  
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 says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask wrenlaw" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Wrenlaw Floyd | An Interactive Afternoon by Ryan Veeder Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 130429 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Bike rack Floyd | The coordinates you have are incomplete. They only narrow it down to Floyd | this general area. And, although it's not a big park, the thing you're Floyd | looking for is very small. Probably. Floyd | Floyd | Between the train tracks and the softball field there's barely any Floyd | room for a trail, and the bike rack here is almost lost in the Floyd | overgrowth. Presumably somebody will come by at some point and prune Floyd | the bushes, but today you're the only one around. Floyd | Floyd | The trail leads south from here. Floyd | Floyd | You finish locking up your bike and shove the key in your pocket. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Coordinates?" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Your "hiking gear" is indistinguishable from what you wear to class Floyd | every day: jacket, T-shirt, whatever. Your shoes and jeans are Floyd | basically clean. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x coordinates" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > X COORDINATES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Right now you've got your bike key and a scrap of paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPER Floyd | Floyd | Scrawled in blue ink: Floyd | Floyd | 41.664, -91.562 Floyd | blue box Floyd | Floyd | During the couple of days that you've been wondering about the origin Floyd | of these clues, it has been difficult for you to distinguish your Floyd | well-reasoned guesses from your hopeless delusions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read coordinates" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > READ COORDINATES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh." | |
| Draconis says, "I'm surprised it doesn't accept COORDINATES as a synonym." | ||
| Jacqueline shrugs. | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, we're geocaching?" | ||
| Draconis asks, "Except we don't know who gave us the clues?" | ||
| Draconis says, "Very odd." | ||
| Binder says, "Maybe we're looking for a TARDIS" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Draconis says, "(By the way, are the <em> tags from Floyd or the game itself?)" | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x rack" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > X RACK Floyd | Floyd | The bike rack is a frame of thick metal bars, and your bike is Floyd | attached to it fairly securely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x bike" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > X BIKE Floyd | Floyd | Yours is not the most reliable bicycle in the world, but it's still Floyd | more trustworthy than, say, a car. At least when your bike betrays Floyd | you, it's fairly up-front about it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x lock" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > X LOCK Floyd | Floyd | If you think about it, you could use a bike lock to lock up almost Floyd | anything. But, now that you think about it, you can't think of Floyd | anything else you need to lock up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "heh" | |
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > X TRAIN TRACKS Floyd | Floyd | The tracks run along the crest of the hill, north to south, from Floyd | who-knows-where to who-knows-where. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says (to Draconis), "I think it is Floyd's way of showing the text styles" | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x trail" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > X TRAIL Floyd | Floyd | This stretch of the trail is still cheap asphalt, and there are a few Floyd | loose chunks and potholes. Other trails in other parks are maintained Floyd | better. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "In case anyone's client parses HTML, </em>" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, sorry. I missed your question. The tags are a wrapper we've asked Floyd to run, mostly so the final transcript looks like the game was meant to look." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | From far away comes a sound like thunder. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "Hey why is everything on ifmud less important" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Also, Sleepmask gives us a status line, which we otherwise would not get from Floyd." | ||
| Binder says, "Good thing Floyd is a sleeptalker." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I gotta say I'm not feeling the narrative drive, here." | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x gps" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > X GPS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > X SOFTBALL FIELD Floyd | Floyd | Nobody's playing any softball today. It's too wet, or too cold. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Please don't bring up sleeptalking or sleepwalking. I had a freaky sleepwalking incident with my cat this week." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Fortunately he has not done it since." | ||
| Draconis asks, "I guess we have to go south?" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Edge of the woods Floyd | The bike trail turns here, giving as wide a berth as possible to both Floyd | the softball field and the woods. Cradled in the curve of the asphalt Floyd | is a pool of rainwater. Floyd | Floyd | On the other side of the trail, a low balance beam and an accompanying Floyd | informative sign have been pounded into the ground, both encrusted Floyd | with lichen. Behind them rise the woods to the south, as infinitely Floyd | dense and expansive as they can manage given the limited space Floyd | available. Floyd | Floyd | The path leads north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "Yes, south, but as a general rule we like to agree on room changes as a group first." | |
| Binder throws the rest of his prepared remarks in to the trash. | ||
| Draconis says, "Oh, sorry." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Just so that if someone was about to examine something in that room or something they're not taken off-guard." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x sign" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > X SIGN Floyd | Floyd | The sign describes some exercises for the athletically inclined to try Floyd | out using the balance beam. You can imagine the Parks Department Floyd | designing a dozen of these Fitness Stations, erecting this one, and Floyd | then running out of funding. Or running out of enthusiasm. Floyd | Floyd | Looking around at the back and the base of the sign doesn't yield any Floyd | clues. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x beam" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > X BEAM Floyd | Floyd | It's still kind of damp, but you could probably sit on it. You've sat Floyd | on it before. Floyd | Floyd | > | dddddd says, "me was about to x the bushes there" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I get the impression this is a real park Ryan has coded." | ||
| Binder says, "This beam is known to us." | ||
| Draconis says, "I get the feeling we're supposed to sit on the beam." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure, why not." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, not sure why? But sure, why not." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "sit on beam" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT ON BEAM
Floyd |
Floyd | You take a seat and look up into the sky above the softball field.
Floyd |
Floyd | [...]
| Binder asks (of Jacqueline), "Why not sure?" | |
| Draconis asks, "What does [...] mean?" | ||
| Draconis asks, "Is Floyd waiting for a keypress?" | ||
| djfletch pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods
Floyd | The bursts of lightning would hang in the air for unnatural lengths of
Floyd | time, so that you could make them out in great detail—but when the
Floyd | thunder finally came, it was very quiet.
Floyd |
Floyd | This was two years ago. Maybe you were talking about something. No,
Floyd | you remember you were sitting in silence, watching the storm pass as
Floyd | if it were a parade.
Floyd |
Floyd | But then she leaned over so that her head was on your right shoulder,
Floyd | which was unexpected, so you thought What do I do now? and
Floyd | then you put your right arm around her. And she said "Thank you,"
Floyd | which at the time did not strike you as odd.
Floyd |
Floyd | Eventually the rain was not falling far away: it was falling on the
Floyd | softball field, and then on the two of you, so you ran off.
Floyd |
Floyd | [...]
| Binder says, "Apparently [...] means 'a space of time passes'" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, I guess it does (in this game)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Or that." | ||
| Draconis pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods
Floyd | You stand up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Draconis says, "Wow." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "remember storm" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER STORM Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "Man, I miss that girl's head on my shoulder." | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | What a good idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "balance on beam" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "remember her" | ||
Floyd | > BALANCE ON BEAM Floyd | Floyd | The first few steps seem easy, but then you topple off the side. Floyd | Hopefully nobody saw you. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER HER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "uh oh, we're drunk" | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "walk straight line" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > WALK STRAIGHT LINE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "Yup, drunk." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "diagnose" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > DIAGNOSE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x pool" | Jacqueline asks, "Do we know that >REMEMBER is a verb, or are we just hoping it is?" | |
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > X POOL Floyd | Floyd | Standing water like this pool here is a vector for mosquitos. But it's Floyd | probably too early for mosquitos anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "splash water" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > SPLASH WATER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump in puddle" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > JUMP IN PUDDLE Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says (to Jacqueline), "no, I was just trying to see" | |
| Jacqueline nods. | ||
| Draconis asks, "Should we get in the pool?" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK INTO POOL Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Perhaps it would trigger another memory." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get in pool" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > GET IN POOL Floyd | Floyd | That seems unnecessary. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Anti-climax." | |
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH POOL Floyd | Floyd | The pool of rainwater feels pretty normal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "look in pool" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN POOL Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "We under-rate the value of still water." | |
| Jacqueline says, "So true." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK WATER Floyd | Floyd | That would be a bad idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Edge of the woods Floyd | The bike trail turns here, giving as wide a berth as possible to both Floyd | the softball field and the woods. Cradled in the curve of the asphalt Floyd | is a pool of rainwater. Floyd | Floyd | On the other side of the trail, a low balance beam and an accompanying Floyd | informative sign have been pounded into the ground, both encrusted Floyd | with lichen. Behind them rise the woods to the south, as infinitely Floyd | dense and expansive as they can manage given the limited space Floyd | available. Floyd | Floyd | The path leads north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x lichen" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > X LICHEN Floyd | Floyd | The lichen is growing mostly around the bases of the beam and the Floyd | sign. It gets by where it can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "eat lichen" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > EAT LICHEN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the lichen) Floyd | Even if you could separate the lichen from the beams, you still Floyd | wouldn't have much of a use for it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "East?" | |
| Binder says, "Oh, so this ISN'T nethack? Huh." | ||
| Binder says, "Yeah, I like east. The sun lives there." | ||
| Draconis says, "I don't see much else to do here." | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outfield Floyd | Here is where the curve of the outfield fence gets close to a small Floyd | rise in the bike path. The incline is such that the asphalt is a Floyd | little drier here than it is to the east or west. Floyd | Floyd | A lonely drinking fountain stands just off the path. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Just so you all know, my connection is kinda laggy for some reason." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x fountain" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > X FOUNTAIN Floyd | Floyd | The drinking fountain seems to be of an older vintage than the other Floyd | park amenities. Maybe it's from the seventies. Floyd | Floyd | Apparently it's activated by turning the knob on the side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x knob" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > X KNOB Floyd | Floyd | It's made of scuffed stainless steel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "turn it" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > TURN IT Floyd | Floyd | A moment after you turn the knob, the fountain begins to produce a Floyd | feeble trickle of water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK WATER Floyd | Floyd | You take a sip from the fountain. The water is lukewarm, and it tastes Floyd | like a piece of aluminum foil. Somehow you swallow it down. Floyd | Floyd | The drinking fountain peters out and stops. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Been there." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x fence" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > X FENCE Floyd | Floyd | The fence curves from over there in what you guess is left field to Floyd | way over there in what would have to be right field. The nearest fence Floyd | post is missing its cap thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, we have no GPS?" | |
