  
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 asks, "So should we do Holy Robot Empire?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, arbitrarily, since she's already uploaded that. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess that makes it not arbitrary, but whatever." | ||
| Roger arrives, full of fun and funk. | Zach says, "Sure" | |
| Jacqueline arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW says, "Sure. But I know one of the Zcode/Glulx games of Shufflecomp isn't Floydable because it's limited to mouse input. I forget which game." | |
| Doug says, "I'm up for it." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "maga's been giving me intell" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask holyrobotempire" | ||
Floyd ] Empty Classroom 0/1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The day of the Robopope's visit has finally arrived. The Pontiff of Floyd | Logic; Vicar of the Prince of Cyberspace; Ruler of the Holy C++; The Floyd | Primal Prime Pope Fortran; here, in this very building. Floyd | Floyd | (Or, to be precise--and you are always telling your students to be Floyd | precise--this very building complex.) Floyd | Floyd | Now that you have finished grading these student examinations, you are Floyd | going to find the Robopope and then kiss its papal ring, or your name Floyd | isn't Morgen Santamore. Floyd | Floyd | HOLY ROBOT EMPIRE Floyd | A Text Adventure by Ralph Gide Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 140511 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Empty Classroom Floyd | The classroom is quiet now. The quiet has the frayed edges that Floyd | indicate tumult and excitement just a few doors away. The lights are Floyd | low. The metal walls of the classroom rise, bending at precise yet Floyd | inexplicable angles as they are lost in the darkness forty, sixty, Floyd | one-hundred feet overhead. Floyd | Floyd | Your stainless-steel teacher's desk stands at the head of the Floyd | classroom. Twenty-five student desks of molded wire, in five rows of Floyd | five, sit empty before it. There is an exit to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay wonderful maga" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. That boy's all right." | ||
| Doug asks, "Does the Robopope know robosluts?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me. i. (are we a robot?)" | ||
Floyd ] Empty Classroom 0/3
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME. I. (ARE WE A ROBOT?)
Floyd |
Floyd | Your name is Morgen Santamore, and you are an instructor in robot
Floyd | decorum at the Mathedral of the Heavenly Code High School.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd | a student examination
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd | a student examination
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Thank you, Doug." | |
| DavidW says, "oops. That was meant on channel" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x examination" | ||
Floyd ] Empty Classroom 0/4 Floyd | Floyd | > X EXAMINATION Floyd | Floyd | A thin sheet of metal approximately 200mm by 282mm. It is engraved at Floyd | the top with the student's name, and below that, his answers. At the Floyd | very bottom is engraved the grade you have given it: 62.875%. Jon K. Floyd | requires improvement. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Empty Classroom 0/4 Floyd | Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | HOLY ROBOT EMPIRE was written and programmed by Ralph Gide in Floyd | April and May of 2014 for the ShuffleComp. Complete the game to view Floyd | the songs (chosen by other ShuffleComp participants) that inspired it. Floyd | Floyd | This game has a cruelty rating of polite. You cannot make the Floyd | game unwinnable, though you can arrive at an early ending* in a few Floyd | situations if you try to. Trust in the Holy Code. Floyd | Floyd | Use TALK TO to converse with other characters. Floyd | Floyd | Type CREDITS for credits. Floyd | Floyd | * Euphemism for death. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "x examination. Then check the desk for drawers. Then out." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "compute" | ||
Floyd ] Empty Classroom 0/4 Floyd | Floyd | > COMPUTE Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Empty Classroom 0/5 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | (the teacher's desk) Floyd | It looks a little like it was extracted from the interior of a large, Floyd | mysterious engine. It has gears and pistons. It is not particularly Floyd | practical as a desk, but of course it is not the place of humans to Floyd | question the mechanically perfect aesthetic sense of robot designers Floyd | and architects. Floyd | Floyd | There is a slot in the top of the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Mysterious. What size slot?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x slot" | ||
Floyd ] Empty Classroom 0/6 Floyd | Floyd | > X SLOT Floyd | Floyd | A wide and narrow mouth fringed with a rubber baffle. It's sized to Floyd | fit a 200mm wide sheet of metal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "put examination in slot" | ||
Floyd ] Empty Classroom 1/7 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT EXAMINATION IN SLOT Floyd | Floyd | The examination begins to slide into the slot with a brief grinding Floyd | sound... and now it is gone. Something inside the desk thunks, a Floyd | pleasant sound, like the mating of important mechanisms. Floyd | Floyd | There; you're done with your teacher's duties. And not a moment too Floyd | soon--the crowd must already be thick around Pope Fortran. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "credits" | ||
Floyd ] Empty Classroom 1/7 Floyd | Floyd | > CREDITS Floyd | Floyd | HOLY ROBOT EMPIRE was tested by Seth Kaplan, Healy, Royce Odle, Floyd | Alex Klemperer, and Alan DeNiro. Any remaining bugs are the fault of Floyd | Ralph Gide. Floyd | Floyd | The cover image is derived from a public domain photo by Steve Floyd | Hillebrand of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "hm, where is the cover image?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "okay, now I want to go see the coverart. One sec." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Robots just love their metal, don't they?" | ||
| Zach says, "Must be a picture of a robot fish" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It is actually not on IFDB, and maga is unsure." | ||
| Doug says, "maybe one of the songs was "Rock-It"" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Carry on." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x student desks" | ||
Floyd ] Empty Classroom 1/8 Floyd | Floyd | > X STUDENT DESKS Floyd | Floyd | You know from your own time as a student here--a decade ago now--that Floyd | the students' desks are very uncomfortable, but for a reason: to focus Floyd | the minds of the students on learning. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] Empty Classroom 1/8 Floyd | Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Empty Classroom 1/8 Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||
Floyd ] Empty Classroom 1/9 Floyd | Floyd | > PRAY Floyd | Floyd | You mutter a quick prayer to learning and deference. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Amen" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So... shall we away?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||
Floyd ] Empty Classroom 1/9 Floyd | Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Interstitial Hallway 1/10 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interstitial Hallway Floyd | Midway between the dark, twisting corridors of the High School to the Floyd | west, and the spacious extravagance of the Mathedral to the east. The Floyd | ceiling is a high, reversed ravine crosshatched with light and spiny Floyd | shadows. Floyd | Floyd | Your classroom is to the north, one of countless nodes on the network Floyd | of education. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Columnar Polyhedron Narthex 1/11 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | And... yes, here's the crowd. Floyd | Floyd | Looks like they got the jump on you. Floyd | Floyd | Columnar Polyhedron Narthex Floyd | A chaos of knees and elbows. The average person in this crowd seems to Floyd | have, on average, five such protruding joints, and each attached Floyd | appendage is flailing and threshing as the crowd packs itself tighter. Floyd | Floyd | There is barely space to breathe here, but the crowd takes up just the Floyd | bottom, say, 5% of the great portico. Above your head tower obtuse Floyd | angles of gray-shining metal, each segment tilted a different way and Floyd | so bearing a differing depth of shadow. Higher still a riot of white Floyd | sunlight twinkles on geometrical patterns of rivets, and beyond, the Floyd | ceiling is hidden in a glowing haze... presumably. Floyd | Floyd | Doorways shaped like quartz crystals head east and west, south is a Floyd | vaulted archway to the plaza, and north is the huge, tiered gateway to Floyd | the nave. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hyperbole in one so precise? Tsk tsk." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x crowd" | ||
Floyd ] Columnar Polyhedron Narthex 1/12 Floyd | Floyd | > X CROWD Floyd | Floyd | A swelling mass of humanity, moving slowly northward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lower Nave 1/13 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | If it appeared that the crowd could not be compressed any further... Floyd | then appearances were deceiving. Floyd | Floyd | Lower Nave Floyd | When empty, you love the lower nave: mathematical branching archways, Floyd | buttress building upon buttress. When it is packed as full as a Floyd | magnet-tram at rush-hour--only without the motion towards home--not so Floyd | much. (As for the upper nave, where vaults meet more vaults in fractal Floyd | intersections: not crowded, but nobody can get there except for robots Floyd | and drones with flight/hover capability...) Floyd | Floyd | Someone has dropped their emergency tool kit; it's lying up against Floyd | the south wall. Floyd | Floyd | The crowd, a dense seething mass each unit of which is desperately Floyd | trying to do exactly the same thing as you--approach Pope Fortran--is Floyd | mashed together cheek to jowl. Floyd | Floyd | Far to the north, near the chapel, you can see a broad head sticking Floyd | up over the mass of adoring visitors: Pope Fortran location acquired. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "take tool kit. x it." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, we want the kit." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take kit" | ||
Floyd ] Lower Nave 1/14 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KIT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x kit" | ||
Floyd ] Lower Nave 1/15 Floyd | Floyd | > X KIT Floyd | Floyd | A box of soft black plastic. Written on the side in red are the words: Floyd | "Emergency Tool Kit". It is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Lower Nave 1/16 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | You open the emergency tool kit, revealing a pair of wirecutters. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x fortran" | ||
Floyd ] Lower Nave 1/17 Floyd | Floyd | > X FORTRAN Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get closer. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach asks, "Are we going to kill the robot pope!?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Gosh" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x wirecutters" | ||
Floyd ] Lower Nave 1/18 Floyd | Floyd | > X WIRECUTTERS Floyd | Floyd | A simple metal tool used to cut wires. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "No way, man. No way." | |
| DavidW says (to Zach), "Heavens no" | ||
| vimes says, "neopope is too awesome" | ||
| Jacqueline) Zach says, "I'm out. Find a different driver!" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lower Nave 1/19 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You are sweatily rebuffed. Floyd | Floyd | This isn't a crowd you're trying to penetrate so much as an impassable Floyd | rampart made of people, which outmasses you by a factor of roughly Floyd | 1,000. Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to find another way to get to the chapel, preferably Floyd | bypassing all these elbows, shoulders, hips and buttocks. Floyd | Floyd | Isn't the chapel accessible from the crypt? If you can find a way down Floyd | into it, you should be able to work your way through the crypt and up Floyd | again clear across the nave, right where you need to be. Floyd | Floyd | > | [band-name] Zach says, "Sweaty Rebuff" | |
| Doug says, "impassable rampart is made of people! it's people!!" | ||
| Zach says, "heehee" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x buttocks" | ||
Floyd ] Lower Nave 1/19 Floyd | Floyd | > X BUTTOCKS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "'You are sweatily rebuffed' is an interesting phrase, even in context." | |
| DavidW says, "No holy orgy today, I guess." | ||
| Zach says, "Holy orgy, Batman!" | ||
| Doug says, "no oxford comma either." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Columnar Polyhedron Narthex 1/20 | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | It's a battle, but by swinging your arms like hammers and donning a Floyd | fierce, blank smile that implies joy arising from the act of violence, Floyd | you forge your way back into the narthex. Floyd | Floyd | Columnar Polyhedron Narthex Floyd | A chaos of knees and elbows. The average person in this crowd seems to Floyd | have, on average, five such protruding joints, and each attached Floyd | appendage is flailing and threshing as the crowd packs itself tighter. Floyd | Floyd | There is barely space to breathe here, but the crowd takes up just the Floyd | bottom 5% of the great portico. Above your head tower obtuse angles of Floyd | gray-shining metal, each segment tilted a different way and so bearing Floyd | a differing depth of shadow. Higher still a riot of white sunlight Floyd | twinkles on geometrical patterns of rivets, and beyond, the ceiling is Floyd | hidden in a glowing haze. Floyd | Floyd | Doorways shaped like quartz crystals head east and west, south is a Floyd | vaulted archway to the plaza, and north is the huge, tiered gateway to Floyd | the nave. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Columnar Polyhedron Narthex 1/21 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oops sorry" | |
| Zach asks, "Could we have gone down from there?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n. d." | ||
Floyd ] Lower Nave 1/23 Floyd | Floyd | > N. D. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lower Nave Floyd | When empty, you love the lower nave: mathematical branching archways, Floyd | buttress building upon buttress. When it is packed as full as a Floyd | magnet-tram at rush-hour--only without the motion towards home--not so Floyd | much. Floyd | Floyd | An impassable rampart made of people fills the nave wall to wall. Floyd | Floyd | Far to the north, near the chapel, you can see a broad head sticking Floyd | up over the mass of adoring visitors: Pope Fortran location acquired. Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ah no" | |
| Doug says, "from the crypt" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Columnar Polyhedron Narthex 1/24 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Columnar Polyhedron Narthex Floyd | A chaos of knees and elbows. The average person in this crowd seems to Floyd | have, on average, five such protruding joints, and each attached Floyd | appendage is flailing and threshing as the crowd packs itself tighter. Floyd | Floyd | There is barely space to breathe here, but the crowd takes up just the Floyd | bottom 5% of the great portico. Above your head tower obtuse angles of Floyd | gray-shining metal, each segment tilted a different way and so bearing Floyd | a differing depth of shadow. Higher still a riot of white sunlight Floyd | twinkles on geometrical patterns of rivets, and beyond, the ceiling is Floyd | hidden in a glowing haze. Floyd | Floyd | Doorways shaped like quartz crystals head east and west, south is a Floyd | vaulted archway to the plaza, and north is the huge, tiered gateway to Floyd | the nave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/25 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Almshouse Floyd | The east wall leans west, the south wall leans south, and the north Floyd | and west walls are crooked in angular S-curves. There is a narrow gap Floyd | in the north wall, and just through it, a hint of descending steps. Floyd | The narthex is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Carpet: that's rare in these halls. It is sea-foam green. Sea-foam is Floyd | a type of green, isn't it? The carpet runs up the walls to a height of Floyd | ten feet, and above that is blotchy steel. Floyd | Floyd | The carpet is ratty, worn in a threadbare pathway before a cot along Floyd | the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the cot is a prayer helmet. Floyd | Floyd | A large, flaccid pauper is standing near the cot. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "East or south from the narthex, I guess we want." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, when that text flew up on the screen I totally read, 'On the cat is a prayer helmet,' and I got really excited." | ||
| Zach says, "Yay" | ||
| [band-name] Doug says, "Flaccid Pauper" | ||
| [band-name] Jota says, "This sounds like some kind of insult contest between the two of you." | ||
| [band-name] Doug says, "Insult Contest" | ||
| [band-name] McMartin says, "Stumbling Puzzlewit" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take helmet. x it." | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/27
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE HELMET. X IT.
