  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline hollers, "Floyders Choice in the Toyshop today on ClubFloyd with three games proposed: Tree & Star, The Subtropical Server Room, or Body Bargain. Come on in and play!" | ||||
| Johnny arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline asks, "So, three peeps so far. Have either of you played any of these?" | |||
| Johnny studies his palm. "*Ahem*. I can honestly say I never have." | ||||
| inky arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jacqueline says, "I'm betting maga's played Body Bargain and Subtropical." | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of inky), "What about you? Interested in any of these?" | ||||
| Zach arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Jacqueline says, "Hi, Zach." | |||
| Binder arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Jacqueline asks, "So, maybe I should switch up my question. Which of these three would you most like to play?" | |||
| Zach says, "Hey. I'm interested in playing any and all, but I'll probably be in and out doing Easter family stuff." | ||||
| inky says, "I don't know any of them, so I am happy to play the one maga hasn't played" | ||||
| maga asks, "hello?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of maga), "Have you played all of these, or is there one you haven't?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Of Tree & Star, The Subtropical Server Room, or Body Bargain" | ||||
| maga says, "I have played all of those" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "What are we going to do with you, maga?" | ||||
| maga says, "write more games, perhaps" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| vimes arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Binder says, "That sounds like work." | |||
| inky says, "ok, let's play the subtropical server room then" | ||||
| inky says, "I would like to know if it is a room-escape game where you're trapped in a computer room with the temperature rising" | ||||
| inky says, "or if it is about a server room that becomes a magical portal to a jungle world with dinosaurs" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay then, seeing as how everybody else is either 'sure, whichever' or 'no I have already played everything ever written, to include the Vicar of Dribble'" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "maga says it was a cover stories game, and that it is geeky." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Those are both fine things." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load subtropical" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
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Floyd | There's a problem in the Unix Lab! But not enough of one for Corporate
Floyd | to notice. If you can fix that, you may get a raise, and better,
Floyd | you'll feel less guilty daydreaming for the next few years. Go for it!
Floyd |
Floyd | The Subtropical Server Room
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Andrew Schultz
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120611 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Cubicle
Floyd | Your cubicle. By two guys who aren't around much and a third almost as
Floyd | quiet as you. Almost paradise, really, even with your lousy
Floyd | "functional" chair. Your computer's tied up with the day's final test,
Floyd | but you have your mail program open to Something Important. The
Floyd | lunchroom, empty this late, is to the south. The main corridor is
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your computer hasn't stopped gargling and won't for a while. It kept
Floyd | you awake through work but you could use a nap now.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your cubicle's metal drawer--well, the only one without stupid useless
Floyd | files you need to throw out--is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Oops, wait, we probably want sleepmask." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Roger arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask subtropical" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | There's a problem in the Unix Lab! But not enough of one for Corporate Floyd | to notice. If you can fix that, you may get a raise, and better, Floyd | you'll feel less guilty daydreaming for the next few years. Go for it! Floyd | Floyd | The Subtropical Server Room Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Andrew Schultz Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120611 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Your Cubicle Floyd | Your cubicle. By two guys who aren't around much and a third almost as Floyd | quiet as you. Almost paradise, really, even with your lousy Floyd | "functional" chair. Your computer's tied up with the day's final test, Floyd | but you have your mail program open to Something Important. The Floyd | lunchroom, empty this late, is to the south. The main corridor is Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | Your computer hasn't stopped gargling and won't for a while. It kept Floyd | you awake through work but you could use a nap now. Floyd | Floyd | Your cubicle's metal drawer--well, the only one without stupid useless Floyd | files you need to throw out--is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "any game that starts out "There's a problem in the unix lab!" is a good game" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x mail program" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X MAIL PROGRAM Floyd | Floyd | It's a memo about the overheating problem in the new smaller UNIX lab. Floyd | The AIX, DEC, HP-UX and SGI boxes are too old to run without Floyd | substantial cooling. Corporate won't invest unless the machines are Floyd | destroyed. Deliberate vandalism will be tracked and punished. Floyd | Floyd | There's mention of finding ways around this at your own risk, though Floyd | the manager who sent this has joked about this. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I wonder if this is set in the past" | |||
| inky says, "or if the boxes are just really old" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x drawer" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | Nothing special about it, but you hide lots of random stuff in there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | You open the metal drawer, revealing a dull tannish book you bought Floyd | years ago and a flask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get book" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > GET BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | "The Great Tulip Frolick" by Barry Fells. It was the last book on a Floyd | recommended list for kids. That should've been a clue. The city Floyd | library system not having it--another. Amazon.com having several Floyd | copies for a penny? Well, you bought it--just before checking the Floyd | reviews. You felt so dumb, you didn't bother to cancel the order. Floyd | Floyd | It used to be a nice sleeping aide but you built up a tolerance and Floyd | you'd have to be somewhere very comfortable indeed to pull that off. Floyd | Floyd | A bookmark falls out from the last place you gave up. Page five or so. Floyd | You pull it out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bookmark" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > GET BOOKMARK Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bookmark" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKMARK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a description of translating numbers to letters in Leetspeak.
Floyd | Read the details?
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| inky says (to Floyd), "ys" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish
Floyd |
Floyd | > YS
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
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| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | 0=O 1=I 2=Z 3=E 4=A Floyd | 5=S 6=B 7=T 8=B 9=G Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get flask" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > GET FLASK Floyd | Floyd | You notice a paper scrap under the flask as you pick it up. Something Floyd | you probably hid, for whatever reason. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | It has the crest of Intellectual Tech University on it. You remember Floyd | winning it in a White Elephant contest you didn't know you entered. Floyd | You never quite have the heart to pitch it or even recycle it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get scrap" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > GET SCRAP Floyd | Floyd | Yeah, who knows? It might provide a clue. Or half of one. Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x scrap" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SCRAP
Floyd |
Floyd | Oh, yeah. It's that map for a text adventure game you meant to make a
Floyd | long time ago. Inform 6 apparently wasn't enough like plain English
Floyd | for you, so you gave up. Really, what more did you want? But there's a
Floyd | map that looks vaguely familiar. Have a look?
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| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | It looks like some sort of map. Floyd | FO X*---* Floyd | OZ | Floyd | | Floyd | | Floyd | *---*---ME Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | *:::*---* (think up puzzle to GO EAST Floyd | | through stupid new passcode thingy) Floyd | | (decide own actual passcode number) Floyd | | Floyd | *---* Floyd | | Floyd | | Floyd | | Floyd | *---* Floyd | Floyd | (This was written well before Corporate "authorized" downsizing and Floyd | locking off the unix lab. And when everyone moved here, you were chock Floyd | full of new things you wanted to try. What happened?) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it's a game set in your office about a guy writing a game set in their office" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm learning stuff already. A 6 looks nothing like a B compared to how 8 looks like a B, but I think that bookmark was just trying to be completionist." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Your Cubicle Floyd | Your cubicle. With your computer. The lunchroom, empty this late, is Floyd | to the south. The main corridor is west. Floyd | Floyd | Your computer hasn't stopped gargling and won't for a while. It kept Floyd | you awake through work but you could use a nap now. Floyd | Floyd | Your metal drawer is perfectly positioned for tripping up anyone who Floyd | wants to invade your personal space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The Unix Lab is west behind the combo-locked door with a punch-pad to Floyd | the side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x map" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X MAP Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x scrap" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SCRAP
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a rough map of the office. Have a look?
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | It looks like some sort of map. Floyd | FO X*---* Floyd | OZ | Floyd | | Floyd | | Floyd | *---*---ME Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | *:::*---* (think up puzzle to GO EAST Floyd | | through stupid new passcode thingy) Floyd | | (decide own actual passcode number) Floyd | | Floyd | *---* Floyd | | Floyd | | Floyd | | Floyd | *---* Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I was hoping it would update the ME, but I guess not" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | White and forbidding". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pd" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X PD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pad" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X PAD Floyd | Floyd | 1 2 3 Floyd | 4 5 6 Floyd | 7 8 9 Floyd | * 0 # Floyd | Floyd | Yeah, you've seen that before. You remember you need to type in six Floyd | digits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] By the Foozball Room 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | By the Foozball Room Floyd | This is the least talky of the areas, but only because of the foozball Floyd | game eruptions disturb that. IT's cubicles (they get called off-site a Floyd | lot) are east, and the corridor goes south and also hooks around a bit Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] By the Foozball Room 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You hate that place, even with nobody in there. Nothing against the Floyd | people who enjoy it. Just, it'd be worse without the white noise piped Floyd | through the office. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "well, it's a map you sketched up." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "but at least it's a map we don't have to drwa" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] IT Cubicles 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | IT Cubicles Floyd | You like this row. IT works here and they need more space. They're Floyd | off-site today, but fewer cubicles mean less talking. It would be Floyd | perfect if the foozball room weren't to the west with no other real Floyd | way to go. Floyd | Floyd | The squirt gun IT jokingly reserves for people who forget their Floyd | passwords is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "draw, even." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get gun" | ||||
Floyd ] IT Cubicles 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > GET GUN Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd ] IT Cubicles 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're wearing shorts and a t-shirt. It's nice to be able to, to work. Floyd | The shorts have enough room in their pockets to fit any knick-knacks Floyd | you feel like fiddling with. But they aren't ideal for when the air Floyd | conditioning's blasting, like today. The overheated Unix lab would be Floyd | kind of nice that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x squirt" | ||||
Floyd ] IT Cubicles 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X SQUIRT Floyd | Floyd | It's plastic and has got a big crack in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] By the Foozball Room 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | By the Foozball Room Floyd | This is the least talky of the areas, but only because of the foozball Floyd | game eruptions disturb that. IT's cubicles (they get called off-site a Floyd | lot) are east, and the corridor goes south and also hooks around a bit Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The Unix Lab is west behind the combo-locked door with a punch-pad to Floyd | the side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd ] By the Foozball Room 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | By the Foozball Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] By the Foozball Room 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | That's the area where people used to work and the weird machines used Floyd | to be. Salesmen have taken over. You avoid it on general principle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline says, "So, we need to subtly subterfuge the boxes? Or we need to save the day from the server problem before corporate notices? I'm confuzzled. Also, I know subterfuge is a noun, but it was too tempting to say 'subtle subterfuge'" | |||
| inky says, "it seems kind of pointless to have this exit not on the map that also isn't accessible anyway" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, I got the impression the goal was to destroy the boxes in a deniable way" | ||||
| inky says, "or else to go in the server room and take a nap" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The Unix Lab is west behind the combo-locked door with a punch-pad to Floyd | the side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x keypad" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X KEYPAD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | That way is potentially locked by the same code you need for the Unix
Floyd | lab. Which you haven't figured out. Continue?
