ClubFloyd Transcript:
Sunday Afternoon by Christopher Huang as "Virgil Hilts"
As played on ifMUD on December 16, 2012

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

Below is a transcript of Sunday Afternoon written by Christopher Huang as "Virgil Hilts". Sunday Afternoon was released as part of the 2012 Interactive Fiction Competition, in which it took fifth place. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.


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


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Jacqueline hollers, "So, um, I'm throwing a party in the Toyshop and you all were invited but I'm the only one here. Well, me and Perry. I guess we'll play Christopher Huang's Sunday Afternoon by ourselves. [This message has been brought to you by PassiveAgressiveNotes.com]"
Zach arrives, full of fun and funk.
inky arrives, full of fun and funk. inky says, "ha ha"
djfletch arrives, full of funk, but no fun. djfletch says, "another victory for passive aggression"
Bert arrives, ready to play with the toys.
Bert says, "Fine, fine." Jacqueline says, "Yay"
Jacqueline says, "Hm. I was hoping Mis would be here. I guess he'll probably show up at some point."
Bert exclaims, "I'm here, but I'm promising you I don't plan to like it!"
Jacqueline says (to Bert), "Fine, fine." Jacqueline says, "So, I guess we should do this, then."
maga arrives, full of fun, but no funk.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask sundayafternoon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | July, 1892.
Floyd |
Floyd | Father is off to Oxford again, and Mother's gone with him.  You know
Floyd | what that means: another day in the care of Uncle Stephen, who is nice
Floyd | but boring, and Aunt Emma, who means well but won't let you do
Floyd | anything fun.  Worst of all, it's a Sunday, which means you're sitting
Floyd | very upright in Aunt Emma's parlour, in all your stiff-starched Sunday
Floyd | best, trying to read Uncle Stephen's latest sermon about one of the
Floyd | less-interesting parts of the Bible while Aunt Emma pretends that she
Floyd | wouldn't rather be knitting and Uncle Stephen hides under a pile of
Floyd | Hebrew and Latin and Greek in his study.
Floyd |
Floyd | Plus, it's gloriously sunny outside, and you can smell the grass from
Floyd | in here.  It's just not fair.  All the servants have the day off
Floyd | because Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma don't believe in making people do
Floyd | any real work on Sundays, and you can bet that they -- Janet and
Floyd | Morris and Cookie, each of whom is loads more fun than Uncle Stephen
Floyd | and Aunt Emma put together -- are probably not all cooped up indoors
Floyd | in their Sunday best.
Floyd |
Floyd | If only there were some way you could escape....
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | (Type "HELP" for further information, instructions or hints)
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunday Afternoon
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Christopher Huang (originally writing as
Floyd | "Virgil Hilts")
Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 121213 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x victoria"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X VICTORIA
Floyd |
Floyd | Mother has a portrait just like this back home, hung in exactly the
Floyd | same place over the parlour fireplace.  Everybody you know has the
Floyd | same.  You reckon that anyone who doesn't must be a spy, a heretic, a
Floyd | foreigner, or worse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "Tangentially: what's 'sleepmask'?"
maga says, "I wonder how one reads the Bible dutilessly"
Jacqueline says (to Bert), "It's the thing that gives us html formatting and the status line."
Jacqueline says, "It's a thing vimes created."
Bert says (to maga), "Someone who's just going over Song of Solomon."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x Bible"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma's had the same Bible for as long as you've known her.  How
Floyd | she manages to keep it from getting dog-eared, given how often she
Floyd | reads it, you do not know.  Aunt Emma has it open on her lap, and you
Floyd | notice that she's using Janet's master key to mark her place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says, "'going for the dirty bits' was my first thought, yes"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x key"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | The master key is usually carried by the servants, which seems a
Floyd | little ironic.  But then it's the servants who need to get into every
Floyd | nook and cranny of the house, from attic to coal cellar; normal people
Floyd | only need to get into the civilised living spaces.  Since the servants
Floyd | today are out, it's been handed over to Aunt Emma ... which still
Floyd | seems a little ironic, since she's the mistress of the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma is Uncle Stephen's sister, one of those maiden aunts who
Floyd | always ends up chaperoning people around; which, as you understand it,
Floyd | means it's her job to make sure people don't have any fun.  You know
Floyd | she means well, really, but she takes her job much too seriously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x fireplace"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | The fireplace is cold this time of the year, just as it should be.
Floyd | The mantel above is, as usual, burgeoning with a million little
Floyd | ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x mantel"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MANTEL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs.  Every time you
Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more
Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it
Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Among the many souvenirs of ancient history, you spot a duelling
Floyd | pistol.  That doesn't look like the sort of thing boring people like
Floyd | Aunt Emma or Uncle Stephen (or, let's face it, anyone in your whole
Floyd | family) are likely to keep around the house!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x pistol"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PISTOL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a little chipped and battered, which means that it's been used,
Floyd | which is even more surprising because you really cannot picture Uncle
Floyd | Stephen handling a pistol without sermonising about it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about pistol"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT PISTOL
Floyd |
Floyd | "That used to belong to an old friend.  I don't normally hold with
Floyd | duelling, but he was a very dear friend and ... you really should get
Floyd | back to your reading, Hector."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about friend"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FRIEND
Floyd |
Floyd | "You are referring to a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt
Floyd | Emma, not looking at you.  "He got a commission with the army and went
Floyd | to India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector.  I hope and
Floyd | pray that you never have to see it."  Well, perhaps, but it would be
Floyd | really exciting....
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about war"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT WAR
Floyd |
Floyd | "That," says Aunt Emma firmly, "is thankfully something about which I
Floyd | know absolutely nothing."
Floyd |
Floyd | Your family is so boring.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about india"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT INDIA
Floyd |
Floyd | "I much prefer to stay in England, thank you very much.  Strange lands
Floyd | like India are for wanderers with more courage than sense."  Aunt Emma
Floyd | pauses.  "Well, courage ... it's a very fine thing, I suppose...."
Floyd |
Floyd | You're sure you hear Aunt Emma say something about "dear old Captain
Floyd | Davis..." as she turns back to her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about davis"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT DAVIS
Floyd |
Floyd | "Captain Davis was a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt Emma,
Floyd | not looking at you.  "He got a commission with the army and went to
Floyd | India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector.  I hope and pray
Floyd | that you never have to see it."  Well, perhaps, but it would be really
Floyd | exciting....
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "(Am I overcontrolling?)"
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask emma about bible"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "(No, it's fine. Please keep doing it.)"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x armchair"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ARMCHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | Give Aunt Emma due credit: she did make sure you always got the most
Floyd | comfortable armchair in the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You've been thoroughly scrubbed and ironed and starched into your
Floyd | least comfortable set of clothes.  One day, when you are either Prime
Floyd | Minister or Archbishop of Canterbury -- depending on whether you
Floyd | listen to Mother or Father -- you're going to outlaw starch or declare
Floyd | it anathema or both.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | From here, you can see the lawn and the woods and the distant  spires
Floyd | of the cathedral.  The sun is shining and you know that the woods are
Floyd | just bursting with interesting things to discover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I guess I see what maga means about knowing nearly immediately that this was a Miseri game."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x cathedral"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CATHEDRAL
Floyd |
Floyd | Barchester Cathedral is just visible beyond the woods.  You can't make
Floyd | out the details, but you know it's all very grand and impressive, at
Floyd | least to someone who isn't made to go there quite as regularly as you
Floyd | are.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Heh. Indeed."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sun"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SUN
Floyd |
Floyd | Why are you still indoors?  Why?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x woods"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WOODS
Floyd |
Floyd | The woods look incredibly enticing this time of the year.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   Uncle Stephen's latest sermon
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sermon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have picked 1 Chronicles 6:1-15 as the topic of
Floyd | his sermon.  Oh dear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "read it"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Believe it or not, the part where Uncle Stephen expounds upon the
Floyd | chosen passage is even less interesting than the passage itself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about sermon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | "If you're having trouble with it, bring it here and show it to me,
Floyd | and I'll explain it as best I can," says Aunt Emma kindly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show sermon to emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW SERMON TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma tries to explain the sermon to you.  Her rather confused and
Floyd | unintelligible rambling fails to make it any more interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky | [LINK]
Bert says, "Oh, man. I was thinking to myself 'at least it's not the begats', and then I looked it up."
Zach says, "heh"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about levi"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT LEVI
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh dear."
inky says (to Floyd), "put sermon on mantel"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SERMON ON MANTEL
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no room.  There's never any room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open window"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "break window"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > BREAK WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.  Also, Uncle Stephen would tan
Floyd | your hide.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "swear"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWEAR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask Emma where baby Bible characters come from"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA WHERE BABY BIBLE CHARACTERS COME FROM
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "go find a nice girl and do some begetting"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GO FIND A NICE GIRL AND DO SOME BEGETTING
Floyd |
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give sermon to emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE SERMON TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | You show Uncle Stephen's latest sermon to Aunt Emma.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma tries to explain the sermon to you.  Her rather confused and
Floyd | unintelligible rambling fails to make it any more interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask emma about key"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | "Someone has to take care of supper while the servants are away,
Floyd | Hector."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Convenient that it's a master key."
Bert says (to Floyd), "get portrait"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PORTRAIT
Floyd |
Floyd | The portrait is out of reach.  Besides, that would probably be
Floyd | lèse-majesté, which you just learned about last Spring in
Floyd | your French lessons.  You would never want to visit a French crime on
Floyd | your English queen.  That would be wrong.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get key"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be
Floyd | the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "look behind portrait"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PORTRAIT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma for key"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA FOR KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but that is clearly not the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something among the ornaments on the mantel catches the light, and
Floyd | gleams momentarily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get pistol"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PISTOL
Floyd |
Floyd | If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having the whole lot
Floyd | come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too young to die.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your
Floyd | place.  Or keeps you there, at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter fireplace"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll only get yourself covered in soot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your
Floyd | place.  Or keeps you there, at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "tell emma about three-headed monkey"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TELL EMMA ABOUT THREE-HEADED MONKEY
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about uncle"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT UNCLE
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your uncle is a busy man, Hector.  He does not wish to be disturbed."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about me"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not so vain that you need Aunt Emma to tell you what a good boy
Floyd | you are; nor do you care to hear about how you should have washed
Floyd | behind your ears this morning, or some such nonsense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heehee"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ears"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X EARS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x gleam"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GLEAM
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read sermon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | Believe it or not, the part where Uncle Stephen expounds upon the
Floyd | chosen passage is even less interesting than the passage itself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel is a duelling pistol, half hidden in a crowd of other
Floyd | little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bored, you glance up at the mantel and wonder what Aunt Emma could
Floyd | have added to it since your last visit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "read bible"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | It would be rude to go meddling with something while someone else is
Floyd | still holding on to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma for bible"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA FOR BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but that is clearly not the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "stand"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAND
Floyd |
Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your
Floyd | place.  Or keeps you there, at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about foreset"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FORESET
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about forest"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FOREST
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "search armchair"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH ARMCHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | The armchair is empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x chair"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | Give Aunt Emma due credit: she did make sure you always got the most
Floyd | comfortable armchair in the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > XYZZY
Floyd |
Floyd | "What?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
Bert pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | Getting the other fellows to join in on this story-telling lark seemed
Floyd | like a good idea at the time.  It was better than yet another game of
Floyd | cards, anyway, and it rather took the mind off who is or is not going
Floyd | to be at mess in the morning.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Somewhere In Flanders
Floyd | It's a little terrifying how accustomed you've gotten to this muddy,
Floyd | grimy hell-hole.  You could probably find your way back here in the
Floyd | dark, crawling blind through a maze of twisty trenches, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Anderson, Jellicoe, Hardy and Macdougal here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Everyone is staring at Macdougal, who begins to turn a bright red.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What on earth is that supposed to mean?" barks Anderson at the
Floyd | hapless fellow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x macdougal"
Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MACDOUGAL
Floyd |
Floyd | Macdougal joined the battalion only a month ago, thanks to the
Floyd | Military Service Act of January last.  Just think, when you were his
Floyd | age, Edward VII was just clambering up onto the throne.  Anderson
Floyd | probably picked him for his batman out of pity.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Magic words," says Macdougal, looking to you in appeal.  "It's
Floyd | standard operating procedure in these games, isn't it?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I've never heard that one before in my life," you declare.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "This is from Xyzzying?"
Bert says, "Yeah."
Jacqueline says, "Nice."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | Your uniform was beautifully starched and crisp when you first left
Floyd | England two years ago.  You thought you'd be back (for good, not on
Floyd | leave) before the starch had quite softened on your collar.  And now
Floyd | look at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jellicoe lets out a snort of exasperation.  "Really," he drawls.
Floyd | "Magic.  What nonsense.  I'm surprised at you, Macdougal, although
Floyd | goodness knows what they're teaching you in school these days."
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'd suggest we just get on with it, wouldn't you?" says Hardy, and
Floyd | Anderson nods in agreement.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
Bert pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel is a duelling pistol, half hidden in a crowd of other
Floyd | little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | Goodness.  What on earth was that?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter fireplace"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll only get yourself covered in soot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x soot"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SOOT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Tsk."
Jacqueline says, "heh"
inky says, "you can't see any such thing, without climbing into the fireplace"
Jacqueline says, "Yeah, he's only obsessively implemented every other thing you've asked for."
Jacqueline exclaims (at inky), "True!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about bathroom"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BATHROOM
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Jacq), "Hee."
Bert exclaims (at Jacq), "*He's* the one who brought up the soot, not me!"
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "plover"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLOVER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't depend on magic to get you out of this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You've been thoroughly scrubbed and ironed and starched into your
Floyd | least comfortable set of clothes.  One day, when you are either Prime
Floyd | Minister or Archbishop of Canterbury -- depending on whether you
Floyd | listen to Mother or Father -- you're going to outlaw starch or declare
Floyd | it anathema or both.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "AW"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x clothes"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CLOTHES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "plugh"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLUGH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't depend on magic to get you out of this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "xyxxy"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > XYXXY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "this is a starchy game"
Bert says (to Floyd), "hide"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > HIDE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > XYZZY
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't depend on magic to get you out of this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about dinner"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT DINNER
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about supper"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SUPPER
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Okay, just the one time. Still, very lovely touch."
Bert says (to Floyd), "sing lullabye"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SING LULLABYE
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to sing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about pistol"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT PISTOL
Floyd |
Floyd | "That used to belong to Captain Davis.  I don't normally hold with
Floyd | duelling, but he was a very dear friend and ... you really should get
Floyd | back to your reading, Hector."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about reading"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT READING
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about davis"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT DAVIS
Floyd |
Floyd | "Captain Davis was a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt Emma,
Floyd | not looking at you.  "He got a commission with the army and went to
Floyd | India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector.  I hope and pray
Floyd | that you never have to see it."  Well, perhaps, but it would be really
Floyd | exciting....
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about commission"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT COMMISSION
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about england"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ENGLAND
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "get pistol"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PISTOL
Floyd |
Floyd | If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having the whole lot
Floyd | come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too young to die.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about courage"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT COURAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | "That is a virtue you would do well to cultivate, but there is such a
Floyd | thing as too much of a good thing."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about virtue"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT VIRTUE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Aunt Emma has nothing interesting to say about anything."
inky says (to Floyd), "feel chair"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FEEL CHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "look under chair"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER CHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "read bible"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | It would be rude to go meddling with something while someone else is
Floyd | still holding on to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get bible"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be
Floyd | the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "But she is, afterall, boring."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "emma, give bible"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > EMMA, GIVE BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | (to Aunt Emma)
Floyd | Aunt Emma has better things to do.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "emma, give bible to me"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > EMMA, GIVE BIBLE TO ME
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma has better things to do.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "I bet Uncle Stephen would tell us the story about Captain Davis, if we could find him."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "escape"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ESCAPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Yes, but how?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "ha"
Bert says, "It seems like we either want to make Emma stop paying attention to us, or to make her think we're done reading the sermon."