Floyd |
Floyd | The pauper casually lays his hand on the helmet, preventing you from
Floyd | taking it.
Floyd |
Floyd | He says: "This is mine. Though actually I don't have any use for this
Floyd | old helmet, so I'll give it to you for a song."
Floyd |
Floyd | An industrial-strength prayer helmet, beige plastic with molded
Floyd | contours, stained with the marks of a thousand dirty fingers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| vimes says, "a jaunty prayer helmet!" | |
| DavidW says, "And I read 'flaccid paper'" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/28 Floyd | Floyd | > SING Floyd | Floyd | You sing a verse of code, quite off-key. Floyd | Floyd | The pauper winces. He says: "Sorry, I don't like a capella. Maybe Floyd | there's an instrument around here somewhere you can play for me Floyd | instead." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x carpet" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/29 Floyd | Floyd | > X CARPET Floyd | Floyd | Down the center of the room the carpet is worn away to the gridlike Floyd | underlayer--and elsewhere it's none too plush, either. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x pauper" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/30 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAUPER Floyd | Floyd | It looks as though he used to be fat, but recent deprivation has begun Floyd | the process of his dwindling away like a snowbank in the spring. He's Floyd | wearing a medley of colors and patterns; maroon jacket, houndstooth Floyd | pants, green socks, paisley shirt. He looks a little bit familiar. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Any trap doors under that rare carpet?" | |
| Zach says (to DavidW), "There are stairs down to the north" | ||
| Zach asks, "How can you tell that someone used to be fat?" | ||
| Doug asks, "extra skin?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Crossway 1/31 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you climb down the steps, a cold atmosphere smelling of rust and Floyd | burnt electronics drifts up the steps to meet you. Floyd | Floyd | The light lessens, of course. The low-power bulbs along the stairway Floyd | to the crypt give off little more than a faint, rotten, brownish Floyd | phosphorescence. Floyd | Floyd | You are encrypted. Floyd | Floyd | Crossway Floyd | Actually a slight inaccuracy. Though maybe it used to be a crossway, Floyd | with four brick tunnels branching out beneath a groined vault, now Floyd | only the northwestern and southwestern passages are open. The others Floyd | have collapsed and are full of broken bricks. A staircase heads Floyd | upwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Skin that doesn't stretch tightly, hanging skin, yeah." | |
| Doug asks, "encrypted? as in we entered the crypt?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Crossway 1/32 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Your name is Morgen Santamore, and you are an instructor in robot Floyd | decorum at the Mathedral of the Heavenly Code High School. Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an emergency tool kit (open) Floyd | a pair of wirecutters Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Encrypted. I see what the author has done here." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Reliquary 1/33 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You gain another layer of encryption... Floyd | Floyd | Reliquary Floyd | A rutted ground of rotted bricks. The ceiling is low, lumpy with Floyd | whitish nitre. The walls are very close and crooked, but not by any Floyd | mysterious robot design. They're just ancient--and were shoddy to Floyd | begin with. Brick passageways lead southeast and northwest. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plexiglass cabinet (closed) (in which is a mangled saint Floyd | (in which is a holy fuse)) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "buttocks... flaccid ... groined... what has the author done?" | |
| Doug asks, "hm, robot decorum? like C3PO?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Reliquary 1/34 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | (first unlocking the plexiglass cabinet) Floyd | You lack a key that fits the plexiglass cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x fuse" | ||
Floyd ] Reliquary 1/35 Floyd | Floyd | > X FUSE Floyd | Floyd | Small, square. Although this fuse, taken from the body of Saint 9, Floyd | must be nearly 400 years old, it doesn't seem to be burnt out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x saint" | ||
Floyd ] Reliquary 1/36 Floyd | Floyd | > X SAINT Floyd | Floyd | A 10cm by 30cm plaque identifies this as Saint 9. Apparently in the Floyd | year 23 ARA this poor peaceable holy machine was pushed into a trash Floyd | compactor by a mob of unvirtuous pagans. (And then crushed therein.) Floyd | Floyd | What's left of Saint 9 is bolted to the back of the plexiglass Floyd | cabinet. Streaks of clotted oil have dripped down around a crushed Floyd | metal shell. The saint's semi-conical, mantisoid head rests on its Floyd | shoulder. Floyd | Floyd | In Saint 9 is a holy fuse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "this is reminding me a little of Valley of Steel." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/37 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | By God, something reeks over this way. Floyd | Floyd | Subsidence Floyd | And here, the rotten brick floor has partially collapsed--there Floyd | appears to be a level below the crypt. You could probably climb down Floyd | to it if you really wanted to... Floyd | Floyd | Or, if you skirt the hole, the hallway continues to the north. The Floyd | hallway also runs southeast. Floyd | Floyd | A woman in a rust-red jumpsuit is leaning against the shabby, filthy Floyd | wall, just across the hole. Her shoulders are right in a mass of Floyd | cobwebs--she must not care. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/38 Floyd | Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | A nasty, jagged hole. Floyd | Floyd | She smiles crisply, as if realizing you are not a threat, and says: "A Floyd | civilian. Good. I'm commandeering your help. I'm following a lead on a Floyd | reported heretical item somewhere around here--I suspect it's further Floyd | down. You're a deputy Inquisitor now; neither of us are going anywhere Floyd | until we uproot that heresy. Got it?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we should've visited the plaza earlier. This game seems to like having scattered tools." | |
| Zach says, "We can always go back, I think." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x woman" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/39 Floyd | Floyd | > X WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | Not very many people wear rust-red jumpsuits--pretty much only Floyd | Inquisitors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to woman" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/40
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO WOMAN
Floyd |
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| Floyd [1] "Hello." | ||
| Floyd [2] "Can you tell me more about this 'heretical item'?" | ||
| Floyd [3] "So what's it like to be an Inquisitor?" | ||
| Floyd [4] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Seems counterintuitive that the key would be upstairs, if that's what you were thinking." | |
| DavidW asks, "well, darn. We can't retreat now, can we?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/41
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | She says: "It's most likely printed material."
Floyd |
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| Floyd [1] "Hello." | ||
| Floyd [2] "Any idea where I should look for this 'heretical item'?" | ||
| Floyd [3] "So what's it like to be an Inquisitor?" | ||
| Floyd [4] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "I was thinking of a flute." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/42
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | She says: "Somewhere down that hole, mostly likely."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "Hello." | ||
| Floyd [2] "So what's it like to be an Inquisitor?" | ||
| Floyd [3] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "...oh" | |
| Nitku says, "as far as I know you can't put this into an unwinnable state" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/43
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | She says: "You must think I just tell everyone who wanders by about my
Floyd | work, don't you? Well, I don't."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "Hello." | ||
| Floyd [2] "You can't even tell a Deputy Inquisitor, like me, about what you | ||
Floyd | do?" | ||
| Floyd [3] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/44
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | She says: "My Inquisitorial work is classified. You won't need to know
Floyd | anything about it, unless one day we are called upon to interview
Floyd | you."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "Hello." | ||
| Floyd [2] "I have nothing to hide; I would be happy to answer any questions | ||
Floyd | your office might have." | ||
| Floyd [3] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Doug says, "yeah, it said cruelty rating was polite." | |
| Doug says, "but that's what a cruel game would say!!" | ||
| Nitku says, "ha ha" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Nitku), "oh right. The game did say that." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/45
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | She says: "You remind me a bit of a client we had in the Interrogation
Floyd | Chambers last week. He wouldn't stop babbling, at least at first. Then
Floyd | eventually he did stop babbling. It was nice."
Floyd |
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| Floyd [1] "Hello." | ||
| Floyd [2] "You probably don't know this, but I applied to become an | ||
Floyd | Inquisitor after I graduated." | ||
| Floyd [3] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/46
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | She says: "We are very particular about who we accept."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "Hello." | ||
| Floyd [2] "They said I wasn't healthy enough to be an Inquisitor." | ||
| Floyd [3] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "She will kill us if I keep on..." | |
| Zach says, "Waah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "She doesn't like us talking." | ||
| Doug says, "it's funny that we still have the option to say Hello." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Of course, then we could start over and explore upstairs if we die." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/47
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | She nods curtly.
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "They said I wasn't healthy enough to be an Inquisitor." | ||
| Floyd [2] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach says, ">SAY EVERYTHING" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/48
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | She says: "Do you have a physical condition? Or perhaps a mental one?"
Floyd |
Floyd | She seems interested in what you're saying for the first time.
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "I contracted cyber-arthritis as a child. Both arms and both | ||
Floyd | legs." | ||
| Floyd [2] "I suffered from agnosticism as a child." | ||
| Floyd [3] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| [band-name] Zach says, "Cyber Arthritis" | |
| DavidW says, "sigh" | ||
| Zach says, "ha ha" | ||
| Zach says, "A crippling lack of faith in the robot pope" | ||
| [band-name] Doug says, "Suffered From Agnosticism" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x cobwebs" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/48 Floyd | Floyd | > X COBWEBS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/49
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | She shudders, and says: "You've healed, I presume?"
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "My agnosticism has completey relapsed. A miracle, I've always | ||
Floyd | believed." | ||
| Floyd [2] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "I feel like I am now obligated to insert the #band-name stuff into this transcript by hand before it's posted." | |
| Zach says, "Yay" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/50
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | She says: "That's lucky, for you. But please don't talk to me about
Floyd | miracles."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "Don't talk about miracles? Why not?" | ||
| Floyd [2] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/51
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | She says: "Have you ever heard of the Cult of the New Version?"
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "What's the 'Cult of the New Version'?" | ||
| Floyd [2] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/52
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | She says: "A sect of heretics; they believe that the universe is
Floyd | currently running from a outdated version of the Heavenly Code. They
Floyd | point to miracles, or seemingly unsupported features of the universe
Floyd | that still function, as 'previews' of their heretical new version."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "And now whenever someone talks of miracles, you think they might | ||
Floyd | be a heretic? How sad." | ||
| Floyd [2] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "I have no idea what song any of this refers to, certainly. But I could say that for most song-based games." | |
| Doug asks, "is "relapsed" really the right word there?" | ||
| pollux says, "No." | ||
| Zach asks, "Remission?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/53
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | She shrugs, and says: "My job isn't to not be sad. It's to crush
Floyd | heresy wherever I find it."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "I am definitely not a heretic." | ||
| Floyd [2] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Because they're referring to it as a sickness, except that it's in remission... timing" | |
| Doug says, "yeah, I'm still holding out hope that one of my songs is on the list, but I kinda doubt it." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/54
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | She says: "That's exactly what everyone says, including heretics."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "How can I prove to you that I'm not a heretic?" | ||
| Floyd [2] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/55
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
| Jacqueline says, "I was sure she was going to kill us if we kept talking. Clearly I was wrong." | |
Floyd | She says: "You can't. One of the Inquisition's biggest challenges is Floyd | that there's really no way to prove that kind of a negative. So maybe Floyd | you should stop talking now, while you're still free." Floyd | | ||
| Floyd [1] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach says, "She needs us to go hole diving" | |
| [band-name] Jacqueline says, "Hole Diving" | ||
| [band-name] Zach says, "Holy Hole Diving" | ||
| [band-name] Zach says, "Robot Pope and the Holy Hole Divers" | ||
| [band-name] Zach says, "Sorry" | ||
| Doug says, "ok then." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "True. Also..." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/56 Floyd | Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | You decide to say nothing after all. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, ""decide"" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say something" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 1/57 Floyd | Floyd | > SAY SOMETHING Floyd | Floyd | (to the Inquisitor) Floyd | [Use TALK TO to interact with characters.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Amazing. She didn't kill us. This time." | |
| Doug says, "anyway. I vote down" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I thought we wanted to sweep the plaza first?" | ||
| Doug asks, "will she let us?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Dunno" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Reliquary 1/58 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Reliquary Floyd | A rutted ground of rotted bricks. The ceiling is low, lumpy with Floyd | whitish nitre. The walls are very close and crooked, but not by any Floyd | mysterious robot design. They're just ancient--and were shoddy to Floyd | begin with. Brick passageways lead southeast and northwest. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plexiglass cabinet (closed) (in which is a mangled saint Floyd | (in which is a holy fuse)) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yes" | |
| [band-name] Doug says, "Deputy Inquisitor" | ||
| [band-name] Doug says, "Whitish Nitre -- ok I'll stop now." | ||
| Doug says, "neither of us are going anywhere until we uproot the heresy..." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't think she'll let us go backwards now." | ||
| Doug asks, "but I guess that was an idle threat?" | ||
| Zach says, "Yeah, we have tenure" | ||
| DavidW says, "huh" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Where did you want to go, precisely?" | ||
| Doug asks, "plaza?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Crossway 1/59 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crossway Floyd | Though maybe it used to be a crossway, with four brick tunnels Floyd | branching out beneath a groined vault, now only the northwestern and Floyd | southwestern passages are open. The others have collapsed and are full Floyd | of broken bricks. A staircase heads upwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "south of the narthex" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Crossway 1/60 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/61 Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Almshouse Floyd | The east wall leans west, the south wall leans south, and the north Floyd | and west walls are crooked in angular S-curves. There is a narrow gap Floyd | in the north wall, and just through it, a hint of descending steps. Floyd | The narthex is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Carpet: that's rare in these halls. It is sea-foam green. The carpet Floyd | runs up the walls to a height of ten feet, and above that is blotchy Floyd | steel. Floyd | Floyd | The carpet is ratty, worn in a threadbare pathway before a cot along Floyd | the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the cot is a prayer helmet. Floyd | Floyd | A large, flaccid pauper is standing near the cot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Columnar Polyhedron Narthex 1/62 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Columnar Polyhedron Narthex Floyd | A chaos of knees and elbows. The average person in this crowd seems to Floyd | have, on average, five such protruding joints, and each attached Floyd | appendage is flailing and threshing as the crowd packs itself tighter. Floyd | Floyd | There is barely space to breathe here, but the crowd takes up just the Floyd | bottom 5% of the great portico. Above your head tower obtuse angles of Floyd | gray-shining metal, each segment tilted a different way and so bearing Floyd | a differing depth of shadow. Higher still a riot of white sunlight Floyd | twinkles on geometrical patterns of rivets, and beyond, the ceiling is Floyd | hidden in a glowing haze. Floyd | Floyd | Doorways shaped like quartz crystals head east and west, south is a Floyd | vaulted archway to the plaza, and north is the huge, tiered gateway to Floyd | the nave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Columnar Polyhedron Narthex 1/63 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Going south would be contrary to the common will of the crowd. Even as Floyd | you waste time more people are squeezing into the narthex from the Floyd | plaza, that is, they are forcing their way north. Besides, Pope Floyd | Fortran isn't in the plaza; it's somewhere further inside the Floyd | Mathedral to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug | [LINK] | |
| Zach says, "There was also a hallway west of here" | ||
| DavidW says, "South of narthex is a plaza, iirc." | ||
| DavidW says, "I haven't been mapping, so I don't quite know where all the exits are." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Interstitial Hallway 1/64 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interstitial Hallway Floyd | Midway between the dark, twisting corridors of the High School to the Floyd | west, and the spacious extravagance of the Mathedral to the east. The Floyd | ceiling is a high, reversed ravine crosshatched with light and spiny Floyd | shadows. Floyd | Floyd | Your classroom is to the north, one of countless nodes on the network Floyd | of education. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Interstitial Hallway 1/65 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | On a normal day, yes. Those dim and tangled passages would be Floyd | confidently strode, by you; the auditorium, the principal's office, Floyd | the server lounge, all the important rooms and zones. But today the Floyd | High School will have to run itself without your help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Columnar Polyhedron Narthex 1/66 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Columnar Polyhedron Narthex Floyd | A chaos of knees and elbows. The average person in this crowd seems to Floyd | have, on average, five such protruding joints, and each attached Floyd | appendage is flailing and threshing as the crowd packs itself tighter. Floyd | Floyd | There is barely space to breathe here, but the crowd takes up just the Floyd | bottom 5% of the great portico. Above your head tower obtuse angles of Floyd | gray-shining metal, each segment tilted a different way and so bearing Floyd | a differing depth of shadow. Higher still a riot of white sunlight Floyd | twinkles on geometrical patterns of rivets, and beyond, the ceiling is Floyd | hidden in a glowing haze. Floyd | Floyd | Doorways shaped like quartz crystals head east and west, south is a Floyd | vaulted archway to the plaza, and north is the huge, tiered gateway to Floyd | the nave. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay, it seems we should return to the crypt." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/67 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Almshouse Floyd | The east wall leans west, the south wall leans south, and the north Floyd | and west walls are crooked in angular S-curves. There is a narrow gap Floyd | in the north wall, and just through it, a hint of descending steps. Floyd | The narthex is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Carpet: that's rare in these halls. It is sea-foam green. The carpet Floyd | runs up the walls to a height of ten feet, and above that is blotchy Floyd | steel. Floyd | Floyd | The carpet is ratty, worn in a threadbare pathway before a cot along Floyd | the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the cot is a prayer helmet. Floyd | Floyd | A large, flaccid pauper is standing near the cot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to pauper" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/68
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO PAUPER
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "Hello." | ||
| Floyd [2] "Can I borrow your helmet?" | ||
| Floyd [3] "Do you know a way to get into the crypt from here?" | ||
| Floyd [4] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "Unless there was a missed exit." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/69
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | He says: "I'll give it to you if you play me a song."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "Can I please borrow your helmet?" | ||
| Floyd [2] "Do you know a way to get into the crypt from here?" | ||
| Floyd [3] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/70
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | He told you he would give it to you if you played a song for him.