| Jacqueline says, "The warm unix room sounds cozy for a nap." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd ] Elevators 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Well, maybe someone else will be working a bit late and can let you Floyd | back in. Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the Front Door) Floyd | Elevators Floyd | You are by the elevators. The bathrooms are north--yes, your company's Floyd | side of this floor has no bathroom to themselves. You see a Floyd | number-punch pad that could let you back in. Floyd | Floyd | The big glass door slides shut with a click. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the men's bathroom is here. Floyd | Floyd | You see the big glass door leading into the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lunch Room Floyd | There's a sink here and a fridge too. And a coffeemaker. But no Floyd | toaster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You have long since finished your lunch of canned vegetables today. Floyd | Nothing in there for you. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "grody" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X SINK Floyd | Floyd | It's a sink. You can use it to fill things with water. Well, things Floyd | that might be able to hold stuff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "fill gun with water" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > FILL GUN WITH WATER Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to fill the squirt gun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "fill gun" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > FILL GUN Floyd | Floyd | You start to, but the water dribbles through the crack in the plastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | More of the north-south corridor here. The place where people play Floyd | smart people games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Gaming Row Floyd | There's a chessboard here. There's also a stack of papers of old Floyd | games. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Why do I suspect the code will be hidden somewhere in a word that includes O, I, Z, E, A, S, B, T, or G?" | |||
| inky says, "it does seem likely" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chessboard" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X CHESSBOARD Floyd | Floyd | It's actually your game now, and you don't have the heart to tell your Floyd | opponent how busted he is. You won a pawn early and the endgame should Floyd | just be a grind out affair. It's useful to walk by once the foozball Floyd | starts up, but not today. Your opponent has the day off, and it's his Floyd | move. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny asks, "What's more likely in an office, tape or blue tack?" | |||
| Zach asks, "On the map maybe?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stack" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row 5-to-6-ish
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STACK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's gotten thick over the years. Looking through it all would take
Floyd | too long, though since you're playing the current game, do you want to
Floyd | review them?
| Jacqueline says (to Johnny), "Tape, but blue tack does sound more useful." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | SHAD vs DASH Floyd | Floyd | 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. b3 bxc4 5. bxc4 g6 6. Nc3 d6 7. e4 Bg7 Floyd | 8. Bb2 Nxe4 9. Qc2 Qa5 10. Rc1 Nxc3 11. Bxc3 Bxc3+ 12. Qxc3 Qxc3+ 13. Floyd | Rxc3 Nd7 14. Nf3 Rb8 15. Bd3 Rb2 16. Ra3 a6 17. O-O Nf6 18. Rb1 Rxb1+ Floyd | 19. Bxb1 e6 Floyd | > | inky says, "I wonder whether we are SHAD or DASH" | |||
| Johnny says, "If we fix the gun, we can shoot the overheated boxes with water." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Gaming Row Floyd | There's a chessboard here. There's also a stack of papers of old Floyd | games. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | South Cubicle Area Floyd | You can go back north to the cubicles you already passed. There are Floyd | managers' offices to the south. You probably don't want to bug them Floyd | now. Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's cubicle is to the east. You probably don't want him to bug Floyd | you now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Because adventure games." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | If you wanted an office to walk into, you should've been more Floyd | career-minded. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "heh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's Cubicle Floyd | This is where Ed Toop works and talks at the same time. Often his talk Floyd | is about work, too, but not this late. Floyd | Floyd | Ed's key ring is on a hook here. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Ed Toop here. Floyd | Floyd | Ed laughs at the mainstream luddites who've only found about Dropbox Floyd | just now Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ed toop" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X ED TOOP Floyd | Floyd | Avoid eye contact, man. Even if he's on the phone. I mean, he's not Floyd | like ugly or anything average looking, but he'll come by and ask if Floyd | you needed anything later. Then, while he's over... Floyd | Floyd | Ed complains loudly enough about a company-wide spam relevant only to Floyd | sales people that you sympathize with the schlep who sent it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get key ring" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > GET KEY RING Floyd | Floyd | Ed's pretty self-absorbed, but sadly, that extends to his possessions. Floyd | You'll have to wait til he leaves. Floyd | Floyd | Ed bemoans common abuses of English grammar, ending with a "Double-U Floyd | Tee F" and "sigh." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ed toop" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X ED TOOP Floyd | Floyd | Avoid eye contact, man. Even if he's on the phone. I mean, he's not Floyd | like ugly or anything average looking, but he'll come by and ask if Floyd | you needed anything later. Then, while he's over... Floyd | Floyd | Ed complains loudly enough about a company-wide spam relevant only to Floyd | sales people that you sympathize with the schlep who sent it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ed's eyes" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ED'S EYES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's Cubicle Floyd | This is where Ed Toop works and talks at the same time. Often his talk Floyd | is about work, too, but not this late. Floyd | Floyd | Ed's key ring is on a hook here. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Ed Toop here. Floyd | Floyd | Ed rages at people who need straw men to make their lives exciting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hook" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X HOOK Floyd | Floyd | Don't futz with that. It's the key ring that's important. Floyd | Floyd | Ed complains how yet another piece of correspondence for Jed Toopwald Floyd | wound up in his mailbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x phone" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X PHONE Floyd | Floyd | Doing anything with Ed's phone would be illegal and unethical and Floyd | probably more fun just to think about doing. Floyd | Floyd | "At the end of the day..." Ed says, and you mentally add five minutes Floyd | to when his conversation will end. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "heh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x scrap" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SCRAP
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a rough map of the office. Have a look?
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| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | It looks like some sort of map. Floyd | FO X*---* Floyd | OZ | Floyd | | Floyd | | Floyd | *---*---ME Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | *:::*---* (think up puzzle to GO EAST Floyd | | through stupid new passcode thingy) Floyd | | (decide own actual passcode number) Floyd | | Floyd | *---* Floyd | | Floyd | | Floyd | | Floyd | *---* Floyd | Floyd | Ed bemoans common abuses of English grammar, ending with a "Double-U Floyd | Tee F" and "sigh." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So the reason we don't like Ed is he talks and is boring?" | |||
| inky says, "that seems to be the implication" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x push save" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X PUSH SAVE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "er" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You remember actually liking a movie Ed Toop suggested once. Floyd | Confusing. Time to get away. Floyd | Floyd | South Cubicle Area Floyd | You can go back north to the cubicles you already passed. There are Floyd | managers' offices to the south. You probably don't want to bug them Floyd | now. Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's cubicle is to the east. You probably don't want him to bug Floyd | you now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | Jacqueline asks, "Did you want to save?" | |||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky clears the save counter. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | That way is potentially locked by the same code you need for the Unix
Floyd | lab. Which you haven't figured out. Continue?