| Binder says, "We have a bike lock key and a piece of paper. We are the worst geocachers evar" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x fence post" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > X FENCE POST Floyd | Floyd | These posts should each have a cap on top of them, but this one Floyd | doesn't, so the circular hole on top is open to the air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "use bike key as sextant" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > USE BIKE KEY AS SEXTANT Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to use the bike key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | (the bike trail) Floyd | This stretch of the trail is still cheap asphalt, and there are a few Floyd | loose chunks and potholes. Other trails in other parks are maintained Floyd | better. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm not sure how this paper is supposed to help us if we have no way of knowing what coordinates we're presently at." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x circular hole" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > X CIRCULAR HOLE Floyd | Floyd | These posts should each have a cap on top of them, but this one Floyd | doesn't, so the circular hole on top is open to the air. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Apparently we know our absolute position." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look in circular hole" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN CIRCULAR HOLE Floyd | Floyd | It's not a blue box, but it does seem like a good place to hide Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | Unfortunately, there's nothing inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Which might be why we always know which way is north." | |
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||
| Binder says, "Maybe we have an eyePhone the PC didn't bother to mention." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, there is that." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "climb fence" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB FENCE Floyd | Floyd | The softball field strikes you as a lousy place to continue your Floyd | search. Floyd | Floyd | Although, if you did climb over the fence and head north, what would Floyd | you find? Past the field there's the mall, and then the Interstate, Floyd | and the hilly country where you fell off your bike that one time. Floyd | Floyd | And from the ultimate North come the cold winds that bring snow and Floyd | make life miserable. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder exclaims, "Or possibly we're a homing pigeon. Surprise!" | |
| Jacqueline says, "We are using the lichen on the balance beams to determine which way north is, I'm sure." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "time" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > TIME Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder exclaims, "We hate snow!" | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "look north" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK NORTH Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x field" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > X FIELD Floyd | Floyd | Nobody's playing any softball today. It's too wet, or too cold. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get post" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > GET POST Floyd | Floyd | You don't possess the strength to yank that post out of the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Just one thing I want to check." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "version" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > VERSION Floyd | Floyd | Wrenlaw Floyd | An Interactive Afternoon by Ryan Veeder Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 130429 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Identification number: //6492CD86-BE5B-4B84-A2DA-27734CB908B3// Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 (6b) / Library serial number 080126 Floyd | Standard Rules version 2/090402 by Graham Nelson Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That is actually a great description (for climbing the fence)." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, oh oh." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I did that thing I do." | ||
| Binder says, "uh oh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Where I ... no, wait, I downloaded this from IFDB, we should be fine." | ||
| DavidW arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Binder says, "Phew" | |
| Draconis asks, "Wait, what?" | ||
| DavidW says, "(It's afternoon already? How'd that happen?)" | ||
| djfletch asks, "try another room?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(Sometimes I accidentally download from, like, the comp site, which isn't updated, and we play an old version, and then I get a perturbed note (or, rather, a note from a perturbed author) wanting to know why I didn't have Floyd play the latest version." | ||
| Binder says (to DavidW), "The NFL compresses pre-game time in order to stretch out commercial runtime in the afternoon." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "We are not that far in, you could recap the toyshop pretty easily." | ||
| DavidW asks (of Binder), "The what?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to djf), "Sure." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Outfield Floyd | Here is where the curve of the outfield fence gets close to a small Floyd | rise in the bike path. The incline is such that the asphalt is a Floyd | little drier here than it is to the east or west. Floyd | Floyd | A lonely drinking fountain stands just off the path. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "I'm surprised that Ryan reimplemented "Facing"." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I'm hoping we find a plot or something in the next room, myself." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bench Floyd | The bike trail turns from west to south here, and outside the curve is Floyd | a cozy bench, which for whatever reason sits facing east, toward the Floyd | highway. Floyd | Floyd | Next to the bench is a chipped blue garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Right now you've got your bike key and a scrap of paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search can" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH CAN Floyd | Floyd | The garbage can is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x bench" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > X BENCH Floyd | Floyd | Downtown, the benches all have big uncomfortable armrests sticking out Floyd | of them to discourage people from sleeping on them, but this one is Floyd | just a plain old bench. There's a panel set into the back with a Floyd | dedication. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "read panel" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > READ PANEL Floyd | Floyd | DONATED BY Floyd | HARMONY SILAS Floyd | Floyd | She sounds nice. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look under bench" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BENCH Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "sleep on bench" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP ON BENCH Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to sleep. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Your "hiking gear" is indistinguishable from what you wear to class Floyd | every day: jacket, T-shirt, whatever. Your shoes and jeans are Floyd | basically clean. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON BENCH Floyd | Floyd | You take a seat on the bench and stare down at your feet. Floyd | Floyd | [...] | ||
| Binder pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, so, we haven't talked in a while, and I was wondering what was Floyd | going on with you. I mean, there was also something else I wanted to Floyd | talk to you about, a specific issue, which is causing me some stress I Floyd | guess. I'm walking in a straight line right now, and, unless something Floyd | happens, I have to keep on walking in a straight line. This is how I'm Floyd | dealing with my stress. But I thought maybe if I had a chance to talk Floyd | to you then I could get some of this specific issue worked out. Sorry Floyd | to bother you. Please call me back." Floyd | Floyd | And your legs kept on walking, in a straight line, up an unfamiliar Floyd | street, with your head down, with your phone clenched in your fist. Floyd | Time seemed to pass. Floyd | Floyd | Then you heard a clap of thunder, and it occurred to you that you Floyd | should turn around and get home, but then it occurred to you that it Floyd | was necessary to continue walking in a straight line. Floyd | Floyd | There was a long flash of lightning, and as you finally looked up you Floyd | realized you were in the cemetery, surrounded by gravestones, and up Floyd | ahead was the statue of the Black Angel, perhaps facing you, perhaps Floyd | with its back to you. Now it was dark. Floyd | Floyd | Your phone buzzed. She wasn't calling you back; she had sent a text Floyd | message. And the text of the message was: "?" Floyd | Floyd | [...] | Binder asks, "Wait the Black Angel? This is Iowa City?" | |
| Draconis asks, "Weren't we unable to walk in a straight line earlier?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm quite lost, having no context for this." | ||
| Binder says (to Draconis), "That was me clowning, coincidentally." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "There are lots of black angel markers in cemeteries everywhere." | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Bench
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You blink a couple times and stand up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| djfletch says (to Draconis), "maybe we have to be more stressed before we can walk in a straight line" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "So this is a game about sitting down places to remember backstory?" | ||
| Binder says, "So far it is." | ||
| Binder says, "I'm hoping we can find that TARDIS" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "text girl" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > TEXT GIRL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "(Sorry, Ryan, when you read this. I am running on little sleep and evidently snarky this morning.)" | |
| Draconis asks, "Did we try to sit on the bike?" | ||
| Draconis says, "That might do something." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x highway" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > X HIGHWAY Floyd | Floyd | Herds of cars zoom left and right, and what's on the other side? East Floyd | of here is just bars, and then frat houses, and on the very Floyd | easternmost edge of your understanding of this city is a cemetery. Floyd | Floyd | But mostly the East is full of huge crowds of people, who are Floyd | unbearable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read paper" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > READ PAPER Floyd | Floyd | Scrawled in blue ink: Floyd | Floyd | 41.664, -91.562 Floyd | blue box Floyd | Floyd | During the couple of days that you've been wondering about the origin Floyd | of these clues, it has been difficult for you to distinguish your Floyd | well-reasoned guesses from your hopeless delusions. Floyd | Floyd | > | dddddd says, "so we're looking for a blue box" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "guess" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > GUESS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "plugh" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > PLUGH Floyd | Floyd | Nope. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "plover" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > PLOVER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "No magic for you, one year." | |
| Jacqueline says, "hee" | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Bench Floyd | The bike trail turns from west to south here, and outside the curve is Floyd | a cozy bench, which for whatever reason sits facing east, toward the Floyd | highway. Floyd | Floyd | Next to the bench is a chipped blue garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "I wonder if the xyzzy earlier actually did something." | |
| DavidW says, "Are those GPS coordinates? I don't see Google Maps in our inventory." | ||
| Binder says, "No idea." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under can" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER CAN Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "We are not actually sure." | |
| Binder says, "Um. But." | ||
| Binder says, "I ... feel vindicated" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That is, we're not sure why we don't have a GPS." | ||
| Binder says, "If those ARE GPS coordinates they are in fact in Iowa City" | ||
| Draconis says, "Next to the end of a trail, actually." | ||
| Draconis says, "At least according to Google." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Oh, nice." | ||
| Binder says, "So it's quite possibly the Black Angel I was thinking of." | ||
| Draconis says, "And the trail leads southeast." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Binder says, "This is suddenly kind of spooky for me on a personal level." | ||
| DavidW says, "Can someone summarize what I missed? I really don't like trying to @recap and catch up that way when there's hundred of lines." | ||
| dddddd says, "I fell the blue box thing it's more important than the numbers." | ||
| Jacqueline) Binder says, "And so now I know exactly how to win this game!" | ||
| Binder says, "My version of winning involves fleeing Iowa City and forgetting all about what's her name." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "We have been wandering around this park without a GPS looking for a blue box and we sat down in a couple of places and each time had a memory about a girl." | ||
| Draconis says (to DavidW), "We've been following a trail for a little bit and gotten two flashbacks about this girl." | ||
| djfletch says (to DavidW), "we don't know what's supposed to be in the blue box" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "In one spot, she put her head on our shoulder and we put our arm around her and she said thank you." | ||
| djfletch says, "probably this girl's severed head" | ||
| DavidW says, "hm. Rather vague." | ||
| Draconis says (to DavidW), "I think you saw the other one." | ||
| Draconis says (to DavidW), "It was the wall of text right after you came in." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And in the other we called her in an emo mood and said that we were going to walk in a straight line unless something happens because we want to talk to her about a particular issue and could she please call us back kthxbai and she didn't call back she just texted a question mark to us." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And there've been some references to thunder." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Have we missed anything?" | ||
| Draconis asks, "It's currently storming, isn't it?" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x sky" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > X SKY Floyd | Floyd | The sky is pretty clear, for now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Or not." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | From far away comes a sound like thunder. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "It was storming in the first flashback" | |
| DavidW says, "I suppose we just wander? I don't have a map, of course, so I don't know where we've been." | ||
