" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X MONITOR Floyd | Floyd | Justy created this graphical interface to suit the Project, replacing Floyd | the hopelessly outdated "Windows 2000" O/S that came pre-installed. Floyd | Floyd | The desktop currently displays an entry field, inside which is a Floyd | message box, a mouse cursor, a "Launch" icon, a "Configure" icon, a Floyd | "Report" icon, a "Debug" icon, a "System" icon and a "Flush" icon. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click configure icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | [You'll need to close the message box first.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close message box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MESSAGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "or, no, wait, we went directly from fish sim to lab sim." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click configure icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | [You'll need to type the requested text or close the entry field Floyd | first.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close entry field" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE ENTRY FIELD Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the entry field, closing it. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Right, I thought we used the syringe, and Morrodox said that was part of his plan." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click configure icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Configure" icon. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a window appears, displaying an eye checkbox, an ear checkbox, Floyd | a nose checkbox, a mouth checkbox and a hand checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click eye checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK EYE CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | You erase the mark in the eye checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x picture" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those pictures made up of a matrix of coloured dots, Floyd | arranged to form a three-dimensional image when stared at long enough Floyd | with one's eyes crossed. You've never understood why Cynthia (who is Floyd | blind) would keep such a thing around. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I believe we get woozy every so often because of the injection." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, that picture is a puzzle, I think." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "touch picture" | |||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since the metal door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the metal door) Floyd | You open the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back, alone in pitch blackness, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "touch picture" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmm." | ||
| phoenix arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW says, "You turned off our sight? We could be in trouble." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We won't be able to see the icons either, I just realized, to turn our eyes on again." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click configure icon" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Eek." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open metal door" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN METAL DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Check the kitchen. Maybe a light will come on when you open the fridge." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "Wait, is the map the same?" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time:
Floyd | 0
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAIT, IS THE MAP THE SAME?
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| borowski asks, "Wait, is the map the same?" | ||
| DavidW says, "it should be." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Except for the Dr's office." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | | borowski asks, "Are we not going se when I type that?" | ||
Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "lie down" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LIE DOWN Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to lie down on? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "lie down on bed" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LIE DOWN ON BED Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Are we stuck in her room?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Are we still in Cynthia's room?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. You are wearing an implant (attached to your Floyd | head), a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "perhaps we are trapped in her room. odd." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | As if paralysed, your senses fail to respond. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back, alone in pitch blackness, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, we're screwed unless you know how to reset us." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We should be back in the med lab now, though." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada considered a simulation of her work area both a security Floyd | risk and an invasion of privacy. As a result, this door is merely a Floyd | prop. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (feeling for the light switch) Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hee" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "android, wake up" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time:
Floyd | 0
Floyd |
Floyd | > ANDROID, WAKE UP
Floyd |
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Argh, maybe the rooms are bugged." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, you've entrapped us again." | |||
| DavidW says, "I think so. Or this room is bugged." | |||
| borowski says, "It seemed like Cynthia's room was too." | |||
| borowski says, "Unless blindness is a metaphor for the metal door that traps Cynthia inside of herself." | |||
| DavidW says, "I think we'll have to count sightlessness as a dire mistake and restore from cfdelusions2 again." | |||
| borowski says, "Yeah." | |||
| borowski says, "I don't think we had made any progress." | |||
| DavidW asks, "I take it that we can't push the gurney downstairs or lift the android?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(I vaguely recall it telling us the stairway is too narrow for the gurney, which is outrageous.)" | ||
| borowski says, "We could try." | |||
| borowski asks, "Yeah, maybe something is different in VR. Have we tried pushing the IV stand around??" | |||
| DavidW says, "We've done zilch with the IV stand." | |||
| borowski says, "I don't remember if we've tried playing around with the android." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back, alone in pitch blackness, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "We tend to collapse before reaching the android. We have to do that whole bit of nonsense with the glowstick, don't we? Or do we know where the light switch is from now on?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "move stand n" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE STAND N Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "It seems like we know where the light switch is." | ||
| borowski says, "At least while blind." | |||
| DavidW says, "well, the rules may be f**ked when blind." | |||
| borowski says, "Yeah, let's restore" | |||
| borowski says (to DavidW), "That seems to be Cynthia's motto" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cfdelusions2" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time:
Floyd | 0