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| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd ] Elevators 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Well, maybe someone else will be working a bit late and can let you Floyd | back in. Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the Front Door) Floyd | Elevators Floyd | You are by the elevators. The bathrooms are north--yes, your company's Floyd | side of this floor has no bathroom to themselves. You see a Floyd | number-punch pad that could let you back in. Floyd | Floyd | The big glass door slides shut with a click. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the men's bathroom is here. Floyd | Floyd | You see the big glass door leading into the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Elevators 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the bathroom door) Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bathroom door" | ||||
Floyd ] Elevators 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X BATHROOM DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the bathroom door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Elevators Floyd | You are by the elevators. You see a number-punch pad that could let Floyd | you back in. Floyd | Floyd | The big glass door slides shut with a click. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the men's bathroom is here. Floyd | Floyd | You see the big glass door leading into the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | What do you know? Someone working late opens the door for you. You Floyd | slip back through. Might take longer later, though. Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "aw c'mon" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So, are we actually on a timer? I guess the whole 5-to-6ish might change." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's actually see if Ed is useful for anything." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | South Cubicle Area Floyd | You can go back north to the cubicles you already passed. There are Floyd | managers' offices to the south. You probably don't want to bug them Floyd | now. Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's cubicle is to the east. You probably don't want him to bug Floyd | you now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's Cubicle Floyd | This is where Ed Toop works and talks at the same time. Often his talk Floyd | is about work, too, but not this late. Floyd | Floyd | Ed's key ring is on a hook here. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Ed Toop here. Floyd | Floyd | Ed rages at people who need straw men to make their lives exciting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > READ BOOK Floyd | Floyd | You turn the book upside-down and flip it to see if anything else Floyd | falls out. Nothing. You catch some writing on an early page and Floyd | remember why it made you fall asleep. But it's kind of cold and Floyd | uncomfortable here and reading would just leave you antsy. Floyd | Floyd | "In fairness," begins Ed. He's generously fair to the other side once Floyd | the captive listenee is too tired to really listen any more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give book to ed" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE BOOK TO ED Floyd | Floyd | (Ed Toop) Floyd | Ed shoos you away and points to his phone, then raises a hand in Floyd | frustration. Floyd | Floyd | "At the end of the day..." Ed says, and you mentally add five minutes Floyd | to when his conversation will end. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen to ed" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN TO ED Floyd | Floyd | (Ed Toop) Floyd | You hear enough without trying. Don't torture yourself! Floyd | Floyd | Ed bemoans common abuses of English grammar, ending with a "Double-U Floyd | Tee F" and "sigh." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a squirt gun Floyd | a paper scrap Floyd | a flask Floyd | a bookmark Floyd | a dull tannish book you bought years ago Floyd | a flash drive Floyd | an Allstar Employee Badge Floyd | Floyd | Ed complains how yet another piece of correspondence for Jed Toopwald Floyd | wound up in his mailbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x gun" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X GUN Floyd | Floyd | It's plastic and has got a big crack in it. Floyd | Floyd | "In fairness," begins Ed. He's generously fair to the other side once Floyd | the captive listenee is too tired to really listen any more. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I would like to fix the gun and then squirt Ed." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Just 'cuz." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "or, should I say... just 'cause" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x badge" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X BADGE Floyd | Floyd | It's laminated and apparently magnetized, with an only marginally Floyd | unflattering picture on the front (D SLAPNEY) and a bar-code on the Floyd | back. Its main use is entering the front door or the Unix Lab, which Floyd | you haven't yet. You remember making it obvious once you knew it. Floyd | Floyd | Ed complains how yet another piece of correspondence for Jed Toopwald Floyd | wound up in his mailbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Wait, so we need a code to get into that room, or just this card?" | |||
| Johnny asks, "Our name is Dash Slapney?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "ba-dum-tish" | ||||
| inky says, "oh yeah, inventory" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x drive" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X DRIVE Floyd | Floyd | This was part of a local store's free Christmas giveaway--a whopping Floyd | 250 MB of disk space! It's a depressing olive green, and you use it to Floyd | transport writing stuff to and from work. You even wrote a spiffy PERL Floyd | program to detect which of your files is the newest version so you Floyd | don't copy things the wrong way. Floyd | Floyd | It came with a hole ostensibly for a keychain, hopefully weightless, Floyd | as otherwise the flash drive could snap when plugged into the USB Floyd | port. Floyd | Floyd | But you found a neat site called Dropbox today. You dumped your files Floyd | there. You'll probably carry this stupid drive around with you longer Floyd | than you need, though. It's tough to throw old stuff out. Floyd | Floyd | Ed complains about low salaries for game developers and high prices Floyd | for games. Then he sniffs at retro gaming Floyd | > | inky says, "hunh, weird" | |||
| inky asks, "ok, maybe this is set a couple years ag?" | ||||
| inky says, "er, ago" | ||||
| Johnny says, "#pedant Perl." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "This was a cover stories game from last year." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, you said 'set a couple years ago'" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, we're playing 2012 games since it's Xyzzy season. I'm nominating Ed for 'most annoying NPC'" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bookmark" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKMARK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a description of translating numbers to letters in Leetspeak.
Floyd | Read the details?
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| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | 0=O 1=I 2=Z 3=E 4=A Floyd | 5=S 6=B 7=T 8=B 9=G Floyd | Floyd | "In fairness," begins Ed. He's generously fair to the other side once Floyd | the captive listenee is too tired to really listen any more. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We know it's a four digit code." | |||
| inky says, "so the code isn't just your first or last name or something" | ||||
| inky says, "hmm, I thought it was six" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh, is it?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x compute" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X COMPUTE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x computer" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You remember Ed Toop's documents on PERL tricks were actually kind of Floyd | useful. Confusing. Time to get away. Floyd | Floyd | South Cubicle Area Floyd | You can go back north to the cubicles you already passed. There are Floyd | managers' offices to the south. You probably don't want to bug them Floyd | now. Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's cubicle is to the east. You probably don't want him to bug Floyd | you now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x keypad" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X KEYPAD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny asks, "six digits, no?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The Unix Lab is west behind the combo-locked door with a punch-pad to Floyd | the side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pad" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X PAD Floyd | Floyd | 1 2 3 Floyd | 4 5 6 Floyd | 7 8 9 Floyd | * 0 # Floyd | Floyd | Yeah, you've seen that before. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | White and forbidding". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "type 1234 on pad" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE 1234 ON PAD Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push 1" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH 1 Floyd | Floyd | No, it was six digits, not 1. You remember that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Cubicle Floyd | Your cubicle. With your computer. The lunchroom, empty this late, is Floyd | to the south. The main corridor is west. Floyd | Floyd | Your computer hasn't stopped gargling and won't for a while. It kept Floyd | you awake through work but you could use a nap now. Floyd | Floyd | Your metal drawer is perfectly positioned for tripping up anyone who Floyd | wants to invade your personal space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x computer" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | It's kind of coughing and gargling right now. You're running some Floyd | heavy duty Windows tests what with the Unix lab snafu. The thing takes Floyd | a whole minute to react when you push a key. But it is open to a mail Floyd | message. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x message" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X MESSAGE Floyd | Floyd | It's a memo about the overheating problem in the new smaller UNIX lab. Floyd | The AIX, DEC, HP-UX and SGI boxes are too old to run without Floyd | substantial cooling. Corporate won't invest unless the machines are Floyd | destroyed. Deliberate vandalism will be tracked and punished. Floyd | Floyd | There's mention of finding ways around this at your own risk, though Floyd | the manager who sent this has joked about this. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, six." | |||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky says, "I feel like we ought to be able to deduce the answer from the available letters" | ||||
| inky says, "but I am not really getting it" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put usb in computer" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > PUT USB IN COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put memory in computer" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > PUT MEMORY IN COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a squirt gun Floyd | a paper scrap Floyd | a flask Floyd | a bookmark Floyd | a dull tannish book you bought years ago Floyd | a flash drive Floyd | an Allstar Employee Badge Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put flash drive in computer" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > PUT FLASH DRIVE IN COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | Some are so ancient they have no USB port. Others probably have the Floyd | wrong sort of file reader. You don't know about that stuff and don't Floyd | want to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x flask" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X FLASK Floyd | Floyd | It has the crest of Intellectual Tech University on it. You remember Floyd | winning it in a White Elephant contest you didn't know you entered. Floyd | You never quite have the heart to pitch it or even recycle it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in flash" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN FLASH Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in flask" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN FLASK Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The Unix Lab is west behind the combo-locked door with a punch-pad to Floyd | the side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lunch Room Floyd | There's a sink here and a fridge too. And a coffeemaker. But no Floyd | toaster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "fill flask" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > FILL FLASK Floyd | Floyd | You open it, and it smells kind of musty. It doesn't seem like a nice Floyd | place to store water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x coffeemaker" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X COFFEEMAKER Floyd | Floyd | You never knew how those things worked until you Googled it. The Floyd | thought of used coffee filters is still kind of nasty to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "SGI is the only one you can spell with the available letters." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Johnny), "Yeah, I was just noticing that." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I was more 'huh'ing at the idea of having to use Google to figure out how a coffee pot worked." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I wonder if 591591 would work." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The Unix Lab is west behind the combo-locked door with a punch-pad to Floyd | the side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push 591591" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH 591591 Floyd | Floyd | Hmm. That seems to have been the wrong number. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push 123456" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH 123456 Floyd | Floyd | Hmm. That seems to have been the wrong number. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push 654321" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH 654321 Floyd | Floyd | Hmm. That seems to have been the wrong number. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x badge" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X BADGE Floyd | Floyd | It's laminated and apparently magnetized, with an only marginally Floyd | unflattering picture on the front (D SLAPNEY) and a bar-code on the Floyd | back. Its main use is entering the front door or the Unix Lab, which Floyd | you haven't yet. You remember making it obvious once you knew it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "591591 beign SGISGI" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x barcode" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X BARCODE Floyd | Floyd | You don't understand it, and you can't do anything with it anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh well" | |||
| Johnny says, "If only we could tell which keys were most worn." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "scan badge" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > SCAN BADGE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "How is it that we work here and don't know the codes?" | |||
| inky says, "it is true that is a little mysterious" | ||||
| inky says, "I mean, in point of fact I don't know the codes for the server rooms at my office" | ||||
| inky says, "because that stuff is limited to the IT folks" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, but he also doesn't know the code to get in from outside." | ||||
| Johnny says, "I kind of feel like we've been A) fired B) without being notified and C) still on the pay roll." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Like, to reach his desk." | ||||
| inky says, "but the protagonist here has apparently been in them before, they have just forgotten the code" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to johnny), "ha" | ||||
| inky says (to Johnny), "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "that would be a good 9:05 version" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||||
| inky says, "it seems like a game about your office but actually you are a crazy shooter trying to get back into the office and kill people" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "No, just the servers." | ||||
| inky says, "good point" | ||||
| inky says, "ok, so I dunno" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Seems like water damage is promising." | ||||
| inky asks, "do we need to ask maga for a hint here?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, ">GRUNTLE. >DISGRUNTLE" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | That way is potentially locked by the same code you need for the Unix
Floyd | lab. Which you haven't figured out. Continue?
| ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd ] Elevators 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Well, maybe someone else will be working a bit late and can let you Floyd | back in. Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the Front Door) Floyd | Elevators Floyd | You are by the elevators. You see a number-punch pad that could let Floyd | you back in. Floyd | Floyd | The big glass door slides shut with a click. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the men's bathroom is here. Floyd | Floyd | You see the big glass door leading into the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bathroom" | ||||
Floyd ] Elevators 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X BATHROOM Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the bathroom door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the bathroom door) Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | What do you know? Someone working late opens the door for you. You Floyd | slip back through. Might take longer later, though. Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x scrap" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SCRAP
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a rough map of the office. Have a look?
| ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | It looks like some sort of map. Floyd | FO X*---* Floyd | OZ | Floyd | | Floyd | | Floyd | *---*---ME Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | | | Floyd | *:::*---* (think up puzzle to GO EAST Floyd | | through stupid new passcode thingy) Floyd | | (decide own actual passcode number) Floyd | | Floyd | *---* Floyd | | Floyd | | Floyd | | Floyd | *---* Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Not yet." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The Unix Lab is west behind the combo-locked door with a punch-pad to Floyd | the side. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Have we seen a way to fix the squirt gun?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push 903457" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH 903457 Floyd | Floyd | That's it! The door beeps instead of booping. You can now enter the Floyd | Unix lab. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "now, why it should be 'GO EAST' when the door is west, that is another story" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You think you hear the west door creak. You're not sure. Floyd | Floyd | You pause a second. You might be able to think up some weird scheme to Floyd | do something, but you don't get the big crazy ideas with other people Floyd | around. But if you just fritter time away, you'll be antsy when Floyd | everyone's gone. Floyd | Floyd | Unix Lab Floyd | Here's where the magic happens, though people usually telnet in Floyd | because it's easier that way. The servers are all humming away, and Floyd | while it's a bit warm, that's a welcome change from the freezing Floyd | outside. Except for the whole can't quite do your job bit, since it's Floyd | a bit TOO warm. You pick out various random lights in the Floyd | semi-darkness. Floyd | Floyd | There's a forbidding door west in the semi-darkness. You've never Floyd | tried to enter it and won't start now. Floyd | Floyd | The door you came in by is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a delightfully comfy chair here. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door gives a beep. It's shut again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "ha" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Nice" | ||||
| inky says, "I guess it makes more sense if it's for the front door" | ||||
| inky says, "also, it is weird design to use the same code for the front door and the server room -- if you have to get through the front door to get to the server room, you could just leave the server room unlocked" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "yeah" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x server" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X SERVER Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the servers, the AIX server, the HP-UX server, the Floyd | SGI server, the Linux server farm, or the Solaris server farm? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x aix" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X AIX Floyd | Floyd | It's horrendously ancient and inefficient. You hate it and its stuipd Floyd | dot-o and dot-a files and its SHLIBPATH and how you need to type Floyd | slibclean. Floyd | Floyd | It's a version you all plan to drop support for. Nobody would miss it Floyd | if something happened. But you didn't hear that from me. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, I want to nap in the warm comfy chair." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hp-ux" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab 5-to-6-ish
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HP-UX
Floyd |
Floyd | Almost as bad as the AIX server. It's so ungodly slow, backspace and
Floyd | control-p are broken by default, and apparently, it's insured against
Floyd | the sort of catastrophe it deserves, too.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| inky says, "the room description seems to imply we should nap and then destroy the servers later" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cgi" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X CGI Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "oops sgi" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > OOPS SGI Floyd | Floyd | It's kind of slow and cranky and the errors it throws on ports helps Floyd | keep you secure in your testing job when you catch them. But it's not Floyd | particularly replaceable, and a big customer still uses SGI. Floyd | Floyd | Plus you remember days in college totally rocking 4-minute chess on Floyd | one server. Til the admins there figured how to compensate for lag. Floyd | Memories. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x linux" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X LINUX Floyd | Floyd | The Linux server is working fine. Actually it's more of a server farm, Floyd | and you try to avoid touching it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x solaris" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > X SOLARIS Floyd | Floyd | Solaris has always been pretty reliable. It wouldn't do to break the Floyd | Solaris server farm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sit in chair" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > SIT IN CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | Memories of previous boring tasks made pleasant and relaxing rush back Floyd | to you as you sit down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > READ BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Sometimes you used to read it around 4 PM when people started talking Floyd | and no work would get done anyway and your time was better spent Floyd | sleeping. But once you half-memorized the first few pages, you Floyd | couldn't pretend to concentrate. Plus when you moved, someone nabbed Floyd | your comfy chaiir. But you need to let that go. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "er" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | Out here? In public? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nabbed our comfy chair? I wonder if that is our chair." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Unix Lab (on the delightfully comfy chair) Floyd | Here's where the magic happens, though people usually telnet in Floyd | because it's easier that way. The servers are all humming away, and Floyd | while it's a bit warm, that's a welcome change from the freezing Floyd | outside. Except for the whole can't quite do your job bit, since it's Floyd | a bit TOO warm. You pick out various random lights in the Floyd | semi-darkness. Floyd | Floyd | There's a forbidding door west in the semi-darkness. You've never Floyd | tried to enter it and won't start now. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door to the west doesn't look so tough now that you so Floyd | awesomely derived the passcode you never should've forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab 5-to-6-ish Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the delightfully comfy chair. Floyd | Floyd | Unix Lab Floyd | Here's where the magic happens, though people usually telnet in Floyd | because it's easier that way. The servers are all humming away, and Floyd | while it's a bit warm, that's a welcome change from the freezing Floyd | outside. Except for the whole can't quite do your job bit, since it's Floyd | a bit TOO warm. You pick out various random lights in the Floyd | semi-darkness. Floyd | Floyd | There's a forbidding door west in the semi-darkness. You've never Floyd | tried to enter it and won't start now. Floyd | Floyd | The door you came in by is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a delightfully comfy chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab 5-to-6-ish
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | Hoo boy. You'll need a seat in the comfy chair for this one.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| inky says, "weak" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push space" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab 5-to-6-ish | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | You hit page 17 a new record thanks to this comfy chair management Floyd | moved here to encourage thorough cross-platform testing and exhausted Floyd | from the effort of pretending it's better than it is you conk out and Floyd | are rewarded with a new dream world you'll forget once you wake up Floyd | which is too bad as Barry Fells would be jealous but you're all about Floyd | the world saving and... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late
Floyd | ...GOOD GOD NO IT'S ED TOOP EXPLAINING POSSIBLE SCIENTIFIC REASONS FOR
Floyd | THIS PHENOMENON AND THE KING AND PRINCESS ARE SO SURE HE WOULD'VE
Floyd | SAVED THEIR WORLD MORE EFFICIENTLY THEY APPOINT HIM REGENT AND YOU
Floyd | SUB-REGENT AND CLOSE THE WORMHOLE YOU WERE ABOUT TO GO BACK THROUGH
Floyd | but then you wake up and it's a few hours past leaving time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Now it is Way Too Late, which bodes well for messing with the servers." | |||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Unix Lab Floyd | Here's where the magic happens, though people usually telnet in Floyd | because it's easier that way. The servers are all humming away, and Floyd | while it's a bit warm, that's a welcome change from the freezing Floyd | outside. Except for the whole can't quite do your job bit, since it's Floyd | a bit TOO warm. You pick out various random lights in the Floyd | semi-darkness. Floyd | Floyd | There's a forbidding door west in the semi-darkness. You've never Floyd | tried to enter it and won't start now. Floyd | Floyd | The door you came in by is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a delightfully comfy chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the forbidding door) Floyd | You don't like going near the door. You're not sure what's behind Floyd | there. Maybe a pile of gadgets waiting to crash down or maybe just a Floyd | big "YOU'RE FIRED, MISTER NOSEY" on the rear wall. You don't want to Floyd | find out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the Lab Door) Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door to the west doesn't look so tough now that you so Floyd | awesomely derived the passcode you never should've forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Someone stuck a printout to the wall about proper care of Moolosks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x printout" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X PRINTOUT Floyd | Floyd | It describes the Moolosk, an unholy communion of Maguay and Furby. Floyd | Apparently not only does the Moolosk turn into a monster if shot with Floyd | water around midnight, but its feeding patterns start small and grow Floyd | rapidly. It hates bright light but is attracted to glowing. Floyd | Floyd | You notice JOB FOR ETOOP@6:15PM at the bottom. You chuckle anyway, Floyd | since you notice it was printed from some URL. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "uh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | South Cubicle Area Floyd | You can go back north to the cubicles you already passed. There are Floyd | managers' offices to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's cubicle is to the east. He's not there now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly Ed Toop's phone rings! Well, it's not a ring, but a stupid Floyd | sad-saxophone noise. You hadn't heard it so long, the ambush hurt. You Floyd | step back, a bit scared. It's probably safe to get closer, but you Floyd | have to catch your breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "breath" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > BREATH Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "breathe" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > BREATHE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's Cubicle Floyd | This is where Ed Toop works and talks at the same time. But not now. Floyd | Floyd | Ed's key ring is on a hook here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ring" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > GET RING Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | It unlocks various important places like the main router room, which Floyd | you won't go near, and the men's bathroom out past the elevators. If Floyd | you replace it, Ed will never miss it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | South Cubicle Area Floyd | You can go back north to the cubicles you already passed. There are Floyd | managers' offices to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's cubicle is to the east. He's not there now. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "why does Ed have the only key to the bathroom?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | If you wanted an office to walk into, you should've been more Floyd | career-minded. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | That Moolosk printout is still here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get printout" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > GET PRINTOUT Floyd | Floyd | Other people may not have gotten to see it yet. You know someone Floyd | annoying put it up there, but it was mildly amusing, you guess. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Elevators Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the Front Door) Floyd | Floyd | Elevators Floyd | You are by the elevators. You see a number-punch pad that could let Floyd | you back in. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the men's bathroom is here. Floyd | Floyd | You see the big glass door leading into the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock bathroom" | ||||
Floyd ] Elevators Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK BATHROOM Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to unlock the bathroom door with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "key" | ||||