| Binder says, "Today it's just cold and damp" | ||
| Binder says, "It's been a linear path" | ||
| Draconis says, "IIRC we went south, then east." | ||
| djfletch says, "we went east twice" | ||
| DavidW says, "Let's not go east. That's where the gloom beavers live." | ||
| djfletch asks, "ok, south then?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crosswalk Floyd | It's theoretically possible to get across the highway here, but you Floyd | have yet to see it done. The white lines of the crosswalk are more Floyd | like a blueprint for an imaginary bridge. Floyd | Floyd | The bike trail supposedly continues on the other side of the highway. Floyd | Realistically, though, you can follow it north, or take a narrow, Floyd | unpaved track between tufts of grass to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Let me guess: we need to continue south." | |
| DavidW says, "South again, I think" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x grass" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > X GRASS Floyd | Floyd | The grass still looks pretty damp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x grass" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > X GRASS Floyd | Floyd | The grass still looks pretty damp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x track" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > X TRACK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x unpaved" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > X UNPAVED Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x cars" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > X CARS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "look south" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK SOUTH Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x crosswalk" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > X CROSSWALK Floyd | Floyd | The crosswalk consists of a button that reads "PUSH FOR WALK SIGNAL", Floyd | a pair of white lines across the highway, and a signal at the other Floyd | end that will always, always say "DON'T WALK". Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "haha" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You push the button, and wonder if this time your action will have any Floyd | influence on the outside world. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x signal" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > X SIGNAL Floyd | Floyd | The amber letters of the signal across the highway say "DON'T WALK". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | The amber letters of the signal across the highway say "DON'T WALK". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | The amber letters of the signal across the highway say "DON'T WALK". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "hit button" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > HIT BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | Don't be brutish. Floyd | Floyd | An incredibly loud motorcycle speeds by, and you lose your train of Floyd | thought for a few seconds. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The button doesn't work." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "destroy the stupid button" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > DESTROY THE STUPID BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x motorcycle" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > X MOTORCYCLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Crosswalk Floyd | It's theoretically possible to get across the highway here, but you Floyd | have yet to see it done. The white lines of the crosswalk are more Floyd | like a blueprint for an imaginary bridge. Floyd | Floyd | The bike trail supposedly continues on the other side of the highway. Floyd | Realistically, though, you can follow it north, or take a narrow, Floyd | unpaved track between tufts of grass to the south. Floyd | Floyd | An unseen crow emits a series of angry caws. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The motorcycle was an atmospheric message, surely. Just go south." | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Grate Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Grate Floyd | You find yourself in a low, damp area, partially hidden from the road Floyd | above. A stream runs out of the woods here and noisily disappears into Floyd | a grate under the highway. Floyd | Floyd | You could scramble up north, to the bike path, or you could walk along Floyd | the creek to the west. Floyd | Floyd | An empty potato chip bag is stuck up against the grate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x bag" | ||
Floyd ] Grate Floyd | Floyd | > X BAG Floyd | Floyd | The force of the water is pushing it up against the grate, but it's Floyd | too big to squeeze through the holes. It's trapped. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Take the bag?" | |
| Binder asks, "that poor poor bag?" | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x grate" | ||
Floyd ] Grate Floyd | Floyd | > X GRATE Floyd | Floyd | A metal frame blocks off the tunnel under the highway so that only the Floyd | stream can get through. The words "CITY WATER" are embossed. Floyd | Floyd | Currently the flow of the stream is impeded somewhat by the empty Floyd | potato chip bag that's pressed up against the grate. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "Water is very important to us, apparently." | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "get bag" | ||
Floyd ] Grate Floyd | Floyd | > GET BAG Floyd | Floyd | You fish out the bag and unclog the stream, which gurgles gratefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Did we happen to see a well house of some sort earlier?" | |
| Draconis says, "The keys might be in there." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we should take the empty potato chip bag and ... (gasp) put it in the trash can." | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "tell stream you're welcome" | ||
Floyd ] Grate
Floyd |
Floyd | > TELL STREAM YOU'RE WELCOME
Floyd |
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look in tunnel" | ||
Floyd ] Grate Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN TUNNEL Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "search grate" | ||
Floyd ] Grate Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH GRATE Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "open grate" | ||
Floyd ] Grate Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN GRATE Floyd | Floyd | The grate doesn't have any hinges. It's a permanent installation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "open grate" | ||
Floyd ] Grate Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN GRATE Floyd | Floyd | The grate doesn't have any hinges. It's a permanent installation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Grate Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Right now you've got an empty potato chip bag, your bike key, and a Floyd | scrap of paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x bag" | ||
Floyd ] Grate Floyd | Floyd | > X BAG Floyd | Floyd | This bag is a damp, greasy mess, and to a certain extent you regret Floyd | ever having pulled it out of the stream. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "woo, 50% inventory increase" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Binder, you need to get out more." | ||
| Binder asks, "What, and leave my pile of objects behind?" | ||
Floyd ] Grate Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK INSIDE BAG Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing in there but the tiniest soggy crumbs. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It belongs in the trash can, I'm sure. We'll get all sorts of civic fuzzies." | |
| Jacqueline says, "The park ranger will be happy." | ||
| Binder says, "fiiiiiine" | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crosswalk Floyd | It's theoretically possible to get across the highway here, but you Floyd | have yet to see it done. The white lines of the crosswalk are more Floyd | like a blueprint for an imaginary bridge. Floyd | Floyd | The bike trail supposedly continues on the other side of the highway. Floyd | Realistically, though, you can follow it north, or take a narrow, Floyd | unpaved track between tufts of grass to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bench Floyd | The bike trail turns from west to south here, and outside the curve is Floyd | a cozy bench, which for whatever reason sits facing east, toward the Floyd | highway. Floyd | Floyd | Next to the bench is a chipped blue garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "put bag in trash" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | | Jacqueline exclaims, "Do it! Do it!" | |
Floyd | > PUT BAG IN TRASH Floyd | Floyd | You stuff the bag into the garbage, which is where it belongs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | There is no score in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Told ya" | |
| Jacqueline says, "See? That's where it belongs." | ||
| Binder says, "Doing good always makes me feel so bad." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Don't you feel better about your... oh." | ||
| inky arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Draconis says (to inky), "Hello." | |
| Binder says, "I guess we have no searing memories of throwing trash away with Her." | ||
| DavidW says, "Anyway, we can follow the stream now." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "We are playing a game about sitting on things and being emo and cleaning up local waterways." | ||
| djfletch says, "yeah, try another room" | ||
| Binder says, "They made me do the cleaning up. I was under duress." | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crosswalk Floyd | It's theoretically possible to get across the highway here, but you Floyd | have yet to see it done. The white lines of the crosswalk are more Floyd | like a blueprint for an imaginary bridge. Floyd | Floyd | The bike trail supposedly continues on the other side of the highway. Floyd | Realistically, though, you can follow it north, or take a narrow, Floyd | unpaved track between tufts of grass to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Grate Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Grate Floyd | You find yourself in a low, damp area, partially hidden from the road Floyd | above. The stream runs out of the woods here and noisily disappears Floyd | into a grate under the highway. Floyd | Floyd | You could scramble up north, to the bike path, or you could walk along Floyd | the creek to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken bottles Floyd | This clearing is bounded by a fallen log on the west side and a Floyd | boulder on the other. The ground around the rock is littered with Floyd | shards of glass; even with shoes on, you watch your steps carefully. Floyd | Floyd | The path along the stream runs east and west, but there might also be Floyd | a way north, through the vegetation that covers the hill. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get glass" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > GET GLASS Floyd | Floyd | There are too many tiny pieces to try and clean up, even if you had Floyd | gloves. The most you can do is try and kick them under the boulder, Floyd | where they're less likely to get stepped on. Floyd | Floyd | As you're kicking shards around, you notice one unbroken bottle. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear some small mammals scratching around up in the trees. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "get bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > GET BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ooh" | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > X BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | The scratched blue glass is basically opaque, and the bottle is empty, Floyd | but it feels heavier than it should. Apparently "Schmetz" is the name Floyd | of the liquid that used to be inside of this. The labeling is not very Floyd | specific about what "Schmetz" is. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l in bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > L IN BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | The blue bottle is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "schmetz" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > SCHMETZ Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "I wish we had gloves, I don't want to get Schmetz poisoning from handling this." | |
| DavidW says, "That could've been a magic word." | ||
| Draconis says, "According to Google Translate, it's German for SCHMETZ." | ||
| dddddd says, "everything is blue, I'm blue" | ||
| Taleslinger arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Jacqueline says, "I wonder if it's really Schlitz, but he couldn't get them to agree to a mutually acceptable financial agreement for product placement." | |
| Binder says, "dooba dee dooba die" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "smash bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > SMASH BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | Your blows are ineffectual. It's a sturdy bottle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x mammals" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > X MAMMALS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "damn we feeble" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Broken bottles Floyd | This clearing is bounded by a fallen log on the west side and a Floyd | boulder on the other. The ground around the rock is littered with Floyd | shards of glass; even with shoes on, you watch your steps carefully. Floyd | Floyd | The path along the stream runs east and west, but there might also be Floyd | a way north, through the vegetation that covers the hill. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | The creek burbles peacefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x log" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > X LOG Floyd | Floyd | You can imagine the scene easily: Drunk kids take a seat on the log; Floyd | when their bottles are empty, they toss them at the boulder. Drunk Floyd | kids don't care about getting their five cent deposit back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x boulder" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > X BOULDER Floyd | Floyd | It's taller than you are, made from rough speckled black and white and Floyd | grey stone, cut out of a mountain or something, back in the days of Floyd | the caveman. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Sit on the log for another flashback?" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "climb boulder" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB BOULDER Floyd | Floyd | You could probably manage that. Sure. Floyd | Floyd | You jump up the lower side, get some traction with your shoes, and Floyd | scramble up to the top of the boulder. You cross your legs and look Floyd | out across the woods from your perch. The view isn't appreciably Floyd | different. Floyd | Floyd | But next to you, spraypainted in green on the rock, is a message: Floyd | HEY. Floyd | Floyd | So you say "hey" back, and then you slide back down. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh, we can get 5 cents for this bottle?" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "sit on log" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT ON LOG
Floyd |
Floyd | You sit on the log and stare at the side of the boulder.