Jacqueline says, "yeah"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "tell emma about sermon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TELL EMMA ABOUT SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | "If you're having trouble with it, bring it here and show it to me,
Floyd | and I'll explain it as best I can," says Aunt Emma kindly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show sermon to emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW SERMON TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma tries to explain the sermon to you.  Her rather confused and
Floyd | unintelligible rambling fails to make it any more interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kill emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.  Also, Uncle Stephen would tan
Floyd | your hide.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "snrk"
Bert says (to Floyd), "study sermon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > STUDY SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "finish sermon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FINISH SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "eat sermon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | That's plainly inedible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put sermon in fireplace"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SERMON IN FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great outdoors.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide sermon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > HIDE SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open window"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "break window"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > BREAK WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.  Also, Uncle Stephen would tan
Floyd | your hide.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put sermon in fireplace"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SERMON IN FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great outdoors.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "tell emma about sermon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TELL EMMA ABOUT SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | "If you're having trouble with it, bring it here and show it to me,
Floyd | and I'll explain it as best I can," says Aunt Emma kindly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "So, since that doesn't really seem to be leading anywhere, how can we either distract her or make her go away?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about servants"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SERVANTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about stephen"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your uncle is a busy man, Hector.  He does not wish to be disturbed."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sleep"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | No!  You want to play!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "I bet he does wish to be disturbed."
Bert says (to Floyd), "play"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get up"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET UP
Floyd |
Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your
Floyd | place.  Or keeps you there, at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about kitch"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT KITCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about kitchen"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT KITCHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the kitchen fireplace or the kitchen door?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "door"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about kitchen fireplace"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT KITCHEN FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | From here, you can see the lawn and the woods and the distant  spires
Floyd | of the cathedral.  The sun is shining and you know that the woods are
Floyd | just bursting with interesting things to discover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shout fire"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOUT FIRE
Floyd |
Floyd | (to Aunt Emma)
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about cathedral"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT CATHEDRAL
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about mail"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT MAIL
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   Uncle Stephen's latest sermon
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "drop sermon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your
Floyd | place.  Or keeps you there, at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "She wouldn't even have anything interesting to say about herself? Golly, Victorian women."
Bert says, "Well, that's it. We're going to spend the rest of our natural life in this chair."
Jacqueline says, "Aie."
Bert says, "Or at least the rest of Aunt Emma's natural life."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about victoria"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT VICTORIA
Floyd |
Floyd | "She's our Queen, and on the whole she has been a far better ruler
Floyd | than some of the monarchs in our history."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Hm, true. She'll probably die first."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about monarchs"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT MONARCHS
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about history"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT HISTORY
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about bible"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "So, I am trying to tell myself that I don't desperately want a hint."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about hint"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT HINT
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I'm not really succeeding."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hint"
Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough
Bert says, "Oh, yeah, 'help' was supposed to have more general info/instructions, I think. Not just hints."
Bert says (to Floyd), "So let's read that rather than hints."
Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough
Bert says, "So let's read that rather than hints."
Jacqueline says, "Well, I'm fine with holding off if others want to, but I'm also --- okay."
Bert says (to Floyd), "q"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel is a duelling pistol, half hidden in a crowd of other
Floyd | little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "help"
Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough
Bert says, "Which, of course, is the same menu."
Bert presses the yellow enter button.
Floyd ]                              Credits
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | CREDITS
Floyd |
Floyd | Thanks go, of course, to Graham Nelson and Emily Short for their work
Floyd | on the Inform7 language.  Thanks also to my beta-testers: Doug Jones,
Floyd | Adri, Andy Joel and Andrew Schultz.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
Bert pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |  > About the author
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough
Bert presses the yellow enter button.
Floyd ]                          About the author
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Christopher Huang is an architectural technician (which is a fancy way
Floyd | of saying "Draughtsman" or "CADmonkey") based in Montreal.  He is
Floyd | perhaps a little overly influenced by the Barsetshire novels written
Floyd | by Anthony Trollope, and "Sunday Afternoon" may be said to take place
Floyd | within that universe.  In spite of this, the author is not himself a
Floyd | member of the Church of England.
Floyd |
Floyd | The author can be reached by e-mail at mise@ricordius.com.
Floyd | Alternatively, one might try hunting him down on IFmud
Floyd | ([LINK]) where he goes by the name of Miseri.  In
Floyd | either case, he promises not to speak of himself in the third person;
Floyd | truth be told, it is rather a tiresome business.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
Bert pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |  > About the author
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |  > Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough
Bert presses the yellow enter button.
Floyd ]                       Instructions for Play
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Last Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > About Interactive Fiction
Floyd |    What to do with >
Floyd |    Getting Started
Floyd |    Rooms and Travel
Floyd |    Interacting with Other People
Floyd |    Objects
Floyd |    Controlling the Game
Floyd |    How the World is Assembled
Floyd |    If You Get Stuck
Bert says, "Oh."
Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Standard stuff, it would appear."
Bert says, "I guess nothing specific to this game."
Bert says (to Floyd), "p"
Floyd ]                       Instructions for Play
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Last Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > About Interactive Fiction
Floyd |    What to do with >
Floyd |    Getting Started
Floyd |    Rooms and Travel
Floyd |    Interacting with Other People
Floyd |    Objects
Floyd |    Controlling the Game
Floyd |    How the World is Assembled
Floyd |    If You Get Stuck
Bert says (to Floyd), "n n n n n n n"
Floyd ]                       Instructions for Play
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Last Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    About Interactive Fiction
Floyd |  > What to do with >
Floyd |    Getting Started
Floyd |    Rooms and Travel
Floyd |    Interacting with Other People
Floyd |    Objects
Floyd |    Controlling the Game
Floyd |    How the World is Assembled
Floyd |    If You Get Stuck
Bert says (to Floyd), "q"
Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |  > Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough
Bert says, "Hrm."
Bert says (to Floyd), "q"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel is a duelling pistol, half hidden in a crowd of other
Floyd | little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma is Uncle Stephen's sister, one of those maiden aunts who
Floyd | always ends up chaperoning people around; which, as you understand it,
Floyd | means it's her job to make sure people don't have any fun.  You know
Floyd | she means well, really, but she takes her job much too seriously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "emma, x window"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > EMMA, X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma has better things to do.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x bible"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma's had the same Bible for as long as you've known her.  How
Floyd | she manages to keep it from getting dog-eared, given how often she
Floyd | reads it, you do not know.  Aunt Emma has it open on her lap, and you
Floyd | notice that she's using Janet's master key to mark her place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about bible"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about key"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | "Someone has to take care of supper while the servants are away,
Floyd | Hector."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about supper"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SUPPER
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about servants"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SERVANTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about janet"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT JANET
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take key"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be
Floyd | the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "OK, I give up."
Bert says, "Hint away."
Jacqueline says, "So, we can ask maga, or we can consult the game."
Jacqueline asks, "Which do we want to do?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask maga for very general, vague hint"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK MAGA FOR VERY GENERAL, VAGUE HINT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "f OKAY"
Jacqueline says, "oops"
maga says, "you might perhaps pay more attention to the mantelpiece"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bobbles"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOBBLES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "er"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x mantle"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MANTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs.  Every time you
Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more
Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it
Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel is a duelling pistol, half hidden in a crowd of other
Floyd | little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunlight glints off a glass unicorn.  Now that's more the sort of
Floyd | pointless ornament you'd expect to find in Aunt Emma's collection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x baubbles"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BAUBBLES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "tf x unicorn"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TF X UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x baubles"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BAUBLES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x unicorn"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a unicorn, made of glass, rearing up on its hind legs.  Its horn
Floyd | appears to have been broken off once upon a time, though it's been
Floyd | glued back on since.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Huh, I don't remember that being mentioned before."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x horn"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]       Tom:
Floyd ]       ...Adventure and change were imminent in this year.
Floyd ]       They were waiting around the corner for all these kids.
Floyd ]       Suspended in the mist over Berchtesgaden, caught in the
Floyd ]       folds of Chamberlain's umbrella. In Spain there was
Floyd ]       Guernica!  But here there was only hot swing music and
Floyd ]       liquor....
Floyd ]
Floyd ]       - Tennessee Williams, 'The Glass Menagerie'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HORN
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a unicorn, made of glass, rearing up on its hind legs.  Its horn
Floyd | appears to have been broken off once upon a time, though it's been
Floyd | glued back on since.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky asks, "does it just show up randomly when you describe it?"
Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button.
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | I beg your pardon?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "ask aunt about unicon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK AUNT ABOUT UNICON
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "ask aunt about unicorn"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK AUNT ABOUT UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | "That used to be part of a much larger glass menagerie," says Aunt
Floyd | Emma, "but, well, the less said about that the better."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "imagine unicorn"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > IMAGINE UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "get unicorn"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having the whole lot
Floyd | come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too young to die.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about unicorn"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK ABOUT UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "nudge unicorn"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > NUDGE UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Bert says (to Floyd), "touch unicorn"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TOUCH UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]                           Cogito ergo sum
Floyd ]
Floyd ]                           - René Descartes
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | You are.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about unicorn"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | "That used to be part of a much larger glass menagerie," says Aunt
Floyd | Emma, "but, well, the less said about that the better."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "oh dear"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about menagerie"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT MENAGERIE
Floyd |
Floyd | "There is nothing interesting to tell there," says Aunt Emma.  "The
Floyd | other pieces have gotten either lost or broken over the years, and
Floyd | that unicorn is the last of the lot."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma for unicorn"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA FOR UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but that is clearly not the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma why Noah let the unicorns die in the flood"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA WHY NOAH LET THE UNICORNS DIE IN THE FLOOD
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | You spot a statuette of a black falcon in the midst of all the
Floyd | clutter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x falcon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FALCON
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a black bird.  How boring.  Why anyone would want something like
Floyd | this, you do not know.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get falcon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET FALCON
Floyd |
Floyd | If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having the whole lot
Floyd | come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too young to die.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about falcon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FALCON
Floyd |
Floyd | "Captain Davis picked that up years ago when he was in Malta, and
Floyd | brought it back as present."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about malta"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT MALTA
Floyd |
Floyd | "I've never been there, but I've heard that it's quite fascinating."
Floyd | Aunt Emma recounts a few vague memories of stories told to her years
Floyd | and years ago, when the earth was young.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about stories"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT STORIES
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Here's something that's not so bad: a painting of a ship sailing into
Floyd | the sunrise.  Or sunset.  One of the two.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ship"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHIP
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather fantastic-looking ship, with a dragon figurehead, sails over
Floyd | greenish-blue waves, into the sunrise.  Or the sunset.  It's rather
Floyd | hard to tell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sunset"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SUNSET
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe it's the sunrise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x dragon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DRAGON
Floyd |
Floyd | If you were a ship's captain, you'd want your ship to have a
Floyd | figurehead like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sunrise"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SUNRISE
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe it's the sunset.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x waves"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can almost believe that the waves are moving, if you look long
Floyd | enough.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Sunrise, I assume."
Bert says, "Since, knowing Jeff, it's got to be the Dawn Treader."
Jacqueline asks, "So, are we going to have a daydream involving all this stuff?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about ship"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SHIP
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's a little fantastic for my tastes.  But I suppose, as your Uncle
Floyd | Stephen says, the fantastic is a reminder of the wonder and majesty of
Floyd | our Lord, and who am I to argue?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about dragon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT DRAGON
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's a little fantastic for my tastes.  But I suppose, as your Uncle
Floyd | Stephen says, the fantastic is a reminder of the wonder and majesty of
Floyd | our Lord, and who am I to argue?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about dawn treader"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT DAWN TREADER
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's a little fantastic for my tastes.  But I suppose, as your Uncle
Floyd | Stephen says, the fantastic is a reminder of the wonder and majesty of
Floyd | our Lord, and who am I to argue?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Yup."
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter ship"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SHIP
Floyd |
Floyd | That sort of thing only happens in books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x gryphon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GRYPHON
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x manticore"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MANTICORE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cyclops"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CYCLOPS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x reepicheep"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X REEPICHEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a saucer leaning against the wall at the back of the mantel.
Floyd | Normally you wouldn't give it a second glance, but there's something
Floyd | odd about the design.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x saucer"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x jabberwock"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SAUCER
Floyd |
Floyd | You thought at first that the fanciful design around the saucer was a
Floyd | pattern of owls, but you see now you were mistaken.  It's flowers ...
Floyd | definitely flowers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JABBERWOCK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x owls"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X OWLS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x flowers"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]      'No,' said Huw.  'She was made for her lord.  Nobody is
Floyd ]      asking her if she wants him.  It is a bitter twisting to
Floyd ]      be shut up with a person you are not liking very much.  I
Floyd ]      think she was longing for the time when she was flowers
Floyd ]      on the mountain, and it is making her cruel, as the rose
Floyd ]      is growing thorns.'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]      - Alan Garner, 'The Owl Service'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You thought at first that the fanciful design around the saucer was a
Floyd | pattern of flowers, but you see now you were mistaken.  It's owls ...
Floyd | definitely owls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x flowers"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x owls"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X OWLS
Floyd |
Floyd | You thought at first that the fanciful design around the saucer was a
Floyd | pattern of owls, but you see now you were mistaken.  It's flowers ...
Floyd | definitely flowers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about flowers"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the flower saucer or the elaborate flower
Floyd | centrepiece?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "saucer"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAUCER
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's from Wales.  There used to be a whole dinner service, but ...
Floyd | well."  Aunt Emma seems to be blushing slightly, and you guess it must
Floyd | be because she broke all the rest of the dishes and doesn't want to
Floyd | admit it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x centerpiece"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CENTERPIECE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about wales"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales.  I
Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you
Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues,
Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...."
Floyd |
Floyd | You are considering asking her for more about this Captain Davis
Floyd | character, when Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have
Floyd | been...."  She turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not
Floyd | to say any more.  But when you look up a few moments later, she's
Floyd | staring out the window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "huh"
Bert exclaims, "Make a run for it!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Emma, you saucy minx."
Jacqueline says, "OMG THAT WORKED"
Jacqueline exclaims, "Well done!"
Jacqueline clears the save counter. Bert says, "And now we... are probably still locked out of half the rooms in the house."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Maybe we should have grabbed the key first."
Jacqueline says, "hm, possibly"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get key"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be
Floyd | the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "or not"
Bert says, "Guess not."
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sunlight"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SUNLIGHT
Floyd |
Floyd | Why are you still indoors?  Why?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x door"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the kitchen door, the front door or the closet?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "front"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FRONT
Floyd |
Floyd | The front door is large and imposing ... and creaky.  Morris says that
Floyd | Aunt Emma makes him keep it that way so she can hear when anyone comes
Floyd | in or out of the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "panelling"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PANELLING
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x small door"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SMALL DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x closet"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CLOSET
Floyd |
Floyd | The hall closet is where things like winter boots and umbrellas are
Floyd | kept.  This one is usually a lot tidier than the one back home, but
Floyd | Mother says that's probably because Aunt Emma and Uncle Stephen don't
Floyd | have a nine-year-old to worry about.
Floyd |
Floyd | Currently, the closet is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "restore?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "open it;Yeah, perhaps we ought."
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN IT;YEAH, PERHAPS WE OUGHT.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Er."
Jacqueline says, "I think there is now some auto way to restore"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "RESTORE"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open closet"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the closet, revealing a walking stick.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x stick"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]         Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Floyd ]
Floyd ]         - Theodore Roosevelt
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen has taken to long walks over the hills, and as a
Floyd | consequence has gotten himself a walking stick that's really more of a
Floyd | staff, it's so long and sturdy.  Father says he's really just
Floyd | practicing for such a time as when he finally gets a bishop's crozier,
Floyd | but Mother thinks Father should not make light of such things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get it"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open front door"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN FRONT DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down and put that walking stick away.  It's not a toy."