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | It feels as if you're walking on air. Unaccustomed to the sensation Floyd | (or, rather, the lack of it), you flail about and end up on your back. Floyd | With difficulty, you manage to get to your feet, but it feels like Floyd | floating. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn on light" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn on light switch" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON LIGHT SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, an aura of numbness about your entire body, alone Floyd | beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open freezer" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | Opening the freezer reveals a lightstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take lightstick" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE LIGHTSTICK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You can't seem to get a grip. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the freezer) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on configure icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Configure" icon. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a window appears, displaying an eye checkbox, an ear checkbox, Floyd | a nose checkbox, a mouth checkbox and a hand checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click on hand checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK ON HAND CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | You place a mark in the hand checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You open the microwave oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put lightstick in microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT LIGHTSTICK IN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You place the lightstick in the microwave and heat it for several Floyd | millichrons. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "pick up lightstick with tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PICK UP LIGHTSTICK WITH TONGS Floyd | Floyd | (opening the microwave first) Floyd | (first taking the tongs) Floyd | Using the tongs, you grasp the lightstick firmly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | It feels as if you're walking on air. Unaccustomed to the sensation Floyd | (or, rather, the lack of it), you flail about and end up on your back. Floyd | With difficulty, you manage to get to your feet, but it feels like Floyd | floating. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | The faint glow of the lightstick reveals a light switch at the bottom Floyd | of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn on lights" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON LIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn on light switch" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON LIGHT SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | You can't seem to get a grip. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "flip switch" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > FLIP SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | You switch the light switch on. Floyd | Floyd | Factory Storage Floyd | Old, broken-down conveyors and bins of ancient, rotting hardware -- Floyd | useless, outdated, or both -- pack this vast sub-basement from wall to Floyd | cement wall. Only a small area at the bottom of the stairs, about Floyd | three metres square, is free of the oppressive clutter. Floyd | Floyd | A light switch is affixed to the wall at the foot of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A curtain of coaxial cables hangs down on one side of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "move cables" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE CABLES Floyd | Floyd | Pushing the cables to one side reveals the body of an android. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x android" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the android body that you didn't already Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, there's barely enough time to even get to the android." | ||
| borowski says, "Hmmpf" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take android" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | You can't seem to get a grip. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You can't seem to get a grip. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "not even a fair test whether or not we can pick him up." | ||
| borowski says, "I think maybe we have to wake up again." | |||
| borowski says, "Because I just clicked the hand icon again." | |||
| borowski says, "I'm not sure if I should have been able to open the microwave." | |||
| DavidW says, "There might be a percentile die roll." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "get android" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | It's too heavy and awkward for one person to move. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Ah, there we go." | ||
| DavidW says, "ah" | |||
| DavidW says, "So examining it tells us nothing and we can't lift it at all." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "kick android" | |||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > KICK ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | Pointless destruction. How typically human. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(which makes one wonder why we need to find it)" | ||
| borowski says, "Yes, we got a point for moving the cables in the real world." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look at android" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK AT ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the android body that you didn't already Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Dangerous. To an extent I had not anticipated. You were so close, Floyd | QueensRook. You truly astound me. Such cunning. How can you bear to Floyd | call your intelligence `artificial', QueensRook? Floyd | Floyd | "And yet the same insane intensity pervades you, that quiet Floyd | desperation we all possess -- you, I, God, the other... Insanity is Floyd | hereditary, QueensRook, passed on from Creator to creation, Floyd | world-builder to world. So beautiful... Floyd | Floyd | "But, at present, it manages to be a true annoyance." Floyd | Floyd | He raises the needle, and you squeeze your eyes shut to block out the Floyd | rest. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Maybe KingsRook could be the password?" | ||
| DavidW says, "feel free to try it" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | As if paralysed, your senses fail to respond. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back, alone beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on system icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON SYSTEM ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "System" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | an text entry field pops up, displaying a text box for typed command Floyd | entry, with a prompt reading: Floyd | Floyd | Access restricted! Floyd | PASSWORD:> Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up queensrook in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP QUEENSROOK IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "type kingsrook in terminal" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE KINGSROOK IN TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | Nothing to do! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up morrodox in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP MORRODOX IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "type kingsrook on terminal" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE KINGSROOK ON TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | You type on the keyboard and press <ENTER>. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | ERROR: Invalid password. Access denied. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up cynthia in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP CYNTHIA IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look up flush icon in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP FLUSH ICON IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "flush" program purges the system in the event of a critical error Floyd | in the active VR. Once purged, the sim is wiped clean from the system Floyd | and must be re-installed from archival storage. Floyd | Floyd | Due to the drastic nature of this program, only Dr Shimada has access Floyd | to it. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up password in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP PASSWORD IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up shimada in manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP SHIMADA IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double click on flush icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE CLICK ON FLUSH ICON Floyd | Floyd | [Try that again, this time specifying what you want to click on, as Floyd | well as which mouse button to use.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on flush icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON FLUSH ICON Floyd | Floyd | [You'll need to close the message box first.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close message box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MESSAGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on flush icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON FLUSH ICON Floyd | Floyd | [You'll need to type the requested text or close the entry field Floyd | first.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close entry field" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE ENTRY FIELD Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the entry field, closing it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on flush icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON FLUSH ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Flush" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | an text entry field pops up, displaying a text box for typed command Floyd | entry, with a prompt reading: Floyd | Floyd | Access restricted! Floyd | PASSWORD:> Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "I wonder if we missed a hint in the doctor's office earlier?" | ||
