  
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, "We're asking Floyd to load Robin & Orchid (this year's 2nd place IF Comp game) right now in the Toyshop. Please join us!" | Jacqueline says, "Well, good morning evereebodee." | |
| DavidW says, "Good noon, Jacqueline" | ||
| djfletch says, "hello" | ||
| Draconis says, "Hello." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Pedant." | ||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||
| inky arrives, full of fun and funk. | Jacqueline says, "So, no authors today, though they are here in spirit and are looking forward to our transcript." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load robinandorchid" | ||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Casey glances around the newspaper office. "Orchid is gone, right?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, she left. Why do you ask?" Floyd | Floyd | "I wanted to give you this while she wasn't around." He hands you a Floyd | thick, well-leafed notebook. "It's just kind of a guide kind of thing, Floyd | with some general information and directions, just to help you get Floyd | around. Don't let Orchid see it." Floyd | Floyd | "Are you sure I'll require so much background material? And why Floyd | shouldn't Orchid see it?" Floyd | Floyd | "Well, Robin," Casey says, and he spins around a chair to sit on it Floyd | backwards in what he surely thinks is a very casual and friendly pose, Floyd | "Orchid is a church member, and you're not, and you missed the lock-in, Floyd | so you don't have a lot of the context that Orchid has. I just wanted Floyd | to put you on an even footing. And for your second question, I might Floyd | have written some things in there that I wouldn't have said to Orchid's Floyd | face." Floyd | Floyd | You nod, and slip the notebook into your backpack. "I'm sure you've Floyd | adequately prepared me for my mission." Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, I have. You're welcome. No, wait, I've got one more thing to say. Floyd | Make sure you take lots of pictures, obviously. It's your job. That's Floyd | one." He starts counting on his fingers. "Um, it's more fun if you run Floyd | off by yourself, so make sure you get Sharon off your back. That's two. Floyd | And keep an open mind. I mean, just because you don't believe in ghosts Floyd | doesn't mean you're not gonna see one. Floyd | Floyd | "So, yeah. That's three things." | maga says, "okay, this is at the top of my replay list but I should probably do that alone, at my leisure" | |
| Draconis says, "Interesting." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "If you've already played, then yeah, spell probably as 'definitely.'" | ||
| Draconis asks, "Do we need to press SPACE?" | ||
| Draconis says, "..Floyd" | Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "In a second, when people have finished reading." | |
| Marvin arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW says, "fwiw, I have yet to play this one, so this'll be all new to me." | |
| Doug says, "ditto" | ||
| Draconis says, "Same." | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Robin & Orchid Floyd | An exercise in photojournalism by Ryan Veeder & Emily Boegheim Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 131027 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Nursery Floyd | Sharon, in her wisdom, decided that everybody should sleep in this Floyd | cramped corner of the church basement. Floyd | Floyd | Battered toys spill out of the toybox and across the floor, piling up Floyd | in a corner of the room. Cupboards are mounted high on the walls, out Floyd | of reach of tiny fingers, and an enormous blue recliner sits underneath Floyd | them. It's already dark outside, and the doors west to the basement Floyd | stairway and south are dark as well. Floyd | Floyd | Your sleeping bag is lying on a tidy patch of floor, ready for when you Floyd | finish your investigation. Floyd | Floyd | Orchid is lounging around, lecturing you. Floyd | Floyd | "You'd better hold onto this," she says, handing you the camera, Floyd | "you're the official photographer. Just don't forget, if you see Floyd | something that might be evidence of a ghost, make sure you take a photo Floyd | of it." Floyd | Floyd | You slip the camera strap around your neck. Floyd | | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | >You are carrying: Floyd | Casey's notes Floyd | a Polaroid camera (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | Orchid notices your notebook. "What's all that?" she asks. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, Casey gave it to me. It's just some notes about things in the Floyd | church." Floyd | Floyd | "Is there anything about me in there?" Floyd | Floyd | "I don't think so," you lie, and Orchid loses interest. Floyd | | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd | >You are Robin Monaghan, high school junior, associate reporter for the Floyd | West High Warbler. You are not overly fond of churches, and you have Floyd | never claimed to believe in ghosts, but here you are. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, and," Orchid adds, "don't turn the lights on while you're looking Floyd | around unless you have to. Some ghosts won't appear unless it's dark, Floyd | and we've only got tonight to gather all our evidence." Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "FYI, we play a bit slower than you might on your own." | |
| Doug asks, "is "lock-in" a thing that churches usually have?" | ||
| Draconis says (to Jacqueline), "Oh, sorrt." | ||
| Draconis says, "*sorry" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "I think they sometimes do, yeah." | ||
| Doug asks, "what is it?" | ||
| inky says, "I assumed it was lock-on, like luke and the death star" | ||
| DavidW says (to Doug), "Not that I know of." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "No worries, just letting you know. It's like we're hiking through this adventure, and want to keep the group together and not leave anyone behind." | ||
| inky says, "at the climax Orchid has to remove her targeting computer" | ||
| Doug says, "take a photo of orchid" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take a photo of orchid" | ||
Floyd | >(with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | You snap a picture of Orchid. The camera whirrs and vibrates and Floyd | eventually spits out a print of the photo. Floyd | Floyd | Sharon stomps into the nursery. "There are supposed to be some blankets Floyd | somewhere in this nursery," she says. "Robin, can you find them and Floyd | grab them for me?" She looks thoughtfully at the child-sized cots Floyd | scattered around the room. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "I was going to say... lock-ins are usually for teens, and then the X ME solidified that." | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sharon" | ||
Floyd | >Sharon is the student teacher assisting the staff advisor for the West Floyd | High Warbler. In the past the staff has always managed quite well Floyd | without a student teacher, but she does come in handy as a chaperone Floyd | for situations like this. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, girls," she says. "Here's how this is going to work." Floyd | | Doug asks, "what is a lock-in? like a sunday school sleepover?" | |
| inky says, "oh, I assumed Robin was intentionally a gender-ambiguous name" | ||
| inky says, "but I guess not" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x orchid" | ||
Floyd | >Orchid, like most girls your age, is taller than you. Her cheeks are Floyd | covered in freckles that you had never seen before tonight; she must Floyd | put makeup on over them for school. You have the uneasy feeling that Floyd | there are more freckles on her left cheek than her right. Floyd | Floyd | She notices you examining her, and you look away. Floyd | Floyd | Sharon continues, "This is your story and your investigation, so don't Floyd | expect me to be running around the church with you all night." She Floyd | pushes one of the cots up against the wall. Floyd | | DavidW says, "I hope I don't have to map. I wanna eat snacks with one hand and operate the laptop with the other." | |
| inky says, "unless Sharon is using girls in the sassy gay man sense" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Yeah" | ||
| djfletch says, "I'm suspicious of her sinister-biased freckles" | ||
| djfletch says, "seems like it would probably be a sign of evil" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'd like to read the notebook, but possibly we need to do it surreptitiously." | ||
| DavidW says, "The Case of the Missing Freckles" | ||
| Draconis asks, "Does Floyd have undo?" | ||
| Doug says, "read notebook surreptitiously" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "read notebook surreptitiously" | ||
Floyd | >I only understood you as far as wanting to read Casey's notes. Floyd | | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "read notebook" | ||
Floyd | >The notebook is thick, and as you flick through the pages, it looks Floyd | like it's nearly full. Surely Casey didn't make notes about everything Floyd | in the church? How long did he spend on this anyway? Floyd | Floyd | There's way too much information here to sit down and read it all at Floyd | once, but you can look up anything you want to know about. Floyd | Floyd | Sharon pulls another of the cots toward her and lines it up with the Floyd | first one. "I don't care if you stay up all night, tomorrow isn't a Floyd | school day so it's not my problem if you're exhausted. Personally, I Floyd | want my eight hours, though." Floyd | | inky says, "oh, I was assuming this was going to be lesbian romance" | |
| Doug says, "dammit, where's the typo button" | ||
| inky says, "so at some point you'd have to "count her freckles"" | ||
| DavidW says (to Draconis), "Floyd is just a go-between, but the terp he's using has undo, yes." | ||
| Doug says, "69,105 freckles. is my guess." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "count freckles" | ||
Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | DavidW says, "ha" | |
| Jacqueline | You can't read it all in one go, but you can look up anything you want because Casey included a helpful, alphabetized index. How long did he spend on this anyway? | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "lookup ghosts" | ||
Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up ghosts" | ||
Floyd | >(in Casey's notes) Floyd | [This action may cause some slight lag in the browser version of this Floyd | game. We sincerely regret any inconvenience.] Floyd | Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I Floyd | don't know how much you already know about the ghost in the church so Floyd | I'll give you the whole story. Jennie Bancroft is the name of the ghost Floyd | that haunts Grace United Methodist. She used to be alive, but then she Floyd | died, in or around the church, sometime in the distant past. I keep Floyd | meaning to look up when she died but I haven't had time. Floyd | Floyd | "When people see her, she looks like a teenage girl in pigtails. I Floyd | don't think she shows up covered in blood or anything like that; she's Floyd | just a sad girl. Obviously a lot of the time she's invisible though. Floyd | Floyd | "Some of the evidence that we have for her existence includes: Floyd | Floyd | - sounds of footsteps and a girl crying when nobody else is in the Floyd | church Floyd | - cold spots in rooms, rooms that suddenly become cold for no reason Floyd | - stuff goes missing, then shows up again Floyd | - you see someone at the end of the hallway but when you get to the end Floyd | of the hallway there's nobody there Floyd | - basically everybody has seen her out of the corner of their eye at Floyd | some point Floyd | Floyd | "Debate continues on the subject of how Jennie died. Popular theories Floyd | state that she jumped off of the church steeple, or she drank poison, Floyd | or used a space heater to carbon monoxide herself. According to one Floyd | explanation she died accidentally, because she was using a Ouija board, Floyd | but that theory is idiotic. Jennie Bancroft definitely committed Floyd | suicide, and it was definitely because of a boy she was in love with." Floyd | Floyd | Sharon continues, "So I'm going to stay here and sleep, and you two are Floyd | going to get on with your investigating, and not wake me up unless Floyd | there's a life-threatening emergency or something." Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Also, a slight lag in the Floyd version of this game. (Though only just.)" | |
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||
| inky says, "she's a ghost, and she used to be alive but then died? you don't say!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hee" | ||
| Draconis says, "And in the past, too? THE PLOT THICKENS!" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up casey" | ||
Floyd | >(in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "Dear Floyd | Robin. I am Casey, your friend. I am writing to you from the past. Back Floyd | here in the past it is very dark, but we have hope that you, in the Floyd | future, will be able to rekindle the flame of enlightenment and lead us Floyd | to wisdom. Have you seen a ghost yet? If you haven't seen a ghost, keep Floyd | looking around until you do. Thanks. Sincerely, Casey." Floyd | Floyd | "Orchid, pass me that cot in the corner, will you?" Sharon asks. Floyd | Floyd | Orchid pulls a face but goes to get it. Floyd | | ||
| Marvin has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x cot" | ||
Floyd | >Each cot is composed of scratchy fabric stretched over an aluminum Floyd | frame, and there is no way any of them could be very comfortable. Floyd | Floyd | "Just don't complain to me when you've spent the whole night Floyd | ghost-hunting and have nothing to show for it. Thanks, Orchid." Sharon Floyd | pushes the last cot into place alongside the other two and frowns at Floyd | the result. Floyd | | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "pull face" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "Sharon's the student teacher?" | |
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| Draconis asks, "Do you think we can look up Orchid while she's right here?" | ||
| Draconis asks, "Will she notice?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And she's going to sleep? Some chaperone Sharon is." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up orchid" | ||
Floyd | >(in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Here's an anecdote about Orchid. This happened just recently. I didn't Floyd | tell you, because I wanted to save it for here. Okay: Floyd | Floyd | "I'm at school after hours because of rehearsals. But we're still in Floyd | the fairly lazy stage of the production, so there's lots of time to Floyd | just goof off around the school. So while the underclassmen are sitting Floyd | around in the hall running lines, I head up to the drama office, Floyd | because there are donuts there. Floyd | Floyd | "But Orchid and Aiden Kingsley are already up in the office, and as Floyd | soon as I poke my head in Orchid looks up and says 'Actors only, Floyd | please!' and I'm like 'Actually, I am an actor,' and she says, 'Well, Floyd | you know what I mean.' Floyd | Floyd | "No, Orchid! I do not have the slightest idea what you mean. I would Floyd | have just grabbed a donut and left, but you're not allowed to take the Floyd | donuts out of the drama office, so I just left. Floyd | Floyd | "I wouldn't say I hate Orchid. Hate is a very strong word. I completely Floyd | hate Aiden, though." Floyd | Floyd | Sharon unrolls a thin mattress on top of the cots. "I expect the West Floyd | High Warbler can find some other story to run if this one doesn't work Floyd | out. It'll be a nuisance, though." Floyd | | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "look up Aiden" | ||
Floyd | >(in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I Floyd | guess you've probably seen Aiden in plays, but I've actually worked Floyd | with him, so I know what I'm talking about. He is unbearable. You Floyd | should be able to guess from the mustache. Floyd | Floyd | "Aiden goes to parties, gets girls drunk, makes out with them, and then Floyd | convinces them that his number is '123-4567'. And then he tells this Floyd | story to everyone at rehearsal and expects us to laugh. Floyd | Floyd | "Speaking of which. This is the worst thing Aiden does: He laughs at Floyd | every single one of his own jokessometimes just at sentences he says Floyd | that can't even be considered jokesand it's always the same Floyd | single-syllable laugh, always the same pitch, pronounced exactly the Floyd | same way. It's not really a laugh, it's more of a signal that you're Floyd | supposed to think he's funny. Floyd | Floyd | "Aiden doesn't even go to my church, but he's the worst, and I think Floyd | you should know that." Floyd | Floyd | "Have you found the blankets yet?" Sharon asks. Floyd | Floyd | You shake your head. Floyd | Floyd | "They must be in one of these cupboards. Somewhere." She looks up at Floyd | them and sighs. Sharon is barely taller than you, and she obviously Floyd | doesn't want to try to search the cupboards herself. "Someone from the Floyd | church would know." Floyd | Floyd | "Don't look at me," Orchid says. Floyd | | inky says, "I have no idea what either of these things mean" | |
| DavidW says, "I suppose we should find those blankets." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "goals" | ||
Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "search cupboards" | ||
Floyd | >There are way too many cupboards, and you can't even see what's on the Floyd | top shelves from here, much less reach them. Surely there's a better Floyd | way to find out where the blankets are kept than just hunting through Floyd | everything. Floyd | | inky asks, "did Casey interrupt an Orchid/Aiden makeout session?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "hunt through everything" | ||
Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | inky asks, "and if so, does that mean that Casey, Orchid, and Aiden are going to be normal kid names these days?" | |
| Doug says, "Aiden definitely is" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up sharon in book" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | DavidW says, "yeah, Aiden is everywhere." | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up sharon in notebook" | ||
Floyd | >You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "Why Floyd | do people like Sharon want to become teachers? (By 'people like Sharon' Floyd | I mean 'people who obviously hate everything about teaching, even and Floyd | especially students'.) If you're already completely jaded and cynical Floyd | after your first semester of student teaching, isn't that a sign that Floyd | you should give up on K-12 education and possibly on life in general?" Floyd | | inky says (to DavidW), "especially to hear Casey tell it!" | |
| Doug says, "also Jaden and Braden" | ||
| DavidW says, "Twenty years from now, I'll be 'Daven'." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look up blankets" | ||
Floyd | >(in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "What Floyd | I heard is that you guys are going to sleep in the nursery, which Floyd | doesn't make sense because there are couches in the youth rooms, but I Floyd | guess those couches are pretty grody actually. I see your point. They Floyd | keep some blankets up in the cupboards, but somebody as short as you is Floyd | probably going to have to climb up on top of the recliner to reach Floyd | them. No offense, Robin. I'm just saying. You're really short." Floyd | | inky says, "ha ha" | |
| inky says, "uhh" | ||
| % Connection to ifmud-perry closed by foreign host. | ||
| *** MUD CRASH *** | ||
| Jacqueline arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||
| DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load robinandorchid" | ||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Casey glances around the newspaper office. "Orchid is gone, right?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, she left. Why do you ask?" Floyd | Floyd | "I wanted to give you this while she wasn't around." He hands you a Floyd | thick, well-leafed notebook. "It's just kind of a guide kind of thing, Floyd | with some general information and directions, just to help you get Floyd | around. Don't let Orchid see it." Floyd | Floyd | "Are you sure I'll require so much background material? And why Floyd | shouldn't Orchid see it?" Floyd | Floyd | "Well, Robin," Casey says, and he spins around a chair to sit on it Floyd | backwards in what he surely thinks is a very casual and friendly pose, Floyd | "Orchid is a church member, and you're not, and you missed the lock-in, Floyd | so you don't have a lot of the context that Orchid has. I just wanted Floyd | to put you on an even footing. And for your second question, I might Floyd | have written some things in there that I wouldn't have said to Orchid's Floyd | face." Floyd | Floyd | You nod, and slip the notebook into your backpack. "I'm sure you've Floyd | adequately prepared me for my mission." Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, I have. You're welcome. No, wait, I've got one more thing to say. Floyd | Make sure you take lots of pictures, obviously. It's your job. That's Floyd | one." He starts counting on his fingers. "Um, it's more fun if you run Floyd | off by yourself, so make sure you get Sharon off your back. That's two. Floyd | And keep an open mind. I mean, just because you don't believe in ghosts Floyd | doesn't mean you're not gonna see one. Floyd | Floyd | "So, yeah. That's three things." | ||
| Doug arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Doug asks, "was that a g-g-g-ghost?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Possibly." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's wait a few for Draconis." | ||
| DavidW says, "Jinkies. Me and Scoob will search the kitchen." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, you meant on CFR" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "er, CF" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I always thought that was going to be a euphemism for 'smoke a doobie' but then they never showed that in the cartoon." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We'll give Draconis until half past the hour" | ||
| DavidW says, "nah, they'd never smoke or drink in the cartoons." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of inky), "According to another channel, that crash was all your fault... so, should we be saving frequently? Are you tinkering with stuff behind the curtain, great wizard?" | ||
| inky says, "well, I'm going to hold off with any more tinkering until CF is done" | ||
| DavidW says (to inky), "thanks" | ||
| Doug says, "anyway, my girlfriend has links to tables of top baby names: [LINK]" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Oh, cool, thanks." | ||
| Doug says, "Aiden is #1, Jayden is #3, Kayden is #7" | ||
| Doug says, "counting spelling variations." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "See, they go on about this being a ghost story... but that's the scary bit." | ||
| Draconis arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says, "And there is Draconis." | |
| Draconis says, "Reconnected." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, so, I don't know that we have to look those things up again, but ... yeah. We can restart now." | ||
| Draconis asks, "Any ghost sightings?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Robin & Orchid Floyd | An exercise in photojournalism by Ryan Veeder & Emily Boegheim Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 131027 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Nursery Floyd | Sharon, in her wisdom, decided that everybody should sleep in this Floyd | cramped corner of the church basement. Floyd | Floyd | Battered toys spill out of the toybox and across the floor, piling up Floyd | in a corner of the room. Cupboards are mounted high on the walls, out Floyd | of reach of tiny fingers, and an enormous blue recliner sits underneath Floyd | them. It's already dark outside, and the doors west to the basement Floyd | stairway and south are dark as well. Floyd | Floyd | Your sleeping bag is lying on a tidy patch of floor, ready for when you Floyd | finish your investigation. Floyd | Floyd | Orchid is lounging around, lecturing you. Floyd | Floyd | "You'd better hold onto this," she says, handing you the camera, Floyd | "you're the official photographer. Just don't forget, if you see Floyd | something that might be evidence of a ghost, make sure you take a photo Floyd | of it." Floyd | Floyd | You slip the camera strap around your neck. Floyd | | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x camera" | ||
Floyd | >Something went wrong with the West High Warbler's official camera, so Floyd | Casey scrounged up this old Polaroid instead. He was very keen on you Floyd | using a Polaroid camera for this story, for some reasonhe gave you Floyd | enough photo paper to document a whole congregation of ghosts. Floyd | Floyd | Orchid notices your notebook. "What's all that?" she asks. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, Casey gave it to me. It's just some notes about things in the Floyd | church." Floyd | Floyd | "Is there anything about me in there?" Floyd | Floyd | "I don't think so," you lie, and Orchid loses interest. Floyd | | Doug says, "oh oops, I guess we restarted" | |
| DavidW says, "I don't think there was even any innocent smoochies or even hand-holding in the Scooby-Doo cartoons." | ||
| DavidW says (to Doug), "Had to. We hadn't saved at all yet." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "No ghosts, but we were scared to learn that Aiden is the #1 baby name, that Jayden is #3, and Kayden is #7." | ||
| Doug says, "I thought maybe the server that Floyd connects to was unaffected" | ||
| Doug says, "but maybe Floyd can't re-connect" | ||
| Draconis asks, "Wait, did the server go down?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No, Floyd's here." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "Yeah, the mud crashed." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "inky was tinkering with some code and we went down, but he's going to hold off until after CF." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I should have loaded this with sleepmask." | ||
| Doug says, "I meant, maybe Floyd can't reconnect to the game without restarting it. But probably I don't understand how Floyd works so I'll stop speculating." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "One sec." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/quit" | Jacqueline says, "Oh, and now I see what you mean." | |
| Doug asks, "I wondered about that-- what does sleepmask do?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sleepmask gives us a status line and delineates bold/italic fonts and stuff." | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | Jacqueline says (to inky), "IIIINNNNKKKKKYYYYYY" | |
| Doug says, "ahh. I thought maybe it was only needed for certain formats or something" | ||
| DavidW) Dougs asks, "but how?" | ||
| inky presses the yellow enter button. | Jacqueline says (to inky), "I think he's gone, Scoob." | |
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | DavidW says, "yoinks" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Well, like, he's *here* but..." | ||
| inky says, "not sure entirely what happened there, but I force-quit the game" | ||
| maga asks (of Doug), "belated, which list are you going from here?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "How did you do that? I did a /quit" | ||
| Doug pulls off Floyd's mask. "It's Old Man Withers, the amusement park operator!" | ||
| inky says, "I did it from the mud machine command prompt, I mean, not from within floyd" | ||
| inky asks, "also, isn't it %quit?" | ||
| maga says, "in the one I see for 2012, Jayden is #7, Aiden is #10 and Jacob is #1" | ||
| Doug says (to maga), "her 2012 boy's names list, as a google docs spreadsheet, with names grouped by spelling variants" | ||
| OldManWithers exclaims (at Doug), "And I'd have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!" | ||
| Doug | [LINK] | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask robinandorchid" | ||
| Floyd >Are you sure you want to quit? Please answer yes or no.> Please answer | ||
| Floyd yes or no.> Please answer yes or no.> ] | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Casey glances around the newspaper office. "Orchid is gone, right?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, she left. Why do you ask?" Floyd | Floyd | "I wanted to give you this while she wasn't around." He hands you a Floyd | thick, well-leafed notebook. "It's just kind of a guide kind of thing, Floyd | with some general information and directions, just to help you get Floyd | around. Don't let Orchid see it." Floyd | Floyd | "Are you sure I'll require so much background material? And why Floyd | shouldn't Orchid see it?" Floyd | Floyd | "Well, Robin," Casey says, and he spins around a chair to sit on it Floyd | backwards in what he surely thinks is a very casual and friendly pose, Floyd | "Orchid is a church member, and you're not, and you missed the Floyd | lock-in, so you don't have a lot of the context that Orchid has. I Floyd | just wanted to put you on an even footing. And for your second Floyd | question, I might have written some things in there that I wouldn't Floyd | have said to Orchid's face." Floyd | Floyd | You nod, and slip the notebook into your backpack. "I'm sure you've Floyd | adequately prepared me for my mission." Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, I have. You're welcome. No, wait, I've got one more thing to Floyd | say. Make sure you take lots of pictures, obviously. It's your job. Floyd | That's one." He starts counting on his fingers. "Um, it's more fun if Floyd | you run off by yourself, so make sure you get Sharon off your back. Floyd | That's two. And keep an open mind. I mean, just because you don't Floyd | believe in ghosts doesn't mean you're not gonna see one. Floyd | Floyd | "So, yeah. That's three things." | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | "So, yeah. That's three things." Floyd | Robin & Orchid Floyd | An exercise in photojournalism by Ryan Veeder & Emily Boegheim Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 131027 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Nursery Floyd | Sharon, in her wisdom, decided that everybody should sleep in this Floyd | cramped corner of the church basement. Floyd | Floyd | Battered toys spill out of the toybox and across the floor, piling up Floyd | in a corner of the room. Cupboards are mounted high on the walls, out Floyd | of reach of tiny fingers, and an enormous blue recliner sits Floyd | underneath them. It's already dark outside, and the doors west to the Floyd | basement stairway and south are dark as well. Floyd | Floyd | Your sleeping bag is lying on a tidy patch of floor, ready for when Floyd | you finish your investigation. Floyd | Floyd | Orchid is lounging around, lecturing you. Floyd | Floyd | "You'd better hold onto this," she says, handing you the camera, Floyd | "you're the official photographer. Just don't forget, if you see Floyd | something that might be evidence of a ghost, make sure you take a Floyd | photo of it." Floyd | Floyd | You slip the camera strap around your neck. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "see also [LINK]" | |
| maga says, "aha, thanks" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, let's try this *again*" | ||
| DavidW) Freda asks, "do you think the ghost will like my naturally curly hair?" | ||
| Doug says, "wait, that's Peanuts" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Oh, maybe it is %quit. To force quit my Screen I believe it's /quit. I get them confused." | ||
| DavidW says (to Doug), "yes, and I misspelt Frieda." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x recliner" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > X RECLINER Floyd | Floyd | The armchair is covered in lumpy blue corduroy. At least it's clean. Floyd | Floyd | Orchid notices your notebook. "What's all that?" she asks. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, Casey gave it to me. It's just some notes about things in the Floyd | church." Floyd | Floyd | "Is there anything about me in there?" Floyd | Floyd | "I don't think so," you lie, and Orchid loses interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I should just panic and go on a mad rampage of putting various punctuation before the word quit." | |
| Doug asks, "should we go straight for the blankets or should we wait for Sharon to ask for them again?" | ||
| Draconis says, "I say go for it." | ||
| DavidW says, "hm. It may be better to wait for the prompting, in case the code is picky. One never knows." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "climb on recliner" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB ON RECLINER Floyd | Floyd | You step up onto the seat of the recliner, adding at least a foot to Floyd | your height. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, and," Orchid adds, "don't turn the lights on while you're looking Floyd | around unless you have to. Some ghosts won't appear unless it's dark, Floyd | and we've only got tonight to gather all our evidence." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x cupboards" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > X CUPBOARDS Floyd | Floyd | The nursery cupboards are numerous and mounted high up on the walls, Floyd | presumably so the kids can't get into them. Floyd | Floyd | Sharon stomps into the nursery. "There are supposed to be some Floyd | blankets somewhere in this nursery," she says. "Robin, can you find Floyd | them and grab them for me?" She looks thoughtfully at the child-sized Floyd | cots scattered around the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Doug), "useful action to know" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "orchid, inventory" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > ORCHID, INVENTORY Floyd | Floyd | Sharon talks over you, drowning you out. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, girls," Sharon says. "Here's how this is going to work." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "open cupboards" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CUPBOARDS Floyd | Floyd | It takes some hunting to find them, but there are the blankets, up on Floyd | the top shelf. Floyd | Floyd | Sharon continues, "This is your story and your investigation, so don't Floyd | expect me to be running around the church with you all night." She Floyd | pushes one of the cots up against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get blankets" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BLANKETS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Sharon pulls another of the cots toward her and lines it up with the Floyd | first one. "I don't care if you stay up all night, tomorrow isn't a Floyd | school day so it's not my problem if you're exhausted. Personally, I Floyd | want my eight hours, though." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "#clubf should we be seeing status lines?" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > #CLUBF SHOULD WE BE SEEING STATUS LINES? Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "should we be seeing status lines?" | |
| Doug says, "dammit" | ||
| DavidW asks, "we are, aren't we?" | ||
| Doug says, "ohh, I see them now, starting with ]" | ||
| DavidW says, "It seems like the status line is just the location name." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I just looked, and sleepmask is definitely running, but yeah, no status lines." | ||
| Doug says, "yeah, I was expecting "(standing on the recliner)" or something" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I can tell it's running, though, because it is putting a double pound before the room name, which it didn't earlier." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "There may be no status line." | ||
| inky says, "it's possible -- yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Well, some people purposely strip that (on the recliner) type stuff out." | ||
| Doug says, "double pound? I see a close-square-bracket" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You guys keep playing, I'll go look at the web version to confirm." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x blankets" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > X BLANKETS Floyd | Floyd | The blankets are small, thin, and colorful. Probably they're designed Floyd | for making kids' afternoon naps fun, not for actually sleeping under. Floyd | Floyd | Sharon continues, "So I'm going to stay here and sleep, and you two Floyd | are going to get on with your investigating, and not wake me up unless Floyd | there's a life-threatening emergency or something." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give blankets to sharon" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE BLANKETS TO SHARON Floyd | Floyd | Sharon takes the pile of blankets from you. "Thanks, Robin," she says. Floyd | Floyd | "Orchid, pass me that cot in the corner, will you?" Sharon asks. Floyd | Floyd | Orchid pulls a face but goes to get it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There is a status line, but it only says the room. No score or time or anything dynamic." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x toys" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > X TOYS Floyd | Floyd | Toy cars, a lot of wooden blocks, a tea set, that kind of thing. It Floyd | looks like someone tried to take a bite out of one of the blocks. Floyd | Floyd | "Just don't complain to me when you've spent the whole night Floyd | ghost-hunting and have nothing to show for it. Thanks, Orchid." Sharon Floyd | pushes the last cot into place alongside the other two and frowns at Floyd | the result. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "orchid, i" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > ORCHID, I Floyd | Floyd | Sharon talks over you, drowning you out. Floyd | Floyd | Sharon unrolls a thin mattress on top of the cots. "I expect the West Floyd | High Warbler can find some other story to run if this one Floyd | doesn't work out. It'll be a nuisance, though." Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Are there any exits?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | From here, you could head south and west to the basement stairway. Floyd | Floyd | Sharon looks at the makeshift cot bed and purses her lips. "I guess Floyd | that'll do," she says. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly Orchid gasps and grabs your arm. "Someone's outside!" she Floyd | squeaks, pointing at the window. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the glass, you see a pale face, blurry in the dim light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take photo of face" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO OF FACE Floyd | Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | The click of the shutter sounds loud in the silence and seems to Floyd | startle the creature outside the window. It turns and vanishes out of Floyd | the light, its tail flicking past the glass. Orchid gives a Floyd | high-pitched giggle. Floyd | Floyd | "Scared of a cat!" Sharon says. "You better not freak out and wake me Floyd | up every time you mistake a shadow for a ghost tonight." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x photo" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTO Floyd | Floyd | It's the photo you took of the cat looking in through the window. How Floyd | did you ever think it was a person? It's much too small and pale to be Floyd | anything human. Although outside the window, obscured by the glass, it Floyd | did look pretty ghostly. Floyd | Floyd | Orchid peeks over your shoulder at the photo you took. "Hey, that's Floyd | good!" she says. "I guess you can see how it's a cat now, but it Floyd | looked really spooky, didn't it?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Good thinking." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x photograph" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTOGRAPH Floyd | Floyd | It's the photo you took of the cat looking in through the window. How Floyd | did you ever think it was a person? It's much too small and pale to be Floyd | anything human. Although outside the window, obscured by the glass, it Floyd | did look pretty ghostly. Floyd | Floyd | Sharon yawns. "Right, I'm going to bed now. Keep out of trouble, don't Floyd | break anything, and don't wake me up unless it's really, Floyd | really serious, got it?" Without waiting for an answer, she lies Floyd | down on the row of cots, facing away from you, and pulls the blankets Floyd | over herself. Floyd | Floyd | Orchid says, "We'd better get started. How about this: you check out Floyd | the basement, and I'll go upstairs and look around there, and then Floyd | we'll meet up and compare notes. Don't forget to take a photo if you Floyd | find any evidence of a ghost!" She slips out of the room. A moment Floyd | later, you hear her footsteps echoing in the stairwell as she heads Floyd | back up to the main floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Also, I know we hate this student teacher, but should we tell her about the more comfortable (but possibly grody) couches?" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "tell sharon about couches" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > TELL SHARON ABOUT COUCHES | Doug says, "wait, we're splitting up already?!" | |
Floyd |
Floyd | On second thoughts, maybe what you wanted to say isn't urgent enough
Floyd | to brave Sharon's wrath at being woken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Draconis asks, "Should we do what Orchid said?" | |
| Draconis asks, "Or follow her west?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | (first getting off the recliner) Floyd | You switch the lights on in the next room. Floyd | Floyd | Youth Room Floyd | A large part of this room is taken up by a rickety ping pong table. Floyd | Couches line the edges of the room, some of them close enough to the Floyd | table that they're probably not safe to sit on if someone is actually Floyd | playing ping pong. On the other hand, you can't see any ping pong bats Floyd | anywhere, so maybe that's not an issue. In between the couches, doors Floyd | lead north to the nursery, west, and south. Floyd | Floyd | A garish golden trophy catches your eye. Floyd | Floyd | A trolley with an ancient TV and a Super Nintendo on it is standing in Floyd | front of one of the couches. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims (at ORchid), "Safety in numbers!" | |
| DavidW says, "Implementing NPCs is hard, so I'm not surprised they've made themselves scarce." | ||
| Doug says, "yeah." | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x trophy" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X TROPHY Floyd | Floyd | The figurine on top is a generic gold-painted plastic person raising Floyd | its arms in victory. The text at the bottom reads: "BIBLE QUIZ Floyd | TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS". Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "they play ping pong with bats? how goth!" | |
| Draconis says, "I think it's a Britishism." | ||
| Doug says, "I think at least one of the authors is Aussie" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim began work on Robin & Orchid Floyd | in July of 2012. Their original intention was to enter it in the 2012 Floyd | Interactive Fiction Competition. Then their intention was to enter it Floyd | in the 2013 Spring Thing. If you're reading this, that means they have Floyd | successfully entered it in the 2013 Interactive Fiction Competition. Floyd | Floyd | An adaptive walkthrough has been built into the game; you can enter Floyd | the command "WALKTHROUGH" to get some directions if you're stuck. Floyd | Something might also happen if you try "HINT". Floyd | Floyd | If the mood strikes you, you can email one or both of the authors at Floyd | rcveeder@me.com or emily.boegheim@gmail.com—or say hi on Twitter, at Floyd | @rcveeder or @emilyboegheim. Floyd | Floyd | CREDITS Floyd | Floyd | Lead Designer/Head Writer: Ryan Veeder Floyd | Head Programmer/Lead Voice of Reason: Emily Boegheim Floyd | Floyd | Beta Testers: Jonathan Blask, Colin Djukic, Amanda Lange, CEJ Floyd | Pacian, Michael Wayne Phipps Jr, Zach Floyd | Floyd | Bible quotes are from the New Revised Standard Version. Floyd | Floyd | Special Thanks: Ryan Veeder's church, Emily Boegheim's Floyd | churches, Ryan Veeder's high school, and all the jerks he graduated Floyd | with Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, Emily is an Aussie, I believe." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x nintendo" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X NINTENDO Floyd | Floyd | A thin layer of dust on the power switch and the Bubsy cartridge in Floyd | the slot suggests that the SNES hasn't been used for a while. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "If she's actually a Kiwi, I'll end up getting hate mail after this transcript is posted." | |
| inky says, "interesting" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trolley" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X TROLLEY Floyd | Floyd | A cube of black metal bars, mounted on casters. Floyd | Floyd | On the TV trolley are a television set and a SNES (in which is a Bubsy Floyd | cartridge). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "turn on nintendo" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN ON NINTENDO Floyd | Floyd | This is no time for video games. Especially not Bubsy. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I would have bet some of this church stuff was american-only, but obviously I am mistaken" | |
| DavidW says, "The trolley may be pushable from one room to another" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | From here, you could head north to the nursery, south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up bubsy" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP BUBSY Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | [This action may cause some slight lag in the browser version of this Floyd | game. We sincerely regret any inconvenience.] Floyd | Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I Floyd | don't even know what Bubsy is about. A squirrel? It doesn't even have Floyd | a proper two-player mode. You have to wait and watch the other guy Floyd | play. It's bad for the group. I miss Tetris Attack." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If we need to move something heavy or bulky." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I have never have seen a 'voice of reason' in IF credits." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "push trolley west" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TROLLEY WEST Floyd | Floyd | You turn the lights off in the youth room and switch the lights on in Floyd | the next room. Floyd | Floyd | Sunday School Room Floyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | On the small table are a small white cross and a bird cage. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I'm glad Casey thought ahead to write about Bubsy." | |
| Draconis asks, "A bird cage?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cage" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAGE Floyd | Floyd | The curving faux-wrought-iron bars and caked-on "rust" identify this Floyd | as one of the non-functioning, overpriced decorations which are so Floyd | popular in craft stores. What does a Sunday School need with a bird Floyd | cage? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "look up cage" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP CAGE Floyd | Floyd | (the bird cage) Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Can't really tell you what the Sunday School bird cage is for; it Floyd | showed up after I graduated. I think it might have something to do Floyd | with like, Old Testament animal sacrifices? Back when you had to give Floyd | the priest two of your doves instead of just praying for forgiveness?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "eep" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take photo of cage" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO OF CAGE Floyd | Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | You snap a picture of the bird cage. The camera whirrs and vibrates Floyd | and eventually spits out a print of the photo. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Wow, Casey thought of everything." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x photo" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTO Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the photo of the cat looking through the window or Floyd | the photo of the bird cage? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cross" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X CROSS Floyd | Floyd | This is a nice little cross for a table. Nothing fancy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cross" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CROSS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get cage" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CAGE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Just in case o' vampires." | |