Floyd | She hauls you back into your seat, but not before taking away anything
Floyd | that isn't covered in Uncle Stephen's handwriting and returning them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "Hmm. Does opening the front door auto-trigger it?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "under"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDER
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open front door"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN FRONT DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Yup."
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been
Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Leave the hallway?"
Bert says, "Yeah. But we can't go outside, because Emma will hear us opening the door."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x shelves"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHELVES
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ...
Floyd | Confessiones.  Ah yes, the works of Augustine of Hippo.  Of
Floyd | course, Uncle Stephen would only have the Latin translations.
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "There are other paths, aren't there?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "books"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "Like the Study?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x books"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... The Woman
Floyd | In White.  Must be another one of those exhortations to virtue.
Floyd | Why doesn't Uncle Stephen keep any exciting fiction in his library?
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "E or NW, yeah"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x fireplace"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | You wouldn't think, to look at it, that this is actually the back side
Floyd | of the much-larger kitchen fireplace, would you?  It's so dressed up
Floyd | that it looks like the front side of something fancy.  But yes, the
Floyd | two fireplaces share a flue and everything, though the flue itself is
Floyd | really only accessible from the kitchen side.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "hmm"
Bert says, "And we appear to have a timer as well."
Jacqueline says, "Sorry, I was scrolled up when you were diong that other stuff. Caught up now."
inky says, "I guess there's some scam where you slip stuff through the fireplace"
Bert asks (of inky), "Is that a spoiler?"
inky says, "no, it's speculation"
Bert nods.
Bert says, "I don't know if we could slip ourself through the fireplace, though."
Bert says, "But it's worth a try."
Bert says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf1"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been
Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "wake stephen"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAKE STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He draws a match from a nearby
Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about sermon"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | If Uncle Stephen had anything interesting to say about that, you
Floyd | wouldn't be trying so desperately to escape.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about davis"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT DAVIS
Floyd |
Floyd | "Where'd you hear about him?  Owen Davis ... Captain Davis, that is
Floyd | ... salt of the earth, but rather a reckless fellow, I'm afraid:
Floyd | always had been, from the time we first met him, in Wales.  He died in
Floyd | the Sepoy Mutiny, in India.  We were all dreadfully cut up by it."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
inky says (to Floyd), "x folder"
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Whoops."
Bert says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf1"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "no biggie"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been
Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter fireplace"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll only get yourself covered in soot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x folder"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | It's clearly marked "Old Sermons", and its contents are as advertised.
Floyd | This probably qualifies it as a weapon of Mass destruction.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the brown folder are Uncle Stephen's old sermons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "heh"
inky says, "maybe we should light a fire"
Bert says, "(Yeah, folder description.)"
Bert says (to inky), "Go for it."
Jacqueline says, "Weapon of Mass destruction. Oh, Christopher, how fortunate that you are not here for us to all pile onto you for that joke."
Bert says, "(Whoops, s/Yeah/Yay/ -- I was cheering for that joke.)"
inky says, "oh, heh"
Jacqueline says, "heh"
inky asks, "can we escape multiple times? or do we only know how to escape the first time and then have to restore?"
inky says (to Floyd), "ask emma about sepoy"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SEPOY
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma looks grim when you mention the Sepoy Mutiny.  "Those people
Floyd | were not Christian.  And that is all I have to say on the subject."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about christian"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT CHRISTIAN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma isn't the best at explaining that sort of thing, and if you
Floyd | get her started, you're never going to get out of here before sundown.
Floyd | And then there'd be no point.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I was wondering that."
Bert says (to inky), "We haven't tried a second time yet."
Bert says, "I assume the game doesn't become unwinnable the instant we're caught."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about sepoy mutiny"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SEPOY MUTINY
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma looks grim when you mention the Sepoy Mutiny.  "Those people
Floyd | were not Christian.  And that is all I have to say on the subject."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "oh, timing"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x mantel"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MANTEL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs.  Every time you
Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more
Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it
Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a wooden goblet standing at one end of the mantel.  It's very
Floyd | plain, but on the other hand you didn't think people made goblets out
Floyd | of wood.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x goblet"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GOBLET
Floyd |
Floyd | It's plain and non-descript, even remarkably so; its only point of
Floyd | interest is that it's a goblet made of wood, which seems like a funny
Floyd | sort of material to make goblets out of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about the holy grail"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT THE HOLY GRAIL
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about goblet"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT GOBLET
Floyd |
Floyd | "That is the cup of a carpenter," says Aunt Emma.  You wait for her to
Floyd | continue, but she doesn't seem to want to say any more than that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Nice Indy ref."
Bert says, "Indeed."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice a white porcelain cat sitting on the mantel, looking down
Floyd | at you with an expression which might be all-too-human if it only had
Floyd | a mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "I wonder if all of these are refs to things."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask her about cat"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK HER ABOUT CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | (Aunt Emma about the white cat)
Floyd | "Charming, is it not?  I always imagine it's saying hello to me when I
Floyd | come into the parlour in the mornings."  But how can it, when it has
Floyd | no mouth?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh dear."
Jacqueline says, "Possibly. That one being The Matrix."
Bert says, "If so, I am missing most of them."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's that old locket with the snake on the front.  You remember
Floyd | playing with it when you were very small, and now it's just another
Floyd | memory on Aunt Emma's mantel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says, "I think the cat is intended to be Hello Kitty"
Bert says, "Ha."
Bert says, "I think you might be right."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x locket"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LOCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | It's rather large, and very ornate.  The snake on the front is curved
Floyd | like the letter S, and no-one as far back as anyone remembers has ever
Floyd | been able to open it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x snake"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]     'A deadly struggle for my soul [said Sirius Black] would
Floyd ]     have broken the monotony nicely. You think you've had it
Floyd ]     bad, at least you've been able to get out and about,
Floyd ]     stretch your legs, get into a few fights.... I've been
Floyd ]     stuck inside for a month.'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]     - J.K. Rowling, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's rather large, and very ornate.  The snake on the front is curved
Floyd | like the letter S, and no-one as far back as anyone remembers has ever
Floyd | been able to open it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Okay, possibly it's just Hello Kitty and not a reference to Mr Smith"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about locket"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT LOCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | "That thing was in the house when we moved in, and we've never been
Floyd | able to track down the owners.  Well.  I suppose we're duty-bound to
Floyd | hold on to it until its true owner shows up."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about snake"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | "That thing was in the house when we moved in, and we've never been
Floyd | able to track down the owners.  Well.  I suppose we're duty-bound to
Floyd | hold on to it until its true owner shows up."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | How odd, there's a gnomon here, the triangular shadow-casting bit from
Floyd | a sundial, but no sundial.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "This, undoubtedly, Trinity."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x wabe"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WABE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x gnomon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GNOMON
Floyd |
Floyd | It's triangular and made of brass, with a screwy end where it's
Floyd | supposed to screw into a sundial somewhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone whispers "Gnomon is an island" into your ear, but
Floyd | when you look around, there's no-one there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I actually asked maga a second ago if that was a Harry Potter reference, but thought it so outside the realm of possibility that I didn't mention it here. Now I know the realm of possibility is quite large."
Bert says (to Floyd), "a gnomon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > A GNOMON
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about gnomon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT GNOMON
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your Uncle Stephen picked that up while on holiday in London.  I
Floyd | don't claim to understand everything about your uncle, but this gnomon
Floyd | clearly means something to him."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "When Stephen wakes up, perhaps we should ask him about Kensington Gardens."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "search ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a multitude of other little trinkets, but nothing of any
Floyd | interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about wales"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales.  I
Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you
Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues,
Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Ha."
Bert exclaims, "Curses!She's learning!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about owen"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...."  She
Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more.
Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the
Floyd | window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf2"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "More with Stephen, or a different direction?"
Bert says, "(AFK a moment.)"
Jacqueline says, "Hm, more with Stephen."
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been
Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get matchbox"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET MATCHBOX
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "light fireplace"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LIGHT FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "light fire"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LIGHT FIRE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "light pipe"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LIGHT PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | It would be rude to go meddling with something while someone else is
Floyd | still holding on to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down and put that large matchbox away.  It's not a toy."
Floyd | She hauls you back into your seat, but not before taking away anything
Floyd | that isn't covered in Uncle Stephen's handwriting and returning them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get pipe"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be
Floyd | the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "brb"
Bert says (to Floyd), "wake stephen"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAKE STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He draws a match from a nearby
Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about trinity"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT TRINITY
Floyd |
Floyd | Oh no.  You do not want to get your uncle started on that.  Life is
Floyd | far too short as it is.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "No, no, not *that* Trinity."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about kensington gardens"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT KENSINGTON GARDENS
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "duno"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DUNO
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf2"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been
Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "wake stephen"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAKE STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He draws a match from a nearby
Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about sepoy"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT SEPOY
Floyd |
Floyd | "Nasty business ... years ago, now, but I remember reading about it.
Floyd | That sort of thing isn't likely to happen up here in England, thank
Floyd | goodness."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about wales"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | "The family spent a summer there, a long time ago.  Your Aunt Emma and
Floyd | I must have been about 17 or 18, at the time."  It occurs to you that
Floyd | Mother must have been born in that year.  You're old enough to know
Floyd | that parents don't like having the children around when the stork
Floyd | makes a delivery, which probably explains why Uncle Stephen and Aunt
Floyd | Emma were sent to Wales to begin with.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "Wait, are Stephen and Emma siblings?"
Bert says, "I thought they were married."
maga says, "she *was* referred to as a maiden aunt"
maga says, "which generally implies certain maidenly qualities"
Bert says, "Aha. I missed that line."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about owen"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...."  She
Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more.
Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the
Floyd | window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now hold it right there...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
Bert pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | Getting the other fellows to join in on this story-telling lark seemed
Floyd | like a good idea at the time.  It was better than yet another game of
Floyd | cards, anyway, and it rather took the mind off who is or is not going
Floyd | to be at mess in the morning.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Somewhere In Flanders
Floyd | It's a little terrifying how accustomed you've gotten to this muddy,
Floyd | grimy hell-hole.  You could probably find your way back here in the
Floyd | dark, crawling blind through a maze of twisty trenches, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anderson was doodling on an old letter of recommendation earlier, and
Floyd | seems to have forgotten about it.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Anderson, Jellicoe, Hardy and Macdougal here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anderson shakes his head.  "I can't believe she'd fall for that a
Floyd | third time.  What kind of a weak-minded aunt did you have, Conrad?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "You're the ones who can't figure it out," you reply.  "So she'll keep
Floyd | falling for the same stunt until you do."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Hm, and Owen was her love that died?"
Bert says, "It's looking likely, yeah."
Bert says, "Hmm, a clue."
Bert asks, "Also, huh, so Conrad *is* Hector?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x hector"
Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HECTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Your uniform was beautifully starched and crisp when you first left
Floyd | England two years ago.  You thought you'd be back (for good, not on
Floyd | leave) before the starch had quite softened on your collar.  And now
Floyd | look at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Major Conrad just wants us to try again," says Jellicoe, with an air
Floyd | of pouring oil over troubled waters.  "So why don't we go and do
Floyd | that?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "We need a better strategy," Hardy muses, drawing the other men to
Floyd | him.  "Look, we've got only so long before she stops mooning over
Floyd | ancient history, and I'm pretty sure the major doesn't mean for the
Floyd | trick to happen more than once.  What can we do with those few
Floyd | minutes?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "So we're telling the story about our own childhood."
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Jacqueline says, "Well, something."
Bert says, "Also, it sounds like they're playing this game cooperatively too, just like we are."
Jacqueline smiles.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask hardy about outdoors"
Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK HARDY ABOUT OUTDOORS
Floyd |
Floyd | The men can figure this out on their own.
Floyd |
Floyd | Macdougal says, "there's bound to be something in one of the other
Floyd | rooms that will convince her to leave us alone."
Floyd |
Floyd | "It can't be that simple," snorts Anderson in reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Anyway we can just keep trying until we get it right, right?"  Hardy
Floyd | looks around the table, and the others nod.  "So, let's get on with
Floyd | this."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
Bert pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Goodness.  Where did that dream come from?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your
Floyd | place.  Or keeps you there, at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about owen"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...."  She
Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more.
Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the
Floyd | window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table
Floyd | just large enough for six.  A huge bay window looks out over the lawn
Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is
Floyd | and why he's here.  Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the
Floyd | hall is to the southeast.  The butler's door into the kitchen is to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x centerpiece"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CENTERPIECE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma believes in "civilised dining", which is why she insists on
Floyd | maintaining a pretty centrepiece on the dining table at all times.
Floyd | This centrepiece is beginning to get a little old and dry.  The
Floyd | flowers and leaves stick out all over like bristles on a brush, and
Floyd | the ribbons holding it together are looking droopy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "push it"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get it"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "Is anyone else thinking 'kindling'?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ribbons"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RIBBONS
Floyd |
Floyd | This centrepiece is beginning to get a little old and dry.  The
Floyd | flowers and leaves stick out all over like bristles on a brush, and
Floyd | the ribbons holding it together are looking droopy.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down and put that elaborate flower centrepiece away.  It's
Floyd | not a toy."  She hauls you back into your seat, but not before taking
Floyd | away anything that isn't covered in Uncle Stephen's handwriting and
Floyd | returning them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I wasn't, but I am now."
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...."  She
Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more.
Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the
Floyd | window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n.get centerpiece.se.e"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > N.GET CENTERPIECE.SE.E
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table
Floyd | just large enough for six.  A huge bay window looks out over the lawn
Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is
Floyd | and why he's here.  Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the
Floyd | hall is to the southeast.  The butler's door into the kitchen is to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece.
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been
Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "light centerpiece"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LIGHT CENTERPIECE
Floyd |
Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down and put that elaborate flower centrepiece away.  It's
Floyd | not a toy."  She hauls you back into your seat, but not before taking
Floyd | away anything that isn't covered in Uncle Stephen's handwriting and
Floyd | returning them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Darn."
Jacqueline asks, "So, there are other places we've not yet been, right?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...."  She
Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more.
Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the
Floyd | window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Yeah"
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table
Floyd | just large enough for six.  A huge bay window looks out over the lawn
Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is
Floyd | and why he's here.  Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the
Floyd | hall is to the southeast.  The butler's door into the kitchen is to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the butler's door)
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Except, er."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | From here, you can see the lawn and the woods and the distant  spires
Floyd | of the cathedral.  The sun is shining and you know that the woods are
Floyd | just bursting with interesting things to discover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the kitchen door)
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "I think we've seen all the unlocked rooms: the parlor, hall, study and dining room."
Bert says, "...these are starting to sound familiar."
Jacqueline says, "Hm, yeah."
Bert says, "If we find a lead pipe soon, I think I'm going to claim another reference."
Jacqueline says, "That covered the bases I was most curious about. We need that key."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...."  She
Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more.
Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the
Floyd | window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table
Floyd | just large enough for six.  A huge bay window looks out over the lawn
Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is
Floyd | and why he's here.  Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the
Floyd | hall is to the southeast.  The butler's door into the kitchen is to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get centerpiece. s"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET CENTERPIECE. S
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, staring off into the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show centerpiece to emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW CENTERPIECE TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma is distractedly gazing out the window.  Surely you have
Floyd | better things to do than to draw her attention back to the task of
Floyd | keeping you in your place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "drop centerpiece"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP CENTERPIECE
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs and finally looks around.  When she sees you out of
Floyd | your seat, she frowns and rises, and grabs you by the ear.  "What have
Floyd | you been up to, Hector?  It's the Lord's day: do try to behave
Floyd | yourself this one day of the week!  Now please, sit down."  She hauls
Floyd | you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an elaborate flower centrepiece here.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "So at least we can collect items here..."
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...."  She
Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more.
Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the
Floyd | window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e.e"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E.E
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been
Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get all"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | brown folder: Taken.
Floyd | large matchbox: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w.w"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W.W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, staring off into the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an elaborate flower centrepiece here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs and finally looks around.  When she sees you out of
Floyd | your seat, she frowns and rises, but stops in surprise when she sees
Floyd | the folder of Uncle Stephen's old sermons in your hands.  "Oh!" she
Floyd | says.  "Oh ... are those your Uncle Stephen's old sermons?  So that's
Floyd | what you were after!  You should have just said so.  I see I should
Floyd | have trusted you enough to know you could not possibly mean any
Floyd | mischief when you leave your seat."
Floyd |
Floyd | She actually smiles and pats you on the head.  On the bright side, it
Floyd | looks as though she doesn't mind you wandering around any more, since
Floyd | she makes no further attempt to usher you into your chair.  She does,
Floyd | however, firmly advise you to return the large matchbox to its
Floyd | rightful place, and ushers you out into the Hall to do so.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Hey hey."
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf3"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert exclaims, "We are free! FREE!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "open front door"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN FRONT DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | As you approach the front door, you hear Aunt Emma call out to you,
Floyd | "Hector, you're not planning on leaving the house, are you?  Please
Floyd | don't."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Mostly."
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "wake stephen"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAKE STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He reaches for his trusty matchbox and
Floyd | notes with even more annoyance that it has somehow gone missing.
Floyd | Sighing, he stands up and begins looking around.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen's sharp eyes spot the matchbox in your possession.
Floyd | "Give it here, Hector," he says sternly, and you can practically hear
Floyd | him thinking "Thou shalt not steal" at you, and you have no choice but
Floyd | to hand over the matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen relights his pipe and settles back behind his mound of
Floyd | boring literature.  He'll probably be asleep again in no time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about pipe"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen just smiles and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about davis"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT DAVIS
Floyd |
Floyd | "Where'd you hear about him?  Owen Davis ... Captain Davis, that is
Floyd | ... salt of the earth, but rather a reckless fellow, I'm afraid:
Floyd | always had been, from the time we first met him, in Wales.  He died in
Floyd | the Sepoy Mutiny, in India.  We were all dreadfully cut up by it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about wales"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | "The family spent a summer there, a long time ago.  Your Aunt Emma and
Floyd | I must have been about 17 or 18, at the time."  Uncle Stephen looks a
Floyd | little lost in the memory, and eventually descends into pointless talk
Floyd | about valleys and old houses and patterned dinner services.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about mutiny"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT MUTINY
Floyd |
Floyd | "Nasty business ... years ago, now, but I remember reading about it.
Floyd | That sort of thing isn't likely to happen up here in England, thank
Floyd | goodness."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about india"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT INDIA
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hm?  Fascinating place, I'm sure, but I would rather leave missionary
Floyd | work to those with a calling to it.  Otherwise, it's rather too much
Floyd | trouble...."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "What about that walking stick?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about pistol"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT PISTOL
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Ooh, yes"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about stick"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | "A walking stick is a rather useful item, I must say.  I simply could
Floyd | not tell you the number of times I've been glad of having a nice,
Floyd | stout staff on hand while walking across the downs."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about emma"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | "You should ask her yourself," says Uncle Stephen vaguely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open closet"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the closet, revealing a walking stick.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get stick"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "wield stick"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WIELD STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x stick"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]         Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Floyd ]
Floyd ]         - Theodore Roosevelt
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen has taken to long walks over the hills, and as a
Floyd | consequence has gotten himself a walking stick that's really more of a
Floyd | staff, it's so long and sturdy.  Father says he's really just
Floyd | practicing for such a time as when he finally gets a bishop's crozier,
Floyd | but Mother thinks Father should not make light of such things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  White smoke
Floyd | curls from the bowl of his pipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | The last of the smoke from Uncle Stephen's pipe dissipates into the
Floyd | air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show stick to stephen"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW STICK TO STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He draws a match from a nearby
Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x smoke"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SMOKE
Floyd |
Floyd | It curls lazily from the bowl of the pipe and dissipates into the air,
Floyd | smelling up the place something awful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert aimlessly.
Bert says (to Floyd), "smell it"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SMELL IT
Floyd |
Floyd | It smells awful, and for some unknown reason it always makes you feel
Floyd | hungry.  The less you have to do with it, the better.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "..."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show stick to stephen"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW STICK TO STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | "A walking stick is a rather useful item, I must say.  I simply could
Floyd | not tell you the number of times I've been glad of having a nice,
Floyd | stout staff on hand while walking across the downs."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh."
Bert asks, "Does whatever Uncle Stephen is smoking give us the munchies?"
Jacqueline says, "..."
Jacqueline says, "Now I know why you said, '...'"
maga says, "hey, asshole, puff puff pass"
Jacqueline says, "Uncle Stephen should move to Seattle."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about pipe"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen just smiles and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about tobacco"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT TOBACCO
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen begins to nod drowsily.  In a few moments, his pipe
Floyd | droops down onto his chest and he lets out a tiny little snore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get pipe"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be
Floyd | the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen for pipe"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN FOR PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but that is clearly not the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The last of the smoke from Uncle Stephen's pipe dissipates into the
Floyd | air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "smoke pipe"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SMOKE PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "hit stephen with stick"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > HIT STEPHEN WITH STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit Uncle Stephen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x painting"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PAINTING
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a brilliant painting of a town beside the sea, with the sun
Floyd | shining on whitewashed houses and the bluest sky you ever did see.
Floyd | Uncle Stephen always smiles and says he's seen better when you ask him
Floyd | about it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about it"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He draws a match from a nearby
Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about it"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT IT
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm rather fond of it, even if your Aunt Emma isn't."  Uncle Stephen
Floyd | smiles wistfully.  "Admittedly, it's not the artist's best work, but
Floyd | it brings back memories, you see."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about memories"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT MEMORIES
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen looks a little wistful.  "You know, the late summer of
Floyd | 1886 found me on the continent...."  But you quickly stop him before
Floyd | he gets carried away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about artist"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT ARTIST
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen is reading a really ancient-looking manuscript while
Floyd | making notes in another sheaf of papers.  White smoke curls from the
Floyd | bowl of his pipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen begins to nod drowsily.  In a few moments, his pipe
Floyd | droops down onto his chest and he lets out a tiny little snore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x manuscript"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MANUSCRIPT
Floyd |
Floyd | It's one of those ancient, dusty artefacts that Uncle Stephen
Floyd | occasionally gets out of the rare books department at the British
Floyd | Museum.  It's all written in funny squiggles that no-one can read.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sheaf"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHEAF
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about manuscript"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT MANUSCRIPT
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about manuscript"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT MANUSCRIPT
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's quite an interesting, apocryphal document, I must say.  I'll let
Floyd | you read it when I'm done, if you're good."  Right.  Better misbehave
Floyd | before it's too late.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Heh."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x papers"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like a translation of some sort, full of crossed-out bits and
Floyd | notes about notes about other notes.  As far as you can tell, it's
Floyd | about some servant's account of the water-into-wine miracle from the
Floyd | Bible, although why Uncle Stephen is working on translating that when
Floyd | he can just read it in any old Bible, you do not know.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about papers"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT PAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW arrives, full of fun and funk. Bert asks, "Anything obvious to do here other than letting Stephen nod off and stealing his matchbook?"
maga says, "flimsiest pseudonym ever"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen is reading a really ancient-looking manuscript while
Floyd | making notes in another sheaf of papers.  White smoke curls from the
Floyd | bowl of his pipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Apologies for my lateness."
Jacqueline says, "That seems to be the only gankable thing."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x desk"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen's desk is covered with all sorts of papers.  There's a
Floyd | huge dictionary that Uncle Stephen keeps flipping through, and things
Floyd | in languages that you've never even heard of before.  Uncle Stephen is
Floyd | sitting right up close to the desk, blocking its only drawer.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the desk is a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen begins to nod drowsily.  In a few moments, his pipe
Floyd | droops down onto his chest and he lets out a tiny little snore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x dictionary"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DICTIONARY
Floyd |
Floyd | The dictionary on Uncle Stephen's desk is actually some sort of book
Floyd | about Hebrew grammar.  You have enough trouble with Latin and French;
Floyd | Father says he wants to get you started on Greek next year, which
Floyd | sounds like the end of the world as you know it; Hebrew looks like it
Floyd | goes beyond even Greek, Latin and French all put together in terms of
Floyd | things Man was not meant to know.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Hey hey. Do that thing I love for people to do when they come late and ask what we're playing."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x drawer"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DRAWER
Floyd |
Floyd | You know there's a drawer in the desk, but Uncle Stephen is sitting
Floyd | right up against it and blocking it from view.
Floyd |
Floyd | The last of the smoke from Uncle Stephen's pipe dissipates into the
Floyd | air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open drawer"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER
Floyd |
Floyd | You know there's a drawer in the desk, but Uncle Stephen is sitting
Floyd | right up against it and blocking it from view.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Jus kidding. Hope all is well."
Bert asks, "Hmm. Can we make Stephen move away from the desk?"
Jacqueline says, "Hm."
Jacqueline says, "Hidden drawer of forbidden mystery."
DavidW says, "I'm guessin' it's Miseri's game."
Zach asks, "Whatcha playin', Jacq?"
Bert says, "Indeed."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x books"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... Plato's
Floyd | Republic.  No surprise there....
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x books"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... Les
Floyd | Misérables.  No.  You are not reading French outside of lessons,
Floyd | and that is final.
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get books"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... The Sign
Floyd | Of Four.  Something about the four gospels, obviously.  You'd
Floyd | kill to have a decent mystery novel right about now.
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x books"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... King
Floyd | Solomon's Mines.  This is either an archaeological report, or
Floyd | another dry examination of ancient Biblical history.  Either way, it's
Floyd | probably not very interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Man, we are so prejudiced here."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x books"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... The
Floyd | Hudson's Bay Company.  Finally, some R.M. Ballantyne!  One that
Floyd | you've already read, but you're not fussy.  You are disappointed,
Floyd | however, to discover that this is in fact a prospectus from the real
Floyd | Hudson's Bay Company, full of deadly-dull talk about profits and
Floyd | shares.
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Obviously we need to find a specific book, if any at all."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x books"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... The
Floyd | Hudson's Bay Company.  Another copy of the prospectus you'd
Floyd | pulled out before, in a different cover.  You're not going to be
Floyd | fooled again, though; you don't even bother opening the ruddy thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about sign of four"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT SIGN OF FOUR
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He draws a match from a nearby
Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about sign of four"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT SIGN OF FOUR
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about books"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | "One can never have too many books, I always say."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open drawer"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER
Floyd |
Floyd | You know there's a drawer in the desk, but Uncle Stephen is sitting
Floyd | right up against it and blocking it from view.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about drawer"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT DRAWER
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen begins to nod drowsily.  In a few moments, his pipe
Floyd | droops down onto his chest and he lets out a tiny little snore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "burn papers"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > BURN PAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a walking stick
Floyd |   a brown folder
Floyd |     Uncle Stephen's old sermons
Floyd |
Floyd | The last of the smoke from Uncle Stephen's pipe dissipates into the
Floyd | air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Is his chair on casters?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x chair"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "push stephen"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | That would be less than courteous.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "It would appear not."
Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "look behind painting"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PAINTING
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x books"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... The Woman
Floyd | In White.  Must be another one of those exhortations to virtue.
Floyd | Why doesn't Uncle Stephen keep any exciting fiction in his library?
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x books"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... De
Floyd | Doctrina Christiana.  Ah yes, the works of Augustine of Hippo.
Floyd | Of course, Uncle Stephen would only have the Latin translations.
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Get the matchbox, at least."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bible"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get matchbook"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET MATCHBOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get matchbox"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET MATCHBOX
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open it"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X IT
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a large box of matches that Uncle Stephen keeps handy, for
Floyd | lighting his pipe.  He goes through an awful lot of them, no-one knows
Floyd | why.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "light match"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LIGHT MATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen would skin you alive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Hee."
Bert says, "('no-one knows why')"
Jacqueline says, "idgi"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take match"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE MATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You already have that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a large matchbox
Floyd |   a walking stick
Floyd |   a brown folder
Floyd |     Uncle Stephen's old sermons
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Jacq), "He has already gone through a dozen matches in this playthrough alone."
Bert says (to Jacq), "I think we can start to guess why."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x fireplace"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | You wouldn't think, to look at it, that this is actually the back side
Floyd | of the much-larger kitchen fireplace, would you?  It's so dressed up
Floyd | that it looks like the front side of something fancy.  But yes, the
Floyd | two fireplaces share a flue and everything, though the flue itself is
Floyd | really only accessible from the kitchen side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh, I thought it was another reference beyond that."
Bert says (to Floyd), "put all in fireplace"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT ALL IN FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | large matchbox: That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great
Floyd | outdoors.
Floyd | walking stick: That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great
Floyd | outdoors.
Floyd | brown folder: That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great
Floyd | outdoors.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an elaborate flower centrepiece here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma spots the walking stick in your possession.  "Hector
Floyd | Percival Conrad!  What are you doing with your Uncle Stephen's walking
Floyd | stick?  Put it back at once!"
Floyd |
Floyd | She practically bullies you out into the hall on the way to returning
Floyd | everything to its rightful place.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Shame I missed the beginning of the game. I have no clue what's going on."
Bert says (to Floyd), "drop all"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | (the brown folder)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "We're a kid who is visiting our aunt and uncle. It's Sunday, and Aunt Emma wants us to study sermons, while we would prefer to be outside."
DavidW asks, "So we're just trying to escape the house?"
Bert says, "We've figured out how to get Emma to let us wander the house, but she still doesn't want us going out, and some internal doors are locked (Emma has the key),"
Bert says, "Yeah."
Bert says, "If we try to open the front door, Emma hears us and stops us."
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an elaborate flower centrepiece here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get all"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | elaborate flower centrepiece: Taken.
Floyd | displaced gnomon: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk
Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too
Floyd | young to die.
Floyd | snake locket: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having
Floyd | the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too young
Floyd | to die.
Floyd | white cat: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having
Floyd | the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too young
Floyd | to die.
Floyd | wooden goblet: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk
Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too
Floyd | young to die.
Floyd | flower saucer: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk
Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too
Floyd | young to die.
Floyd | ship painting: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk
Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too
Floyd | young to die.
Floyd | black falcon: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having
Floyd | the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too young
Floyd | to die.
Floyd | glass unicorn: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk
Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too
Floyd | young to die.
Floyd | duelling pistol: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk
Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too
Floyd | young to die.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma spots the big, brushy centrepiece in your hands.  "Hector
Floyd | Percival Conrad!  That belongs in the dining room ... you'll get dry
Floyd | leaves and petals all over the place and Janet isn't around to sweep
Floyd | up after you.  Put that back right now!"
Floyd |
Floyd | She practically bullies you out into the hall on the way to returning
Floyd | the stupid thing to its rightful place.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a brown folder (in which are Uncle Stephen's old sermons)
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  White smoke
Floyd | curls from the bowl of his pipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | The last of the smoke from Uncle Stephen's pipe dissipates into the
Floyd | air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "hm. Does the door hinge squeak, then?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a brown folder (in which are Uncle Stephen's old sermons)
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x front door"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FRONT DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The front door is large and imposing ... and creaky.  Morris says that
Floyd | Aunt Emma makes him keep it that way so she can hear when anyone comes
Floyd | in or out of the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "(For W.)"
Jacqueline asks, "Reckon there's some way to make it not squeak?"
Bert says, "That seems plausible."
Bert asks, "Maybe oil, if we can get into the kitchen?"
Bert says, "(Emma has the key to it.)"
DavidW says, "hm. Well, it there were hinges, we could oil them, but 'creaky' is ambiguous."
DavidW says, "So maybe there has to be enough noise near Emma to mask it instead, or Emma needs to be fitted with earplugs somehow."