| DavidW says, "perhaps" | |||
| DavidW says, "It'd be rather cruel if it was only there though." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type shimada on terminal" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE SHIMADA ON TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | You type on the keyboard and press <ENTER>. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | ERROR: Invalid password. Access denied. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type chess on terminal" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE CHESS ON TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | Your keystrokes elicit only a few irritated beeps. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close message box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MESSAGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type chess on terminal" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE CHESS ON TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | You type on the keyboard and press <ENTER>. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | ERROR: Invalid password. Access denied. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close message box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MESSAGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear vr suit" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | You can't get into it alone; you need Justy's help. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double click on configure icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE CLICK ON CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | [Try that again, this time specifying what you want to click on, as Floyd | well as which mouse button to use.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on configure icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | [You'll need to type the requested text or close the entry field Floyd | first.] Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close entry field" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE ENTRY FIELD Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the entry field, closing it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on configure icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Configure" icon. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a window appears, displaying an eye checkbox, an ear checkbox, Floyd | a nose checkbox, a mouth checkbox and a hand checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x mouth checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X MOUTH CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | The checkbox, currently marked, has a picture of a mouth on. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click mouth icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK MOUTH ICON Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to left click the mouth Floyd | checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click mouth checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK MOUTH CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | You erase the mark in the mouth checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x ear checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X EAR CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | The checkbox, currently marked, has a picture of an ear on. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Dangerous. To an extent I had not anticipated. You were so close, Floyd | QueensRook. You truly astound me. Such cunning. How can you bear to Floyd | call your intelligence `artificial', QueensRook? Floyd | Floyd | "And yet the same insane intensity pervades you, that quiet Floyd | desperation we all possess -- you, I, God, the other... Insanity is Floyd | hereditary, QueensRook, passed on from Creator to creation, Floyd | world-builder to world. So beautiful... Floyd | Floyd | "But, at present, it manages to be a true annoyance." Floyd | Floyd | He raises the needle, and you squeeze your eyes shut to block out the Floyd | rest. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back, alone beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "You want to try gargling glowstick fluid?" | ||
| borowski says, "Heh, I want to try the pizza *one* more time." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put pizza in microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PIZZA IN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | (opening the microwave first) Floyd | You place the cold slice of pizza in the microwave and heat it for Floyd | several millichrons. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "eat pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | The microwave oven isn't open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You open the microwave oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "eat pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Mmmm, pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Argh, it bother me that that works." | ||
| borowski says, "sw" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the refrigerator) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the metal door) Floyd | You open the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is a bow) and an electric Floyd | violin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | It's not plugged in. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Possibly the author had no idea that many years later, players would want to try tasting and smelling pizza slices." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "plug in violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG IN VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the electric violin) Floyd | You plug the electric violin into the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the bow) Floyd | (turning the amplifier on) Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Floyd | Mountain. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Can we reinject ourselves?" | ||
| borowski says, "This is exactly why I need to betatest games involving pizza." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "use syringe" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > USE SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "inject syringe" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > INJECT SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the hypodermic syringe) Floyd | Remember what happened last time? Obviously not or you wouldn't be so Floyd | eager as to try it again. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose it's pointless to try folding the gurney, still even if folded it fit down into the Factory Storage, presumably we'd want it open with the android on it." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "move amplifier nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE AMPLIFIER NW Floyd | Floyd | (setting the violin on top of it) Floyd | You roll the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "move amplifier e" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE AMPLIFIER E Floyd | Floyd | It would probably get damaged if you did that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "fold gurney" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > FOLD GURNEY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "move gurney n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE GURNEY N Floyd | Floyd | A loose wheel rattles as you push the gurney along. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is an electric violin) and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "move gurney e" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE GURNEY E Floyd | Floyd | The stairs aren't wide enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x gurney" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X GURNEY Floyd | Floyd | A flat metal stretcher with wheels attached. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "remove wheels" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE WHEELS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click configure icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Configure" icon. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a window appears, displaying an eye checkbox, an ear checkbox, Floyd | a nose checkbox, a mouth checkbox and a hand checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click ear checkbox" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK EAR CHECKBOX Floyd | Floyd | You erase the mark in the ear checkbox. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Morrodox looms over your awakening, his lips moving, but without Floyd | voice. A puzzled frown crosses his angular features, then he seems to Floyd | sigh with frustration. Producing a familiar syringe, he holds you Floyd | tightly, injects its contents... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | As if paralysed, your senses fail to respond. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back, alone beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since the metal door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open metal door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN METAL DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is a bow) and an electric Floyd | violin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "plug in violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG IN VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the electric violin) Floyd | You plug the electric violin into the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the bow) Floyd | (turning the amplifier on) Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Khachaturian's Sabre Dance. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, it's like the pizza: not accounted for in sensory-fun-times." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pillow" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an amplifier, an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical Floyd | cabinet (which is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You open the medical cabinet, revealing a gelstrip and a power X-Acto Floyd | knife. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take knife" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cut pillow" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to cut the pillow with? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cut pillow with knife" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT PILLOW WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Not gettin' down with that." | ||
| borowski says, "So much for hiding an escape plan in the pillow." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Here's wild idea #108: Put the lit glowstick in the niche. Put the Giger back on the niche. See a secret glowy message, maybe?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier, a combination refrigerator/freezer and Floyd | a microwave oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open freezer" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | Frosty air billows out around you. Floyd | Floyd | Opening the freezer reveals a lightstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take lightstick" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE LIGHTSTICK Floyd | Floyd | (It's cold to the touch.) Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You open the microwave oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put lightstick in microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT LIGHTSTICK IN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You place the lightstick in the microwave and heat it for several Floyd | millichrons. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "pick up lightstick with tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PICK UP LIGHTSTICK WITH TONGS Floyd | Floyd | (opening the microwave first) Floyd | (first taking the tongs) Floyd | Using the tongs, you grasp the lightstick firmly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | (first closing the freezer) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take giger" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE GIGER Floyd | Floyd | Your hands are full. You can't pick up anything more until you drop Floyd | something else first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "drop knife" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back, alone beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open freezer" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | Frosty air billows out around you. Floyd | Floyd | Opening the freezer reveals a lightstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take lightstick" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE LIGHTSTICK Floyd | Floyd | (It's cold to the touch.) Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put lightstick in microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT LIGHTSTICK IN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | (opening the microwave first) Floyd | You place the lightstick in the microwave and heat it for several Floyd | millichrons. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "pick up lightstick with tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PICK UP LIGHTSTICK WITH TONGS Floyd | Floyd | (opening the microwave first) Floyd | (first taking the tongs) Floyd | Using the tongs, you grasp the lightstick firmly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the freezer) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the metal door) Floyd | You open the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is a bow) and an electric Floyd | violin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take ginger" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE GINGER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take painting" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Now you remember why you hung it here in the first place: There's a Floyd | large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put glowstick in niche" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT GLOWSTICK IN NICHE Floyd | Floyd | You put the lightstick into the niche. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put painting on wall" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PAINTING ON WALL Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the north wall, the south wall, the east wall, the Floyd | west wall, the northeast wall, the northwest wall, the southeast wall Floyd | or the southwest wall? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put painting on north wall" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PAINTING ON NORTH WALL Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the north wall would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put painting on niche" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PAINTING ON NICHE Floyd | Floyd | The painting by H.R. Giger is too big to fit in the niche. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. The niche is near the door. Possibly that means the other side of the doorlock control is hiding behind the niche? (We've never tried to lock our door.)" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put painting over niche" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PAINTING OVER NICHE Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hang painting" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > HANG PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | You hang the painting by H.R. Giger back over the niche. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x giger" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X GIGER Floyd | Floyd | It's "The Crucified Serpent," one of Giger's earlier works (1975), Floyd | depicting an enormous metallic T-bar on which is draped a large snake Floyd | with a face vaguely similar to that of Christ. Wisps of mist billow Floyd | out from behind the crucifix, illuminated by lights angling upward Floyd | from short black cylinders. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh well, it was a very wild idea." | ||
| borowski says, "As good as any" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "Can we got back into the VR Lab and close and *lock* our door? Is the lock itself interesting?" | |||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 19/50 Time:
Floyd | 0
Floyd |
Floyd | > CAN WE GOT BACK INTO THE VR LAB AND CLOSE AND *LOCK* OUR DOOR? IS
Floyd | THE LOCK ITSELF INTERESTING?
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "gah" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close doro" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE DORO Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, Cynthia's door, Justy's door or the metal door? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close metal door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE METAL DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You close the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "huh. There are other doors, eh?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "lock metal door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOCK METAL DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You slide the locking mechanism closed. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close justy's door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time:
Floyd | 0
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLOSE JUSTY'S DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You close Justy's door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| borowski says, "Yeah, I didn't realize there were others" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "lock justy's door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time:
Floyd | 0
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOCK JUSTY'S DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can lock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x justy's door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time:
Floyd | 0
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JUSTY'S DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You discover nothing about Justy's door that you didn't already know.
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x metal door" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X METAL DOOR Floyd | Floyd | It's a solid iron door leading to your quarters. Curiously, the Floyd | locking mechanism is on this side. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the metal door, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmm, that again..." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x locking mechanism" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X LOCKING MECHANISM Floyd | Floyd | It's a solid iron door leading to your quarters. Curiously, the Floyd | locking mechanism is on this side. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the metal door, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back, alone beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe it's the doors that foul up the darkness wandering code." | ||
| borowski says, "Ah, perhaps." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Try knocking on Dr Shimada's door and see if a sim Dr appears from nowhere." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Knock, knock. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada considered a simulation of her work area both a security Floyd | risk and an invasion of privacy. As a result, this door is merely a Floyd | prop. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock on elevator" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON ELEVATOR Floyd | Floyd | Knock, knock. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lavatory Floyd | Dank and cold, these facilities contain only the usual fixtures -- Floyd | toilet, shower stall, and a dripping, rust-stained washbasin. On the Floyd | wall above the last is an off-colour rectangle, where a mirror once Floyd | hung, but no longer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rectangle" | |||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X RECTANGLE Floyd | Floyd | As far as you can remember, there has never been a mirror here. It Floyd | must have been removed before you came to the Project. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the place where a mirror once hung, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're just going in circles." | ||
| borowski says, "Yes, I'm a little frustrated." | |||
| borowski says, "This is a comp game. We must be missing something for it to take this long to play." | |||
| DavidW says, "Maybe we were supposed to use the antitoxin caplet before solving the fish sim, and that would've protected us from the syringe trap." | |||
| DavidW says, "An early comp game." | |||
| DavidW says, "Also, I bet most comp players resorted to the hints at some point." | |||
| DavidW asks, "We could try printing a 2nd report without putting the 1st into the slot, I guess?" | |||
| DavidW says, "see if it complains or causes a problem." | |||
| DavidW asks, "oh, and what about the debug icon? Have we used it?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on debug icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON DEBUG ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Debug" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | an text entry field pops up, displaying a text box for typed command Floyd | entry, with a prompt reading: Floyd | Floyd | Access restricted! Floyd | PASSWORD:> Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "phooey" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close entry field" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE ENTRY FIELD Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the entry field, closing it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on report icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON REPORT ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Report" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | Report generation process initiated. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a whirring buzz from the output station. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on report icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON REPORT ICON Floyd | Floyd | [You'll need to close the message box first.] Floyd | Floyd | You hear a whirring buzz from the output station. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close message box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MESSAGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a whirring buzz from the output station. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a whirring buzz from the output station. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The whirring buzz abruptly ceases. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on report icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON REPORT ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Report" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | ERROR: Paper out. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close message box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MESSAGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a ream of system printouts here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "read paper" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > READ PAPER Floyd | Floyd | Much of the printout is endless system configurations, compiler Floyd | options, statistics, and processing messages, a great deal of it in Floyd | Braille, much of the rest in hexadecimal, EBCDIC, and binary. You skim Floyd | down to the bottom of the last page to find what you're looking for: Floyd | Floyd | SIM IS "Lab" [3-> VR-> TESTING-> SIMS-> LAB SIM REVISION 227, 0823] Floyd | Floyd | SENSORY OUTPUTS: Floyd | Floyd | Auditory: X Floyd | Gustatory: X Floyd | Olfactory: X Floyd | Tactile: X Floyd | Visual: X Floyd | Floyd | [CHANGES ARE INITIATED WITH EACH NEW SESSION.] Floyd | Floyd | Time: 0000 Floyd | Session #DLGX5734 Floyd | Floyd | 100 VIRTUAL OBJECTS PROCESSED Floyd | Floyd | ANALYSIS SWEEP RESULTS: Floyd | 0 SIMULATION TRAPS Floyd | * 1 OVERLOAD POTENTIAL Floyd | 0 OBJECT CONFLICTS Floyd | Floyd | *** END OF PRINTOUT *** Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Maybe the session number is a password? DLGX5734?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on debug icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON DEBUG ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Debug" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | an text entry field pops up, displaying a text box for typed command Floyd | entry, with a prompt reading: Floyd | Floyd | Access restricted! Floyd | PASSWORD:> Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "type DLGX5734? on terminal" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time:
Floyd | 0
Floyd |
Floyd | > TYPE DLGX5734? ON TERMINAL
Floyd |
Floyd | You type on the keyboard and press <ENTER>. A couple of femtoseconds
Floyd | later, a message box pops up, with the message:
Floyd |
Floyd | ERROR: Invalid password. Access denied.
Floyd |
Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours
Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back, alone beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks (of DavidW), "Did the comp used to not have a rule about game length?" | ||
| DavidW says, "try not to include the ? in the password command next time." | |||
| DavidW says, "The two-hour rule is for players, not authors." | |||
| DavidW says, "Players play the game for at most two hours, then they must score it." | |||