| inky says, "maybe Casey is the real ghost here" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take photo of photo of cat" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO OF PHOTO OF CAT Floyd | Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | A photo of a photo would be a waste of time. Useless clutter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "aw" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take photo of camera" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO OF CAMERA Floyd | Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | You'll need a mirror if you're really serious about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "take photo of me" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO OF ME Floyd | Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | You snap a picture of yourself. The camera whirrs and vibrates and Floyd | eventually spits out a print of the photo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x photo of me" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTO OF ME Floyd | Floyd | It turns out it's not that easy taking a photo of yourself with a Floyd | Polaroid camera. The picture came out slightly blurry; you're not sure Floyd | if it's because you weren't holding the camera still, or because it Floyd | was too close to your face. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I love a tested game." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take better photo of me" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BETTER PHOTO OF ME Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yes." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | You notice that you're thinking, and for a second you start thinking Floyd | about thinking, but that doesn't get you anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Are you mapping?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Thought I'd ask before we go too far." | ||
| DavidW says, "no. I'm lost." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "eep" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "We're lost and there's a freakin' GHOST?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I said early that I was snacking instead of mapping. This happens if you run CF at lunchtime." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anyone mapping?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There is no map with the game, fwiw." | |
| Doug says, "I think we only went south and west." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Sunday School Room Floyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "I guess we may just have to do this the old fashioned way. I would prefer not to be the mapper, though. Anyone else up for it?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x poster" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X POSTER Floyd | Floyd | The Ten Commandments are retold here by little cartoon children, in Floyd | language appropriate to the target demographic: "Thou shalt not covet Floyd | thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife," Floyd | etc., becomes "Don't be jealous of what other people have." Floyd | Floyd | As rusty as you are in this area, you can't remember which commandment Floyd | is the one about adultery. It must be the seventh one, which is Floyd | translated here as "Be faithful and loyal." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x altar" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X ALTAR Floyd | Floyd | As altars go, it is fairly tacky: sponge-painted to simulate age, Floyd | draped with an excessively ornate doily. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "I can try and map but I missed some of the rooms up to here" | |
| DavidW says, "hello doily" | ||
| Doug asks, "so what are we doing? just looking for evidence of ghosts?" | ||
| djfletch says, "just been recapping" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "There were three things. Let me go look." | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under doily" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER DOILY Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we've only seen three rooms so far." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take doily" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE DOILY Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "1) ditch sharon 2) find ghosts 3) make-outs" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Take lots of pictures, get Sharon off our back, and keep an open mind. So, yeah, look for the ghost." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You turn the lights off in the Sunday School room. Floyd | Floyd | You flick the hallway light switch on, but nothing happens. In the Floyd | end, you turn the Sunday School room lights back on so you can see Floyd | what you're doing. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway runs north into darkness. It's hard to tell how long it Floyd | might be from here, though the Sunday School room to the east provides Floyd | some light at this end. A huge figure looms out of the shadows—no, Floyd | wait, it's just a plywood image of a lighthouse. Behind the lighthouse Floyd | and partially obscured by it is a mural of Jesus blessing the little Floyd | children. Floyd | Floyd | A movement catches your eye. Some tiny lights seem to be floating at Floyd | the far end of the hall, flickering occasionally. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hello doily" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > HELLO DOILY Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hello. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "See, I read it differently." | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take photo of lights" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO OF LIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | (the flickering lights with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | You snap a picture of the flickering lights. The camera whirrs and Floyd | vibrates and eventually spits out a print of the photo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x photo of lights" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTO OF LIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | Blue lights trail across the photograph, bright against the darkness Floyd | of the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hello sailor" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > HELLO SAILOR Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hello. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, is this like guess the verb, except it's guess the photo? Because we may only see the ghost on film. We may have to take tons of photos." | |
| DavidW says, "I don't think we're near a ghost yet." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We'll feel the cold, hopefully." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We are also supposed to keep the lights off." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn off lights" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN OFF LIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the light switch or the flickering lights? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I know. The PC auto-turns them on,." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn off light switch" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN OFF LIGHT SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | The lights are already off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x flickering" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLICKERING Floyd | Floyd | The lights float across the ceiling like rings of blue smoke, blinking Floyd | in and out to a frantic, inaudible rhythm. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x mural" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X MURAL Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the little children or Jesus? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x jesus" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X JESUS Floyd | Floyd | As is traditional, Jesus is depicted with very long hair, a white robe Floyd | and a beatific smile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x little children" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X LITTLE CHILDREN Floyd | Floyd | Happy little children of various ethnic backgrounds are crowded around Floyd | Jesus. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x lighthouse" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIGHTHOUSE Floyd | Floyd | The piece of plywood is about eight feet tall and an inch thick. A Floyd | minimum of detail has been painted on to convey that this tapered Floyd | rectangle is supposed to be a lighthouse. There are no supports; it's Floyd | just propped up against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "No blue sash?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look behind lighthouse" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND LIGHTHOUSE Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "move lighthouse" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE LIGHTHOUSE Floyd | Floyd | You get the feeling that if you tried to move this thing anywhere, it Floyd | would fall on top of you and snap in half. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway runs north into darkness. It's hard to tell how long it Floyd | might be from here, though the Sunday School room to the east provides Floyd | some light at this end. The plywood lighthouse, on the other hand, Floyd | peacefully fails to provide any light. Behind the lighthouse and Floyd | partially obscured by it is a mural of Jesus blessing the little Floyd | children. Floyd | Floyd | A movement catches your eye. Some tiny lights seem to be floating at Floyd | the far end of the hall, flickering occasionally. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push lighthouse" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH LIGHTHOUSE Floyd | Floyd | You get the feeling that if you tried to move this thing anywhere, it Floyd | would fall on top of you and snap in half. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "slide lighthouse" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > SLIDE LIGHTHOUSE Floyd | Floyd | You get the feeling that if you tried to move this thing anywhere, it Floyd | would fall on top of you and snap in half. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh. It knew 'slide'." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The tiny lights to the north continue to drift aimlessly. Thanks to Floyd | the light filtering in from the south end of the hall, you can make Floyd | out some kind of mural painted on the wall, but you can't tell what Floyd | it's supposed to represent in the gloom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x mural" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X MURAL Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the swathe of yellow, the indistinct smear, or the Floyd | bluish blob? Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "hah" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x yellow" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X YELLOW Floyd | Floyd | It's too dark here to make out any details. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch yellow" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH YELLOW Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "photograph mural" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > PHOTOGRAPH MURAL Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the swathe of yellow, the indistinct smear, or the Floyd | bluish blob? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "blob" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > BLOB Floyd | Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | The camera hums and drops an indistinct photograph into your hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x photo of blob" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTO OF BLOB Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x blob" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X BLOB Floyd | Floyd | It's too dark here to make out any details. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x photo" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTO Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the photo of the cat looking through the window, Floyd | the photo of the bird cage, the photo of you taking a photo of Floyd | yourself, the photo of the flickering lights, or the photo of Floyd | darkness? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh, now, the camera's light ought to have compensated, wouldn't it?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x photo of darkness" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTO OF DARKNESS Floyd | Floyd | It's too dark here to make out any details. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "it's too dark to see the darkness." | |
| djfletch says, "must not have a flash on our camera" | ||
| Doug says, "makes sense" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The flickering lights are only a little way to the north now. Floyd | Otherwise, it's almost completely dark. At least you can still see the Floyd | light at the south end of the hallway. The rectangles to the east and Floyd | west must be doorways to somewhere, but they're barely distinguishable Floyd | from the walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up flash" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP FLASH Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "flash" in Casey's notes) Floyd | There isn't enough light for you to read Casey's notes here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I thought it was old school that we had a polaroid, but a polaroid with no flash..." | |
| Jacqueline says, "hrm" | ||
| Doug says, "I think we need to find a light source in an adjoining room" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness | djfletch says, "maybe the flash would scare away the ghost" | |
Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the west storage room door) Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x grue" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRUE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Your flailing about in the dark eventually discovers a door. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The flickering lights are only a little way to the north now. Floyd | Otherwise, it's almost completely dark. At least you can still see the Floyd | light at the south end of the hallway. The rectangles to the east and Floyd | west must be doorways to somewhere, but they're barely distinguishable Floyd | from the walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the east storage room door) Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "guess not." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "You are about to be brow-beaten by a pew." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Floyd | > Floyd | > YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE BROW-BEATEN BY A PEW. Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Your flailing about in the dark eventually discovers a door. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The flickering lights are only a little way to the north now. Floyd | Otherwise, it's almost completely dark. At least you can still see the Floyd | light at the south end of the hallway. The rectangles to the east and Floyd | west must be doorways to somewhere, but they're barely distinguishable Floyd | from the walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you approach the lights, they flicker one more time and vanish, Floyd | leaving you in complete darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing except for the dim light Floyd | trickling in from the south end of the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | It's too dark to see where you're going. A dim light from the south Floyd | end of the hallway shows you the way back, but if you wander around at Floyd | random you're probably just going to walk into walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We need one of those tiny flashlights with a red filter to protect our night vision." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You run a hand along the wall to help you find your way, and your Floyd | fingers trail through something cold and slimy. Ugh, now it's on your Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ectoplasm!" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x slime" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Floyd | > Floyd | > X SLIME Floyd | Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | It's almost completely dark. At least you can still see the light at Floyd | the south end of the hallway. The rectangles to the east and west must Floyd | be doorways to somewhere, but they're barely distinguishable from the Floyd | walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "can we get to some light and see what it is please?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Thanks to the light filtering in from the south end of the hall, you Floyd | can make out some kind of mural painted on the wall, but you can't Floyd | tell what it's supposed to represent in the gloom. Floyd | Floyd | A little ectoplasm drips off your fingers. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x ectoplasm" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X ECTOPLASM Floyd | Floyd | It's too dark here to make out any details. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "omg it *is* ectoplasm." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway runs north into darkness. It's hard to tell how long it Floyd | might be from here, though the Sunday School room to the east provides Floyd | some light at this end. The plywood lighthouse, on the other hand, Floyd | peacefully fails to provide any light. Behind the lighthouse and Floyd | partially obscured by it is a mural of Jesus blessing the little Floyd | children. Floyd | Floyd | The cat is sitting in the middle of the room, staring at you. Floyd | Floyd | You're still on the other side of the room when the cat scampers off Floyd | to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x ectoplasm" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X ECTOPLASM Floyd | Floyd | The ectoplasm is pale gray, thick and gooey. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, the ectoplasm could be oatmeal" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "taste it" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > TASTE IT Floyd | Floyd | How do ghosts produce ectoplasm anyway? You're not sure it's something Floyd | you want to put in your mouth. Floyd | Floyd | Your fingers itch where the ectoplasm is clinging to them. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "It's gray?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I am with the PC on this one." | ||
| Doug asks, "plaster maybe?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "If it is wet and sticky and gooey and not yours, you shouldn't touch it, let alone put it in your mouth." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell it" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL IT Floyd | Floyd | The ectoplasm smells bitter and unnatural. Floyd | Floyd | You're about to adjust the camera strap around your neck, but catch Floyd | yourself just before you smear the ectoplasm on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some ectoplasm (stuck to your fingers) Floyd | a bird cage Floyd | a small white cross Floyd | a stack of photos Floyd | Casey's notes Floyd | a Polaroid camera (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we're being prompted to clean off our hand." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "drop ectoplasm" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP ECTOPLASM Floyd | Floyd | It clings to your fingers stubbornly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wipe ectoplasm" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > WIPE ECTOPLASM Floyd | Floyd | There's nowhere to wash your hands here. You're briefly tempted to Floyd | wipe the goo off on your jeans, but catch yourself in time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wipe hands" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > WIPE HANDS Floyd | Floyd | There's nowhere to wash your hands here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "bathroom?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "There's probably a washroom somewhere." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | From here, you could head north to more hallway and east to the Sunday Floyd | School room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sunday School Room Floyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and Floyd | west to the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | The cat is sitting in the middle of the room, staring at you. Floyd | Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x cat" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAT Floyd | Floyd | The cat is almost completely white, except for a small black spot on Floyd | the end of its tail. When it sees you looking at it, it narrows its Floyd | pale blue eyes at you. Floyd | Floyd | The cat wanders off to the north, glancing back at you as if to check Floyd | whether you're following. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "kitty!" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look up bathroom" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP BATHROOM Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, men's restroom or ladies' restroom? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look up ladies' restroom" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP LADIES' RESTROOM Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Well, Robin. I actually explored the ladies' restroom briefly, during Floyd | a game of Sardines. But then, because of events that transpired, the Floyd | ladies' restroom was declared to be off-limits. And shortly after Floyd | that, because of fairness, the men's restroom was declared to be Floyd | off-limits as well. For Sardines purposes at least." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |
| DavidW says, "game of Sardines? I don't know that one." | ||
| Doug says, "I guess we have no compunction about getting ectoplasm on the notes" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sardines is a game I do now know." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up sardines" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP SARDINES Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Sardines is this awesome game we Christian Youth play instead of Floyd | Romans and Christians now. In Sardines, a person hides somewhere and Floyd | then everyone else looks for that person and when you find them you Floyd | have to get in the hiding place and hide with them. It is fantastic. Floyd | It's a lot less hectic than Romans and Christians." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. Hide n Seek variant." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up romans and christians" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP ROMANS AND CHRISTIANS Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Romans and Christians is the game we used to play at church. The Floyd | rules were, you had two Romans, and everyone else was the Christians, Floyd | and the Christians just ran around the church in the dark while the Floyd | Romans tried to catch them and take them to the Jail, which was a Floyd | couch. If there are any other rules then I'm forgetting them. Floyd | Floyd | "The excitement of being actively chased around the church caused a Floyd | lot of Christians to kinda lose their heads and occasionally break Floyd | stuff, so we started playing Sardines instead." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Romans and Christians sounds... bloody." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I can see why they'd change the game's rules." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up lions" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP LIONS Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "lions" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up mural" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP MURAL Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I Floyd | volunteered to paint a mural in the basement, and Patrick the youth Floyd | leader gave me permission, so I painted a mural of the Four Beasts Floyd | (the man and the lion and the ox and the eagle) and it was a GREAT Floyd | MURAL but once they saw it they went ahead and covered it up with Floyd | JONAH." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Sunday School Room Floyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and Floyd | west to the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up lighthouse" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP LIGHTHOUSE Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "The Floyd | lighthouse symbolizes how the church is a beacon of guidance to the Floyd | rest of the world. I don't mean my church specifically, I mean all of Floyd | Christianity. Or at least Methodists." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Youth Room Floyd | A large part of this room is taken up by a rickety ping pong table. Floyd | Couches line the edges of the room, some of them close enough to the Floyd | table that they're probably not safe to sit on if someone is actually Floyd | playing ping pong. On the other hand, you can't see any ping pong bats Floyd | anywhere, so maybe that's not an issue. In between the couches, doors Floyd | lead north to the nursery, west to the Sunday School room, and south. Floyd | Floyd | A garish golden trophy catches your eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You turn the lights off in the youth room. Floyd | Floyd | Black Light Room Floyd | You flip the light switch, but the only things that light up are your Floyd | shirt and your socks. Floyd | Floyd | The black walls in here have been painted with Bible verses that glow Floyd | underneath the UV lights. The couches are glowing, too; unsettlingly Floyd | green. The door to the north, on the other hand, is barely visible. Floyd | Floyd | Propped up in one corner is a rough wooden cross. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Why were MURAL and JONAH in all caps back there?" | |
| Doug says, "no bathroom." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x ectoplasm" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X ECTOPLASM Floyd | Floyd | The ectoplasm is pale gray, thick and gooey. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "aw, it doesn't glow in the blacklight" | |
| DavidW asks, "hm. UV lights, eh?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x cross" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X CROSS Floyd | Floyd | (the small white cross) Floyd | This is a nice little cross for a table. Nothing fancy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "c wooden cross" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > C WOODEN CROSS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, glow in the UV Bible verses aren't the least bit creepy." | |
| DavidW says, "Secret writing can be revealed in such lighting." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x wooden cross" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X WOODEN CROSS Floyd | Floyd | You have to guess that whoever constructed this cross purposefully Floyd | chose the roughest, most splintery lumber available. Floyd | Floyd | Around the center plank (which is twice as tall as you are), on top of Floyd | the crossbar, is a "crown of thorns" made from rusty barbed wire. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I wonder if our notes have invisible writing?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, yeah." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x notes" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X NOTES Floyd | Floyd | The notebook is thick, and as you flick through the pages, it looks Floyd | like it's nearly full. Surely Casey didn't make notes about Floyd | everything in the church? How long did he spend on this Floyd | anyway? Floyd | Floyd | There's way too much information here to sit down and read it all at Floyd | once, but you can look up anything you want to know about. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up jonah" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP JONAH Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I Floyd | volunteered to paint a mural in the basement, and Patrick the youth Floyd | leader gave me permission, so I painted a mural of the Four Beasts Floyd | (the man and the lion and the ox and the eagle) and it was a GREAT Floyd | MURAL but once they saw it they went ahead and covered it up with Floyd | JONAH." Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I think the caps there are just for emphasis" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up patrick" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP PATRICK Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Patrick the youth leader is Grace's youth leader currently. In the Floyd | distant past there was a different, previous youth leader, but we Floyd | don't talk about her. Floyd | Floyd | "Actually, I'm looking over the other notes I've written and it looks Floyd | like I've probably said too much about Patrick the youth leader too." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up jennie" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP JENNIE Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I Floyd | don't know how much you already know about the ghost in the church so Floyd | I'll give you the whole story. Jennie Bancroft is the name of the Floyd | ghost that haunts Grace United Methodist. She used to be alive, but Floyd | then she died, in or around the church, sometime in the distant past. Floyd | I keep meaning to look up when she died but I haven't had time. Floyd | Floyd | "When people see her, she looks like a teenage girl in pigtails. I Floyd | don't think she shows up covered in blood or anything like that; she's Floyd | just a sad girl. Obviously a lot of the time she's invisible though. Floyd | Floyd | "Some of the evidence that we have for her existence includes: Floyd | Floyd | - sounds of footsteps and a girl crying when nobody else is in the Floyd | church Floyd | - cold spots in rooms, rooms that suddenly become cold for no reason Floyd | - stuff goes missing, then shows up again Floyd | - you see someone at the end of the hallway but when you get to the Floyd | end of the hallway there's nobody there Floyd | - basically everybody has seen her out of the corner of their eye at Floyd | some point Floyd | Floyd | "Debate continues on the subject of how Jennie died. Popular theories Floyd | state that she jumped off of the church steeple, or she drank poison, Floyd | or used a space heater to carbon monoxide herself. According to one Floyd | explanation she died accidentally, because she was using a Ouija Floyd | board, but that theory is idiotic. Jennie Bancroft definitely Floyd | committed suicide, and it was definitely because of a boy she was in Floyd | love with." Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh, we already looked her up, right" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Youth Room Floyd | A large part of this room is taken up by a rickety ping pong table. Floyd | Couches line the edges of the room, some of them close enough to the Floyd | table that they're probably not safe to sit on if someone is actually Floyd | playing ping pong. On the other hand, you can't see any ping pong bats Floyd | anywhere, so maybe that's not an issue. In between the couches, doors Floyd | lead north to the nursery, west to the Sunday School room, and south Floyd | to the black light room. Floyd | Floyd | A garish golden trophy catches your eye. Floyd | Floyd | You hold your gooey hand out, away from your body, so as not to get Floyd | any ectoplasm on your clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You turn the lights off in the youth room. Floyd | Floyd | Nursery Floyd | Battered toys spill out of the toybox and across the floor, piling up Floyd | in a corner of the room. Cupboards are mounted high on the walls, out Floyd | of reach of tiny fingers, and an enormous blue recliner sits Floyd | underneath them. It's already dark outside, and the doors west to the Floyd | basement stairway and south to the youth room are dark as well. Floyd | Floyd | Your sleeping bag is lying on a tidy patch of floor, ready for when Floyd | you finish your investigation. Floyd | Floyd | Sharon's makeshift bed doesn't look comfortable, but apparently she's Floyd | fast asleep anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "guess the washroom is upstairs" | |
| DavidW says, "oh, I was gonna try putting the plasm into the trophy" | ||
| Doug says, "oh, go for it" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Youth Room Floyd | A large part of this room is taken up by a rickety ping pong table. Floyd | Couches line the edges of the room, some of them close enough to the Floyd | table that they're probably not safe to sit on if someone is actually Floyd | playing ping pong. On the other hand, you can't see any ping pong bats Floyd | anywhere, so maybe that's not an issue. In between the couches, doors Floyd | lead north to the nursery, west to the Sunday School room, and south Floyd | to the black light room. Floyd | Floyd | A garish golden trophy catches your eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put plasm in trophy" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT PLASM IN TROPHY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put ectoplasm in trophy" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ECTOPLASM IN TROPHY Floyd | Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh well" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You turn the lights off in the youth room. Floyd | Floyd | Sunday School Room Floyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and Floyd | west to the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You switch the lights on in the next room. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Stairway Floyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs. Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north. Floyd | Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > X PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | The piece is very pleasant, if not particularly interesting: the Floyd | inoffensive greens and pinks could suggest river waters, or branches Floyd | waving in the wind. Its size is probably its most impressive quality. Floyd | Floyd | Your fingers itch where the ectoplasm is clinging to them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Boiler Room Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You turn the lights off in the basement stairway and switch the lights Floyd | on in the next room. Floyd | Floyd | Boiler Room Floyd | All of a sudden you feel very claustrophobic. This must be a fairly Floyd | large room, but most of the space is given over to snaking pipes, Floyd | anonymous machinery, and the church's giant boiler. Floyd | Floyd | A little ectoplasm drips off your fingers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Stairway Floyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs. Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main Floor Stairway Floyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them, Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies' Floyd | restroom respectively. Floyd | Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a Floyd | wooden bench. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "aha" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | The door swings shut behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Ladies' Restroom Floyd | A restroom in a church is about the same as any other restroom. You Floyd | have your stalls, your sinks, your mirrors, your garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wash up" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > WASH UP Floyd | Floyd | You must name something more substantial. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wash" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > WASH Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to wash? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "hands" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > HANDS Floyd | Floyd | You scrub your hands until every trace of ectoplasm is gone. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "mission accomplished!" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Thank the gods. Wait, no, just the one." | ||
| DavidW says, "hm. I can't help but wonder if there's something here we're meant to find." | ||
| DavidW says, "Also, try following the cat when we next find it." | ||
| Doug says, "I think we need a light source to investigate the dark hallway better." | ||
| Doug says, "also the cat. and more exploration on this floor" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, seems like we were steered into the bathroom." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look in mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | Your own face peers back at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x face" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X FACE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mirrors" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIRRORS Floyd | Floyd | Your own face peers back at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take photo of camera" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO OF CAMERA Floyd | Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | You aim the camera at the ladies' room mirrors and take a photo of the Floyd | reflection. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You are Robin Monaghan, high school junior, associate reporter for the Floyd | West High Warbler. You are not overly fond of churches, and Floyd | you have never claimed to believe in ghosts, but here you are. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "bah, I expected to see a ghost standing behind us" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x photo" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTO Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the photo of the cat looking through the window, Floyd | the photo of the bird cage, the photo of you taking a photo of Floyd | yourself, the photo of the flickering lights, the photo of darkness, Floyd | or the photo of the ladies' room mirrors? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x can" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAN Floyd | Floyd | The cleaner must have been in recently, because the garbage can is Floyd | empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x photo of mirrors" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTO OF MIRRORS Floyd | Floyd | It's a photo of the ladies' room mirrors. The reflection in it shows Floyd | you holding the camera up to your face. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under can" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER CAN Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to djf), "That would have been creepy cool, yeah." | |
| Doug says, "so we're not a vampire!" | ||
| DavidW says, "yet" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x photo of darkness" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTO OF DARKNESS Floyd | Floyd | The photo is just a black rectangle. There are maybe some lighter Floyd | smudges of black here and there, but you can't tell what it's supposed Floyd | to be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x stalls" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X STALLS Floyd | Floyd | They look like restroom stalls you'd see anywhere else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x sinks" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X SINKS Floyd | Floyd | The sinks are typical sinks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "enter stalls" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER STALLS Floyd | Floyd | They're not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "heh" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Weird. I felt like we were steered here, but possibly that whole ectoplasm thing was just to squick us out." | ||
| inky says, "this is pretty weird" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I would, however, like to go back to where we got that crap on our hands and investigate the source of it." | ||
| inky says, "like normally ghost hunts come up with some lights and maybe a spooky voice which could also be the wind" | ||
| DavidW asks, "maybe there's a trigger on leaving the bathroom?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Maybe." | ||
| inky says, "but if you find some actual physical ectoplasm, you can basically take that straight to the talk shows and get rich" | ||
| inky says, "so I guess you could say you just let your chances of getting rich .. go down the drain" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose we should've photographed the ectoplasm itself." | ||
| DavidW says (to inky), "oh, now you tell us" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "We didn't photograph it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Can we go back there?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe we can, yeah. There could be an entire vat of the stuff." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, right, it was dark at the time." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at DW), "We could go for a swim!" | ||
| DavidW says, "excellent idea. It'll change our movie rating!" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | The door swings shut behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Main Floor Stairway Floyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them, Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies' Floyd | restroom respectively. Floyd | Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a Floyd | wooden bench. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to ectoplasm" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO ECTOPLASM Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to flickering lights" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO FLICKERING LIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x poster" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > X POSTER Floyd | Floyd | The poster is a vast glossy print of a bald eagle gliding through a Floyd | bright blue sky. In a corner of the sky, a Bible verse is printed: Floyd | "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they Floyd | shall mount up with wings as eagles. Isaiah 40:31." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh well. One never knows." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x bench" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > X BENCH Floyd | Floyd | The bench seems to have been made in a deliberately rustic style, with Floyd | heavy timber beams. It doesn't look very comfortable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look behind poster" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND POSTER Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get poster" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > GET POSTER Floyd | Floyd | It's really too big to carry around with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The door to the pastor's office is locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fellowship Hall Floyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west. Floyd | Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up office" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP OFFICE Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "You Floyd | used to be able to get into the pastor's office all the time, back Floyd | when Patrick the youth leader had his own sub-office at one end of the Floyd | room where he had free candy. But that was a security risk apparently, Floyd | so they locked up the pastor's office and Patrick the youth leader had Floyd | to move his office to his truck." Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "so he keeps free candy in his truck?" | |
| DavidW says, "I guess so. What a nice man." | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x model" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > X MODEL Floyd | Floyd | It can't be a model of this church; it's the wrong shape. There's an Floyd | incredible level of detail, though, from the tiles in the roof to the Floyd | tiny people on the sidewalk. The double doors in front are open, and Floyd | you can barely make out the shapes of little pews inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x church" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHURCH Floyd | Floyd | It can't be a model of this church; it's the wrong shape. There's an Floyd | incredible level of detail, though, from the tiles in the roof to the Floyd | tiny people on the sidewalk. The double doors in front are open, and Floyd | you can barely make out the shapes of little pews inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pews" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEWS Floyd | Floyd | There really are tiny pews in there. How much more furniture is under Floyd | that roof? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x case" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > X CASE Floyd | Floyd | The case itself is mounted in a pedestal about three feet high. You Floyd | notice that there are numerous fingerprints caked onto the glass. Floyd | Floyd | In the glass case is a model church. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open case" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CASE Floyd | Floyd | It looks like the case wasn't designed to be opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "wonder what a narthex is." | |
| inky says, "this says it's basically the lobby" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "There's been narthexes in other games, but I don't remember what it means." | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > THERE'S BEEN NARTHEXES IN OTHER GAMES, BUT I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT IT Floyd | MEANS. Floyd | Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "[LINK]" | |
| Doug asks, "would that be 'narthices'?" | ||
| DavidW says, "drat" | ||
| DavidW says, "I dunno" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fingerprints" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > X FINGERPRINTS Floyd | Floyd | They're mostly children's fingerprints, but some of these were left by Floyd | adults. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I seem to remember a narthex in Dangerous Curves, iirc." | |
| Doug | Medieval Latin from Classical Greek narthex [1] 1. giant fennel, 2. scourge | ||
| Doug says, "giant fennel!" | ||
| inky asks, "do we need to dust for fingerprints for some reason?" | ||
| inky asks, "or does this imply there is a secret something or other?" | ||
| DavidW says, "geez, I dunno" | ||
| DavidW asks, "like, pushing the adult prints opens the case?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x church" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHURCH Floyd | Floyd | It can't be a model of this church; it's the wrong shape. There's an Floyd | incredible level of detail, though, from the tiles in the roof to the Floyd | tiny people on the sidewalk. The double doors in front are open, and Floyd | you can barely make out the shapes of little pews inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up fingerprints" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP FINGERPRINTS Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "The Floyd | model church is a model of some other church. I think it used to be Floyd | inside of that church, but it got torn down, or they went bankrupt, Floyd | and the model ended up in our church. It's kind of a creepy object, Floyd | though. The guy who made it was clearly way too obsessed with his Floyd | church." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "goodness, these notes are extensive." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take photo of fingerprints" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO OF FINGERPRINTS Floyd | Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | You snap a picture of the model church. The camera whirrs and vibrates Floyd | and eventually spits out a print of the photo. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "looks like it's just an alias." | |