Bert says, "Or we might be able to find something else for Emma to do to keep her busy and distracted."
DavidW says, "Or (maybe) there's another exit."
Bert says, "Yeah."
Bert says, "If we had the servants' key, we might find a back door."
Bert says (to Floyd), "get all"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | brown folder: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get matchbox"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET MATCHBOX
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table
Floyd | just large enough for six.  A huge bay window looks out over the lawn
Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is
Floyd | and why he's here.  Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the
Floyd | hall is to the southeast.  The butler's door into the kitchen is to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get centerpiece"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET CENTERPIECE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   an elaborate flower centrepiece
Floyd |   a large matchbox
Floyd |   a brown folder
Floyd |     Uncle Stephen's old sermons
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "I think these are all the pickupable objects we've found so far."
DavidW asks, "How about the pipe?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "se.e"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE.E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get pipe"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be
Floyd | the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "heh"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sermons"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen's old sermons.  You've been forced to read a couple of
Floyd | them, unfortunately, and the fact that there are more just makes your
Floyd | head want to implode.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put sermons in fireplace"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SERMONS IN FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great outdoors.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter fireplace"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll only get yourself covered in soot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show sermons to uncle"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW SERMONS TO UNCLE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking Uncle Stephen's old sermons)
Floyd | You're not feeling ready for sleep just yet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Heh."
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   an elaborate flower centrepiece
Floyd |   a large matchbox
Floyd |   a brown folder
Floyd |     Uncle Stephen's old sermons
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I suspect I'll be of little help since I've seen so little of the game."
DavidW asks, "Where did the gnomon come from?"
Bert says, "I don't think we've actually gotten terribly far so far."
Bert says (to W), "It's one of the ornaments on the mantle."
Bert says, "(It appears to be a Trinity reference.)"
Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Want to see the transcript thus far?"
Jacqueline says, "I mean, you could @recap the toyshop, too, I guess."
Allen says, "hard to imagine find ing a gnomon that isn't a trinity ref"
DavidW says, "Recapping is mucho awkward."
Allen says, "trinity players account for 90% of people who know the word in the US"
DavidW says, "yeah, I agree the gnomon has to be a Trinity ref."
Jacqueline says (to DW), "One sec, I'll pull the transcript thus far."
DavidW says, "I suppose all the windows have all been tested and found to be painted shut, locked, barred, too small, etc."
Bert says, "(We also identified the locket as a Harry Potter ref, he cat as a Hello Kitty ref, the goblet as an Indiana Jones ref, and the ship as a Narnia ref.)"
DavidW says, "A Hello Kitty ref?!?!"
Jacqueline says, "Or a Matrix ref."
Bert says (to W), "It's white, has no mouth, and Emma imagines it saying 'hello' to her in the mornings."
Bert says, "Oh, also, the falcon is probably Maltese."
DavidW says, "oh dear"
Bert says, "I think the flower saucer cited its own ref, even though I didn't recognize it."
Bert says, "And I have no idea what the glass unicorn with the broken horn refers to."
DavidW asks, "Has the game said how we're related to the aunt and uncle exactly? Which is the brother or sister to which of our parents?"
Jacqueline | [LINK]
Bert says (to W), "Both."
DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "Thanks."
Bert says, "(They are siblings.)"
Jacqueline says, "I think the aunt and uncle are siblings to each other as well as to one of our parents, though they're significantly older than our parent."
Bert says, "Our Mother, I think."
Bert says, "Based on Stephen's comments on Wales."
Jacqueline asks, "Why don't we chill a few minutes and let DW catch up?"
Jacqueline says, "I'll get another cup of coffee."
inky says, "the glass menagerie is a play"
Bert says (to Jacq), "OK."
inky says, "and it's actually kind of thematically similar to the game"
Bert says (to Jacq), "I'm running out of ideas, so maybe he'll come up with some ideas we haven't."
Bert says (to inky), "Oh, aha."
inky says, "[LINK]"
Bert says (to inky), "Mmm"
inky says, "(I remembered Jim as being an army guy, which would have made it more similar, but that is not the case)"
DavidW says, "I haven't finished reading, but perhaps reading material would help with Emma. If she could be persuaded to read a very boring book, she might fall asleep too."
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   an elaborate flower centrepiece
Floyd |   a large matchbox
Floyd |   a brown folder
Floyd |     Uncle Stephen's old sermons
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "mmkay, back with tea."
Bert says (to Floyd), "drop all but folder"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP ALL BUT FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | elaborate flower centrepiece: Dropped.
Floyd | large matchbox: Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show sermons to emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW SERMONS TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon.
Floyd | A few pages later, she stops and begins to explain the whole thing to
Floyd | you.  While she's nowhere near as stuffy as Uncle Stephen, she's also
Floyd | nowhere near as organised: if you'd actually been listening, you might
Floyd | have come out more confused than when you went in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show sermons to emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW SERMONS TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon.
Floyd | A few pages later, she stops and begins to explain the whole thing to
Floyd | you.  While she's nowhere near as stuffy as Uncle Stephen, she's also
Floyd | nowhere near as organised: if you'd actually been listening, you might
Floyd | have come out more confused than when you went in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "I think these sermons are the boringest thing we've found so far."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask emma about books"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "tell emma about sign of four"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TELL EMMA ABOUT SIGN OF FOUR
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks (of DW), "You're back, right?"
DavidW says, "no, still reading"
DavidW says, "It took forever for you guys to get out of the parlour."
Bert says, "Yes. Yes it did."
Jacqueline says, "Yeah."
DavidW says, "hm. So Emma doesn't even let us walk around freely."
Jacqueline says, "Well, she sorta does after we (inadvertently) win her trust with the sermon folder."
DavidW says, "the 'Somewhere In Flanders' business is weiiiird."
DavidW asks, "I'm assuming we eventually try reading the folder of sermons, not just the latest sermon?"
Jacqueline says, "I think we did at some point, but I think we should do that more."
DavidW says, "It's certainly something 'covered in Uncle Stephen's handwriting'."
Bert says (to Floyd), "read sermons"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | No.  No no no.  Your sanity would never survive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x folder"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | It's clearly marked "Old Sermons", and its contents are as advertised.
Floyd | This probably qualifies it as a weapon of Mass destruction.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the brown folder are Uncle Stephen's old sermons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search it"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH IT
Floyd |
Floyd | In the brown folder are Uncle Stephen's old sermons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x old sermons"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X OLD SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen's old sermons.  You've been forced to read a couple of
Floyd | them, unfortunately, and the fact that there are more just makes your
Floyd | head want to implode.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take old sermons"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE OLD SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not feeling ready for sleep just yet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take folder"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You already have that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show folder to emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW FOLDER TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon.
Floyd | A few pages later, she stops and begins to explain the whole thing to
Floyd | you.  While she's nowhere near as stuffy as Uncle Stephen, she's also
Floyd | nowhere near as organised: if you'd actually been listening, you might
Floyd | have come out more confused than when you went in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oh, you've already tried that."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "scramble folder"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SCRAMBLE FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shuffle sermons"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHUFFLE SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "empty folder"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > EMPTY FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "scatter sermons"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SCATTER SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "mix up the sermons"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > MIX UP THE SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh, maybe we've run that idea to its end."
Jacqueline says, "For some reason I was thinking we'd gotten Emma to say a bit more about them, but I guess not."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about sermons"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | "If you're having trouble with it, bring it here and show it to me,
Floyd | and I'll explain it as best I can," says Aunt Emma kindly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about folder"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask emma about cathedral"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT CATHEDRAL
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask emma about lunch"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT LUNCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "Hmm, what if we hide the matchbox and wake Stephen?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a large matchbox and an elaborate flower centrepiece here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open closet"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the closet, revealing a walking stick.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put matchbox in closet"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT MATCHBOX IN CLOSET
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the large matchbox)
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the large matchbox into the closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "close matchbox"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLOSE MATCHBOX
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can close.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "close closet"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLOSE CLOSET
Floyd |
Floyd | You close the closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "wake stephen"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAKE STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He reaches for his trusty matchbox and
Floyd | notes with even more annoyance that it has somehow gone missing.
Floyd | Sighing, he stands up and begins looking around.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open drawer"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen motions you vaguely away from the desk drawer.  It's
Floyd | clearly private, and he would appreciate it if you stayed out of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about matchbox"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT MATCHBOX
Floyd |
Floyd | "Rather a necessary evil, I would say.  Some people still call them
Floyd | lucifers, so it's rather like letting the devil into your own house
Floyd | ... but do you know, the actual lucifers fell out of fashion when I
Floyd | was a boy, after a more reliable sort of match was invented.  There's
Floyd | a lesson right there, my boy, if you'll take note of it."
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen shakes his head and wanders out into the Hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert exclaims, "Yay!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "open drawer"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the drawer, revealing a letter crammed in among an assortment
Floyd | of other junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get letter"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET LETTER
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x junk"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't need any of that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x letter"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LETTER
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen is wandering the house and could walk in on you any
Floyd | minute.  You don't have time to give this a proper read, though you
Floyd | can see already that it's more interesting than anything this house
Floyd | has to offer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "YAY"
DavidW says, "close drawer"
Bert says (to Floyd), "close drawer"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLOSE DRAWER
Floyd |
Floyd | You close the drawer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a letter
Floyd |   a brown folder
Floyd |     Uncle Stephen's old sermons
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put letter in folder"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT LETTER IN FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the letter into the brown folder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put letter in folder"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT LETTER IN FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the letter)
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the letter into the brown folder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "eat letter"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT LETTER
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the letter)
Floyd | That's plainly inedible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen is casting about for his missing matchbox.  His pipe
Floyd | droops unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an elaborate flower centrepiece here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open closet"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the closet, revealing a large matchbox and a walking stick.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen catches sight of the matchbox sitting where you'd left
Floyd | it, and happily retrieves it.  Thankfully, he doesn't seem too
Floyd | interested in wondering how it got there in the first place.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen returns to his study.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "but I have to prevent it from falling into the hands of the enemy!"
Bert exclaims (at inky), "We're not in Flanders anymore!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "read letter"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ LETTER
Floyd |
Floyd | Let's see.  It's from a Mr John Austin, thanking your Uncle Stephen
Floyd | for something ... boring stuff, boring stuff ... well.  It looks as
Floyd | though Uncle Stephen has been sending money regularly to this Mr
Floyd | Austin, but why?  You separate the letter out into its three pages,
Floyd | and regard each one individually....
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   three pages of a scandalous letter
Floyd |   a brown folder
Floyd |     Uncle Stephen's old sermons
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x letter"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LETTER
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the first page, the second page or the third page?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "first"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FIRST
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr John Austin sends his regards ... lovely weather ... good health
Floyd | ... first child ... all very standard fare, nothing you wouldn't
Floyd | expect to find in a hundred other letters....
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x second page"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SECOND PAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | Thanks for the assistance ... goodness, here's an account of all sorts
Floyd | of money that Uncle Stephen has been sending to this Austin fellow
Floyd | over the past year.  Mr Austin sounds as though he should have been a
Floyd | bank clerk, but why on earth would Uncle Stephen be sending him money?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x third letter"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X THIRD LETTER
Floyd |
Floyd | Here's where Mr Austin talks about his wife, which sounds terribly
Floyd | boring.  But the way this page is creased, it looks as though Uncle
Floyd | Stephen's been reading and re-reading it over and over, for some odd
Floyd | reason.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "My my."
Jacqueline says, "tut tut"
Bert asks, "Does Stephen have a begat of his own?"
Bert asks, "Do we confront Emma with this? Or Stephen?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show letter to emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW LETTER TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the first page, the second page or the third page?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "first"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FIRST
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma would never even look at that if you were to present it to
Floyd | her directly.  You'll need a more subtle approach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put letter in folder"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT LETTER IN FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the first page, the second page or the third page?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "all"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | Sorry, you can only have one item here. Which exactly?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put first in folder"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT FIRST IN FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the first page into the brown folder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put second in folder"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SECOND IN FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the second page into the brown folder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put third in folder"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT THIRD IN FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the third page into the brown folder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show folder to emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW FOLDER TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon.
Floyd | Flipping through the collected sermons, she happens quite by chance
Floyd | upon the first page of that letter to Uncle Stephen.  She reads the
Floyd | first few lines, then stops, carefully extracts the offending pages,
Floyd | and hands them to you.  "This doesn't belong in here with your uncle's
Floyd | sermons, Hector; it looks like a private letter, probably from a
Floyd | parishioner.  I don't know how it got mixed in with the old sermons,
Floyd | but you had better return it to him."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh dear we are an evil nephew."
Bert says (to Floyd), "put third page in folder"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT THIRD PAGE IN FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the third page into the brown folder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show folder to emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW FOLDER TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon.
Floyd | Flipping through the collected sermons, she happens quite by chance
Floyd | upon the third page of that letter to Uncle Stephen.  She reads the
Floyd | first few lines, then stops, carefully extracts the offending page,
Floyd | and hands it to you.  "This doesn't belong in here with your uncle's
Floyd | sermons, Hector; it looks like a private letter, probably from a
Floyd | parishioner.  I don't know how it got mixed in with the old sermons,
Floyd | but you had better return it to him."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put second letter in folder"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SECOND LETTER IN FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the second page into the brown folder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show folder to emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW FOLDER TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon.
Floyd | Flipping through the collected sermons, she happens upon the second
Floyd | page of that letter to Uncle Stephen, the one that you'd left in
Floyd | there.  She reads the first few lines, stops, then reads it again.
Floyd | Clearly, the information about Uncle Stephen's money management has
Floyd | caught her attention, and she is not at all happy about it.  "Excuse
Floyd | me, Hector," she says, "but I really must speak to your uncle about
Floyd | something."
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma slips something between the pages of her Bible to mark her
Floyd | place, then takes the folder from you and stalks off.  She's left her
Floyd | Bible behind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get bible"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "KEY"
Bert says, "Get equipped with: GOLD KEY"
Jacqueline says, "THE KEY"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x key"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | The master key is usually carried by the servants, which seems a
Floyd | little ironic.  But then it's the servants who need to get into every
Floyd | nook and cranny of the house, from attic to coal cellar; normal people
Floyd | only need to get into the civilised living spaces.  Since the servants
Floyd | today are out, it's been handed over to Aunt Emma ... which still
Floyd | seems a little ironic, since she's the mistress of the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table
Floyd | just large enough for six.  A huge bay window looks out over the lawn
Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is
Floyd | and why he's here.  Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the
Floyd | hall is to the southeast.  The butler's door into the kitchen is to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "unlock kitchen"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNLOCK KITCHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the butler's door)
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "unlock it"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNLOCK IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You haven't the key on you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get key"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the butler's door)
Floyd | You unlock the butler's door with the master key.
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting
Floyd | and cooking gets done.  You're generally not allowed in here, although
Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in
Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very
Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down.  There's also the
Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf3"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x fireplace"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | The kitchen fireplace is almost big enough to stand in.  It's
Floyd | back-to-back with the fireplace in Uncle Stephen's study, and shares a
Floyd | flue.  You remember this from the time Uncle Stephen let you watch the
Floyd | sweep clean out the chimney.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x staircase"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STAIRCASE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's how the servants get all over the house without anyone
Floyd | noticing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x photo"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PHOTO
Floyd |
Floyd | A small unit of soldiers poses in front of an elephant.  You recognise
Floyd | a much-younger Morris as one of the soldiers; the others are
Floyd | strangers, though one looks vaguely familiar for reasons you can't
Floyd | quite determine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x flue"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | There's the flue, which is shared with Uncle Stephen's study.  You
Floyd | remember the sweep saying that this was highly irregular, although
Floyd | maybe he was just miffed that he had one less chimney to clean and be
Floyd | paid for.  It's currently closed, since there's no reason to light a
Floyd | fire just yet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to open?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "flue"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the flue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "listen to flue"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN TO FLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the open flue, you can hear Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma
Floyd | speaking rather animatedly in the study.  It's a pity they never raise
Floyd | their voices, but you can make out a few words: "moral obligation" ...