Floyd |
Floyd | [...]
| Binder says, "here we go" | |
| Draconis pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
| Binder pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Then the song was over, and you could hear each other talk for a few Floyd | seconds. Floyd | Floyd | "Why aren't you drinking?" she asked. A satisfactory answer did not Floyd | spring to mind. Floyd | Floyd | "Do you wanna dance?" Floyd | Floyd | "No." Floyd | Floyd | She rolled her eyes. "Well, you should try something new. Floyd | It's good to get out of your comfort zone." Floyd | Floyd | "I should do things that I don't want to do, just because I don't want Floyd | to do them?" you tried to ask, but the music started up again. Floyd | Floyd | "Well I'm gonna dance. Watch my drink!" she shouted, and she ran off, Floyd | so you sat and stared at her glass for a while. Floyd | Floyd | [...] Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You allow yourself a heavy sigh before standing up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "timing" | |
| Taleslinger disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | inky says (to Jacqueline), "#belated a game about being emo and sitting on things and cleaning up local waterways? this is just an Everybody Dies ripoff" | |
| katie-paquette says, "JAWS has been skipping around again." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "push log" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH LOG Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "Well, except no one has died." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look under log" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER LOG Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Can we sit on the boulder?" | |
| Draconis asks, "We tried that, didn't we?" | ||
| Binder says, "We can climb it but it cycles us back down" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "sit on boulder" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON BOULDER Floyd | Floyd | It's not that you don't have the energy to climb the boulder again; Floyd | it's just that it probably wouldn't be worth the effort. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We climbed it. Slightly different." | |
| Jacqueline says, "We climbed the boulder and sat on it as a result." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "hey" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > HEY Floyd | Floyd | Hey yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "hey me" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > HEY ME Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hey. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Now that's an error message you don't see every day." | |
| DavidW asks, "Perhaps HEY is a magic word that teleports us here?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think you are giving this game more credit for magic than it merits." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Though of course I've been wrong lots of times before." | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "yes, probably. I'm keeping options open until disproven." | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Broken bottles Floyd | This clearing is bounded by a fallen log on the west side and a Floyd | boulder on the other. The ground around the rock is littered with Floyd | shards of glass; even with shoes on, you watch your steps carefully. Floyd | Floyd | The path along the stream runs east and west, but there might also be Floyd | a way north, through the vegetation that covers the hill. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Well, XYZZY causes thunder." | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x north" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > X NORTH Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x vegetation" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > X VEGETATION Floyd | Floyd | Who knows what kind of bushes these are. They're thick on the ground Floyd | and impossible to walk through. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "A choice of directions, huzzah" | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x stream" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > X STREAM Floyd | Floyd | The stream is running swiftly and noisily right now, on account of Floyd | last night's big storm. Most days it's probably not much of a stream Floyd | at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "Shall we try for north?" | |
| katie-paquette says, "There goes my screen reader skipping again." | ||
| DavidW says, "Let's wander. North is fine." | ||
| Draconis says (to Binder), "Not really a choice, the vegetation is impenetrable." | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Tent Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tent Floyd | Oh, this is creepy. Floyd | Floyd | The bushes thin out near the top of the hill, and in the center of the Floyd | clearing is a small tent. Floyd | Floyd | A large branch, apparently blown down by the storm, leans against the Floyd | tent flap. Floyd | Floyd | Reflecting on this detail, you conclude that this tent must be—is Floyd | definitely, probably, unoccupied. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says (to Draconis), "Apparently opinions differ." | |
| Draconis says, ">SIT ON TENT" | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x branch" | ||
Floyd ] Tent Floyd | Floyd | > X BRANCH Floyd | Floyd | It's a big leafy one, obviously freshly snapped off its tree. Nobody Floyd | could have gotten in or out since last night without moving it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "get branch" | ||
Floyd ] Tent Floyd | Floyd | > GET BRANCH Floyd | Floyd | You pull the branch off of the tent and, in an effort to command some Floyd | control over your weird situation, toss it into the depths of the Floyd | woods. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "Take THAT, nature." | |
| DavidW says, "Perhaps sit in the tent." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "knock on tent" | ||
Floyd ] Tent Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON TENT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "shout" | ||
Floyd ] Tent Floyd | Floyd | > SHOUT Floyd | Floyd | Screaming into the outdoors is not as cathartic as you'd hoped. You Floyd | feel vaguely embarrassed. Floyd | Floyd | A bird is singing an extremely repetitive song: "Seeee-saw. Seeee-saw. Floyd | Seeee-saw". Over and over. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Should we open it?" | |
| Draconis asks, "The tent, I mean?" | ||
| djfletch says, "open it!" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "open tent" | ||
Floyd ] Tent Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN TENT Floyd | Floyd | You pull open the tent flap, but then you let it fall again. For a Floyd | second, everything seems very quiet. Floyd | Floyd | The faint sound of a police siren reaches your ears from across town Floyd | somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'd just enter it." | |
| Draconis asks, "Should we?" | ||
| Binder says, "ofc we should" | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "enter tent" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER TENT Floyd | Floyd | With extreme gingerness, you unzip the flap, poke your head in, and Floyd | enter the tent. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the tent Floyd | A single beam of sunlight cuts through a hole in the western wall, Floyd | illuminating a shambolic mass of books, notepads, and newspapers Floyd | strewn across the floor. Everything is stained and crumpled by Floyd | moisture to some degree. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of it all is a low stool. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "If it's too horrifying to even hold the flap open?" | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x stool" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > X STOOL Floyd | Floyd | It doesn't look like anybody's ideal stool, but it's probably more Floyd | comfortable than the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| katie-paquette has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "sit stool" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > SIT STOOL Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh look, a place to sit." | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "sit on stool" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT ON STOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | You hunch down on the stool, and the sun gets in your eyes. Why didn't
Floyd | you bring your sunglasses?
Floyd |
Floyd | Actually, this reminds you of something...