| inky says, "ok, that is very weird" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x photo of church" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTO OF CHURCH Floyd | Floyd | It's a photo you took of the model church. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sometimes you just notice that no one cleans. That might be all the fingerprints are about." | |
| DavidW says, "anyway, I'm lost without mapping." | ||
| djfletch says, "to kitchen or narthex" | ||
| inky says, "normally when there's a model you can use it to see secret rooms in the current building or something" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | From here, you could head north to the main floor stairway, east, and Floyd | west to the narthex. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "or something's concealed inside you can get by manipulating the model" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The church kitchen contains much the same kind of thing as any Floyd | kitchen, only more so. Long countertops line the walls, with cupboards Floyd | and drawers underneath them. A break in the counters allows you to Floyd | leave the kitchen via the door to the west, and on the far side of the Floyd | room a sink is set into the counter. Floyd | Floyd | A sturdy box is sitting on the floor in the corner, with some cans in Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | Somebody forgot to put away an empty jam jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "but neither of those seem to apply here" | |
| inky says, "jam jar!" | ||
| inky says, "full of ectoplasm!" | ||
| inky says, "soup cans!" | ||
| Doug says, "I suspect a lot of stuff here is "let's recreate the churches from our childhood"" | ||
| DavidW says, "okay, that's where to put the ectoplasm." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | orange box: Taken. Floyd | empty jam jar: Taken. Floyd | dishes: You restack a few of the dishes, but the cupboards don't look Floyd | any more organized. Floyd | cutlery: The sheer number and variety of utensils in the drawers Floyd | paralyzes your ability to choose any individual item. Floyd | dish towels: You can't bring yourself to disturb the perfectly folded Floyd | dish towels. Floyd | can of tomato soup: Stolen. Floyd | can of pears: Stolen. Floyd | can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Product": Stolen. Floyd | can of cherry pie filling: Stolen. Floyd | can of tuna: Stolen. Floyd | can of chicken soup: Stolen. Floyd | can of peaches: Stolen. Floyd | can opener: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yikes" | |
| Doug says, "haha" | ||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x jar" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X JAR Floyd | Floyd | The jar has lost its lid, but it appears to be clean and sterile Floyd | anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That box of cans was probably for a food drive, you meanie." | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "You thieves!" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put cans in box" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CANS IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | can of tomato soup: Your conscience gets the better of you, and you Floyd | return the can of tomato soup to its original location. Floyd | can of pears: Your conscience gets the better of you, and you return Floyd | the can of pears to its original location. Floyd | can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Product": Your conscience gets the Floyd | better of you, and you return the can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Floyd | Product" to its original location. Floyd | can of cherry pie filling: Your conscience gets the better of you, and Floyd | you return the can of cherry pie filling to its original location. Floyd | can of tuna: Your conscience gets the better of you, and you return Floyd | the can of tuna to its original location. Floyd | can of chicken soup: Your conscience gets the better of you, and you Floyd | return the can of chicken soup to its original location. Floyd | can of peaches: Your conscience gets the better of you, and you return Floyd | the can of peaches to its original location. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "they shoudl do like rand('Stolen.', 'Borrowed.', 'Acquired through morally-gray means.')" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | An old label on the box says "Navel Oranges", but someone has written Floyd | "FOOD BANK" over that. Apparently they thought they'd need a good Floyd | sturdy crate for all the Food Bank donations they'd get. Floyd | Floyd | In the orange box are a can of peaches, a can of chicken soup, a can Floyd | of tuna, a can of cherry pie filling, a can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Floyd | Food Product", a can of pears, and a can of tomato soup. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "although I bet the cat would like the tuna." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "play station" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > PLAY STATION Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says (to DavidW), "good idea" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tuna" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X TUNA Floyd | Floyd | The label says this is twelve ounces of chunk tuna, in water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x opener" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X OPENER Floyd | Floyd | It looks to be tolerably clean. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jar" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X JAR Floyd | | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up kitchen" | ||
Floyd | The jar has lost its lid, but it appears to be clean and sterile Floyd | anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP KITCHEN Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "If Floyd | you've seen Jurassic Park then the kitchen is really scary in Floyd | the dark. If you haven't seen Jurassic Park then you should Floyd | get around to that." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |
| inky says, "I assume the jar is to collect the ectoplasm sample" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jurassic park" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X JURASSIC PARK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up jurassic park" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP JURASSIC PARK Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "jurassic park" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up food drive" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP FOOD DRIVE Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "food drive" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | An old label on the box says "Navel Oranges", but someone has written Floyd | "FOOD BANK" over that. Apparently they thought they'd need a good Floyd | sturdy crate for all the Food Bank donations they'd get. Floyd | Floyd | In the orange box are a can of peaches, a can of chicken soup, a can Floyd | of tuna, a can of cherry pie filling, a can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Floyd | Food Product", a can of pears, and a can of tomato soup. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up food bank" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP FOOD BANK Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | On the subject of canned food Casey writes, "I'm pretty sure the Floyd | people who are supposed to be in charge of donating stuff to the Food Floyd | Bank are really disorganized, because you always see spare cans of Floyd | stuff lying around. Or maybe some of the cans were rejected by the Floyd | Food Bank. I don't know how it works." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "SEE!" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CUPBOARD Floyd | Floyd | You peek inside a random cupboard and find a large number of plates Floyd | piled inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a can opener Floyd | an empty jam jar Floyd | an orange box Floyd | a bird cage Floyd | a small white cross Floyd | a stack of photos Floyd | Casey's notes Floyd | a Polaroid camera (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "see what?" | |
| DavidW says, "It said FOOD BANK on the box." | ||
| inky says, "oh yeah" | ||
| djfletch says, "I am worried that a poltergeist will throw these plates at us" | ||
| inky says, "also, I assume the fact that we have a can opener means we can open one of the cans" | ||
| DavidW says, "I vote for tuna, for cat." | ||
| inky says (to djfletch), "he said jurassic park, so you should be worry about it throwing a velociraptor at us" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get tuna" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > GET TUNA Floyd | Floyd | Stolen. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Agreed (re: tuna)" | |
| DavidW says, "tsk. Stealing in a church. That won't bite us later." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "open drawers" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DRAWERS Floyd | Floyd | You pull open a random drawer for a moment, revealing an assortment of Floyd | dish towels. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | There is no score in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The church kitchen contains much the same kind of thing as any Floyd | kitchen, only more so. Long countertops line the walls, with cupboards Floyd | and drawers underneath them. A break in the counters allows you to Floyd | leave the kitchen via the door to the west, and on the far side of the Floyd | room a sink is set into the counter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X SINK Floyd | Floyd | It's a big sink, capable of handling the influx of dirty dishes that Floyd | church functions undoubtedly generate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "likelihood of going to heaven" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LIKELIHOOD OF GOING TO HEAVEN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wash jar" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > WASH JAR Floyd | Floyd | You don't have anything to clean the empty jam jar with. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn on faucet" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN ON FAUCET Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any dirt on your hands, but you wash them just in case. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There's not enough influx objects in IF." | |
| inky asks, "influx?" | ||
| DavidW says, "influx of dirty dishes, for example" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x jar" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X JAR Floyd | Floyd | The jar has lost its lid, but it appears to be clean and sterile Floyd | anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "shall we head to the narthex now?" | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "TO THE NARTHEX!" | ||
| DavidW says, "Someday, we'll pull a tablecloth and find an influx in our inventory." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fellowship Hall Floyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west. Floyd | Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narthex Floyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x bible" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > X BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | The Bible is obviously a well-respected object around here, but it's Floyd | not a mere display piece; the pages have been creased and scuffed by Floyd | continuous use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | The Bible is obviously a well-respected object around here, but it's Floyd | not a mere display piece; the pages have been creased and scuffed by Floyd | continuous use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tags" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > X TAGS Floyd | Floyd | There must be a name tag on here for everybody who's ever set foot in Floyd | this church. There's Casey's, and there's Orchid's, and this one says Floyd | "Robin"—but they must mean some other Robin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x patrick" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > X PATRICK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x patrick's tag" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > X PATRICK'S TAG Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x jennie's tag" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > X JENNIE'S TAG Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says (to DW), "I dunno, I stole stuff in Vespers and that turned out juuuuust fine" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up tags" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP TAGS Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "When the new pastor came, he insisted that everybody wear name tags Floyd | all the time, but that didn't last long. Name tags are a pain." Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Back. Any ghost sightings since I left?" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get bible" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | You feel it would be disrespectful to remove the Bible from its Floyd | podium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "open bible" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | It's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no. Just ectoplasm" | |
| Doug says, "wonder what it's open to." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read bible" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > READ BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | The Bible is obviously a well-respected object around here, but it's Floyd | not a mere display piece; the pages have been creased and scuffed by Floyd | continuous use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN PAGE Floyd | Floyd | You flip aimlessly through the book, and eventually your gaze lands on Floyd | a passage: "Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray for the Floyd | power to interpret. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my Floyd | mind is unproductive." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN PAGE Floyd | Floyd | You flip aimlessly through the book, and eventually your gaze lands on Floyd | a passage: "But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if Floyd | every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself Floyd | could not contain the books that would be written." Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "wow, that's a lot" | |
| Jacqueline says, "That's indeed a lot of stuff." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, they didn't have much paper back then." | ||
| Doug says, "maybe the world was smaller" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "wear tag" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR TAG Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the name tag) Floyd | You pull the name tag labeled "Robin" off of the board, even though it Floyd | couldn't possibly be for you. Floyd | Floyd | You pin the name tag on. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Also, maybe they had already developed the concept of hyperbole." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get pamphlet" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > GET PAMPHLET Floyd | Floyd | You won't let yourself give any of this material a closer look. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "maybe it is for you" | |
| inky says, "and this is a cult" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | One pamphlet is titled "Meaningful Relationships?". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "Maybe he braided everyone's hair, and the braids were in another language of knots, so every head of hair was a sentence in a story." | ||
Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >
Floyd | > MAYBE HE BRAIDED EVERYONE'S HAIR, AND THE BRAIDS WERE IN ANOTHER
| inky says, "waiting to suck you in" | |
Floyd | LANGUAGE OF KNOTS, SO EVERY HEAD OF HAIR WAS A SENTENCE IN A STORY.
Floyd |
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "argh again" | |
| DavidW says, "I hate mixing up f and ;." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "read pamphlets" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > READ PAMPHLETS Floyd | Floyd | "Please Take One!" reads the cursive text at the bottom of the rack, Floyd | but none of the pamphlets succeeds in engaging your curiosity. You've Floyd | never been afflicted with any of the problems they purport to solve. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch asks, "hmm. What was the name of the guy that the ghost girl killed herself over?" | |
| djfletch asks, "and would it be a bad idea to wear his tag?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Casey didn't say" | ||
| DavidW says, "but chances are one of the tags has a key taped to the back of it, I suppose." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I don't think Casey noted his name." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jesus's tag" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > X JESUS'S TAG Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up jesus" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP JESUS Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I Floyd | volunteered to paint a mural in the basement, and Patrick the youth Floyd | leader gave me permission, so I painted a mural of the Four Beasts Floyd | (the man and the lion and the ox and the eagle) and it was a GREAT Floyd | MURAL but once they saw it they went ahead and covered it up with Floyd | JONAH." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x orchid's tag" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > X ORCHID'S TAG Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search tags for robin" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH TAGS FOR ROBIN Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to search the board full of Floyd | name tags. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search tags" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH TAGS Floyd | Floyd | There is nothing on the board full of name tags. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Let's not forget, at some point this evening, to put Sharon's hand in a bowl of warm water." | |
| DavidW says, "hm. I suppose it's far too early to guess." | ||
| DavidW asks, "You mean, a chilly jam jar of ectoplasm, don't you?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We cold try that when warm water doesn't work." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | The plastic stems and silk blossoms are obviously artificial, but that Floyd | hasn't stopped someone from trying to water them recently. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(then take a picture of it)" | |
| Doug says, "I wonder if we can run out of film." | ||
| Doug asks, "so, north?" | ||
| djfletch says, "ok" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Orchid hasn't turned the lights on either; you can barely Floyd | make out anything in the gloom. Floyd | Floyd | Orchid comes over to meet you. "I didn't find anything up here," she Floyd | says, "how about you?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "show photo of lights to orchid" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW PHOTO OF LIGHTS TO ORCHID Floyd | Floyd | Her eyes widen at the photo of the flickering lights. "Wow, Robin," Floyd | she says, "that's great, good work! That definitely looks paranormal Floyd | to me." Floyd | Floyd | Before you can say any more, Orchid gasps and points upwards. Floyd | Something is floating near the ceiling, glowing faintly—a pale figure Floyd | in a wispy dress. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take photo of figure" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO OF FIGURE Floyd | Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | You snap a picture of the ghostly figure. The camera whirrs and Floyd | vibrates and eventually spits out a print of the photo. Floyd | Floyd | The ghostly figure hovers silently in the air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x figure" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > X FIGURE Floyd | Floyd | The glowing figure is wearing a pale dress and her hair is in Floyd | pigtails, just like Casey said. You can't make out the expression on Floyd | her face, but she's holding her hands out as if she's reaching for Floyd | something or asking for something. Floyd | Floyd | The figure drifts towards the ground and glides northward towards the Floyd | altar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x photo of figure" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTO OF FIGURE Floyd | Floyd | It's too dark here to make out any details. Floyd | Floyd | Orchid hisses, "What are you waiting around for? Get some more photos Floyd | of the ghost!" Floyd | Floyd | The figure drifts northwards through a small door behind the altar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take photo of figure" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO OF FIGURE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Altar Floyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit, Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar are two candles. Floyd | Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You catch just a glimpse of the ghost in the darkness before it floats Floyd | towards the back wall and vanishes. When you switch the light on, the Floyd | room is empty. Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the Floyd | altar to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner. Floyd | Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oops" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Wowza" | ||
| Doug asks, "anyone want some more ectoplasm?" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "jar! jar!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | ||
| Draconis says, "There we go, caught up." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a name tag (being worn) Floyd | a can of tuna Floyd | a can opener Floyd | an empty jam jar Floyd | an orange box Floyd | a bird cage Floyd | a small white cross Floyd | a stack of photos Floyd | Casey's notes Floyd | a Polaroid camera (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get ectoplasm with jar" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ECTOPLASM WITH JAR Floyd | Floyd | You carefully scoop a sample of the ectoplasm into the jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lick ectoplasm" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LICK ECTOPLASM Floyd | Floyd | You touch the ectoplasm gingerly with the tip of your tongue. The Floyd | bitter tang makes you gag. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x ectoplasm" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X ECTOPLASM Floyd | Floyd | The ectoplasm is pale gray, thick and gooey. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Can we close the jar?" | |
| Draconis asks, "Or is there no lid?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "AIE" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No lid." | ||
| DavidW says, "LICK worked but TASTE didn't? UNFAIR." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I was thinking that." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "eat ectoplasm" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT ECTOPLASM Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the ectoplasm) Floyd | You've already collected some ectoplasm. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "inky got to taste the ectoplasm and I didn't waaaaaah" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "smell ectoplasm" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL ECTOPLASM Floyd | Floyd | The ectoplasm smells bitter and unnatural. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I guess taste does imply more ingestion than lick does, to be fair." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "touch ectoplasm" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH ECTOPLASM Floyd | Floyd | You prod the ectoplasm gingerly, then rub it between your fingers. Floyd | It's thick and gooey, with a slightly oily texture. And now it's all Floyd | over your hand again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Draconis says, "Sorry." | ||
| inky says, "maybe we weren't allowed to touch the previous stuff but we are allowed to touch this one" | ||
| djfletch says, "anyway there must be some loot in this chest" | ||
| DavidW asks, "What, this is girl ectoplasm so it's okay, but downstairs is boy ectoplasm?" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "open chest" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CHEST Floyd | Floyd | You open the huge wooden chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look in chest" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN CHEST Floyd | Floyd | The huge wooden chest is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "boo" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push chest" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH CHEST Floyd | Floyd | The chest won't budge. It must be bolted to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the Floyd | altar to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner. Floyd | Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter chest" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER CHEST Floyd | Floyd | You lie down inside the chest, and notice that there's plenty of space Floyd | inside. It's not a bad spot. | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | inside. It's not a bad spot.But there's no time for napping now.
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull yourself out of the box.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "close chest" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE CHEST Floyd | Floyd | You close the huge wooden chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "in-ter-est-ing" | |
| Doug says, "oops" | ||
| Doug says, "I thought maybe we could close it while inside" | ||
| djfletch says, "note this for next time we play sardines" | ||
| DavidW says, "And hide." | ||
| Doug says, "spacebar pauses are weird" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x panels" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X PANELS Floyd | Floyd | Looking closely at the walls, you realise that one of the panels on Floyd | the wall is sitting slightly further forward than the others. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "open panel" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN PANEL Floyd | Floyd | You're not quite sure how to open the panel, or even if it can be Floyd | opened. You jiggle it experimentally and it shifts a little. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "push!" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "push panel" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH PANEL Floyd | Floyd | You press your palms against the panel, but it doesn't seem to move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "pull panel" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL PANEL Floyd | Floyd | You grab the edges of the panel and try to pull it towards you. Floyd | Floyd | Nothing much seems to happen at first, but then the panel shifts Floyd | upward and slides to the side. Behind it a narrow tunnel leads Floyd | downwards. You open and close the panel a few more times to make sure Floyd | you know how it works, and then leave it open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "whoa" | |
| Jacqueline says, "whoa" | ||
| DavidW says, "Secret room churches are teh best churches!" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Who's awesome?" | ||
| Doug asks, "we still have no light source. wait, were there candles?" | ||
| Doug says, "yeah, on the altar" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Altar Floyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit, Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar are two candles. Floyd | Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "And were they lit?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get candles" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CANDLES Floyd | Floyd | Without something to light them with, these candles are just sticks. Floyd | Not worth carrying around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "light them" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > LIGHT THEM Floyd | Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe Sharon has a lighter." | |
| Doug says, "hm." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x cross" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > X CROSS Floyd | Floyd | (the small white cross) Floyd | This is a nice little cross for a table. Nothing fancy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x large cross" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > X LARGE CROSS Floyd | Floyd | It must be fifteen feet from top to bottom. The wood is smooth, and Floyd | the proportions are graceful. Aesthetically speaking, it is a very Floyd | pleasant object. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x altar" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > X ALTAR Floyd | Floyd | A simple beige table. On the side facing the congregation is an Floyd | insignia with the letters "IHS". Floyd | Floyd | On the altar are two candles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open altar" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN ALTAR Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "IHS = I Hate Sharon!" | |
| djfletch says, "I wonder if we can make the ectoplasm glow with the UV light" | ||
| Doug says, "it didn't glow when I looked at it in the black light room." | ||
| djfletch says, "hmm, but maybe now we have it properly in a jar" | ||
| DavidW says, "hm, maybe." | ||
| DavidW says, "I still think the UV is for a secret message on something." | ||
| djfletch says, "yeah, might be more likely" | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe even in the mural." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up uv" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP UV Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "uv" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "btw, where's what's her name?" | |
| Doug asks, "so where would we find something to light the candles with?" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x flag" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLAG Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the American flag or the Christian flag? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x american" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > X AMERICAN Floyd | Floyd | Although it's lying furled against its post, you can easily tell that Floyd | this is an American flag. This one has tassels around the edges, and Floyd | an eagle figurine is perched at the top. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That's why I tried to open the altar, in case the matches were right there." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x christian flag" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHRISTIAN FLAG Floyd | Floyd | You assume it's the Christian flag, because there's a red cross near Floyd | the top, but you've never seen such a flag anywhere else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Altar Floyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit, Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar are two candles. Floyd | Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x puplit" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > X PUPLIT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x pulpit" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > X PULPIT Floyd | Floyd | The lectern stands on the stage-left end of the platform. The Floyd | austerity of its design is diminished somewhat by the microphone Floyd | sticking out of the top. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "speak into microphone" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > SPEAK INTO MICROPHONE Floyd | Floyd | (to yourself) Floyd | Your voice echoes in the empty room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x microphone" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > X MICROPHONE Floyd | Floyd | The controls for the mic must be somewhere else. You don't see an Floyd | on/off switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x lectern" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > X LECTERN Floyd | Floyd | The lectern stands on the stage-left end of the platform. The Floyd | austerity of its design is diminished somewhat by the microphone Floyd | sticking out of the top. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under lectern" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER LECTERN Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get in pulpit" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN PULPIT Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "search lectern" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH LECTERN Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pews" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEWS Floyd | Floyd | The benches are like dense underbrush: something could be hiding Floyd | anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search pews" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH PEWS Floyd | Floyd | You can't reach into the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "search pews" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH PEWS Floyd | Floyd | You look in between a few of the pews and find nothing to either Floyd | interest or worry you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search pews" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH PEWS Floyd | Floyd | You look in between a few of the pews and find nothing to either Floyd | interest or worry you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x windows" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > X WINDOWS Floyd | Floyd | Some of the designs are purely abstract, but you notice a dove, a Floyd | lion, a lamb, and what looks like an elk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x elk" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > X ELK Floyd | Floyd | The elk is looking to the side, as if ready to take on some unseen Floyd | assailant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x dove" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOVE Floyd | Floyd | The dove is flying downward, its wings outstretched. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Mrs Anne Elk" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x lion" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > X LION Floyd | Floyd | The lion is looking out into space with one paw raised. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x lamb" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > X LAMB Floyd | Floyd | The lamb is sitting down, its eyes closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a name tag (being worn) Floyd | a can of tuna Floyd | a can opener Floyd | a jam jar Floyd | some ectoplasm Floyd | an orange box Floyd | a bird cage Floyd | a small white cross Floyd | a stack of photos Floyd | Casey's notes Floyd | a Polaroid camera (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | You saw one of these in a movie once. The top recedes into the back of Floyd | the desk, and you can hide a convict inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "open desk" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DESK Floyd | Floyd | You try to pull back the top of the desk, but it's locked down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "unlock desk" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK DESK Floyd | Floyd | You try to pull back the top of the desk, but it's locked down. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "love rolltop desks. Which I had one again." | |
| DavidW says, "er wish" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x orchid" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > X ORCHID Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "huh, where'd she go?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up orchid" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP ORCHID Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Here's an anecdote about Orchid. This happened just recently. I Floyd | didn't tell you, because I wanted to save it for here. Okay: Floyd | Floyd | "I'm at school after hours because of rehearsals. But we're still in Floyd | the fairly lazy stage of the production, so there's lots of time to Floyd | just goof off around the school. So while the underclassmen are Floyd | sitting around in the hall running lines, I head up to the drama Floyd | office, because there are donuts there. Floyd | Floyd | "But Orchid and Aiden Kingsley are already up in the office, and as Floyd | soon as I poke my head in Orchid looks up and says 'Actors only, Floyd | please!' and I'm like 'Actually, I am an actor,' and she says, 'Well, Floyd | you know what I mean.' Floyd | Floyd | "No, Orchid! I do not have the slightest idea what you mean. I would Floyd | have just grabbed a donut and left, but you're not allowed to take the Floyd | donuts out of the drama office, so I just left. Floyd | Floyd | "I wouldn't say I hate Orchid. Hate is a very strong word. I Floyd | completely hate Aiden, though." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Orchid's probably kidnapped by the monster of the week. We might find her shoe later." | |
| Doug says, "or Aiden" | ||
| Doug asks, "well, should we try the secret passage without a light source?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Will Orchid be the Xander of this tale?" | ||
| djfletch says, "we haven't been up from here to the balcony yet" | ||
| djfletch says, "could do that first" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | From here, you could head north to the altar, south to the narthex, Floyd | and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Altar Floyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit, Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar are two candles. Floyd | Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We havent seen the candy in Patrick's truck yet either." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | From here, you could head north to the back room and south to the Floyd | sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "must have been east" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | From here, you could head north to the back room and south to the Floyd | sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s then e" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > S THEN E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Stairs Floyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "aha, a projector!" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x projector" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > X PROJECTOR Floyd | Floyd | A strong metal cage protects the projector from careless and/or Floyd | malevolent handling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pews" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEWS Floyd | Floyd | (the balcony pews) Floyd | There are only a few rows of pews up here, mounted on a series of Floyd | steps so the people at the back can still see down to the altar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x cables" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > X CABLES Floyd | Floyd | It's hard to tell what this stuff is for with it all tumbled into a Floyd | heap like that. There are some metal bars, and some pulleys and Floyd | things, and a lot of tangled cables connecting things together. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search pews" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH PEWS Floyd | Floyd | (the balcony pews) Floyd | There is nothing on the balcony pews. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "That's how Old Man Withers projects the ghost!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search cables" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH CABLES Floyd | Floyd | You try to disentangle some of the cables but it's all too mixed up. Floyd | You sort out one bit and the rest just gets knottier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "untangle cables" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > UNTANGLE CABLES Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "and you thought that was ectoplasm, but it's really unsweetened jello" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bars" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > X BARS Floyd | Floyd | It's hard to tell what this stuff is for with it all tumbled into a Floyd | heap like that. There are some metal bars, and some pulleys and Floyd | things, and a lot of tangled cables connecting things together. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "that happened to get smeared all over all the walls" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sort bars" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > SORT BARS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x trapdoor" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRAPDOOR Floyd | Floyd | The trapdoor is set into the ceiling, well above your head. The cord Floyd | to pull it down seems to have got caught in the door, and only a small Floyd | loop is visible on this side. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "also, I wonder what happens if we go to sleep now with the evidence we have collected" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | When you feel you've got all the evidence you need, your sleeping bag Floyd | is waiting for you in the nursery. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm not ready" | |
| DavidW says, "for sleeping" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x cord" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > X CORD Floyd | Floyd | The cord to open the trapdoor is caught up in the door. You can just Floyd | see a small loop sticking out between the ceiling and the edge of the Floyd | trapdoor, well out of reach. Floyd | Floyd | The cat trots up the stairs and mews at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "quick, open the tuna" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet cat" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > PET CAT Floyd | Floyd | The cat dodges your hand and bounds off downstairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "we could save try it" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oops" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "feed cat" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > FEED CAT Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to feed the cat? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I'm just curious if we can get a ghosts-are-real ending now and a ghosts-are-fake ending later" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "tuna" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > TUNA Floyd | Floyd | The cat dodges your hand and bounds off downstairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, if you're curious, we could save (which we probably should anyway) and just see." | |
| DavidW says, "can isn't even open. Hardly counts." | ||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | Doug says, "oh yeah" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "ok, want to try?" | |
| says, "So, for people who may be new, to save, don't talk to Floyd, just type >PRESS SAVE" | ||
| Doug says, "I did that this time, but I didn't clear the save counter first." | ||
| Doug asks, "everyone ok with trying to go to sleep to get a ghosts-are-real ending?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh crap, had we already saved and I missed it?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "And then I cleared the save?" | ||
| Doug says, "no biggie" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't have a complete enough map to get us down to our cot." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Sure." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | From here, you could head up and down to the the balcony stairwell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Stairs Floyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | You're still on the other side of the room when the cat scampers off Floyd | to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | The cat wanders off to the north, glancing back at you as if to check Floyd | whether you're following. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narthex Floyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Do you remember what your save number was? Since you didn't clear the counter it's probably still there if we want to rescue it." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fellowship Hall Floyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west. Floyd | Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main Floor Stairway Floyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them, Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies' Floyd | restroom respectively. Floyd | Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a Floyd | wooden bench. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Stairway Floyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs. Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nursery Floyd | Battered toys spill out of the toybox and across the floor, piling up Floyd | in a corner of the room. Cupboards are mounted high on the walls, out Floyd | of reach of tiny fingers, and an enormous blue recliner sits Floyd | underneath them. It's already dark outside, and the doors west to the Floyd | basement stairway and south to the youth room are dark as well. Floyd | Floyd | Your sleeping bag is lying on a tidy patch of floor, ready for when Floyd | you finish your investigation. Floyd | Floyd | Sharon's makeshift bed doesn't look comfortable, but apparently she's Floyd | fast asleep anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | Before you get into your sleeping bag, you quickly review the evidence Floyd | you've collected. Are you sure you have everything you need for the Floyd | story? Floyd | >> | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "yep" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > YEP
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
| ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You put your belongings aside and snuggle down in the sleeping bag.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
| ||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd | "It sounds like you had quite the spooky evening!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "It certainly seemed that way at the time, but now I'm not so sure.
Floyd | Take a look at these," you say, handing Casey your photos.
Floyd |
Floyd | He points at the image of the flickering lights. "I imagine these were
Floyd | more impressive in motion."
Floyd |
Floyd | "How did you know they were moving?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, they look kinda like lights from a party ball."
Floyd |
Floyd | You look at the picture again. He has a point.
Floyd |
Floyd | "And you collected some ectoplasm?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, I collected this." You hand him the jar.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Looks like ectoplasm to me!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Does it look like it could be anything else?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah, I guess. It could be..."
Floyd |
Floyd | "It could be anything."
Floyd |
Floyd | He lifts the photo of the floating girl. "Now, this photo looks like a
Floyd | ghost," he says, "but I mean, it also kind of looks like any number of
Floyd | fake ghost photos you see all over the place. Not that I don't believe
Floyd | it was a real ghost, but other people might not find it so
Floyd | convincing." He tries to smile.
Floyd |
Floyd | He sighs. "So, what are you thinking?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I think I was duped."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | *** They ended up running the story anyway. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the
Floyd | last command?