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "Can I please borrow your helmet?" | ||
| Floyd [2] "Do you know a way to get into the crypt from here?" | ||
| Floyd [3] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/71
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | He says: "Just head down those stairs to the north. I'm not sure why
Floyd | the almshouse is so close to the crypt; it's rather eerie..."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "Can I please borrow your helmet?" | ||
| Floyd [2] "Do you know a way to get to the chapel from the crypt?" | ||
| Floyd [3] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/72
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | He says: "I'm afraid not. I just got here."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "You look familiar. Have we met?" | ||
| Floyd [2] "Can I please borrow your helmet?" | ||
| Floyd [3] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/73
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | He says: "Probably not. I was a choir boy in this Mathedral, but that
Floyd | was years ago. You most likely recognize me from my acting days."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "What did you act in?" | ||
| Floyd [2] "Can I please borrow your helmet?" | ||
| Floyd [3] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/74
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | He says: "My name is Barry West. I was a child actor who played a role
Floyd | on the popular historical entertainment show 'Robo Crush Saga,' which
Floyd | was about pioneers in the early years after the Robot Apotheosis.""
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "Who did you play on 'Robo Crush Saga'?" | ||
| Floyd [2] "'Robo Crush Saga'? I loved that show!" | ||
| Floyd [3] "'Robo Crush Saga'? I hated that show." | ||
| Floyd [4] "Can I please borrow your helmet?" | ||
| Floyd [5] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Doug says, "haha" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/75
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | He says: "Everyone did."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "Who did you play on 'Robo Crush Saga'?" | ||
| Floyd [2] "My favorite character on 'RCS' was Adam Susquehanna." | ||
| Floyd [3] "My favorite character on 'RCS' was little Elsa Werner." | ||
| Floyd [4] "Can I please borrow your helmet?" | ||
| Floyd [5] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/76
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | He says: "I played a character named 'Earl Porterhouse,' who was a
Floyd | vile little sneak, cheat, brat, bully, snob, and anti-robot bigot."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "What was it like being Earl?" | ||
| Floyd [2] "My favorite character on 'RCS' was Adam Susquehanna." | ||
| Floyd [3] "My favorite character on 'RCS' was little Elsa Werner." | ||
| Floyd [4] "Can I please borrow your helmet?" | ||
| Floyd [5] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach says, "Boo" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/77
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | He says: "I wasn't Earl. The character Earl wasn't me and I wasn't
Floyd | him, but everywhere I went, people hated me like they hated him. As I
Floyd | grew older, and grew fatter, and said goodbye to cute while somehow
Floyd | never finding handsome, the public's hatred of me grew as well."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "What brings you to the almshouse?" | ||
| Floyd [2] "My favorite character on 'RCS' was Adam Susquehanna." | ||
| Floyd [3] "My favorite character on 'RCS' was little Elsa Werner." | ||
| Floyd [4] "Can I please borrow your helmet?" | ||
| Floyd [5] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Robo Crush Saga. Yay." | |
| Doug says, "I wonder if these were other pseudonyms" | ||
| maga says, "nope. you can check the list" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/78
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | He says: "You have to ask? For a few years I had plenty of money from
Floyd | acting. No matter how I spent it, the public hated me more and more,
Floyd | for what I had seemed to be, but had not really been. I was madly
Floyd | profligate, trying to buy their love, until I went broke, and then
Floyd | they hated me all the more for being destitute. The public thought my
Floyd | fall served me right, payback for what the fictional Earl had done on
Floyd | a scripted entertainment. My only choice was to come here and become a
Floyd | professional beggar of alms. It seems the only people who don't hate
Floyd | me now are robots."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "I'm not a robot, and I don't hate you." | ||
| Floyd [2] "I'm not a robot, and I am indifferent to you." | ||
| Floyd [3] "I'm not a robot, and I hate you, so you could be correct, though | ||
Floyd | it depends on whether robots do or do not hate you as well." | ||
| Floyd [4] "My favorite character on 'RCS' was Adam Susquehanna." | ||
| Floyd [5] "My favorite character on 'RCS' was little Elsa Werner." | ||
| Floyd [6] "Can I please borrow your helmet?" | ||
| Floyd [7] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach asks, "Do we hate this punk?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "nah" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/79
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | He shrugs and says: "Kind of you, but it doesn't really matter any
Floyd | more."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "My favorite character on 'RCS' was Adam Susquehanna." | ||
| Floyd [2] "My favorite character on 'RCS' was little Elsa Werner." | ||
| Floyd [3] "Can I please borrow your helmet?" | ||
| Floyd [4] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/80
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | He says: "Ah, yes, played by Michelle Roark. She alone of all the cast
Floyd | was always kind to me. A pity she died during the unrest of '99."
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "Can I please borrow your helmet?" | ||
| Floyd [2] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/81
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | He told you he would give it to you if you played a song for him.
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd [1] "Can I please borrow your helmet?" | ||
| Floyd [2] Say nothing. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 1/82 Floyd | Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | You decide to say nothing after all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Crossway 1/83 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crossway Floyd | Though maybe it used to be a crossway, with four brick tunnels Floyd | branching out beneath a groined vault, now only the northwestern and Floyd | southwestern passages are open. The others have collapsed and are full Floyd | of broken bricks. A staircase heads upwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach asks, "Try the other way?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 1/84 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Funerary Niche Floyd | Fragments of brick stick from the walls and ceiling like Floyd | snaggle-teeth. The ground is a thick carpet of dust, soft under your Floyd | feet. The tunnel bends here, heading northeast and southeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plexiglass pedestal (on which is a saint's severed head Floyd | (in which are an LED eye and a piece of wire)) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I have no opinion. I'm going to go read about groined vaults." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x head" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 1/85 Floyd | Floyd | > X HEAD Floyd | Floyd | A metal head shaped like a dented canister. A 10cm by 30cm plaque Floyd | identifies this as the head of Saint 43. It seems that in the year 87 Floyd | ARA this poor robot was beheaded by immersion in a vat of acid. Floyd | (Though technically that would be the exact opposite of beheading...) Floyd | The head is bolted to the plexiglass pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | In the head of Saint 43 are an LED eye and a wire. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm beginning to think we shouldn't have backtracked at all and should've gone into the hole looking for the heretical whatever." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Well, we did." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And I don't think it matters much." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x eye" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 1/86 Floyd | Floyd | > X EYE Floyd | Floyd | The eye of Saint 43. It provides light, like a tiny, incorruptible Floyd | star.The eye is attached to the head with a short length of wire. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I think we can go do that now." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take head" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 1/87 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE HEAD Floyd | Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. Light source would be good." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to head" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 1/88 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO HEAD Floyd | Floyd | Generally, it's best to talk to living things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "cut wire" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 1/89 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT WIRE Floyd | Floyd | (with the emergency tool kit) Floyd | The emergency tool kit is not sharp enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take wire cutter" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 1/89 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE WIRE CUTTER Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to take the wire. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take wirecutter" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 1/90 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE WIRECUTTER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "cut wire with it" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 1/91 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT WIRE WITH IT Floyd | Floyd | You snip through the wire, detaching it from the head of Saint 43 and Floyd | from the LED eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take eye" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 2/92 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE EYE Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "cut wire with cutter" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x eye" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 2/93 Floyd | Floyd | > X EYE Floyd | Floyd | The eye of Saint 43. It provides light, like a tiny, incorruptible Floyd | star. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nice" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 2/94 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Funerary Niche Floyd | Fragments of brick stick from the walls and ceiling like Floyd | snaggle-teeth. The ground is a thick carpet of dust, soft under your Floyd | feet. The tunnel bends here, heading northeast and southeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plexiglass pedestal (on which is a saint's severed head Floyd | (in which is a piece of wire)) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x saint" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 2/95 Floyd | Floyd | > X SAINT Floyd | Floyd | A metal head shaped like a dented canister. A 10cm by 30cm plaque Floyd | identifies this as the head of Saint 43. It seems that in the year 87 Floyd | ARA this poor robot was beheaded by immersion in a vat of acid. The Floyd | head is bolted to the plexiglass pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | In the head of Saint 43 is a holy wire. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take holy wire" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 2/96 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE HOLY WIRE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. (That's a holy relic; be careful with it.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(really wish I wasn't lagging so horribly)" | |
| Zach says, "Hmm, I wonder if we can pick the lock with that" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Charnel Cyst 2/97 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Charnel Cyst Floyd | A forgotten clutter of bricks and broken ductwork. There is barely Floyd | room to move. Light from the LED shines in rainbows on drippings of Floyd | oil. The sole exit is to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plexiglass coffin (closed) (in which is flattened saint Floyd | (in which are two relics (a red music chip and a white music chip))) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "ARA = After Robot Apotheosis?" | |
| Zach says, "Oooh, music" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open coffin" | ||
Floyd ] Charnel Cyst 2/98 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN COFFIN Floyd | Floyd | (first unlocking the plexiglass coffin) Floyd | You lack a key that fits the plexiglass coffin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "pick lock with wire" | ||
Floyd ] Charnel Cyst 2/98 Floyd | Floyd | > PICK LOCK WITH WIRE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open coffin with wire" | ||
Floyd ] Charnel Cyst 2/99 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN COFFIN WITH WIRE Floyd | Floyd | The holy wire does not fit the plexiglass coffin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "chips, fuses, wires... still seems a lot like Valley of Steel." | |
| Jacqueline says, "aw" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x saint" | ||
Floyd ] Charnel Cyst 2/100 Floyd | Floyd | > X SAINT Floyd | Floyd | A 10cm by 30cm plaque identifies this as the body of Saint 71. In the Floyd | year 133 ARA this robot, designed for the peaceful task of playing Floyd | music, was slowly run over by a steamroller, playing hymns all the Floyd | while. Floyd | Floyd | Now the saint's body, which once was rotund and perhaps even "cute", Floyd | is flattened and misshapen. Floyd | Floyd | In Saint 71 are two relics (a red music chip and a white music chip). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x coffin" | ||
Floyd ] Charnel Cyst 2/101 Floyd | Floyd | > X COFFIN Floyd | Floyd | In the plexiglass coffin is Saint 71. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "break coffin" | ||
Floyd ] Charnel Cyst 2/102 Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK COFFIN Floyd | Floyd | It doesn't break. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "This crypt is carefully secured against IF players." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Totes" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get coffin" | ||
Floyd ] Charnel Cyst 2/103 Floyd | Floyd | > GET COFFIN Floyd | Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x chip" | ||
Floyd ] Charnel Cyst 2/103 Floyd | Floyd | > X CHIP Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the red music chip or the white music chip? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "red" | ||
Floyd ] Charnel Cyst 2/104 Floyd | Floyd | > RED Floyd | Floyd | A small, round music chip. Written on the side in minuscule type are Floyd | the word "The DOSology." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x white" | ||
Floyd ] Charnel Cyst 2/105 Floyd | Floyd | > X WHITE Floyd | Floyd | A small, round music chip. Written on the side in minuscule type are Floyd | the words "Ave Machina." Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "OK, I gotta go be a productive member of society." | |
| Jacqueline continues to smile and shake her head at this game. | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of Zach), "You're going to take over from Doug and enter commands, you mean?" | ||
| Doug says, "points for spelling "minuscule" correctly" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or... wait a second. You're leaving, Zach?" | ||
| Doug asks, "robo society, you mean?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, we need to keep looking around. Keys are around here, somewhere." | ||
| Doug says, "yep" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I have not been mapping. Do you have a sense of where we haven't been?" | ||
| Doug says, "I think the hole is the only untaken exit." | ||
| Doug says, "oh, and we could keep going past the hole" | ||
| DavidW says, "Just down the hole, but I haven't been mapping either." | ||
| Doug asks, "is Zach gone for good? should I drive?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's go down the hole. We have light now." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Charnel Cyst 2/106 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | two relics: Floyd | a holy wire Floyd | an LED eye (providing light) Floyd | a pair of wirecutters Floyd | an emergency tool kit (open but empty) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Dough), "Could you? I'm not feeling awesome and David is laggy." | |
| DavidW says, "And don't ask me to drive. It's been taking minutes for me to see what's going on." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 2/107 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Funerary Niche Floyd | Fragments of brick stick from the walls and ceiling like Floyd | snaggle-teeth. The ground is a thick carpet of dust, soft under your Floyd | feet. The tunnel bends here, heading northeast and southeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plexiglass pedestal (on which is a saint's severed head Floyd | (empty)) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get head" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 2/108 Floyd | Floyd | > GET HEAD Floyd | Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Crossway 2/109 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crossway Floyd | Though maybe it used to be a crossway, with four brick tunnels Floyd | branching out beneath a groined vault, now only the northwestern and Floyd | southwestern passages are open. The others have collapsed and are full Floyd | of broken bricks. A staircase heads upwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Reliquary 2/110 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Reliquary Floyd | A rutted ground of rotted bricks. The ceiling is low, lumpy with Floyd | whitish nitre. The walls are very close and crooked, but not by any Floyd | mysterious robot design. They're just ancient--and were shoddy to Floyd | begin with. Brick passageways lead southeast and northwest. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plexiglass cabinet (closed) (in which is a mangled saint Floyd | (in which is a holy fuse)) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "open cabinet with wire" | ||
Floyd ] Reliquary 2/111 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET WITH WIRE Floyd | Floyd | The holy wire does not fit the plexiglass cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 2/112 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subsidence Floyd | And here, the rotten brick floor has partially collapsed--there Floyd | appears to be a level below the crypt. You could probably climb down Floyd | to it if you really wanted to... Floyd | Floyd | Or, if you skirt the hole, the hallway continues to the north. The Floyd | hallway also runs southeast. Floyd | Floyd | A woman in a rust-red jumpsuit is leaning against the shabby, filthy Floyd | wall, just across the hole. Her shoulders are right in a mass of Floyd | cobwebs--she must not care. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 2/113
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | The Inquisitor stops you with the almost palpable force of her gaze.