Floyd | "finally understood" ... "Owen" ... Mother's name comes up rather more
Floyd | often than one might expect, which probably means you're going to be
Floyd | in so much trouble when she gets back from Oxford.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "'... "Owen" ...'"
Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
Bert asks, "Wait, is Owen our dad?"
Jacqueline says, "No, Owen is dead, isn't he... or wait."
Jacqueline says, "Hrm."
Bert says, "Hmm. I think he might be too old for that to be likely."
Bert says, "Since he was friends with Emma and Stephen, who met him when they were around 17/18, which was also when Mother was born."
Bert says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the open flue, you can hear Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma
Floyd | speaking rather animatedly in the study.  It's a pity they never raise
Floyd | their voices, but you can make out a few words: "moral obligation" ...
Floyd | "finally understood" ... "Owen" ... Mother's name comes up rather more
Floyd | often than one might expect, which probably means you're going to be
Floyd | in so much trouble when she gets back from Oxford.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "While we're being evil, how about locking the door behind us?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "lock door"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOCK DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the butler's door or the kitchen door?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "butler's"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > BUTLER'S
Floyd |
Floyd | First you'll have to close the butler's door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "close it"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLOSE IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You close the butler's door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "lock it"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOCK IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You lock the butler's door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Done."
Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting
Floyd | and cooking gets done.  You're generally not allowed in here, although
Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in
Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very
Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down.  There's also the
Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x staircase"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STAIRCASE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's how the servants get all over the house without anyone
Floyd | noticing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "photo"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PHOTO
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "photograph"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PHOTOGRAPH
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x morris"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MORRIS
Floyd |
Floyd | That is definitely Morris, Uncle Stephen's faithful gardener and
Floyd | general handyman, in the photograph.  He looks a lot younger there
Floyd | than you've ever known him, and considerably less grizzled.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x photograph"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PHOTOGRAPH
Floyd |
Floyd | A small unit of soldiers poses in front of an elephant.  You recognise
Floyd | a much-younger Morris as one of the soldiers; the others are
Floyd | strangers, though one looks vaguely familiar for reasons you can't
Floyd | quite determine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x familiar"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FAMILIAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "Is the familiar one Owen Davis, perhaps?"
Bert says, "I guess from here it's up or down."
Bert says, "Unless we want to make another attempt at the front door."
Bert says, "But I don't want to risk distracting Emma from her conversation with Stephen."
Bert says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | Only servants are allowed down there.  Even Aunt Emma would hesitate
Floyd | to trespass that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | That way is the secret passages to all the rooms that you could just
Floyd | as easily get to from the main stairs, not that you want to.  There's
Floyd | no point going that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "...wait, where are the main stairs?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting
Floyd | and cooking gets done.  You're generally not allowed in here, although
Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in
Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very
Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down.  There's also the
Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Well, she might be so engaged in that conversation that she wouldn't notice the front door."
Bert says (to Floyd), "look behind photo"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PHOTO
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "look behind photograph"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PHOTOGRAPH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get photograph"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PHOTOGRAPH
Floyd |
Floyd | That's fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the kitchen door)
Floyd | You unlock the kitchen door with the master key.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | It sounds as though Aunt Emma is having something of an argument with
Floyd | Uncle Stephen in the study.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open, revealing a walking stick.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an elaborate flower centrepiece here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get stick"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | As you approach the front door, you hear Aunt Emma call out to you,
Floyd | "Hector, you're not planning on leaving the house, are you?  Please
Floyd | don't."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x pistol"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]             All she saw was a silhouette of a gun
Floyd ]             (Far away on the other side)
Floyd ]             He was shot six times by a man on the run
Floyd ]             (And she couldn't find how to push through)
Floyd ]
Floyd ]             - Mike Oldfield, 'Moonlight Shadow'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PISTOL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a little chipped and battered, which means that it's been used,
Floyd | which is even more surprising because you really cannot picture Uncle
Floyd | Stephen handling a pistol without sermonising about it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get it"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET IT
Floyd |
Floyd | If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having the whole lot
Floyd | come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too young to die.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "Hmm. Is there anything we wanted to do in here but couldn't before?"
Bert says, "(Aside from leave.)"
DavidW says, "There's stairs in the hall plus the door to the servants' area."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look behind painting"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PAINTING
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Huh, somehow my brain never really registered the stairs."
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | It sounds as though Aunt Emma is having something of an argument with
Floyd | Uncle Stephen in the study.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an elaborate flower centrepiece here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x stairs"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STAIRS
Floyd |
Floyd | The stairs go up to the first floor of the house.  There's nothing up
Floyd | there but bedrooms and bathrooms.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | You're trying to get out of the house, not sequester yourself in it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma and Uncle Stephen are having a very private conversation in
Floyd | there.  Better keep your distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a walking stick
Floyd |   the master key
Floyd |   a Bible
Floyd |   two pages of a scandalous letter
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get all"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | elaborate flower centrepiece: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting
Floyd | and cooking gets done.  You're generally not allowed in here, although
Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in
Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very
Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down.  There's also the
Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x cabinets"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CABINETS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x flue"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | There's the flue, which is shared with Uncle Stephen's study.  You
Floyd | remember the sweep saying that this was highly irregular, although
Floyd | maybe he was just miffed that he had one less chimney to clean and be
Floyd | paid for.  It's currently open, and if you listen hard you can hear
Floyd | Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma talking in the study.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter it"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER IT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter fireplace"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll only get yourself covered in soot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "search it"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "I guess the matches are now out of reach."
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   an elaborate flower centrepiece
Floyd |   a walking stick
Floyd |   the master key
Floyd |   a Bible
Floyd |   two pages of a scandalous letter
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "stick"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x stick"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen has taken to long walks over the hills, and as a
Floyd | consequence has gotten himself a walking stick that's really more of a
Floyd | staff, it's so long and sturdy.  Father says he's really just
Floyd | practicing for such a time as when he finally gets a bishop's crozier,
Floyd | but Mother thinks Father should not make light of such things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I suppose that stick is available for some reason."
Bert says, "Yeah."
Bert says (to Floyd), "read bible"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma seems to have been somewhere in the middle of the Acts of
Floyd | the Apostles: "... And there sat in a window a certain young man named
Floyd | Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long
Floyd | preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft,
Floyd | and was taken up dead...."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "My."
DavidW says, "We're too young to die."
DavidW asks, "Is there anything up high that we couldn't reach?"
Bert says, "Not that I recall."
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the butler's door)
Floyd | You unlock the butler's door with the master key.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table
Floyd | just large enough for six.  A huge bay window looks out over the lawn
Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is
Floyd | and why he's here.  Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the
Floyd | hall is to the southeast.  The butler's door into the kitchen is to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | From here, you can see the lawn and the woods and the distant  spires
Floyd | of the cathedral.  The sun is shining and you know that the woods are
Floyd | just bursting with interesting things to discover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x woods"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WOODS
Floyd |
Floyd | The woods look incredibly enticing this time of the year.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x cathedral"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CATHEDRAL
Floyd |
Floyd | Barchester Cathedral is just visible beyond the woods.  You can't make
Floyd | out the details, but you know it's all very grand and impressive, at
Floyd | least to someone who isn't made to go there quite as regularly as you
Floyd | are.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open window"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "break window"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > BREAK WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.  Also, Uncle Stephen would tan
Floyd | your hide.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Is there no window in the kitchen?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting
Floyd | and cooking gets done.  You're generally not allowed in here, although
Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in
Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very
Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down.  There's also the
Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | From here, you can see the lawn and the woods and the distant  steeple
Floyd | of St Swithin's.  The sun is shining and you know that the woods are
Floyd | just bursting with interesting things to discover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open it"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x swithin"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SWITHIN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x swithin's"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SWITHIN'S
Floyd |
Floyd | That's Uncle Stephen's parish.  You were there just this morning,
Floyd | trying to stay awake through Uncle Stephen's sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | Only servants are allowed down there.  Even Aunt Emma would hesitate
Floyd | to trespass that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "Hmm. That name is familiar. Doctor in the House?"
DavidW says, "I wouldn't know."
Bert asks, "Gas and Gaiters, maybe?"
Jacqueline asks, "Listen through the flue?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "listen to flue"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN TO FLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the open flue, you can hear Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma
Floyd | speaking rather animatedly in the study.  It's a pity they never raise
Floyd | their voices, but you can make out a few words: "moral obligation" ...
Floyd | "finally understood" ... "Owen" ... Mother's name comes up rather more
Floyd | often than one might expect, which probably means you're going to be
Floyd | in so much trouble when she gets back from Oxford.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "oh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flue"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | There's the flue, which is shared with Uncle Stephen's study.  You
Floyd | remember the sweep saying that this was highly irregular, although
Floyd | maybe he was just miffed that he had one less chimney to clean and be
Floyd | paid for.  It's currently open, and if you listen hard you can hear
Floyd | Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma talking in the study.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "(Ah, it was Doctor in the House.)"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "tap flue"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAP FLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "hit flue with stick"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > HIT FLUE WITH STICK
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chimney"
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the flue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CHIMNEY
Floyd |
Floyd | There's the flue, which is shared with Uncle Stephen's study.  You
Floyd | remember the sweep saying that this was highly irregular, although
Floyd | maybe he was just miffed that he had one less chimney to clean and be
Floyd | paid for.  It's currently open, and if you listen hard you can hear
Floyd | Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma talking in the study.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter flue"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER FLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter chimney"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER CHIMNEY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x lawn"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LAWN
Floyd |
Floyd | It's green, and it looks freshly mown.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Does this place not have a door to the back garden."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cupboards"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CUPBOARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cabinets"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CABINETS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fridge"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FRIDGE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x oven"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X OVEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Sparsely appointed kitchen."
Jacqueline says, "Well, it was another time."
Jacqueline asks, "Did they have fridges in 1892?"
Bert says, "People ate less then."
Bert says, "Mostly just rocks."
Jacqueline says (to Bert), "hee"
DavidW says, "iceboxes"
Jacqueline says, "Probably downstairs, though, I'm thinking."
Bert says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | Only servants are allowed down there.  Even Aunt Emma would hesitate
Floyd | to trespass that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What exactly is your interest in the backstairs, any road?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
Jacqueline says, "Root cellarish, or something."
Bert pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | Getting the other fellows to join in on this story-telling lark seemed
Floyd | like a good idea at the time.  It was better than yet another game of
Floyd | cards, anyway, and it rather took the mind off who is or is not going
Floyd | to be at mess in the morning.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Somewhere In Flanders
Floyd | It's a little terrifying how accustomed you've gotten to this muddy,
Floyd | grimy hell-hole.  You could probably find your way back here in the
Floyd | dark, crawling blind through a maze of twisty trenches, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Anderson, Jellicoe, Hardy and Macdougal here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hardy blinks at Anderson's question.  "Well, sir, what I was thinking
Floyd | was, I thought perhaps we could get out by the tradesman's door."
Floyd |
Floyd | "There isn't a tradesman's door," you say quickly.
Floyd |
Floyd | "No tradesman's door?  How do the servants get in and out, then?
Floyd | Where does the butcher deliver?  Not the front door, surely?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Yay, Flanders."
Jacqueline says, "ooh Flanders."
Bert says, "Yay."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x jellicoe"
Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JELLICOE
Floyd |
Floyd | Jellicoe's father was Uncle Stephen's curate back around '95.  You
Floyd | didn't care much for him at the time, but two years of hell can make
Floyd | brothers out of anyone.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hardy's right," says Anderson slowly, "there ought to be a
Floyd | tradesman's door.  Never would have occurred to me.  Never been
Floyd | below-stairs, or thought about what goes on there."
Floyd |
Floyd | Macdougal shrugs.  "I've spent all my life in flats, myself.  Setup's
Floyd | a little bit different."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x hardy"
Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HARDY
Floyd |
Floyd | Resourceful chap, Hardy.  Not someone you'd care to rub elbows with in
Floyd | peacetime, but his ... acquisitions make life in the trenches just a
Floyd | touch more bearable.  Which is why you've taken him as your batman.
Floyd | Hope he lasts.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jellicoe looks from you to the others and back.  "There's a reason,
Floyd | surely, that you didn't poke around more?  Or perhaps the door was
Floyd | locked, or blocked somehow, or...."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Right, right," you say, "of course there was.  I quite forgot.
Floyd | Morris was there...."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
DavidW asks, "yeah, wherein is our providence come hither, govn'r?"
Bert pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting
Floyd | and cooking gets done.  You're generally not allowed in here, although
Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in
Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very
Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down.  There's also the
Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep snoring rumbles up from the servant's stair.
Floyd |
Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | Goodness.  What was that all about?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs, it looks like Morris is back, propped right up against the
Floyd | tradesman's door with a bottle of the demon drink.  He'll give you a
Floyd | good whipping for trespassing if he catches you here, so you'd best
Floyd | keep your distance.  Besides, the alcohol fumes coming off him would
Floyd | do you in for sure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "listen to snoring"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN TO SNORING
Floyd |
Floyd | It sounds as though Morris is back, and dead drunk.  You don't want to
Floyd | get too close to him when he's like this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Well then."
Jacqueline says, "Golly"
Jacqueline says, "So, now I'm wondering if we're dead."
Jacqueline says, "Or in a war-induced coma."
Bert asks, "You think that Flanders is really Hell?"
Jacqueline says, "That's a possibility."
Bert says, "Enh, I assume that we're really in Flanders and alive at the time of this narration, just passing the time in the trenches. Of course, that's not to imply that we won't be dead tomorrow..."
Jacqueline nods.
maga says, "hunh, I missed that bit"
Jacqueline says, "Another possibility."
maga says, "or it's new"
Jacqueline says, "Might be new."
Jacqueline says, "This is this week's release."
Bert says, "Hmm. If Morris is in the photo, he might know the mysteriously familiar fellow in the photo. Shame he's too drunk to tell us."
Bert asks, "Do we want another hint?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   an elaborate poppy centrepiece
Floyd |   a walking stick
Floyd |   the master key
Floyd |   a Bible
Floyd |   two pages of a scandalous letter
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hit morris with walking stick"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > HIT MORRIS WITH WALKING STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the image of Morris.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "He's on the other side of the basement door, I think."
DavidW asks, "poppy?"
Jacqueline says, "Ah."
DavidW asks, "Flanders?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x poppy"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POPPY
Floyd |
Floyd | This centrepiece is beginning to get a little old and dry.  Poppies
Floyd | and leaves stick out all over like bristles on a brush, and the
Floyd | ribbons holding it together are looking droopy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to W), "Mmm, interesting."
Bert says, "First Stephen is smoking something that gives us the munchies, and now Emma is keeping poppies."
Bert says, "I think these two might be quite different from what we assumed."
Bert says (to Floyd), "smoke poppy"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SMOKE POPPY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "eat poppy"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT POPPY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's plainly inedible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "smell poppy"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SMELL POPPY
Floyd |
Floyd | There's still the very faint smell of the fields and hedgerows about
Floyd | the poppies, but otherwise it's mostly just dry grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says, "I don't really know what poppies signified before WWI"
Jacqueline says, "heehee"
DavidW says, "sleep"
Bert says, "I would have thought opium, yeah"
DavidW says, "Like the wicked witch of the west says, 'poppies will put them to sleep'."
maga says, "other than opium, yes, but you can't get much of that out of normal poppyseeds, no? Enough to set off a drug test, not enough to do much else"
DavidW says, "I remember one Sandman issue where the language of flowers was referenced."
Bert asks (of maga), "So you're thinking that our family maybe *isn't* a bunch of drug fiends?"
Bert says (to maga), "I guess that's plausible."