Floyd | >
| inky says, "well, I guess that makes it pretty clear" | |
| Doug says, "hmm. proof not convincing enough (yet)" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "open tuna" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN TUNA Floyd | Floyd | After a few moments' work with the can opener, the can is open, Floyd | revealing a pungent mass of tuna. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Casey is a turd." | |
| DavidW says, "The floating girl we saw could've been from the projector." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x cat" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x trapdoor" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRAPDOOR Floyd | Floyd | The trapdoor is set into the ceiling, well above your head. The cord Floyd | to pull it down seems to have got caught in the door, and only a small Floyd | loop is visible on this side. Floyd | Floyd | The cat trots up the stairs and mews at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give tuna to cat" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE TUNA TO CAT Floyd | Floyd | (the open can of tuna to the cat) Floyd | The cat dodges your hand and bounds off downstairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "feh." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat tuna" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT TUNA Floyd | Floyd | (the open can of tuna) Floyd | You definitely aren't desperate enough to start eating tuna straight Floyd | from the can. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh AREN'T I." | |
| Doug says, "neither is the cat." | ||
| DavidW says, "I eat lots of stuff straight from the can these days." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the trapdoor) Floyd | The pull-cord is caught up in the trapdoor, and you're much too short Floyd | to reach it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "do we need to pull the recliner up here?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up trapdoor" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP TRAPDOOR Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "The Floyd | trapdoor goes up into the steeple. Nobody uses it, because like I Floyd | said, the steeple is super dangerous." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The trolley is more likely." | |
| Jacqueline says, "That is not a realistically implemented cat." | ||
| djfletch says, "maybe the ghost can float up and open it" | ||
| Doug says, "maybe it's a... GHOST CAT" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up cat" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP CAT Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but it looks like Casey didn't have Floyd | anything to say about the cat. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "Were it a real cat, we could stand anywhere in the church and open the tin of tuna and BAM! INSTANT CAT!" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up altar" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP ALTAR Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Many church enthusiasts use the word "altar" to refer not only to the Floyd | little table with the candles, but also to the raised area at the Floyd | front of the sanctuary where the little table with the candles is Floyd | located. This practice is completely incorrect and extremely stupid. Floyd | The raised area is called a 'raised area' or I guess maybe a 'stage'." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "yes" | |
| Doug asks, "or 'dais'?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up dais" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP DAIS Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "dais" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "while we are in this area, I don't think we looked at the pot plant downstairs from here" | |
| Doug says, "'church enthusiasts'" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put tuna in cage" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TUNA IN CAGE Floyd | Floyd | (the open can of tuna in the bird cage) Floyd | The bird cage seems to be welded closed. It must be purely decorative. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x plant" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLANT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Stairs Floyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | The cat watches you for a moment, but runs off to the west before you Floyd | can get near it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x plant" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLANT Floyd | Floyd | The plant is a tiny potted palm. It's fake, but that's fair enough. Floyd | It's not like there's enough light in here for a real palm tree to Floyd | flourish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x plant" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLANT Floyd | Floyd | The plant is a tiny potted palm. It's fake, but that's fair enough. Floyd | It's not like there's enough light in here for a real palm tree to Floyd | flourish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search plant" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH PLANT Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig plant" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > DIG PLANT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up secret passage" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP SECRET PASSAGE Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "secret passage" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move plant" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE PLANT Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take secret hidden key from the silly plant" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SECRET HIDDEN KEY FROM THE SILLY PLANT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh well" | |
| djfletch says, "yeah, we do still kind of want a key don't we" | ||
| DavidW says, "of course. At least two keys now." | ||
| DavidW says, "The rolltop desk and the pastor's office." | ||
| Doug asks, "do you think we can turn the projector on yet?" | ||
| djfletch says, "maybe" | ||
| DavidW says, "I dunno. We ran away before even trying, I think." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "turn on projector" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN ON PROJECTOR Floyd | Floyd | Judging by the cage it's in, the church really doesn't want people Floyd | messing around with the projector. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "People were so fired up to sleep." | |
| Doug says, "I think we did try a little" | ||
| inky says, "I just can't get enough of napping!" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x cage" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAGE Floyd | Floyd | (the bird cage) Floyd | The curving faux-wrought-iron bars and caked-on "rust" identify this Floyd | as one of the non-functioning, overpriced decorations which are so Floyd | popular in craft stores. What does a Sunday School need with a bird Floyd | cage? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up projector" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP PROJECTOR Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Someone donated money for a projector to the church, and it caused Floyd | this big kerfuffle in the Board of Trustees because they didn't really Floyd | want a projector. But they couldn't spend the money on anything else, Floyd | so now we have a projector that we never use!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x projector" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > X PROJECTOR Floyd | Floyd | A strong metal cage protects the projector from careless and/or Floyd | malevolent handling. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "examined wrong cage" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x that cage" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > X THAT CAGE Floyd | Floyd | A strong metal cage protects the projector from careless and/or Floyd | malevolent handling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x this cage" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > X THIS CAGE Floyd | Floyd | The curving faux-wrought-iron bars and caked-on "rust" identify this Floyd | as one of the non-functioning, overpriced decorations which are so Floyd | popular in craft stores. What does a Sunday School need with a bird Floyd | cage? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "open that cage" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN THAT CAGE Floyd | Floyd | The cage is locked, presumably to stop people like you from messing Floyd | with the projector. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "so, three keys." | |
| DavidW says, "'this' = the one we're holding; 'that' = not-holding it" | ||
| Doug says, "good to know!" | ||
| djfletch says, "or a remote control maybe" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's a semi-secret Inform thang." | ||
| inky says (to DavidW), "hunh!" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Stairs Floyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, if you read English.h, it's there." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Altar Floyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit, Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar are two candles. Floyd | Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner. Floyd | Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x hymnals" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X HYMNALS Floyd | Floyd | The books have been stacked very tidily into an almost perfect Floyd | one-foot cube. It's actually very pleasant to see such an orderly Floyd | display. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push them" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH THEM Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "kick over hymnals" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > KICK OVER HYMNALS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha" | |
| Doug says, "haha" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "move hymnals" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE HYMNALS Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "read hymnal" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > READ HYMNAL Floyd | Floyd | You flip one hymnal open to a random song. This one's called "Great Is Floyd | Thy Faithfulness". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "read hymnal" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > READ HYMNAL Floyd | Floyd | You flip one hymnal open to a random song. This one's called "O Come, Floyd | O Come, Emmanuel". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on hymnals" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON HYMNALS Floyd | Floyd | You step up onto the stack of hymnals, careful not to knock any of Floyd | them out of place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > SING Floyd | Floyd | You mutter the West High fight song under your breath: Floyd | Floyd | Fight, Fight, West High Floyd | Stomp 'Em Out Like Ants Floyd | Mortify The Other Guy Floyd | And Make Him Pee His Pants Floyd | Floyd | But it doesn't make you feel any better. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "We *can* stand on them?" | |
| Doug says, "ooh, we can stand on them" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X CEILING Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sing hymnal" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > SING HYMNAL Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to sing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Back Room (on the stack of hymnals) Floyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sing hymn" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > SING HYMN Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to sing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sing o come, o come, emmanuel" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > SING O COME, O COME, EMMANUEL Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to sing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x robes" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROBES Floyd | Floyd | The robes are cut from a green satin fabric; you can't imagine one Floyd | looking very flattering on anybody. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up emmanuel" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP EMMANUEL Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "emmanuel" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the stack of hymnals. Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner. Floyd | Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "wear robes" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR ROBES Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the choir robes) Floyd | You pull out one robe, straighten its sleeves, and put it back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up hymn" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP HYMN Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "hymn" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x robe" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROBE Floyd | Floyd | The robes are cut from a green satin fabric; you can't imagine one Floyd | looking very flattering on anybody. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get robe" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ROBE Floyd | Floyd | You pull out one robe, straighten its sleeves, and put it back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "search closet" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH CLOSET Floyd | Floyd | You paw hesitantly between the robes in a few places, but you can't Floyd | find anything else in the closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter closet" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER CLOSET Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get hymnals" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > GET HYMNALS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get hymnals" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > GET HYMNALS Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "too slow" | |
| DavidW asks, "Portable stack?" | ||
| Doug asks, "steeple ho?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Stand on the hymnals to reach the trapdoor cord?" | ||
| djfletch says, "yup" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), ">s" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > >S Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Worth a try." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s; e; u" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > S; E; U Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s. e. u" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > S. E. U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Altar Floyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit, Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar are two candles. Floyd | Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar. Floyd | Floyd | From here, you could head north to the back room and south to the Floyd | sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | From here, you could head north to the back room and south to the Floyd | sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "fail" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s. e. u." | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > S. E. U. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Stairs Floyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You meant s.s.e.u." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on hymnals" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON HYMNALS Floyd | Floyd | You can only get into something free-standing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop hymnals" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP HYMNALS Floyd | Floyd | You place the stack of hymnals carefully on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on hymnals" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON HYMNALS Floyd | Floyd | You step up onto the stack of hymnals, careful not to knock any of Floyd | them out of place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the trapdoor) Floyd | Even standing on the stack of hymnals, your fingers are still are long Floyd | way from reaching the loop of cord. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I hope this works" | |
| Doug says, "aww" | ||
| DavidW says, "awww" | ||
| DavidW says, "trolley plus hymnals!" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Can we get the trolley up here?" | ||
| Doug asks, "maybe something to hook the cord. hanger from the closet?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put hymnals on cage" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT HYMNALS ON CAGE Floyd | Floyd | (the bird cage) Floyd | You lack the dexterity to balance the stack of hymnals on the bird Floyd | cage while you're still holding the bird cage. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch asks, "can we carry the chest?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put hymnals on that cage" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT HYMNALS ON THAT CAGE Floyd | Floyd | You went to a lot of trouble to collect that ectoplasm. Better not Floyd | leave it lying around. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "whaa?" | |
| DavidW says, "oops. that message made no sense." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | You jump, miss the pull-cord, and almost fall off the stack of Floyd | hymnals. You know, maybe there's a safer way to reach the cord. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "cool that the game thought of that." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "drop cage" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP CAGE Floyd | Floyd | (the bird cage) Floyd | You can't just drop the bird cage on the floor. What if someone steps Floyd | on it or trips over it? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put cage on hymnals" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CAGE ON HYMNALS Floyd | Floyd | (the bird cage on the stack of hymnals) Floyd | There isn't really room for both you and the bird cage on the stack of Floyd | hymnals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "step down" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > STEP DOWN Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the stack of hymnals. Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a stack of hymnals here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull cord with cage" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL CORD WITH CAGE Floyd | Floyd | (the bird cage) Floyd | The bird cage really isn't a suitable tool for opening the trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put cage on hymnas" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CAGE ON HYMNAS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put cage on hymnals" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CAGE ON HYMNALS Floyd | Floyd | (the bird cage on the stack of hymnals) Floyd | You put the bird cage on the stack of hymnals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on cage" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON CAGE Floyd | Floyd | (the projector) Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | The cat trots up the stairs and purrs at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on birdcage" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON BIRDCAGE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | The cat bounds downstairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a name tag (being worn) Floyd | an open can of tuna Floyd | a can opener Floyd | a jam jar Floyd | some ectoplasm Floyd | an orange box Floyd | a small white cross Floyd | a stack of photos Floyd | Casey's notes Floyd | a Polaroid camera (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I dunno how flat the top of the chest is." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put box on hymnals" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BOX ON HYMNALS Floyd | Floyd | (the orange box on the stack of hymnals) Floyd | You put the orange box on the stack of hymnals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on box" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON BOX Floyd | Floyd | There isn't much point in standing on the orange box while it's the Floyd | right way up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn box over" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN BOX OVER Floyd | Floyd | (the orange box over) Floyd | You pick up the stuff in the orange box and turn it upside down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on box" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON BOX Floyd | Floyd | (getting onto the stack of hymnals) Floyd | Floyd | You step up onto the stack of hymnals, careful not to knock any of Floyd | them out of place. Floyd | Floyd | You step up onto the upside-down orange box. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "ha ha. We have to empty it and flip it over?" | |
| djfletch says, "ooh" | ||
| Doug says, "wow" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "reach cord" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > REACH CORD Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to reach the pull-cord with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "hand" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > HAND Floyd | Floyd | Even standing on the upside-down orange box, your fingers are still Floyd | are long way from reaching the loop of cord. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Balcony (on the upside-down orange box) (on the stack of Floyd | hymnals) Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | On the stack of hymnals you can see a bird cage. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no, put the hymnals on the box now." | |
| djfletch says, "this seems to me like a good way to end up dying in a church and becoming a ghost" | ||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||
| Doug says, "the box is on the hymnals" | ||
| Doug says, "we need the satchel and the junk mail." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh. I thought the hymnals ought to be on the box." | ||
| Doug says, "(babelfish joke)" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put hymnals on box" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT HYMNALS ON BOX Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the upside-down orange box or the upside-down Floyd | orange box? Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "wah wahh" | |
| DavidW says, "I suggest the trolley, if we can get it upstairs." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to djf), "haha" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put hymnals on upside-down orange box" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT HYMNALS ON UPSIDE-DOWN ORANGE BOX Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the upside-down orange box or the upside-down Floyd | orange box? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "either one" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > EITHER ONE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Who broke the box?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get box" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BOX Floyd | Floyd | You'd have to get off the upside-down orange box first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the upside-down orange box. Floyd | Floyd | Balcony (on the stack of hymnals) Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | On the stack of hymnals you can also see a bird cage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | stack of hymnals: You'd have to get off the stack of hymnals first. Floyd | tangle of bars and cables: You try to disentangle some of the cables Floyd | but it's all too mixed up. You sort out one bit and the rest just gets Floyd | knottier. Floyd | upside-down orange box: Taken. Floyd | bird cage: Taken. Floyd | mass of tuna: You've already had one gross substance all over your Floyd | hands tonight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the stack of hymnals. Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a stack of hymnals here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get hymnals" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > GET HYMNALS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "drop box" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP BOX Floyd | Floyd | You place the upside-down orange box carefully on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put hymnals on box" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT HYMNALS ON BOX Floyd | Floyd | You put the stack of hymnals on the upside-down orange box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on hymnals" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON HYMNALS Floyd | Floyd | Standing on the hymnals is far too dangerous while they're on top of Floyd | the upside-down orange box. What if the stack collapsed underneath Floyd | you? Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "aww." | |
| Doug says, "apparently the other way was okay, sort of." | ||
| DavidW asks, "So the box and hymnals were actually side by side before and we were on top of BOTH simultaneously earlier?" | ||
| Draconis says, "I suppose..." | ||
| Doug says, "no, I think they were actually stacked, but it didn't check for that case" | ||
| Draconis asks, "Where is the trolley?" | ||
| Draconis says, "I lost track of it." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "go to trolley" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO TROLLEY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I assume we need to find some kind of hook poley thing" | |
| DavidW says, "Trolley is downstairs. The chest might be useful too." | ||
| Draconis says, "Do you have a map? I'm lost." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Stairs Floyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I have a mental map" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narthex Floyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fellowship Hall Floyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west. Floyd | Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "I have a paper map" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main Floor Stairway Floyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them, Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies' Floyd | restroom respectively. Floyd | Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a Floyd | wooden bench. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Stairway Floyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs. Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nursery Floyd | Battered toys spill out of the toybox and across the floor, piling up Floyd | in a corner of the room. Cupboards are mounted high on the walls, out Floyd | of reach of tiny fingers, and an enormous blue recliner sits Floyd | underneath them. It's already dark outside, and the doors west to the Floyd | basement stairway and south to the youth room are dark as well. Floyd | Floyd | Your sleeping bag is lying on a tidy patch of floor, ready for when Floyd | you finish your investigation. Floyd | Floyd | Sharon's makeshift bed doesn't look comfortable, but apparently she's Floyd | fast asleep anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | From here, you could head south to the youth room and west to the Floyd | basement stairway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Youth Room Floyd | A large part of this room is taken up by a rickety ping pong table. Floyd | Couches line the edges of the room, some of them close enough to the Floyd | table that they're probably not safe to sit on if someone is actually Floyd | playing ping pong. On the other hand, you can't see any ping pong bats Floyd | anywhere, so maybe that's not an issue. In between the couches, doors Floyd | lead north to the nursery, west to the Sunday School room, and south Floyd | to the black light room. Floyd | Floyd | A garish golden trophy catches your eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "AHA" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get trophy" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > GET TROPHY Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x trophy" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X TROPHY Floyd | Floyd | The figurine on top is a generic gold-painted plastic person raising Floyd | its arms in victory. The text at the bottom reads: "BIBLE QUIZ Floyd | TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sunday School Room Floyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and Floyd | west to the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Can this be used as a hook?" | |
| inky says, "hmm" | ||
| inky says, "well, it's worth a shot" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "push trolley east" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TROLLEY EAST Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Youth Room Floyd | A large part of this room is taken up by a rickety ping pong table. Floyd | Couches line the edges of the room, some of them close enough to the Floyd | table that they're probably not safe to sit on if someone is actually Floyd | playing ping pong. On the other hand, you can't see any ping pong bats Floyd | anywhere, so maybe that's not an issue. In between the couches, doors Floyd | lead north to the nursery, west to the Sunday School room, and south Floyd | to the black light room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Wait, it can't be the trolley. I doubt I can push it up the stairs." | |
| DavidW says, "er, we could've pushed it north. My map wasn't complete." | ||
| DavidW says, "I SAID we might fail at this" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "push trolley w" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TROLLEY W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sunday School Room Floyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and Floyd | west to the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "push trolley n" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TROLLEY N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Stairway Floyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs. Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push trolley n" | ||
Floyd ] Boiler Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TROLLEY N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Boiler Room Floyd | This must be a fairly large room, but most of the space is given over Floyd | to snaking pipes, anonymous machinery, and the church's giant boiler. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch asks, "where do you want to get?" | |
| Draconis says, "The trapdoor cord." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push trolley s" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TROLLEY S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Stairway Floyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs. Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push trolley u" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TROLLEY U Floyd | Floyd | There's no way you could get the TV trolley up there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "ok, we can't push it up." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get tv" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > GET TV Floyd | Floyd | Far too heavy. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Unless there's an elevator we missed." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "push tv" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TV Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "shove tv off cart" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOVE TV OFF CART Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Wanton destruction isn't the answer?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I am really hoping there is an ending where we fall and break our neck and haunt Casey." | ||
| DavidW says, "There's other rooms we missed upstairs, I think" | ||
| djfletch says, "I think reaching with the trophy is worth a try" | ||
| DavidW says, "And we assumed we needed a light for the secret room without even trying." | ||
| djfletch says, "the only exits I have left are maybe the men's bathroom if we are allowed in there" | ||
| djfletch says, "and yes the secret passage" | ||
| DavidW says, "So frustrated when no one tries." | ||
| djfletch says, "also the dark hallway storage rooms when we get a light source" | ||
| Draconis says, "I feel we need to use something as a hook, because REACH FOR CORD gave a disambiguation message." | ||
| Doug says, "I was going to try but got distracted trying to light the candles on the altar" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main Floor Stairway Floyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them, Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies' Floyd | restroom respectively. Floyd | Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a Floyd | wooden bench. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes, that's very possible, and the box and hymnals might be just alternate ways of giving us the extra height." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > NE | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | As you approach the door to the men's room, you stop yourself. Isn't Floyd | this something that a creep would do? Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You can put your hand on the handle, but that's as far as you get. You Floyd | chide yourself for your indecision. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Men's Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | That's it. Enough with this cowardice. Floyd | Floyd | The door swings shut behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Men's Restroom Floyd | Yes, this is more or less what you expected. Floyd | Floyd | There are some stalls, and some mirrors, and some sinks, and next to Floyd | those is a garbage can. The only things you haven't seen before are Floyd | the urinals. Hardly worth having an ethical dilemma over. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x urinals" | ||
Floyd ] Men's Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X URINALS Floyd | Floyd | It's not a concept that you would ever have come up with yourself, but Floyd | the general principle seems sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "haha" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "heteronormativity off" | ||
Floyd ] Men's Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > HETERONORMATIVITY OFF Floyd | | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "search garbage can" | ||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Men's Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH GARBAGE CAN Floyd | Floyd | In the men's room garbage can is some glowing tissue paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "OOOOh" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take photo of glowing tissue" | ||
Floyd ] Men's Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO OF GLOWING TISSUE Floyd | Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | You snap a picture of the glowing tissue paper. The camera whirrs and Floyd | vibrates and eventually spits out a print of the photo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take glowing" | ||
Floyd ] Men's Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE GLOWING Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x glowing" | ||
Floyd ] Men's Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X GLOWING Floyd | Floyd | This tissue was used to wipe up an eerie glowing substance, then Floyd | thrown in a garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] Men's Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | This tissue was used to wipe up an eerie glowing substance, then Floyd | thrown in a garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x glowing substance" | ||
Floyd ] Men's Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X GLOWING SUBSTANCE Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the glowing tissue Floyd | paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Light source!" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "stand on garbage can" | ||
Floyd ] Men's Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON GARBAGE CAN Floyd | Floyd | There isn't much point in standing on the men's room garbage can while Floyd | it's the right way up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "WAT" | |
| Draconis says, "Brilliant!" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get can" | ||
Floyd ] Men's Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CAN Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Let's put this in the pile of objects to stand on." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | The door swings shut behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Main Floor Stairway Floyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them, Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies' Floyd | restroom respectively. Floyd | Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a Floyd | wooden bench. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | The door swings shut behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Ladies' Restroom Floyd | A restroom in a church is about the same as any other restroom. You Floyd | have your stalls, your sinks, your mirrors, your garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "search can" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH CAN Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the open can of tuna, a ladies' room garbage can, Floyd | the ladies' room garbage can, the men's room garbage can, the can of Floyd | tomato soup, the can of pears, the can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Floyd | Product", the can of cherry pie filling, the can of chicken soup, or Floyd | the can of peaches? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "search ladies' room garbage can" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH LADIES' ROOM GARBAGE CAN Floyd | Floyd | The ladies' room garbage can is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get ladies' can" | ||
Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom Floyd | > Floyd | > GET LADIES' CAN Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | The door swings shut behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Main Floor Stairway Floyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them, Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies' Floyd | restroom respectively. Floyd | Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a Floyd | wooden bench. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "projector room is s,w,n,e,u" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get bench" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BENCH Floyd | Floyd | The bench is just as heavy as it looks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "s.w.n.e.u." | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > S.W.N.E.U. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fellowship Hall Floyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west. Floyd | Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church. Floyd | Floyd | Narthex Floyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently. Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Stairs Floyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "drop can" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP CAN Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the open can of tuna, the ladies' room garbage can, Floyd | a ladies' room garbage can, the men's room garbage can, the can of Floyd | tomato soup, the can of pears, the can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Floyd | Product", the can of cherry pie filling, the can of chicken soup, or Floyd | the can of peaches? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If we can put the upside-down box across both upside-down wastebins like a bridge and THEN stand on the box, I'd be both very impressed and very surprised." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "drop garbage" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP GARBAGE Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the ladies' room garbage can, a ladies' room Floyd | garbage can, or the men's room garbage can? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Someone is trying for Best Puzzle." | |
| Draconis asks, "How are there three?" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "ladies'" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > LADIES' Floyd | Floyd | You place the ladies' room garbage can carefully on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand on ladies'" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON LADIES' Floyd | Floyd | There isn't much point in standing on the ladies' room garbage can Floyd | while it's the right way up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "flip ladies'" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > FLIP LADIES' Floyd | Floyd | You turn the ladies' room garbage can upside down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand on ladies'" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON LADIES' Floyd | Floyd | You step up onto the upside-down ladies' room garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "reach" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > REACH Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to reach the glowing tissue paper with? Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "What?" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the upside-down ladies' room garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an upside-down ladies' room garbage can here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x bars" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > X BARS Floyd | Floyd | It's hard to tell what this stuff is for with it all tumbled into a Floyd | heap like that. There are some metal bars, and some pulleys and Floyd | things, and a lot of tangled cables connecting things together. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think 'reach' simplest guesses that the direct object, when omitted, is the one last referred to that is still present." | |
| Draconis says, "I suppose." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get on ladies'" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ON LADIES' Floyd | Floyd | You step up onto the upside-down ladies' room garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "reachfor cord" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > REACHFOR CORD Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "oops reach for" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > OOPS REACH FOR Floyd | Floyd | Sorry, that can't be corrected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "reach for cord" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > REACH FOR CORD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Balcony (on the upside-down ladies' room garbage can) Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "reach for trapdoor" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > REACH FOR TRAPDOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "reach for outline" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > REACH FOR OUTLINE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "reach cord" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > REACH CORD Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to reach the pull-cord with? Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "What's the noun again?" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "trophy" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > TROPHY Floyd | Floyd | The Bible Quiz Tournament trophy really isn't a suitable tool for Floyd | opening the trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The coding for the box and waste cans are probably doubled objects, since one of each pair is a container and the other is a supporter, and no object can be both." | |
| Draconis says, "Ah, that would explain it." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a men's room garbage can Floyd | some glowing tissue paper Floyd | a Bible Quiz Tournament trophy Floyd | a bird cage Floyd | a can of tomato soup Floyd | a can of pears Floyd | a can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Product" Floyd | a can of cherry pie filling Floyd | a can of chicken soup Floyd | a can of peaches Floyd | a name tag (being worn) Floyd | an open can of tuna Floyd | a can opener Floyd | a jam jar Floyd | some ectoplasm Floyd | a small white cross Floyd | a stack of photos Floyd | Casey's notes Floyd | a Polaroid camera (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Wait, can't you just include both "has container" and "has supporter"?" | |
| DavidW says (to Draconis), "no, and that' I6 anyway." | ||
| djfletch says, "I am betting there is a broom or mop or something in one of the dark storage rooms" | ||
| Draconis asks (of DavidW), "Oh, is it because of the way the heirarchy is handled for each?" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the upside-down ladies' room garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an upside-down ladies' room garbage can here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "But even in I6, you can't have both flags simultaneously without breaking something." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | No matter how high you jump, the pull-cord is still well out of your Floyd | reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "jump over railing" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP OVER RAILING Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Stairs Floyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Draconis), "It's not a hierarchy issue." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x plant" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLANT Floyd | Floyd | The plant is a tiny potted palm. It's fake, but that's fair enough. Floyd | It's not like there's enough light in here for a real palm tree to Floyd | flourish. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, it sorta is and isn't. I think it's complicated." | |
| Draconis says, "Fair enough." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb palm" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB PALM Floyd | Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "push palm" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH PALM Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get palm" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > GET PALM Floyd | Floyd | You remove the tripping hazard from the bottom of the balcony stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x palm" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > X PALM Floyd | Floyd | The plant is a tiny potted palm. It's fake, but that's fair enough. Floyd | It's not like there's enough light in here for a real palm tree to Floyd | flourish. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh" | |
| Draconis asks, "Where are the storage rooms again?" | ||
| djfletch asks, "does that mean we can make someone trip over it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Does that mean the can drop it somewhere to make ... timing" | ||
| djfletch says, "I can drive there" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narthex Floyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fellowship Hall Floyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west. Floyd | Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main Floor Stairway Floyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them, Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies' Floyd | restroom respectively. Floyd | Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a Floyd | wooden bench. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Stairway Floyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs. Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting. Floyd | Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sunday School Room Floyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and Floyd | west to the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway runs north into darkness. It's hard to tell how long it Floyd | might be from here, though the Sunday School room to the east provides Floyd | some light at this end. The plywood lighthouse, on the other hand, Floyd | peacefully fails to provide any light. Behind the lighthouse and Floyd | partially obscured by it is a mural of Jesus blessing the little Floyd | children. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Thanks to the light filtering in from the south end of the hall, you Floyd | can make out some kind of mural painted on the wall, but you can't Floyd | tell what it's supposed to represent in the gloom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x mural" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X MURAL Floyd | | djfletch says, "no lights this time" | |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the bluish blob, the indistinct smear, or the
Floyd | swathe of yellow?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x bluish" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X BLUISH Floyd | Floyd | It's too dark here to make out any details. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a potted plant Floyd | a men's room garbage can Floyd | some glowing tissue paper Floyd | a Bible Quiz Tournament trophy Floyd | a bird cage Floyd | a can of tomato soup Floyd | a can of pears Floyd | a can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Product" Floyd | a can of cherry pie filling Floyd | a can of chicken soup Floyd | a can of peaches Floyd | a name tag (being worn) Floyd | an open can of tuna Floyd | a can opener Floyd | a jam jar Floyd | some ectoplasm Floyd | a small white cross Floyd | a stack of photos Floyd | Casey's notes Floyd | a Polaroid camera (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "wave glowing" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > WAVE GLOWING Floyd | Floyd | You look ridiculous waving the glowing tissue paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "hold glowing near mural" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > HOLD GLOWING NEAR MURAL Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hold the glowing tissue Floyd | paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. I guess the glowing paper isn't bright enough as a lightsource." | |
| Doug says, "I started making a map: [LINK] | ||
| djfletch says, "we can check in the really dark rooms" | ||
| Draconis says, ""Access Denied"" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | It's almost completely dark. At least you can still see the light at Floyd | the south end of the hallway. The rectangles to the east and west must Floyd | be doorways to somewhere, but they're barely distinguishable from the Floyd | walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness
Floyd | >
| Doug asks, "hm, really?" | |
Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Your flailing about in the dark eventually discovers a door. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | It's almost completely dark. At least you can still see the light at Floyd | the south end of the hallway. The rectangles to the east and west must Floyd | be doorways to somewhere, but they're barely distinguishable from the Floyd | walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh, try now" | |
| djfletch asks, "so to the black light room to make it glow better?" | ||
| Draconis says, "Works now, thanks." | ||
| Doug says, "had to change the access so that anyone with the link can access." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm lost where we are now." | ||
| Draconis says (to djfletch), "Sounds good." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Thanks to the light filtering in from the south end of the hall, you Floyd | can make out some kind of mural painted on the wall, but you can't Floyd | tell what it's supposed to represent in the gloom. Floyd | Floyd | The cat strolls in from the south and purrs at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Doesn't work for me." | |
| djfletch asks, "anything else to try with the cat while it's here?" | ||
| Jacqueline | Sorry, the file you have requested does not exist. | ||
| Doug says, "I see an anonymous fox and an anonymous hedgehog connected to this document." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, I see why." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "One sec." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, got it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "My browser had inserted a %20 at the spot where the URL had a line break from my mudclient." | ||
| djfletch says, "you can put kitchen east of fellowship hall" | ||
| djfletch says, "then you would have the same as me for that floor" | ||
| Doug says, "oh right, kitchen" | ||
| Doug asks, "I think anyone can edit?" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "drop tuna" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP TUNA Floyd | Floyd | (the open can of tuna) Floyd | You place the open can of tuna carefully on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The cat wanders off to the south, glancing back at you as if to check Floyd | whether you're following. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "No, I'm view-only." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "follow cat" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > FOLLOW CAT Floyd | Floyd | (heading south) Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway runs north into darkness. It's hard to tell how long it Floyd | might be from here, though the Sunday School room to the east provides Floyd | some light at this end. The plywood lighthouse, on the other hand, Floyd | peacefully fails to provide any light. Behind the lighthouse and Floyd | partially obscured by it is a mural of Jesus blessing the little Floyd | children. Floyd | Floyd | You're still on the other side of the room when the cat scampers off Floyd | to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "again" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > AGAIN Floyd | Floyd | (heading east) Floyd | Floyd | Sunday School Room Floyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and Floyd | west to the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | The cat wanders off to the north, glancing back at you as if to check Floyd | whether you're following. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "again" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > AGAIN Floyd | Floyd | (heading north) Floyd | Floyd | Basement Stairway Floyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs. Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting. Floyd | Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely. Floyd | Floyd | The cat scampers up the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "again" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > AGAIN Floyd | Floyd | (heading up) Floyd | Floyd | Main Floor Stairway Floyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them, Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies' Floyd | restroom respectively. Floyd | Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a Floyd | wooden bench. Floyd | Floyd | You're still on the other side of the room when the cat scampers off Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "again" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > AGAIN Floyd | Floyd | (heading south) Floyd | Floyd | Fellowship Hall Floyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west. Floyd | Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church. Floyd | Floyd | The cat wanders off to the west, glancing back at you as if to check Floyd | whether you're following. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "again" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > AGAIN Floyd | Floyd | (heading west) Floyd | Floyd | Narthex Floyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently. Floyd | Floyd | The cat watches you for a moment, but runs off to the north before you Floyd | can get near it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "again" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > AGAIN Floyd | Floyd | (heading north) Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | You're still on the other side of the room when the cat scampers off Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "again" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > AGAIN Floyd | Floyd | (heading north) Floyd | Floyd | Altar Floyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit, Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar are two candles. Floyd | Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar. Floyd | Floyd | The cat watches you for a moment, but runs off to the north before you Floyd | can get near it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Okay, this is pointless." | |
