  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline hollers, "ClubFloyd in ten minutes in the Toyshop! We can either finish Changes or try something new. The Changes transcript from last week is now live at [LINK] in case you want to review it before we play." | DavidW says, "I'm kinda iffy about continuing with Changes unless someone has new ideas to try, because we were seriously stuck at the end of last week's session." | |
| Lionheart says (to DavidW), "We've been completely stumped before and stuck with it until we got further." | ||
| DavidW says, "If we do return to Changes, I've just whipped up a map of known locations at: [LINK]" | ||
| djfletch arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||
| DavidW arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Jacqueline says, "Well, I will leave that to those of you who were here last week to discuss. It is now the Appointed Time." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Well, or it will be in a few seconds." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I haven't written any authors about this week, but that's just a nice heads-up for folks, not a requirement, so." | ||
| Zach arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| Jacqueline arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Jacqueline asks, "So, folks, what do you want to do? Finish Changes, or do something new?" | |
| DavidW says, "I will support whatever everyone else decides." | ||
| Zach says, "I wouldn't mind doing something new" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. So, it turns out Guilded Youth has a straight zblorb which I could try to run, if we'd like to try that." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Many feel a lot would be lost by Floyding it, but ... *shrug*" | ||
| maga says, "it will totally be playable, but a lot of the experience will go floomp" | ||
| maga says, "I mean, it'll work, but if anybody hasn't played it yet I'd seriously recommend playing it in-browser instead" | ||
| DavidW says, "I deliberately refuse to vote one way or another." | ||
| maga says, "(although you could play alongside Floyd in a browser window, probably)" | ||
| Zach filibusters | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Zach), "Oh? You have to do more than just say you're doing it, you have to start talking non-stop. Proceed..." | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "That's old-style filibustering." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I like the Olde Wayes." | ||
| Zach says, "Dang, but I can't find a phone book" | ||
| DavidW says, "New style is to suggest a motion, then when the other side says sure, let's vote on it, then you filibuster your OWN motion." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, um, we're not getting anywhere. I don't care, and David seems to not care, and maga probably will abandon us, and Zach doesn't have a phone book." | ||
| Zach asks, "Is there anyone here that does want to play Guilded Youth?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I care, but I really hate being the driver sometimes." | ||
| maga says, "apathyMUD" | ||
| maga says, "clearly playing a disaffected teenager is just what you need" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "It's not that we're ignorant or apathetic. It's just that we don't know and we don't care, that's all." | ||
| Limbo arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "The 90's IM'ed you and want their joke back." | |
| Jacqueline says, "You make me cry, David." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, if people aren't jazzed about GY, what then?" | ||
| maga says, "oh, just go for it. but do play in a browser too" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. I guess we could do that." | ||
| maga says, "it's short and simple" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay, I AM FOR IT. WHO IS WITH ME?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "RAR. C'mon, peeps." | ||
| says, "Let me go upload it to Floyd. One sec." | ||
| maga) feeble chorus goes "yaaaaay" | ||
| DavidW says, "I will support the majority decision." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, right now I'm the only one who's decided, so I guess that makes me a majority." | ||
| DavidW says, "fwiw, I haven't played GY" | ||
| Zach says, "Oh, here we go : Aaron Aardvark 555-0000" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, online play link is at [LINK]" | ||
| Zach says, "I mean, Guild Youth is fine" | ||
| maga says, "uploaded as guildedyouth" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am already in love, just from the opening screen." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask guildedyouth" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***You have connected to THE GUILD BBS*** Type LOGIN to enter the Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh dear. It's a RPG?" | |
| maga says, "not really, no" | ||
| Zach asks (of Jacqueline), "Have you played it yet?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Now, the trick here will be to stay together." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So we need to go slowly." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I guess we... LOGIN?" | ||
| Zach says, "Oh good" | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "yes" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "login" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 2 Floyd | Floyd | > LOGIN Floyd | Floyd | (Guilded Youth v2.0 for the IFComp 2012. HELP and CREDITS are Floyd | available. Sound enabled on Chrome.) Floyd | Floyd | ***WELCOME, TONY THE THIEF*** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge Floyd | You can see a map, Harry the Barbarian, Paula the Mage, Ryan the Bard, Floyd | Maximus the Cleric and Chris the Paladin here. Floyd | Floyd | "hey tony" says Ryan. Floyd | Floyd | "voltron would kill optimus" says Harry. Floyd | Floyd | "he's like 5 robots in one" says Harry. Floyd | Floyd | "Optimus would have his whole team backing him up," says Chris. Floyd | Floyd | Maximus floats in on a cloud of glory. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, ">help" | |
| DavidW says, ">take map" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, I'm feeling slightly made fun of here." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'll drive, I guess." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'll go with HELP first." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "help" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 2 Floyd | Floyd | > HELP Floyd | Floyd | You can win this game by using three commands: GO, TAKE and SHOW Floyd | something TO someone. If you want to go somewhere that seems hard to Floyd | get to, lead by example! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "huh. Only those three commands?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Interesting." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take map" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 3 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MAP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Paula winks at you. Floyd | Floyd | "VOLTROOOOOOOOOOOOOON!" says Harry. Floyd | Floyd | Chris transforms into an awesomebot. Floyd | Floyd | Maximus frowns. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Not RAPE, PILLAGE, and GALORE?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "If this were randomized, we'd be screwed, but so far it seems so good." | ||
| Marvin arrives, full of fun and funk. | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Hee" | |
| DavidW says, "examine the map, please" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Marvin We're playing Guilded Youth and if you want to join us, I'd recommend @recapping and catching up in the game at home alongside what we're doing htere." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "er, here" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x map" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X MAP Floyd | Floyd | It's the route from your house to the Manor. Floyd | Floyd | "LESS THAN MEETS THE EYE111" says Harry. Floyd | Floyd | "My child, strive to stay in character," advises Maximus sternly. Floyd | Floyd | Paula yawns. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, and inventory, too, I guess. See if we have 6 feet of rope, a lamp, a lockpick, etc." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 5 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Your access on the BBS only allows you to EXAMINE, LOOK, WAIT, SHOW Floyd | something TO someone, or TAKE something. Floyd | Floyd | Maximus sees your attempt and smiles smugly, casually turning Floyd | invisible -- something only a 8th level Guild member could do. Floyd | Floyd | Chris drives circles around Harry. Floyd | Floyd | "i stomp on your stupid ass!" exclaims Harry. Floyd | Floyd | Maximus summons a dragon which proceeds to incinerate Harry the Floyd | Barbarian and then disappear. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Should we look at the other folks?" | |
| DavidW says, "oh, Inventory is only a visible side bar." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yea" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "er, Yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure, I guess we can look at them." | ||
| Zach asks, "Sure. I thought we could talk to them, but I guess not?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look at paula" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK AT PAULA Floyd | Floyd | Paula radiates with green sparkly power. Floyd | Floyd | "Language and character violations will not be tolerated," intones Floyd | Maximus. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "look at ryan" | |
| Jacqueline says, "oops" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look at ryan" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 7 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK AT RYAN Floyd | Floyd | A jaunty tunesmith. Floyd | Floyd | You decide to leave before Maximus kicks you for some violation. Floyd | Floyd | Type LOGOUT to continue. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "YAY JAUNTY" | |
| DavidW says (to Zach), "I suppose we can't talk to them, in which case they're like a grove of trees we're visiting." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Wait, logout?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't want to logout." | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess we violated some unknown rule." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Being quiet?" | ||
| Zach says (to Jacqueline), "can't just chat your life away" | ||
| DavidW says, "Being out of character, I think was the crime." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Because we looked at people?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I hate Maximus." | ||
| maga says, "as described it's a pre-emptive logout" | ||
| DavidW says, "or the 'I'" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, screw logging out, I'm going to keep examining people until he boots us." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay?" | ||
| DavidW says, "um, okay." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We only have two more." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x maximus" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X MAXIMUS Floyd | Floyd | Type LOGOUT to continue. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I guess that's that then." | ||
| DavidW says, "we can probably login in again immediately" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Jim is possibly staying at my apartment on Tuesday. I shall give him the stinkeye then." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "OHO" | ||
| DavidW says, "neat" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "logout" | ||
Floyd ] Your Front Porch 8 Floyd | Floyd | > LOGOUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***DISCONNECTED*** Floyd | Floyd | You switch off your C-64, dropping the room into complete darkness. Floyd | Your eyes adjust quickly, as befits a fifth level thief. In the Floyd | hallway you wait and listen for the sounds of your parents' deep Floyd | sleep. From the upper floor window you gaze upon your dangerous Floyd | destination. The Oakville Manor. Floyd | Floyd | Your Front Porch Floyd | Your front door clicks behind you. You turn to the east, where the Floyd | Manor beckons invisibly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Hm, same artist as Everybody Dies?" | |
| maga says, "for those reading the transcript, rest assured that bit was totally impressive" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, this is going to be disjointed for readers who've never played." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Fiddly as it is, I'm glad we're playing here and at home." | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, same author" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Your Front Porch 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Your non-descriptness is perhaps your most important thiefly trait. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "E?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I didn't think Jim was the artist, though." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "credits" | ||
Floyd ] Your Front Porch 10 Floyd | Floyd | > CREDITS Floyd | Floyd | Jim Munroe wrote and designed Guilded Youth. His other games are here. Floyd | Art and animation by Matt Hammill. Sound by Troy Morrissey. It uses Floyd | the marvellous Vorple JavaScript user interface library by Juhana Floyd | Leinonen, who also helped with coding. Beta testers: Ori Avtalion, Floyd | Adam Axbey, Matthew Bin, Raigan Burns, Jake Eakle, David Faulkner, Floyd | Mark Tilford & Wiley Wiggins. Thanks also to the Inform 7 team and the Floyd | interactive fiction community. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess, but I wish we had keys, flashlight, etc." | |
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "You are so old skool, and that is part of why we love you." | ||
| Marvin wouldn't read that with a ten-foot eyeball. | Jacqueline asks, "So, E?" | |
| DavidW says, "Old school is picking up crap at the destination, which this seems to be heading toward, although I smell a twist coming up." | ||
| DavidW says, "but, yes, E, please" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's Jim. Of course there's a twist." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] End of the Street 11 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | End of the Street Floyd | The map was a joke -- you don't really need a map to find your way, Floyd | even past midnight. The forest at the end of the cul-de-sac smells Floyd | damp and green, leading further to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh. Just noticed that the eyes are blinking" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] The Woods 12 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Woods Floyd | Thanks to the full moon, you only trip once. Floyd | Floyd | You've lived beside these woods for half of your 14 years. The way on Floyd | leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] The Field 13 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Field Floyd | You cross the electrical tower field, feeling rather than hearing its Floyd | low hum. Superstition stops you from looking up at its wires. You can Floyd | see the new development in the distance, the cause of your urgent Floyd | mission, its machines like sleeping behemoths. But your destination is Floyd | further east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, so that's 3 easts, folks." | |