Jacqueline says, "heh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "untie ribbon"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNTIE RIBBON
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says, "I suspect that the poppies are a foreshadowing of WWI"
Jacqueline says, "Yeah."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "water poppies"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WATER POPPIES
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search centerpiece"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH CENTERPIECE
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to maga), "Given the Flanders scenes, yeah. But I still find my interpretation sufficiently entertaining that I refuse to entirely abandon it."
Bert says (to Floyd), "tie flowers to stick"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TIE FLOWERS TO STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | You firmly affix the centrepiece to the head of the walking stick,
Floyd | using as many of its own ribbons as you can get your hands on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Well. There."
Bert says, "*That* surely seems like it must be useful."
maga says, "and surely poppies must have had a symbolic function for flower-arrangements before WWI"
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a walking stick (with flower centrepiece attached)
Floyd |   the master key
Floyd |   a Bible
Floyd |   two pages of a scandalous letter
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x stick"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen has taken to long walks over the hills, and as a
Floyd | consequence has gotten himself a walking stick that's really more of a
Floyd | staff, it's so long and sturdy.  There's a bristly flower centrepiece
Floyd | attached to one end, like the head of a brush, which makes it look
Floyd | exceedingly silly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "what use is flowers on a stick without a horse?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "sweep fireplace"
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWEEP FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | You thrust the flowery end of the walking stick up into the flue, and
Floyd | are rewarded with a sudden explosion of soot ... and the sounds of
Floyd | Aunt Emma and Uncle Stephen's consternation at a corresponding
Floyd | explosion of soot on the other side.  Not long after, you hear them
Floyd | both hurrying up the stairs to get themselves cleaned off and changed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert exclaims, "Hey hey!"
DavidW says, "oh my!"
inky says, "hunh!"
DavidW asks, "how the heck did you think of that?"
inky says, "this says red poppies used to mean pleasure"
maga says, "okay, apparently they were for sleep, peace and death even *before* WWI"
DavidW says, "I suppose now the front door isn't blocked by aunts any more."
Bert says (to W), "The fact that there were ribbons made me think of tying, and the stick was the only thing local to tie it to, and then the description mentioned bristles and a brush, which made me realize it resembled a broom, so I wondered what to sweep with it, and chimney sweeping had been mentioned in the game, so."
Bert says, "s/local/logical/"
Bert says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | With Aunt Emma and Uncle Stephen otherwise occupied, you quickly open
Floyd | the front door (it creaks like the blazes) and slip outside into the
Floyd | warm, summer sunshine.  You're going to be in a world of trouble when
Floyd | you get back, but for the moment there is nothing but you, the summer,
Floyd | and the wonders of God's green earth.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Freedom! ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | All right, men.  Move out.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions
Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT or UNDO the last command?
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "yes, when you put it like that."
Bert says, "WE WIN"
DavidW says, "woot!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "amusing"
Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
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Floyd |  > Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    IFcomp 2012
Floyd |    Have you tried...
Floyd |    The Flanders vignettes
inky says, "hunh"
Jacqueline says, "Very well done, Master Bert."
Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button.
Floyd ]                              Credits
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | CREDITS
Floyd |
Floyd | Thanks go, of course, to Graham Nelson and Emily Short for their work
Floyd | on the Inform7 language.  Thanks also to my beta-testers: Doug Jones,
Floyd | Adri, Andy Joel and Andrew Schultz.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
Bert says, "I wonder if 'All right, men. Move out.' means that as soon as the story finished, we marched into battle and probably died."
Bert pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
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Floyd |    About the author
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Floyd |    Have you tried...
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Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
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Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
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Floyd |    The Flanders vignettes
maga says, "that is the most straightforward interpretation, yes"
Bert presses the yellow enter button.
Floyd ]                            IFcomp 2012
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sunday Afternoon" was entered into the 18th annual IF competition,
Floyd | 2012, where it placed 5th.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
Bert pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
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Floyd |    Have you tried...
Floyd |    The Flanders vignettes
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
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Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    IFcomp 2012
Floyd |  > Have you tried...
Floyd |    The Flanders vignettes
Bert presses the yellow enter button.
Floyd ]                         Have you tried...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ...Examining each item on the parlour fireplace mantel more than once?
Floyd | ...Examining the saucer more than once?
Floyd | ...Looking up the actual text of the sermon passage (not in-game, but
Floyd | in real life)?
Floyd | ...Examining the books in Uncle Stephen's bookshelves?  Several times?
Floyd | ...Reviewing the breakfast?
Floyd | ...Fidgeting?
Floyd | ...Swearing strongly?  And again while in Flanders?
Floyd | ...Swearing mildly?  While in Flanders?
Floyd | ...Attacking someone in Flanders?
Floyd | ...Asking Uncle Stephen about Llew, Gronw or Bloduwedd, the mythical
Floyd | characters referenced in "The Owl Service"?
Floyd | ...Wearing the elaborate centrepiece?  Several times?  But not after
Floyd | you've attached it to the walking stick, of course!
Floyd | ...Finishing the game without once encountering a Flanders vignette?
Floyd | ...Finding all the Flanders vignettes?
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
DavidW asks, "saucer?"
Bert asks, "Hmm. Did we examine everything more than once?"
Bert says (to W), "One of the mantlepiece items."
Jacqueline says, "Not sure. I don't recall fidgeting, either."
Bert asks, "What does he mean about reviewing the breakfast?"
Jacqueline says, "Not surea about that, either."
Bert says (to W), "I think 'The Owl Service' is the saucer."
Bert pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
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Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    IFcomp 2012
Floyd |  > Have you tried...
Floyd |    The Flanders vignettes
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
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Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    IFcomp 2012
Floyd |    Have you tried...
Floyd |  > The Flanders vignettes
Bert presses the yellow enter button.
Floyd ]                       The Flanders vignettes
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | 1) Type "xyzzy", but not while you're already in Flanders.  Note that
Floyd | you cannot access this scene once you've tried typing "xyzzy",
Floyd | "plover" or "plugh" while in Flanders.
Floyd |
Floyd | 2) Ask Aunt Emma about the army three times.  For added fun, ask her
Floyd | about the army a couple more times after that.
Floyd |
Floyd | 3) Try distracting Aunt Emma three times, without ever getting caught
Floyd | with the folder of old sermons.
Floyd |
Floyd | 4) After Aunt Emma has decided that you can be trusted to leave your
Floyd | seat and wander the house, but before you've managed to cover her in
Floyd | soot and send her upstairs to clean up, try leaving by the front door
Floyd | three times.
Floyd |
Floyd | 5) Try going down from the kitchen three times.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | NOTE: you can only access a total of three vignettes in any one
Floyd | playthrough.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
DavidW says, "I was curious what swearing would do in this game. I'm sure Emma wouldn't like it."
Bert says, "I know the command SWEAR wasn't implemented, but I didn't try being more specific."
Bert asks (of W), "Would you like to take over to try the swearing et al.?"
Jacqueline asks (of Bert), "Leaving it to an expert?"
Jacqueline says, "If so, maga is here, too."
DavidW asks, "oh, wouldn't we need Emma back?"
Bert says (to Jacq), "Either that, or I'm getting lazy."
Jacqueline says (to DW), "We have saves."
Bert says (to W), "Yeah, we'd have to restore or restart for some of them."
inky says, "hmm, this was fun but it seemed kind of slight"
DavidW says, "I suppose we'd get our mouth literally washed with soap."
Bert says, "I think some of the puzzles were a little bit mind-ready."
Jacqueline asks (of inky), "You mean for a comp entry?"
inky says, "I think if we hadn't got stuck at the beginning for so long it could have squeezed in as an introcomp entry"
Bert asks, "What about when we got stuck in the middle for so long?"
Jacqueline says, "I thought it was rather good, but I suspect that others probably felt that way as well (that it was slight as larger comp games go) and that perhaps that's why it placed 5th."
Jacqueline says (to inky), "Hm, I guess it wasn't meant to be as long as we made it, that's true. Heh."
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
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Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    IFcomp 2012
Floyd |    Have you tried...
Floyd |  > The Flanders vignettes
Bert says (to Floyd), "q"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions
Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT or UNDO the last command?
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, staring off into the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "fuck"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FUCK
Floyd |
Floyd | If anyone heard you, they'd want to know where you learned such
Floyd | terrible language.  And then Morris would be in terrible trouble, and
Floyd | you don't want that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drat"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DRAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Quite.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs and finally looks around.  When she sees you out of
Floyd | your seat, she frowns and rises, and grabs you by the ear.  "What have
Floyd | you been up to, Hector?  It's the Lord's day: do try to behave
Floyd | yourself this one day of the week!  Now please, sit down."  She hauls
Floyd | you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "say damn to emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAY DAMN TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "heh"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "damn emma"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DAMN EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to damn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "curse"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > CURSE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "damn"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DAMN
Floyd |
Floyd | You shouldn't say such things unless you mean it.  And you should
Floyd | never mean such things, ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shit"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHIT
Floyd |
Floyd | If anyone heard you, they'd want to know where you learned such
Floyd | terrible language.  And then Morris would be in terrible trouble, and
Floyd | you don't want that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY
Floyd |
Floyd | "A uniform adds a good deal of dash to a character, I'm sure, and the
Floyd | discipline is much to be recommended."  Aunt Emma pauses for just a
Floyd | little too long before going on.  "All the same, I cannot say I am at
Floyd | all pleased with the reasons for armies to exist in the first
Floyd | place.  However you look at it, war is an absolutely dreadful
Floyd | business."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY
Floyd |
Floyd | "A uniform adds a good deal of dash to a character, I'm sure, and the
Floyd | discipline is much to be recommended."  Aunt Emma pauses for just a
Floyd | little too long before going on.  "All the same, I cannot say I am at
Floyd | all pleased with the reasons for armies to exist in the first
Floyd | place.  However you look at it, war is an absolutely dreadful
Floyd | business."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY
Floyd |
Floyd | "A uniform adds a good deal of dash to a character, I'm sure, and the
Floyd | discipline is much to be recommended."  Aunt Emma pauses for just a
Floyd | little too long before going on.  "All the same, I cannot say I am at
Floyd | all pleased with the reasons for armies to exist in the first
Floyd | place.  However you look at it, war is an absolutely dreadful
Floyd | business."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh for pity's sake...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | Getting the other fellows to join in on this story-telling lark seemed
Floyd | like a good idea at the time.  It was better than yet another game of
Floyd | cards, anyway, and it rather took the mind off who is or is not going
Floyd | to be at mess in the morning.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Somewhere In Flanders
Floyd | It's a little terrifying how accustomed you've gotten to this muddy,
Floyd | grimy hell-hole.  You could probably find your way back here in the
Floyd | dark, crawling blind through a maze of twisty trenches, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anderson was doodling on an old letter of recommendation earlier, and
Floyd | seems to have forgotten about it.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Anderson, Jellicoe, Hardy and Macdougal here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anderson glares at his batman.  "How many times are you going to ask
Floyd | her about that, Macdougal?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I think Macdougal just likes hearing the Major talk about how war is
Floyd | such a dreadful business," says Hardy with a look of amusement.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, it's getting tiresome," snaps Anderson, still glaring at poor
Floyd | Macdougal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kill anderson"
Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL ANDERSON
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence is the answer to a lot of things, but this isn't one of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's clear she's got nothing else to say on the subject," reasons
Floyd | Jellicoe, "and anyway the story isn't about war or the army or
Floyd | anything like that, is it?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You shake your head in agreement.  This was supposed to be a diversion
Floyd | into a more innocent time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > XYZZY
Floyd |
Floyd | MacDougal flashes you a knowing smile, but says nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Macdougal has the grace to look sheepish.  "Sorry, sir," he mumbles.
Floyd | "I won't do it again."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Good.  Let's move on."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Agreed."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button.
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Goodness.  What just happened there?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY
Floyd |
Floyd | "It is certainly a respectable career choice, Macdougal."  For some
Floyd | reason you can't quite name, you feel reluctant to press the issue
Floyd | further.  Nor are you sure why she just called you "Macdougal".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY
Floyd |
Floyd | "It is certainly a respectable career choice, Hector."  For some
Floyd | reason you can't quite name, you feel reluctant to press the issue
Floyd | further.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY
Floyd |
Floyd | "It is certainly a respectable career choice, Hector."  For some
Floyd | reason you can't quite name, you feel reluctant to press the issue
Floyd | further.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY
Floyd |
Floyd | "It is certainly a respectable career choice, Hector."  For some
Floyd | reason you can't quite name, you feel reluctant to press the issue
Floyd | further.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Heh."
Jacqueline says, "There we go."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x falcon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]         Spade said tenderly: 'You angel!  Well, if you get
Floyd ]         a good break you'll be out of San Quentin in twenty
Floyd ]         years and you can come back to me then.'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]         - Dashiell Hammett, 'The Maltese Falcon'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FALCON
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a black bird.  How boring.  Why anyone would want something like
Floyd | this, you do not know.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Aha, it *is* Maltese."
Jacqueline says, "Nice"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x treader"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TREADER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ship"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]       There are dozens of ways to give people a bad time
Floyd ]       if you are in your own home and they are only visitors.
Floyd ]
Floyd ]       - C.S. Lewis, 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHIP
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather fantastic-looking ship, with a dragon figurehead, sails over
Floyd | greenish-blue waves, into the sunrise.  Or the sunset.  It's rather
Floyd | hard to tell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "How apropos."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x mantlepiece"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MANTLEPIECE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs.  Every time you
Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more
Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it
Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x unicorn"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a unicorn, made of glass, rearing up on its hind legs.  Its horn
Floyd | appears to have been broken off once upon a time, though it's been
Floyd | glued back on since.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x unicorn"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a unicorn, made of glass, rearing up on its hind legs.  Its horn
Floyd | appears to have been broken off once upon a time, though it's been
Floyd | glued back on since.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x saucer"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SAUCER
Floyd |
Floyd | You thought at first that the fanciful design around the saucer was a
Floyd | pattern of flowers, but you see now you were mistaken.  It's owls ...
Floyd | definitely owls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x saucer"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SAUCER
Floyd |
Floyd | You thought at first that the fanciful design around the saucer was a
Floyd | pattern of owls, but you see now you were mistaken.  It's flowers ...
Floyd | definitely flowers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a wooden goblet standing at one end of the mantel.  It's very
Floyd | plain, but on the other hand you didn't think people made goblets out
Floyd | of wood.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x goblet"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GOBLET
Floyd |
Floyd | It's plain and non-descript, even remarkably so; its only point of
Floyd | interest is that it's a goblet made of wood, which seems like a funny
Floyd | sort of material to make goblets out of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x goblet"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]         Grail Knight:
Floyd ]         You have chosen ... wisely.  But, beware: the Grail
Floyd ]         cannot pass beyond the Great Seal, for that is the
Floyd ]         boundary, and the price, of immortality.
Floyd ]
Floyd ]         - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'
Floyd ]         (Screenplay by Jeffrey Boam)
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GOBLET
Floyd |
Floyd | It's plain and non-descript, even remarkably so; its only point of
Floyd | interest is that it's a goblet made of wood, which seems like a funny
Floyd | sort of material to make goblets out of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice a white porcelain cat sitting on the mantel, looking down
Floyd | at you with an expression which might be all-too-human if it only had
Floyd | a mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x kitty"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KITTY
Floyd |
Floyd | A white porcelain cat, with a red bow perched on one side of its head.
Floyd | Rather disturbingly, it has no mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x kitty"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]        '...Suppose they had saved up all my punishments?'
Floyd ]        she went on, talking more to herself than the kitten.
Floyd ]        'What would they do at the end of a year?  I should
Floyd ]        be sent to prison, I suppose, when the day came....'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]        - Lewis Carroll, 'Through the Looking Glass'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KITTY
Floyd |
Floyd | A white porcelain cat, with a red bow perched on one side of its head.