| Draconis says, "Sorry." | ||
| Draconis says, "But now I can run this through Trizbort." | ||
| Doug says, "I thnk you can edit now" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks for setting that up, Doug." | ||
| Doug says, "sure. turned out to be easier than I thought" | ||
| djfletch says, "it was worth trying the cat anyway" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narthex Floyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fellowship Hall Floyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west. Floyd | Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I hadn't tried Google Docs Drawing before" | |
| DavidW says, "sorry, was afk for several turns there" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main Floor Stairway Floyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them, Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies' Floyd | restroom respectively. Floyd | Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a Floyd | wooden bench. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Stairway Floyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs. Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting. Floyd | Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nursery Floyd | Battered toys spill out of the toybox and across the floor, piling up Floyd | in a corner of the room. Cupboards are mounted high on the walls, out Floyd | of reach of tiny fingers, and an enormous blue recliner sits Floyd | underneath them. It's already dark outside, and the doors west to the Floyd | basement stairway and south to the youth room are dark as well. Floyd | Floyd | Your sleeping bag is lying on a tidy patch of floor, ready for when Floyd | you finish your investigation. Floyd | Floyd | Sharon's makeshift bed doesn't look comfortable, but apparently she's Floyd | fast asleep anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Youth Room Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Youth Room Floyd | A large part of this room is taken up by a rickety ping pong table. Floyd | Couches line the edges of the room, some of them close enough to the Floyd | table that they're probably not safe to sit on if someone is actually Floyd | playing ping pong. On the other hand, you can't see any ping pong bats Floyd | anywhere, so maybe that's not an issue. In between the couches, doors Floyd | lead north to the nursery, west to the Sunday School room, and south Floyd | to the black light room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Black Light Room Floyd | The black walls in here have been painted with Bible verses that glow Floyd | underneath the UV lights. The couches are glowing, too; unsettlingly Floyd | green. The door to the north, on the other hand, is barely visible. Floyd | Floyd | Propped up in one corner is a rough wooden cross. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a potted plant Floyd | a men's room garbage can Floyd | some glowing tissue paper Floyd | a Bible Quiz Tournament trophy Floyd | a bird cage Floyd | a can of tomato soup Floyd | a can of pears Floyd | a can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Product" Floyd | a can of cherry pie filling Floyd | a can of chicken soup Floyd | a can of peaches Floyd | a name tag (being worn) Floyd | a can opener Floyd | a jam jar Floyd | some ectoplasm Floyd | a small white cross Floyd | a stack of photos Floyd | Casey's notes Floyd | a Polaroid camera (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x tissue" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X TISSUE Floyd | Floyd | This tissue was used to wipe up an eerie glowing substance, then Floyd | thrown in a garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x small cross" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X SMALL CROSS Floyd | Floyd | This is a nice little cross for a table. Nothing fancy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put tissue on light" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TISSUE ON LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the light switch or the blacklights? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put tissue on blacklights" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TISSUE ON BLACKLIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the blacklights would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "hold tissue under blacklights" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > HOLD TISSUE UNDER BLACKLIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hold the glowing tissue Floyd | paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on blacklights" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "put paper under lights" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN ON BLACKLIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | The lights are already on. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT PAPER UNDER LIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't think these go together." | |
| djfletch says, "oh well" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell glowing" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL GLOWING Floyd | Floyd | (the glowing tissue paper) Floyd | The tissue has a flat, stuffy scent that makes you want to sneeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lick it" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LICK IT Floyd | Floyd | You taste nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "taste it" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TASTE IT Floyd | Floyd | You taste nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "it's weird that a glowing thing isn't a light source" | |
| DavidW says, "no, not if it's faint like a watch hand." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Fair enough." | ||
| djfletch asks, "is it evidence maybe? being in the men's bathroom implies a man made fake ectoplasm there?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps a glowstick broke and the paper was used to wipe up the luciferose or whatever it's called." | ||
| djfletch says, "I suspect Casey because why would he write so much unless he was up to something" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "photograph tissue paper" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PHOTOGRAPH TISSUE PAPER Floyd | Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | You snap a picture of the glowing tissue paper. The camera whirrs and Floyd | vibrates and eventually spits out a print of the photo. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh definitely Casey is a prime suspect for shenanigans." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x photo of tissue" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTO OF TISSUE Floyd | Floyd | Something about the lighting in the photo makes it hard to tell that Floyd | the tissue paper was glowing, but the tissue has an unnatural greenish Floyd | tinge to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I thought we already had a photo of that." | |
| djfletch says, "oh maybe" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a potted plant Floyd | a men's room garbage can Floyd | some glowing tissue paper Floyd | a Bible Quiz Tournament trophy Floyd | a bird cage Floyd | a can of tomato soup Floyd | a can of pears Floyd | a can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Product" Floyd | a can of cherry pie filling Floyd | a can of chicken soup Floyd | a can of peaches Floyd | a name tag (being worn) Floyd | a can opener Floyd | a jam jar Floyd | some ectoplasm Floyd | a small white cross Floyd | a stack of photos Floyd | Casey's notes Floyd | a Polaroid camera (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x photos" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTOS Floyd | Floyd | You're holding ten photos: Floyd | two photos of the glowing tissue paper Floyd | a photo of the ghostly figure floating in the air Floyd | a photo of the model church Floyd | a photo of the ladies' room mirrors Floyd | a photo of darkness Floyd | a photo of the flickering lights Floyd | a photo of you taking a photo of yourself Floyd | a photo of the bird cage Floyd | a photo of the cat looking through the window Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, heh." | |
| djfletch says, "nice" | ||
| DavidW says, "Clever to make the photos a single object." | ||
| Draconis says, "Definitely." | ||
| Draconis asks, "Is the source released?" | ||
| djfletch says, "anyway I have no more ideas except to go in the secret passage" | ||
| DavidW says, "I missed the url for the map." | ||
| djfletch says, "oh unless we can use the potted plant as a reachy thing, but it doesn't seem very likely" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x cage" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAGE Floyd | Floyd | The curving faux-wrought-iron bars and caked-on "rust" identify this Floyd | as one of the non-functioning, overpriced decorations which are so Floyd | popular in craft stores. What does a Sunday School need with a bird Floyd | cage? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "put tissue in cage" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TISSUE IN CAGE Floyd | Floyd | The bird cage seems to be welded closed. It must be purely decorative. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do the flagpoles have hooks?" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "look up tissue" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP TISSUE Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but it looks like Casey didn't have Floyd | anything to say about the glowing tissue paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Gee, I wonder why." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Black Light Room Floyd | The black walls in here have been painted with Bible verses that glow Floyd | underneath the UV lights. The couches are glowing, too; unsettlingly Floyd | green. The door to the north, on the other hand, is barely visible. Floyd | Floyd | Propped up in one corner is a rough wooden cross. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x couches" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X COUCHES Floyd | Floyd | The black lights reveal several glowing stains on the couches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read bible verses" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > READ BIBLE VERSES Floyd | Floyd | There are maybe a dozen different verses, painted in different Floyd | UV-sensitive colors, but one in particular demands your attention: Floyd | Floyd | For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal Floyd | life. Floyd | Floyd | It should be "The wages of sin are death." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search couches" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH COUCHES Floyd | Floyd | You'd rather not touch the couches. In fact, you'd rather not even get Floyd | too close to them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x can opener" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAN OPENER Floyd | Floyd | You notice a small amount of tuna residue on the can opener. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stains" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X STAINS Floyd | Floyd | The black lights reveal several glowing stains on the couches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x stains" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X STAINS Floyd | Floyd | The black lights reveal several glowing stains on the couches. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ok, I think the map is complete-ish now" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "compare stains to paper" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > COMPARE STAINS TO PAPER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "url?" | |
| Doug | [LINK] | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x verses" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X VERSES Floyd | Floyd | There are maybe a dozen different verses, painted in different Floyd | UV-sensitive colors, but one in particular demands your attention: Floyd | Floyd | For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal Floyd | life. Floyd | Floyd | It should be "The wages of sin are death." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "correct verses" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > CORRECT VERSES Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a potted plant Floyd | a men's room garbage can Floyd | some glowing tissue paper Floyd | a Bible Quiz Tournament trophy Floyd | a bird cage Floyd | a can of tomato soup Floyd | a can of pears Floyd | a can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Product" Floyd | a can of cherry pie filling Floyd | a can of chicken soup Floyd | a can of peaches Floyd | a name tag (being worn) Floyd | a can opener Floyd | a jam jar Floyd | some ectoplasm Floyd | a small white cross Floyd | a stack of photos Floyd | Casey's notes Floyd | a Polaroid camera (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x ectoplasm" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X ECTOPLASM Floyd | Floyd | The ectoplasm is pale gray, thick and gooey. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up blacklight" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Make-Out Room
Floyd | >
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| Draconis says (to Floyd), "look at ectoplasm under blacklights" | ||
Floyd | > LOOK UP BLACKLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Yes! This room! So, Patrick the youth leader got us together a few Floyd | years ago and had us paint the walls of this room black, and then Floyd | paint Bible verses on it, and then install black lights instead of Floyd | normal lights, so it would look like a Christian rave or whatever. And Floyd | I mean it looks fairly cool, I guess. Floyd | Floyd | "But when you have a dark room, with purple lights, and a bunch of Floyd | couches, and then you invite teenagers into the room and leave them in Floyd | that room unattended, what happens is, the teenagers will use that Floyd | room for what Patrick the youth leader calls 'heavy petting'. Floyd | Floyd | "So that's why this room is called the Black Light Make-Out Room." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Black Light Make-Out Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK AT ECTOPLASM UNDER BLACKLIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Wait, I just realized the tissue can't really relate to the ectoplasm." | |
| DavidW says, "I don't think it's called the Black Light Make-Out Room." | ||
| Draconis says, "This ectplasm doesn't glow." | ||
| Draconis says, "*ectoplasm" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Make-Out Room Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Black Light Make-Out Room Floyd | The black walls in here have been painted with Bible verses that glow Floyd | underneath the UV lights. The couches are glowing, too; unsettlingly Floyd | green. The door to the north, on the other hand, is barely visible. Floyd | Floyd | Propped up in one corner is a rough wooden cross. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, it is." | |
| Draconis says, "It changed when you looked it up." | ||
| Doug says, "it changed its name when.. yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "yowza" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Are those make-out stains on the couch, then?" | ||
| Tigrita arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "put tissue on couch" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Make-Out Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TISSUE ON COUCH Floyd | Floyd | You'd rather not touch the couches. In fact, you'd rather not even get Floyd | too close to them. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "I think your map all matches mine, except I have one more dark hallway room north of the one with the east-west exits" | |
| Draconis says (to Tigrita), "Hello." | DavidW says, "hi Tigrita" | |
| Doug says, "ah, right" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "But people would never make out in God's house!" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "This is all quite scandalous!" | ||
| DavidW says, "Also, the exit to the building is south of Narthex." | ||
| Draconis says (to Jacqueline), "Apparently they did." | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "x cross" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Make-Out Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X CROSS Floyd | Floyd | (the small white cross) Floyd | This is a nice little cross for a table. Nothing fancy. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says (to DavidW), "useful in case we have to flee in terror later." | |
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "take cross" | ||
Floyd ] Black Light Make-Out Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CROSS Floyd | Floyd | (the small white cross) Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "so, did we ever check out the back room's north passage?" | |
| Draconis says, "I don't remember." | ||
| djfletch says, "not yet" | ||
| Draconis says, "Let's try it." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "n.w.n.u." | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > N.W.N.U. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Youth Room Floyd | A large part of this room is taken up by a rickety ping pong table. Floyd | Couches line the edges of the room, some of them close enough to the Floyd | table that they're probably not safe to sit on if someone is actually Floyd | playing ping pong. On the other hand, you can't see any ping pong bats Floyd | anywhere, so maybe that's not an issue. In between the couches, doors Floyd | lead north to the nursery, west to the Sunday School room, and south Floyd | to the black light make-out room. Floyd | Floyd | Sunday School Room Floyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and Floyd | west to the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Stairway Floyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs. Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting. Floyd | Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main Floor Stairway Floyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them, Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies' Floyd | restroom respectively. Floyd | Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a Floyd | wooden bench. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "also, this cross reminds me there was one with barbed wire on it somewhere" | |
| djfletch says, "which maybe we could make into a hook" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "s.w.n.n.n.n." | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > S.W.N.N.N.N. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fellowship Hall Floyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west. Floyd | Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church. Floyd | Floyd | Narthex Floyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently. Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | Altar Floyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit, Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar are two candles. Floyd | Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar. Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the sliding door you find a steep, narrow flight of stairs with Floyd | no handrail. You walk down them slowly, not wanting to miss your Floyd | footing in the dim light. Floyd | Floyd | Tunnel Floyd | You could hardly call this a room. It's just a long, musty, narrow Floyd | space behind a wall. At one end, a flight of stairs runs up to the Floyd | room behind the altar; at the other end a heavy door leads out to the Floyd | south. In between them, a fuse box is mounted on the wall, its metal Floyd | door hanging open to reveal a row of switches. Floyd | Floyd | A cheap-looking mirror, a black sphere and some black cloth are lying Floyd | in a heap on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "barbed wire?" | |
| DavidW says, "I don't remember any barbed wire." | ||
| djfletch says, "a crown of thorns on a cross somewhere I think said it was made of barbed wire" | ||
| djfletch says, "unless it just said it looked like that" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x fuse box" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > X FUSE BOX Floyd | Floyd | Someone left the fuse box door hanging open, showing a neat row of red Floyd | switches. Most are in the on position, but one, marked "WEST Floyd | BASEMENT", is off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "flip basement on" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > FLIP BASEMENT ON Floyd | Floyd | You flick the last switch into the ON position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "Now let's see if that worked!" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > NOW LET'S SEE IF THAT WORKED! Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tigrita picks up an entire basement and flips it | Draconis says, "Sorry. Now let's see if that worked!" | |
| DavidW says, "It should." | ||
| Tigrita asks, "so we're in some kind of church?" | Draconis says (to Tigrita), "There's a map on Googledocs. [LINK] | |
| DavidW says (to Tigrita), "yes. Speak on channel, please." | ||
| Draconis says (to Tigrita), "And yes. We're ghosthunting." | ||
| DavidW says, "We're playing Robin & Orchid." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cloth" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > X CLOTH Floyd | Floyd | Thick, heavy black cloth of some kind—a curtain or something, maybe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > X SPHERE Floyd | Floyd | It's a black metal ball with numerous round glass panels set into it. Floyd | Turning it over, you notice that it's heavyish and slightly warm to Floyd | the touch. Your fingers also find a small button on the top? base? Floyd | side? of the sphere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get sphere" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > GET SPHERE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get cloth" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CLOTH Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The button clicks, and blue light streams from the glass panels on the Floyd | sphere, reflecting off the cheap-looking mirror and scattering across Floyd | the walls and ceiling. This must be one of those party light sphere Floyd | things that are supposed to make your house look like a nightclub or Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "whoa, magic doodad" | |
| Draconis says, "Ooh, lightsource!" | ||
| Draconis says, "Well, also magic, I guess." | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some black cloth Floyd | a party light sphere (glowing) Floyd | a potted plant Floyd | a men's room garbage can Floyd | some glowing tissue paper Floyd | a Bible Quiz Tournament trophy Floyd | a bird cage Floyd | a can of tomato soup Floyd | a can of pears Floyd | a can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Product" Floyd | a can of cherry pie filling Floyd | a can of chicken soup Floyd | a can of peaches Floyd | a name tag (being worn) Floyd | a can opener Floyd | a jam jar Floyd | some ectoplasm Floyd | a small white cross Floyd | a stack of photos Floyd | Casey's notes Floyd | a Polaroid camera (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "But the light is the important part." | |
| Doug says, "okay maybe not magic" | ||
| DavidW asks, "well, we already turned the lights on in the basement, no?" | ||
| Draconis says, "Maybe." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | The mirror is large-ish, but the frame is just cheap fake-wood-grain Floyd | plastic and the glass (is it actually glass?) is slightly warped. Floyd | Judging by the Goodwill price sticker on the frame, its previous owner Floyd | didn't think much of it either. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "s.s.s.s.e.n.d." | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > S.S.S.S.E.N.D. Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the heavy door) Floyd | Floyd | End of Hallway Floyd | The hall ends here at a heavy door to the north. A huge mural of David Floyd | fighting Goliath adorns the west wall, but it's marred by a streak of Floyd | gray gunk clinging to the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Echoing footsteps draw your attention to a figure walking down the Floyd | south end of the hallway, but whoever it is goes into the Sunday Floyd | School room before you can see their face. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | A huge rainbow arches across the wall in this part of the hallway. Floyd | Underneath it, a door leads west, with an identical door opposite on Floyd | the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway continues to run north and south. The wall here is taken Floyd | up by a mural of a beached whale and a man lying on the sand. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an open can of tuna here. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway runs north, past the plywood lighthouse, all the way up to Floyd | the door to the tunnel. A doorway to the east leads into the Sunday Floyd | School room, and on the wall opposite it is the mural of Jesus Floyd | blessing the little children. Floyd | Floyd | Sunday School Room Floyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and Floyd | west to the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Stairway Floyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs. Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting. Floyd | Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely. Floyd | Floyd | From here, you could head north to the boiler room, south to the Floyd | Sunday School room, east to the nursery, and up to the main floor Floyd | stairway. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "WAIT" | |
| Draconis says, "Sorry." | ||
| DavidW says, "We missed footsteps" | ||
| Draconis says, "Let's see...to get back it would be..." | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "x tissue paper" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > X TISSUE PAPER Floyd | Floyd | This tissue was used to wipe up an eerie glowing substance, then Floyd | thrown in a garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "u.s.w.n." | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > U.S.W.N. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main Floor Stairway Floyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them, Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies' Floyd | restroom respectively. Floyd | Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a Floyd | wooden bench. Floyd | Floyd | Fellowship Hall Floyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west. Floyd | Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church. Floyd | Floyd | Narthex Floyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently. Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The figure went into the Sunday School Room" | |
| DavidW says, "geezus." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Can we move slower please?" | ||
| Draconis says, "Sorry." | ||
| Draconis says, "Wait, we were just in the Sunday School room." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | The church is silent. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, no multiple moves at one prompt, please." | |
| Draconis says, "Damn." | ||
| Draconis says, "Sorry." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We could undo if we need to." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "No worries, just letting you know." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's far too late to chase after an event that happened 30 turns ago." | ||
| Draconis says, "That might be best." | ||
| Draconis asks, "How far can Floyd undo?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "It's not 30 turns ago." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We can undo quite a few." | ||
| DavidW says, "Close enought to 30" | ||
| Tigrita asks, "are we an exorcist or what?" | Draconis says (to Tigrita), "Just a student of some sort." | |
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "x stained glass" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > X STAINED GLASS Floyd | Floyd | Some of the designs are purely abstract, but you notice a dove, a Floyd | lion, a lamb, and what looks like an elk. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Tigrita), "Channel please. No, we're a kid photographer." | |
| Draconis asks, "Should we start to undo now?" | ||
| * Tigrita has joined the channel. | ||
| Draconis says, "I'm going to step back for a minute." | ||
| DavidW says (to Draconis), "no, but I completely TOTALLY missed everything." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Well, what did we miss, specificallky? A figure?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Okay, he feels bad already and you've made your point." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's in scrollback,." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's just figure out where we're going from here." | ||
| Tigrita asks, "so what's been going on in the game?" | ||
| Tigrita says, "oh for frigs sake, ilac" | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah, I scrolled back, but didn't see what was missed." | |
| Tigrita asks, "so what's been going on in the game?" | ||
| Doug says, "mostly just exploring and picking stuff up. and taking photos of 'paranormal activity'" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Tigrita), "You can @recap #toyshop 1500 or some crazy big number to read all of what's transpired." | ||
| Doug says, "now that we turned the basement lights on, we can explore the hallway some more" | ||
| Draconis says (to Jacqueline), "IIRC the max is 1000." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "Nope." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Not even close." | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "x photos" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTOS Floyd | Floyd | You're holding ten photos: Floyd | two photos of the glowing tissue paper Floyd | a photo of the ghostly figure floating in the air Floyd | a photo of the model church Floyd | a photo of the ladies' room mirrors Floyd | a photo of darkness Floyd | a photo of the flickering lights Floyd | a photo of you taking a photo of yourself Floyd | a photo of the bird cage Floyd | a photo of the cat looking through the window Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we should explore the hallway more, yes. But fill in Tigrita more first." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Let's just move forward. Explore the hallway." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Altar Floyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit, Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar are two candles. Floyd | Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "x photo of me" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTO OF ME | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | It turns out it's not that easy taking a photo of yourself with a Floyd | Polaroid camera. The picture came out slightly blurry; you're not sure Floyd | if it's because you weren't holding the camera still, or because it Floyd | was too close to your face. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tunnel Floyd | You could hardly call this a room. It's just a long, musty, narrow Floyd | space behind a wall. At one end, a flight of stairs runs up to the Floyd | room behind the altar; at the other end a heavy door leads out to the Floyd | south. In between them, a fuse box is mounted on the wall, its metal Floyd | door hanging open to reveal a row of switches. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a cheap-looking mirror here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And maybe go slower so she can read it.," | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | The mirror is large-ish, but the frame is just cheap fake-wood-grain Floyd | plastic and the glass (is it actually glass?) is slightly warped. Floyd | Judging by the Goodwill price sticker on the frame, its previous owner Floyd | didn't think much of it either. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > GET MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "If you want to do a quick summary we can, but to be fair, she's here nearly four hours into the game." | |
| Tigrita says, "don't worry about me, i am a text-skimming ninja" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "..her" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "er, heh" | ||
| Draconis says, "I can pastebin my logs so far." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I could post the whole thing, if you guys want that." | ||
| Doug says, "ooh, we could look at the mirror in the bathroom mirror and see infinity!!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "One sec." | ||
| Doug says, "or not." | ||
| Tigrita asks, "i think i get the gist, we're a paranormal investigator in a church?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] End of Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | End of Hallway Floyd | The hall ends here at a heavy door to the north. A huge mural of David Floyd | fighting Goliath adorns the west wall, but it's marred by a streak of Floyd | gray gunk clinging to the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x mural" | ||
Floyd ] End of Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X MURAL Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, David or the giant? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x david" | ||
Floyd ] End of Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X DAVID Floyd | Floyd | David stands poised, ready to sling a stone at Goliath. The mural Floyd | makes him look like a ten-year-old. You can't really remember the the Floyd | details of the story now, but surely he'd have to be a bit older than Floyd | that before he was allowed to do battle with giants. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Tigirita), "Our character's name is Robin. A classmate named Orchid is somewhere exploring too, and a school teacher named Sharon is sleeping in the basement." | |
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "x gunk" | ||
Floyd ] End of Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X GUNK Floyd | Floyd | The ectoplasm is pale gray, thick and gooey. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says (to Tigrita), "yeah, we're a girl working for the local newspaper doing a story on ghosts in the church" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x goliath" | ||
Floyd ] End of Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X GOLIATH Floyd | Floyd | Goliath is stooping slightly to avoid hitting his head on the ceiling Floyd | of the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Is this the same as the ectoplasm we already found?" | |
| DavidW says, "We have oodles of notes from Casey. I forget who he or she is exactly,." | ||
| Doug says (to Tigrita), "you can LOOK UP stuff to read about stuff in the newspaper editor Casey's notes" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "look up david" | ||
Floyd ] End of Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP DAVID Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I Floyd | volunteered to paint a mural in the basement, and Patrick the youth Floyd | leader gave me permission, so I painted a mural of the Four Beasts Floyd | (the man and the lion and the ox and the eagle) and it was a GREAT Floyd | MURAL but once they saw it they went ahead and covered it up with Floyd | JONAH." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline | [LINK IS NOW DEAD] | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put gunk in jar" | ||
Floyd ] End of Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT GUNK IN JAR Floyd | Floyd | You've already taken a sample of the ectoplasm; that should be Floyd | sufficient. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "When we think we have enough evidence for our story, we're to go to sleep on our cot." | |
| djfletch says, "I think the thing we missed before was this: "Echoing footsteps draw your attention to a figure walking down the south end of the hallway, but whoever it is goes into the Sunday School room before you can see their face."" | ||
| Draconis says, "That was it." | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, that was what I saw." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] End of Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | There's no writing on the door, but it could hardly say KEEP OUT more Floyd | clearly if there were. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "But then we went straight to the Sunday School Room and it was empty." | |
| Draconis says, "Accidentially, but still." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | A huge rainbow arches across the wall in this part of the hallway. Floyd | Underneath it, a door leads west, with an identical door opposite on Floyd | the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess we were too far away to pursue, regardless." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x rainbow" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X RAINBOW Floyd | Floyd | The rainbow is painted in a bright, cartoony style, with thin black Floyd | lines between each of the colors. Unfortunately whoever painted it put Floyd | the indigo and violet stripes in the wrong order. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "Roy G. Bvi" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x violet" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X VIOLET Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up rainbow" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP RAINBOW Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I Floyd | volunteered to paint a mural in the basement, and Patrick the youth Floyd | leader gave me permission, so I painted a mural of the Four Beasts Floyd | (the man and the lion and the ox and the eagle) and it was a GREAT Floyd | MURAL but once they saw it they went ahead and covered it up with Floyd | JONAH." Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "So it's probably not too important." | |
| djfletch says, "have we photographed the mirror and sphere yet? They would be evidence of making fake blue lights." | ||
| Doug says, "lots of ways to get to JONAH." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Which of the three 'Hallway' locations is this?" | ||
| Doug says, "this is the one with the east and west exits" | ||
| Doug says, "which we haven't entered in the light yet." | ||
| Draconis says (to djfletch), "Ooh, clever." | ||
| DavidW says, "thanks" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "photograph sphere" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > PHOTOGRAPH SPHERE | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | You snap a picture of the party light sphere. The camera whirrs and Floyd | vibrates and eventually spits out a print of the photo. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Hallway Floyd | A huge rainbow arches across the wall in this part of the hallway. Floyd | Underneath it, a door leads west, with an identical door opposite on Floyd | the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Storage West Floyd | You can see a manger (empty), a huge stack of plastic chairs, a tin of Floyd | half-used crayons, a pile of tiny hempen robes, a shepherd's crook, Floyd | several big cloth signs, a tricycle, an unopened packet of Floyd | marshmallows, an exercise ball, some paper streamer chains, and a door Floyd | leading out to the hall here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Shepherd's crook?" | |
| Doug says, "lotsa junk!" | ||
| Draconis says, "Sounds like the right chape to open the trapdoor!" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get crook" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CROOK | DavidW says (to Draconis), "good call." | |
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West
Floyd | >
| Doug says, "yep" | |
Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | A wooden pole with a large hook at one end. Presumably this is for the Floyd | Christmas play. Judging by its size, the shepherds are played by Floyd | children. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x manger" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > X MANGER Floyd | Floyd | This is clearly a manger from a Nativity scene—some wisps of hay are Floyd | still caught in the corners. But baby Jesus is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x signs" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > X SIGNS Floyd | Floyd | You can see that there's text printed on them, but as they're rolled Floyd | up, you can't read them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "x signs" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > X SIGNS Floyd | Floyd | You can see that there's text printed on them, but as they're rolled Floyd | up, you can't read them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "unroll" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > UNROLL Floyd | Floyd | (the glowing tissue paper) Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "unroll signs" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > UNROLL SIGNS Floyd | Floyd | There's no room to unroll them in here, and anyway you'd never be able Floyd | to roll them up again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get signs" | djfletch says, "oh no the ghost has stolen Jesus" | |
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > GET SIGNS Floyd | Floyd | You start to pick up one of the signs, but it slips through your hands Floyd | and starts to unroll, so you quickly push it back into place. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "hmph" | |
| Draconis asks, "Did we check east?" | ||
| Doug says, "not yet" | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "x marshmallows" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > X MARSHMALLOWS Floyd | Floyd | The best before date is smudged, but judging by the layer of dust on Floyd | the packet you suspect they're well past it by now. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ghost poo" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > X BALL Floyd | Floyd | (the party light sphere) Floyd | It's one of those party light sphere things, a black metal ball with Floyd | bright blue light glowing out of the glass panels set into it. Turning Floyd | it over, you notice that it's heavyish and slightly warm to the touch. Floyd | Your fingers also find a small button on the top? base? side? of the Floyd | sphere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x exercise ball" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > X EXERCISE BALL Floyd | Floyd | A huge neon pink exercise ball. Some church member is into yoga? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "roll exercise ball east" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > ROLL EXERCISE BALL EAST Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "push exercise ball east" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH EXERCISE BALL EAST Floyd | Floyd | The ball doesn't roll very far before bumping up against some of the Floyd | other junk in the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ah wel" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get on ball" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ON BALL Floyd | Floyd | (the party light sphere) Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get on exercise" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ON EXERCISE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ride tricycle" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > RIDE TRICYCLE Floyd | Floyd | The tricycle creaks under your weight, so you quickly get off it Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "search junk" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x robe" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROBE | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | The robes could only be worn by children, but they could represent any Floyd | number of Bible characters. They've been tossed on the floor in a Floyd | pitiable heap. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Storage West Floyd | You can see a manger (empty), a huge stack of plastic chairs, a tin of Floyd | half-used crayons, a pile of tiny hempen robes, several big cloth Floyd | signs, a tricycle, an unopened packet of marshmallows, an exercise Floyd | ball, some paper streamer chains, and a door leading out to the hall Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "search room" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH ROOM Floyd | Floyd | The men's room garbage can is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think the crook is the prize of the room." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get robes" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ROBES Floyd | Floyd | You pick up the robes, but only to fold them neatly and put them back Floyd | in a tidier pile. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tigrita asks, "shall we be off?" | |
| Doug says, "hooray tidier" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x robes" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROBES Floyd | Floyd | The robes could only be worn by children, but they could represent any Floyd | number of Bible characters. They have been folded and stacked up Floyd | neatly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x chains" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHAINS Floyd | Floyd | Colorful chains made out of paper streamers, like you might use as Floyd | decorations for a kid's birthday party. The links are all different Floyd | sizes, and there doesn't seem to be any pattern to the choice of Floyd | colors. At a guess, you'd say the Sunday School children made these. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes, I think we should check out the other room." | |
| Doug says, "yeah." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | A huge rainbow arches across the wall in this part of the hallway. Floyd | Underneath it, a door leads west, with an identical door opposite on Floyd | the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Storage East Floyd | This place is a mess. Floyd | Floyd | A series of rickety shelves mounted to the north wall have failed to Floyd | put the room into any kind of order. For some reason, there's nothing Floyd | on the lowest shelf, even though there's stuff everywhere else. Near Floyd | the shelves is a sturdy cabinet, maybe three feet tall. In front of Floyd | the cabinet and blocking the lower two-thirds of its door stands a Floyd | huge amplifier. A plywood Noah's Ark and a plywood Ark of the Covenant Floyd | are sitting on the floor by the cabinet. There's a case labelled Floyd | "HANDBELLS" on the Ark of the Covenant. Floyd | Floyd | You can just make out a container of some kind on the very top shelf, Floyd | glistening strangely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x glistening" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > X GLISTENING Floyd | Floyd | The glistening container is up on top of the wall shelves; you can't Floyd | get a look at it from your current height. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x ark" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARK Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the plywood Noah's Ark or the plywood Ark of the Floyd | Covenant? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "stand on shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON SHELF Floyd | Floyd | The shelves wouldn't support your weight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x all arks" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > X ALL ARKS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "drop can" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP CAN Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the glistening container, the men's room garbage Floyd | can, the men's room garbage can, the can of tomato soup, the can of Floyd | pears, the can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Product", the can of Floyd | cherry pie filling, the can of chicken soup, or the can of peaches? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "drop men's" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP MEN'S Floyd | Floyd | You place the men's room garbage can carefully on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x noah's" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > X NOAH'S Floyd | Floyd | The whole thing is made out of plywood, but smaller planks of wood Floyd | have been painted on the sides to give the vague impression of a Floyd | giant, rectangular seafaring vessel. It's two feet tall, two feet Floyd | deep, and maybe four feet long. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "flip can" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > FLIP CAN Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the men's room garbage can, the men's room garbage Floyd | can, the glistening container, the can of tomato soup, the can of Floyd | pears, the can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Product", the can of Floyd | cherry pie filling, the can of chicken soup, or the can of peaches? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "flip men's" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > FLIP MEN'S Floyd | Floyd | You turn the men's room garbage can upside down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x ark of the covenant" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARK OF THE COVENANT Floyd | Floyd | This wooden box has been spraypainted gold and detailed with glitter Floyd | markers in an attempt to convey that this is an object of great value. Floyd | It's two feet tall, two feet deep, and maybe four feet long. Floyd | Floyd | On the plywood Ark of the Covenant is a case labelled "HANDBELLS". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand on men's" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON MEN'S Floyd | Floyd | You step up onto the upside-down men's room garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x glistening" | Tigrita asks, "why, cans, why the ambiguity?" | |
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > X GLISTENING Floyd | Floyd | The glistening container is up on top of the wall shelves; you can't Floyd | get a look at it from your current height. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Where did we leave that box?" | |
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "take glistening" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE GLISTENING Floyd | Floyd | The glistening container is up on top of the wall shelves; you can't Floyd | reach it from your current position. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The trolley might be of use now." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the upside-down men's room garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | Storage East Floyd | This place is a mess. Floyd | Floyd | A series of rickety shelves mounted to the north wall have failed to Floyd | put the room into any kind of order. For some reason, there's nothing Floyd | on the lowest shelf, even though there's stuff everywhere else. Near Floyd | the shelves is a sturdy cabinet, maybe three feet tall. In front of Floyd | the cabinet and blocking the lower two-thirds of its door stands a Floyd | huge amplifier. A plywood Noah's Ark and a plywood Ark of the Covenant Floyd | are sitting on the floor by the cabinet. There's a case labelled Floyd | "HANDBELLS" on the Ark of the Covenant. Floyd | Floyd | You can just make out a container of some kind on the very top shelf, Floyd | glistening strangely. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an upside-down men's room garbage can here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "open handbells" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN HANDBELLS Floyd | Floyd | You open the case, revealing numerous handbell-shaped depressions in Floyd | the velvet lining. No handbells here. Floyd | Floyd | You close the case. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Oh, right, we're in the basement." | |
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "push men's to shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH MEN'S TO SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x handbells" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > X HANDBELLS Floyd | Floyd | The case is made of tough black plastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "the case of the missing handbells and baby jesus" | |
| DavidW says, "fiendish" | ||
| Draconis says, "And glowing tissues." | ||
| Doug asks, "so maybe someone took whatever was on the lowest shelf?" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's either the cat, Patrick, or Casey." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x amplifier" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > X AMPLIFIER | Draconis says, "Or Orchid." | |
Floyd |
Floyd | This thing is much too big, and probably much too loud, for this
Floyd | church. That's probably why it's down here collecting dust.