Floyd | Like she said, she's not going to let you past there until you help
| Jacqueline asks, "So, D?" | |
Floyd | her find this "heretical item."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, or not." | |
| Doug says, "ah, I see, she just won't let us go forward." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Or, or not not." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. We must descend." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "help inquisitor" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 2/113 Floyd | Floyd | > HELP INQUISITOR Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Channel 2/114 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Hands and feet on slippery, fragile brick, descending into a deep, Floyd | rank darkness-- Floyd | Floyd | The Inquisitor calls after you: "Search carefully down there. I'll Floyd | continue the investigation up on this level." Floyd | Floyd | --and then you fall. Floyd | Floyd | So... it was only three feet. Still, you could easily have twisted an Floyd | ankle. Floyd | Floyd | Channel Floyd | This was probably a culvert once. Muddy, dim. Just breathing the air Floyd | here is like kissing a grave. The bowed ceiling (cinderblocks? ancient Floyd | masonry?), which curves down to become the walls, is riddled with Floyd | fissures, from which protrude dead black roots. Floyd | Floyd | The old culvert runs east and west, and a ragged chimney leads up into Floyd | the relatively clean air of the crypt. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "AA-- oh." | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, yeah. She's really searching hard up there." | ||
| Doug says, "read that as "dead black robots"" | ||
| Doug asks, "east or west? do we have a coin to flip in the toyshop?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x roots" | ||
Floyd ] Channel 2/115 Floyd | Floyd | > X ROOTS Floyd | Floyd | Just the scraggly, twisted roots of long dead plants. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Just pick a direction." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Thicket 2/116 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The ground crunches and shifts wetly underfoot. Floyd | Floyd | Thicket Floyd | Unhealthy stems grow lush here. They have woven themselves into a Floyd | pliable mesh between floor and ceiling. The roots are sunk into a Floyd | putrid matrix of muck and shattered bones. Floyd | Floyd | Your LED's light gleams in pale splinters off the stems. The growth is Floyd | crushed down in paths heading east, west, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| [band-name] Doug says, "Putrid Matrix" | ||
| Zach says, "Sorry for being unclear. Yeah, I gotta leave for work." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x bones" | ||
Floyd ] Thicket 2/117 Floyd | Floyd | > X BONES Floyd | Floyd | They were shattered an age ago. In another age they'll be dust. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "bones?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x stems" | ||
Floyd ] Thicket 2/118 Floyd | Floyd | > X STEMS Floyd | Floyd | Some kind of colorless subterranean weed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Zach), "You weren't unclear." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I was being snarky." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 2/119 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | White stems frame a tilted lintel stone. Beyond it is a flicker of Floyd | feverish light. You duck through. Floyd | Floyd | Cell Floyd | A cramped stone cubicle. The walls are shaggy with cancer-like scales Floyd | of soot. An iron basket of smoldering dirt clods hangs from the Floyd | ceiling. The air, mostly smoke, stinks like the filth of millennia. Floyd | The exit is west. Floyd | Floyd | A hermit covered in white felted frizz hunches against the back wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the floor before the hermit is an open-topped cardboard box. Floyd | Scrawled on its front panel is the phrase: "Everything's a dollar in Floyd | this box." Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach shakes his fist. "Jacqueline!" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 2/120 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | In the cardboard box are a plexiglass key, a paperback book, a Floyd | clarinet, and a bowling ball. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I guess we need some dollars..." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to hermit" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 2/121 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO HERMIT Floyd | Floyd | The hermit makes a strange gesture with his right hand: index and Floyd | middle fingers extended, pointing up at a shallow angle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "Scout's honor?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x basket" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 2/122 Floyd | Floyd | > X BASKET Floyd | Floyd | Burning dirt in a hanging iron basket might be the least sophisticated Floyd | method of generating light and/or heat you have ever encountered. For Floyd | his own safety, the hermit should really just get some modern Floyd | appliances down here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This is a *very* weird location to set up a pawn shop." | |
| Doug says, "haha" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Also 'dollar'? Not bitcoins?" | ||
| Doug says, "like a nethack dungeon" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get key" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 2/123 Floyd | Floyd | > GET KEY Floyd | Floyd | According to the writing on the box, everything inside costs a dollar, Floyd | and you don't have a dollar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask hermit about dollar" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 2/124 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK HERMIT ABOUT DOLLAR Floyd | Floyd | [Use TALK TO to interact with characters.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "so, shall we keep looking?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Thicket 2/125 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Thicket Floyd | Unhealthy stems grow lush here. They have woven themselves into a Floyd | pliable mesh between floor and ceiling. The roots are sunk into a Floyd | putrid matrix of muck and shattered bones. Floyd | Floyd | Your LED's light gleams in pale splinters off the stems. The growth is Floyd | crushed down in paths heading east, west, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Midden 2/126 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The ground rises--unstable heaps of rubble--while the ceiling doesn't. Floyd | Floyd | You go to hands and knees until, suddenly, the ceiling is gone. Floyd | Floyd | Midden Floyd | At your best guess, this was the bottom of a garbage chute. There is a Floyd | faint blur of illumination high overhead, but whatever gleaming Floyd | expanse of civilization is up there, is out of reach. Trash, dumped Floyd | down the chute since forever ago, has heaped up under the mouth of the Floyd | chute in the shape of a shallow cone. The ground drops away to the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | Sticking up out of the trash heap is the corner of a paper envelope. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Midden 2/127 Floyd | Floyd | > X ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | A dirty paper envelope in the old style. It's sealed shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Are any of these items heretical? Like the book?" | |
| DavidW says, "I think we should at least examine the items in the box." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Midden 2/128 Floyd | Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ah, sorry" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "open envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Midden 2/129 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | You open the paper envelope, revealing a dollar bill. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ferret arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x dollar" | ||
Floyd ] Midden 2/130 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOLLAR Floyd | Floyd | A small wrinkled white bill. Curving text on the bill reads: Floyd | "Monopoly", and below that, "1". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "s'okay. I'm lagging atrociously." | |
| Doug says, "heh" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Thicket 2/131 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Thicket Floyd | Unhealthy stems grow lush here. They have woven themselves into a Floyd | pliable mesh between floor and ceiling. The roots are sunk into a Floyd | putrid matrix of muck and shattered bones. Floyd | Floyd | Your LED's light gleams in pale splinters off the stems. The growth is Floyd | crushed down in paths heading east, west, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 2/132 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cell Floyd | A cramped stone cubicle. The walls are shaggy with cancer-like scales Floyd | of soot. An iron basket of smoldering dirt clods hangs from the Floyd | ceiling. The air, mostly smoke, stinks like the filth of millennia. Floyd | The exit is west. Floyd | Floyd | A hermit covered in white felted frizz hunches against the back wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the floor before the hermit is an open-topped cardboard box. Floyd | Scrawled on its front panel is the phrase: "Everything's a dollar in Floyd | this box." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 2/133 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | In the cardboard box are a plexiglass key, a paperback book, a Floyd | clarinet, and a bowling ball. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x all" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 2/133 Floyd | Floyd | > X ALL Floyd | Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 2/134 Floyd | Floyd | > X KEY Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the plexiglass key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 2/135 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | The pages are yellow and full of their own little labyrinth of worm Floyd | holes. On the cover, a ridiculously improbable painting of a robot. It Floyd | is almost as if whoever designed the cover for this "I, Robot" by one Floyd | "Isaac Asimov" had never seen an actual robot. Floyd | Floyd | Your breath takes a hitch. This book, which seems to contain Floyd | uneducated nonsense about the inner workings of robots, is almost Floyd | certainly heretical. Floyd | Floyd | You can almost visualize the heresies swimming around, seeping from Floyd | page to page until the whole thing is saturated; swarms of blurry, Floyd | corrupted type. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x clarinet" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 2/136 Floyd | Floyd | > X CLARINET Floyd | Floyd | A poorly-maintained electro-clarinet. Along the side of the instrument Floyd | are a square fuse slot (containing a dead fuse) and round hole for a Floyd | music chip (containing nothing). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 2/137 Floyd | Floyd | > X BALL Floyd | Floyd | A purple-swirled bowling ball around 22cm in diameter and weighing Floyd | around 7kg. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're gonna want more 'dollars'." | |
| Doug says, "seems like we kinda want everything, but I guess we should do the fetch quest first." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So the key?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get book" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 2/138 Floyd | Floyd | > GET BOOK Floyd | Floyd | You take the the paperback book from the box, handing a dollar bill Floyd | over to the hermit in exchange. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Or, oh, right." | |
| Jacqueline says, "She wants the book." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "thank hermit" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 2/138 Floyd | Floyd | > THANK HERMIT Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 2/139 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a paperback book Floyd | a paper envelope (open but empty) Floyd | two relics: Floyd | a holy wire Floyd | an LED eye (providing light) Floyd | a pair of wirecutters Floyd | an emergency tool kit (open but empty) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Possibly, the inquistor will pay us for the book?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Thicket 2/140 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Thicket Floyd | Unhealthy stems grow lush here. They have woven themselves into a Floyd | pliable mesh between floor and ceiling. The roots are sunk into a Floyd | putrid matrix of muck and shattered bones. Floyd | Floyd | Your LED's light gleams in pale splinters off the stems. The growth is Floyd | crushed down in paths heading east, west, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Channel 2/141 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Channel | Jacqueline says, "Let's hope." | |
Floyd | This was probably a culvert once. Muddy, dim. Just breathing the air
Floyd | here is like kissing a grave. The bowed ceiling, which curves down to
Floyd | become the walls, is riddled with fissures, from which protrude dead
Floyd | black roots.