| Jacqueline says, "And soon a fourth." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "People ready for me to keep going?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yup" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 14 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | In Front of the Manor Floyd | Even crowded by wild brush, the grandest building in your Floyd | neighbourhood still has a silent dignity. And to think: a few days Floyd | from now, it'll be erased from history. Floyd | Floyd | The Manor looms to the north. You know from experience that there's a Floyd | coachhouse behind it, which you could get to by following a rough path Floyd | to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm wondering it the map will be used for kindling, since it's useless as an actual map." | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Or to be placed under a door before we poke a key out of a keyhole!" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I'm trying to hang with you, David; how am I doing?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Or given to Lassie to take a message back home to the folks." | ||
| DavidW says, "fine" | ||
| DavidW says, "You're doing fine," | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, manor or coach house." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh manors first. Manors are so important, y'know." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "mmkay. Have we lost Zach entirely?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 15 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Portico of the Manor Floyd | You remember the first time you and Ryan found this place, he dared Floyd | you to knock on the front door. You did him one better, opening the Floyd | door and pushing it open to reveal the dark hall beyond. There was a Floyd | cold-iron smell that conjured up a vision of shackles wrapped around a Floyd | skeleton's wrists. Last year, when you drank your first beer behind Floyd | the portables, you recognized the smell and realized the abandoned Floyd | house must have just been a drinking spot for teenagers. Floyd | Floyd | You can still see the dark hall in your mind's eye, mysterious shapes Floyd | beckoning just beyond the front threshold. What were they? Floyd | Floyd | You won't be plumbing the Manor's mysteries tonight: large planks of Floyd | wood are nailed firmly across the front door. You curse under your Floyd | breath. You can leave the portico to the south, or enter the Manor to Floyd | the north. Floyd | Floyd | A paper in a plastic sheath is stapled to the planks. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Oh sorry, I have played it" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, ah, eep..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I missed that bit." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We have disenfranchised you. I'm sorry." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I didn't realize." | ||
| Zach says, "I don't trust myself to not give anything away" | ||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||
| DavidW says, "Examine the paper. Guessing a condemned notice." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "You won't be plumbing the Manor's mysteries tonight... does tsd to anyone else?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 16 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPER Floyd | Floyd | It's a Notice of Demolition. Ryan overheard his mom talking to her Floyd | other historical preservation friends about it, apparently there's Floyd | some kind of structural damage that makes it dangerous. Personally you Floyd | think it's more dangerous to let the cookie-cutter semi-detached Floyd | monotony ooze slowly over the entire city. Floyd | Floyd | The date on it indicates it's got three days to live. If you don't get Floyd | to explore it fully it won't be the end of the world: just the end of Floyd | your boyhood dreams. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "In the sense that plumbers get dirty, yes" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, *just* the end of our boyhood dreams. Who are we kidding? Our boyhood was over when we drank that beer behind the portables." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take paper" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 17 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAPER Floyd | Floyd | It's stapled down with about a million heavy duty staples. Plus, you Floyd | can read it as it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess we need to find a window, trellis, ladder, hammer, or cellar door now." | |
| DavidW says, "mm, or a crowbar." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 18 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In Front of the Manor Floyd | Even crowded by wild brush, the grandest building in your Floyd | neighbourhood still has a silent dignity. And to think: a few days Floyd | from now, it'll be erased from history. Floyd | Floyd | The Manor looms to the north. You know from experience that there's a Floyd | coachhouse behind it, which you could get to by following a rough path Floyd | to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "NE?" | |
| DavidW says, "mmhm" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Coachhouse 19 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Coachhouse Floyd | The double doors are large enough to drive a horse and carriage into, Floyd | but one of them is missing, leaving an entryway to the north. Or you Floyd | can return to the front of the Manor to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Coachhouse 20 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Coachhouse Floyd | There's a significant hole in the roof that lets in enough light to Floyd | look around. You and Ryan have been in here before: until he saw a Floyd | raccoon here it was practically your clubhouse. It's pretty well Floyd | picked over as a result. You can leave to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A flutter of motion attracts your eye to something in the corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "X FLUTTER? LISTEN?" | |
| DavidW says, "x corner" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x corner" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Coachhouse 21 Floyd | Floyd | > X CORNER Floyd | Floyd | A magazine concerning ladies of the night. Unquestioningly valuable to Floyd | many gentlemen of your acquaintance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Coachhouse 22 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | You manage to peel it off the floorboards. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah, I was wondering if we'd be having sexy times." | |
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha FORBIDDEN TOME is now in our inventory." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x forbidden tome" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Coachhouse 23 Floyd | Floyd | > X FORBIDDEN TOME Floyd | Floyd | A magazine concerning ladies of the night. Unquestioningly valuable to Floyd | many gentlemen of your acquaintance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read magazine" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Coachhouse 24 Floyd | Floyd | > READ MAGAZINE Floyd | Floyd | A good thief doesn't get high on his own supply. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "What a buzzkill" | |
| DavidW asks, "We show this to our buds. Don'tcha know?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Like, this seems like all there is here ("it's pretty well picked over"), but ... not sure." | ||
| DavidW says, "x floorboards" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x floorboards" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Coachhouse 24 Floyd | Floyd | > X FLOORBOARDS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Coachhouse 25 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "boo" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Coachhouse 26 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Coachhouse Floyd | There's a significant hole in the roof that lets in enough light to Floyd | look around. You and Ryan have been in here before: until he saw a Floyd | raccoon here it was practically your clubhouse. It's pretty well Floyd | picked over as a result. You can leave to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "well, I guess we go home and take it into the game world?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "We surely will find a way inside." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Were we able to get to the other sides of the manor?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "S?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "May I?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Coachhouse 26 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Coachhouse Floyd | The double doors are large enough to drive a horse and carriage into, Floyd | but one of them is missing, leaving an entryway to the north. Or you Floyd | can return to the front of the Manor to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | Loot in hand, you head for home, thinking about what your fellow Floyd | adventurers will say when they see it. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***Press any key to continue*** | Jacqueline says, "OH DEAR PRESS A KEY" | |
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 27 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge Floyd | You can see Harry the Barbarian, Paula the Mage, Ryan the Bard, Floyd | Maximus the Cleric and Chris the Paladin here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Greetings, thief," says Maximus. Floyd | Floyd | "2400 baud is totally enough! " exclaims Harry. Floyd | Floyd | Paula laughs at 4800 baud. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "You were right." | |
| DavidW says, "heh. I was right!" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Show the home to Ryan?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "er tome?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I wonder if anyone under 35 understood half the jokes in this game." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show tome to ryan" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 28 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW TOME TO RYAN Floyd | Floyd | "Dude are you crazy waving that thing around?" says Ryan the Bard. Floyd | Floyd | "Yah Concrete Beach are just snobs, they're all pirates anyway," says Floyd | Chris. Floyd | Floyd | Maximus says a silent prayer for pirates to mend their ways. Floyd | Floyd | "I know they're pirates, I want the warez!!!" exclaims Harry. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Ask Maximus about tome?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "he seems like the authority figure here." | ||
| DavidW says, "We can't. The help said it's only GO, X, and SHOW in here," | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well..." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask ryan about tome" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 29 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK RYAN ABOUT TOME Floyd | Floyd | Your access on the BBS only allows you to EXAMINE, LOOK, WAIT, SHOW Floyd | something TO someone, or TAKE something. Floyd | Floyd | Maximus sees your attempt and smiles smugly, casually turning Floyd | invisible -- something only a 8th level Guild member could do. Floyd | Floyd | The other guild members chatter on. You wonder if there is a way to Floyd | convince them to join you in a raid on the Manor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh wait, no. I tried." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to ryan" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 29 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO RYAN Floyd | Floyd | You'd rather not fill the air with idle chatter. A silent thief is an Floyd | effective thief. Though if you really need to get something done, you Floyd | can ASK someone ABOUT something. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Show it to ... oh?" | |
| Jacqueline shrugs. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Might not hurt to try the ask thing, just to see." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Who shall we ask?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Maximus. He seems the one mostly in charge." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask maximus about tome" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 30 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAXIMUS ABOUT TOME Floyd | Floyd | Your access on the BBS only allows you to EXAMINE, LOOK, WAIT, SHOW Floyd | something TO someone, or TAKE something. Floyd | Floyd | Maximus sees your attempt and smiles smugly, casually transforming Floyd | into a wyvern and back -- something only a 8th level Guild member Floyd | could do. Floyd | Floyd | "Whatcha got there?" says Harry the Barbarian. "SHOW it TO me! Floyd | Floyd | The other guild members chatter on. You wonder if there is a way to Floyd | convince them to join you in a raid on the Manor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach asks, "Do we really want a bard in our party anyway?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. The other was just a default that misled." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, show it to the barbarian?" | ||
| DavidW says, "okay. I kinda wanted to show it to the cleric first, though." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show tome to cleric" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 31 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW TOME TO CLERIC Floyd | Floyd | You don't dare. You'd be kicked from the Guild for sure. Floyd | Floyd | "Whatcha got there?" says Harry the Barbarian. "SHOW it TO me! Floyd | Floyd | The other guild members chatter on. You wonder if there is a way to Floyd | convince them to join you in a raid on the Manor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |
| DavidW says, "But it probably doesn't matter what order this is done in," | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show tome to barbarian" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 32 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW TOME TO BARBARIAN Floyd | Floyd | "where did you get this?" whispers Harry. "this is awesome!" Floyd | Floyd | You explain the Manor and the potential treasures within, if only you Floyd | had a companion strong enough to breach the gate... Floyd | Floyd | ***Harry the Barbarian has joined your party.*** Floyd | Floyd | Now that you've got some muscle on board, time for another Manor raid. Floyd | Floyd | Type LOGOUT to continue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "logout" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 33 Floyd | Floyd | > LOGOUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***DISCONNECTED*** Floyd | Floyd | It's been a strange night so far. If Harry hadn't been carrying a Floyd | large bag you never would have picked him out of the crowd getting off Floyd | the bus. Stocky and talky, the guy's as verbose in the flesh as he is Floyd | on the screen, and kept up a running chatter the whole walk over Floyd | here... Floyd | Floyd | In Front of the Manor Floyd | It's cloudy tonight, and the Manor is more foreboding than yesterday. Floyd | You wish you brought your flashlight. Floyd | Floyd | "Whew, what a dump," says Harry. "You sure there's more mags in here?" Floyd | Even crowded by wild brush, the grandest building in your Floyd | neighbourhood still has a silent dignity. And to think: a few days Floyd | from now, it'll be erased from history. Floyd | Floyd | The Manor looms to the north. You know from experience that there's a Floyd | coachhouse behind it, which you could get to by following a rough path Floyd | to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Harry the Barbarian here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Okay... this is kinda weird. If only it worked this way IRL, we'd have mudmeets all the time." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "Anyway, bet this guy can rip off the boards." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Hey, David, I need to explore all the pizza combos at this new restaurant, but I need more party members to help me out, because I can't eat them all. Will you join my party?" | ||