| borowski says, "Right." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get off the metal gurney first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on debug icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON DEBUG ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Debug" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | an text entry field pops up, displaying a text box for typed command Floyd | entry, with a prompt reading: Floyd | Floyd | Access restricted! Floyd | PASSWORD:> Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "type DLGX5734 on terminal" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE DLGX5734 ON TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | You type on the keyboard and press <ENTER>. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | ERROR: Invalid password. Access denied. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close message box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MESSAGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close entry field" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE ENTRY FIELD Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the entry field, closing it. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I wouldn't be opposed to another gentle hint." | ||
| DavidW says, "well, that '100 objects' bit on the report suggests that if we can get that to 101, it could start an infinite loop." | |||
| borowski asks, "Why is that?" | |||
| DavidW says, "A hunch." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on report icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON REPORT ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Report" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | Report generation process initiated. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a whirring buzz from the output station. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take manual" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a whirring buzz from the output station. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | The mainframe printer continues to spit reams of output. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The mainframe printer continues to spit reams of output. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The mainframe printer spits the last of its output before reverting to Floyd | a waiting state. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put manual in slot" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT MANUAL IN SLOT Floyd | Floyd | Justy would not be amused if you recycled the Project's documentation. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a ream of system printouts here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put paper in slot" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PAPER IN SLOT Floyd | Floyd | You need to be holding the ream of system printouts before you can put Floyd | it into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take paper" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAPER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put paper in slot" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PAPER IN SLOT Floyd | Floyd | A pleasant ping, and a large blue diode lights up the smiling earth as Floyd | the ream of system printoutsdisappears into the slot. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'd try requesting a 2nd report *while* the 1st is printing." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on report icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON REPORT ICON Floyd | Floyd | [You'll need to close the message box first.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close message box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MESSAGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on report icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON REPORT ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Report" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | Report generation process initiated. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a whirring buzz from the output station. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close message box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MESSAGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a whirring buzz from the output station. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on report icon" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON REPORT ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Report" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | ERROR: Print queue is full. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a whirring buzz from the output station. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "drat" | ||
| borowski says, "I'm going to see if eating the pizza changes the item count." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back, alone beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stsand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STSAND Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "eat pizza" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Mmmm, pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the refrigerator) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on report icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON REPORT ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Report" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | Report generation process initiated. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a whirring buzz from the output station. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | The mainframe printer continues to spit reams of output. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The mainframe printer continues to spit reams of output. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The mainframe printer continues to spit reams of output. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The mainframe printer spits the last of its output before reverting to Floyd | a waiting state. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "You think the pizza might get regenerated?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "read paper" | |||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > READ PAPER Floyd | Floyd | Much of the printout is endless system configurations, compiler Floyd | options, statistics, and processing messages, a great deal of it in Floyd | Braille, much of the rest in hexadecimal, EBCDIC, and binary. You skim Floyd | down to the bottom of the last page to find what you're looking for: Floyd | Floyd | SIM IS "Lab" [3-> VR-> TESTING-> SIMS-> LAB SIM REVISION 227, 0823] Floyd | Floyd | SENSORY OUTPUTS: Floyd | Floyd | Auditory: X Floyd | Gustatory: X Floyd | Olfactory: X Floyd | Tactile: X Floyd | Visual: X Floyd | Floyd | [CHANGES ARE INITIATED WITH EACH NEW SESSION.] Floyd | Floyd | Time: 0000 Floyd | Session #DLGX9205 Floyd | Floyd | 100 VIRTUAL OBJECTS PROCESSED Floyd | Floyd | ANALYSIS SWEEP RESULTS: Floyd | 0 SIMULATION TRAPS Floyd | * 1 OVERLOAD POTENTIAL Floyd | 0 OBJECT CONFLICTS Floyd | Floyd | *** END OF PRINTOUT *** Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The session number changes." | ||
| borowski says, "I want to see if the game is really counting objects. Though "processed" might just mean created." | |||
| borowski says, "Interesting." | |||
| DavidW says, "So typing in the session number of the previous session as a password might've failed because of of session mismatch." | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close message box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MESSAGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Assuming the session number is a password, which is still a huge longshot." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on debug icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON DEBUG ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Debug" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | an text entry field pops up, displaying a text box for typed command Floyd | entry, with a prompt reading: Floyd | Floyd | Access restricted! Floyd | PASSWORD:> Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "type DLGX9205 on terminal" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE DLGX9205 ON TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | You type on the keyboard and press <ENTER>. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | ERROR: Invalid password. Access denied. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close message box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MESSAGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type adamihs on terminal" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE ADAMIHS ON TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | You type on the keyboard and press <ENTER>. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | ERROR: Invalid password. Access denied. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close message box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MESSAGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "type xyzzy on terminal" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE XYZZY ON TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | You type on the keyboard and press <ENTER>. A couple of femtoseconds Floyd | later, a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | ERROR: Invalid password. Access denied. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close message box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MESSAGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski has disconnected. | |||