Floyd |
Floyd | The old culvert runs east and west, and a ragged chimney leads up into
Floyd | the relatively clean air of the crypt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 2/142 Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subsidence Floyd | The rotten brick floor has partially collapsed, allowing access to a Floyd | level below the crypt. You can climb down, or you can skirt the hole Floyd | and go north. The hallway also runs southeast. Floyd | Floyd | A woman in a rust-red jumpsuit is leaning against the shabby, filthy Floyd | wall, just across the hole. Her shoulders are right in a mass of Floyd | cobwebs--she must not care. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Klaw arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Doug says, "I guess we never went west either." | |
| Doug asks, "should we just give her the book?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Didn't bother to save, eh?" | ||
| Doug says, "I'm trusting the politeness, but we could save if you like" | ||
| DavidW says, "That was our only dollar, but whatevs." | ||
| DavidW says, "True, we never went west down there." | ||
| DavidW says, "Might as well just give the book now." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "yeah" | ||
| Klaw says, "Greetings, ClubFloyd." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give book to inquisitor" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 3/143 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE BOOK TO INQUISITOR Floyd | Floyd | The Inquisitor snatches the paperback book out of your hands. Floyd | Floyd | She says: "Aha! Heretical material!" Floyd | Floyd | She glares at you for a second, almost as if she blames you for the Floyd | existence of this heresy. Then she cracks her knuckles and walks Floyd | swiftly away into the crypt. Floyd | Floyd | You feel a wash of relief as she takes the evil text around the corner Floyd | and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hi, Katie." | |
| Doug asks, "ok then. north, or back down and west?" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Wait, what?! That's it? No reward?!" | ||
| Doug says, "we got a point!" | ||
| DavidW says, "Down and west first, I think." | ||
| Doug says, "and also the ability to go north" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Still. That was decidedly not nice." | ||
| pollux says, "Your reward is not being tortured by the inquisition, of course." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Channel 3/144 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Channel Floyd | This was probably a culvert once. Muddy, dim. Just breathing the air Floyd | here is like kissing a grave. The bowed ceiling, which curves down to Floyd | become the walls, is riddled with fissures, from which protrude dead Floyd | black roots. Floyd | Floyd | The old culvert runs east and west, and a ragged chimney leads up into Floyd | the relatively clean air of the crypt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Slum 3/145 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The ground drops away in a gentle slope. Each footstep sinks into the Floyd | mire. Floyd | Floyd | Slum Floyd | Not much light at all, just a few knife-edges of shuttered candle Floyd | gleam coming from the hodge-podge of alleys and houses. Though--my Floyd | God--houses isn't the right word for them. Shanties? Hovels? You are Floyd | appalled that people could possibly be allowed to live down here. Floyd | Floyd | Maybe they aren't people. Though you don't see any residents at the Floyd | moment, the buildings are not perfectly quiet. Little noises of Floyd | creaking wood. Whispers, too, perhaps. Floyd | Floyd | Decayed alleys run in many directions, but seeing as how you don't Floyd | want to die in a trackless labyrinth of abject poverty, you should Floyd | probably stick to traveling east, back towards the culvert, or north, Floyd | where a sturdier structure of stone stands amongst the ramshackle Floyd | dwellings. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x buildings" | ||
Floyd ] Slum 3/146 Floyd | Floyd | > X BUILDINGS Floyd | Floyd | Haphazard dens of scrapwood barely well-built enough to function as Floyd | bonfires, let alone dwellings. Floyd | Floyd | > | Klaw says, "I apologize that I'm late butchurch started at 10:00 A.M. and I had to greet the people in the lounge. I'm out of breath but here." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Slum 3/147 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear a faint creak of wood. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 3/148 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Your footsteps echo on still-solid stone. Floyd | Floyd | Underground Church Floyd | Four thick square columns near the corners. Your LED makes elongated Floyd | shadows dance out behind each one as you move. The central space is Floyd | empty. Maybe once there were seats or pews, but if so they've rotted Floyd | entirely away. It may be ancient, but this tiny building has nice Floyd | proportions. The architect was human, no doubt, but probably had Floyd | robotic assistance. The exit is south. Floyd | Floyd | Near the north wall is a huge oblong block of stone with a smooth top. Floyd | Floyd | On the block of stone are a tarnished silver plate (in which is a Floyd | dollar bill), a tube of glue, and a broken idol. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Katie), "I think it's probably too late for you to catch up with what's happening, unfortunately." | |
| Doug says, "ooh, another dollar" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x stone" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 3/149 Floyd | Floyd | > X STONE Floyd | Floyd | A block of stone as large as a table. Floyd | Floyd | On the block of stone are a tarnished silver plate (in which is a Floyd | dollar bill), a tube of glue, and a broken idol. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x plate" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 3/150 Floyd | Floyd | > X PLATE Floyd | Floyd | An old collection plate. Floyd | Floyd | In the tarnished silver plate is a dollar bill. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x tube" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 3/151 Floyd | Floyd | > X TUBE Floyd | Floyd | A half-used tube of glue. Small text along it reads: "Suitable for Floyd | most materials. Do not sniff." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Klaw says, "got to go." | DavidW says, "so we can steal from this church, eh? Ethically, iffy." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sniff" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 3/152 Floyd | Floyd | > SNIFF Floyd | Floyd | It smells like cold stone. Floyd | Floyd | > | Klaw says, "I got ott go." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. See you later, Katie." | ||
| Klaw goes home. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sniff tube" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 3/153 Floyd | Floyd | > SNIFF TUBE Floyd | Floyd | Smells like chemicals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 3/154 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Smells like chemicals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 3/155 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Smells like chemicals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 3/156 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Smells like chemicals. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "aw" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Carry on." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x idol" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 3/157 Floyd | Floyd | > X IDOL Floyd | Floyd | A peculiar ancient idol. It is about six inches high, and depicts a Floyd | woman in a blue shawl holding a baby. It has been cracked across the Floyd | middle, and is in two pieces. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 3/158 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | tarnished silver plate: Taken. Floyd | dollar bill: Taken. Floyd | tube of glue: Taken. Floyd | broken idol: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | pollux asks, "I wish that would be more specific - does it smell more like, say, Argon, or Sulfur?" | |
| Doug says, "yoink." | ||
| Doug asks, "do noble gases smell?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm not sure noble gases have noses." | ||
| pollux says, "Anything can smell in the mysterious post-singularity." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Are all the Shufflecomp games this solid?" | ||
| Doug asks, "anything else to do? or shall we go back and buy the key?" | ||
| DavidW says, "glue the idol, please." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "glue idol" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 3/159 Floyd | Floyd | > GLUE IDOL Floyd | Floyd | (with the tube of glue) Floyd | You squeeze out a bit of glue and repair the broken idol. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x idol" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 3/160 Floyd | Floyd | > X IDOL Floyd | Floyd | A peculiar ancient idol. It is about six inches high, and depicts a Floyd | woman in a blue shawl holding a baby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says (to Jacqueline), "the ones I've played have been solid but not this involved." | |
| Doug says, "I kinda suspect this was started before the comp." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That would seem difficult." | ||
| DavidW asks, "pray?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "x dollar?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Might want to leave the idol on the altar, but I dunno." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 3/161 Floyd | Floyd | > PRAY Floyd | Floyd | You mutter a quick prayer of protection against disease. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put idol on altar" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 3/162 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT IDOL ON ALTAR Floyd | Floyd | You put the ancient idol on the block of stone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 3/163 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Underground Church Floyd | Four thick square columns near the corners. Your LED makes elongated Floyd | shadows dance out behind each one as you move. The central space is Floyd | empty. Maybe once there were seats or pews, but if so they've rotted Floyd | entirely away. It may be ancient, but this tiny building has nice Floyd | proportions. The architect was human, no doubt, but probably had Floyd | robotic assistance. The exit is south. Floyd | Floyd | Near the north wall is a huge oblong block of stone with a smooth top. Floyd | Floyd | On the block of stone is an ancient idol. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(geez the lag is bad)" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x dollar" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 3/164 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOLLAR Floyd | Floyd | A small wrinkled white bill. Curving text on the bill reads: Floyd | "Monopoly", and below that, "1". Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "welp, we can come back for the idol if we need it" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Slum 3/165 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Slum Floyd | Not much light at all, just a few knife-edges of shuttered candle Floyd | gleam coming from the hodge-podge of alleys and houses. You are Floyd | appalled that people could possibly be allowed to live down here. Floyd | Floyd | Though you don't see any residents at the moment, the buildings are Floyd | not perfectly quiet. Little noises of creaking wood. Whispers, too, Floyd | perhaps. Floyd | Floyd | Decayed alleys run in many directions, but you should probably stick Floyd | to traveling east, back towards the culvert, or north, where a Floyd | sturdier structure of stone stands amongst the ramshackle dwellings. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Channel 3/166 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Channel Floyd | This was probably a culvert once. Muddy, dim. Just breathing the air Floyd | here is like kissing a grave. The bowed ceiling, which curves down to Floyd | become the walls, is riddled with fissures, from which protrude dead Floyd | black roots. Floyd | Floyd | The old culvert runs east and west, and a ragged chimney leads up into Floyd | the relatively clean air of the crypt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Thicket 3/167 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Thicket Floyd | Unhealthy stems grow lush here. They have woven themselves into a Floyd | pliable mesh between floor and ceiling. The roots are sunk into a Floyd | putrid matrix of muck and shattered bones. Floyd | Floyd | Your LED's light gleams in pale splinters off the stems. The growth is Floyd | crushed down in paths heading east, west, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 3/168 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cell Floyd | A cramped stone cubicle. The walls are shaggy with cancer-like scales Floyd | of soot. An iron basket of smoldering dirt clods hangs from the Floyd | ceiling. The air, mostly smoke, stinks like the filth of millennia. Floyd | The exit is west. Floyd | Floyd | A hermit covered in white felted frizz hunches against the back wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the floor before the hermit is an open-topped cardboard box. Floyd | Scrawled on its front panel is the phrase: "Everything's a dollar in Floyd | this box." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(You guys could be seven rooms away from the church by now.)" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 3/169 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | In the cardboard box are a plexiglass key, a clarinet, and a bowling Floyd | ball. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "buy key" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 3/170 Floyd | Floyd | > BUY KEY Floyd | Floyd | You take the the plexiglass key from the box, handing a dollar bill Floyd | over to the hermit in exchange. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Thicket 3/171 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Thicket Floyd | Unhealthy stems grow lush here. They have woven themselves into a Floyd | pliable mesh between floor and ceiling. The roots are sunk into a Floyd | putrid matrix of muck and shattered bones. Floyd | Floyd | Your LED's light gleams in pale splinters off the stems. The growth is Floyd | crushed down in paths heading east, west, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Channel 3/172 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Channel Floyd | This was probably a culvert once. Muddy, dim. Just breathing the air Floyd | here is like kissing a grave. The bowed ceiling, which curves down to Floyd | become the walls, is riddled with fissures, from which protrude dead Floyd | black roots. Floyd | Floyd | The old culvert runs east and west, and a ragged chimney leads up into Floyd | the relatively clean air of the crypt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 3/173 Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subsidence Floyd | The rotten brick floor has partially collapsed, allowing access to a Floyd | level below the crypt. You can climb down, or you can skirt the hole Floyd | and go north. The hallway also runs southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Reliquary 3/174 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Reliquary Floyd | A rutted ground of rotted bricks. The ceiling is low, lumpy with Floyd | whitish nitre. The walls are very close and crooked, but not by any Floyd | mysterious robot design. They're just ancient--and were shoddy to Floyd | begin with. Brick passageways lead southeast and northwest. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plexiglass cabinet (closed) (in which is a mangled saint Floyd | (in which is a holy fuse)) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Reliquary 3/175 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | (first unlocking the plexiglass cabinet) Floyd | (with the plexiglass key) Floyd | Unlocked. Floyd | Floyd | Oops. The plexiglass key must have been pretty fragile. It snaps into Floyd | two pieces as you unlock the cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | You open the plexiglass cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "!" | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "!!!!!!" | ||
| Doug asks, "sorry?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get fuse" | ||
Floyd ] Reliquary 3/176 Floyd | Floyd | > GET FUSE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. (That's a holy relic; be careful with it.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nothing to be sorry about." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Just... was hoping that would work in more than one place." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But of course that would be too easy." | ||
| DavidW says, "(or 17 rooms away by now)" | ||
| DavidW says, "(I'd explore north of the hole or talk to the hermit before buying anything further from him.)" | ||
| Doug says, "the coffin? yeah" | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Reliquary 3/177 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a broken key Floyd | a tube of glue Floyd | a tarnished silver plate Floyd | a paper envelope (open but empty) Floyd | a pair of wirecutters Floyd | an emergency tool kit (open but empty) Floyd | three relics: Floyd | a holy fuse Floyd | a holy wire Floyd | an LED eye (providing light) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Klaw arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "glue key" | ||
Floyd ] Reliquary 4/178 Floyd | Floyd | > GLUE KEY Floyd | Floyd | (with the tube of glue) Floyd | You squeeze out a bit of glue and repair the broken plexiglass key. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ding!" | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Oh yeah!" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Nice!" | ||
| Doug asks, "shall we open the coffin then?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes, please." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Crossway 4/179 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crossway Floyd | Though maybe it used to be a crossway, with four brick tunnels Floyd | branching out beneath a groined vault, now only the northwestern and Floyd | southwestern passages are open. The others have collapsed and are full Floyd | of broken bricks. A staircase heads upwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 4/180 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Funerary Niche Floyd | Fragments of brick stick from the walls and ceiling like Floyd | snaggle-teeth. The ground is a thick carpet of dust, soft under your Floyd | feet. The tunnel bends here, heading northeast and southeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plexiglass pedestal (on which is a saint's severed head Floyd | (empty)) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Charnel Cyst 4/181 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Charnel Cyst Floyd | A forgotten clutter of bricks and broken ductwork. There is barely Floyd | room to move. Light from the LED shines in rainbows on drippings of Floyd | oil. The sole exit is to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plexiglass coffin (closed) (in which is flattened saint Floyd | (in which are two relics (a red music chip and a white music chip))) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get chips" | ||
Floyd ] Charnel Cyst 4/182 Floyd | Floyd | > GET CHIPS Floyd | Floyd | red music chip: The plexiglass coffin isn't open. Floyd | white music chip: The plexiglass coffin isn't open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "open coffin" | ||
Floyd ] Charnel Cyst 4/183 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN COFFIN Floyd | Floyd | (first unlocking the plexiglass coffin) Floyd | (with the plexiglass key) Floyd | Unlocked. Floyd | Floyd | You open the plexiglass coffin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get chips" | ||