Floyd |
Floyd | The amplifier is about two feet tall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat strolls in from the west and mews at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Doug says (to Floyd), "give tuna to cat" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE TUNA TO CAT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tigrita says, "maybe someone just has radioactive snot" | |
| DavidW says, "hello, object with a height description." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand on amplifier" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON AMPLIFIER Floyd | Floyd | You climb up onto the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | You're still on the other side of the room when the cat scampers off Floyd | to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Tigrita), "hee" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get glistening" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > GET GLISTENING Floyd | Floyd | The glistening container is up on top of the wall shelves; you can't Floyd | reach it from your current height. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh, we dropped the tuna" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down again. Floyd | Floyd | Storage East Floyd | This place is a mess. Floyd | Floyd | A series of rickety shelves mounted to the north wall have failed to Floyd | put the room into any kind of order. For some reason, there's nothing Floyd | on the lowest shelf, even though there's stuff everywhere else. Near Floyd | the shelves is a sturdy cabinet, maybe three feet tall. In front of Floyd | the cabinet and blocking the lower two-thirds of its door stands a Floyd | huge amplifier. A plywood Noah's Ark and a plywood Ark of the Covenant Floyd | are sitting on the floor by the cabinet. There's a case labelled Floyd | "HANDBELLS" on the Ark of the Covenant. Floyd | Floyd | You can just make out a container of some kind on the very top shelf, Floyd | glistening strangely. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an upside-down men's room garbage can here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "put can on amp" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CAN ON AMP Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the can of tomato soup, the can of pears, the can Floyd | of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Product", the can of cherry pie Floyd | filling, the can of chicken soup, the can of peaches, the upside-down Floyd | men's room garbage can, the upside-down men's room garbage can, or the Floyd | glistening container? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, the tuna is in some faraway room now. The STOLEN tuna." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "men's" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > MEN'S Floyd | Floyd | (the upside-down men's room garbage can on the amplifier) Floyd | (first taking the upside-down men's room garbage can) Floyd | Floyd | You put the upside-down men's room garbage can on the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand on men's" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON MEN'S Floyd | Floyd | You're not sure that it's safe to climb onto the upside-down men's Floyd | room garbage can while it's on the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "reach glistening with crook" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > REACH GLISTENING WITH CROOK Floyd | Floyd | The glistening container is up on top of the wall shelves; even if you Floyd | could reach it with the crook, the most you could do is knock it off Floyd | onto the floor and make a huge mess. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put noah's ark on ark of the covenant" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT NOAH'S ARK ON ARK OF THE COVENANT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the plywood Noah's Ark) Floyd | Floyd | You heft up the plywood Noah's Ark. Floyd | Floyd | The plywood Noah's Ark is too large to fit on the plywood Ark of the Floyd | Covenant while the case labelled "HANDBELLS" is still on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get handbells" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > GET HANDBELLS Floyd | Floyd | It's too awkward to pick up the case labelled "HANDBELLS" while you're Floyd | still holding the plywood Noah's Ark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put other ark on ark" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT OTHER ARK ON ARK Floyd | Floyd | (the plywood Noah's Ark on the plywood Ark of the Covenant) Floyd | The plywood Noah's Ark is too large to fit on the plywood Ark of the Floyd | Covenant while the case labelled "HANDBELLS" is still on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "drop noah's" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP NOAH'S Floyd | Floyd | You place the plywood Noah's Ark carefully on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "haha" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get handbells" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > GET HANDBELLS Floyd | Floyd | You heft up the case labelled "HANDBELLS". Floyd | Floyd | > | Tigrita says, "arkception" | |
| DavidW says, "The case sounds sturdy." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put ark on other ark" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ARK ON OTHER ARK Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the plywood Noah's Ark or the plywood Ark of the Floyd | Covenant? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ark" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > ARK Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the plywood Noah's Ark or the plywood Ark of the Floyd | Covenant? Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "hee" | |
| djfletch asks, "wasn't there an Indiana Jones film where they opened the ark of the convenant and everyone died?" | ||
| Draconis says (to djfletch), "The first one." | ||
| Doug says, "put ark of the covenant on noah's ark" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put ark of the covenant on noah's ark" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ARK OF THE COVENANT ON NOAH'S ARK Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the plywood Ark of the Covenant) Floyd | Floyd | It's too awkward to pick up the plywood Ark of the Covenant while Floyd | you're still holding the case labelled "HANDBELLS". Floyd | You need to be holding the plywood Ark of the Covenant before you can Floyd | put it on top of something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "drop handbells" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP HANDBELLS Floyd | Floyd | You can't just drop the case labelled "HANDBELLS" on the floor. What Floyd | if someone steps on it or trips over it? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think it's time for more snacks." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "put handbells on amp" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT HANDBELLS ON AMP Floyd | Floyd | You put the case labelled "HANDBELLS" on the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "drop ark" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP ARK Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the plywood Noah's Ark or the plywood Ark of the Floyd | Covenant? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "both" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > BOTH Floyd | Floyd | plywood Noah's Ark: The plywood Noah's Ark is already here. Floyd | plywood Ark of the Covenant: The plywood Ark of the Covenant is Floyd | already here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "put noah's on covenant" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT NOAH'S ON COVENANT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the plywood Noah's Ark) Floyd | Floyd | You heft up the plywood Noah's Ark. Floyd | Floyd | You put the plywood Noah's Ark on the plywood Ark of the Covenant. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "wow, that worked" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand on noah's" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON NOAH'S Floyd | Floyd | The plywood Noah's Ark is too tall for you to climb up on top of it Floyd | safely from your current position. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "wait, we weren't carrying them? weird" | |
| Tigrita asks, "are we there yet?" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get on amp" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ON AMP Floyd | Floyd | There's a case labelled "HANDBELLS" and an upside-down men's room Floyd | garbage can on top of the amplifier; you'll have to clear it off Floyd | before you climb up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get men't" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > GET MEN'T Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "clear it off" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > CLEAR IT OFF Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "stand on covenant" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON COVENANT Floyd | Floyd | There's a plywood Noah's Ark on top of the plywood Ark of the Floyd | Covenant; you'll have to clear it off before you climb up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get men's" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > GET MEN'S Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "drop men's" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP MEN'S Floyd | Floyd | You place the upside-down men's room garbage can carefully on the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "clear ark of the covenant" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > CLEAR ARK OF THE COVENANT Floyd | Floyd | If you need to move the plywood Ark of the Covenant, you'd be better Floyd | off picking it up and putting it where you want it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh, are we building steps?" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get on amp" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ON AMP Floyd | Floyd | There's a case labelled "HANDBELLS" on top of the amplifier; you'll Floyd | have to clear it off before you climb up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "You are making me feel slightly old. Please refrain from asking if there was once a Star Wars movie where people had swords made of light." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get handbells" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > GET HANDBELLS Floyd | Floyd | You heft up the case labelled "HANDBELLS". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put handbells on floor" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT HANDBELLS ON FLOOR Floyd | | Draconis says (to Jacqueline), "Sorry." | |
Floyd | You can't just drop the case labelled "HANDBELLS" on the floor. What
Floyd | if someone steps on it or trips over it?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Storage East Floyd | This place is a mess. Floyd | Floyd | A series of rickety shelves mounted to the north wall have failed to Floyd | put the room into any kind of order. For some reason, there's nothing Floyd | on the lowest shelf, even though there's stuff everywhere else. Near Floyd | the shelves is a sturdy cabinet, maybe three feet tall. In front of Floyd | the cabinet and blocking the lower two-thirds of its door stands a Floyd | huge amplifier. A plywood Ark of the Covenant is sitting on the floor Floyd | by the cabinet, with a plywood Noah's Ark on top of it. Floyd | Floyd | You can just make out a container of some kind on the very top shelf, Floyd | glistening strangely. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an upside-down men's room garbage can here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on noah's ark" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON NOAH'S ARK Floyd | Floyd | The plywood Noah's Ark is too tall for you to climb up on top of it Floyd | safely from your current position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on other ark" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON OTHER ARK Floyd | Floyd | (the plywood Noah's Ark) Floyd | The plywood Noah's Ark is too tall for you to climb up on top of it Floyd | safely from your current position. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "(That was a joke!)" | |
| Jacqueline smiles at Draconis. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on ark of the covenant" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON ARK OF THE COVENANT Floyd | Floyd | There's a plywood Noah's Ark on top of the plywood Ark of the Floyd | Covenant; you'll have to clear it off before you climb up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "sigh." | |
| DavidW says, "Stand on the amp THEN stand on Noah's" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on amp" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON AMP Floyd | Floyd | You can't climb up onto the amplifier while you're holding the case Floyd | labelled "HANDBELLS", it's too big and awkward. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "I tried, we need to move the handbells." | |
| Draconis says, "And we can't drop them." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put handbells on ark of the covenant" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT HANDBELLS ON ARK OF THE COVENANT Floyd | Floyd | There's no room for the case labelled "HANDBELLS" on the plywood Ark Floyd | of the Covenant while the plywood Noah's Ark is on the plywood Ark of Floyd | the Covenant. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well put them on the lower shelf or something" | |
| Tigrita asks, "have we tried going from the garbage onto noah's?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put handbells on noah's ark" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT HANDBELLS ON NOAH'S ARK Floyd | Floyd | Stacking the case labelled "HANDBELLS" on the plywood Noah's Ark on Floyd | the plywood Ark of the Covenant? On second thoughts, piling things Floyd | that high seems a bit dangerous. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put handbells on shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT HANDBELLS ON SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You put the case labelled "HANDBELLS" on the lowest shelf. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "yay" | |
| Draconis says, "Oh." | ||
| Draconis says, "That was easy." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on amp" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON AMP Floyd | Floyd | You climb up onto the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand on amp" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON AMP Floyd | Floyd | You're already standing on the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on ark of the covenant" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON ARK OF THE COVENANT Floyd | Floyd | There's a plywood Noah's Ark on top of the plywood Ark of the Floyd | Covenant; you'll have to clear it off before you climb up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand on noah's" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON NOAH'S Floyd | Floyd | The plywood Noah's Ark is too tall for you to climb up on top of it Floyd | safely, even though you're on the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "dangit." | |
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down again. Floyd | Floyd | Storage East Floyd | This place is a mess. Floyd | Floyd | A series of rickety shelves mounted to the north wall have failed to Floyd | put the room into any kind of order. On the lowest shelf is a case Floyd | labelled "HANDBELLS". Near the shelves is a sturdy cabinet, maybe Floyd | three feet tall. In front of the cabinet and blocking the lower Floyd | two-thirds of its door stands a huge amplifier. A plywood Ark of the Floyd | Covenant is sitting on the floor by the cabinet, with a plywood Noah's Floyd | Ark on top of it. Floyd | Floyd | You can just make out a container of some kind on the very top shelf, Floyd | glistening strangely. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an upside-down men's room garbage can here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "stand on men's" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON MEN'S Floyd | Floyd | You step up onto the upside-down men's room garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "how tall is the trolley?" | |
| Draconis says, "No idea." | ||
| DavidW says, "stand. put the handbells on the amp. stand on handbells THEN Noah's." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON CABINET Floyd | Floyd | The sturdy cabinet is too tall for you to climb up on top of it safely Floyd | from your current position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on amp" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON AMP Floyd | Floyd | You climb up onto the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "stand on noah's" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >
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| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on cabinet" | ||
Floyd | > STAND ON NOAH'S Floyd | Floyd | The plywood Noah's Ark is too tall for you to climb up on top of it Floyd | safely, even though you're on the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You climb up onto the sturdy cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on noah's" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON NOAH'S Floyd | Floyd | You climb up onto the plywood Noah's Ark. You now have a clear view of Floyd | the glistening container. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "yay!" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x container" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > X CONTAINER Floyd | Floyd | It looks a lot like a paint can, but trails of viscous grayish goop Floyd | are running down the sides. What printing you can see on the label is Floyd | in the "avoid contact with eyes, harmful if swallowed" vein. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tigrita exclaims, "hey!" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get container" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CONTAINER Floyd | Floyd | The can of goo is still far out of reach, but at least from here you Floyd | can take a clear picture of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "photograph container" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > PHOTOGRAPH CONTAINER Floyd | Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | You snap a picture of the can of goo. The camera whirrs and vibrates Floyd | and eventually spits out a print of the photo. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "So the ectoplasm is fake." | |
| Draconis says, "Now how to get down..." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "reach container with crook" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > REACH CONTAINER WITH CROOK Floyd | Floyd | You can reach the can with the crook, sure, but the most you could do Floyd | is knock it off onto the floor and make a huge mess. Maybe you should Floyd | just leave it where it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Darn it." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down again. Floyd | Floyd | Storage East Floyd | This place is a mess. Floyd | Floyd | A series of rickety shelves mounted to the north wall have failed to Floyd | put the room into any kind of order. On the lowest shelf is a case Floyd | labelled "HANDBELLS". Near the shelves is a sturdy cabinet, maybe Floyd | three feet tall. In front of the cabinet and blocking the lower Floyd | two-thirds of its door stands a huge amplifier. A plywood Ark of the Floyd | Covenant is sitting on the floor by the cabinet, with a plywood Noah's Floyd | Ark on top of it. Floyd | Floyd | You can just make out a container of some kind on the very top shelf, Floyd | glistening strangely. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an upside-down men's room garbage can here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I WANT TO BELIEVE" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x photo of goo" | ||
Floyd ] Storage East Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTO OF GOO Floyd | Floyd | Trails of glistening grayish goop run down the sides of the can and Floyd | dribble onto the shelf beneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Oh, that was easy." | |
| DavidW says, "Perhaps the photo is all we really need from the container." | ||
| Doug says, "yeah" | ||
| djfletch says (to Jacqueline), "it's a vast conspiracy to make us _think_ that ghosts are fake" | ||
| Draconis says (to djfletch), "Or maybe that's what they WANT us to think..." | ||
| Draconis asks, "Does anyone mind if we go back to the Projector Room?" | ||
| Tigrita says, "or maybe they want us to think that that's what they want us to think" | ||
| DavidW says, "I second Draconis's motion." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to djf), "You're right. I'll believe that instead." | ||
| Doug says, "yep, let's crook the pull rope to the trapdoor" | ||
| Tigrita says (to news), "alex you win everything forever" | Draconis says, "I think that's a concensus." | |
| Tigrita says, "ilac" | Doug says, "maybe get the tuna first" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | A huge rainbow arches across the wall in this part of the hallway. Floyd | Underneath it, a door leads west, with an identical door opposite on Floyd | the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] End of Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | End of Hallway Floyd | The hall ends here at a heavy door to the north. A huge mural of David Floyd | fighting Goliath adorns the west wall, but it's marred by a streak of Floyd | gray gunk clinging to the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] End of Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | From here, the only way out is south to more hallway. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The tuna's somewhere en route, I think." | |
| Draconis asks, "Isn't there a connection here?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tunnel Floyd | You could hardly call this a room. It's just a long, musty, narrow Floyd | space behind a wall. At one end, a flight of stairs runs up to the Floyd | room behind the altar; at the other end a heavy door leads out to the Floyd | south. In between them, a fuse box is mounted on the wall, its metal Floyd | door hanging open to reveal a row of switches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "tuna is at the south end of the hallway I think" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Altar Floyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit, Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar are two candles. Floyd | Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Stairs Floyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up Floyd | to the balcony. An archway to the west leads back out into the Floyd | sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an upside-down ladies' room garbage can here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get on ladies'" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ON LADIES' Floyd | Floyd | You step up onto the upside-down ladies' room garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "reach cord" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > REACH CORD Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to reach the pull-cord with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "crook" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > CROOK Floyd | Floyd | You catch the loop of cord with the end of the crook and pull. The Floyd | trapdoor opens and a small ladder slides down, offering access to the Floyd | steeple above. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Haha!" | |
| Doug says, "yay" | ||
| DavidW says, "hurray" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the upside-down ladies' room garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. Behind the pews you can see Floyd | the ladder up to the steeple, and a narrow staircase leads back down Floyd | to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an upside-down ladies' room garbage can here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| olethros arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Draconis says, "Hello, Olethros." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Steeple Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steeple Floyd | The inside of the church steeple is a cold concrete cube with Floyd | cinderblock walls. There's one window, but it's been boarded up. Floyd | Floyd | You jump. There's a boy sitting on the floor, smirking at you. It's Floyd | Aiden Kingsley. Floyd | Floyd | The ghost's glowing dress lies in a heap nearby. It doesn't look very Floyd | ghostly now. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden stands up. "Hey, hey, Robin! Are you enjoying your evening?" he Floyd | asks, smiling. Floyd | Floyd | You are not smiling. "So you're the ghost." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, yes. Well, no. I am not a dead person. Heh. But I portrayed the Floyd | ghost you saw, yes." Floyd | Floyd | "Does Orchid know?" Floyd | Floyd | "Does Orchid know. Does Orchid know? What a well-chosen detective Floyd | question." Floyd | Floyd | Aiden looks down the trapdoor behind you. "Do you think we could Floyd | continue this conversation downstairs? It's really freaking cold up Floyd | here." Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Wow. That was...anticlimactic." | |
| DavidW says, "oh, I doubt it ends like this." | ||
| DavidW says, "give Aiden a chance to tell his evil plan." | ||
| Tigrita mhm and as the years go by/mhm I'll facebook you and sigh/mhm this is goodnight and not goodbye | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Steeple Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "hit aiden" | ||
Floyd ] Steeple Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT AIDEN Floyd | Floyd | You have to assume you'd get in huge trouble if you attacked Floyd | Aiden—like suspended-at-the-very-least levels of trouble. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "aiden, yes" | ||
Floyd ] Steeple Floyd | > Floyd | > AIDEN, YES Floyd | Floyd | Aiden grimaces. "Seriously, can we talk downstairs? I'm about to Floyd | freeze to death. And then I'll be a real ghost! Heh." Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Should we go down?" | |
| DavidW says, "yes, try" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. Behind the pews you can see Floyd | the ladder up to the steeple, and a narrow staircase leads back down Floyd | to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an upside-down ladies' room garbage can here. Floyd | Floyd | You look back to make sure Aiden has followed you. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes. Now I'll tell you the answer to your question. Of course Orchid Floyd | knows. This was all Orchid's idea. She was very naughty. And I'm not Floyd | even supposed to be here, so I should probably get going." Floyd | Floyd | He tries to slip past you, but you grab his arm. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden yelps like a dog. "What's your problem?" Floyd | Floyd | "You're not going anywhere. I've got a few more questions." Floyd | Floyd | "Then can you get your hands off me first? You're gonna break my arm." Floyd | Floyd | "Sure." You let go of his arm. "Let's get going." You know exactly Floyd | where the two of you are going, but you should probably keep that a Floyd | surprise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Wow, almost a five second delay." | |
| olethros says, "hey that game looks nice" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "photograph aiden" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > PHOTOGRAPH AIDEN Floyd | Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | You snap a picture of Aiden. The camera whirrs and vibrates and Floyd | eventually spits out a print of the photo. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "We're on the right track." | |
| Draconis asks, "Wait, where are we going?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Nice." | ||
| Doug says, "We know exactly where the two of us are going. That's what it said." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure where we're going." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Stairs Floyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up Floyd | to the balcony. An archway to the west leads back out into the Floyd | sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden mopes along after you. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, Orchid brought the idea to me. She said if she could write a Floyd | story about a real ghost, then maybe people would actually read the Floyd | newspaper. Heh. But I told her I'd help her." Floyd | Floyd | "Why?" Floyd | Floyd | "For the heck of it, primarily." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We haven't even found a single key yet." | |
| djfletch says, "there's a chest we could put him in" | ||
| Draconis says, "Good idea." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Aiden?" | ||
| Doug asks, "maybe wake up Sharon?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's save first." | ||
| Doug says, "oh, we should photo the dress" | ||
| djfletch says, "I suppose taking him to Sharon makes sense" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm not sure the goal is to be a snitch, but it's worth trying." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | No time to explore now. Sharon needs to know what's been going on. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "too late" | |
| Draconis says, "Apparently we're going to Sharon." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Evidently." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We could undo a few first, but this is starting to feel scripted." | ||
| Doug asks, "mind if I restore cf2 to go back to the steeple?" | ||
| Draconis says, "Go ahead." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "restore cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE CF2 Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to restore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Steeple
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Doug says (to Floyd), "x gown" | ||
Floyd ] Steeple Floyd | > Floyd | > X GOWN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x dress" | ||
Floyd ] Steeple Floyd | > Floyd | > X DRESS Floyd | Floyd | It's been cut up and painted, but you're pretty sure you recognize the Floyd | dress as the one Orchid wore last Halloween, when she was Dorothy Floyd | Gale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take photo of dress" | ||
Floyd ] Steeple Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO OF DRESS Floyd | Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | You snap a picture of the glowing dress. The camera whirrs and Floyd | vibrates and eventually spits out a print of the photo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Steeple Floyd | > Floyd | > L | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Steeple Floyd | The inside of the church steeple is a cold concrete cube with Floyd | cinderblock walls. There's one window, but it's been boarded up. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden looks you over. Floyd | Floyd | The ghost's glowing dress lies in a heap nearby. It doesn't look very Floyd | ghostly now. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. Behind the pews you can see Floyd | the ladder up to the steeple, and a narrow staircase leads back down Floyd | to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an upside-down ladies' room garbage can here. Floyd | Floyd | You look back to make sure Aiden has followed you. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes. Now I'll tell you the answer to your question. Of course Orchid Floyd | knows. This was all Orchid's idea. She was very naughty. And I'm not Floyd | even supposed to be here, so I should probably get going." Floyd | Floyd | He tries to slip past you, but you grab his arm. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden yelps like a dog. "What's your problem?" Floyd | Floyd | "You're not going anywhere. I've got a few more questions." Floyd | Floyd | "Then can you get your hands off me first? You're gonna break my arm." Floyd | Floyd | "Sure." You let go of his arm. "Let's get going." You know exactly Floyd | where the two of you are going, but you should probably keep that a Floyd | surprise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Stairs Floyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up Floyd | to the balcony. An archway to the west leads back out into the Floyd | sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden mopes along after you. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, Orchid brought the idea to me. She said if she could write a Floyd | story about a real ghost, then maybe people would actually read the Floyd | newspaper. Heh. But I told her I'd help her." Floyd | Floyd | "Why?" Floyd | Floyd | "For the heck of it, primarily." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | From here, you could head west to the sanctuary and up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden follows you in. Floyd | Floyd | "Originally, she was just going to let me in the church during the Floyd | sleepover, and we'd just spend the night taking a bunch of ghost Floyd | pictures. However. Then we found out that you were going to be the Floyd | other newspaper girl staying the night. And Orchid said you'd never go Floyd | along with it. So we had to change the plan." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | You saw one of these in a movie once. The top recedes into the back of Floyd | the desk, and you can hide a convict inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "open desk" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DESK Floyd | Floyd | You try to pull back the top of the desk, but it's locked down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up desk" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP DESK Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "The Floyd | sound guy, whose name I don't remember, keeps all the controls for the Floyd | sound and lights in that rolltop desk. He takes the key to the desk Floyd | home with him, because the stuff inside is super expensive. I'm just Floyd | fine with not breaking into it and messing around because I would Floyd | probably break everything." Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "So we can't hide his body here..." | |
| Doug says, "so we have to break into the sound guy's home..." | ||
| Draconis says, "Maybe Casey knows where he lives." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "look up aiden" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP AIDEN Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I Floyd | guess you've probably seen Aiden in plays, but I've actually worked Floyd | with him, so I know what I'm talking about. He is unbearable. You Floyd | should be able to guess from the mustache. Floyd | Floyd | "Aiden goes to parties, gets girls drunk, makes out with them, and Floyd | then convinces them that his number is '123-4567'. And then he tells Floyd | this story to everyone at rehearsal and expects us to laugh. Floyd | Floyd | "Speaking of which. This is the worst thing Aiden does: He laughs at Floyd | every single one of his own jokes—sometimes just at sentences he says Floyd | that can't even be considered jokes—and it's always the same Floyd | single-syllable laugh, always the same pitch, pronounced exactly the Floyd | same way. It's not really a laugh, it's more of a signal that you're Floyd | supposed to think he's funny. Floyd | Floyd | "Aiden doesn't even go to my church, but he's the worst, and I think Floyd | you should know that." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "y'know, it's possible there's something else going on besides Aiden's and Orchid's fake ghost stuff." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up sound guy" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP SOUND GUY Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "sound guy" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "shall we just go to sharn?" | |
| Doug says, "+o" | ||
| DavidW says, "I doubt we can veer away at this point." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask aiden for number" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK AIDEN FOR NUMBER Floyd | Floyd | Aiden looks around nervously. "Why don't we keep moving, huh?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narthex Floyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden follows you in. Floyd | Floyd | As you enter the narthex, Orchid strolls in through the front door of Floyd | the church. When she sees Aiden, her eyes go wide. Floyd | Floyd | "Aiden! What are you doing here?" Floyd | Floyd | "Hey. Don't bother," Aiden snaps. "I've already told her everything. Floyd | Or almost everything. Heh." Floyd | Floyd | Orchid rushes up to Aiden with her fists clenched. "You're lying. Floyd | There's no proof. All you can prove is that you broke into the church Floyd | and tried to scare us." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, no," says Aiden. "I can prove some other things. I have the Floyd | receipts. For the makeup and everything. Because you had to use a Floyd | credit card, idiot." Floyd | Floyd | Orchid goes quiet. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, we can talk about this in the morning," Aiden says, and he Floyd | makes for the southern exit—but you grab his arm, and he cries out Floyd | softly. "Yeah. Your way is probably better." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "kill aiden" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > KILL AIDEN Floyd | Floyd | You have to assume you'd get in huge trouble if you attacked Floyd | Aiden—like suspended-at-the-very-least levels of trouble. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "show photos to orchid" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW PHOTOS TO ORCHID Floyd | Floyd | Orchid declines to comment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get aiden's tag" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > GET AIDEN'S TAG Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fellowship Hall Floyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west. Floyd | Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden and Orchid come in after you. Floyd | Floyd | "Now, where were we? Orchid didn't trust you to help her pull off this Floyd | hoax. She said you're too much of a straight arrow. Those weren't her Floyd | exact words. What were your exact words, Orchid?" Floyd | Floyd | Orchid is looking down at her shoes. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden shrugs. "She said something really nasty." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main Floor Stairway Floyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them, Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies' Floyd | restroom respectively. Floyd | Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a Floyd | wooden bench. Floyd | Floyd | Orchid and Aiden follow along. Floyd | Floyd | "But Orchid had this other great idea. She figured if we went a little Floyd | further with the hoax, we could get you to believe the ghost was real. Floyd | Heh." Floyd | Floyd | "I wasn't trying to trick you!" Orchid pleads. "I just wanted it to be Floyd | authentic. I wanted it to be a great story." Floyd | Floyd | "Sure, and then the great ghost story would be in the newspaper with Floyd | the name of the most trustworthy reporter on staff on it, and Orchid's Floyd | name too." Aiden chuckles. "But, looks like that didn't work out." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Stairway Floyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs. Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting. Floyd | Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely. Floyd | Floyd | Orchid and Aiden come down the stairs after you. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden looks past you, into the nursery, and you can see something Floyd | click in his brain. Floyd | Floyd | "Although, you know, we could still do it. You guys can write the Floyd | story, I won't say anything, Orchid won't say anything, everyone will Floyd | love it, you'll probably be co-editors-in-chief next year. Let's go Floyd | back upstairs, we'll get some better pictures of the ghost." Floyd | Floyd | "No thanks," you say. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "and they would have gotten away with it if it weren't for us meddling kid!" | |
| Draconis asks, "Where is Sharon again? The Nursery?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I wonder if Sharon is still there." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "photo orchid and aiden" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > PHOTO ORCHID AND AIDEN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That would have been a good spot to give us a choice of ending." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "photograph orchid and aiden" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > PHOTOGRAPH ORCHID AND AIDEN Floyd | Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "photograph orchid" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > PHOTOGRAPH ORCHID Floyd | Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera) Floyd | You snap a picture of Orchid. The camera whirrs and vibrates and Floyd | eventually spits out a print of the photo. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "SPOILER a ghost ate her" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nursery Floyd | Battered toys spill out of the toybox and across the floor, piling up Floyd | in a corner of the room. Cupboards are mounted high on the walls, out Floyd | of reach of tiny fingers, and an enormous blue recliner sits Floyd | underneath them. It's already dark outside, and the doors west to the Floyd | basement stairway and south to the youth room are dark as well. Floyd | Floyd | Your sleeping bag is lying on a tidy patch of floor, ready for when Floyd | you finish your investigation. Floyd | Floyd | Sharon's makeshift bed doesn't look comfortable, but apparently she's Floyd | fast asleep anyway. Floyd | Floyd | You usher Aiden and Orchid in ahead of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "wake sharon" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > WAKE SHARON Floyd | Floyd | Sharon stirs, rubs her eyes, and looks at you, then Orchid, then Floyd | Aiden. She says something that one does not typically say in a church. Floyd | Floyd | *** | Jacqueline | WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A FRAUD? (Y/N) | |
| Jacqueline | > | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "press space" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | *** Floyd | Floyd | "What did she say?" Floyd | Floyd | "I won't repeat it." Floyd | Floyd | Casey slumps back in his chair. "You would make a great Christian," he Floyd | mutters. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sure I would." You try not to smile. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, how did Aiden fly around in the sanctuary?" Floyd | Floyd | "I'm entertaining a hypothesis. I noticed components from an unusual Floyd | mechanism lying around in the balcony." Floyd | Floyd | "The Engelgurt?" Floyd | Floyd | "If you like. I assume that, while I was chasing after Aiden, Orchid Floyd | was up in the balcony disassembling the rig so it would look ever so Floyd | slightly less suspicious." Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, did you hear what happened to Orchid?" Floyd | Floyd | "I heard that she's suspended from the next two issues of the paper." Floyd | Floyd | Casey pouts. "I wanted to be the one to tell you." Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry. Why don't you tell me what happened to Aiden?" Floyd | Floyd | "I'd love to! Except, I didn't know anything happened to Aiden. I Floyd | didn't think they could do anything, since he's not on the newspaper?" Floyd | Floyd | "Unfortunately for Aiden, in this case the left and right hands are in Floyd | close communication. The drama department is putting him on probation Floyd | for an as-yet undetermined period." Floyd | Floyd | Casey perks right back up. "Robin! That is the best thing I've ever Floyd | heard! Although the thing about Orchid is pretty great too." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, Orchid is getting what she wanted anyway, I think. The Floyd | Warbler is going to run a story that people will actually Floyd | read, for once—except this one is true." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "How do you press a key?" | |
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > AMUSING Floyd | Floyd | Have you... Floyd | Floyd | ...taken any pictures of Orchid? Floyd | ...tried hiding? Floyd | ...learned all about Gwen? Floyd | ...checked out the pastor's office? Floyd | ...read all four entries in the epic Nativity Pageant Saga? Floyd | ...tested Casey's favorite napping spot? Floyd | ...looked up Jesus in the Bible? Floyd | ...read all of Casey's notes? I sincerely doubt it. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Gwen?" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Nursery Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Remind me who Gwen was again?" | |
| DavidW says, "We missed a lot, I think." | ||
| Draconis says, "I don't know." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up gwen" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP GWEN Floyd | Floyd | (Gwen) Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "I'll tell you about the big painting at the bottom of the stairs, but Floyd | first I have to tell you about Homeschooled Gwen. Floyd | Floyd | "Homeschooled Gwen, so called because she was totally homeschooled, Floyd | went to our high school. Yes! She was not in fact completely Floyd | homeschooled, because her parents sent her to West for seventh-period Floyd | geometry, because they did not remember the quadratic formula. It is: Floyd | x equals negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus Floyd | 4ac, over 2a. Floyd | Floyd | "But Gwen's parents couldn't remember that, even though I, Casey, Floyd | memorized it so easily. So Gwen went to West High. And she was in my Floyd | Geometry class." Floyd | Floyd | You pause before flipping the page. This story barely seems relevant Floyd | to the church, much less your investigation. Are you sure you want to Floyd | keep reading? Floyd | >> | DavidW says, "No idea who Gwen is." | |
| DavidW says, "Gwen was never mentioned until just now." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | You turn the page:
Floyd |
Floyd | "So, due to being homeschooled, Gwen was not at all socialized for
Floyd | interacting with us teens of the modern era. What I am saying is that
Floyd | she was super weird. I was friends with her mostly out of morbid
Floyd | curiosity. Here are some of the weird stunts she pulled in Geometry:
Floyd | Told us all individually what breed of dog we would be if we were
Floyd | dogs. Read us stories, apparently like Wendy read to the Lost Boys.