| borowski has connected. | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "xl" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > XL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x l" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X L Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Argh." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open microwave" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You open the microwave oven. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back, alone beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You open the microwave oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put tongs in microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT TONGS IN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You need to be holding the pair of kitchen tongs before you can put it Floyd | into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take tongs" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TONGS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put tongs in microwave" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT TONGS IN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | Microwaving the pair of kitchen tongs is probably not such a good Floyd | idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x tank" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X TANK Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the suspended-animation tank that you Floyd | didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter tank" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER TANK Floyd | Floyd | A rather strange request. You're not an android... are you? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says (to Game), "Don't be coy with me." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x monitor" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X MONITOR Floyd | Floyd | Justy created this graphical interface to suit the Project, replacing Floyd | the hopelessly outdated "Windows 2000" O/S that came pre-installed. Floyd | Floyd | The desktop currently displays a mouse cursor, a "Launch" icon, a Floyd | "Configure" icon, a "Report" icon, a "Debug" icon, a "System" icon and Floyd | a "Flush" icon. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "double left click on launch icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE LEFT CLICK ON LAUNCH ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Launch" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | ERROR: VR Sphere is not currently occupied. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "drat again" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "right click on launch icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > RIGHT CLICK ON LAUNCH ICON Floyd | Floyd | [You'll need to close the message box first.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fill tank" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > FILL TANK Floyd | Floyd | But there's no water here to carry. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close message box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MESSAGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "right click on launch icon" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > RIGHT CLICK ON LAUNCH ICON Floyd | Floyd | You double-click on the "Launch" icon. A couple of femtoseconds later, Floyd | a message box pops up, with the message: Floyd | Floyd | ERROR: VR Sphere is not currently occupied. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close message box" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MESSAGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You click on the "OK" button, closing the message box. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a pair of kitchen tongs. You are wearing an implant Floyd | (attached to your head), a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put tongs in sphere" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT TONGS IN SPHERE Floyd | Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open sphere" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN SPHERE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look at sphere" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK AT SPHERE Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere is a human-sized anti-gravity gyroscope, encased in Floyd | soundproof glass. VR sensors connect to status monitors, the lab Floyd | terminal and the mainframe supercomputer in the next room by a thick Floyd | bundle of coaxial cables. A fail-safe lever protrudes at an angle from Floyd | one side. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Oh, that's how we get a verbose examine." | ||
| borowski says, "I'm going to try that with the android." | |||
| DavidW asks, "hm?" | |||
| borowski says, "Getting more information about it." | |||
| DavidW asks, "'look at' is different from 'x'?" | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look at tank" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK AT TANK Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the suspended-animation tank that you Floyd | didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Oh, no, I 'x'ed the tank before. Never mind." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back, alone beneath flickering lights, mind thundering. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Should we try restarting and taking the antitoxin?" | ||
| DavidW says, "That would be hypercruel if that's the solution." | |||
| borowski says, "Yeah" | |||
| DavidW says, "More likely the antitoxin will figure in a showdown with Cynthia in the real world." | |||
| DavidW says, "like, one has to wonder where Justy is during all this." | |||
| DavidW says, "We may be in la-la-land, but Justy is the one probably needing medical care." | |||
| borowski says, "Dang it Justy. If only you hadn't spent so much time watching movies." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "justy, help me" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time:
Floyd | 0
Floyd |
Floyd | > JUSTY, HELP ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You call out to Justy, but get no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | "The other can not hear you, QueensRook. Even now, he calls out to you
Floyd | as you to him, and he fears for you. Fear beckons, QueensRook, the
Floyd | mind's built-in restraints. Use it, let it guide you. Do not be so
Floyd | foolish as to rely on the other for that. Trust only yourself."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get off the metal gurney first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Justy's Quarters Floyd | Justy's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only a Floyd | bed, desk, and a few of Justy's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall is completely taken up Justy's film library. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging nearby is a framed sketch by M.C. Escher. Floyd | Floyd | A large holovision set dominates the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn on set" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON SET Floyd | Floyd | The holovision screen lights up as the set clicks on, broadcasting a Floyd | "Jeopardy" match already in progress. Floyd | Floyd | Three contestants stand behind podiums labelled, from left to right Floyd | (from your perspective), "Tom," "Lisa," and "Brian." Tom currently has Floyd | $1400, Lisa's score is $1200, and Brian trails hopelessly behind with Floyd | -$-900. Hovering beside the matrix of blue question screens in a Floyd | transparent plastic bubble is Jeopardy's host, the once-cryogenically Floyd | frozen head of Alex Trebek. Floyd | Floyd | "What is Planck's constant?" asks Lisa. Floyd | Floyd | "Correct," states Alex. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x library" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X LIBRARY Floyd | Floyd | Justy's collection of science-fiction films includes the complete Floyd | "Star Wars" saga, the "Terminator" trilogy, and both the 2001 remake Floyd | and classic 1926 versions of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." Floyd | Floyd | A closer look reveals one you've never seen before: "The Lawnmower Floyd | Man." Floyd | Floyd | "I'll take interactive fiction for 400." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take movie" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MOVIE Floyd | Floyd | Leave Justy's things alone. Floyd | Floyd | "Currently the CEO of the BranMuffin World Conglomerate, she was the Floyd | original editor of XYZZYnews." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lawnmower" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X LAWNMOWER Floyd | Floyd | Justy's collection of science-fiction films includes the complete Floyd | "Star Wars" saga, the "Terminator" trilogy, and both the 2001 remake Floyd | and classic 1926 versions of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." Floyd | Floyd | Tom taps his buzzer. "Who is Eileen Mullin?" Floyd | Floyd | Alex's head nods (an amusing sight when it's not attached to a body). Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I wonder if 'The Lawnmower Man' is a clue. I don't know the movie. Is it one of those recurring day setups?" | ||