| DavidW says, "You bet!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm going to log off now." | ||
| DavidW says, "hold on! I better put on some pants!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "YAY" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, how to go about this. >ASK HARRY ABOUT BOARDS?" | ||
| DavidW says, "N first" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, right." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 34 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Portico of the Manor Floyd | Harry looks at the planks appraisingly. You can leave the portico to Floyd | the south, or enter the Manor to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A paper in a plastic sheath is stapled to the planks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask harry about boards" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 35 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK HARRY ABOUT BOARDS Floyd | Floyd | Unless you really need someone to do something, you're not going to Floyd | waste breath on chit-chat -- more grabbing, less gabbing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, ">Harry, take boards" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "harry, remove boards" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 36
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, REMOVE BOARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "harry, take boards" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 37
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, TAKE BOARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 38 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "harry, you dumbass" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 39
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, YOU DUMBASS
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take boards" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 39 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOARDS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to harry" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 39 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO HARRY Floyd | Floyd | You'd rather not fill the air with idle chatter. A silent thief is an Floyd | effective thief. Though if you really need to get something done, you Floyd | can ASK someone ABOUT something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 40 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Portico of the Manor Floyd | Harry looks at the planks appraisingly. You can leave the portico to Floyd | the south, or enter the Manor to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A paper in a plastic sheath is stapled to the planks. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Harry the Barbarian here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "harry, smash boards" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 41
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, SMASH BOARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach has disconnected. | ||
| Zach has connected. | DavidW says, "harry, take planks" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "harry, take planks" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 42
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, TAKE PLANKS
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not one for ordering people about. You can ASK someone ABOUT
Floyd | something if you like.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "harry, take planks" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 43
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, TAKE PLANKS
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not one for ordering people about. You can ASK someone ABOUT
Floyd | something if you like.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "harry, break planks" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 44
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, BREAK PLANKS
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not one for ordering people about. You can ASK someone ABOUT
Floyd | something if you like.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask harry about planks" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 45 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK HARRY ABOUT PLANKS Floyd | Floyd | You show Harry the problematic plank and he pulls a well-worn crowbar Floyd | from his long bag. His chatter as he efficiently wrenches off the wood Floyd | makes him oblivious to a slight clink you hear... then a rustle... and Floyd | you'd swear it came from inside the house. Floyd | Floyd | You push the door open with a creak... Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Manor Floyd | You cross the threshold into the Manor, and achieve one of your Floyd | boyhood dreams. You breathe the rarefied air, not sure what it is you Floyd | smell, but appreciating that you're the first to have smelled it in... Floyd | decades? Floyd | Floyd | To the west you hear a shuffling and scratching. Maybe some animals Floyd | got in? Floyd | Floyd | You look around the space, slowly taking it in. A curving staircase, Floyd | badly damaged, used to lead to the second floor. Strange shapes loom Floyd | throughout the space. Hallways heading off to the east and the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "THERE WE GO" | |
| DavidW says, "aha" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And there, Sir, is your crowbar." | ||
| DavidW says, "I noticed they were 'planks' now, even though they were 'boards' earlier." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, really? Huh." | ||
| DavidW says, "I totally blame I7," | ||
| DavidW says, "apropos inky login" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Also, didn't it say we'd been in here before?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "And now it's saying we're the first to smell the air in ... decades?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe I misread. Probably." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, which way, David?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, that's inconsistent. He did say he'd smelt beer in here earlier." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm happy to let you drive." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shapes" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 46 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHAPES Floyd | Floyd | You touch them and a plume of dust is raised -- dust that actually Floyd | seems thicker than the sheets themselves. Across the room, Harry yanks Floyd | one off and spends a full minute rubbing his eyes and coughing. For Floyd | his trouble he's revealed a couple of unremarkable chairs. Floyd | Floyd | Your thief's instincts tell you that there's nothing but unwanted Floyd | furniture under the sheets, too old to be fashionable but not old Floyd | enough to be antique. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "west first, I think" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 47 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Based on the animal (?) sounds you heard earlier, you decide to leave Floyd | that for last. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 48 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay, fine" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "east" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 49 Floyd | Floyd | > EAST Floyd | Floyd | The formidable door has one of those fancy crystalline doorknobs, Floyd | which won't turn. It does, however, pull out in your hand and fall to Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | "Whoa, big guy," Harry says, patting you on the back. "Easy there. Floyd | Don't need to wreck the place. Floyd | Floyd | The doorknob rolls to a stop on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take doorknob" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 50 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE DOORKNOB Floyd | Floyd | You turn the crystal under the light, feeling its pleasing weight in Floyd | your hand. As you slip your loot in your pocket, you feel a lightness Floyd | in your belly. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Thank you for your condescension, Harry." | |
| DavidW says, "new inventory item, at least" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. A lightness in our belly." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Perhaps it's a hint to go home, have lunch, and swap in a new party member?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x doorknob" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 51 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOORKNOB Floyd | Floyd | Crystal or glass, beautifully cut in either case. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 52 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You take a few steps up and can go no further. There's about six Floyd | stairs missing, a huge hole leading down into a pitch blackness. The Floyd | hand rail bridges the gap and seems pretty sturdy, but not enough to Floyd | bet your life on. Floyd | Floyd | As you come down, Harry lets out a relieved breath. "You don't look Floyd | like much of a long jumper." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stairs" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 53 Floyd | Floyd | > X STAIRS Floyd | Floyd | There's about six stairs missing, a huge hole leading down into a Floyd | pitch blackness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 54 Floyd | Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You take a few steps up and can go no further. There's about six Floyd | stairs missing, a huge hole leading down into a pitch blackness. The Floyd | hand rail bridges the gap and seems pretty sturdy, but not enough to Floyd | bet your life on. Floyd | Floyd | As you come down, Harry lets out a relieved breath. "You don't look Floyd | like much of a long jumper." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 55 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm thinking that we do need to retreat for now." | |
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 56 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The Manor still has loot for the taking: you can smell it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, okay" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door with knob" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 56 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR WITH KNOB Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 56 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 57 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | It's locked without even a doorknob to rattle futilely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask harry about door" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 58 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK HARRY ABOUT DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Unless you really need someone to do something, you're not going to Floyd | waste breath on chit-chat -- more grabbing, less gabbing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Have Harry bash the door?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "harry, break door" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 59
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, BREAK DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "yeah, trying to do that." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "harry, hit door" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 60
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, HIT DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show door to harry" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 60 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW DOOR TO HARRY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick door" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 60 Floyd | Floyd | > KICK DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Go back, get the cleric, have him bless us before we jump the gap in the stairs." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x harry" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 61 Floyd | Floyd | > X HARRY Floyd | Floyd | Stocky and jocky. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We can't leave yet. We smell loot." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shapes" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 62 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHAPES Floyd | Floyd | You touch them and a plume of dust is raised -- dust that actually Floyd | seems thicker than the sheets themselves. Across the room, Harry yanks Floyd | one off and spends a full minute rubbing his eyes and coughing. For Floyd | his trouble he's revealed a couple of unremarkable chairs. Floyd | Floyd | Your thief's instincts tell you that there's nothing but unwanted Floyd | furniture under the sheets, too old to be fashionable but not old Floyd | enough to be antique. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, right." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 63 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | There are birds on the wallpaper, the fragments that remain, their Floyd | black eyes appearing to watch you. Floyd | Floyd | Further west there looks to be a dining room. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, NOW we can go west" | |
| Jacqueline says, "ah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x birds" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 64 Floyd | Floyd | > X BIRDS Floyd | Floyd | Bird eyes have always creeped you out. You are fond of magpies, Floyd | though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 65 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You make your way towards the dining room, you start to hear hushed Floyd | voices. Harry kicks something that hits the wall with a metal sound. Floyd | Your heart jumps as the low voices in the other room pause. Floyd | Floyd | When they start up again you back slowly away, but not before Floyd | pocketing the object Harry kicked. Floyd | Floyd | You escape through the front door and emerge... Floyd | Floyd | In Front of the Manor Floyd | "Who the heck were those guys?" said Harry. "Jesus. Creepy." Floyd | Floyd | You pull out your loot and admire it, a finely designed dessert fork. Floyd | Sterling silver from its weight, and beautiful in the moonlight. Floyd | Floyd | Harry notices the look on your face. "What are you, a klepto?" Floyd | Floyd | You decide it's time to head home west, away from prying eyes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, we ARE a thief." | |
| DavidW asks, "caught up?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 65
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | As you head for home, Harry keeps on with his blather. "Oh, oh yeah.