Floyd ] Elevators Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > KEY Floyd | Floyd | You unlock the bathroom door. Floyd | Floyd | The front door gives a beep. It's shut again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Men's room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the bathroom door) Floyd | Floyd | Men's room Floyd | The door to the men's bathroom is here. Floyd | Floyd | You see a roll of fluorescent tape here on top of the paper towel Floyd | dispenser. Someone left it there, and it's not unsanitary, so there Floyd | you go. The cleaning lady isn't tall enough to reach it, but you are. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get tape" | ||||
Floyd ] Men's room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > GET TAPE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The bathroom door creaks back on its hinges and closes. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whoever said tape wins!!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tape on gun" | ||||
Floyd ] Men's room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PUT TAPE ON GUN Floyd | Floyd | You tape up the crack. The gun should be good to go for a while. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Elevators Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the bathroom door) Floyd | Floyd | Elevators Floyd | You are by the elevators. You see a number-punch pad that could let Floyd | you back in. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the men's bathroom is here. Floyd | Floyd | You see the big glass door leading into the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||||
Floyd ] Elevators Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the bathroom door or the Front Door? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bathroom" | ||||
Floyd ] Elevators Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > BATHROOM Floyd | Floyd | You close the bathroom door. Floyd | Floyd | The bathroom door creaks back on its hinges and closes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lock it" | ||||
Floyd ] Elevators Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > LOCK IT Floyd | Floyd | (with the key ring) Floyd | You're on the wrong side for that. Floyd | Floyd | That's locked at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Punching in the combo, you walk through. Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the Front Door) Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lunch Room Floyd | There's a sink here and a fridge too. And a coffeemaker. But no Floyd | toaster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "fill gun" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > FILL GUN Floyd | Floyd | You fill the squirt gun with water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door to the west doesn't look so tough now that you so Floyd | awesomely derived the passcode you never should've forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You re-punch the code, because the door is evil like that, and you Floyd | walk on through... Floyd | Floyd | Unix Lab Floyd | Here's where the magic happens, though people usually telnet in Floyd | because it's easier that way. The servers are all humming away, and Floyd | while it's a bit warm, that's a welcome change from the freezing Floyd | outside. Except for the whole can't quite do your job bit, since it's Floyd | a bit TOO warm. Your tape glows in the semi-darkness. Floyd | Floyd | There's a forbidding door west in the semi-darkness. You've never Floyd | tried to enter it and won't start now. Floyd | Floyd | The door you came in by is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a delightfully comfy chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot aix" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > SHOOT AIX Floyd | Floyd | The lab door gives a beep. It's shut again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot aix with gun" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > SHOOT AIX WITH GUN Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to shoot the AIX server. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoto aix" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > SHOTO AIX Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot aix" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > SHOOT AIX Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot sgi" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > SHOOT SGI Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hrm" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "shoot gun" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > SHOOT GUN Floyd | Floyd | Say what you want to squirt with it, instead. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Oh, squirt?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "squirt aix" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > SQUIRT AIX Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "shoot gun at aix" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > SHOOT GUN AT AIX Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to shoot the squirt gun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "squirt aix with gun" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > SQUIRT AIX WITH GUN Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to squirt the AIX server. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess we have to find one of those whaddyacalls" | |||
| Johnny asks, "verbs?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "squirt" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > SQUIRT Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to squirt? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "aix" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > AIX Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Is this... hm, maga?" | |||
| Johnny says, "You know what we didn't ask maga is if the games were all winnable." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "He ... has told me something." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I can reveal if people are okay with me revealing... it's not *too* spoilery." | ||||
| inky says, "sure" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "..Johnny?" | ||||
| Johnny says, "OK." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, he thinks we're not meant to squirt the servers." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "He also thinks there's something we haven't noticed yet." | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "shoot me" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > SHOOT ME Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "okey doke" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the forbidding door) Floyd | You don't like going near the door. You're not sure what's behind Floyd | there. Maybe a pile of gadgets waiting to crash down or maybe just a Floyd | big "YOU'RE FIRED, MISTER NOSEY" on the rear wall. You don't want to Floyd | find out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the Lab Door) Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door to the west doesn't look so tough now that you so Floyd | awesomely derived the passcode you never should've forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] By the Foozball Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | By the Foozball Room Floyd | This is the least talky of the areas, but only because of the foozball Floyd | game eruptions disturb that. IT's cubicles (they get called off-site a Floyd | lot) are east, and the corridor goes south and also hooks around a bit Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] By the Foozball Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You hate that place, even with nobody in there. Nothing against the Floyd | people who enjoy it. Just, it'd be worse without the white noise piped Floyd | through the office. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] IT Cubicles Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | IT Cubicles Floyd | You like this row. IT works here and they need more space. They're Floyd | off-site today, but fewer cubicles mean less talking. It would be Floyd | perfect if the foozball room weren't to the west with no other real Floyd | way to go. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] By the Foozball Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | By the Foozball Room Floyd | This is the least talky of the areas, but only because of the foozball Floyd | game eruptions disturb that. IT's cubicles (they get called off-site a Floyd | lot) are east, and the corridor goes south and also hooks around a bit Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] By the Foozball Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | That's the area where people used to work and the weird machines used Floyd | to be. Salesmen have taken over. You avoid it on general principle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door to the west doesn't look so tough now that you so Floyd | awesomely derived the passcode you never should've forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Cubicle Floyd | Your cubicle. With your computer. The lunchroom, empty this late, is Floyd | to the south. The main corridor is west. Floyd | Floyd | Your computer hasn't stopped gargling and won't for a while. It kept Floyd | you awake through work but you could use a nap now. Floyd | Floyd | Your metal drawer is perfectly positioned for tripping up anyone who Floyd | wants to invade your personal space. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says, "nothing seems to be different here" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x computer" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | It's kind of coughing and gargling right now. You're running some Floyd | heavy duty Windows tests what with the Unix lab snafu. The thing takes Floyd | a whole minute to react when you push a key. But it is open to a mail Floyd | message. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door to the west doesn't look so tough now that you so Floyd | awesomely derived the passcode you never should've forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lunch Room Floyd | There's a sink here and a fridge too. And a coffeemaker. But no Floyd | toaster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You have long since finished your lunch of canned vegetables today. Floyd | Nothing in there for you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | That Moolosk printout is still here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Gaming Row Floyd | There's a chessboard here. There's also a stack of papers of old Floyd | games. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chessboard" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X CHESSBOARD Floyd | Floyd | Frustrating. Being up a pawn should feel secure but you always worry Floyd | about dumb mistakes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "We probably need that printout somehow." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | That Moolosk printout is still here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "What about that room we're afraid to go in?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get printout" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > GET PRINTOUT Floyd | Floyd | Other people may not have gotten to see it yet. You know someone Floyd | annoying put it up there, but it was mildly amusing, you guess. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | It describes the Moolosk, an unholy communion of Maguay and Furby. Floyd | Apparently not only does the Moolosk turn into a monster if shot with Floyd | water around midnight, but its feeding patterns start small and grow Floyd | rapidly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Oh, hm." | |||
| inky says, "I can't figure out what a maguay is" | ||||
| Johnny says, "Mogwai." | ||||
| inky says, "oh! heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Johnny knows about Perl and magwai." | ||||
| Johnny says, "I mean, presumably ASchultz was able to clear the rights to Furby but not Gremlins." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | It describes the Moolosk, an unholy communion of Maguay and Furby. Floyd | Apparently not only does the Moolosk turn into a monster if shot with Floyd | water around midnight, but its feeding patterns start small and grow Floyd | rapidly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "A furby is that thing that sucks your hair off your head while you have a haircut, right?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | It describes the Moolosk, an unholy communion of Maguay and Furby. Floyd | Apparently not only does the Moolosk turn into a monster if shot with Floyd | water around midnight, but its feeding patterns start small and grow Floyd | rapidly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | It describes the Moolosk, an unholy communion of Maguay and Furby. Floyd | Apparently not only does the Moolosk turn into a monster if shot with Floyd | water around midnight, but its feeding patterns start small and grow Floyd | rapidly. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says, "I coulda sworn it used to say something different at the end" | ||||
| Johnny says, "It's a toy stuffed animal/talking robot." | ||||
inky | Floyd | rapidly. It hates bright light but is attracted to glowing. inky | Floyd | a bit TOO warm. Your tape glows in the semi-darkness. | Jacqueline | It hates bright light but is attracted to glowing. | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door to the west doesn't look so tough now that you so Floyd | awesomely derived the passcode you never should've forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You re-punch the code, because the door is evil like that, and you Floyd | walk on through... Floyd | Floyd | Unix Lab Floyd | Here's where the magic happens, though people usually telnet in Floyd | because it's easier that way. The servers are all humming away, and Floyd | while it's a bit warm, that's a welcome change from the freezing Floyd | outside. Except for the whole can't quite do your job bit, since it's Floyd | a bit TOO warm. Your tape glows in the semi-darkness. Floyd | Floyd | There's a forbidding door west in the semi-darkness. You've never Floyd | tried to enter it and won't start now. Floyd | Floyd | The door you came in by is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a delightfully comfy chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Man, it's nice to have nobody around. But you want to get through with Floyd | things. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door gives a beep. It's shut again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Man, it's nice to have nobody around. But you want to get through with Floyd | things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "break aix" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK AIX Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline leans forward. | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the forbidding door or the Lab Door? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "forbidding" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > FORBIDDING Floyd | Floyd | You don't like going near the door. You're not sure what's behind Floyd | there. Maybe a pile of gadgets waiting to crash down or maybe just a Floyd | big "YOU'RE FIRED, MISTER NOSEY" on the rear wall. You don't want to Floyd | find out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | You don't like going near the door. You're not sure what's behind Floyd | there. Maybe a pile of gadgets waiting to crash down or maybe just a Floyd | big "YOU'RE FIRED, MISTER NOSEY" on the rear wall. You don't want to Floyd | find out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "plug in flash" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG IN FLASH Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put flash in computer" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PUT FLASH IN COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a roll of fluorescent tape Floyd | a key ring Floyd | a squirt gun Floyd | a paper scrap Floyd | a flask Floyd | a bookmark Floyd | a dull tannish book you bought years ago Floyd | a flash drive Floyd | an Allstar Employee Badge Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put flash in linux" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PUT FLASH IN LINUX Floyd | Floyd | Some are so ancient they have no USB port. Others probably have the Floyd | wrong sort of file reader. You don't know about that stuff and don't Floyd | want to. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "weird" | |||