Floyd ] Charnel Cyst 4/184 Floyd | Floyd | > GET CHIPS Floyd | Floyd | red music chip: Taken. (That's a holy relic; be careful with it.) Floyd | white music chip: Taken. (That's a holy relic; be careful with it.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "so hm, should we look for another dollar? or go try to talk to the hermit?" | |
| DavidW asks, "Examine the music chips; does the red chip specify a different music from the white chip?" | ||
| pollux says, "Yes." | ||
| Doug says, "yeah, one is DOSology and the other Ave Machina." | ||
| pollux says, "We did that before." | ||
| DavidW asks, "There might be another dollar north of the hole?" | ||
| Klaw says, "I'm here again. Had to switch to braillenote apex because Grandpa Mixer turned on the television. I believe I'm here for good now." | ||
| Doug says, "that was my thinking." | ||
| Gerynar says, "one can sell items back to the hermit, I don't think it was made very clear" | ||
| DavidW says, "Talking to the hermit is also good." | ||
| Doug says, "I was thinking that too." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, huh." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That's convenient." | ||
| Doug asks, "but also, spoiler?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe." | ||
| Gerynar says, "IIRC, it was written on the box" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But it's out now." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's talk to the hermit, yeah" | ||
| Doug says, "it just says "everything's a dollar in this box"" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x red chip" | ||
Floyd ] Charnel Cyst 4/185 Floyd | Floyd | > X RED CHIP Floyd | Floyd | A small, round music chip taken from the body of Saint 71. Written on Floyd | the side in minuscule type are the word "The DOSology." Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ah, red = round" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Funerary Niche 4/186 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Funerary Niche Floyd | Fragments of brick stick from the walls and ceiling like Floyd | snaggle-teeth. The ground is a thick carpet of dust, soft under your Floyd | feet. The tunnel bends here, heading northeast and southeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plexiglass pedestal (on which is a saint's severed head Floyd | (empty)) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Crossway 4/187 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crossway Floyd | Though maybe it used to be a crossway, with four brick tunnels Floyd | branching out beneath a groined vault, now only the northwestern and Floyd | southwestern passages are open. The others have collapsed and are full Floyd | of broken bricks. A staircase heads upwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Reliquary 4/188 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Reliquary Floyd | A rutted ground of rotted bricks. The ceiling is low, lumpy with Floyd | whitish nitre. The walls are very close and crooked, but not by any Floyd | mysterious robot design. They're just ancient--and were shoddy to Floyd | begin with. Brick passageways lead southeast and northwest. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plexiglass cabinet (in which is a mangled saint (empty)) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 4/189 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subsidence Floyd | The rotten brick floor has partially collapsed, allowing access to a Floyd | level below the crypt. You can climb down, or you can skirt the hole Floyd | and go north. The hallway also runs southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Channel 4/190 Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Channel Floyd | This was probably a culvert once. Muddy, dim. Just breathing the air Floyd | here is like kissing a grave. The bowed ceiling, which curves down to Floyd | become the walls, is riddled with fissures, from which protrude dead Floyd | black roots. Floyd | Floyd | The old culvert runs east and west, and a ragged chimney leads up into Floyd | the relatively clean air of the crypt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Thicket 4/191 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Thicket Floyd | Unhealthy stems grow lush here. They have woven themselves into a Floyd | pliable mesh between floor and ceiling. The roots are sunk into a Floyd | putrid matrix of muck and shattered bones. Floyd | Floyd | Your LED's light gleams in pale splinters off the stems. The growth is Floyd | crushed down in paths heading east, west, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/192 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cell Floyd | A cramped stone cubicle. The walls are shaggy with cancer-like scales Floyd | of soot. An iron basket of smoldering dirt clods hangs from the Floyd | ceiling. The air, mostly smoke, stinks like the filth of millennia. Floyd | The exit is west. Floyd | Floyd | A hermit covered in white felted frizz hunches against the back wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the floor before the hermit is an open-topped cardboard box. Floyd | Scrawled on its front panel is the phrase: "Everything's a dollar in Floyd | this box." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to hermit" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/193 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO HERMIT Floyd | Floyd | The hermit makes a strange gesture with his right hand: a fist with Floyd | the fronts of his curled fingers displayed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to hermit" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/194 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO HERMIT Floyd | Floyd | The hermit makes a strange gesture with his right hand: fingers Floyd | together, little finger extended. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/195 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | In the cardboard box are a clarinet and a bowling ball. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "read sign" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/195 Floyd | Floyd | > READ SIGN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "anyone know ASL?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Some." | ||
| Gerynar says, "I think the first one was "a" the second "i"" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "These are letters, I think." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to hermit" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/196 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO HERMIT Floyd | Floyd | The hermit makes a strange gesture with his right hand: index finger Floyd | pointing up, thumb pointing sideways. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "L" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | ||
| Doug | [LINK] | ||
| Doug says, "the first one the last time was H" | ||
| Doug says, "HAIL HYDRA!" | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "talk to hermit. g." | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/198
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO HERMIT. G.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hermit makes a strange gesture with his right hand: little finger
Floyd | tucked under thumb, other fingers pointed straight downward.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hermit makes a strange gesture with his right hand: a fist with
Floyd | the fronts of his curled fingers displayed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Doug | [LINK] | |
| Doug says, "aw." | ||
| Doug asks, "M E?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/199 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | The hermit makes a strange gesture with his right hand: thumb over Floyd | ring and little fingers, index and middle fingers pointed up, slightly Floyd | crossed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "r" | |
| Jacqueline says, "R" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/200 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | The hermit makes a strange gesture with his right hand: little finger Floyd | and thumb sticking out to the sides, other fingers close to the palm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/201 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | The hermit makes a strange gesture with his right hand: index finger Floyd | and thumb pinched together, other fingers raised loosely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "g. g. g." | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/202
Floyd |
Floyd | > G. G. G.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hermit makes a strange gesture with his right hand: thumb over
Floyd | ring and little fingers, index and middle fingers pointed up, side by
Floyd | side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Doug asks, "L.. F ??" | |
| DavidW says, "There's no way for me to comment on this sign language fast enough." | ||
| DavidW says, "Whatever I say isn't going to match where we are." | ||
| Gerynar says, "U" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Just sit tight a sec." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Doug Are you writing this down or otherwise keeping track, or should I scroll back?" | ||
| Doug asks, "HAIL MERLFU ?" | ||
| Doug says, "but I might have gotten one wrong" | ||
| pollux says, "Seemed more like MARYFU." | ||
| pollux asks, "So... HAIL MARY, F U?" | ||
| Doug says, "ohh" | ||
| Doug asks, "LL OF GRACE?" | ||
| pollux says, "I liked my version better." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "g. g. g" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/203
Floyd |
Floyd | > G. G. G
Floyd |
Floyd | The hermit makes a strange gesture with his right hand: index finger
Floyd | pointing up, thumb pointing sideways.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| pollux says, "(But probably. Should we bring him the idol?)" | |
| Doug says, "ahh, good idea." | ||
| pollux says, "Apparently we can't g more than once in succession." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/204 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | The hermit makes a strange gesture with his right hand: index finger Floyd | pointing up, thumb pointing sideways. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "yup, two Ls" | |
| pollux says (to Floyd), "talk to hermit. g." | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/206
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO HERMIT. G.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hermit makes a strange gesture with his right hand: fingers curled
Floyd | downward, thumb curled up to meet them underneath.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hermit makes a strange gesture with his right hand: index finger
Floyd | and thumb pinched together, other fingers raised loosely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Doug says, "OF" | |
| Doug says, "ok, I'm for getting the idol" | ||
| Klaw says, "Sorry my braillenote apex was acting up." | ||
| Doug says, "unless someone wants to see if he said the whole hail mary..." | ||
| Doug says, "says" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "brb" | ||
| pollux says, "I so do not want to do that." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Thicket 4/207 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Thicket Floyd | Unhealthy stems grow lush here. They have woven themselves into a Floyd | pliable mesh between floor and ceiling. The roots are sunk into a Floyd | putrid matrix of muck and shattered bones. Floyd | Floyd | Your LED's light gleams in pale splinters off the stems. The growth is Floyd | crushed down in paths heading east, west, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "w. w." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Slum 4/209 Floyd | Floyd | > W. W. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Channel Floyd | This was probably a culvert once. Muddy, dim. Just breathing the air Floyd | here is like kissing a grave. The bowed ceiling, which curves down to Floyd | become the walls, is riddled with fissures, from which protrude dead Floyd | black roots. Floyd | Floyd | The old culvert runs east and west, and a ragged chimney leads up into Floyd | the relatively clean air of the crypt. Floyd | Floyd | Slum Floyd | Not much light at all, just a few knife-edges of shuttered candle Floyd | gleam coming from the hodge-podge of alleys and houses. You are Floyd | appalled that people could possibly be allowed to live down here. Floyd | Floyd | Though you don't see any residents at the moment, the buildings are Floyd | not perfectly quiet. Little noises of creaking wood. Whispers, too, Floyd | perhaps. Floyd | Floyd | Decayed alleys run in many directions, but you should probably stick Floyd | to traveling east, back towards the culvert, or north, where a Floyd | sturdier structure of stone stands amongst the ramshackle dwellings. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Slum 4/210 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You would probably get lost and die of starvation back there. Or at Floyd | the very least die with a knife in your gut or crushed under a Floyd | splintery deadfall. There is a path to the east, however, and a single Floyd | safe-looking building, to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 4/211 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Underground Church Floyd | Four thick square columns near the corners. Your LED makes elongated Floyd | shadows dance out behind each one as you move. The central space is Floyd | empty. Maybe once there were seats or pews, but if so they've rotted Floyd | entirely away. It may be ancient, but this tiny building has nice Floyd | proportions. The architect was human, no doubt, but probably had Floyd | robotic assistance. The exit is south. Floyd | Floyd | Near the north wall is a huge oblong block of stone with a smooth top. Floyd | Floyd | On the block of stone is an ancient idol. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get idol" | ||
Floyd ] Underground Church 4/212 Floyd | Floyd | > GET IDOL Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "s. e. e. e." | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/216 Floyd | Floyd | > S. E. E. E. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Slum Floyd | Not much light at all, just a few knife-edges of shuttered candle Floyd | gleam coming from the hodge-podge of alleys and houses. You are Floyd | appalled that people could possibly be allowed to live down here. Floyd | Floyd | Though you don't see any residents at the moment, the buildings are Floyd | not perfectly quiet. Little noises of creaking wood. Whispers, too, Floyd | perhaps. Floyd | Floyd | Decayed alleys run in many directions, but you should probably stick Floyd | to traveling east, back towards the culvert, or north, where a Floyd | sturdier structure of stone stands amongst the ramshackle dwellings. Floyd | Floyd | Channel Floyd | This was probably a culvert once. Muddy, dim. Just breathing the air Floyd | here is like kissing a grave. The bowed ceiling, which curves down to Floyd | become the walls, is riddled with fissures, from which protrude dead Floyd | black roots. Floyd | Floyd | The old culvert runs east and west, and a ragged chimney leads up into Floyd | the relatively clean air of the crypt. Floyd | Floyd | Thicket Floyd | Unhealthy stems grow lush here. They have woven themselves into a Floyd | pliable mesh between floor and ceiling. The roots are sunk into a Floyd | putrid matrix of muck and shattered bones. Floyd | Floyd | Your LED's light gleams in pale splinters off the stems. The growth is Floyd | crushed down in paths heading east, west, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Cell Floyd | A cramped stone cubicle. The walls are shaggy with cancer-like scales Floyd | of soot. An iron basket of smoldering dirt clods hangs from the Floyd | ceiling. The air, mostly smoke, stinks like the filth of millennia. Floyd | The exit is west. Floyd | Floyd | A hermit covered in white felted frizz hunches against the back wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the floor before the hermit is an open-topped cardboard box. Floyd | Scrawled on its front panel is the phrase: "Everything's a dollar in Floyd | this box." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "go to cell" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/216
Floyd |
Floyd | > GO TO CELL
Floyd |
| DavidW says, "He's probably signing 'I can't hear youuuuu'." | |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Doug says, "why don't you drive for a while" | |
| pollux asks, "He may not be deaf; he probably just took a vow of silence, yeah?" | ||
| DavidW says, "If it's 'hail mary', then do that at the idol." | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "show idol to hermit" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/217 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW IDOL TO HERMIT Floyd | Floyd | The hermit is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says (to pollux), "yeah" | |
| pollux says (to floyd), "give idol to hermit" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/218 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE IDOL TO HERMIT Floyd | Floyd | The hermit doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "hail mary" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/218 Floyd | Floyd | > HAIL MARY Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The idol was of Mary, I suspect." | |
| Doug says, "yes" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put idol in box" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/219 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT IDOL IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | You put the ancient idol into the cardboard box. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "hm, no dollar." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get clarinet" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/220 Floyd | Floyd | > GET CLARINET Floyd | Floyd | According to the writing on the box, everything inside costs a dollar, Floyd | and you don't have a dollar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "get dollar" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/221 Floyd | Floyd | > GET DOLLAR Floyd | Floyd | That seems to belong to the hermit. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "d'oh, sorry." | |
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x writing" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/221 Floyd | Floyd | > X WRITING Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ack!" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get idol" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/222
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET IDOL
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
| ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "ask hermit for dollar" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd ] Cell 4/223 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK HERMIT FOR DOLLAR Floyd | Floyd | [Use TALK TO to interact with characters.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Don't put the idol into the box!!!!!" | |
| DavidW says, "undo that!" | ||
| Doug says, "gotta have faith, David :)" | ||
| DavidW says, "I can't. My connection is too slow." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sell idol" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/223 Floyd | Floyd | > SELL IDOL Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x idol" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/224 Floyd | Floyd | > X IDOL Floyd | Floyd | A peculiar ancient idol. It is about six inches high, and depicts a Floyd | woman in a blue shawl holding a baby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "show mary to hermit" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/224 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW MARY TO HERMIT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | pollux says, "Maybe we can..." | |
| pollux says (to floyd), "put idol in box. talk to hermit." | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/226
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT IDOL IN BOX. TALK TO HERMIT.