Floyd | Your Guild character. Don't you think you take it a little too
Floyd | seriously?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't dignify that with an answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hey how can you be a thief with a good alignment anyway? Isn't that
Floyd | the opposite?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You walk faster and leave the Barbarian to struggle along with his
Floyd | large bag, and his ignorance, alone.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Press any key to continue***
| ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 66 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge Floyd | You can see Paula the Mage, Ryan the Bard, Maximus the Cleric and Floyd | Chris the Paladin here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Chris is here, shining a sword of great antiquity. Floyd | Floyd | Paula is checking her makeup in the sword's reflection. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, looks like we're gonna treat these fellows like inventory items. Use 'em and lose 'em." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, he's gone." | ||
| DavidW says, "Doorknob looks skeletal now." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "so, I guess we show our new loot?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x doorknob" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 67 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOORKNOB Floyd | Floyd | Crystal or glass, beautifully cut in either case. Floyd | Floyd | Maximus is enjoying the lack of barbaric chatter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fork" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 68 Floyd | Floyd | > X FORK Floyd | Floyd | It's only slightly tarnished, and will polish up nicely. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I'm not sure which character will a) like our loot, b) help us best with our current obstacles." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I have a feeling Max is last." | ||
| DavidW says, "The mage might help us go up the stairs. Bard or paladin vs the guys in the west wing. No obvious best choice for the east door." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, the maga might help us unlock the door." | ||
| DavidW says, "maybe. Hm." | ||
| maga says, "I shall do no such thing" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "oh dear" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show fork to mage" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 69 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW FORK TO MAGE Floyd | Floyd | "Doesn't match my other cutlery," says Paula the Mage. "But thanks Floyd | anyway, sweetie." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There I go with the autotyping again" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show fork to bard" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 70 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW FORK TO BARD Floyd | Floyd | "If it's not a tuning fork, I can't use it," quips Ryan the Bard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show folk to paladin" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 70 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW FOLK TO PALADIN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "o fork" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 71 Floyd | Floyd | > O FORK Floyd | Floyd | "Sounds like Victorian cutlery," Chris whispers. Chris agrees to meet Floyd | you at the Manor later tonight. Floyd | Floyd | ***Chris the Paladin has joined your party.*** Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "teenagers are well-known for hating folk" | |
| DavidW says, "I suppose we can try showing the doorknob too? No reason why we can't have two party members at the same time, I suppose." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show knob to bard" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 72 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW KNOB TO BARD Floyd | Floyd | "Cool loot," whispers Ryan. He agrees to meet you at your place later Floyd | tonight. Floyd | Floyd | ***Ryan the Bard has joined your party.*** Floyd | That's enough reinforcements for another Manor raid. Type LOGOUT to Floyd | continue. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Go for it." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "logout" | ||
Floyd ] Your Front Porch 73 Floyd | Floyd | > LOGOUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***DISCONNECTED*** Floyd | Floyd | Ryan meets you in front of your house. He's as jumpy as always. You Floyd | check to see if he's brought his picks, and he pulls them briefly out Floyd | of a schoolbag festooned with band names. Floyd | Floyd | Your Front Porch Floyd | The Manor beckons invisibly to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Ryan the Bard here. Floyd | Floyd | "Never actually used them except on the test lock," Ryan says, pulling Floyd | his hat off and waving it at his face. It's pretty muggy out. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Where's the paladin?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Guess it's one or the other." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Little matter." | ||
| DavidW says, "I hope we didn't use the fork at the wrong time, or maybe he'll meet us at the manor." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] End of the Street 74 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | End of the Street Floyd | The forest at the end of the cul-de-sac smells damp and green, leading Floyd | further to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You describe the kind of keyhole it is as you head over. "Oh yeah, Floyd | those are easier than modern ones." He gives you a sly smile. "Maybe Floyd | you wanna give it a shot." Floyd | Floyd | You punch him in the shoulder at the reminder of your one thiefly Floyd | failure. You've never had a knack for picks. It came up when Ryan Floyd | wanted to join the Guild as a thief, but luckily he changed his mind Floyd | and decided his mastery of three chords qualified him as a bard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] The Woods 75 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Woods Floyd | You've lived beside these woods for half of your 14 years. The way on Floyd | leads east. Floyd | Floyd | You ask him about the kids at his new school, the Catholic one his mom Floyd | made him go to. "Pretty boring. I'm the only one into hardcore and Floyd | cool music there," he bragplains. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "'bragplains'? That's new." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] The Field 76 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Field Floyd | You cross the electrical tower field, feeling rather than hearing its Floyd | low hum. Superstition stops you from looking up at its wires. You can Floyd | see the new development in the distance, the cause of your urgent Floyd | mission, its machines like sleeping behemoths. But your destination is Floyd | further east. Floyd | Floyd | You ask him if he's made it downtown to a hardcore show yet. He Floyd | shrugs. "Not yet. They start so late that there's like no way to get Floyd | back here before transit stops." Floyd | Floyd | He shoots a glance at you to see how well this latest excuse works. Floyd | You keep your face neutral. You can mock him after the job. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We could always follow through on my joke of map under door, fork poke in keyhole..." | |
| DavidW says, "alas, no. Our inventory is showing empty." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "oh. ah." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 77 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | In Front of the Manor Floyd | Even crowded by wild brush, the grandest building in your Floyd | neighbourhood still has a silent dignity. And to think: a few days Floyd | from now, it'll be erased from history. Floyd | Floyd | The Manor looms to the north. You know from experience that there's a Floyd | coachhouse behind it, which you could get to by following a rough path Floyd | to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | There's a girl in a track suit in front of the Manor. You keep it cool Floyd | and introduce yourself. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey I'm Chris," she says, then trains her dark eyes on your friend. Floyd | "And I guess you're Ryan?" Floyd | Floyd | Ryan, as usual in the presence of a non-boy, is motionless, so you nod Floyd | for him. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Chris, how you done changed." | |
| Jacqueline says, "There we go." | ||
| DavidW says, "poor Ryan." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chris" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 78 Floyd | Floyd | > X CHRIS Floyd | Floyd | She's wearing a tracksuit and a short haircut. Something about her Floyd | eyes makes her look ready for a fight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 79 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Portico of the Manor Floyd | Chris stops when she sees the planks and the forcible entry. "Whoa, I Floyd | didn't know you guys broke in, I thought it was abandoned." Doubt Floyd | flickers across her eyes. "My dad's a cop. It'd kill him if I --" She Floyd | shakes her head. Then she notices the notice stapled to the door and Floyd | relaxes a bit. "Oh, well. If it's gonna be trashed anyway..." You can Floyd | leave the portico to the south, or enter the Manor to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A paper in a plastic sheath is stapled to the planks. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm thinking we use Chris first, then maybe she'll leave before Ryan and I do anything she'll disaprove of." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 80 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Manor Floyd | A curving staircase, badly damaged, used to lead to the second floor. Floyd | Strange shapes loom throughout the space. Hallways heading off to the Floyd | east and the west. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 81 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 82 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | "Uh," Ryan says, "Sounds like there's people there. Why don't we Floyd | search the other rooms first?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok, fine." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask ryan about door" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 83 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK RYAN ABOUT DOOR Floyd | Floyd | "Ready to do your magic?" you say to Ryan, motioning at the locked Floyd | door. Floyd | His eyes go big and he shakes his head, glancing over at Chris. Oh, Floyd | right. That comment about her dad being a cop has him spooked. Not Floyd | that it takes a lot to get him spooked. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Manor Floyd | A curving staircase, badly damaged, used to lead to the second floor. Floyd | Strange shapes loom throughout the space. Hallways heading off to the Floyd | east and the west. Chris looks around, a smile on her face. She seems Floyd | intrigued by the hole in the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Chris the Paladin and Ryan the Bard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Wait a tic. What part of TRESSPASSING IS ILLEGAL do they not recognize?" | ||
| DavidW says, "She's letting that pass for some authorial reason." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chris about hole" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 84 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CHRIS ABOUT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | Chris approaches the hole in the stairs and adjusts her headband. Floyd | Floyd | She tests the banister first and then hangs from it. You feel your Floyd | heart lurch as her legs dangle into the hole. "When I started Floyd | gymnastics," she says, going hand over hand across the gap. "I always Floyd | used to imagine using my training in an adventure." Floyd | Floyd | "This is kind of an adventure," pipes up Ryan, looking at you for Floyd | confirmation. "Right?" Floyd | Floyd | She gets to the other side, and flips her feet out onto solid ground. Floyd | Floyd | "Sure, kid," she says. She takes a penlight out of her sweatpants Floyd | pocket and disappears into the second floor darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok, Chris is gone. Maybe Ryan will chillax." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask ryan about door" | ||
Floyd ] Study 85 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK RYAN ABOUT DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You and Ryan go to the door. Ryan sizes it up as he takes out his Floyd | picks. "Keep an eye out for the cop's daughter," he says, a pick Floyd | hanging from his mouth as he goes about his work. Floyd | Floyd | A few seconds later, the door to the east is open. Ryan can't keep a Floyd | smile off his face, and you pat him on the shoulder. Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | This was clearly a library or office of some kind. The walls are lined Floyd | with bookshelves, empty but for thick layers of dust. There's a large Floyd | desk pushed against a wall at a weird angle. You picture the owners Floyd | packing up and needing to get it out of the way to get something else Floyd | out of the door. Floyd | Floyd | You can leave to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move desk" | ||
Floyd ] Study 86 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE DESK Floyd | Floyd | A few seconds of futile pushing makes it clear why it was left here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Study 87 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | The desk was probably too big to get out through the door, so they Floyd | just left it there. All its drawers are missing. It's a lovely old Floyd | wooden specimen, however, and it saddens you it will be smashed to Floyd | pieces in two days. As you run a fond hand over it, you notice a glint Floyd | in the inkwell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x inkwell" | ||
Floyd ] Study 88 Floyd | Floyd | > X INKWELL Floyd | Floyd | The glint you saw is from a letter opener. Your lithe fingers tease Floyd | it out and Ryan crowds around. "Oooh, a dagger," he says. You Floyd | reluctantly hand it over. Floyd | Floyd | Ryan feels the edge and then scoffs. "Super-dull," he says, handing it Floyd | back. Floyd | Floyd | Your heart lightens and you don't correct him. You secret it away for Floyd | closer inspection later. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x opener" | ||
Floyd ] Study 89 Floyd | Floyd | > X OPENER Floyd | Floyd | Pretty bad-ass looking for an antique. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bookshelves" | ||
Floyd ] Study 90 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKSHELVES Floyd | Floyd | Not a single book left behind. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Back west to the entrance?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Sure." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 91 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | "There you guys are," Chris says grumpily as you come out. She gets up Floyd | from the bottom of the stairs, where she's been sitting. Floyd | Floyd | She's got her arms crossed and a funny look on her face. Despite her Floyd | efforts, you notice there's a small bulge in her jacket. Floyd | Floyd | You're about to ask her about it when there's a smashing sound to the Floyd | west, followed by a peel of laughter. Floyd | Floyd | Ryan nearly jumps out of his skin. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Our heart seems to lighten every time we filch something." | |
| DavidW says, "mm" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 92 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | When Ryan sees you heading towards the noise instead of away, he makes Floyd | for the exit. Floyd | Floyd | "Um... band practice, gotta go... nicetomeetyoubye!" he says. When he Floyd | gets out of the house he abandons all dignity and just starts running. Floyd | Floyd | Chris gives you a sly smile and walks along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | There are birds on the wallpaper, the fragments that remain, their Floyd | black eyes appearing to watch you. Floyd | Floyd | Further west there looks to be a dining room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chris about bulge" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 93 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CHRIS ABOUT BULGE Floyd | Floyd | Unless you really need someone to do something, you're not going to Floyd | waste breath on chit-chat -- more grabbing, less gabbing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 94 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You inch forward a bit and try to catch a glimpse of the dining room Floyd | occupants. You dip in and out, catching a glimpse of a long haired Floyd | one, a guy with some kind of suit jacket, and two or three more. They Floyd | appear to be setting the table...? Floyd | Floyd | You feel Chris's hand on your arm, pulling you back. Floyd | Floyd | The clink of dinner plates and cutlery cover up the sounds of Floyd | conversation. Floyd | Floyd | "...definitely candles, it gives..." Floyd | Floyd | Chris lets go of your arm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chris about occupants" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 95 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CHRIS ABOUT OCCUPANTS Floyd | Floyd | Unless you really need someone to do something, you're not going to Floyd | waste breath on chit-chat -- more grabbing, less gabbing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "chris, west" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 96
Floyd |
Floyd | > CHRIS, WEST
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not one for ordering people about. You can ASK someone ABOUT
Floyd | something if you like.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 97 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You lean in and listen in a bit more. Floyd | Floyd | "...as if we're the lords of the Manor. The pinnacle of suburban Floyd | decadence. Rome before the malls moved in." Floyd | Floyd | Chris gives you a confused look, and you shrug. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 98 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | No way are you going in there without at least two people to back you Floyd | up. "Probably we should get out while the getting's good," Chris Floyd | whispers. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm." | |
| DavidW asks, "Does that mean Chris will be willing to return next time without a bribe?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Dunno - last time Harry just disappeared." | ||
| DavidW says, "guess we can try to go home and see if the game let's us." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 99 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Manor Floyd | A curving staircase, badly damaged, used to lead to the second floor. Floyd | Strange shapes loom throughout the space. Hallways heading off to the Floyd | east and the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Study 100 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | This was clearly a library or office of some kind. The walls are lined Floyd | with bookshelves, empty but for thick layers of dust. There's a large Floyd | desk pushed against a wall at a weird angle. You picture the owners Floyd | packing up and needing to get it out of the way to get something else Floyd | out of the door. Floyd | Floyd | You can leave to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 101 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Manor Floyd | A curving staircase, badly damaged, used to lead to the second floor. Floyd | Strange shapes loom throughout the space. Hallways heading off to the Floyd | east and the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 102 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Portico of the Manor Floyd | You can leave the portico to the south, or enter the Manor to the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | A paper in a plastic sheath is stapled to the planks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 103 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In Front of the Manor Floyd | Even crowded by wild brush, the grandest building in your Floyd | neighbourhood still has a silent dignity. And to think: a few days Floyd | from now, it'll be erased from history. Floyd | Floyd | The Manor looms to the north. You know from experience that there's a Floyd | coachhouse behind it, which you could get to by following a rough path Floyd | to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | You leave the house behind. Floyd | Floyd | Chris kneels to tie her running shoe. Her jacket pocket opens wide -- Floyd | inside is a gold gleam that makes your fingers itch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gold" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 104 Floyd | Floyd | > X GOLD Floyd | Floyd | It's gorgeous, clam-shaped and golden. Floyd | Floyd | When Chris stands, a golden pocketwatch falls to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | Chris looks at you. "See ya around, I guess." She melts into the Floyd | forest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take watch" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 105 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE WATCH Floyd | Floyd | You lean over to pick up the watch, and -- bam! -- Chris tackles you Floyd | from out of nowhere! You find yourself on your back, her arm pinning Floyd | your neck down. "Dirty... thief..." she puffs, smirking, her eyes Floyd | shining. Floyd | Floyd | Her hands go all over your body, searching for something. Finally her Floyd | hand rests on a ridge in your pants. Floyd | Floyd | "Ah hah..." she crows. "What have we here? Holding out on me, you Floyd | dirty thief?" She's breathing hard, her face a few inches from yours. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "..." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kiss her" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 106 Floyd | Floyd | > KISS HER Floyd | Floyd | You can't -- she's got you pinned too good, but then she reads your Floyd | intentions and lets up just... enough... for you to kiss her. When you Floyd | try to slip her some tongue, she gasps and pins you again. "Oh no, oh Floyd | no you don't," she says, her eyes blazing, covering your mouth with Floyd | her hand. Floyd | Floyd | When you don't struggle, she rolls off you and takes the letter opener Floyd | with her. You look up at the sky, the moon barely visible, thinking Floyd | about how weird it is that you're lying in the grass in front of the Floyd | Manor. A few nights from now, it'll all be gone. Floyd | Floyd | "What's that handle, mother of pearl?" Chris says, squinting at it Floyd | before tossing it onto your chest. "You find the coolest stuff in Floyd | these old houses." Floyd | Floyd | The watch sits in your open palm. You look up at Chris, and she's Floyd | snapping a hairclip that got dislodged into place. Floyd | Floyd | You have never wanted anything more in your life. Floyd | Floyd | "Why don't you hold onto that for me, thief," she says, pulling her Floyd | collar up. "My dad would find it eventually." Floyd | Floyd | She looks at you, a strange smile twisting her lips, and then she runs Floyd | off into the forest. Floyd | Floyd | You look longingly after her to to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I vote 'kiss' her" | |
| DavidW asks, "ah. You thought so too, eh?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh. yep" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 106
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see what you're carrying in the left column, and your current
Floyd | party members in the right column.