Floyd | Gave us a survey about what we found attractive in girls.
Floyd |
Floyd | "When I say 'us' I mean just the boys in class. Gwen was super
Floyd | boy-crazy, because, due to being homeschooled all of her life, Gwen
Floyd | had never seen a boy before. Yes."
Floyd |
Floyd | This looks like it might be turning into an extended rant against the
Floyd | institution of homeschooling (Casey can be something of a jerk when it
Floyd | comes to things he knows nothing about). Do you want to continue?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | >> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Casey goes on: Floyd | Floyd | "I mean she had probably seen a male human before. She had a dad; we Floyd | found that out eventually. But you know what I mean. Floyd | Floyd | "Anyway one day after school, after seventh-period geometry, I was Floyd | hanging out in the mud room waiting for my ride home, and Gwen was Floyd | there too, waiting for her own ride back to her own horrible Floyd | school-home hybrid, and then Patrick the youth leader showed Floyd | up, because he's still allowed on school grounds. And he asked me Floyd | about the lock-in." Floyd | Floyd | It is increasingly clear to you that this story has no bearing on your Floyd | investigation. Do you want to keep reading it? Floyd | Floyd | >> | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | >> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | You turn another page. Floyd | Floyd | "Or he asked me about something. Probably the lock-in. But we Floyd | were talking, and Gwen was there, and Patrick the youth leader WITHOUT Floyd | CONSULTING ME BEFOREHAND looks over at Gwen and asks her if she wants Floyd | to come to the lock-in. And of course Gwen says yes, because there Floyd | will be boys there. Floyd | Floyd | "Gwen came to the lock-in, and after that she started coming to the Floyd | high school group meetings. And an unfortunate percentage of people in Floyd | the group did not seem to catch on right away that Gwen was a nutbar, Floyd | so she felt very welcome and emotionally supported by us, and when Floyd | Patrick the youth leader opened the floor for 'discussion' after his Floyd | sermons we all got to listen to her insane opinions about Floyd | Thanksgiving, and family togetherness, and sex, etc., etc." Floyd | Floyd | You look up from the notes. Maybe there's something else you should be Floyd | doing. Do you want to continue reading? Floyd | Floyd | >> | Doug asks, "the mud room?" | |
| Draconis asks, "Wow. Is Gwen ever mentioned except in this?" | ||
| Doug says, "it looked like we could get here by looking up the large painting" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Then, this was around the end of last semester, Patrick the youth
Floyd | leader gave all of us in the group one of his CHALLENGES. His
Floyd | CHALLENGE to us this particular week was for us to think about our
Floyd | relationship to the church. I mean, like, 'spend the next seven days
Floyd | thinking about this, and come back next week with something really
Floyd | profound.' A lot of Patrick the youth leader's CHALLENGES are
Floyd | basically attempts to get us to say something profound.
Floyd |
Floyd | "And of course we all forgot about this CHALLENGE immediately, because
Floyd | come on. He never follows up on any of them anyway. He just read in
Floyd | some youth leader magazine that you should give your youth group
Floyd | CHALLENGES.
Floyd |
Floyd | "And when we came back the next week, of course, Patrick the youth
Floyd | leader doesn't bother asking anyone what brilliant answers we came up
Floyd | with to his incredibly vague CHALLENGE. We had a sermon and then we
Floyd | played Sardines or whatever.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But before we could leave, Patrick the youth leader called us all
Floyd | together, because Gwen had something to share with us."
Floyd |
Floyd | Keep reading?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now that I think about it, she must have brought the painting in with
Floyd | her, left it behind a couch or something, and waited for three hours
Floyd | or however long for Patrick the youth leader to ask for people's
Floyd | answers to his CHALLENGE of the previous week. She was just too
Floyd | freaked out and embarrassed to bring it up herself, until the very
Floyd | last possible moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So yeah it was this painting. I'm not gonna bother describing this
Floyd | painting, because you can see it yourself. But if you think about it,
Floyd | all those tiny brushstrokes on a canvas that huge must have taken a
Floyd | zillion hours to do, and she supposedly only had a week to paint it. I
Floyd | guess that's what the church meant to Gwen."
Floyd |
Floyd | It goes on a little longer, but that feels like an end to the
Floyd | "substance" of the story, such as it is. Should you bother reading the
Floyd | rest?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | >> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "Well, sometime during the summer, Gwen quit coming to the youth Floyd | group. It took me a while to figure out what happened but it turns out Floyd | she got grounded from church because her parents Floyd | found out she had a crush on a boy who went there. Floyd | Floyd | "So, that is the story on Homeschooled Gwen. You will never meet her, Floyd | because her parents will never let her out of the house again." Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Um..." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I wonder if this is pulled from Ryan's past, or Emily's." | ||
| Draconis says, "Wow." | ||
| Draconis says, "Probably." | ||
| Doug asks, "so did Gwen have a crush on Patrick? Or Casey?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > X PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | No time to explore now. Sharon needs to know what's been going on. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "hm" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think I would have stuck that story under AMUSING" | ||
| Draconis says, "Although I'm not sure where else it would go..." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up nap" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP NAP Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "nap" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up napping" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP NAPPING Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "napping" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > HIDE Floyd | Floyd | (in the glowing tissue paper) Floyd | The glowing tissue paper wouldn't make much of a hiding spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up challenges" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP CHALLENGES Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "challenges" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x photo of orchid" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTO OF ORCHID Floyd | Floyd | Orchid scowls out of the photo at you, her eyebrows scrunched and her Floyd | mouth turned down at the corners. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug asks, "x orchid" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x orchid" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > X ORCHID Floyd | Floyd | Orchid, like most girls your age, is taller than you. Her cheeks are Floyd | covered in freckles that you had never seen before tonight; she must Floyd | put makeup on over them for school. You have the uneasy feeling that Floyd | there are more freckles on her left cheek than her right. Floyd | Floyd | She notices you examining her, and you look away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "kiss orchid" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > KISS ORCHID Floyd | Floyd | The reason your overnight investigatory team had to consist of two Floyd | girls was to minimize the chances of any funny business. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Like that stopped anyone." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up nativity" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP NATIVITY Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "nativity" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up jesus" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP JESUS Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I Floyd | volunteered to paint a mural in the basement, and Patrick the youth Floyd | leader gave me permission, so I painted a mural of the Four Beasts Floyd | (the man and the lion and the ox and the eagle) and it was a GREAT Floyd | MURAL but once they saw it they went ahead and covered it up with Floyd | JONAH." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Especially in high school when hormones are going crazy." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up manger" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP MANGER Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "So Floyd | last year, Orchid said she wanted to run the Christmas play. And Floyd | Marcie Kempulfers, who always runs the Christmas play every year, Floyd | thought that was a great idea. She said it would be really cute to Floyd | have a little girl be in charge of the play. This was last year, so Floyd | Orchid was either fifteen or sixteen years old, I think. Floyd | Floyd | "The first thing Orchid suggested was that they use a real baby to Floyd | play the baby Jesus. Some church person had a baby, and Orchid, Floyd | because she's completely a girl, was totally nuts for this baby. But Floyd | Marcie says oh no, we always use a doll for the baby Jesus, real Floyd | babies cause so many headaches. Floyd | Floyd | "You can see where this is going. But I'll write more about it in some Floyd | other entries. This is Entry One of Four." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up entry two" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP ENTRY TWO Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "entry two" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ooh, entry hunt" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up marcie" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP MARCIE Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Marcie Kempulfers is in charge of the bell choir and that kind of Floyd | thing and she's boring." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up marcie" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP MARCIE Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Marcie Kempulfers is in charge of the bell choir and that kind of Floyd | thing and she's boring." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up handbells" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP HANDBELLS Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Here is the deal with the handbells. Marcie Kempulfers is in charge Floyd | of the bell choir. She has a very strict handbell protocol. The Floyd | handbells are church property, and she says so frequently as people Floyd | try to goof off in bell choir practice. Floyd | Floyd | "But Patrick the youth leader is not so uptight, and for this youth Floyd | service he thought we should do a bell choir number, without any Floyd | oversight by or permission from Marcie Kempulfers. He decided we Floyd | should play 'Seek Ye First', because he could only force an octave's Floyd | worth of kids to volunteer, and he thought it was an easy song. And it Floyd | is an easy song. But we were poorly motivated. Floyd | Floyd | "So the youth service rolls around, and the extremely unofficial youth Floyd | bell choir has yet to master our song. But we're listed in the Floyd | program. We have to go out and perform, and when we perform this song Floyd | we are going to butcher it. Floyd | Floyd | "Then, right before the service starts, Marcie Kempulfers shows up to Floyd | have words with Patrick the youth leader. The effects of these words Floyd | were, first of all, we were definitely not going to be performing a Floyd | non-Kempulfers-supervised handbell piece, ever, and secondly, now Floyd | Marcie takes the handbells home with her whenever they aren't being Floyd | used at church. Floyd | Floyd | "I don't know why she doesn't take the case too." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha" | |
| DavidW asks, "yeah, Marcie. Why not take the case too?" | ||
| Doug asks, "so what else is in a nativity scene?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up mary" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP MARY Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "mary" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up joseph" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP JOSEPH Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "joseph" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up christmas" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP CHRISTMAS Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "christmas" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up nativity" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP NATIVITY Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "nativity" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up play" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP PLAY Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "play" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up cows" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP COWS Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "cows" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up crook" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery | djfletch says, "magi, shepherds, ox, ass" | |
Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP CROOK Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Okay. Just as she's about to land, Orchid's robe gets caught on one Floyd | of the shepherd's crooks, and the Engelgurt suffers a critical failure Floyd | and Orchid falls to the floor and according to some witnesses almost Floyd | dies. The whole service gets shut down so that Orchid can go to the Floyd | emergency room, although I think all that happened was she sprained Floyd | her ankle. Floyd | Floyd | "Of course, Orchid is in huge trouble with Marcie Kempulfers and with Floyd | the church in general, but what does being in trouble with a church Floyd | even mean? It's not like they can expel you. We're Methodists. They Floyd | didn't even get rid of the Engelgurt; it's still in the storage room. Floyd | Floyd | "And anyway Orchid wasn't sorry at all. She kept saying, 'At least it Floyd | was new!' 'At least it was exciting!' Because that's how she operates. Floyd | Floyd | "That's it. This is Entry Four of Four." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, found one of the four." | |
| Doug says, "spoilers!" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up robes" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP ROBES Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the choir robes or the neat stack of hempen robes? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up hempen robes" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP HEMPEN ROBES Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "So Floyd | next Orchid says she wants the shepherds to sing a song. You have to Floyd | understand that the shepherds are played by the littler kids, and the Floyd | older kids play angels or Mary and Joseph or the wise men, and while Floyd | every older kid ends up having to sing a song at some point, the Floyd | shepherds do not. I think Orchid wanted them to sing 'Silent Night', Floyd | which is a pretty good choice for little kids to sing. I will admit Floyd | that Orchid made a good call here. Floyd | Floyd | "But Marcie did not agree. I'm pretty sure Marcie thinks that because Floyd | it's impossible to get little kids to carry a tune or understand Floyd | Italian music vocabulary, nobody wants to hear them sing in church, Floyd | which is a critical misconception and I think indicates some sort of Floyd | psychological defect in Marcie Kempulfers's brain. Anyway. Floyd | Floyd | "Marcie made up this insane justification to have the bell choir play Floyd | 'Silent Night' instead. She said the bell choir had already practiced Floyd | it, which was technically true, although specifically they had Floyd | practiced it during the previous calendar year. But Marcie got her Floyd | way. Floyd | Floyd | "I hope you're not reading this as me defending Orchid, because I Floyd | would never do that. Don't worry; we will get to the part where Orchid Floyd | is horrible in the next entry. This is Entry Two of Four." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up cloth signs" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP CLOTH SIGNS Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: We Floyd | hang up the cloth signs in the sanctuary for Advent. I think they say Floyd | 'Hope', 'Wait', 'Expect', and 'Await'." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hope" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >
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| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up engelgurt" | ||
Floyd | > HOPE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP ENGELGURT Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Well, Marcie shut down a couple more of Orchid's ideas, and Orchid Floyd | eventually figured out her real problem, which was: she kept telling Floyd | Marcie her ideas. If she was going to change anything about the Floyd | Christmas program, she was going to have to do it behind Marcie's Floyd | back. Floyd | Floyd | "So she got her dad to build this crazy device, the Engelgurt, which Floyd | used a system of rods and pulleys and winches to make someone glide Floyd | across a room, like an angel. Floyd | Floyd | "A couple nights before the Christmas program, Orchid and her dad came Floyd | in and set up the Engelgurt while nobody else was around. I mean, I Floyd | have to assume her dad was involved, although I don't remember him Floyd | ever getting in trouble over it. Whatever. Floyd | Floyd | "The night of the program came around and for a while everything went Floyd | exactly as Marcie planned. Jesus was a doll, and the bell choir played Floyd | 'Silent Night', and so on. But in the middle of the angels singing Floyd | 'Angels We Have Heard On High', Orchid appears up in the balcony, in Floyd | her non-regulation homemade angel robe, and starts floating down to Floyd | Earth, and oh no I've run out of space! Cliffhanger! This is Entry Floyd | Three of Four!" Floyd | Floyd | Something about the description of the Engelgurt sounds vaguely Floyd | familiar. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This kid with the notebook is quite cruel." | |
| Jacqueline says, "But then, I guess this kid does sound like a lot of teens." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I do not miss people like this." | ||
| Doug asks, "so is there a way to explore some more while in the endgame? or do we have to restore from earlier?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess there must be some way into the pastor's office, but we never found the key." | ||
| Doug asks, "what was the glowing tissue? is that what Aiden used on the dress?" | ||
| djfletch says, "I suppose so" | ||
| djfletch says, "There seem to be quite a lot of red herrings, unless there's some other solution we could have done" | ||
| Doug says, "we never did anything in the boiler room." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up boiler room" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP BOILER ROOM Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "I've only been inside of the boiler room very briefly, but I have to Floyd | assume it's a really cool place to hang out. Make sure you tell me all Floyd | about it when you get the chance." Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "the rolltop desk, the chest for hiding in, the plant that was a trip hazard" | |
| Doug asks, "wonder what his place to nap was. the chest?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Boiler rooms are cool places to hang out in? Kidding me?" | ||
| djfletch says, "the black light room wasn't for anything either" | ||
| DavidW says, "That we know of." | ||
| djfletch says, "yes" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up blank page" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP BLANK PAGE Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "blank page" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up black light" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP BLACK LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Yes! This room! So, Patrick the youth leader got us together a few Floyd | years ago and had us paint the walls of this room black, and then Floyd | paint Bible verses on it, and then install black lights instead of Floyd | normal lights, so it would look like a Christian rave or whatever. And Floyd | I mean it looks fairly cool, I guess. Floyd | Floyd | "But when you have a dark room, with purple lights, and a bunch of Floyd | couches, and then you invite teenagers into the room and leave them in Floyd | that room unattended, what happens is, the teenagers will use that Floyd | room for what Patrick the youth leader calls 'heavy petting'. Floyd | Floyd | "So that's why this room is called the Black Light Make-Out Room." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up back room" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP BACK ROOM Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "The Floyd | back room is kind of a secret, I guess, although we use it as the Floyd | 'backstage' whenever we do plays and that kind of thing. Nobody ever Floyd | uses it as a hiding place when we're playing games, though. I guess it Floyd | might be too obvious? Or maybe it's just too boring. Floyd | Floyd | "You can get to the basement from the back room, too: there's a Floyd | sliding panel in the back wall, but to get it open, you have to apply Floyd | some upward pressure to get it out of its groove a little bit. That's Floyd | the real secret, I guess." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up tunnel" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP TUNNEL Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "You Floyd | might want to know where the tunnel is, because that's where the fuse Floyd | box is. If I remember to draw a map for you then I'll make sure to Floyd | point out the tunnel and stick it in here." Floyd | Floyd | There is no map. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up fuse box" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP FUSE BOX Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "The Floyd | fuse box is in the tunnel. I don't know how it works. Ohms." Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ohms." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up tuna" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP TUNA Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the open can of tuna or the mass of tuna? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up mass of tuna" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP MASS OF TUNA Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | On the subject of canned food Casey writes, "I'm pretty sure the Floyd | people who are supposed to be in charge of donating stuff to the Food Floyd | Bank are really disorganized, because you always see spare cans of Floyd | stuff lying around. Or maybe some of the cans were rejected by the Floyd | Food Bank. I don't know how it works." Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Has anyone found Entry 2?" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "look up cables" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP CABLES Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | But what is it? You're not sure what to look for in the notes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up sugarman" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP SUGARMAN Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "sugarman" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "we did find entry 2" | |
| DavidW says, "The hempen robes was 2" | ||
| Doug says, "the cables were the Engelgurt" | ||
| Draconis says, "Ah, right." | ||
| djfletch says, "the cat seemed like a red herring too, unless we never followed it far enough" | ||
| Draconis says, "And that was 3." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "look up cat" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP CAT Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but it looks like Casey didn't have Floyd | anything to say about the cat. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Well, this was an interesting game." | |
| DavidW says, "I wonder about that model church. That was an extra bit of business too." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | You sneeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "ha" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plugh" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >
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| Draconis says (to Floyd), "plugh" | ||
Floyd | > PLUGH Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > PLUGH Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I wonder if that was just a church they were raising money for, hoping to build one day." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | You sneeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That is a thing that churches often do." | |
| Draconis says, "Maybe it was in one of the authors' actual churches." | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "no, it was some other church." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So what was the deal with it, then?" | ||
| Doug says, "the model church came from some other church" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up model" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP MODEL Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "The Floyd | model church is a model of some other church. I think it used to be Floyd | inside of that church, but it got torn down, or they went bankrupt, Floyd | and the model ended up in our church. It's kind of a creepy object, Floyd | though. The guy who made it was clearly way too obsessed with his Floyd | church." Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "I think we photographed it." | |
| Doug says, "what was the deal with the fingerprints, I wonder." | ||
| Draconis says, "They just aliased to the model, so we couldn't even photo them." | ||
| DavidW says, "Just people touching the case it was in." | ||
| Doug asks, "buy why include that in the game?" | ||
| Draconis heads back home. | DavidW says, "That was my concern. Why is it there." | |
| Doug says, "seems like a really uninteresting detail, without leading to a story" | ||
| DavidW says, "An interesting detail, you mean. If it was uninteresting, we'd treat it like the pews." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | djfletch says, "maybe there are lots of red herrings just to make things more mysterious" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Stairs Floyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | The cat watches you for a moment, but runs off to the west before you Floyd | can get near it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | The cat wanders off to the north, glancing back at you as if to check Floyd | whether you're following. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "and what's the deal with the cat" | |
| DavidW asks, "We never found matches for the candles either, did we?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Altar Floyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit, Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar are two candles. Floyd | Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar. Floyd | Floyd | You're still on the other side of the room when the cat scampers off Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner. Floyd | Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The cat bounds downstairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | Behind the sliding door you find a steep, narrow flight of stairs with Floyd | no handrail. You walk down them slowly, not wanting to miss your Floyd | footing in the dim light. Floyd | Floyd | Tunnel Floyd | You could hardly call this a room. It's just a long, musty, narrow Floyd | space behind a wall. At one end, a flight of stairs runs up to the Floyd | room behind the altar; at the other end a heavy door leads out to the Floyd | south. In between them, a fuse box is mounted on the wall, its metal Floyd | door hanging open to reveal a row of switches. Floyd | Floyd | A cheap-looking mirror, a black sphere and some black cloth are lying Floyd | in a heap on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The cat sits down underneath the fuse box and starts licking its paw. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "hm, maybe it points out the sliding panel if we haven't opened it yet" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x cloth" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > X CLOTH Floyd | Floyd | Thick, heavy black cloth of some kind—a curtain or something, maybe. Floyd | Floyd | The cat scampers up the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh. The cat has a specific fuse box message" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "nap" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > NAP Floyd | Floyd | When you feel you've got all the evidence you need, your sleeping bag Floyd | is waiting for you in the nursery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x fuse" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > X FUSE Floyd | Floyd | Unlike some of the other switches, the "West Basement" switch actually Floyd | has a legible label. It's also the only switch that's not turned on Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe the cat is simply to hint at the fuse box." | |
| Doug says, "yeah" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner. Floyd | Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Altar Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Altar Floyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit, Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar are two candles. Floyd | Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch asks, "but why is the tuna openable?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narthex Floyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up jesus in bible" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP JESUS IN BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | You're not really sure where in the Bible to find that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "try the new testament" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up jesus in new testament" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP JESUS IN NEW TESTAMENT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "maybe the cat and tuna was originally a puzzle and it got edited out" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up bible" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | (the huge Bible) Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "But Floyd | if you turn the lights on, you'll see there's a Bible on that podium. Floyd | I'm pretty sure that Bible is worth hundreds of dollars. It has a lot Floyd | of really nice pictures in it, at least. Don't mess with it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up noah in bible" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP NOAH IN BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | You're not really sure where in the Bible to find that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x bible" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > X BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | The Bible is obviously a well-respected object around here, but it's Floyd | not a mere display piece; the pages have been creased and scuffed by Floyd | continuous use. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "wait, podium?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up podium" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP PODIUM Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "You Floyd | want to be careful if you're sneaking around the narthex in the dark, Floyd | because there is a podium in there that is really, really easy to not Floyd | notice, and the corners of that podium are right about at crotch Floyd | level." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The podium is in the Altar location." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look up genesis in bible" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP GENESIS IN BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't seem to find exactly what you're looking for, but you do Floyd | find this: "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first Floyd | heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x podium" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > X PODIUM Floyd | Floyd | It resembles a miniature Roman column, although you think it would Floyd | probably fall over in a stiff breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Narthex Floyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That's where the microphone is." | |
| Doug says, "no, there's a podium here too." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh. I didn't see this one." | ||
| Doug says, "we just were never here in the dark" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on podium" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON PODIUM Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "read about jesus" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > READ ABOUT JESUS Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I Floyd | volunteered to paint a mural in the basement, and Patrick the youth Floyd | leader gave me permission, so I painted a mural of the Four Beasts Floyd | (the man and the lion and the ox and the eagle) and it was a GREAT Floyd | MURAL but once they saw it they went ahead and covered it up with Floyd | JONAH." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "read about jesus in bible" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > READ ABOUT JESUS IN BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | You're not really sure where in the Bible to find that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > PRAY Floyd | Floyd | You don't know how. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "so why was that in AMUSING? just a joke on the fact that we're not religious?" | |
| DavidW asks, "hm, which part of Amusing are you referring to?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Yeah, I think so." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, some aspects of this I really enjoyed. The mystery that was posed as one sort of mystery but was really another was great." | ||
| DavidW says, "And it was well tested." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And as the sort of straight-arrow kid that was editor in chief of hte school newspaper in high school, I related to some bits quite strongly." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Definitely." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > HIDE Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to hide in? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "box" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > BOX Floyd | Floyd | The orange box wouldn't make much of a hiding spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n. n. n." | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > N. N. N. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | Altar Floyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit, Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar are two candles. Floyd | Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar. Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner. Floyd | Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "hide in chest" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > HIDE IN CHEST Floyd | Floyd | You lie down inside the chest, and notice that there's plenty of space Floyd | inside. It's not a bad spot. | ||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | inside. It's not a bad spot.But there's no time for napping now.
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull yourself out of the box.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Doug says, "hm, I guess we did already do that." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up chest" | DavidW says, "yes" | |
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP CHEST Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I Floyd | don't know if we've ever used the chest in the back room for anything. Floyd | I think Patrick the youth leader said they could keep sheet music in Floyd | it, but fat chance of Marcie leaving her sheet music at church. Floyd | Floyd | "But it doesn't bother me if it's always empty. Sometimes I take naps Floyd | in there." Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "why is that referred to twice in AMUSING though?" | |
| Doug asks, "is there somewhere else to hide?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "take nap in chest" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE NAP IN CHEST Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "nap in chest" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > NAP IN CHEST Floyd | Floyd | The huge wooden chest would make a terrible bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep in chest" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > SLEEP IN CHEST Floyd | Floyd | The huge wooden chest would make a terrible bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Of course it would be a terrible bed. The floor would be better." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Seems like they need a category called INTERSTING or ALSO OF NOTE or something." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Rather than AMUSING" | ||
| DavidW says, "ENDNOTES is sometimes used instead." | ||
| Doug says, "I think it's a standard I7 thing" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Ah, yeah. That'd be good." | ||
| Doug says, "I added some to my game just because it was there" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Dough), "It is, but it can be tweaked." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "go to boiler room" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO BOILER ROOM Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n. s. s" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > N. S. S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tunnel Floyd | You could hardly call this a room. It's just a long, musty, narrow Floyd | space behind a wall. At one end, a flight of stairs runs up to the Floyd | room behind the altar; at the other end a heavy door leads out to the Floyd | south. In between them, a fuse box is mounted on the wall, its metal Floyd | door hanging open to reveal a row of switches. Floyd | Floyd | A cheap-looking mirror, a black sphere and some black cloth are lying Floyd | in a heap on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the heavy door) Floyd | The heavy door slips out of your fingers and slams shut behind you, Floyd | leaving you in darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing except for the dim light Floyd | trickling in from the south end of the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | It's almost completely dark. At least you can still see the light at Floyd | the south end of the hallway. The rectangles to the east and west must Floyd | be doorways to somewhere, but they're barely distinguishable from the Floyd | walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "a GO TO command would've been nice, yeah." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s. s. e" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > S. S. E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Thanks to the light filtering in from the south end of the hall, you Floyd | can make out some kind of mural painted on the wall, but you can't Floyd | tell what it's supposed to represent in the gloom. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway runs north into darkness. It's hard to tell how long it Floyd | might be from here, though the Sunday School room to the east provides Floyd | some light at this end. The plywood lighthouse, on the other hand, Floyd | peacefully fails to provide any light. Behind the lighthouse and Floyd | partially obscured by it is a mural of Jesus blessing the little Floyd | children. Floyd | Floyd | Sunday School Room Floyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and Floyd | west to the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n. n" | ||
Floyd ] Boiler Room Floyd | > Floyd | > N. N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Stairway Floyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs. Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting. Floyd | Floyd | Boiler Room Floyd | This must be a fairly large room, but most of the space is given over Floyd | to snaking pipes, anonymous machinery, and the church's giant boiler. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x pipes" | ||
Floyd ] Boiler Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X PIPES Floyd | Floyd | Many of the pipes run all the way down to the floor from their tangled Floyd | maze in the ceiling, making some corners of the room impossible to Floyd | reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x machinery" | ||
Floyd ] Boiler Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X MACHINERY Floyd | Floyd | A menagerie of valves and pressure gauges stick out from the pipes at Floyd | awkward angles, some dangerously close to your eye level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x valves" | ||
Floyd ] Boiler Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X VALVES | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search pipes" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | A menagerie of valves and pressure gauges stick out from the pipes at Floyd | awkward angles, some dangerously close to your eye level. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Boiler Room Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH PIPES Floyd | Floyd | There are few gaps wide enough to stick your head through, and they Floyd | only reveal more of the same scenery. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Also, I type Dough when I mean to just type Doug, then usually delete the H. Sorry about missing that a second ago. It is not a statement on the state of your health." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x boiler" | ||
Floyd ] Boiler Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOILER Floyd | Floyd | A massive faceless hulk of an appliance. You can hear it murmuring Floyd | quietly to itself—or maybe you're hearing something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Boiler Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | Now you can only hear air currents: the whisper of an empty building Floyd | at night. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to boiler" | ||
Floyd ] Boiler Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BOILER Floyd | Floyd | The boiler wouldn't have much to say to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "oh yeah, weren't there footsteps down here too? was that Aiden, or Orchid?" | |
| DavidW says, "Aiden, I think." | ||
| DavidW says, "When we emerged from Tunnel to End of Hallway, we startled someone. It could've been either of them." | ||
| Doug says, "he seemed to be locked up in the steeple, but maybe not" | ||
| Doug asks, "how about the pastor office?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We shoulda did AIDEN, FREEZE" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Stairway Floyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs. Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway
Floyd | >
| DavidW says (to Doug), "I don't know how to get in there." | |
Floyd | > X PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | The piece is very pleasant, if not particularly interesting: the Floyd | inoffensive greens and pinks could suggest river waters, or branches Floyd | waving in the wind. Its size is probably its most impressive quality. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main Floor Stairway Floyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them, Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies' Floyd | restroom respectively. Floyd | Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a Floyd | wooden bench. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind painting" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bench" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BENCH Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind poster" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND POSTER Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, 'look behind' isn't supported anyway." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The door to the pastor's office is locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the ladies' room door, the men's room door, or the Floyd | pastor's door? Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the ladies' room door, the men's room door, or the Floyd | pastor's door? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x pastor" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > X PASTOR Floyd | Floyd | The door to the north is no more impressive than any other you've Floyd | seen, but the plaque on it reads, "Pastor Ivan Shearer." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up ivan" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP IVAN Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Good old Pastor Ivan! What can you say about someone like Pastor Floyd | Ivan? Not much!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Casey! You failed us!" | |
| Doug says, "I guess they got tired of backstorying everything" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, I can imagine." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x lock" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > X LOCK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "unlock pastor" | DavidW says, "It's like the entire game had to be duplicated inside those notes." | |
Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK PASTOR Floyd | Floyd | You rattle the door handle, gently at first and then harder. Nothing Floyd | happens. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "unlock pastor" | ||
Floyd | happens....and then the alarm starts screaming at you. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "push space" | ||
Floyd | happens....and then the alarm starts screaming at you.Minutes later, Floyd | flashing lights and sirens herald the arrival of the police. | DavidW says, "uhoh" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "push space" | ||
Floyd | flashing lights and sirens herald the arrival of the police.You are Floyd | taken away in handcuffs. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "push space" | ||
Floyd | taken away in handcuffs.After Sharon's report to the principal, the
Floyd | school suspends you. The West High Warbler stands you down
Floyd | from its staff.
| ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "push space" | ||
Floyd | from its staff.No college will accept a delinquent like you. You end Floyd | up finding work as janitor at West High. The teachers tell new Floyd | students your story as a warning. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "push space" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway
Floyd | students your story as a warning....and then you are back in the
Floyd | present. You let go of the door handle and back away hastily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Doug says, "haha" | |
| djfletch says, "nice" | ||
| Doug says, "C O P S" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, that was great." | ||
| Doug asks, "was that AMUSING enough for you?" | ||
| DavidW says, "um. Check the tags in Narthex, see if Ivan's tag is there." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s. w" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > S. W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fellowship Hall Floyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west. Floyd | Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church. Floyd | Floyd | Narthex Floyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get ivan's tag" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IVAN'S TAG Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x tags" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > X TAGS | DavidW says, "It's the only place I can think of where his key might be," | |
Floyd |
Floyd | There must be a name tag on here for everybody who's ever set foot in
Floyd | this church.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat strolls in from the east and purrs at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Doug says, "I don't think we're meant to actually get in" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search tags for ivan" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH TAGS FOR IVAN Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to search the board full of Floyd | name tags. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "smash case" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > SMASH CASE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, it seems unlikely now." | |
| Doug says, "I think that daydream sequence was the thing being clued in AMUSING." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think I'm done." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The cat bounds into the fellowship hall ahead of you. Floyd | Floyd | Fellowship Hall Floyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west. Floyd | Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church. Floyd | Floyd | The cat wanders off to the north, glancing back at you as if to check Floyd | whether you're following. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "smash case" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > SMASH CASE Floyd | Floyd | You have to assume you'd get in huge trouble if you broke anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, sure, but we've done time now, so we're down with crimes." | |
| Doug says, "yeah, I'm done. though there's probably more tidbits to find in the notes." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, probably" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up ladies'" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP LADIES' Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Well, Robin. I actually explored the ladies' restroom briefly, during Floyd | a game of Sardines. But then, because of events that transpired, the Floyd | ladies' restroom was declared to be off-limits. And shortly after Floyd | that, because of fairness, the men's restroom was declared to be Floyd | off-limits as well. For Sardines purposes at least." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up men's" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP MEN'S Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "If Floyd | you have time, you should go ahead and take a look in the men's room, Floyd | since who knows how many opportunities like this you'll have in the Floyd | future. I won't spoil anything by describing it here." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up urinals" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP URINALS Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "The Floyd | thing about the urinals in the men's room is, there are no divider Floyd | walls in between them. I don't like it, Robin. I don't like it at Floyd | all." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up potted meat food product" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP POTTED MEAT FOOD PRODUCT Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | On the subject of canned food Casey writes, "I'm pretty sure the Floyd | people who are supposed to be in charge of donating stuff to the Food Floyd | Bank are really disorganized, because you always see spare cans of Floyd | stuff lying around. Or maybe some of the cans were rejected by the Floyd | Food Bank. I don't know how it works." Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "our urinals at work have no divider walls either. :(" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a name tag (being worn) Floyd | a can of tuna Floyd | a can opener Floyd | a jam jar Floyd | some ectoplasm Floyd | an orange box Floyd | a bird cage Floyd | a small white cross Floyd | a stack of photos Floyd | Casey's notes Floyd | a Polaroid camera (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up robin" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP ROBIN Floyd | Floyd | (the name tag) Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "When the new pastor came, he insisted that everybody wear name tags Floyd | all the time, but that didn't last long. Name tags are a pain." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up camera" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The church kitchen contains much the same kind of thing as any Floyd | kitchen, only more so. Long countertops line the walls, with cupboards Floyd | and drawers underneath them. A break in the counters allows you to Floyd | leave the kitchen via the door to the west, and on the far side of the Floyd | room a sink is set into the counter. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP CAMERA Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I'm Floyd | really glad you're using a Polaroid to get proof of the ghost, because Floyd | that's what Winona Ryder used in Beetlejuice to get proof of Floyd | Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis. Floyd | Floyd | "Now that I think of it, in the movie, the ghosts didn't actually show Floyd | up on the Polaroids. But that's probably not how it works in real Floyd | life." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "For what it's worth, food banks will reject some foods, like half-eaten jars of peanut butter or pasta bags that are ripped open." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up cross" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP CROSS Floyd | Floyd | (the small white cross) Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Man, when I was a little kid in Sunday School, and we had those Floyd | little kid Bible lessons, I always used to stare at that little white Floyd | cross, to pass the time or something. I'm pretty sure I was too smart Floyd | for Sunday School. Sunday School is a weird thing to be too smart for, Floyd | I guess. Floyd | Floyd | "Although I guess when the high schoolers broke off to be their own Floyd | mature group, that was basically the same thing. Kind of. In that Floyd | situation it was because we were too cool for the junior high kids. Floyd | But that's still really weird. Floyd | Floyd | "What I mean is, it's really weird for people who identify as Floyd | Christians to also identify as being too cool for something." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Expired food too, if they have the time to check." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up wooden cross" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP WOODEN CROSS Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "If Floyd | you ask me I think that big gnarly cross in the black light room is in Floyd | kind of poor taste, mostly because of the barbed wire crown on top. It Floyd | doesn't belong in a church, it belongs in a grungy music video, with Floyd | some rotting steak or something. Floyd | Floyd | "I dunno, I feel like the torture of Christ isn't exactly radical? But Floyd | I guess Patrick the youth leader likes it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up large cross" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP LARGE CROSS Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "A Floyd | cross is not technically a crucifix unless there's a Jesus on it. We Floyd | are not Catholics, so we have a plain old cross, and it suits us just Floyd | fine." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| zzo38 arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up notes" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP NOTES Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I Floyd | know there's a lot of the church you haven't seen or that you don't Floyd | remember, so I'm writing down everything I can think of. I feel like Floyd | these notes will be an invaluable resource when I get older and feel Floyd | the need to revisit the carefree days of my youth, so make sure you Floyd | give them back to me." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| olethros disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||
| zzo38 suddenly evaporates. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up candles" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP CANDLES Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Churches are all about candles. I bet 30% of any given church's Floyd | budget is probably spent on candles and candle paraphernalia. But can Floyd | you imagine a church without candles? No, you can't." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up kitchen" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP KITCHEN Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "If Floyd | you've seen Jurassic Park then the kitchen is really scary in Floyd | the dark. If you haven't seen Jurassic Park then you should Floyd | get around to that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up sink" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP SINK Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but it looks like Casey didn't have Floyd | anything to say about the kitchen sink. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "everything but." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up matches" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP MATCHES Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "matches" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hey yeah" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up match" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP MATCH Floyd | Floyd | (looking up "match" in Casey's notes) Floyd | You riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems Floyd | relevant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up light" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | (the light switch) Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I Floyd | don't have much to say about the lights. Sometimes there's a problem Floyd | and you have to go mess with the fuse box. But in your case it doesn't Floyd | matter, because you should be leaving the lights off anyway! You're Floyd | hunting a ghost!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up sharon" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP SHARON Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "Why Floyd | do people like Sharon want to become teachers? (By 'people like Floyd | Sharon' I mean 'people who obviously hate everything about teaching, Floyd | even and especially students'.) If you're already completely jaded and Floyd | cynical after your first semester of student teaching, isn't that a Floyd | sign that you should give up on K-12 education and possibly on life in Floyd | general?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I wonder if there are other non-winning endings" | |
| Doug says, "finding more evidence but not finding Aiden" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, probably" | ||
| Doug asks, "or finding Aiden but not the ectoplasm paint?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Also, we had the option of joining the conspiracy." | ||
| Doug says, "it's also not entirely clear what all we needed to photograph to win" | ||
| Doug asks, "wait, we did?" | ||
| Doug says, "Aiden asked but we said no. I don't think we had a player choice there" | ||
| DavidW says, "at the very end. There was a yes/no." | ||
| DavidW says, "And whoever was driving drove right through by pushing space, I think." | ||
Doug | Floyd | "No thanks," you say. | ||
| DavidW says, "After that." | ||
| Doug says, "Jacq posited a yes/no prompt, but that was just her" | ||
| DavidW says, "I thought the game made the prompt." | ||
| Doug | Jacqueline | WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A FRAUD? (Y/N) | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, I thought the game did that." | ||
| DavidW says, "It went by too fast." | ||
| Doug says, "we did have to go into the nursery and WAKE SHARON. not sure what would happen if we tried other things." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The church kitchen contains much the same kind of thing as any Floyd | kitchen, only more so. Long countertops line the walls, with cupboards Floyd | and drawers underneath them. A break in the counters allows you to Floyd | leave the kitchen via the door to the west, and on the far side of the Floyd | room a sink is set into the counter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a name tag (being worn) Floyd | a can of tuna Floyd | a can opener Floyd | a jam jar Floyd | some ectoplasm Floyd | an orange box Floyd | a bird cage Floyd | a small white cross Floyd | a stack of photos Floyd | Casey's notes Floyd | a Polaroid camera (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up jam" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP JAM Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You can't find a note for any specific jar, but Casey did write down Floyd | something related. Floyd | Floyd | "In like, I think freshman year, Patrick the youth leader had this Floyd | great idea to try canning preserves, to raise money for some kind of Floyd | thing. And he gave each of us a job: you get jars, you get Floyd | strawberries, you get peaches, we'll all come together and can stuff. Floyd | Floyd | "And, because we were freshmen and not yet completely jaded by the Floyd | high school experience, we all brought the stuff we were supposed to. Floyd | But on the day of the big event it turned out, in a revelation that Floyd | completely shocked the socks off of Patrick the youth leader, that Floyd | canning preserves is a pretty complicated process with steps beyond Floyd | just mashing up fruit and putting it into jars. And if you mess it up Floyd | then your jam will give people salmonella and they'll die. Floyd | Floyd | "So we just sat around and ate fruit, and now there are a bunch of Floyd | glass jars hanging around the church for no good reason." Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "heh" | |
| Doug says, "I'm going to try to get the crook and open the trapdoor" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Fellowship Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fellowship Hall Floyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west. Floyd | Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narthex Floyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n. n. n" | ||
Floyd ] Back Room Floyd | > Floyd | > N. N. N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | Altar Floyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit, Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar are two candles. Floyd | Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar. Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner. Floyd | Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tunnel Floyd | You could hardly call this a room. It's just a long, musty, narrow Floyd | space behind a wall. At one end, a flight of stairs runs up to the Floyd | room behind the altar; at the other end a heavy door leads out to the Floyd | south. In between them, a fuse box is mounted on the wall, its metal Floyd | door hanging open to reveal a row of switches. Floyd | Floyd | A cheap-looking mirror, a black sphere and some black cloth are lying Floyd | in a heap on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "poor inexperienced-with-real-life Patrick" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x fuse" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > X FUSE Floyd | Floyd | Unlike some of the other switches, the "West Basement" switch actually Floyd | has a legible label. It's also the only switch that's not turned on Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn on switch" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN ON SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | You flick the last switch into the ON position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] End of Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the heavy door) Floyd | Floyd | End of Hallway Floyd | The hall ends here at a heavy door to the north. A huge mural of David Floyd | fighting Goliath adorns the west wall, but it's marred by a streak of Floyd | gray gunk clinging to the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Echoing footsteps draw your attention to a figure walking down the Floyd | south end of the hallway, but whoever it is goes into the Sunday Floyd | School room before you can see their face. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh, there is it again!" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s. s. s" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > S. S. S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | A huge rainbow arches across the wall in this part of the hallway. Floyd | Underneath it, a door leads west, with an identical door opposite on Floyd | the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway continues to run north and south. The wall here is taken Floyd | up by a mural of a beached whale and a man lying on the sand. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway runs north, past the plywood lighthouse, all the way up to Floyd | the door to the tunnel. A doorway to the east leads into the Sunday Floyd | School room, and on the wall opposite it is the mural of Jesus Floyd | blessing the little children. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sunday School Room Floyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and Floyd | west to the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "hm, gone" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up tv trolley" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP TV TROLLEY Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Yeah, we have video games at church. I think the SNES belongs to Floyd | Chad. Does Chad even come to church anymore? Well, he's gotta come Floyd | back someday. To get his SNES." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up chad" | ||
Floyd ] Sunday School Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP CHAD Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Chad's an all right guy. Or, he used to be. I haven't heard from him Floyd | in a while." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway runs north, past the plywood lighthouse, all the way up to Floyd | the door to the tunnel. A doorway to the east leads into the Sunday Floyd | School room, and on the wall opposite it is the mural of Jesus Floyd | blessing the little children. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, I think the fleeing figure is just a message without any actual object to catch." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway continues to run north and south. The wall here is taken Floyd | up by a mural of a beached whale and a man lying on the sand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x whale" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X WHALE Floyd | Floyd | The plump blue whale is flicking its tail in the air in a cheerful Floyd | sort of fashion. It doesn't seem at all bothered by having beached Floyd | itself and vomited up a human. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x jonah" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X JONAH Floyd | Floyd | It looks like Jonah hasn't recovered from his ordeal in the belly of Floyd | the whale yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | A huge rainbow arches across the wall in this part of the hallway. Floyd | Underneath it, a door leads west, with an identical door opposite on Floyd | the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Storage West Floyd | You can see a manger (empty), a huge stack of plastic chairs, a tin of Floyd | half-used crayons, a pile of tiny hempen robes, a shepherd's crook, Floyd | several big cloth signs, a tricycle, an unopened packet of Floyd | marshmallows, an exercise ball, some paper streamer chains, and a door Floyd | leading out to the hall here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get crook" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CROOK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x crayons" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRAYONS Floyd | Floyd | Some of the crayons are half-used. Some of them are more like Floyd | three-quarters used, or even four-fifths used. The rest are broken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look up crayons" | ||
Floyd ] Storage West Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP CRAYONS Floyd | Floyd | (in Casey's notes) Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: Floyd | "Before a certain unnamed individual left the church, we used to have Floyd | art activities in Sunday School all the time. It was awesome. But Floyd | things change, and people change, and on and on. I think there are Floyd | some crayons left in the storage room." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | A huge rainbow arches across the wall in this part of the hallway. Floyd | Underneath it, a door leads west, with an identical door opposite on Floyd | the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n. n" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N. N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | End of Hallway Floyd | The hall ends here at a heavy door to the north. A huge mural of David Floyd | fighting Goliath adorns the west wall, but it's marred by a streak of Floyd | gray gunk clinging to the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Tunnel Floyd | You could hardly call this a room. It's just a long, musty, narrow Floyd | space behind a wall. At one end, a flight of stairs runs up to the Floyd | room behind the altar; at the other end a heavy door leads out to the Floyd | south. In between them, a fuse box is mounted on the wall, its metal Floyd | door hanging open to reveal a row of switches. Floyd | Floyd | A cheap-looking mirror, a black sphere and some black cloth are lying Floyd | in a heap on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up. s. s" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > UP. S. S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner. Floyd | Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Altar Floyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit, Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar are two candles. Floyd | Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar. Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Stairs Floyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "reach cord with crook" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > REACH CORD WITH CROOK Floyd | Floyd | Standing on tiptoe, you flourish the hooked end of the crook at the Floyd | loop of cord, but you still can't quite reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a shepherd's crook Floyd | a name tag (being worn) Floyd | a can of tuna Floyd | a can opener Floyd | a jam jar Floyd | some ectoplasm Floyd | an orange box Floyd | a bird cage Floyd | a small white cross Floyd | a stack of photos Floyd | Casey's notes Floyd | a Polaroid camera (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | The cat trots up the stairs and purrs at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "drp box" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > DRP BOX Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "drop box" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP BOX Floyd | Floyd | You place the orange box carefully on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "flip box" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > FLIP BOX Floyd | Floyd | You pick up the stuff in the orange box and turn it upside down. Floyd | Floyd | The cat springs onto the pile of bars and things and from there up Floyd | onto the railing of the balcony but—probably wisely—immediately Floyd | jumps Floyd | back down again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "huh" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x railing" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > X RAILING Floyd | Floyd | A low wall runs along the edge of the balcony, with a thick wooden Floyd | railing set on top of it. It's hard to tell if the railing is just Floyd | meant to be decorative, or if it was added as an afterthought to make Floyd | the wall a bit higher. Floyd | Floyd | The cat bounds downstairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on box" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON BOX Floyd | Floyd | You step up onto the upside-down orange box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "reach cord with crook" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > REACH CORD WITH CROOK Floyd | Floyd | You catch the loop of cord with the end of the crook and pull. The Floyd | trapdoor opens and a small ladder slides down, offering access to the Floyd | steeple above. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Steeple Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steeple Floyd | The inside of the church steeple is a cold concrete cube with Floyd | cinderblock walls. There's one window, but it's been boarded up. Floyd | Floyd | You jump. There's a boy sitting on the floor, smirking at you. It's Floyd | Aiden Kingsley. Floyd | Floyd | The ghost's glowing dress lies in a heap nearby. It doesn't look very Floyd | ghostly now. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden stands up. "Hey, hey, Robin! Are you enjoying your evening?" he Floyd | asks, smiling. Floyd | Floyd | You are not smiling. "So you're the ghost." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, yes. Well, no. I am not a dead person. Heh. But I portrayed the Floyd | ghost you saw, yes." Floyd | Floyd | "Does Orchid know?" Floyd | Floyd | "Does Orchid know. Does Orchid know? What a well-chosen detective Floyd | question." Floyd | Floyd | Aiden looks down the trapdoor behind you. "Do you think we could Floyd | continue this conversation downstairs? It's really freaking cold up Floyd | here." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Steeple Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steeple Floyd | The inside of the church steeple is a cold concrete cube with Floyd | cinderblock walls. There's one window, but it's been boarded up. Floyd | Floyd | You jump. There's a boy sitting on the floor, smirking at you. It's Floyd | Aiden Kingsley. Floyd | Floyd | The ghost's glowing dress lies in a heap nearby. It doesn't look very Floyd | ghostly now. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden stands up. "Hey, hey, Robin! Are you enjoying your evening?" he Floyd | asks, smiling. Floyd | Floyd | You are not smiling. "So you're the ghost." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, yes. Well, no. I am not a dead person. Heh. But I portrayed the Floyd | ghost you saw, yes." Floyd | Floyd | "Does Orchid know?" Floyd | Floyd | "Does Orchid know. Does Orchid know? What a well-chosen detective Floyd | question." Floyd | Floyd | Aiden looks down the trapdoor behind you. "Do you think we could Floyd | continue this conversation downstairs? It's really freaking cold up Floyd | here." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. Behind the pews you can see Floyd | the ladder up to the steeple, and a narrow staircase leads back down Floyd | to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | You look back to make sure Aiden has followed you. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes. Now I'll tell you the answer to your question. Of course Orchid Floyd | knows. This was all Orchid's idea. She was very naughty. And I'm not Floyd | even supposed to be here, so I should probably get going." Floyd | Floyd | He tries to slip past you, but you grab his arm. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden yelps like a dog. "What's your problem?" Floyd | Floyd | "You're not going anywhere. I've got a few more questions." Floyd | Floyd | "Then can you get your hands off me first? You're gonna break my arm." Floyd | Floyd | "Sure." You let go of his arm. "Let's get going." You know exactly Floyd | where the two of you are going, but you should probably keep that a Floyd | surprise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | From here, you could head up to the steeple and down to the the Floyd | balcony stairwell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Stairs Floyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden mopes along after you. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, Orchid brought the idea to me. She said if she could write a Floyd | story about a real ghost, then maybe people would actually read the Floyd | newspaper. Heh. But I told her I'd help her." Floyd | Floyd | "Why?" Floyd | Floyd | "For the heck of it, primarily." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | From here, you could head west to the sanctuary and up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden follows you in. Floyd | Floyd | "Originally, she was just going to let me in the church during the Floyd | sleepover, and we'd just spend the night taking a bunch of ghost Floyd | pictures. However. Then we found out that you were going to be the Floyd | other newspaper girl staying the night. And Orchid said you'd never go Floyd | along with it. So we had to change the plan." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| % Connection to ifmud-perry closed by foreign host. | ||
| *** MUD CRASH *** | ||
| Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline wonders, after the second crash, whether or not the completists will still endeavor to complete. | |
| djfletch says, "I think Doug was trying the ending again but I'm not sure exactly what he was going to do." | ||
| % Connection to ifmud-perry closed by foreign host. | ||
| *** MUD CRASH *** | ||
| Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "Are we stable again? I was chatting to Doug via the google drawing." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Hard to say. But I am logging." | ||
| inky arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| Doug arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
| Floyd says (to Doug), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | ||
| DavidW says, "Floyd isn't running the game." | Doug asks (of Jacqueline), "so the reboots didn't interrupt PerrySimm? or do you not need him for ClubFloyd transcripts?" | |
| DavidW says, "I think Jacq merely restarted and resummoned Perry." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It did affect him, but I brought him back up as soon as I got back in in case you guys wanted to continue." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), " load sleepmask robinandorchid" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask robinandorchid" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Casey glances around the newspaper office. "Orchid is gone, right?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, she left. Why do you ask?" Floyd | Floyd | "I wanted to give you this while she wasn't around." He hands you a Floyd | thick, well-leafed notebook. "It's just kind of a guide kind of thing, Floyd | with some general information and directions, just to help you get Floyd | around. Don't let Orchid see it." Floyd | Floyd | "Are you sure I'll require so much background material? And why Floyd | shouldn't Orchid see it?" Floyd | Floyd | "Well, Robin," Casey says, and he spins around a chair to sit on it Floyd | backwards in what he surely thinks is a very casual and friendly pose, Floyd | "Orchid is a church member, and you're not, and you missed the Floyd | lock-in, so you don't have a lot of the context that Orchid has. I Floyd | just wanted to put you on an even footing. And for your second Floyd | question, I might have written some things in there that I wouldn't Floyd | have said to Orchid's face." Floyd | Floyd | You nod, and slip the notebook into your backpack. "I'm sure you've Floyd | adequately prepared me for my mission." Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, I have. You're welcome. No, wait, I've got one more thing to Floyd | say. Make sure you take lots of pictures, obviously. It's your job. Floyd | That's one." He starts counting on his fingers. "Um, it's more fun if Floyd | you run off by yourself, so make sure you get Sharon off your back. Floyd | That's two. And keep an open mind. I mean, just because you don't Floyd | believe in ghosts doesn't mean you're not gonna see one. Floyd | Floyd | "So, yeah. That's three things." | ||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | "So, yeah. That's three things." Floyd | Robin & Orchid Floyd | An exercise in photojournalism by Ryan Veeder & Emily Boegheim Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 131027 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Nursery Floyd | Sharon, in her wisdom, decided that everybody should sleep in this Floyd | cramped corner of the church basement. Floyd | Floyd | Battered toys spill out of the toybox and across the floor, piling up Floyd | in a corner of the room. Cupboards are mounted high on the walls, out Floyd | of reach of tiny fingers, and an enormous blue recliner sits Floyd | underneath them. It's already dark outside, and the doors west to the Floyd | basement stairway and south are dark as well. Floyd | Floyd | Your sleeping bag is lying on a tidy patch of floor, ready for when Floyd | you finish your investigation. Floyd | Floyd | Orchid is lounging around, lecturing you. Floyd | Floyd | "You'd better hold onto this," she says, handing you the camera, Floyd | "you're the official photographer. Just don't forget, if you see Floyd | something that might be evidence of a ghost, make sure you take a Floyd | photo of it." Floyd | Floyd | You slip the camera strap around your neck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Steeple Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steeple Floyd | The inside of the church steeple is a cold concrete cube with Floyd | cinderblock walls. There's one window, but it's been boarded up. Floyd | Floyd | You jump. There's a boy sitting on the floor, smirking at you. It's Floyd | Aiden Kingsley. Floyd | Floyd | The ghost's glowing dress lies in a heap nearby. It doesn't look very Floyd | ghostly now. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden stands up. "Hey, hey, Robin! Are you enjoying your evening?" he Floyd | asks, smiling. Floyd | Floyd | You are not smiling. "So you're the ghost." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, yes. Well, no. I am not a dead person. Heh. But I portrayed the Floyd | ghost you saw, yes." Floyd | Floyd | "Does Orchid know?" Floyd | Floyd | "Does Orchid know. Does Orchid know? What a well-chosen detective Floyd | question." Floyd | Floyd | Aiden looks down the trapdoor behind you. "Do you think we could Floyd | continue this conversation downstairs? It's really freaking cold up Floyd | here." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. Behind the pews you can see Floyd | the ladder up to the steeple, and a narrow staircase leads back down Floyd | to the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the Floyd | balcony. Floyd | Floyd | You look back to make sure Aiden has followed you. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes. Now I'll tell you the answer to your question. Of course Orchid Floyd | knows. This was all Orchid's idea. She was very naughty. And I'm not Floyd | even supposed to be here, so I should probably get going." Floyd | Floyd | He tries to slip past you, but you grab his arm. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden yelps like a dog. "What's your problem?" Floyd | Floyd | "You're not going anywhere. I've got a few more questions." Floyd | Floyd | "Then can you get your hands off me first? You're gonna break my arm." Floyd | Floyd | "Sure." You let go of his arm. "Let's get going." You know exactly Floyd | where the two of you are going, but you should probably keep that a Floyd | surprise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Balcony Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Stairs Floyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden mopes along after you. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, Orchid brought the idea to me. She said if she could write a Floyd | story about a real ghost, then maybe people would actually read the Floyd | newspaper. Heh. But I told her I'd help her." Floyd | Floyd | "Why?" Floyd | Floyd | "For the heck of it, primarily." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews. Floyd | Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and Floyd | lifeless. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden follows you in. Floyd | Floyd | "Originally, she was just going to let me in the church during the Floyd | sleepover, and we'd just spend the night taking a bunch of ghost Floyd | pictures. However. Then we found out that you were going to be the Floyd | other newspaper girl staying the night. And Orchid said you'd never go Floyd | along with it. So we had to change the plan." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Narthex Floyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden follows you in. Floyd | Floyd | As you enter the narthex, Orchid strolls in through the front door of Floyd | the church. When she sees Aiden, her eyes go wide. Floyd | Floyd | "Aiden! What are you doing here?" Floyd | Floyd | "Hey. Don't bother," Aiden snaps. "I've already told her everything. Floyd | Or almost everything. Heh." Floyd | Floyd | Orchid rushes up to Aiden with her fists clenched. "You're lying. Floyd | There's no proof. All you can prove is that you broke into the church Floyd | and tried to scare us." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, no," says Aiden. "I can prove some other things. I have the Floyd | receipts. For the makeup and everything. Because you had to use a Floyd | credit card, idiot." Floyd | Floyd | Orchid goes quiet. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, we can talk about this in the morning," Aiden says, and he Floyd | makes for the southern exit—but you grab his arm, and he cries out Floyd | softly. "Yeah. Your way is probably better." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "brief" | ||
Floyd ] Narthex Floyd | > Floyd | > BRIEF Floyd | Floyd | Robin & Orchid is now in its "brief" printing mode, which gives long Floyd | descriptions of places never before visited and short descriptions Floyd | otherwise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e. e. n" | ||
Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > E. E. N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fellowship Hall Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden and Orchid come in after you. Floyd | Floyd | "Now, where were we? Orchid didn't trust you to help her pull off this Floyd | hoax. She said you're too much of a straight arrow. Those weren't her Floyd | exact words. What were your exact words, Orchid?" Floyd | Floyd | Orchid is looking down at her shoes. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden shrugs. "She said something really nasty." Floyd | Floyd | No time to explore now. Sharon needs to know what's been going on. Floyd | Floyd | Main Floor Stairway Floyd | Orchid and Aiden follow along. Floyd | Floyd | "But Orchid had this other great idea. She figured if we went a little Floyd | further with the hoax, we could get you to believe the ghost was real. Floyd | Heh." Floyd | Floyd | "I wasn't trying to trick you!" Orchid pleads. "I just wanted it to be Floyd | authentic. I wanted it to be a great story." Floyd | Floyd | "Sure, and then the great ghost story would be in the newspaper with Floyd | the name of the most trustworthy reporter on staff on it, and Orchid's Floyd | name too." Aiden chuckles. "But, looks like that didn't work out." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh. Easy to forget 'brief' exists sometimes,." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement Stairway Floyd | Orchid and Aiden come down the stairs after you. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden looks past you, into the nursery, and you can see something Floyd | click in his brain. Floyd | Floyd | "Although, you know, we could still do it. You guys can write the Floyd | story, I won't say anything, Orchid won't say anything, everyone will Floyd | love it, you'll probably be co-editors-in-chief next year. Let's go Floyd | back upstairs, we'll get some better pictures of the ghost." Floyd | Floyd | "No thanks," you say. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | No time to explore now. Sharon needs to know what's been going on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "aiden, okay" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > AIDEN, OKAY Floyd | Floyd | Aiden looks around nervously. "Why don't we keep moving, huh?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "orchid, go upstairs" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > ORCHID, GO UPSTAIRS Floyd | Floyd | Orchid declines to comment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "yeah, don't think we can do much but go into the nursery" | |
| Doug says, "hm, maybe we can just go to sleep though." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Stairway Floyd | > Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | When you feel you've got all the evidence you need, your sleeping bag Floyd | is waiting for you in the nursery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nursery Floyd | Sharon's makeshift bed doesn't look comfortable, but apparently she's Floyd | fast asleep anyway. Floyd | Floyd | You usher Aiden and Orchid in ahead of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | It's too late for that now. You have to do something about Orchid and Floyd | Aiden. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "nope." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | No time to explore now. Sharon needs to know what's been going on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Nursery Floyd | Battered toys spill out of the toybox and across the floor, piling up Floyd | in a corner of the room. Cupboards are mounted high on the walls, out Floyd | of reach of tiny fingers, and an enormous blue recliner sits Floyd | underneath them. It's already dark outside, and the doors west to the Floyd | basement stairway and south to the youth room are dark as well. Floyd | Floyd | Your sleeping bag is lying on a tidy patch of floor, ready for when Floyd | you finish your investigation. Floyd | Floyd | Aiden is here, rubbing his arm and pouting. Floyd | Floyd | Orchid is lounging around, yawning. Floyd | Floyd | Sharon's makeshift bed doesn't look comfortable, but apparently she's Floyd | fast asleep anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x aiden's arm" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > X AIDEN'S ARM Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x toys" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > X TOYS Floyd | Floyd | Toy cars, a lot of wooden blocks, a tea set, that kind of thing. It Floyd | looks like someone tried to take a bite out of one of the blocks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x blocks" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > X BLOCKS Floyd | Floyd | Toy cars, a lot of wooden blocks, a tea set, that kind of thing. It Floyd | looks like someone tried to take a bite out of one of the blocks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get block" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BLOCK Floyd | Floyd | You gather up an armful of toys. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give toys to aiden" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE TOYS TO AIDEN Floyd | Floyd | Aiden looks around nervously. "Why don't we keep moving, huh?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some toys Floyd | a can of tomato soup Floyd | a can of pears Floyd | a can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Product" Floyd | a can of cherry pie filling Floyd | a can of chicken soup Floyd | a can of peaches Floyd | a shepherd's crook Floyd | a name tag (being worn) Floyd | a can of tuna Floyd | a can opener Floyd | a jam jar Floyd | some ectoplasm Floyd | a bird cage Floyd | a small white cross Floyd | a stack of photos Floyd | Casey's notes Floyd | a Polaroid camera (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play with toys" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > PLAY WITH TOYS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x toys" | ||
Floyd ] Nursery Floyd | > Floyd | > X TOYS Floyd | Floyd | Toy cars, a lot of wooden blocks, a tea set, that kind of thing. It Floyd | looks like someone tried to take a bite out of one of the blocks. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "What did you play and how was it?" | |
| Doug says, "Robin & Orchid, and, pretty good!" | ||
| Doug says, "lots and lots of detail" | ||
| DavidW says, "We played Robin & Orchid, and it was very good -- except for the mud crashes which weren't it's fault." | ||
| DavidW says, "er Its fault" | ||
| Doug says, "oops, gotta go. thanks all!" | ||
| Touchy says, "hm..." | ||
| Doug says, "(will idle)" | ||
| DavidW says, "bye Doug" | ||
| Touchy says, "thanks" | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "I guess we're done now." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, we should try to use a public drawing tool more often. Don't know why I keep forgetting." | ||
| Touchy asks, "Did you?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Doug opened up a map he created here: [LINK]" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Belatedly, cool. Thanks." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'll process the transcript RIGHT NOW so that I don't get behind." | ||
| Touchy says, "Neat map..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Given that that link may not remain in perpetuity, wonder if I should copy it to my server." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Great session today, guys. Thanks!" | ||