Floyd |
Floyd | [...]
| ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "sit on stool" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Or not. You get off the stool.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Draconis says, "Ha ha ha ha ha" | |
| Binder exclaims, "psyche!" | ||
| DavidW asks, "oh, we need sunglasses?" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | There are none at all available! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get books" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > GET BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | It's creepy enough that you're inside of this tent at all. Physically Floyd | messing with this person's stuff would be too gross. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | The books look like mostly poetry, written by guys with names like Floyd | "Blaise Fontanelle". One is lying open to a page with a stanza Floyd | circled: Floyd | Floyd | Ay, que lo que soy siga existiendo y cesando de existir, Floyd | y que mi obediencia se ordene con tales condiciones de Floyd | hierro... Floyd | Floyd | All right, then. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Inside the tent Floyd | A single beam of sunlight cuts through a hole in the western wall, Floyd | illuminating a shambolic mass of books, notepads, and newspapers Floyd | strewn across the floor. Everything is stained and crumpled by Floyd | moisture to some degree. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a stool here. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "we are clearly repressing this memory because it's too horrifying" | |
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > X NOTEPADS Floyd | Floyd | Let's see. Here's a really lousy drawing of a squirrel, here's a Floyd | diagram of a triangle with some calculations next to it, and over here Floyd | is an actual note, written in plain English. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x newspapers" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > X NEWSPAPERS Floyd | Floyd | They're local papers, going back a few months, based on what you can Floyd | see without touching anything. Whoever owns this tent likes to do Floyd | crosswords, but not Sudoku. Hmm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > X NOTE Floyd | Floyd | the presence in the pores Floyd | of a grapefruit rind Floyd | Floyd | Hey, that's a Stephen Malkmus song! Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, ""Oh, what I'm still exists and ceasing to exist, and that my obedience is ordered with such conditions iron ..."" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x triangle" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > X TRIANGLE Floyd | Floyd | Apparently it was necessary to prove some fact about the dimensions of Floyd | this triangle—for a while, and then it wasn't so important anymore, Floyd | since the author didn't finish the calculations. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x calculations" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > X CALCULATIONS Floyd | Floyd | Apparently it was necessary to prove some fact about the dimensions of Floyd | this triangle—for a while, and then it wasn't so important anymore, Floyd | since the author didn't finish the calculations. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x squirrel" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > X SQUIRREL Floyd | Floyd | It's probably supposed to be a squirrel. Whatever it is, it isn't Floyd | happy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "Aw, man, this tent belongs to some kind of ... GRAD STUDENT" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "calculate dimensions of triangle" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > CALCULATE DIMENSIONS OF TRIANGLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "prove fact about dimensions of triangle" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > PROVE FACT ABOUT DIMENSIONS OF TRIANGLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | | DavidW says, "y'know, this tent probably belongs to our future self -- who left it in the past." | |
Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Inside the tent Floyd | A single beam of sunlight cuts through a hole in the western wall, Floyd | illuminating a shambolic mass of books, notepads, and newspapers Floyd | strewn across the floor. Everything is stained and crumpled by Floyd | moisture to some degree. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a stool here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get stool" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > GET STOOL Floyd | Floyd | But that's someone else's stool. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "I do like a shambolic mass, it's true." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Right now you've got a blue bottle, your bike key, and a scrap of Floyd | paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > X NOTE Floyd | Floyd | the presence in the pores Floyd | of a grapefruit rind Floyd | Floyd | Hey, that's a Stephen Malkmus song! Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "hm" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put bottle on stool" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BOTTLE ON STOOL Floyd | Floyd | You put the blue bottle on the stool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh well. Nothing got hit with a blue light spot." | |
| Binder says, "Very Indy" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "wrenlaw" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > WRENLAW Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You never know." | |
| Binder asks, "Out again?" | ||
| Draconis says, "Sure." | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, out please." | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Tent Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tent Floyd | The bushes thin out near the top of the hill, and in the center of the Floyd | clearing is a small tent. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "south then west, maybe?" | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Tent Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Tent Floyd | The bushes thin out near the top of the hill, and in the center of the Floyd | clearing is a small tent. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We should follow the stream more, yes please." | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken bottles Floyd | This clearing is bounded by a fallen log on the west side and a Floyd | boulder on the other. The ground around the rock is littered with Floyd | shards of glass; even with shoes on, you watch your steps carefully. Floyd | Floyd | The path along the stream runs east and west, but there's also a way Floyd | north, through the vegetation that covers the hill. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Culvert Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Culvert Floyd | The stream runs out of a culvert here, from beneath the hill and the Floyd | train tracks to the west. The runoff from last night's storm flows Floyd | swiftly and musically. Floyd | Floyd | The ways out of the woods are north and east. Floyd | Floyd | A cricket hops out of your way and disappears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x stream" | ||
Floyd ] Culvert Floyd | Floyd | > X STREAM Floyd | Floyd | The stream is running swiftly and noisily right now, on account of Floyd | last night's big storm. Most days it's probably not much of a stream Floyd | at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x culvert" | ||
Floyd ] Culvert Floyd | Floyd | > X CULVERT Floyd | Floyd | The circular tunnel is wide enough to handle the worst floods. You Floyd | could probably walk through fairly comfortably. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "North, then?" | |
| Binder says, "I'd like to try going in to the culvert" | ||
| Draconis says, "I think west will be more plot-important." | ||
| Binder says, "Because it's inobvious." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is it saying we could enter the culvert? Do we need light?" | ||
| Binder says, "It's implying we could" | ||
| DavidW says, "We should at least try entering." | ||
| Binder says, "Sure." | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tunnel Floyd | You look ahead with a scrunched-up neck and fail to keep your shoes Floyd | out of the water. The curved floor is harder to walk on than you would Floyd | have thought. Floyd | Floyd | The tunnel leads east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "yell" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | Floyd | > YELL Floyd | Floyd | Your screams echo up and down the tunnel, but then you're alone again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "yay an echo" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hey" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | Floyd | > HEY Floyd | Floyd | Hey yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "echo" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | Floyd | > ECHO Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Tunnel Floyd | You look ahead with a scrunched-up neck and fail to keep your shoes Floyd | out of the water. The curved floor is harder to walk on than you would Floyd | have thought. Floyd | Floyd | The tunnel leads east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "continue west, please" | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You make your uncomfortable way toward the light of day. Floyd | Floyd | Ditch Floyd | Sunlight finds you at the bottom of a rocky ditch. The stream flows Floyd | noisily between the rocks, past your feet, and into the culvert to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | Mounted on a post stuck between the rocks is a small blue birdhouse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "blue box?" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x birdhouse" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x birdhouse" | ||
Floyd | > X BIRDHOUSE Floyd | Floyd | You pull yourself out of the stream and approach the birdhouse. Floyd | Floyd | On closer inspection, it can't really be a birdhouse. The circular Floyd | entryway is blocked off on the inside; there's no way for any birds to Floyd | get in. Floyd | Floyd | Based on the weathering of the paint, it might have been put up here a Floyd | year or two ago, if you had to guess. A word is written in black magic Floyd | marker across the back: WRENLAW. The plank on top is attached Floyd | with a hinge. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > X BIRDHOUSE Floyd | Floyd | The circular entryway is blocked off on the inside; there's no way for Floyd | any birds to get in. Floyd | Floyd | Based on the weathering of the paint, it might have been put up here a Floyd | year or two ago, if you had to guess. A word is written in black magic Floyd | marker across the back: WRENLAW. The plank on top is attached Floyd | with a hinge. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This game, so blue." | |
| Draconis asks, "Should we open it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "mmhm" | ||
| Binder says, "Well it's the name of the work so uh sure" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | You flip open the "lid" of the birdhouse, revealing a tiny Floyd | screwdriver. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "AHA-wat" | |
| Draconis says, "That was...anticlimactic." | ||
| DavidW says, "curious" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get screwdriver" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > GET SCREWDRIVER Floyd | Floyd | As you lift the screwdriver into the sunlight, your mind lurches with Floyd | something like recognition—but the feeling passes, and you can't Floyd | remember what it reminded you of. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "Uh oh gettin lurchy all up in here" | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x screwdriver" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > X SCREWDRIVER Floyd | Floyd | It's thinner than a pen. The handle is blue; the Philips-head bit at Floyd | the end is so tiny and delicate, it almost isn't there. Floyd | Floyd | You have no idea why anyone would put this in a fake birdhouse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Have we seen anything to unscrew?" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x bit" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > X BIT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "Well if we can undo screwing the girl who messed up our mind, maybe" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get house" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > GET HOUSE Floyd | Floyd | The birdhouse is nailed to the post, and the post is stuck irrevocably Floyd | in the rocks. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I haven't. Tiny screwdrivers might be used for eyeglasses, though." | |