Floyd |
Floyd | Loot in hand, you head for home.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Press any key to continue***
| Jacqueline says, "Sigh. I'm not following along at home anymore, so that is one annoying bit about this zblorb." | |
| DavidW says, "we have letter opener and pocket watch" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Maga said that there really weren't any more big style changes, and it was fiddly flipping back and forth, so I decided to just stick to here." | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 107 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge Floyd | You can see Harry the Barbarian, Ryan the Bard, Paula the Mage and Floyd | Maximus the Cleric here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Harry's back, Ryan's back, but Chris is absent this time." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "That's enough muscle, though, right?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We'll definitely want Harry vs the people, but obviously not scaredycat Ryan." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm thinking Harry (via the opener) and Max (via the watch)." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show watch to max" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 108 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW WATCH TO MAX Floyd | Floyd | "An exquisite item," Maximus says. "It'll help you tick off the hours Floyd | you'll spend in hell for your evil ways." Floyd | Floyd | You explain that the Manor is condemned anyway. "The Oakville Manor? I Floyd | know that grand old place..." Maximus says. He agrees to join your Floyd | raiding party. Floyd | Floyd | ***Maximus the Cleric has joined your party.*** Floyd | "dice are stupid anyway," Harry says. "no skill." Floyd | Floyd | Maximus struggles with his vow of serenity. Floyd | Floyd | "hi tony," whispers Paula. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show opener to harry" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 109 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW OPENER TO HARRY Floyd | Floyd | "Are you threatening me? hahahahahaha" says Harry the Barbarian. Floyd | Floyd | Harry scratches his bum. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show opener to paula" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 110 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW OPENER TO PAULA Floyd | Floyd | "Ooh, pretty pretty... I do get a lot of correspondence..." she says. Floyd | Paula agrees to join your raiding party. Floyd | Floyd | ***Paula the Mage has joined your party.*** Floyd | Floyd | That's enough backup for a final Manor raid. Type LOGOUT to continue. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh. No barbarian this time." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "logout" | ||
Floyd ] The Field 111 Floyd | Floyd | > LOGOUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***DISCONNECTED*** Floyd | Floyd | You meet Max at the edge of the field. He lives not too far away, but Floyd | neither of you really want to give the other your home address. Floyd | Floyd | He's a few years older and about a foot taller, but with the build and Floyd | the cornstalk hair of a scarecrow. He's carrying a backpack. His voice Floyd | is as annoying as you imagined from the BBS. Floyd | Floyd | "You quite sure it's unpatrolled?" he says. "If it gets traced back to Floyd | the Guild, they can easily shut us down." Floyd | Floyd | The Field Floyd | You cross the electrical tower field, feeling rather than hearing its Floyd | low hum. Superstition stops you from looking up at its wires. You can Floyd | see the new development in the distance, the cause of your urgent Floyd | mission, its machines like sleeping behemoths. But your destination is Floyd | further east. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "goodness. Maximus isn't quite so max now." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 112 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | In Front of the Manor Floyd | Even crowded by wild brush, the grandest building in your Floyd | neighbourhood still has a silent dignity. And to think: a few days Floyd | from now, it'll be erased from history. Floyd | Floyd | The Manor looms to the north. You know from experience that there's a Floyd | coachhouse behind it, which you could get to by following a rough path Floyd | to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | Paula -- you assume it's Paula, though she looks more goth than witch Floyd | -- takes one last drag on her smoke before killing it under a creeper Floyd | boot. Floyd | Floyd | "Hello, boys," says Paula in a soft, deep voice. "You ready to knock Floyd | over this joint?" Floyd | Floyd | You nod. Floyd | Floyd | Paula turns toward the Manor and begins to pull on lacy gloves. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "mmm" | |
| DavidW says, "Somehow I can't see these two going against the manor occupants." | ||
| DavidW says, "A goth and a pimple bearer. That doesn't fill me with confidence." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 113 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Portico of the Manor Floyd | Max glances at the paper. "I'd like to say that my only interest in Floyd | entering this building is to preserve--" Floyd | Floyd | Paula cuts him off with a stagey yawn. Floyd | Floyd | You can leave the portico to the south, or enter the Manor to the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | A paper in a plastic sheath is stapled to the planks. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "save?" | |
| DavidW says, "oh. okay" | ||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 113 Floyd | Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | Floyd | Sorry, you can't save the game, but really -- you don't need to. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Portico of the Manor 113 Floyd | Floyd | > CF1 Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |
| DavidW says, "heh. We can't." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I'm not feeling any real danger. The game warden cuts in." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 114 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Manor Floyd | A curving staircase, badly damaged, used to lead to the second floor. Floyd | Strange shapes loom throughout the space. Hallways heading off to the Floyd | east and the west. It's familiar ground to you now, but the others Floyd | look around in awe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 115 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Max stops you. "First things first: let's find the wine cellar." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask paula about hole" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 116 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK PAULA ABOUT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | Unless you really need someone to do something, you're not going to Floyd | waste breath on chit-chat -- more grabbing, less gabbing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter hole" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 117 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER HOLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 118 Floyd | Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You come up to the huge ragged hole in the stairs. Max peers into the Floyd | hole. "Looks like it goes straight to the wine cellar," he says, Floyd | pulling off his backpack. Floyd | Floyd | All business, he pulls out a rope and attaches it to the banister, Floyd | letting the end dangle down into the inky hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 119 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You take a few steps up and can go no further. There's about six Floyd | stairs missing, a huge hole leading down into a pitch blackness with a Floyd | rope disappearing into it. The hand rail bridges the gap and seems Floyd | pretty sturdy, but not enough to bet your life on. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Max, wearing a headband with a light attached, starts to climb down Floyd | the rope. There's a tense moment when the banister squeaks, but it Floyd | holds fast. Floyd | Floyd | Alone, you and Paula trade a silent look of surprise. Floyd | Floyd | She's about to say something when a laugh comes from the room to the Floyd | west. The dining room. And is that the tinkle of cutlery? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb rope" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the Manor 120 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB ROPE Floyd | Floyd | You remember gym class rope climbing last year and decide against it. Floyd | You're nimble, but your upper body strength is for shit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 121 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You stop just outside the dining room in the hallway and peek in. Floyd | There's a whole dinner party going on inside. You whisper to Paula Floyd | that you recognize the guy from yesterday. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes," she says, her face flooding with emotion. "I recognize him Floyd | too." Floyd | Floyd | Before you can contest, she adjusts her hat, squares her shoulders, Floyd | and strides into the dining room... taking you with her. Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | There are six people around the large table, the guys from yesterday Floyd | plus a couple more. The guy with the strange bangs and suit jacket is Floyd | at the head of the table beside a goth girl who's too beautiful to Floyd | look at directly. The table is laid out beautifully, a candelabra Floyd | melting onto the white tablecloth, chipped plates trimmed with gold. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Paula the Mage here. Floyd | Floyd | Paula sits down at an empty chair and seats you beside her. There's no Floyd | plate, but she reaches across the table and wrenches a drumstick from Floyd | the bird. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay. Weird." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x guy" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 122 Floyd | Floyd | > X GUY Floyd | Floyd | A beard big enough to hide a mouse in. You can smell the patchouli Floyd | from here. A thin tattooed girl glances over at him frequently. Floyd | Floyd | "Um... hi," says the fellow in the suit jacket. Everyone's staring at Floyd | Paula as she gnaws the drumstick, and you will yourself invisible. Floyd | Floyd | She points the drumstick at him and you see a drop of grease fall onto Floyd | the tablecloth. "You stole my idea, Erik. And then you didn't even Floyd | invite me." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 122 Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x candelabra" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 123 Floyd | Floyd | > X CANDELABRA Floyd | Floyd | There's more candles than abra, and it doesn't look all that steady. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, I would say it was our idea," says Erik. Floyd | Floyd | Paula reaches over and takes the closest goblet. Its bespectacled Floyd | owner pretends he doesn't notice. She takes a sip and then spits it Floyd | out, luckily away from you. "A white? With duck, Erik?" Floyd | Floyd | Erik grimaces. "They were out of--" Floyd | Floyd | He stops suddenly, seeing Max in the doorway with a bottle of wine in Floyd | each hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "one sec - feet are cold, getting slippers" | |
| DavidW says, "Who serves white wine with duck? He must be insane." | ||
| DavidW says, "And I get so hungry during CF." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "enh. The new rule with many people is to forgo that rule and drink whatever you want. I have used this as an excuse to abandon white and blush wines altogether." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(Also, back.)" | ||
| DavidW says, "I like white wine with, say, cheese or fish." | ||
| DavidW says, "Or art." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure what our next move oughta be, but PUSH CANDELABRA comes to mind. I was hoping to see something to filch first, though." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Before you set the whole place on fire, you mean?" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, yes" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sit at table" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 123 Floyd | Floyd | > SIT AT TABLE Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 123 Floyd | Floyd | > SIT Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to sit on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "chair" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 123 Floyd | Floyd | > CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're already sitting." | |