Floyd | Rather disturbingly, it has no mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Yeah, the red bow is definitely Helly Kitty."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's that old locket with the snake on the front.  You remember
Floyd | playing with it when you were very small, and now it's just another
Floyd | memory on Aunt Emma's mantel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x locket"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LOCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | It's rather large, and very ornate.  The snake on the front is curved
Floyd | like the letter S, and no-one as far back as anyone remembers has ever
Floyd | been able to open it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x locket"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]     'A deadly struggle for my soul [said Sirius Black] would
Floyd ]     have broken the monotony nicely. You think you've had it
Floyd ]     bad, at least you've been able to get out and about,
Floyd ]     stretch your legs, get into a few fights.... I've been
Floyd ]     stuck inside for a month.'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]     - J.K. Rowling, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LOCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | It's rather large, and very ornate.  The snake on the front is curved
Floyd | like the letter S, and no-one as far back as anyone remembers has ever
Floyd | been able to open it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | How odd, there's a gnomon here, the triangular shadow-casting bit from
Floyd | a sundial, but no sundial.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x gnomon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GNOMON
Floyd |
Floyd | It's triangular and made of brass, with a screwy end where it's
Floyd | supposed to screw into a sundial somewhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone whispers "Gnomon is an island" into your ear, but
Floyd | when you look around, there's no-one there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x gnomon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]          Behold, the Trinity appears to me as an enigma....
Floyd ]
Floyd ]          - St Augustine of Hippo, 'Confessions'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GNOMON
Floyd |
Floyd | It's triangular and made of brass, with a screwy end where it's
Floyd | supposed to screw into a sundial somewhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "review breakfast"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > REVIEW BREAKFAST
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Were we eating breakfast in one of the vignettes?"
Bert asks, "Perhaps he just means [LINK] ?"
Bert says, "But that doesn't seem terribly interesting."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about breakfast"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BREAKFAST
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "fidget"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FIDGET
Floyd |
Floyd | "Don't fidget, Hector," says Aunt Emma.  "It's unbecoming."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your
Floyd | place.  Or keeps you there, at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about owen"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...."  She
Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more.
Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the
Floyd | window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "fidget"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FIDGET
Floyd |
Floyd | It doesn't make you any more comfortable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been
Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get sermons"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about llew"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT LLEW
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He draws a match from a nearby
Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about llew"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT LLEW
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles but
Floyd | stops in surprise when she sees the folder of Uncle Stephen's old
Floyd | sermons in your hands.  "Oh!" she says.  "Oh ... are those your Uncle
Floyd | Stephen's old sermons?  So that's what you were after!  You should
Floyd | have just said so.  I see I should have trusted you enough to know you
Floyd | could not possibly mean any mischief when you leave your seat."
Floyd |
Floyd | She actually smiles and pats you on the head.  On the bright side, it
Floyd | looks as though she doesn't mind you wandering around any more, since
Floyd | she makes no further attempt to usher you into your chair.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about gronw"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT GRONW
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen looks inexplicably alarmed.  "We'll have none of that
Floyd | talk here," he says sharply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about llew"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT LLEW
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen begins to nod drowsily.  In a few moments, his pipe
Floyd | droops down onto his chest and he lets out a tiny little snore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about bloduwedd"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT BLODUWEDD
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline | This one was mine. As such, I cannot review it without bias, and so I shan't.
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about bloduwedd"
Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT BLODUWEDD
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen looks inexplicably alarmed.  "We'll have none of that
Floyd | talk here," he says sharply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline | If I were to compare it to breakfast, though, it would quite naturally be the house special.
Bert says, "I don't quite get these responses, but perhaps that's because I haven't read The Owl Service."
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table
Floyd | just large enough for six.  A huge bay window looks out over the lawn
Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is
Floyd | and why he's here.  Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the
Floyd | hall is to the southeast.  The butler's door into the kitchen is to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the elaborate flower centrepiece)
Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend
Floyd | for a moment that you're a victorious athlete at the Olympic Games in
Floyd | ancient Greece.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend
Floyd | for a moment that it's a halo, your eternal reward for the dreadful
Floyd | trial of sitting through one of Uncle Stephen's interminable sermons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend
Floyd | for a moment that it's a magic holly wreath that gives you the power
Floyd | of invisibility.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend
Floyd | for a moment that you're an ancient Irish druid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend
Floyd | for a moment that it's a magic holly wreath that gives you the power
Floyd | of invisibility.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend
Floyd | for a moment that it's a halo, your eternal reward for the dreadful
Floyd | trial of sitting through one of Uncle Stephen's interminable sermons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers"
Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend
Floyd | for a moment that you're being crowned king of the known universe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | As you approach the front door, you hear Aunt Emma call out to you,
Floyd | "Hector, you're not planning on leaving the house, are you?  Please
Floyd | don't."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | As you approach the front door, you hear Aunt Emma call out to you,
Floyd | "Hector, you're not planning on leaving the house, are you?  Please
Floyd | don't."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | As you approach the front door, you hear Aunt Emma call out to you,
Floyd | "Hector, you're not planning on leaving the house, are you?  Please
Floyd | don't."
Floyd |
Floyd | "This is a little bit ridiculous, don't you think?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
Bert pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | Getting the other fellows to join in on this story-telling lark seemed
Floyd | like a good idea at the time.  It was better than yet another game of
Floyd | cards, anyway, and it rather took the mind off who is or is not going
Floyd | to be at mess in the morning.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Somewhere In Flanders
Floyd | It's a little terrifying how accustomed you've gotten to this muddy,
Floyd | grimy hell-hole.  You could probably find your way back here in the
Floyd | dark, crawling blind through a maze of twisty trenches, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Anderson, Jellicoe, Hardy and Macdougal here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hardy folds his arms.  "I really don't see why we can't just open the
Floyd | door and make a run for it."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Don't be absurd," says Jellicoe, "we'd be in terrible trouble if we
Floyd | did that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "fuck"
Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > FUCK
Floyd |
Floyd | Quite.
Floyd |
Floyd | "We'd be in trouble anyway, if we ever got out of the house," reasons
Floyd | Hardy, not budging.  "Which is the point of this little story, isn't
Floyd | it?  Getting out of the house?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "But then we'd have both the aunt and the uncle chasing after us,"
Floyd | says Macdougal thoughtfully, "and we'd have to try and find a hiding
Floyd | spot before they catch us, and then we wouldn't be able to enjoy the
Floyd | afternoon because we'd always be looking over our shoulder."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "darn"
Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > DARN
Floyd |
Floyd | Seriously?  Your sainted Aunt Emma could do better.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anderson nods.  "What we need is a head start.  It would also help if
Floyd | no-one knew which direction we ran off in.  Isn't that right, Conrad?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You nod, not wanting to admit that it had never occurred to you to
Floyd | directly defy Aunt Emma, as per Hardy's suggestion.  You were just so
Floyd | used to Aunt Emma's authority that the sound of her voice alone was
Floyd | enough to make you stop in your tracks.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hardy rolls his eyes.  "Fine.  Clearly you know what's what better
Floyd | than I do.  Let's get back to the story."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
Bert pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Goodness.  Was that a dream?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "I think the only one we haven't tried is never seeing Flanders."
Bert says (to Floyd), "restart"
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > RESTART
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart?
Bert says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | July, 1892.
Floyd |
Floyd | Father is off to Oxford again, and Mother's gone with him.  You know
Floyd | what that means: another day in the care of Uncle Stephen, who is nice
Floyd | but boring, and Aunt Emma, who means well but won't let you do
Floyd | anything fun.  Worst of all, it's a Sunday, which means you're sitting
Floyd | very upright in Aunt Emma's parlour, in all your stiff-starched Sunday
Floyd | best, trying to read Uncle Stephen's latest sermon about one of the
Floyd | less-interesting parts of the Bible while Aunt Emma pretends that she
Floyd | wouldn't rather be knitting and Uncle Stephen hides under a pile of
Floyd | Hebrew and Latin and Greek in his study.
Floyd |
Floyd | Plus, it's gloriously sunny outside, and you can smell the grass from
Floyd | in here.  It's just not fair.  All the servants have the day off
Floyd | because Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma don't believe in making people do
Floyd | any real work on Sundays, and you can bet that they -- Janet and
Floyd | Morris and Cookie, each of whom is loads more fun than Uncle Stephen
Floyd | and Aunt Emma put together -- are probably not all cooped up indoors
Floyd | in their Sunday best.
Floyd |
Floyd | If only there were some way you could escape....
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | (Type "HELP" for further information, instructions or hints)
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunday Afternoon
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Christopher Huang (originally writing as
Floyd | "Virgil Hilts")
Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 121213 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky | [LINK]
inky says, "I don't really get why he's so upset, though"
inky says, "I guess because it involves adultery and death"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Among the many souvenirs of ancient history, you spot a duelling
Floyd | pistol.  That doesn't look like the sort of thing boring people like
Floyd | Aunt Emma or Uncle Stephen (or, let's face it, anyone in your whole
Floyd | family) are likely to keep around the house!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunlight glints off a glass unicorn.  Now that's more the sort of
Floyd | pointless ornament you'd expect to find in Aunt Emma's collection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | You spot a statuette of a black falcon in the midst of all the
Floyd | clutter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Here's something that's not so bad: a painting of a ship sailing into
Floyd | the sunrise.  Or sunset.  One of the two.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a saucer leaning against the wall at the back of the mantel.
Floyd | Normally you wouldn't give it a second glance, but there's something
Floyd | odd about the design.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a wooden goblet standing at one end of the mantel.  It's very
Floyd | plain, but on the other hand you didn't think people made goblets out
Floyd | of wood.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice a white porcelain cat sitting on the mantel, looking down
Floyd | at you with an expression which might be all-too-human if it only had
Floyd | a mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's that old locket with the snake on the front.  You remember
Floyd | playing with it when you were very small, and now it's just another
Floyd | memory on Aunt Emma's mantel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | How odd, there's a gnomon here, the triangular shadow-casting bit from
Floyd | a sundial, but no sundial.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "Which one reminded her of Owen?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about pistol"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT PISTOL
Floyd |
Floyd | "That used to belong to an old friend.  I don't normally hold with
Floyd | duelling, but he was a very dear friend and ... you really should get
Floyd | back to your reading, Hector."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about duelling"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT DUELLING
Floyd |
Floyd | "That used to belong to an old friend.  I don't normally hold with
Floyd | duelling, but he was a very dear friend and ... you really should get
Floyd | back to your reading, Hector."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about india"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT INDIA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about wear"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WEAR
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about friend"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT FRIEND
Floyd |
Floyd | "You are referring to a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt
Floyd | Emma, not looking at you.  "He got a commission with the army and went
Floyd | to India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector.  I hope and
Floyd | pray that you never have to see it."  Well, perhaps, but it would be
Floyd | really exciting....
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about family"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT FAMILY
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about army"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT ARMY
Floyd |
Floyd | "A uniform adds a good deal of dash to a character, I'm sure, and the
Floyd | discipline is much to be recommended."  Aunt Emma pauses for just a
Floyd | little too long before going on.  "All the same, I cannot say I am at
Floyd | all pleased with the reasons for armies to exist in the first
Floyd | place.  However you look at it, war is an absolutely dreadful
Floyd | business."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about war"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WAR
Floyd |
Floyd | "That," says Aunt Emma firmly, "is thankfully something about which I
Floyd | know absolutely nothing."
Floyd |
Floyd | Your family is so boring.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about uniform"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT UNIFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about wales"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about davis"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT DAVIS
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x mantle"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MANTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs.  Every time you
Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more
Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it
Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, an owl saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a glass
Floyd | unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of other
Floyd | little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about unicorn"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | "That used to be part of a much larger glass menagerie," says Aunt
Floyd | Emma, "but, well, the less said about that the better."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about falcon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT FALCON
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma seems to hesitate.  "An ... old friend picked that up years
Floyd | ago when he was in Malta, and brought it back as present."
Floyd |
Floyd | You're sure you hear Aunt Emma say something about "dear old Captain
Floyd | Davis..." as she turns back to her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about malta"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT MALTA
Floyd |
Floyd | "I've never been there, but I've heard that it's quite fascinating."
Floyd | Aunt Emma recounts a few vague memories of stories told to her years
Floyd | and years ago, when the earth was young.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about ship"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT SHIP
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's a little fantastic for my tastes.  But I suppose, as your Uncle
Floyd | Stephen says, the fantastic is a reminder of the wonder and majesty of
Floyd | our Lord, and who am I to argue?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about saucer"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT SAUCER
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's from Wales.  There used to be a whole dinner service, but ...
Floyd | well."  Aunt Emma seems to be blushing slightly, and you guess it must
Floyd | be because she broke all the rest of the dishes and doesn't want to
Floyd | admit it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about wales"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales.  I
Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you
Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues,
Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | "Captain Davis was a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt Emma,
Floyd | not looking at you.  "He got a commission with the army and went to
Floyd | India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector.  I hope and pray
Floyd | that you never have to see it."  Well, perhaps, but it would be really
Floyd | exciting....
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about wales"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales.  I
Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you
Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues,
Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x mantlepiece"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MANTLEPIECE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs.  Every time you
Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more
Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it
Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, an owl saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a glass
Floyd | unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of other
Floyd | little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about goblet"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT GOBLET
Floyd |
Floyd | "That is the cup of a carpenter," says Aunt Emma.  You wait for her to
Floyd | continue, but she doesn't seem to want to say any more than that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about cat"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | "Charming, is it not?  I always imagine it's saying hello to me when I
Floyd | come into the parlour in the mornings."  But how can it, when it has
Floyd | no mouth?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about locket"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT LOCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | "That thing was in the house when we moved in, and we've never been
Floyd | able to track down the owners.  Well.  I suppose we're duty-bound to
Floyd | hold on to it until its true owner shows up."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about gnomon"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT GNOMON
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your Uncle Stephen picked that up while on holiday in London.  I
Floyd | don't claim to understand everything about your uncle, but this gnomon
Floyd | clearly means something to him."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "OK, does anyone remember how we got her to be distracted the first time?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about wales"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales.  I
Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you
Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues,
Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about service"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SERVICE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about mother"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT MOTHER
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I could look it up."
Jacqueline says, "The first time, I think, was when we asked her about Wales."
Bert says, "Huh."
Jacqueline says, "Which we were prompted to do because of the saucer, which she told us is from Wales."
Bert says, "It seems like we must be missing something."
Jacqueline asks, "Does it? What are you trying to trigger?"
Bert says, "I want her to be distracted so we can leave the room."
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your
Floyd | place.  Or keeps you there, at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about saucer"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT SAUCER
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's from Wales.  There used to be a whole dinner service, but ...
Floyd | well."  Aunt Emma seems to be blushing slightly, and you guess it must
Floyd | be because she broke all the rest of the dishes and doesn't want to
Floyd | admit it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about wales"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales.  I
Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you
Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues,
Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | "Captain Davis was a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt Emma,
Floyd | not looking at you.  "He got a commission with the army and went to
Floyd | India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector.  I hope and pray
Floyd | that you never have to see it."  Well, perhaps, but it would be really
Floyd | exciting....
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "None of that seems to make her look out the window."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about owen"
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | "Captain Davis was a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt Emma,
Floyd | not looking at you.  "He got a commission with the army and went to
Floyd | India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector.  I hope and pray
Floyd | that you never have to see it."  Well, perhaps, but it would be really
Floyd | exciting....
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh, you just did that."
Jacqueline says, "Well, I am fulfilled enough at this point, myself."
Bert nods.
Jacqueline says, "At this point I would either be up for a one word story session or a nap and then some IF writin'."
Bert says, "We also never found out precisely what the deal was with Stephen and the money and that clerk's wife and our Mother."
Jacqueline says, "True. But I'm not sure we can."
Jacqueline says, "I had hope that you unclogging the flue would let us hear more, but it just ended the game."


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