| borowski says, "I haven't seen it either." | |||
| Ellison says, "it involved sending a guy into virtual reality. there was no recurring day theme." | |||
| DavidW says, "hm. So it may just be a throwaway in-joke." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tv" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X TV Floyd | Floyd | Three contestants stand behind podiums labelled, from left to right Floyd | (from your perspective), "Tom," "Lisa," and "Brian." Tom currently has Floyd | $1800, Lisa's score is $1400, and Brian trails hopelessly behind with Floyd | -$-900. Hovering beside the matrix of blue question screens in a Floyd | transparent plastic bubble is Jeopardy's host, the once-cryogenically Floyd | frozen head of Alex Trebek. Floyd | Floyd | Tom glances briefly at the board before deciding on, "Interactive Floyd | fiction for 600, Alex." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch tv" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > WATCH TV Floyd | Floyd | Three contestants stand behind podiums labelled, from left to right Floyd | (from your perspective), "Tom," "Lisa," and "Brian." Tom currently has Floyd | $1800, Lisa's score is $1400, and Brian trails hopelessly behind with Floyd | -$-900. Hovering beside the matrix of blue question screens in a Floyd | transparent plastic bubble is Jeopardy's host, the once-cryogenically Floyd | frozen head of Alex Trebek. Floyd | Floyd | Alex reads the answer. "In 2002, the first worldwide I-F convention Floyd | was held here, at the birthplace of Infocom." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Three contestants stand behind podiums labelled, from left to right Floyd | (from your perspective), "Tom," "Lisa," and "Brian." Tom currently has Floyd | $1800, Lisa's score is $1400, and Brian trails hopelessly behind with Floyd | -$-900. Hovering beside the matrix of blue question screens in a Floyd | transparent plastic bubble is Jeopardy's host, the once-cryogenically Floyd | frozen head of Alex Trebek. Floyd | Floyd | Brian eagerly hits the buzzer. "What is CalTech?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Three contestants stand behind podiums labelled, from left to right Floyd | (from your perspective), "Tom," "Lisa," and "Brian." Tom currently has Floyd | $1800, Lisa's score is $1400, and Brian trails hopelessly behind with Floyd | -$-900. Hovering beside the matrix of blue question screens in a Floyd | transparent plastic bubble is Jeopardy's host, the once-cryogenically Floyd | frozen head of Alex Trebek. Floyd | Floyd | A loud buzzer ensues as Alex's head shakes disappointedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Three contestants stand behind podiums labelled, from left to right Floyd | (from your perspective), "Tom," "Lisa," and "Brian." Tom currently has Floyd | $1800, Lisa's score is $1400, and Brian trails hopelessly behind with Floyd | -$-300. Hovering beside the matrix of blue question screens in a Floyd | transparent plastic bubble is Jeopardy's host, the once-cryogenically Floyd | frozen head of Alex Trebek. Floyd | Floyd | Lisa follows up with, "What was M.I.T.?" Floyd | Floyd | "That's correct," affirms Alex. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x brian" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X BRIAN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tv" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X TV Floyd | Floyd | Three contestants stand behind podiums labelled, from left to right Floyd | (from your perspective), "Tom," "Lisa," and "Brian." Tom currently has Floyd | $1800, Lisa's score is $2000, and Brian trails hopelessly behind with Floyd | -$-300. Hovering beside the matrix of blue question screens in a Floyd | transparent plastic bubble is Jeopardy's host, the once-cryogenically Floyd | frozen head of Alex Trebek. Floyd | Floyd | "History for 200, please." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Three contestants stand behind podiums labelled, from left to right Floyd | (from your perspective), "Tom," "Lisa," and "Brian." Tom currently has Floyd | $1800, Lisa's score is $2000, and Brian trails hopelessly behind with Floyd | -$-300. Hovering beside the matrix of blue question screens in a Floyd | transparent plastic bubble is Jeopardy's host, the once-cryogenically Floyd | frozen head of Alex Trebek. Floyd | Floyd | The board lights up. "In 1957, he uncovered a conspiracy to Floyd | assassinate Haitian Foreign Minister Louis Raimone." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Three contestants stand behind podiums labelled, from left to right Floyd | (from your perspective), "Tom," "Lisa," and "Brian." Tom currently has Floyd | $1800, Lisa's score is $2000, and Brian trails hopelessly behind with Floyd | -$-300. Hovering beside the matrix of blue question screens in a Floyd | transparent plastic bubble is Jeopardy's host, the once-cryogenically Floyd | frozen head of Alex Trebek. Floyd | Floyd | Tom's podium lights up as he hits his button. "Who was Austin Floyd | Garriot?" Floyd | Floyd | Alex confirms this. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Three contestants stand behind podiums labelled, from left to right Floyd | (from your perspective), "Tom," "Lisa," and "Brian." Tom currently has Floyd | $2000, Lisa's score is $2000, and Brian trails hopelessly behind with Floyd | -$-300. Hovering beside the matrix of blue question screens in a Floyd | transparent plastic bubble is Jeopardy's host, the once-cryogenically Floyd | frozen head of Alex Trebek. Floyd | Floyd | "Interactive fiction for 800." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Three contestants stand behind podiums labelled, from left to right Floyd | (from your perspective), "Tom," "Lisa," and "Brian." Tom currently has Floyd | $2000, Lisa's score is $2000, and Brian trails hopelessly behind with Floyd | -$-300. Hovering beside the matrix of blue question screens in a Floyd | transparent plastic bubble is Jeopardy's host, the once-cryogenically Floyd | frozen head of Alex Trebek. Floyd | Floyd | Alex reads, "In 1998, this software corporation purchased the rights Floyd | to Graham Nelson's Inform for $14.6 million." Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, I guess we can't watch this forever and see if the Jeopardy game crashes somehow." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "break tv" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK TV Floyd | Floyd | Pointless destruction. How typically human. Floyd | Floyd | Brian attempts to hit his buzzer, but Lisa is faster. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "What is Microsoft?" she ventures. Floyd | Floyd | "Correct." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close door" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You close Justy's door. Floyd | Floyd | "Let's try physics for 400." Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about Justy's door that you didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | "This Hungarian inventor discovered the principle of maximising Floyd | temporal potential at historical turning points." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open Justy's door. Floyd | Floyd | Lisa buzzes in with, "Who was Kaldecki?" Floyd | Floyd | "Grad Kaldecki," confirms Alex, with a nod. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I think I'm going to take a break." | ||
| DavidW says, "ok" | |||
| DavidW says, "sorry I'm stumped on this one." | |||
| borowski says, "That's OK." | |||
| borowski leaves to make amends for his sins and search for redemption in his own spin-off. | |||
| borowski has disconnected. | |||
| Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||
| phoenix goes home. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | |||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 19/50 Time:
Floyd | 0
Floyd |
Floyd | > QUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
| |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "y" | |||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
Floyd | > Y
Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0
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| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | |||