| Jacqueline says, "oh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 124 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | There are six people around the large table, the guys from yesterday Floyd | plus a couple more. The guy with the strange bangs and suit jacket is Floyd | at the head of the table beside a goth girl who's too beautiful to Floyd | look at directly. The table is laid out beautifully, a candelabra Floyd | melting onto the white tablecloth, chipped plates trimmed with gold. Floyd | Floyd | There's a bottle of white wine with a dusty label, within arms' reach. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Maximus the Cleric and Paula the Mage here. Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, sommelier," Paula waves him over, proving herself an Floyd | improvisational genius. Max comes, his eyes stunned, and only squeaks Floyd | a bit as she pulls the dusty bottles from his grasp. Floyd | Floyd | She sets one on the table and reads the label on the other. Max backs Floyd | away towards the door, and then makes a break for it, his backpack Floyd | clinking with other bottles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat duck" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 125 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT DUCK Floyd | Floyd | (first taking Drumstick) Floyd | You're not really hungry. Floyd | Floyd | "Ah -- a pinot noir," she says, uncorking it with surprising ease. Floyd | "That's suitable for duck." Floyd | Floyd | She goes around the table, picking up a goblet still full of wine. Floyd | "What's the point in doing something --" throws the white wine onto Floyd | the floor, "-- if you're not going to go all the way with it?" She Floyd | fills the goblet and bangs it down onto the table, sloshing red, and Floyd | the candelabra sways a bit. The light in the room sways too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drink wine" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 126 Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK WINE Floyd | Floyd | (the bottle of white wine) Floyd | A good thief doesn't get high on his own supply. Floyd | Floyd | "The rules are the least interesting part of this," Erik snaps back. Floyd | "You always take things too far." Floyd | Floyd | The dreadlocked man gulps down his white and holds it up for Paula, Floyd | who overfills it. "Whoops, I guess I do. I guess it's why you kicked Floyd | me out of the freak clique, huh?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 127 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | (the bottle of white wine) Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | "Look, Paul," started Erik, his voice tired and sad. "I--" Floyd | Floyd | "It's Paula, you stupid fuck!" She throws the bottle at him, Floyd | and the last thing you see before you leave the room is the candelabra Floyd | falling onto the tablecloth. Floyd | Floyd | In a rush you see the birds on the wallpaper, the front door still Floyd | open, the flattened grass in front of you and before too long, you're Floyd | back in your bedroom. You take off your clothes, trying to decide if Floyd | they smell of smoke or just of guilt. Floyd | Floyd | You're in your bed when the fire sirens start to wail and the flames Floyd | are becoming visible on the Manor. It's sad, but when you consider Floyd | that the Manor was otherwise facing crowbars and rough hands and Floyd | wrecking balls in the morning... better a funeral pyre. Floyd | Floyd | *** Floyd | Floyd | A week, two weeks, three weeks pass. You use your nights for sleeping, Floyd | not sneaking. Your modem neither winks or squeals. And no one in the Floyd | Guild squeals either, since the knock on your door never comes. When Floyd | Ryan tells you something funny Harry said online yesterday, you Floyd | realize -- if even Ryan is sticking his head up -- that the smoke has Floyd | cleared. Floyd | Floyd | You decide to LOGIN again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There you go, D." | |
| Jacqueline says, "FOOMP" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "login" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 128 Floyd | Floyd | > LOGIN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***WELCOME BACK, TONY THE THIEF*** Floyd | Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge Floyd | You can see Harry the Barbarian, Paula the Mage, Ryan the Bard, Floyd | Maximus the Cleric and Chris the Paladin here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "it was in last week's guardian!" says Harry. Floyd | Floyd | "That free rag? I don't even believe the coupons in the Etobicoke Floyd | Guardian," mocks Paula. Floyd | Floyd | At this verboten talk, Maximus brandishes his staff of banishment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "White wine and a full house." | |
| DavidW says, "Obviously we should offer the wine to the paladin and get smoochies in coachhouse." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "If it still stands." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show wine to chris" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 128
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW WINE TO CHRIS
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bottle of white wine to Chris the Paladin)
Floyd | For some reason, this feels like a significant choice. Any of your
Floyd | friends would like the wine. Are you sure? (Y/N)
| Jacqueline says, "Golly" | |
| DavidW asks, "oh. Five endings and no save?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Darn you, JM." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 129 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You reconsider. Floyd | Floyd | "Here: COPS DON'T SUSPECT ARSON" says Harry. Floyd | Floyd | Maximus lifts his staff and Harry vanishes. Floyd | Floyd | Paula rolls her eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "Long time no see" says Chris. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 129 Floyd | Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | Floyd | Sorry, you can't save the game, but really -- you don't need to. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 129 Floyd | Floyd | > CF2 Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It really won't let us. Even here." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Seems odd for a game to be railroaded to the end, then give you five endings knowing you'll have to replay to experience others." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "What do you want to do?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Unless Floyd has a secret %save and %restore commands." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "%save" | ||
| Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | DavidW says, "I still choose Chris for the wine." | |
| Touchy arrives, full of fun and funk. | Jacqueline says, "Well, I guess I want the smoochies ending, yeah." | |
| Touchy says, "Bonsoir." | ||
| DavidW says (to Touchy), "Just in time to see the end of a game." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah. maga says there's a command that gets you straight from the beginning to the end game, so yeah, go for it." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show wine to chris" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 129
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW WINE TO CHRIS
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bottle of white wine to Chris the Paladin)
Floyd | For some reason, this feels like a significant choice. Any of your
Floyd | friends would like the wine. Are you sure? (Y/N)
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 130 Floyd | Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Well well," whispers Chris. "Quite a score, thief." You arrange to Floyd | meet tonight. Floyd | Floyd | ***Chris the Paladin has joined your party.*** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Type LOGOUT to continue. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "logout" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 131 Floyd | Floyd | > LOGOUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***DISCONNECTED*** Floyd | Floyd | You start smelling the burned Manor from the forest. Guilt and Floyd | excitement compete in your belly as you emerge... Floyd | Floyd | In Front of the Manor Floyd | The ring of brush is blackened. The Manor's roof is caved in, beaten Floyd | to its knees by the firehose water. They must have gotten here quickly Floyd | as there's good chunks of the eastern wing that are mostly intact. Floyd | Floyd | The portico is wrapped in that yellow police tape that you've only Floyd | seen in cop shows. Floyd | Floyd | To the northeast is the coachhouse, tonight's rendezvous spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Coachhouse 132 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Coachhouse Floyd | The double doors are large enough to drive a horse and carriage into, Floyd | but one of them is missing, leaving an entryway to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The small structure seems to have far enough away to have been spared Floyd | the fire. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Coachhouse 132 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Coachhouse Floyd | There's a significant hole in the roof that lets in enough light to Floyd | look around. The moonlight gives everything an unearthly hue. Floyd | Floyd | Chris isn't here. Floyd | Floyd | You look up at the moon through the roof, feeling like a jackass. Floyd | Floyd | When you turn to leave, you see her framed in the doorway, grinning. Floyd | "Had to make sure this wasn't a set up." Floyd | Floyd | She sits down on a wooden crate and pulls tumblers out of her duffel Floyd | bag. She smells them first before sticking them out. "Wine me!" Floyd | Floyd | ***Press any key to continue*** | maga says, "the command is skipthru, but it has to be the very first command you enter" | |
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Coachhouse 132 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Later that night, drunk, she chews you out for not including her in Floyd | your scheme to burn down the Manor. You explain that it wasn't a Floyd | scheme, that you would never not include her in schemes, and she makes Floyd | you pinky promise... and then pinky wrestle, then the kissing, and the Floyd | rubbing, and then the puking puts an end to that. Floyd | Floyd | But it's only the beginning of your scheming together. After a Floyd | particularly successful scheme eight years later, the two of you lie Floyd | in a bed with a view of the Mediterranean, tracing the route of what Floyd | got you there from your... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | by Jim Munroe. Art by Matt Hammill. Sound: Troy Morrissey. Vorple: Floyd | Juhana Leinonen. Floyd | Floyd | Click here to play again. | maga says, "there is a big ASCII art thing saying GUILDED YOUTH there, if 'twas not obvious (see this [LINK])." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh, did I just miss a cool image?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, it was cool" | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask guildedyouth" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***You have connected to THE GUILD BBS*** Type LOGIN to enter the Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "skipthru" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 2 Floyd | Floyd | > SKIPTHRU Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | There are six people around the large table, the guys from yesterday Floyd | plus a couple more. The guy with the strange bangs and suit jacket is Floyd | at the head of the table beside a goth girl who's too beautiful to Floyd | look at directly. The table is laid out beautifully, a candelabra Floyd | melting onto the white tablecloth, chipped plates trimmed with gold. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Paula sits down at an empty chair and seats you beside her. There's no Floyd | plate, but she reaches across the table and wrenches a drumstick from Floyd | the bird. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, gosh. That's not quite the end game." | |
| Jacqueline says, "But close enough, I guess." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push candle" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 2 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH CANDLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push candlabra" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 2 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH CANDLABRA Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Where was the skipthru command mentioned?" | |
| maga says, "Jim made a post on his blog about it" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Could you drive us through to another ending?" | ||
| maga says, "I do not know if it is mentioned anywhere else" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x girl" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 2 Floyd | Floyd | > X GIRL Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the goth girl or the thin tattooed girl? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "goth" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 3 Floyd | Floyd | > GOTH Floyd | Floyd | Black lipstick and eyeshadow is all you get before you have to avert Floyd | your eyes. She's definitely not from your school, or any school that Floyd | you can imagine. Beside her is a dreadlocked guy with a large beard, Floyd | picking his teeth with a bone. Floyd | Floyd | "Um... hi," says the fellow in the suit jacket. Everyone's staring at Floyd | Paula as she gnaws the drumstick, and you will yourself invisible. Floyd | Floyd | She points the drumstick at him and you see a drop of grease fall onto Floyd | the tablecloth. "You stole my idea, Erik. And then you didn't even Floyd | invite me." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tablecloth" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLECLOTH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x thin girl" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X THIN GIRL Floyd | Floyd | Feathered short hair with bird-like nervous movements to match, but Floyd | you don't know if it's Paula-inspired. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, I would say it was our idea," says Erik. Floyd | Floyd | Paula reaches over and takes the closest goblet. Its bespectacled Floyd | owner pretends he doesn't notice. She takes a sip and then spits it Floyd | out, luckily away from you. "A white? With duck, Erik?" Floyd | Floyd | Erik grimaces. "They were out of--" Floyd | Floyd | He stops suddenly, seeing Max in the doorway with a bottle of wine in Floyd | each hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push candles" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH CANDLES Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, sommelier," Paula waves him over, proving herself an Floyd | improvisational genius. Max comes, his eyes stunned, and only squeaks Floyd | a bit as she pulls the dusty bottles from his grasp. Floyd | Floyd | She sets one on the table and reads the label on the other. Max backs Floyd | away towards the door, and then makes a break for it, his backpack Floyd | clinking with other bottles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask erik about manor" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 5 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ERIK ABOUT MANOR Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 6 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Ah -- a pinot noir," she says, uncorking it with surprising ease. Floyd | "That's suitable for duck." Floyd | Floyd | She goes around the table, picking up a goblet still full of wine. Floyd | "What's the point in doing something --" throws the white wine onto Floyd | the floor, "-- if you're not going to go all the way with it?" She Floyd | fills the goblet and bangs it down onto the table, sloshing red, and Floyd | the candelabra sways a bit. The light in the room sways too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wine" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 7 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE WINE Floyd | Floyd | (the bottle of white wine) Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | "The rules are the least interesting part of this," Erik snaps back. Floyd | "You always take things too far." Floyd | Floyd | The dreadlocked man gulps down his white and holds it up for Paula, Floyd | who overfills it. "Whoops, I guess I do. I guess it's why you kicked Floyd | me out of the freak clique, huh?