| inky says, "I think we got this error message elsewhere" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the Lab Door) Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door to the west doesn't look so tough now that you so Floyd | awesomely derived the passcode you never should've forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Cubicle Floyd | Your cubicle. With your computer. The lunchroom, empty this late, is Floyd | to the south. The main corridor is west. Floyd | Floyd | Your computer hasn't stopped gargling and won't for a while. It kept Floyd | you awake through work but you could use a nap now. Floyd | Floyd | Your metal drawer is perfectly positioned for tripping up anyone who Floyd | wants to invade your personal space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put flash in linux" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PUT FLASH IN LINUX Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put flash in computer" | ||||
Floyd ] Your Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PUT FLASH IN COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | Some are so ancient they have no USB port. Others probably have the Floyd | wrong sort of file reader. You don't know about that stuff and don't Floyd | want to. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I feel as if, after hours, we shouldn't be a pansy about that forbidding door anymore." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door to the west doesn't look so tough now that you so Floyd | awesomely derived the passcode you never should've forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | That Moolosk printout is still here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Gaming Row Floyd | There's a chessboard here. There's also a stack of papers of old Floyd | games. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The office layout's pretty simple--cubicles to the east, north-south Floyd | corridor deal to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | That Moolosk printout is still here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Gaming Row Floyd | There's a chessboard here. There's also a stack of papers of old Floyd | games. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w.s.e" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W.S.E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | That Moolosk printout is still here. Floyd | Floyd | South Cubicle Area Floyd | You can go back north to the cubicles you already passed. There are Floyd | managers' offices to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's cubicle is to the east. He's not there now. Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's Cubicle Floyd | This is where Ed Toop works and talks at the same time. But not now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put flash in computer" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PUT FLASH IN COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cubicle" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X CUBICLE Floyd | Floyd | No need to be nosy. Unless something's lying out there, best ignore Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put keys on hook" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PUT KEYS ON HOOK Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the hook would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x phone" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X PHONE Floyd | Floyd | Doing anything with Ed's phone would be illegal and unethical and Floyd | probably more fun just to think about doing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop keys" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > DROP KEYS Floyd | Floyd | You don't need to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | South Cubicle Area Floyd | You can go back north to the cubicles you already passed. There are Floyd | managers' offices to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's cubicle is to the east. He's not there now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | That Moolosk printout is still here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Wow... using someone else's phone is unethical?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "And illegal?" | ||||
| Johnny says, "Just Ed's phone." | ||||
| inky says, "we could at least be allowed to replace the receiver with a banana" | ||||
| Johnny asks, "Would you use Mussolini's hair brush?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh, both of you." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, we have found nothing to squirt and have not attracted the Moolosk?" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, that seems to be the deal" | ||||
| inky says, "I thought the tape would attract it" | ||||
| inky says, "btu that does not appear to be the case" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a roll of fluorescent tape Floyd | a key ring Floyd | a squirt gun Floyd | a paper scrap Floyd | a flask Floyd | a bookmark Floyd | a dull tannish book you bought years ago Floyd | a flash drive Floyd | an Allstar Employee Badge Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gun" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X GUN Floyd | Floyd | It's taped up a bit and full of water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tape" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X TAPE Floyd | Floyd | It's a dull off-white with sufficient light around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door to the west doesn't look so tough now that you so Floyd | awesomely derived the passcode you never should've forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You re-punch the code, because the door is evil like that, and you Floyd | walk on through... Floyd | Floyd | Unix Lab Floyd | Here's where the magic happens, though people usually telnet in Floyd | because it's easier that way. The servers are all humming away, and Floyd | while it's a bit warm, that's a welcome change from the freezing Floyd | outside. Except for the whole can't quite do your job bit, since it's Floyd | a bit TOO warm. Your tape glows in the semi-darkness. Floyd | Floyd | There's a forbidding door west in the semi-darkness. You've never Floyd | tried to enter it and won't start now. Floyd | Floyd | The door you came in by is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a delightfully comfy chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It seemed promising." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tape on aix" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PUT TAPE ON AIX Floyd | Floyd | You put the roll of fluorescent tape on the AIX server. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door gives a beep. It's shut again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the Lab Door) Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door to the west doesn't look so tough now that you so Floyd | awesomely derived the passcode you never should've forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Man, it's nice to have nobody around. But you want to get through with Floyd | things. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door gives a beep. It's shut again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Man, it's nice to have nobody around. But you want to get through with Floyd | things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You re-punch the code, because the door is evil like that, and you Floyd | walk on through... Floyd | Floyd | Unix Lab Floyd | Here's where the magic happens, though people usually telnet in Floyd | because it's easier that way. The servers are all humming away, and Floyd | while it's a bit warm, that's a welcome change from the freezing Floyd | outside. Except for the whole can't quite do your job bit, since it's Floyd | a bit TOO warm. You pick out various random lights in the Floyd | semi-darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The door you came in by is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There's a forbidding door west in the semi-darkness. You've never Floyd | tried to enter it and won't start now. Floyd | Floyd | On the AIX server is a roll of fluorescent tape. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a delightfully comfy chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get tape" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > GET TAPE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door gives a beep. It's shut again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "shoot moolosk" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > SHOOT MOOLOSK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Okay, I should've known better." | |||
| Jacqueline says, ">" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "er, ?" | ||||
| Johnny says, "Than to think the moolosk would be present but hidden." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You mean that you can't squirt something that you can't see." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a roll of fluorescent tape Floyd | a key ring Floyd | a squirt gun Floyd | a paper scrap Floyd | a flask Floyd | a bookmark Floyd | a dull tannish book you bought years ago Floyd | a flash drive Floyd | an Allstar Employee Badge Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "wear tape" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR TAPE Floyd | Floyd | You can't wear that! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop tape" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > DROP TAPE Floyd | Floyd | You don't need to. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "But I want to." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "hrm" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Permainventory" | ||||
| Johnny says, "So, for the people reading the transcript, there was a licensed Furby based on Gizmo from the Gremlins movies." | ||||
| inky says, "whoah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn off lights" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > TURN OFF LIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x lights" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X LIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | You don't know what they're for, but they wouldn't show up with decent Floyd | lighting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn off server" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > TURN OFF SERVER Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the servers, the AIX server, the HP-UX server, the Floyd | SGI server, the Linux server farm, or the Solaris server farm? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn off servers" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > TURN OFF SERVERS Floyd | Floyd | They are sort of in limbo right now. You'd probably switch the wrong Floyd | ones, the wrong way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "turn off aix" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > TURN OFF AIX Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "What's in the manager's offices again?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or are those similarly forbidden?" | ||||
| inky says, "I don't think we can go in" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the Lab Door) Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door to the west doesn't look so tough now that you so Floyd | awesomely derived the passcode you never should've forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] By the Foozball Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | By the Foozball Room Floyd | This is the least talky of the areas, but only because of the foozball Floyd | game eruptions disturb that. IT's cubicles (they get called off-site a Floyd | lot) are east, and the corridor goes south and also hooks around a bit Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door to the west doesn't look so tough now that you so Floyd | awesomely derived the passcode you never should've forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | That Moolosk printout is still here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | South Cubicle Area Floyd | You can go back north to the cubicles you already passed. There are Floyd | managers' offices to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's cubicle is to the east. He's not there now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | If you wanted an office to walk into, you should've been more Floyd | career-minded. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "tape me" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > TAPE ME Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on yourself would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hunh" | |||
| inky asks, "weird spelling correction?" | ||||
| inky asks, "or implicit take on the tape verb?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Implicit take, I think." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, that's quite the burn on trying to walk S." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I may require more coffee. s/may/do. brb" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "f e" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > F E Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's Cubicle Floyd | This is where Ed Toop works and talks at the same time. But not now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ed" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X ED Floyd | Floyd | Doing anything with Ed's phone would be illegal and unethical and Floyd | probably more fun just to think about doing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | South Cubicle Area Floyd | You can go back north to the cubicles you already passed. There are Floyd | managers' offices to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's cubicle is to the east. He's not there now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | That Moolosk printout is still here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Gaming Row Floyd | There's a chessboard here. There's also a stack of papers of old Floyd | games. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x papers" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row Way Too Late
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | It's gotten thick over the years. Looking through it all would take
Floyd | too long, though since you're playing the current game, do you want to
Floyd | review them?
| ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | SHAD vs DASH Floyd | Floyd | 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. b3 bxc4 5. bxc4 g6 6. Nc3 d6 7. e4 Bg7 Floyd | 8. Bb2 Nxe4 9. Qc2 Qa5 10. Rc1 Nxc3 11. Bxc3 Bxc3+ 12. Qxc3 Qxc3+ 13. Floyd | Rxc3 Nd7 14. Nf3 Rb8 15. Bd3 Rb2 16. Ra3 a6 17. O-O Nf6 18. Rb1 Rxb1+ Floyd | 19. Bxb1 e6 Floyd | > | inky | [LINK] | |||
| Johnny says, ">breach the hull would be cool, but I doubt it applies." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Sorry that took so long... I had to google how to use my coffee maker. Whaddimiss?" | ||||
| Johnny says, "We're learning about chess." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That sounds... I don't even understand the syntax there." | ||||
| Johnny | The Benko Gambit is featured in Jack McDevitt's short story, "Black to Move," anthologized in both Standard Candles and again in the 2009 collection Breach The Hull ... | ||||
| inky says, "anyway, I dunno" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Johnny), "Is that on wikipedia?" | ||||
| Johnny says, "It is." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Quick, update the page to include that it's being anthologized in this game." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wait, no, hold off so we can cite this ClubFloyd transcript as proof." | ||||
| Johnny will get RIGHT ON waiting. | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, is it that you don't say 'Rook to G6' or whatever, you just say 'G3 to G6' because of course you haven't screwed up anywhere in following directions so every piece is just where it should be?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Johnny), "Good man." | ||||
| Johnny says, "If this was someone else's game, I'd think you were supposed to dig booze out of someone's desk, drink it, and waltz through the forbidding door to squirt the Moolosk." | ||||
| inky says, "anyway, I dunno what to do here" | ||||
| inky says, "I think we need another hint maybe" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "@summon maga" | ||||
| maga asks, "whatnow?" | ||||
| maga asks, "what d'you need the hint about?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Um, what to do." | ||||
| maga says, "bear in mind that I only played this in testing, so I have only seen sort-of-broken versions" | ||||
| maga asks, "what are you hung up on?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Like, is there a moolosk? Why isn't it attracted to our glow in the dark tape? What's the squirt gun for? Are we supposed to water damage the servers?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "What's chess got to do with all this?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Why didn't we work harder to climb the career ladder?" | ||||
| maga says, "I think the chess game is a red herring" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Phew" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Red herrings are the new maze." | ||||
| maga says, "the moolosk used to be a mogwai, I think, which should give you an idea about the squirt gun" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Right" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But the deal is that we can't get the little bugger to come out." | ||||
| maga says, "I don't remember the tape too well, but I think it has to be put on something first" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a roll of fluorescent tape Floyd | a key ring Floyd | a squirt gun Floyd | a paper scrap Floyd | a flask Floyd | a bookmark Floyd | a dull tannish book you bought years ago Floyd | a flash drive Floyd | an Allstar Employee Badge Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says, "maybe it goes on the forbidden door" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, okay." | ||||
| Johnny says, "ding" | ||||
| maga says, "let me see if I can find some transcripts" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The office layout's pretty simple--cubicles to the east, north-south Floyd | corridor deal to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | That Moolosk printout is still here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door to the west doesn't look so tough now that you so Floyd | awesomely derived the passcode you never should've forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You re-punch the code, because the door is evil like that, and you Floyd | walk on through... Floyd | Floyd | Unix Lab Floyd | Here's where the magic happens, though people usually telnet in Floyd | because it's easier that way. The servers are all humming away, and Floyd | while it's a bit warm, that's a welcome change from the freezing Floyd | outside. Except for the whole can't quite do your job bit, since it's Floyd | a bit TOO warm. Your tape glows in the semi-darkness. Floyd | Floyd | There's a forbidding door west in the semi-darkness. You've never Floyd | tried to enter it and won't start now. Floyd | Floyd | The door you came in by is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a delightfully comfy chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tape on d oor" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PUT TAPE ON D OOR Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to put the roll of fluorescent Floyd | tape on down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tape on door" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PUT TAPE ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the forbidding door or the Lab Door? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "forbidding" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > FORBIDDING Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the forbidding door would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door gives a beep. It's shut again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put tape on chair" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PUT TAPE ON CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | Someone might sit on the chair and that'd be a nasty surprise. What Floyd | with the deluxe armrests and plush cushioning, nothing's too visible Floyd | from the chair, either. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search chair" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | There is nothing on the delightfully comfy chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under chair" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in chair" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | There is nothing on the delightfully comfy chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tape" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X TAPE Floyd | Floyd | It's a dull off-white with sufficient light around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "tape door" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > TAPE DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the forbidding door or the Lab Door? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "forbidding" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > FORBIDDING Floyd | Floyd | You don't like going near the door. You're not sure what's behind Floyd | there. Maybe a pile of gadgets waiting to crash down or maybe just a Floyd | big "YOU'RE FIRED, MISTER NOSEY" on the rear wall. You don't want to Floyd | find out. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "mrf, it looks as though I had trouble with this bit too" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "...and you quit in frustration before figuring it out?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, you keep transcripts of all your games? You are such a good boy." | ||||
| maga says, "for testing, yes" | ||||
| maga says, "this was a Cover Stories game and I tested a bunch of those" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Unix Lab Floyd | Here's where the magic happens, though people usually telnet in Floyd | because it's easier that way. The servers are all humming away, and Floyd | while it's a bit warm, that's a welcome change from the freezing Floyd | outside. Except for the whole can't quite do your job bit, since it's Floyd | a bit TOO warm. Your tape glows in the semi-darkness. Floyd | Floyd | There's a forbidding door west in the semi-darkness. You've never Floyd | tried to enter it and won't start now. Floyd | Floyd | The door you came in by is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a delightfully comfy chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "I have not played the final release to completion" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put tape on door" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PUT TAPE ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the forbidding door or the Lab Door? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "lab door" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > LAB DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the Lab Door would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put tape on floor" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PUT TAPE ON FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "stick tape to book" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > STICK TAPE TO BOOK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "put tape on bookmark" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PUT TAPE ON BOOKMARK Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the bookmark would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "tape chair" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > TAPE CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | Someone might sit on the chair and that'd be a nasty surprise. What Floyd | with the deluxe armrests and plush cushioning, nothing's too visible Floyd | from the chair, either. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Unix Lab Floyd | Here's where the magic happens, though people usually telnet in Floyd | because it's easier that way. The servers are all humming away, and Floyd | while it's a bit warm, that's a welcome change from the freezing Floyd | outside. Except for the whole can't quite do your job bit, since it's Floyd | a bit TOO warm. Your tape glows in the semi-darkness. Floyd | Floyd | There's a forbidding door west in the semi-darkness. You've never Floyd | tried to enter it and won't start now. Floyd | Floyd | The door you came in by is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a delightfully comfy chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Hm, so you have to have the thing you want to tape in your inventory?" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "tape servers" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > TAPE SERVERS Floyd | Floyd | Best just to refer to one server. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "tape server" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > TAPE SERVER Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the servers, the AIX server, the HP-UX server, the Floyd | SGI server, the Linux server farm, or the Solaris server farm? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "it's something portable, I think." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "tape sgi" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > TAPE SGI Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | The SGI server's ok. Leave it alone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put tape on my face to make me look silly" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PUT TAPE ON MY FACE TO MAKE ME LOOK SILLY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "(it looks as though '[noun]' is tied to 'take [noun]', and 'tape' isn't a real verb)" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "attach tape to sgi" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > ATTACH TAPE TO SGI Floyd | Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "help" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > HELP Floyd | Floyd | (For outright solutions, type HELP.) Floyd | Ed's key works, by the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "help" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > HELP Floyd | Floyd | (For outright solutions, type HELP.) Floyd | Ed's key works, by the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I... did type 'help'" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > HINT Floyd | Floyd | (For outright solutions, type HELP.) Floyd | Ed's key works, by the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | This game was written for that...minicomp...I forgot the name of. I Floyd | have so much else to fill in, this goes last, so...*BUG* for now. Floyd | Floyd | Thanks to Sam Ashwell for organizing it AND for the picture which Floyd | inspired this small piece. Floyd | Floyd | Thanks to Sam Ashwell, Ben Sokal, Joey Jones for testing first drafts Floyd | that needed it. You can get your name here post-release, too, all for Floyd | the low, low, price of one suggested and reasonable fix! Floyd | Floyd | CREDITS shows the above paragraph on its own. Contact me at Floyd | blurglecruncheon@gmail.com or schultz.andrew@sbcglobal.net with Floyd | transcripts showing bugs etc.. Floyd | Floyd | P.S. Ed Toop is not a real person but an amalgamation of the worst I Floyd | see in smart software people. And when our Unix lab overheated, Floyd | Corporate paid for air conditioning ASAP. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha, man" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "put tape on key" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PUT TAPE ON KEY Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the key ring would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "hm" | |||
| maga says, "that seems like the wrong syntax too" | ||||