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the ancient idol into the cardboard box.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hermit makes a strange gesture with his right hand: fingers
Floyd | curled, thumb and index finger pointed right at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "What did the hermit 'say' anyway? I never saw." | |
| pollux says, "Or not." | ||
| Doug says (to DavidW), "he said HAIL MARY FULL OF ..." | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "take idol." | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/227
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE IDOL.
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Doug asks, "what is that last sign though?" | |
| pollux says, "G" | ||
| Doug says, "oh" | ||
| Doug says, "confused by "pointed right at you"" | ||
| Doug says, "I guess this wikipedia image is from the speaker's point of view. that makes sense." | ||
| pollux says, "If you are looking at that wikipedia image, some of them are marked as showing a different angle from the viewer. The *L/*R ones." | ||
| Doug says, "aha." | ||
| Doug asks, "do you think we can put the chips into the clarinet without taking it?" | ||
| Doug says, "or maybe we should just explore north of the hole" | ||
| pollux says, "Explore north, definitely." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/228 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Cell Floyd | A cramped stone cubicle. The walls are shaggy with cancer-like scales Floyd | of soot. An iron basket of smoldering dirt clods hangs from the Floyd | ceiling. The air, mostly smoke, stinks like the filth of millennia. Floyd | The exit is west. Floyd | Floyd | A hermit covered in white felted frizz hunches against the back wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the floor before the hermit is an open-topped cardboard box. Floyd | Scrawled on its front panel is the phrase: "Everything's a dollar in Floyd | this box." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wouldn't want to put the chips into an unpaid clarinet." | |
| [band-name] Doug says, "Unpaid Clarinet" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w. w. u" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 4/231 Floyd | | DavidW says, "If items can be returned, return the key." | |
Floyd | > W. W. U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Thicket Floyd | Unhealthy stems grow lush here. They have woven themselves into a Floyd | pliable mesh between floor and ceiling. The roots are sunk into a Floyd | putrid matrix of muck and shattered bones. Floyd | Floyd | Your LED's light gleams in pale splinters off the stems. The growth is Floyd | crushed down in paths heading east, west, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Channel Floyd | This was probably a culvert once. Muddy, dim. Just breathing the air Floyd | here is like kissing a grave. The bowed ceiling, which curves down to Floyd | become the walls, is riddled with fissures, from which protrude dead Floyd | black roots. Floyd | Floyd | The old culvert runs east and west, and a ragged chimney leads up into Floyd | the relatively clean air of the crypt. Floyd | Floyd | Subsidence Floyd | The rotten brick floor has partially collapsed, allowing access to a Floyd | level below the crypt. You can climb down, or you can skirt the hole Floyd | and go north. The hallway also runs southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh, good idea." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/228 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Cell Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put key in box" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/229 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT KEY IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | The plexiglass key drops into the box. Floyd | Floyd | The hermit shrugs and hands you back your dollar bill. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get clarinet" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/230 Floyd | Floyd | > GET CLARINET Floyd | Floyd | You take the the clarinet from the box, handing a dollar bill over to Floyd | the hermit in exchange. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put chips into clarinet" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/231 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT CHIPS INTO CLARINET Floyd | Floyd | white music chip: Done. Floyd | red music chip: There is no more room in the round hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x clarinet" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/232 Floyd | Floyd | > X CLARINET Floyd | Floyd | A poorly-maintained electro-clarinet. Along the side of the instrument Floyd | are a square fuse slot (containing a dead fuse) and round hole for a Floyd | music chip (containing a white music chip). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put fuse into clarinet" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/233 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT FUSE INTO CLARINET Floyd | Floyd | (the holy fuse into the clarinet) Floyd | There is no more room in the square slot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "take dead fuse. put fuse in clarinet." | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/234
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE DEAD FUSE. PUT FUSE IN CLARINET.
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the dead fuse or the holy fuse?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get dead fuse" | Jacqueline says, "(Sorry, helping maga with something)" | |
Floyd ] Cell 4/235 Floyd | Floyd | > GET DEAD FUSE Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "put holy fuse in clarinet" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/236 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT HOLY FUSE IN CLARINET Floyd | Floyd | You put the holy fuse into the square slot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "play clarinet" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/237 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY CLARINET Floyd | Floyd | You play "Ave Machina" on the clarinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get white. put red in clarinet." | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/237
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET WHITE. PUT RED IN CLARINET.
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the smock or the white music chip?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x smock" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/238 Floyd | Floyd | > X SMOCK Floyd | Floyd | It inhabits the uncanny valley between garment and bodily growth. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "haha" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get white chip. put red chip into clarinet. play clarinet." | ||
Floyd ] Cell 4/241
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET WHITE CHIP. PUT RED CHIP INTO CLARINET. PLAY CLARINET.
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken. (That's a holy relic; be careful with it.)
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the red music chip into the round hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | You play "The DOSology" on the clarinet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Doug says, "okey doke." | |
| Doug says, "I guess we can figure out how to get the bowling ball later." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w. w. u" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 4/244 Floyd | Floyd | > W. W. U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Thicket Floyd | Unhealthy stems grow lush here. They have woven themselves into a Floyd | pliable mesh between floor and ceiling. The roots are sunk into a Floyd | putrid matrix of muck and shattered bones. Floyd | Floyd | Your LED's light gleams in pale splinters off the stems. The growth is Floyd | crushed down in paths heading east, west, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Channel Floyd | This was probably a culvert once. Muddy, dim. Just breathing the air Floyd | here is like kissing a grave. The bowed ceiling, which curves down to Floyd | become the walls, is riddled with fissures, from which protrude dead Floyd | black roots. Floyd | Floyd | The old culvert runs east and west, and a ragged chimney leads up into Floyd | the relatively clean air of the crypt. Floyd | Floyd | Subsidence Floyd | The rotten brick floor has partially collapsed, allowing access to a Floyd | level below the crypt. You can climb down, or you can skirt the hole Floyd | and go north. The hallway also runs southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Back Stair 4/245 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Stair Floyd | Brick steps lead up around a vertical square air channel. Floyd | Floyd | A hallway runs south under a brick arch, back towards the crypt. Floyd | Floyd | Your heart is thundering with anticipation. Any moment now you'll be Floyd | in the presence of Pope Fortran. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We might have no need for a bowling ball." | |
| Doug asks, "hm, which music would be better for the pope?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x steps" | ||
Floyd ] Back Stair 4/246 Floyd | Floyd | > X STEPS Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the steps. Floyd | Floyd | > | pollux says, "I'm going AFK for a bit, so, I'm afraid you're on your own. :P" | |
| Doug says, "thanks for your ASL decoding skills!" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Secondary Chapel Approach 4/247 Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | You climb up towards the glare and roar of the Mathedral. Your legs Floyd | are shaky. Floyd | Floyd | Secondary Chapel Approach Floyd | A V-shaped metal hallway. The bright walls and floor are covered with Floyd | rubber wheel marks. The chapel is south; to the north, the hallway Floyd | branches into a maelstrom of variously-purposed robot roads, paths, Floyd | cyber-catwalks, and transport chutes. A hatch leads down into a lower Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | You can feel a vibration in the substance of the world to the south: Floyd | the chapel must be running some heavy-duty prayer engines. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am back." | |
| Doug says, "ooh, chutes." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Secondary Chapel Approach 4/248 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing but a snarl of metal robot routes that way, unsafe for Floyd | travel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Secondary Chapel Approach 4/249 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | One step towards the chapel, and a stigmata forms, a drop of blood Floyd | welling at your nostril. Floyd | Floyd | The hum of those prayer engines: they have been cranked up to a Floyd | awe-inspiring degree. Floyd | Floyd | Get any closer to those prayer engines without wearing a prayer helmet Floyd | and your brain will be, ah, nothing but stigmata. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh right!" | |
| Doug says, "we can play a song for the pauper now!" | ||
| DavidW says, "The bowling ball might've been another way of opening plexiglass cases and coffins." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Yes!" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Back Stair 4/250 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Stair Floyd | Brick steps lead up around a vertical square air channel. Floyd | Floyd | A hallway runs south under a brick arch, back towards the crypt. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "That's what I thought you all were working up to!" | |
| Doug says, "yeah, forgot" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s. se. se" | ||
Floyd ] Crossway 4/253 Floyd | Floyd | > S. SE. SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Subsidence Floyd | The rotten brick floor has partially collapsed, allowing access to a Floyd | level below the crypt. You can climb down, or you can skirt the hole Floyd | and go north. The hallway also runs southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Reliquary Floyd | A rutted ground of rotted bricks. The ceiling is low, lumpy with Floyd | whitish nitre. The walls are very close and crooked, but not by any Floyd | mysterious robot design. They're just ancient--and were shoddy to Floyd | begin with. Brick passageways lead southeast and northwest. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plexiglass cabinet (in which is a mangled saint (empty)) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | Crossway Floyd | Though maybe it used to be a crossway, with four brick tunnels Floyd | branching out beneath a groined vault, now only the northwestern and Floyd | southwestern passages are open. The others have collapsed and are full Floyd | of broken bricks. A staircase heads upwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 4/254 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Almshouse Floyd | The east wall leans west, the south wall leans south, and the north Floyd | and west walls are crooked in angular S-curves. There is a narrow gap Floyd | in the north wall, and just through it, a hint of descending steps. Floyd | The narthex is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Carpet: that's rare in these halls. It is sea-foam green. The carpet Floyd | runs up the walls to a height of ten feet, and above that is blotchy Floyd | steel. Floyd | Floyd | The carpet is ratty, worn in a threadbare pathway before a cot along Floyd | the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the cot is a prayer helmet. Floyd | Floyd | A large, flaccid pauper is standing near the cot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "play clarinet" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 5/255 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY CLARINET Floyd | Floyd | You play "The DOSology" on the clarinet. Floyd | Floyd | The pauper sings along in a high, sweet voice: Floyd | Floyd | "Praise God, in whom all lines compile; Floyd | Grant read/write access, every file, Floyd | To him who writes the heavenly code; Floyd | Praise parser, prompt and debug mode. Floyd | Amen." Floyd | Floyd | The pauper gestures to the helmet. He says: "Take it, it's yours." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get helmet" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 5/256 Floyd | Floyd | > GET HELMET Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 5/257 Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | An industrial-strength prayer helmet, beige plastic with molded Floyd | contours, stained with the marks of a thousand dirty fingers. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That was an awesome song." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get red chip. put white chip into clarinet. play clarinet." | ||
Floyd ] Almshouse 5/260
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET RED CHIP. PUT WHITE CHIP INTO CLARINET. PLAY CLARINET.
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken. (That's a holy relic; be careful with it.)
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the white music chip into the round hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | You play "Ave Machina" on the clarinet.
Floyd |
Floyd | The pauper sings along in a high, sweet voice:
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ave Machina! Mechanism fair!
Floyd | Listen to this support request
Floyd | Transmitted wirelessly through the air.
Floyd | Thou canst help me my program to test.
Floyd |
Floyd | Safely powered down I rest;
Floyd | Lights blink green as I sleep;
Floyd | Download, install your version best,
Floyd | While my dreams browse through wikis deep!