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 8 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Look, Paul," started Erik, his voice tired and sad. "I--" Floyd | Floyd | "It's Paula, you stupid fuck!" She throws the bottle at him, Floyd | and the last thing you see before you leave the room is the candelabra Floyd | falling onto the tablecloth. Floyd | Floyd | In a rush you see the birds on the wallpaper, the front door still Floyd | open, the flattened grass in front of you and before too long, you're Floyd | back in your bedroom. You take off your clothes, trying to decide if Floyd | they smell of smoke or just of guilt. Floyd | Floyd | You're in your bed when the fire sirens start to wail and the flames Floyd | are becoming visible on the Manor. It's sad, but when you consider Floyd | that the Manor was otherwise facing crowbars and rough hands and Floyd | wrecking balls in the morning... better a funeral pyre. Floyd | Floyd | *** Floyd | Floyd | A week, two weeks, three weeks pass. You use your nights for sleeping, Floyd | not sneaking. Your modem neither winks or squeals. And no one in the Floyd | Guild squeals either, since the knock on your door never comes. When Floyd | Ryan tells you something funny Harry said online yesterday, you Floyd | realize -- if even Ryan is sticking his head up -- that the smoke has Floyd | cleared. Floyd | Floyd | You decide to LOGIN again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "login" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 9 Floyd | Floyd | > LOGIN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***WELCOME BACK, TONY THE THIEF*** Floyd | Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge Floyd | You can see Harry the Barbarian, Paula the Mage, Ryan the Bard, Floyd | Maximus the Cleric and Chris the Paladin here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "it was in last week's guardian!" says Harry. Floyd | Floyd | "That free rag? I don't even believe the coupons in the Etobicoke Floyd | Guardian," mocks Paula. Floyd | Floyd | At this verboten talk, Maximus brandishes his staff of banishment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok." | |
| DavidW asks, "Who next wants wine?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm thinking that the cleric would be upset." | ||
| DavidW says, "and yay Canadian content" | ||
| DavidW says, "er, the cleric took the red wine from the manor in the first place" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "There's no way to get the smoochies with gothy Paula, right?" | ||
| DavidW says, "don't know. And I don't know how Tony, the PC, feels about transgenderism." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess that could figure into this." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, I have no pref - do what you will." | ||
| DavidW says, "well, now I'm curious what Paula will say." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give wine to Paula" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 9
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE WINE TO PAULA
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bottle of white wine to Paula the Mage)
Floyd | For some reason, this feels like a significant choice. Any of your
Floyd | friends would like the wine. Are you sure? (Y/N)
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 10 Floyd | Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, wondered what happened to that," Paula whispers. You arrange to Floyd | meet tonight. Floyd | Floyd | ***Paula the Mage has joined your party.*** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Type LOGOUT to continue. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "logout" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 11 Floyd | Floyd | > LOGOUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***DISCONNECTED*** Floyd | Floyd | You start smelling the burned Manor from the forest. Guilt and Floyd | excitement compete in your belly as you emerge... Floyd | Floyd | In Front of the Manor Floyd | The ring of brush is blackened. The Manor's roof is caved in, beaten Floyd | to its knees by the firehose water. They must have gotten here quickly Floyd | as there's good chunks of the eastern wing that are mostly intact. Floyd | Floyd | The portico is wrapped in that yellow police tape that you've only Floyd | seen in cop shows. Floyd | Floyd | To the northeast is the coachhouse, tonight's rendezvous spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Coachhouse 12 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Coachhouse Floyd | The double doors are large enough to drive a horse and carriage into, Floyd | but one of them is missing, leaving an entryway to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The small structure seems to have far enough away to have been spared Floyd | the fire. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Coachhouse 12 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Coachhouse Floyd | There's a significant hole in the roof that lets in enough light to Floyd | look around. The moonlight gives everything an unearthly hue. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Paula the Mage here. Floyd | Floyd | Paula is sitting cross-legged on a wooden crate, looking up at the Floyd | moonlight. She's not wearing her makeup today, and you can get a sense Floyd | of how she looked when she was Paul. Floyd | Floyd | She stretches out her hand for the wine. "Well, c'mon, let's see if it Floyd | was worth burning a house down for." Floyd | Floyd | ***Press any key to continue*** | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Coachhouse 12 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | That night you hear the whole history of the Freak Clique. The Floyd | baffling pyrotechnics you witnessed in the dining room was the tip of Floyd | the iceberg, the final scene in a complex teenaged drama -- a type Floyd | that you never want to star in. Floyd | Floyd | But by the end of the story you decide that Paula is one of the Floyd | weirdest people you've ever met, and so of course she becomes one of Floyd | your best friends. Floyd | Floyd | Twenty years later, she throws you a crazy bachelor party which ends, Floyd | as always, with the two of you in your cups reminiscing about your... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | by Jim Munroe. Art by Matt Hammill. Sound: Troy Morrissey. Vorple: Floyd | Juhana Leinonen. Floyd | Floyd | Click here to play again. | DavidW says, "cool" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, that was good." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Up to you if you want to churn through them all." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, i think I do." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, hrm. I'd kinda like to - timing, good." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push space" | ||
Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Jacqueline says, "This one was unexpected, so now I'd like to see the others." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask guildedyouth" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***You have connected to THE GUILD BBS*** Type LOGIN to enter the Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "skipthru" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 2 Floyd | Floyd | > SKIPTHRU Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | There are six people around the large table, the guys from yesterday Floyd | plus a couple more. The guy with the strange bangs and suit jacket is Floyd | at the head of the table beside a goth girl who's too beautiful to Floyd | look at directly. The table is laid out beautifully, a candelabra Floyd | melting onto the white tablecloth, chipped plates trimmed with gold. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Paula sits down at an empty chair and seats you beside her. There's no Floyd | plate, but she reaches across the table and wrenches a drumstick from Floyd | the bird. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 3 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Um... hi," says the fellow in the suit jacket. Everyone's staring at Floyd | Paula as she gnaws the drumstick, and you will yourself invisible. Floyd | Floyd | She points the drumstick at him and you see a drop of grease fall onto Floyd | the tablecloth. "You stole my idea, Erik. And then you didn't even Floyd | invite me." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 4 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, I would say it was our idea," says Erik. Floyd | Floyd | Paula reaches over and takes the closest goblet. Its bespectacled Floyd | owner pretends he doesn't notice. She takes a sip and then spits it Floyd | out, luckily away from you. "A white? With duck, Erik?" Floyd | Floyd | Erik grimaces. "They were out of--" Floyd | Floyd | He stops suddenly, seeing Max in the doorway with a bottle of wine in Floyd | each hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 5 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, sommelier," Paula waves him over, proving herself an Floyd | improvisational genius. Max comes, his eyes stunned, and only squeaks Floyd | a bit as she pulls the dusty bottles from his grasp. Floyd | Floyd | She sets one on the table and reads the label on the other. Max backs Floyd | away towards the door, and then makes a break for it, his backpack Floyd | clinking with other bottles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 6 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Ah -- a pinot noir," she says, uncorking it with surprising ease. Floyd | "That's suitable for duck." Floyd | Floyd | She goes around the table, picking up a goblet still full of wine. Floyd | "What's the point in doing something --" throws the white wine onto Floyd | the floor, "-- if you're not going to go all the way with it?" She Floyd | fills the goblet and bangs it down onto the table, sloshing red, and Floyd | the candelabra sways a bit. The light in the room sways too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wine" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 7 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE WINE Floyd | Floyd | (the bottle of white wine) Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | "The rules are the least interesting part of this," Erik snaps back. Floyd | "You always take things too far." Floyd | Floyd | The dreadlocked man gulps down his white and holds it up for Paula, Floyd | who overfills it. "Whoops, I guess I do. I guess it's why you kicked Floyd | me out of the freak clique, huh?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push candelabra" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 8 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH CANDELABRA Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | "Look, Paul," started Erik, his voice tired and sad. "I--" Floyd | Floyd | "It's Paula, you stupid fuck!" She throws the bottle at him, Floyd | and the last thing you see before you leave the room is the candelabra Floyd | falling onto the tablecloth. Floyd | Floyd | In a rush you see the birds on the wallpaper, the front door still Floyd | open, the flattened grass in front of you and before too long, you're Floyd | back in your bedroom. You take off your clothes, trying to decide if Floyd | they smell of smoke or just of guilt. Floyd | Floyd | You're in your bed when the fire sirens start to wail and the flames Floyd | are becoming visible on the Manor. It's sad, but when you consider Floyd | that the Manor was otherwise facing crowbars and rough hands and Floyd | wrecking balls in the morning... better a funeral pyre. Floyd | Floyd | *** Floyd | Floyd | A week, two weeks, three weeks pass. You use your nights for sleeping, Floyd | not sneaking. Your modem neither winks or squeals. And no one in the Floyd | Guild squeals either, since the knock on your door never comes. When Floyd | Ryan tells you something funny Harry said online yesterday, you Floyd | realize -- if even Ryan is sticking his head up -- that the smoke has Floyd | cleared. Floyd | Floyd | You decide to LOGIN again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "login" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 9 Floyd | Floyd | > LOGIN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***WELCOME BACK, TONY THE THIEF*** Floyd | Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge Floyd | You can see Harry the Barbarian, Paula the Mage, Ryan the Bard, Floyd | Maximus the Cleric and Chris the Paladin here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "it was in last week's guardian!" says Harry. Floyd | Floyd | "That free rag? I don't even believe the coupons in the Etobicoke Floyd | Guardian," mocks Paula. Floyd | Floyd | At this verboten talk, Maximus brandishes his staff of banishment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Ryan, this time?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Sure" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give wine to ryan" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 9
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE WINE TO RYAN
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bottle of white wine to Ryan the Bard)
Floyd | For some reason, this feels like a significant choice. Any of your
Floyd | friends would like the wine. Are you sure? (Y/N)