| maga says, "maybe we just drop it as bait, and come back later" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Unix Lab Floyd | Here's where the magic happens, though people usually telnet in Floyd | because it's easier that way. The servers are all humming away, and Floyd | while it's a bit warm, that's a welcome change from the freezing Floyd | outside. Except for the whole can't quite do your job bit, since it's Floyd | a bit TOO warm. Your tape glows in the semi-darkness. Floyd | Floyd | There's a forbidding door west in the semi-darkness. You've never Floyd | tried to enter it and won't start now. Floyd | Floyd | The door you came in by is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a delightfully comfy chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "drop tape" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > DROP TAPE Floyd | Floyd | You don't need to. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "guess not" | |||
| Johnny says, "'put tape on gun' fixed the gun." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x moolosk" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X MOOLOSK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop gun" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > DROP GUN Floyd | Floyd | You don't need to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X KEY Floyd | Floyd | It unlocks various important places like the main router room, which Floyd | you won't go near, and the men's bathroom out past the elevators. If Floyd | you replace it, Ed will never miss it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock forbidden" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK FORBIDDEN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "oops forbidding" | ||||
Floyd ] Unix Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > OOPS FORBIDDING Floyd | Floyd | (with the key ring) Floyd | You don't like going near the door. You're not sure what's behind Floyd | there. Maybe a pile of gadgets waiting to crash down or maybe just a Floyd | big "YOU'RE FIRED, MISTER NOSEY" on the rear wall. You don't want to Floyd | find out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Outside the Lab Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the Lab Door) Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Lab Floyd | Main walkways are north/south with your cubicle east. Floyd | Floyd | The lab door to the west doesn't look so tough now that you so Floyd | awesomely derived the passcode you never should've forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | That Moolosk printout is still here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I was thinking that one of the games I uploaded today claimed to be a 'public beta,' but this one isn't it." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x printout" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X PRINTOUT Floyd | Floyd | It describes the Moolosk, an unholy communion of Maguay and Furby. Floyd | Apparently not only does the Moolosk turn into a monster if shot with Floyd | water around midnight, but its feeding patterns start small and grow Floyd | rapidly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There's a review online from Emily, but she didn't finish." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | If one word could fix the Unix lab snafu, someone higher up would've Floyd | said it already. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "help" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > HELP Floyd | Floyd | (For outright solutions, type HELP.) Floyd | Ed's key works, by the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > HINT Floyd | Floyd | (For outright solutions, type HELP.) Floyd | Ed's key works, by the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "shoot printout" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > SHOOT PRINTOUT Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | The hiss of the white noise generators is almost comfortable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Gaming Row Floyd | There's a chessboard here. There's also a stack of papers of old Floyd | games. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | The hiss of the white noise generators is almost comfortable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chessboard" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X CHESSBOARD Floyd | Floyd | Frustrating. Being up a pawn should feel secure but you always worry Floyd | about dumb mistakes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "flip over chessboard" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > FLIP OVER CHESSBOARD Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "play chess" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY CHESS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I... I don't think maga's cover art gives a hint, fwiw, but perhaps I'm wrong: [LINK]" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "The moolosk is cute, thought." | ||||
| inky asks, "what is the bottlecap thingy?" | ||||
| Johnny says, "At least now we know what we're looking for." | ||||
| Johnny says, "Moolosk-wise." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "The thing with the star? Looks like a communist cap or something." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd ] Gaming Row Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Gaming Row Floyd | There's a chessboard here. There's also a stack of papers of old Floyd | games. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | That Moolosk printout is still here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | South Cubicle Area Floyd | You can go back north to the cubicles you already passed. There are Floyd | managers' offices to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's cubicle is to the east. He's not there now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ll" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X LL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x all" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X ALL Floyd | Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's Cubicle Floyd | This is where Ed Toop works and talks at the same time. But not now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | There are none at all available! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x phone" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X PHONE Floyd | Floyd | Doing anything with Ed's phone would be illegal and unethical and Floyd | probably more fun just to think about doing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd ] Ed Toop's Cubicle Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy the unusual quiet for this area before getting back to Floyd | business. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | South Cubicle Area Floyd | You can go back north to the cubicles you already passed. There are Floyd | managers' offices to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Ed Toop's cubicle is to the east. He's not there now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | You're too awake now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd ] South Cubicle Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | The hiss of the white noise generators is almost comfortable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Printer Area Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Printer Area Floyd | You can go north or south. The place where people play smart people Floyd | games is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | That Moolosk printout is still here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd ] Front Desk Entry Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Desk Entry Floyd | You see the big glass door leading out of the office to the west. It's Floyd | got a keypad, too, just like the Unix lab. You can go east to the Floyd | kitchen area or north/south to work areas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lunch Room Floyd | There's a sink here and a fridge too. And a coffeemaker. But no Floyd | toaster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "make coffee" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > MAKE COFFEE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x toaster" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X TOASTER Floyd | Floyd | Allstar company policy forbids the use of toasters. Originally, people Floyd | complained about how this was bad for office morale, but then they Floyd | started feeling so much smarter than Corporate Big Shots because of Floyd | the dumb rule that maybe that was the big shots' plan all along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "take filter" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE FILTER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Firion arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jacqueline says, "It's not on the bb today, Firion: we're playing The Subtropical Server Room." | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x flask" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X FLASK Floyd | Floyd | It has the crest of Intellectual Tech University on it. You remember Floyd | winning it in a White Elephant contest you didn't know you entered. Floyd | You never quite have the heart to pitch it or even recycle it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Firion says, "Thanks." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "And apropos of your logon, I'm not sure there is a solution to this puzzle, but not because Andrew is cruel." | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "fill flask" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > FILL FLASK Floyd | Floyd | You open it, and it smells kind of musty. It doesn't seem like a nice Floyd | place to store water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "smell flask" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL FLASK Floyd | Floyd | Nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "wash flask" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > WASH FLASK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Heh. I have secret knowledge that the flask actually has a Cambridge logo on it. Because maga drew a flask that I got him one year for his birthday or some such." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "And it's not *meant* to store water." | ||||
| inky says, "I'm sure it is for tea" | ||||
| Johnny says, "We don't have access to any other fluids." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bleed into flask" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > BLEED INTO FLASK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "He may just have put it in the game because it was in the coverart, but didn't want it to contain things and this is the excuse the game gives." | |||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm getting rather sad that I think we'll never squirt the critter and that the critter won't then destroy the servers, but I'm losing hope here." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So... long pause with no one commenting on how I've lost hope." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Because everyone else has already given up?" | ||||
| Johnny says, "I was hoping maybe DW would show up." | ||||
| Jacqueline contemplates adding a button to this point in the transcript that, when pushed, plays a sad trombone sound. | ||||
| olethros says, "TZOMMMMMMMMM" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Johnny), "snrk. You know he hates being the hero of these things." | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "help" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > HELP Floyd | Floyd | (For outright solutions, type HELP.) Floyd | Ed's key works, by the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "key" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > KEY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > X KEY Floyd | Floyd | It unlocks various important places like the main router room, which Floyd | you won't go near, and the men's bathroom out past the elevators. If Floyd | you replace it, Ed will never miss it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "BRB, going to heat up lunch." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Back - decided on salad instead." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, so, I'll leave this open, in case inky comes back and wants to have a poke, but I think I'm done." | ||||
| inky says, "nah I'm done" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Johnny?" | ||||
| Johnny says, "I will live with the not knowing of it all." | ||||
| olethros asks, "what was the trouble?" | ||||
| olethros arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Lunch Room Floyd | There's a sink here and a fridge too. And a coffeemaker. But no Floyd | toaster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a roll of fluorescent tape Floyd | a key ring Floyd | a squirt gun Floyd | a paper scrap Floyd | a flask Floyd | a bookmark Floyd | a dull tannish book you bought years ago Floyd | a flash drive Floyd | an Allstar Employee Badge Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Johnny), "Somehow, I will as well." | |||
| olethros says, "a strange set of items" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to olethros), "We think we know what we need to do, but can't quite figure out how to do it." | ||||
| inky says, "there is some creature we are supposed to find maybe" | ||||
| inky says, "but we cannot find it" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "If you'd like, I'll post the transcript thus far, olethros." | ||||
| olethros says, "hm maybe not" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "where is creature" | ||||
Floyd ] Lunch Room Way Too Late Floyd | Floyd | > WHERE IS CREATURE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "There's a forbidding door we're unwilling to get near." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I wonder if that, too, is a red herring." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Red herrings are the new hunger daemon, you know." | ||||
| Johnny says, "I'm not sure anything is not a red herring." | ||||