| djfletch says, "maybe we can fix our bike later if it breaks" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in house" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN HOUSE Floyd | Floyd | The imitation birdhouse is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close house" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE HOUSE Floyd | Floyd | You close the imitation birdhouse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Right now you've got a tiny screwdriver, a blue bottle, your bike key, Floyd | and a scrap of paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > X KEY Floyd | Floyd | The bike lock manufacturers saw fit to make this key impossible to fit Floyd | on any normal key ring, which is a pain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "fill bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > FILL BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Can we put the screwdriver in the bottle?" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get water" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > GET WATER Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Floyd has undo, right?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "He does, yeah." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "put water in bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > PUT WATER IN BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | First you take the stream. Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "put screwdriver in bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SCREWDRIVER IN BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | If you ever got it in, would you be able to get it out? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > X BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | The scratched blue glass is basically opaque, and the bottle is empty, Floyd | but it feels heavier than it should. Apparently "Schmetz" is the name Floyd | of the liquid that used to be inside of this. The labeling is not very Floyd | specific about what "Schmetz" is. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "And fwiw, >SAVE may not be working yet. vimes has had a lot going on and hasn't been able to look into our recent issues." | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "fill bottle with water" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > FILL BOTTLE WITH WATER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scratches" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > X SCRATCHES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "empty bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > EMPTY BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "pour bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > POUR BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "ClubFloyd Without a SAVE-ty Net" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "drink schmetz" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK SCHMETZ Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "drink bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | There might be a drop left. You lean back, invert the bottle over your Floyd | mouth, and start shaking. Floyd | Floyd | A single drop falls out and on to your tongue. It burns. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Wow, I didn't expect that to work." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Yeah, we're rebels." | ||
| Binder says (to Jacqueline), "Um, rebels do NOT tidy up parks." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "...ew." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "THIS ONE DOES" | ||
| Binder says, "hee hee" | ||
| djfletch says, "I think we should try the room we haven't been in yet, in case it's got an unscrewable thing." | ||
| Draconis says (to Binder), "We're rebelling against the standard expectation of what a rebel does!" | ||
| jojo arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| Draconis says (to jojo), "Hello." | Binder says, "So this is a rebellion of squares. Got it." | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Ditch Floyd | Sunlight finds you at the bottom of a rocky ditch. The stream flows Floyd | noisily between the rocks, past your feet, and into the culvert to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | Mounted on a post stuck between the rocks is a imitation birdhouse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "Sure, back east through the culvert and then north out of the forest?" | |
| Binder says, "Or maybe up from here" | ||
| djfletch says, "hmm, maybe" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Climbing up all these rocks probably wouldn't be worth the effort. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Ditch Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Climbing up all these rocks probably wouldn't be worth the effort. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Possibly over the river and through the woods to nobody's house we go." | |
| Binder says, "Well, rules that out." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Tunnel Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tunnel Floyd | You look ahead with a scrunched-up neck and fail to keep your shoes Floyd | out of the water. The curved floor is harder to walk on than you would Floyd | have thought. Floyd | Floyd | The tunnel leads east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Culvert Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You stagger eagerly toward familiar ground. Floyd | Floyd | Culvert Floyd | The stream runs out of a culvert here, from beneath the hill and the Floyd | train tracks to the west. The runoff from last night's storm flows Floyd | swiftly and musically. Floyd | Floyd | The ways out of the woods are north and east. Floyd | Floyd | Your mouth still tastes nasty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mud Floyd | This may have been a bad idea. Floyd | Floyd | What seemed at first to be a clear path has revealed itself as a Floyd | clinging morass. The mud squeaks angrily every time you lift a foot; Floyd | when you step down, it rises up to your ankles. Occasionally it slips Floyd | beneath you, and you're forced to swing your arms in the air like an Floyd | idiot to avoid falling on your face in the muck. Floyd | Floyd | This viscous pit sits between two hills: one to the east, too thick Floyd | with bushes to offer any purchase, and one to the west, which you Floyd | happen to know has a railroad track running across the top. But the Floyd | only clear ways out are north and south. Floyd | Floyd | Sensing your approach, a sparrow chirps a warning and flies away. Floyd | Floyd | Half-sunk in the mire is a styrofoam cooler. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| katie-paquette has arrived. | DavidW says, "Sit on it!" | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x cooler" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | Floyd | > X COOLER Floyd | Floyd | The styrofoam walls are unnecessarily thick. Probably this was used to Floyd | transport some live bait, or some beers, or first one and then the Floyd | other. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "Bait before beer, you're in the clear." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh gosh, our mouth still tastes nasty. Did you poison us?" | ||
| Binder says, "Beer before bait, you're going fishing late." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Also, why is this cooler not blue?" | ||
| Binder says, "We're going to under a dread smetzformation" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or does our mouth just taste predictably nasty from drinking alcohol from someone else's bottle that was left outside for weeks?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cooler" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN COOLER Floyd | Floyd | It's already open. You have no idea where the lid is. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "look in cooler" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN COOLER Floyd | Floyd | The styrofoam cooler is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "sit on cooler" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON COOLER Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can sit down on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "get cooler" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | Floyd | > GET COOLER Floyd | Floyd | The mud relinquishes its prize with a long, sickening squelch. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. Maybe we can't sit on it, then." | |
| Binder brandishes the cooler over his head triumphantly. | ||
| Binder says, "Take THAT, mud." | ||
| DavidW says, "drip drip" | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Mud Floyd | What seemed at first to be a clear path has revealed itself as a Floyd | clinging morass. The mud squeaks angrily every time you lift a foot; Floyd | when you step down, it rises up to your ankles. Occasionally it slips Floyd | beneath you, and you're forced to swing your arms in the air like an Floyd | idiot to avoid falling on your face in the muck. Floyd | Floyd | This viscous pit sits between two hills: one to the east, too thick Floyd | with bushes to offer any purchase, and one to the west, which you Floyd | happen to know has a railroad track running across the top. But the Floyd | only clear ways out are north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | katie-paquette exclaims, "I am on my braillenote now. Hopefully This works!!" | |
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Your "hiking gear" is indistinguishable from what you wear to class Floyd | every day: jacket, T-shirt, whatever. Your shoes and jeans are wet, Floyd | muddy, and covered in cockleburs. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "mm cockleburs" | |
| Binder asks, "north?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Try north, I guess." | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Edge of the woods Floyd | The bike trail turns here, giving as wide a berth as possible to both Floyd | the softball field and the woods. Cradled in the curve of the asphalt Floyd | is a pool of rainwater. Floyd | Floyd | On the other side of the trail, a low balance beam and an accompanying Floyd | informative sign have been pounded into the ground, both encrusted Floyd | with lichen. Behind them rise the woods to the south, as infinitely Floyd | dense and expansive as they can manage given the limited space Floyd | available. Floyd | Floyd | The path leads north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "It's our old friend, beam" | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x sign" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > X SIGN Floyd | Floyd | The sign describes some exercises for the athletically inclined to try Floyd | out using the balance beam. You can imagine the Parks Department Floyd | designing a dozen of these Fitness Stations, erecting this one, and Floyd | then running out of funding. Or running out of enthusiasm. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh, this is a previous location?" | |
| jojo goes home. | Binder says, "I thik so." | |
| Binder says, "+n" | ||
| djfletch says, "possibly west from the last room was an exit too" | ||
| Binder says, "Going north to confirm/refute." | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bike rack Floyd | Between the train tracks and the softball field there's barely any Floyd | room for a trail, and the bike rack here is almost lost in the Floyd | overgrowth. Presumably somebody will come by at some point and prune Floyd | the bushes, but today you're the only one around. Floyd | Floyd | The trail leads south from here. Floyd | Floyd | Your bike is still here, locked up to the bike rack. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "Yup, here's where we began" | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x bike" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > X BIKE Floyd | Floyd | Yours is not the most reliable bicycle in the world, but it's still Floyd | more trustworthy than, say, a car. At least when your bike betrays Floyd | you, it's fairly up-front about it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "disassemble bike" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > DISASSEMBLE BIKE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x rack" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > X RACK Floyd | Floyd | The bike rack is a frame of thick metal bars, and your bike is Floyd | attached to it fairly securely. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Wish I was mapping." | |
| inky says, "or napping" | ||
| djfletch asks, "can I see if it lets us go west from Mud?" | ||
| Binder says (to djfletch), "OK by me." | ||
| DavidW says, "To the train track? Worth a try." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Edge of the woods Floyd | The bike trail turns here, giving as wide a berth as possible to both Floyd | the softball field and the woods. Cradled in the curve of the asphalt Floyd | is a pool of rainwater. Floyd | Floyd | On the other side of the trail, a low balance beam and an accompanying Floyd | informative sign have been pounded into the ground, both encrusted Floyd | with lichen. Behind them rise the woods to the south, as infinitely Floyd | dense and expansive as they can manage given the limited space Floyd | available. Floyd | Floyd | The path leads north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mud Floyd | What seemed at first to be a clear path has revealed itself as a Floyd | clinging morass. The mud squeaks angrily every time you lift a foot; Floyd | when you step down, it rises up to your ankles. Occasionally it slips Floyd | beneath you, and you're forced to swing your arms in the air like an Floyd | idiot to avoid falling on your face in the muck. Floyd | Floyd | This viscous pit sits between two hills: one to the east, too thick Floyd | with bushes to offer any purchase, and one to the west, which you Floyd | happen to know has a railroad track running across the top. But the Floyd | only clear ways out are north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | It occurs to you that you don't know for sure what's on the other side Floyd | of the railroad tracks. Now is probably a good time to find out... Floyd | Floyd | Train tracks Floyd | You stand on the train tracks and look down the hill. The sun is Floyd | setting over a huge green golf course. There are no golfers; the Floyd | fairways are spread out just for you, to lead you to whatever comes Floyd | next. Floyd | Floyd | You have no idea what's beyond this golf course. The West is a realm Floyd | of potential because in the West is the freedom of the unknown, the Floyd | undecided. You can be anyone, because nobody there knows who you are. Floyd | Floyd | You could do it right now. You could walk down this hill and off of Floyd | the map, into something brand new. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Going off the map probably ends the game." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x tracks" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | But not today. You have other things to take care of today. Floyd | Floyd | Mud Floyd | What seemed at first to be a clear path has revealed itself as a Floyd | clinging morass. The mud squeaks angrily every time you lift a foot; Floyd | when you step down, it rises up to your ankles. Occasionally it slips Floyd | beneath you, and you're forced to swing your arms in the air like an Floyd | idiot to avoid falling on your face in the muck. Floyd | Floyd | This viscous pit sits between two hills: one to the east, too thick Floyd | with bushes to offer any purchase, and one to the west, which you Floyd | happen to know has a railroad track running across the top. But the Floyd | only clear ways out are north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "oh" | |