Floyd | Ave Machina!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Doug says, "I wonder if those are the shufflecomp songs..." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. Possibly." | ||
| Doug asks, "ok, back to the mathedral?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't get the DOSology reference." | ||
| Doug says, "me neither" | ||
| Roger says, "I would guess some form of 'doxology'" | ||
| Doug says, "doxo--yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm. Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "If that's all we need for the clarinet, exchange it for the bowling ball, just in case." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d. nw. nw." | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 5/263 Floyd | Floyd | > D. NW. NW. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crossway Floyd | Though maybe it used to be a crossway, with four brick tunnels Floyd | branching out beneath a groined vault, now only the northwestern and Floyd | southwestern passages are open. The others have collapsed and are full Floyd | of broken bricks. A staircase heads upwards. Floyd | Floyd | Reliquary Floyd | A rutted ground of rotted bricks. The ceiling is low, lumpy with Floyd | whitish nitre. The walls are very close and crooked, but not by any Floyd | mysterious robot design. They're just ancient--and were shoddy to Floyd | begin with. Brick passageways lead southeast and northwest. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plexiglass cabinet (in which is a mangled saint (empty)) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | Subsidence Floyd | The rotten brick floor has partially collapsed, allowing access to a Floyd | level below the crypt. You can climb down, or you can skirt the hole Floyd | and go north. The hallway also runs southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d. e. e" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 5/266 Floyd | Floyd | > D. E. E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Channel Floyd | This was probably a culvert once. Muddy, dim. Just breathing the air Floyd | here is like kissing a grave. The bowed ceiling, which curves down to Floyd | become the walls, is riddled with fissures, from which protrude dead Floyd | black roots. Floyd | Floyd | The old culvert runs east and west, and a ragged chimney leads up into Floyd | the relatively clean air of the crypt. Floyd | Floyd | Thicket Floyd | Unhealthy stems grow lush here. They have woven themselves into a Floyd | pliable mesh between floor and ceiling. The roots are sunk into a Floyd | putrid matrix of muck and shattered bones. Floyd | Floyd | Your LED's light gleams in pale splinters off the stems. The growth is Floyd | crushed down in paths heading east, west, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Cell Floyd | A cramped stone cubicle. The walls are shaggy with cancer-like scales Floyd | of soot. An iron basket of smoldering dirt clods hangs from the Floyd | ceiling. The air, mostly smoke, stinks like the filth of millennia. Floyd | The exit is west. Floyd | Floyd | A hermit covered in white felted frizz hunches against the back wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the floor before the hermit is an open-topped cardboard box. Floyd | Scrawled on its front panel is the phrase: "Everything's a dollar in Floyd | this box." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put clarinet in box" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 5/267 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT CLARINET IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | The clarinet drops into the box. Floyd | Floyd | The hermit shrugs and hands you back your dollar bill. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get ball" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 5/268 Floyd | Floyd | > GET BALL Floyd | Floyd | You take the the bowling ball from the box, handing a dollar bill over Floyd | to the hermit in exchange. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 5/269 Floyd | Floyd | > X BALL Floyd | Floyd | A purple-swirled bowling ball around 22cm in diameter and weighing Floyd | around 7kg. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x finger holes" | ||
Floyd ] Cell 5/269 Floyd | Floyd | > X FINGER HOLES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w. w. u" | ||
Floyd ] Subsidence 5/272 Floyd | Floyd | > W. W. U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Thicket Floyd | Unhealthy stems grow lush here. They have woven themselves into a Floyd | pliable mesh between floor and ceiling. The roots are sunk into a Floyd | putrid matrix of muck and shattered bones. Floyd | Floyd | Your LED's light gleams in pale splinters off the stems. The growth is Floyd | crushed down in paths heading east, west, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Channel Floyd | This was probably a culvert once. Muddy, dim. Just breathing the air Floyd | here is like kissing a grave. The bowed ceiling, which curves down to Floyd | become the walls, is riddled with fissures, from which protrude dead Floyd | black roots. Floyd | Floyd | The old culvert runs east and west, and a ragged chimney leads up into Floyd | the relatively clean air of the crypt. Floyd | Floyd | Subsidence Floyd | The rotten brick floor has partially collapsed, allowing access to a Floyd | level below the crypt. You can climb down, or you can skirt the hole Floyd | and go north. The hallway also runs southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n. u" | ||
Floyd ] Secondary Chapel Approach 5/274 Floyd | Floyd | > N. U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Stair Floyd | Brick steps lead up around a vertical square air channel. Floyd | Floyd | A hallway runs south under a brick arch, back towards the crypt. Floyd | Floyd | Secondary Chapel Approach Floyd | A V-shaped metal hallway. The bright walls and floor are covered with Floyd | rubber wheel marks. The chapel is south; to the north, the hallway Floyd | branches into a maelstrom of variously-purposed robot roads, paths, Floyd | cyber-catwalks, and transport chutes. A hatch leads down into a lower Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | You can feel a vibration in the substance of the world to the south: Floyd | the chapel must be running some heavy-duty prayer engines. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Secondary Chapel Approach 5/275 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Get any closer to those prayer engines without wearing a prayer helmet Floyd | and your brain will be nothing but stigmata. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wear gelmet" | ||
Floyd ] Secondary Chapel Approach 5/275 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR GELMET Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wear helmet" | ||
Floyd ] Secondary Chapel Approach 5/276 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR HELMET Floyd | Floyd | You put on the prayer helmet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Chapel of Spiritual Cybernetics 6/277 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Chapel of Spiritual Cybernetics Floyd | The walls, floor and ceiling are vibrating beige panels. Floyd | Floyd | Ten prayer engines thunder, fringed with halos of divine radiation. Floyd | You feel the hum of the engines in your skull, in your teeth, in your Floyd | eyeballs. Fortunately the shielding of the prayer helmet prevents Floyd | spontaneous spiritual hemorrhage. Floyd | Floyd | Doorways are north and south. Floyd | Floyd | A hulking antique crusader bot is standing just in front of the south Floyd | doorway, blocking it. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Golly." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x bot" | ||
Floyd ] Chapel of Spiritual Cybernetics 6/278 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOT Floyd | Floyd | An old-fashioned crusaderbot, eight feet high and four feet wide. It Floyd | is made of fire-blackened steel covered with red and white decals. Floyd | Floyd | An unobtrusive antenna is attached to the robot's chest like a medal. Floyd | Floyd | The brainpan at the top of the robot's head has been opened. It Floyd | contains nothing. Floyd | Floyd | The crusaderbot speaks in a tinny roar: "DEAR MADAM OR SIR FIND ME MY Floyd | BRAIN AND I WILL LET YOU PASS MY BRAIN IS ROUND." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put ball in brainpan" | ||
Floyd ] Chapel of Spiritual Cybernetics 7/279 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BALL IN BRAINPAN Floyd | Floyd | The bowling ball settles into the brainpan with a thud. Floyd | Floyd | The crusaderbot says: "DEUS VOLT! THANK YOU KIND MADAM OR SIR THAT Floyd | FEELS LIKE MY MISSING BRAIN IT MUST BE MY MISSING BRAIN THANK YOU FOR Floyd | FINDING IT." Floyd | Floyd | It performs a clanking bow; in doing so it moves forward from the Floyd | south door, allowing you space to pass. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "okay then!" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Well awesome." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x decals" | ||
Floyd ] Chapel of Spiritual Cybernetics 7/280 Floyd | Floyd | > X DECALS Floyd | Floyd | The decals depict the sacking of heretic cities. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "And here I was going to ask you to try bowling it down." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x antenna" | ||
Floyd ] Chapel of Spiritual Cybernetics 7/281 Floyd | Floyd | > X ANTENNA Floyd | Floyd | Though it must not realize it, the old crusaderbot doesn't have its Floyd | own brain anymore. Instead its consciousness has been networked, and Floyd | is now accessed wirelessly via this antenna. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "x bot" | |
| DavidW says, "Bowling ball is round." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Robopope 7/282 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You are filled with ecstasy. Floyd | Floyd | Robopope Floyd | Everything else is a sphere of irrelevance arrayed about you. Floyd | Floyd | Pope Fortran is here. Floyd | Floyd | On the pope's right grasping appendage is its ring of office. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x pope" | ||
Floyd ] Robopope 7/283 Floyd | Floyd | > X POPE Floyd | Floyd | Robopope Fortran is a towering intellectual mechanism. Its head looks Floyd | like the blade of an earth-moving machine, and its body and limbs are Floyd | a configurable mass of jointed metallo-muscles. It is wearing a cloak Floyd | of purple fireproof cloth with a white-black checked human-hair Floyd | fringe, shoes made of solid ruby-tinted titanium, and, on the end of Floyd | its right manipulator appendage, its ring of office, the band of which Floyd | is made of whiskered yellow ceramic and which holds a green and silver Floyd | smartjewel. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We must kiss the ring. I forget if we must kneel first." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm. Yeah." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to robopope" | ||
Floyd ] Robopope 7/283 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO ROBOPOPE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to pope" | ||
Floyd ] Robopope 7/284 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO POPE Floyd | Floyd | You quickly think of twenty-seven different things you might say to Floyd | Pope Fortran, but just as quickly reject them all as unworthy. Floyd | Floyd | Your mind isn't running quite straight at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I was thinking for a second that there might be a robo crush thing for the jewel, but yeah, you probably just kiss it." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "kiss ring" | ||
Floyd ] Robopope 8/284 Floyd | Floyd | > KISS RING Floyd | Floyd | You kneel. Floyd | Floyd | Pope Fortran's exorbitant stainless steel head--like the blade of a Floyd | bulldozer decorated with dozens of bulbs and sensors--is aimed the Floyd | other way. Maybe that's for the best. Floyd | Floyd | As your dry lips move closer to the smartjewel of Pope Fortran's ring, Floyd | you wonder what it was like for the faithful before the robots Floyd | discovered the fractal code that underpins the universe and made it Floyd | available to anyone who pledged obedience to them--a pittance to pay, Floyd | for the reward of effortless certainty in the divine. Those vanished Floyd | ages must have been dark and paranoid indeed. If faith might be Floyd | misplaced, then it can be no comfort whatsoever. Floyd | Floyd | Lips and jewel meet. A faint spark. A sense that you have as much Floyd | relative meaning to the function of the universe as a single atom. The Floyd | sound of sub-atomic particles screaming along unimaginable scraggly Floyd | paths shaped like masses of melted hair. The searing stink of outer Floyd | space. Floyd | Floyd | Though maybe that's just your imagination. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 8 out of a possible 8, in 284 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, see the list of SONGS, or read the JOKES page? Floyd | > | maga says, "the nice part about having a CF transcript is that now I don't have to play the whole game when I want to check which songs this drew on" | |
| Doug says, "hooray" | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "songs" | ||
Floyd ] Robopope 8/284 Floyd | Floyd | > SONGS Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | List of songs influencing this game, albeit often flippantly, in Floyd | approximate order of obviousness of influence, though perhaps obvious Floyd | to nobody but the author: Floyd | Floyd | My Robot Friend - Robot High School Floyd | Tom Waits - Soldier's Things Floyd | Quasimoto - Goodmorning Sunshine Floyd | Peter Gabriel - The Barry Williams Show Floyd | A Tribe Called Red - Electric pow wow drum Floyd | Saint Etienne - I was born on Christmas day Floyd | Aimee Mann - Calling it Quits Floyd | Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, see the list of SONGS, or read the JOKES page? Floyd | > | Doug says, "unless we quit without..." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oops." | ||
| Doug says, "hm, I don't know any of those except Bon Jovi" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "For enough compensation, the transcript could have an 'accident' before Gerynar typed in that command." | ||
| Doug says, "haha" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "jokes" | ||
Floyd ] Robopope 8/284 Floyd | Floyd | > JOKES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Here is your reward for winning: Floyd | Floyd | Q. Why did the robot cross the road? Floyd | A. It is very unlikely that the robot needed to cross a road. Most Floyd | robots do not use roads, and following the Robot Apotheosis the Floyd | majority of human road systems rapidly fell into disrepair. Floyd | Floyd | DID YOU KNOW that the Holy Robot Empire is neither Holy, Robotic, nor Floyd | an Empire? Floyd | Floyd | Q. How many robots does it take to screw in a light bulb? Floyd | A. This depends on the function of the robot. Floyd | Floyd | A: Knock-knock. Floyd | B: Who's there? Floyd | A: Si. Floyd | B: Si Who? Floyd | A: Si Bernetic. Floyd | B: ... You cannot spell. Floyd | Floyd | DID YOU KNOW that the final secret digit of pi is 6? Floyd | Floyd | "I can go any cardinal direction plus up or down," said Tom movingly. Floyd | "I run both Inform and TADS games," interpreted Tom. Floyd | "You are likely to be eaten by a grue," said Tom darkly. Floyd | "I just found the last lousy point!" said Tom winningly. Floyd | "I'm discovering a lot of bugs in this text adventure," said Tom Floyd | testily. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, see the list of SONGS, or read the JOKES page? Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "Sorry :/" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I know a few. Possibly augmented by the fact that maga is probably the one who submitted Quasimoto to the mix." | ||
| maga says, "guilty as charged" | ||
| maga says, "although someone else submitted another Quasimoto song, so there" | ||
| Doug says, "should have been DAD JOKES" | ||
| maga says, "(but yes, I am particularly fond of that one)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, hooray Curveship at the end." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "This was rather good, though not the sort of thing I would ever play on my own." | ||
| Klaw goes home. | Doug asks, "curveship?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "The bit with all the adverbs seems reminiscient of Curveship." | ||
| Doug says, "oh, they're Tom Swifties" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "reminiscent, even" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Oh." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, those are Tom Swifties." | ||
| Doug | [LINK] | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, okay. I see." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am unfamiliar with Tom Swities." | ||
| DavidW says, "'I dropped the toothpaste, Tom said crestfallen.'" | ||
| Doug | "I have no flowers," Tom said lackadaisically. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah" | ||
| DavidW says, "I like camping, Tom said intently." | ||
| Doug says, "anyway, yeah, I liked it a lot. old school puzzle mentality, but I'm fine with that." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "full score" | ||
Floyd ] Robopope 8/284 Floyd | Floyd | > FULL SCORE Floyd | Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, see the list of SONGS, or read the JOKES page? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Now those sentences make more sense and are funnier. Hooray for learning something new." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Robopope 7/284 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Robopope Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Robopope 7/283 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Robopope Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "full score" | ||
Floyd ] Robopope 7/283
Floyd |
Floyd | > FULL SCORE
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "full score" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Robopope 7/283 Floyd | Floyd | > FULL SCORE Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, I shouldn't anticipate." | |
| Doug says, "heh." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] Robopope 7/283 Floyd | Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | You have so far scored 7 out of a possible 8, in 283 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "No full score, t'would seem." | |
| Doug asks, "is that a TADS-ism?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, thanks, everyong! Good game." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "No, I don't think so..." | ||
| Doug says, "yes thanks! It would have taken me a lot longer to figure out some of those puzzles probably." | ||
| Doug says, "so wait, we never did anything with the idol" | ||
| Doug asks, "or maybe just gluing it together let us get further than we would have otherwise?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Not sure. That was during the bit where I'd stepped away." | ||
| Doug | On the word "full", the character forms the "L" twice, which is a nonfluency in American sign; double letters other than "JJ" and "ZZ" are properly made by sliding the shape away from the signer's body as it's formed, a sort of signing analog to a typographic ligature. | ||
| DavidW says, "Full score is from older Inform 6 games. It's not standard in Inform 7." | ||
| Doug says, "from Maeja's review" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Ah" | ||
| Doug says, "I'm torn between wanting to play another one and wanting to go to a pig roast." | ||
| DavidW says, "I should probably research and write-up an evolution of standard commands, since they have changed over time." | ||
| Taleslinger asks, "Oh, are you kids playing ShuffleComp games?" | ||
| Gerynar says, "yes." | ||
| Taleslinger says, "Neat," | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We were. We're done for today. Played a very solid one, though." | ||
| Taleslinger says, "I think you can't play many of them anyway." | ||
| Taleslinger says, "There were some odd formats" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm willing to 'play' another game, but my lag still makes it difficult to participate directly,." | ||
| DavidW says, "ah. ok." | ||
| Ferret has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Nitku says, "More than half were Inform or TADS" | |
| Nitku says, "so the pool isn't nowhere near empty after two games" | ||
| Doug says, "yeah, plenty more. I think I'm gonna head out though. thanks all!" | ||