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 10 Floyd | Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Wicked!!!! Let's get wasted!" Ryan whispers. You arrange to meet Floyd | tonight in the usual place. Floyd | Floyd | ***Ryan the Bard has joined your party.*** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Type LOGOUT to continue. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "logout" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 11 Floyd | Floyd | > LOGOUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***DISCONNECTED*** Floyd | Floyd | You start smelling the burned Manor from the forest. Guilt and Floyd | excitement compete in your belly as you emerge... Floyd | Floyd | In Front of the Manor Floyd | The ring of brush is blackened. The Manor's roof is caved in, beaten Floyd | to its knees by the firehose water. They must have gotten here quickly Floyd | as there's good chunks of the eastern wing that are mostly intact. Floyd | Floyd | The portico is wrapped in that yellow police tape that you've only Floyd | seen in cop shows. Floyd | Floyd | To the northeast is the coachhouse, tonight's rendezvous spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tape" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 12 Floyd | Floyd | > X TAPE Floyd | Floyd | Makes the Manor look like a set for 21 Jump Street. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "snrk" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 13 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Wisely, your instincts refuse to let you return to the scene of the Floyd | crime. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Coachhouse 14 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Coachhouse Floyd | The double doors are large enough to drive a horse and carriage into, Floyd | but one of them is missing, leaving an entryway to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The small structure seems to have far enough away to have been spared Floyd | the fire. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Coachhouse 14 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Coachhouse Floyd | There's a significant hole in the roof that lets in enough light to Floyd | look around. The moonlight gives everything an unearthly hue. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Ryan the Bard here. Floyd | Floyd | Ryan jumps a bit as he sees you. You lift the bottle of wine. "Nice! I Floyd | got some jungle juice to put us over the top," he says, pulling a soda Floyd | bottle out. "And some pretzels!" Floyd | Floyd | You hunker down on the floor and start to work on the cork. Floyd | Floyd | ***Press any key to continue*** | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Coachhouse 14 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | That night you develop a lifetime hatred of gin and a renewed faith in Floyd | your friendship with Ryan. At school he'd become a bit evasive lately, Floyd | but you find out how hard he's trying to fit in. It's something you Floyd | don't care about, but it explains why he acts so weird in class Floyd | sometimes. Floyd | Floyd | Ten years later you're on tour together and in a convenience store in Floyd | Detroit. Ryan finds a bottle of the same stuff. You lift it & some Floyd | pretzels and drink it in a squat later that night, laughing about Floyd | your.... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | by Jim Munroe. Art by Matt Hammill. Sound: Troy Morrissey. Vorple: Floyd | Juhana Leinonen. Floyd | Floyd | Click here to play again. | DavidW asks, "read for another run?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Sure." | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask guildedyouth" | Jacqueline says, "I see we're a life long kelpto pretty much regardless." | |
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***You have connected to THE GUILD BBS*** Type LOGIN to enter the Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "skipthru" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 2 Floyd | Floyd | > SKIPTHRU Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | There are six people around the large table, the guys from yesterday Floyd | plus a couple more. The guy with the strange bangs and suit jacket is Floyd | at the head of the table beside a goth girl who's too beautiful to Floyd | look at directly. The table is laid out beautifully, a candelabra Floyd | melting onto the white tablecloth, chipped plates trimmed with gold. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Paula sits down at an empty chair and seats you beside her. There's no Floyd | plate, but she reaches across the table and wrenches a drumstick from Floyd | the bird. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 3 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Um... hi," says the fellow in the suit jacket. Everyone's staring at Floyd | Paula as she gnaws the drumstick, and you will yourself invisible. Floyd | Floyd | She points the drumstick at him and you see a drop of grease fall onto Floyd | the tablecloth. "You stole my idea, Erik. And then you didn't even Floyd | invite me." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 4 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, I would say it was our idea," says Erik. Floyd | Floyd | Paula reaches over and takes the closest goblet. Its bespectacled Floyd | owner pretends he doesn't notice. She takes a sip and then spits it Floyd | out, luckily away from you. "A white? With duck, Erik?" Floyd | Floyd | Erik grimaces. "They were out of--" Floyd | Floyd | He stops suddenly, seeing Max in the doorway with a bottle of wine in Floyd | each hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 5 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, sommelier," Paula waves him over, proving herself an Floyd | improvisational genius. Max comes, his eyes stunned, and only squeaks Floyd | a bit as she pulls the dusty bottles from his grasp. Floyd | Floyd | She sets one on the table and reads the label on the other. Max backs Floyd | away towards the door, and then makes a break for it, his backpack Floyd | clinking with other bottles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 6 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | (the bottle of white wine) Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | "Ah -- a pinot noir," she says, uncorking it with surprising ease. Floyd | "That's suitable for duck." Floyd | Floyd | She goes around the table, picking up a goblet still full of wine. Floyd | "What's the point in doing something --" throws the white wine onto Floyd | the floor, "-- if you're not going to go all the way with it?" She Floyd | fills the goblet and bangs it down onto the table, sloshing red, and Floyd | the candelabra sways a bit. The light in the room sways too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 7 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "The rules are the least interesting part of this," Erik snaps back. Floyd | "You always take things too far." Floyd | Floyd | The dreadlocked man gulps down his white and holds it up for Paula, Floyd | who overfills it. "Whoops, I guess I do. I guess it's why you kicked Floyd | me out of the freak clique, huh?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 8 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Look, Paul," started Erik, his voice tired and sad. "I--" Floyd | Floyd | "It's Paula, you stupid fuck!" She throws the bottle at him, Floyd | and the last thing you see before you leave the room is the candelabra Floyd | falling onto the tablecloth. Floyd | Floyd | In a rush you see the birds on the wallpaper, the front door still Floyd | open, the flattened grass in front of you and before too long, you're Floyd | back in your bedroom. You take off your clothes, trying to decide if Floyd | they smell of smoke or just of guilt. Floyd | Floyd | You're in your bed when the fire sirens start to wail and the flames Floyd | are becoming visible on the Manor. It's sad, but when you consider Floyd | that the Manor was otherwise facing crowbars and rough hands and Floyd | wrecking balls in the morning... better a funeral pyre. Floyd | Floyd | *** Floyd | Floyd | A week, two weeks, three weeks pass. You use your nights for sleeping, Floyd | not sneaking. Your modem neither winks or squeals. And no one in the Floyd | Guild squeals either, since the knock on your door never comes. When Floyd | Ryan tells you something funny Harry said online yesterday, you Floyd | realize -- if even Ryan is sticking his head up -- that the smoke has Floyd | cleared. Floyd | Floyd | You decide to LOGIN again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "login" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 9 Floyd | Floyd | > LOGIN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***WELCOME BACK, TONY THE THIEF*** Floyd | Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge Floyd | You can see Harry the Barbarian, Paula the Mage, Ryan the Bard, Floyd | Maximus the Cleric and Chris the Paladin here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "it was in last week's guardian!" says Harry. Floyd | Floyd | "That free rag? I don't even believe the coupons in the Etobicoke Floyd | Guardian," mocks Paula. Floyd | Floyd | At this verboten talk, Maximus brandishes his staff of banishment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give wine to harry" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 10 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE WINE TO HARRY Floyd | Floyd | (the bottle of white wine to Harry the Barbarian) Floyd | You're about to when Harry opens his big mouth again. Floyd | Floyd | "Here: COPS DON'T SUSPECT ARSON" says Harry. Floyd | Floyd | Maximus lifts his staff and Harry vanishes. Floyd | Floyd | Paula rolls her eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "Long time no see" says Chris. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x harry" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 10 Floyd | Floyd | > X HARRY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give wine to maximus" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 10
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE WINE TO MAXIMUS
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bottle of white wine to Maximus the Cleric)
Floyd | For some reason, this feels like a significant choice. Any of your
Floyd | friends would like the wine. Are you sure? (Y/N)
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Lounge 11 Floyd | Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Splendid! I presumed that lost in the... accident," whispers Maximus. Floyd | You arrange to meet tonight. Floyd | Floyd | ***Maximus the Cleric has joined your party.*** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Type LOGOUT to continue. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "logout" | ||
Floyd ] In Front of the Manor 12 Floyd | Floyd | > LOGOUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***DISCONNECTED*** Floyd | Floyd | You start smelling the burned Manor from the forest. Guilt and Floyd | excitement compete in your belly as you emerge... Floyd | Floyd | In Front of the Manor Floyd | The ring of brush is blackened. The Manor's roof is caved in, beaten Floyd | to its knees by the firehose water. They must have gotten here quickly Floyd | as there's good chunks of the eastern wing that are mostly intact. Floyd | Floyd | The portico is wrapped in that yellow police tape that you've only Floyd | seen in cop shows. Floyd | Floyd | To the northeast is the coachhouse, tonight's rendezvous spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Coachhouse 13 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Coachhouse Floyd | The double doors are large enough to drive a horse and carriage into, Floyd | but one of them is missing, leaving an entryway to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The small structure seems to have far enough away to have been spared Floyd | the fire. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Coachhouse 13 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Coachhouse Floyd | There's a significant hole in the roof that lets in enough light to Floyd | look around. The moonlight gives everything an unearthly hue. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Maximus the Cleric here. Floyd | Floyd | Maximus is reading a book that he puts away when you arrive. You Floyd | recognize it from the cover art. "Looking forward to the second Floyd | edition?" Floyd | Floyd | Maximus' nostrils flare. "Actually, I'm not." He raps the book inside Floyd | his backpack. "The Dungeon Masters Guide is pretty much the definitive Floyd | edition. It's held me well for a decade, and I have no intention of Floyd | changing." Floyd | Floyd | You nod soberly and show him the wine. "Ah," he says, taking out a Floyd | satchel and removing some money from it. He gives you eight dollars. Floyd | "10% of the anticipated retail value," he says. He puts it in his Floyd | backpack, nods to you, and leaves the coachhouse. Floyd | Floyd | You can't decide if you're disappointed or relieved not to be drinking Floyd | with Maximus. Floyd | Floyd | ***Press any key to continue*** | DavidW says, "uh" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Ha" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "PSYCH" | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Coachhouse 13 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Five years later, you're on campus going between classes. You see Floyd | Maximus walking towards you, earnestly talking to a guy your age about Floyd | something called a hedge fund. He sees you seeing him, but he averts Floyd | his eyes, and soon the two of them disappear into the School of Floyd | Business. You check the wallet you snagged on the way by and confirm Floyd | that it's him. It's funny, because of all of you, he seemed most Floyd | likely to be a lifer... but it seems that Maximus the Cleric now Floyd | disavows your... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | by Jim Munroe. Art by Matt Hammill. Sound: Troy Morrissey. Vorple: Floyd | Juhana Leinonen. Floyd | Floyd | Click here to play again. | maga says, "the moral here is that 1st edition loyalists are assholes" | |
| Jacqueline says, "snrk" | ||
| DavidW says, "Casually stole his wallet? Geez." | ||
| Zach says, "That's for only giving us 10% of the retail value" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Maybe now we have the other $70!" | ||
| DavidW says, "so is that it, then? Harry disappears before we can offer him any wine." | ||
| Zach says, "I didn't realize there was a version 2.0. I'm glad I got to see the endings." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Hm. Is that everyone?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess it is." | ||
| DavidW asks, "yes, except for Harry, who leaves. Unless he comes back?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, this was great. I'm glad we tried it, when originally we'd written it off as not playable on Floyd." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Hm, possible, I guess, but seems unlikely." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "er, yeah glad we tried it, I mean" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Do you want to try it, or do you just want to discuss what we should play next time?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Won't we play whatever's the next placing game at IF Comp 2012?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, we can, sure." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We could keep going through these until January 6th, which is the date we're slated to play the New Year's Speeds." | ||
| maga says, "which would be Sunday Afternoon" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That'd make things easy on me." | ||
| maga says, "easy enough to drop Miseri a line" | ||
| DavidW says, "Didn't play Sunday Afternoon, so sure." | ||
| Zach says, "Sounds good" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. Thassawrap then, folks. See you next week." | ||
| DavidW says, "'k. yay." | ||