| djfletch says, "well I suppose we try that, or just get back on our back and go home with our new screwdriver" | ||
| djfletch says, "back -> bike" | ||
| Binder says, ". o O ( get bike on our back? what would THAT help? )" | ||
| katie-paquette says (to Floyd), "x cockleburs" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | Floyd | > X COCKLEBURS Floyd | Floyd | A bunch of those horrible barbed seed things are stuck to your jeans Floyd | and your shoelaces. You'll have to pull them off when you get home. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we should explore more. There must be locations unseen." | |
| Binder says, "Surely there's something to take apart somewhere." | ||
| djfletch says, "I don't have any obvious exits left" | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Keeping close to the eastern hill, you're able to grab onto some Floyd | branches to keep your balance, but the bushes have grown too close Floyd | together for you to climb up from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "harumph" | |
| DavidW says, "Try non-obvious exits then." | ||
| dddddd says, "The no-bird-thing seems important (it has the name on it, and looks like _the_ blue box). Getting the screwdriver: /and you can't remember what it reminded you of/. On the tent... (the only sitting without clear memories): /Actually, this reminds you of something... Or not. You get off the stool./" | ||
| djfletch says, "conceivably another south from outfield, but if it is it might just go to the tent" | ||
| Binder says, "Roam and try, I'm mulling." | ||
| djfletch says (to dddddd), "hmm, yes" | ||
| dddddd says, "maybe now we can remember" | ||
| djfletch says, "let me see if this exit exists and if not we can go back to the tent the long way" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Edge of the woods Floyd | The bike trail turns here, giving as wide a berth as possible to both Floyd | the softball field and the woods. Cradled in the curve of the asphalt Floyd | is a pool of rainwater. Floyd | Floyd | On the other side of the trail, a low balance beam and an accompanying Floyd | informative sign have been pounded into the ground, both encrusted Floyd | with lichen. Behind them rise the woods to the south, as infinitely Floyd | dense and expansive as they can manage given the limited space Floyd | available. Floyd | Floyd | The path leads north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | katie-paquette exclaims, "It works on the braillenote apex!" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outfield Floyd | Here is where the curve of the outfield fence gets close to a small Floyd | rise in the bike path. The incline is such that the asphalt is a Floyd | little drier here than it is to the east or west. Floyd | Floyd | A lonely drinking fountain stands just off the path. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The bushes at the edge of the woods here are too thick to go tromping Floyd | through. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "HM" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Edge of the woods Floyd | The bike trail turns here, giving as wide a berth as possible to both Floyd | the softball field and the woods. Cradled in the curve of the asphalt Floyd | is a pool of rainwater. Floyd | Floyd | On the other side of the trail, a low balance beam and an accompanying Floyd | informative sign have been pounded into the ground, both encrusted Floyd | with lichen. Behind them rise the woods to the south, as infinitely Floyd | dense and expansive as they can manage given the limited space Floyd | available. Floyd | Floyd | The path leads north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mud Floyd | What seemed at first to be a clear path has revealed itself as a Floyd | clinging morass. The mud squeaks angrily every time you lift a foot; Floyd | when you step down, it rises up to your ankles. Occasionally it slips Floyd | beneath you, and you're forced to swing your arms in the air like an Floyd | idiot to avoid falling on your face in the muck. Floyd | Floyd | This viscous pit sits between two hills: one to the east, too thick Floyd | with bushes to offer any purchase, and one to the west, which you Floyd | happen to know has a railroad track running across the top. But the Floyd | only clear ways out are north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Culvert Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Culvert Floyd | The stream runs out of a culvert here, from beneath the hill and the Floyd | train tracks to the west. The runoff from last night's storm flows Floyd | swiftly and musically. Floyd | Floyd | The ways out of the woods are north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken bottles Floyd | This clearing is bounded by a fallen log on the west side and a Floyd | boulder on the other. The ground around the rock is littered with Floyd | shards of glass; even with shoes on, you watch your steps carefully. Floyd | Floyd | The path along the stream runs east and west, but there's also a way Floyd | north, through the vegetation that covers the hill. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Tent Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tent Floyd | The bushes thin out near the top of the hill, and in the center of the Floyd | clearing is a small tent. Floyd | Floyd | A squirrel sees you and bolts. Floyd | Floyd | > | katie-paquette exclaims, "yea!" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the tent Floyd | A single beam of sunlight cuts through a hole in the western wall, Floyd | illuminating a shambolic mass of books, notepads, and newspapers Floyd | strewn across the floor. Everything is stained and crumpled by Floyd | moisture to some degree. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a stool here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "ha ha squirrel bolts. I guess that's why he needs all those nuts" | |
| djfletch says, "haha" | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x stool" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > X STOOL Floyd | Floyd | It doesn't look like anybody's ideal stool, but it's probably more Floyd | comfortable than the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Katie), "Cool. Glad to hear the braillenote apex can handle it." | |
Floyd ] Inside the tent
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT ON STOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | You sit on the stool again, and the sun gets in your eyes again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Oh! Now you remember!
Floyd |
Floyd | [...]
| Binder exclaims, "!" | |
| djfletch says, "hurrah" | ||
| Binder pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You picked up your sunglasses, and the right lens fell out. Jessica Floyd | gasped. Floyd | Floyd | "Is it broken?" She was concerned, but she didn't lean over to look. Floyd | You were able to notice this while appearing to give all your Floyd | attention to your sunglasses. Floyd | Floyd | "No, the screw is just loose." You sighed. "I don't think I have a Floyd | screwdriver for tiny sunglasses screws, is the thing." Floyd | Floyd | The two of you contemplated this state of affairs in silence for a Floyd | moment. Floyd | Floyd | Then Jessica spoke up. "I wish I had a tiny screwdriver I could give Floyd | you," she said (and she seemed much more broken up about it than you Floyd | were), "but I don't." Floyd | Floyd | You grinned. "What, are you trying to make this a metaphor for our Floyd | relationship?" Floyd | Floyd | She smiled, and hugged you for the second-to-last time, and said, Floyd | "Sure. If you want." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, or read a note from the AUTHOR? Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |
| DavidW says, "So it was a screw for eyeglasses." | ||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Binder says, "Well I found that an unexpectedly devestating ending." | |
| dddddd asks, "author?" | ||
| Binder says, "Sure." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ryan Veeder" | ||
| Binder says, "No, I think..." | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "author" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > AUTHOR Floyd | Floyd | A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Floyd | Floyd | In the interest of saving you some time, I'd like to let you know that Floyd | the "geocache" described in this game does not exist, as far as I Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | Thank you for playing Wrenlaw. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, or read a note from the AUTHOR? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh." | ||
| Allen asks, "just getting up... what game today?" | ||
| djfletch asks, "can we conclude that she gave us the coordinates?" | ||
| djfletch asks, "and this screwdriver is a message?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess we can if it lets you sleep. But I think we can never be sure and will eternally wrestle with the enigma, djf." | ||
| Binder says, "If only it were that simple." | ||
| dddddd asks, "so the note is from her, right?" | ||
| djfletch says, "it seems likely to me" | ||
| Binder says, "I wonder if anyone will actually go place this geocache now, to refute the author note." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Who knows? Oh, it's ARTSY" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "hahaha" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of Binder), "You are well-positioned to do that, aren't you? Do you have a blue box?" | ||
| djfletch says, "I'm sort of tempted to put a review on google maps at these coordinates." | ||
| Binder says, "I do have resources including People in Iowa City, yes." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ryan would actually probably get a kick out of that." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Is he in Iowa City?" | ||
| Allen arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | djfletch asks, "anyway, who wants to undo and see if we can walk across the train tracks?" | |
| Binder says (to djfletch), "I think that would be an excellent use of gMap reviews." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the tent Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Inside the tent Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Tent Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tent Floyd | The bushes thin out near the top of the hill, and in the center of the Floyd | clearing is a small tent. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Broken bottles Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken bottles Floyd | This clearing is bounded by a fallen log on the west side and a Floyd | boulder on the other. The ground around the rock is littered with Floyd | shards of glass; even with shoes on, you watch your steps carefully. Floyd | Floyd | The path along the stream runs east and west, but there's also a way Floyd | north, through the vegetation that covers the hill. Floyd | Floyd | Sensing your approach, a sparrow chirps a warning and flies away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Culvert Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Culvert Floyd | The stream runs out of a culvert here, from beneath the hill and the Floyd | train tracks to the west. The runoff from last night's storm flows Floyd | swiftly and musically. Floyd | Floyd | The ways out of the woods are north and east. Floyd | Floyd | A cricket hops out of your way and disappears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mud Floyd | What seemed at first to be a clear path has revealed itself as a Floyd | clinging morass. The mud squeaks angrily every time you lift a foot; Floyd | when you step down, it rises up to your ankles. Occasionally it slips Floyd | beneath you, and you're forced to swing your arms in the air like an Floyd | idiot to avoid falling on your face in the muck. Floyd | Floyd | This viscous pit sits between two hills: one to the east, too thick Floyd | with bushes to offer any purchase, and one to the west, which you Floyd | happen to know has a railroad track running across the top. But the Floyd | only clear ways out are north and south. Floyd | Floyd | A squirrel sees you and bolts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | No, not today. Someday. Eventually. Definitely. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "DENIED" | |
| djfletch asks, "hmm, could we have done it the first time?" | ||
| Binder says, "Escaping West from Iowa City is, in fact, the only way to win Iowa City." | ||
| DavidW asks, "So, the bottle and the cooler have no puzzle purpose at all?" | ||
| djfletch says (to DavidW), "hmm, nothing obvious" | ||
| djfletch says, "unless it's different if we took the cooler to the tent without the screwdriver, or something" | ||
| DavidW says, "West from Mud led to Train Tracks, but only once, and only to see it. The next command, regardless of intent, returned us to Mud." | ||
| djfletch asks, "but what if we had gone west again immediately instead of doing something else?" | ||
| djfletch says, "probably the same but maybe not" | ||
| Binder says, "Looking at its entry on ifdb, the one tag it has is 'short'." | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe." | ||
| Binder says, "Seems accurate to me." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Edge of the woods Floyd | The bike trail turns here, giving as wide a berth as possible to both Floyd | the softball field and the woods. Cradled in the curve of the asphalt Floyd | is a pool of rainwater. Floyd | Floyd | On the other side of the trail, a low balance beam and an accompanying Floyd | informative sign have been pounded into the ground, both encrusted Floyd | with lichen. Behind them rise the woods to the south, as infinitely Floyd | dense and expansive as they can manage given the limited space Floyd | available. Floyd | Floyd | The path leads north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bike rack Floyd | Between the train tracks and the softball field there's barely any Floyd | room for a trail, and the bike rack here is almost lost in the Floyd | overgrowth. Presumably somebody will come by at some point and prune Floyd | the bushes, but today you're the only one around. Floyd | Floyd | The trail leads south from here. Floyd | Floyd | Your bike is still here, locked up to the bike rack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "unlock bike" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK BIKE Floyd | Floyd | (with the bike key) Floyd | Are you ready to take off, then? [y/n] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe: probably the same but maybe not" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | You unlock your bike and hop on. Floyd | Floyd | This is all really strange. Whose tent was that? Why did they abandon Floyd | it? Why did you go inside? Floyd | Floyd | At least the mystery of the blue box is solved, kind of. And now you Floyd | have a tiny screwdriver, which is something you didn't have before. Floyd | Floyd | You squint into the sun, and then you turn your bike down gentle hills Floyd | toward home. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Better luck next time. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, or read a note from the AUTHOR? Floyd | > | Binder says, "Ah, an ending with even less resolution, alluding to the sunglasses unspoken." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Bike rack Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Wrenlaw Floyd | An Interactive Afternoon by Ryan Veeder Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 130429 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Bike rack Floyd | The coordinates you have are incomplete. They only narrow it down to Floyd | this general area. And, although it's not a big park, the thing you're Floyd | looking for is very small. Probably. Floyd | Floyd | Between the train tracks and the softball field there's barely any Floyd | room for a trail, and the bike rack here is almost lost in the Floyd | overgrowth. Presumably somebody will come by at some point and prune Floyd | the bushes, but today you're the only one around. Floyd | Floyd | The trail leads south from here. Floyd | Floyd | You finish locking up your bike and shove the key in your pocket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Edge of the woods Floyd | The bike trail turns here, giving as wide a berth as possible to both Floyd | the softball field and the woods. Cradled in the curve of the asphalt Floyd | is a pool of rainwater. Floyd | Floyd | On the other side of the trail, a low balance beam and an accompanying Floyd | informative sign have been pounded into the ground, both encrusted Floyd | with lichen. Behind them rise the woods to the south, as infinitely Floyd | dense and expansive as they can manage given the limited space Floyd | available. Floyd | Floyd | The path leads north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "This was like a poem of flashback." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mud Floyd | This may have been a bad idea. Floyd | Floyd | What seemed at first to be a clear path has revealed itself as a Floyd | clinging morass. The mud squeaks angrily every time you lift a foot; Floyd | when you step down, it rises up to your ankles. Occasionally it slips Floyd | beneath you, and you're forced to swing your arms in the air like an Floyd | idiot to avoid falling on your face in the muck. Floyd | Floyd | This viscous pit sits between two hills: one to the east, too thick Floyd | with bushes to offer any purchase, and one to the west, which you Floyd | happen to know has a railroad track running across the top. But the Floyd | only clear ways out are north and south. Floyd | Floyd | Half-sunk in the mire is a styrofoam cooler. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | It occurs to you that you don't know for sure what's on the other side Floyd | of the railroad tracks. Now is probably a good time to find out... Floyd | Floyd | Train tracks Floyd | You stand on the train tracks and look down the hill. The sun is Floyd | setting over a huge green golf course. There are no golfers; the Floyd | fairways are spread out just for you, to lead you to whatever comes Floyd | next. Floyd | Floyd | You have no idea what's beyond this golf course. The West is a realm Floyd | of potential because in the West is the freedom of the unknown, the Floyd | undecided. You can be anyone, because nobody there knows who you are. Floyd | Floyd | You could do it right now. You could walk down this hill and off of Floyd | the map, into something brand new. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Floyd | But not today. You have other things to take care of today. Floyd | Floyd | Mud Floyd | What seemed at first to be a clear path has revealed itself as a Floyd | clinging morass. The mud squeaks angrily every time you lift a foot; Floyd | when you step down, it rises up to your ankles. Occasionally it slips Floyd | beneath you, and you're forced to swing your arms in the air like an Floyd | idiot to avoid falling on your face in the muck. Floyd | Floyd | This viscous pit sits between two hills: one to the east, too thick Floyd | with bushes to offer any purchase, and one to the west, which you Floyd | happen to know has a railroad track running across the top. But the Floyd | only clear ways out are north and south. Floyd | Floyd | Half-sunk in the mire is a styrofoam cooler. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "DENIED" | |
| djfletch says, "oh well" | ||
| Binder says, "No vun escapes stalag Iowa City, djfletch Hogan" | ||
| Allen has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "I suppose attempting to cross the highway is also met with denial." | |
| Binder says, "Might be a nice bit of denial prose." | ||
| Binder says, "I like the language in this one." | ||
| Binder says, "Shambolic, morass, &c" | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the woods Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Edge of the woods Floyd | The bike trail turns here, giving as wide a berth as possible to both Floyd | the softball field and the woods. Cradled in the curve of the asphalt Floyd | is a pool of rainwater. Floyd | Floyd | On the other side of the trail, a low balance beam and an accompanying Floyd | informative sign have been pounded into the ground, both encrusted Floyd | with lichen. Behind them rise the woods to the south, as infinitely Floyd | dense and expansive as they can manage given the limited space Floyd | available. Floyd | Floyd | The path leads north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Outfield Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outfield Floyd | Here is where the curve of the outfield fence gets close to a small Floyd | rise in the bike path. The incline is such that the asphalt is a Floyd | little drier here than it is to the east or west. Floyd | Floyd | A lonely drinking fountain stands just off the path. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bench Floyd | The bike trail turns from west to south here, and outside the curve is Floyd | a cozy bench, which for whatever reason sits facing east, toward the Floyd | highway. Floyd | Floyd | Next to the bench is a chipped blue garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't just walk out into traffic! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Bench Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Bench Floyd | The bike trail turns from west to south here, and outside the curve is Floyd | a cozy bench, which for whatever reason sits facing east, toward the Floyd | highway. Floyd | Floyd | Next to the bench is a chipped blue garbage can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crosswalk Floyd | It's theoretically possible to get across the highway here, but you Floyd | have yet to see it done. The white lines of the crosswalk are more Floyd | like a blueprint for an imaginary bridge. Floyd | Floyd | The bike trail supposedly continues on the other side of the highway. Floyd | Realistically, though, you can follow it north, or take a narrow, Floyd | unpaved track between tufts of grass to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | According to the signal across the road, it's not safe to cross now. Floyd | Based on the speed of traffic, you have to agree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "run" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > RUN Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to say which compass direction to go in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "run east" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > RUN EAST Floyd | Floyd | According to the signal across the road, it's not safe to cross now. Floyd | Based on the speed of traffic, you have to agree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You push the button, and wonder if this time your action will have any Floyd | influence on the outside world. Floyd | Floyd | An incredibly loud motorcycle speeds by, and you lose your train of Floyd | thought for a few seconds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | dddddd says, "and, remember... /You push the button, and wonder if this time your action will have any influence on the outside world./" | |
| Binder says, "It seems like just moments ago." | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | According to the signal across the road, it's not safe to cross now. Floyd | Based on the speed of traffic, you have to agree. Floyd | Floyd | An incredibly loud motorcycle speeds by, and you lose your train of Floyd | thought for a few seconds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "leap traffic in single bound" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > LEAP TRAFFIC IN SINGLE BOUND Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "owel, still not superhuman" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk
Floyd |
Floyd | > OWEL, STILL NOT SUPERHUMAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "traffic, halt" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk
Floyd |
Floyd | > TRAFFIC, HALT
Floyd |
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "part traffic sea" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > PART TRAFFIC SEA Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | dddddd asks, "what about a suicide?" | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Crosswalk Floyd | It's theoretically possible to get across the highway here, but you Floyd | have yet to see it done. The white lines of the crosswalk are more Floyd | like a blueprint for an imaginary bridge. Floyd | Floyd | The bike trail supposedly continues on the other side of the highway. Floyd | Realistically, though, you can follow it north, or take a narrow, Floyd | unpaved track between tufts of grass to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | dddddd says, "too blue? :P" | |
| dddddd says (to floyd), "suicide" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > SUICIDE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis heads back home. | ||
| dddddd says (to jump), "the bridge" | ||
| dddddd says (to floyd), "jump the bridge" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > JUMP THE BRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| dddddd says (to floyd), "jump into the highway" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > JUMP INTO THE HIGHWAY Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| dddddd says (to floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | You jump up and down a couple times. Get the blood flowing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man, the emoness of this game has consumed you people." | |
| dddddd disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | Binder says, "I was born emo." | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Crosswalk Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Crosswalk Floyd | It's theoretically possible to get across the highway here, but you Floyd | have yet to see it done. The white lines of the crosswalk are more Floyd | like a blueprint for an imaginary bridge. Floyd | Floyd | The bike trail supposedly continues on the other side of the highway. Floyd | Realistically, though, you can follow it north, or take a narrow, Floyd | unpaved track between tufts of grass to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "I think I've tried everything I want to." | |
