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Like ClubFloyd, the idea behind NightFloyd is that a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction. |
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NightFloyd Transcript:
Like ClubFloyd, the idea behind NightFloyd is that a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction. |
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, this is the Bonehead guy." | ||
| Zach arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | DavidW says, "I never got that far into Bonehead, although I vaguely seem to think I attended a CF playing of it." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Five minutes until NightFloyd! We're playing Hunger Daemon by Sean M Shore." | ||
| DuoDave arrives, full of fun and funk. | DavidW says, "I hope the game includes food." | |
| jenrexrode says, "me, too." | ||
| DuoDave says, "i brought chexmix" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "I want a cheeseburger" | ||
| DavidW says, "It'd be awful to have a hunger daemon and no food." | ||
| McMartin says, "I look forward to the audience reactions" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "The cover image is a plate covered in crumbs." | ||
| DavidW says, "I still haven't quite finished off the dried mango slices i got on Monday." | ||
| McMartin says, "I played this one relatively early in the comp, so I have to shut up now" | ||
| DuoDave asks, "oh is it a comp game?" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "I'e already tried to leavec cf-spoilers, but I was already left" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask hungerdaemon" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ...ilyaa nwagl geb tharanak r'luh hafh'drn kadishtu Hastur ftaghu Floyd | nglui syha'hoth nilgh'ri f'phlegeth s'uhn, uln ooboshu gnaiih ftaghu Floyd | f'ya bug kadishtu mnahn' shtunggliog shugg y'hah shugg chtenffnyth, Floyd | nahafh'drn ep sgn'wahl llll navulgtlagln. Naflebunma hai nog uaaah Floyd | nog naflsyha'h Azathoth nggeb uaaah shogg fm'latgh, ehye cshugg Floyd | y'hah... Floyd | Floyd | That's your Uncle Stu chanting, getting some occasional vocal backup Floyd | from the other guys. They've been going on for the better part of two Floyd | hours now. Prep-work for the big show tonight. | genericgeekgirl says, "Onward." | |
| McMartin says (to DuoDave), "Hunger Daemon is indeed a game from the currently-running comp" | ||
| Zach pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | hours now. Prep-work for the big show tonight. Floyd | ...sgn'wahl vulgtlagln stell'bsnaor syha'h gebyar nilgh'ri orr'e Floyd | uaaah uln, throd fm'latghyar vulgtm tharanak kn'a mg uh'e nglui, Floyd | fm'latgh Cthulhu nglui k'yarnak li'hee mnahn' uh'e chtenff. Athg y'hah Floyd | lloig ep hlirgh 'fhalma hrii sll'ha, hupadgh wgah'nog shogg orr'e Floyd | ebunma vulgtm ron, ebunma... Floyd | Floyd | There's really quite a bit of chanting at these things, and it can be Floyd | a little repetitive. Some themes tend to recur pretty often. A lot Floyd | of awakening and devouring, for starters. | DavidW says, "uh-oh. 'Hastur' suggests Lovecraftian horror." | |
| Zach says, "And "Cthulhu"" | ||
| genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | of awakening and devouring, for starters. Floyd | ...wgah'n orr'e uaaah ron hafh'drn mg n'ghft shagg ooboshuog Floyd | mnahn' r'luh naorr'e bug li'hee gnaiih Tsathoggua n'gha lw'nafh uh'e, Floyd | n'ghftoth fm'latgh ckn'a hlirgh mnahn' uh'e ya goka. Li'hee naflshagg Floyd | stell'bsna ilyaa y'hah, ph'ah li'heenyth f'geb... Floyd | Floyd | The thing of it is, he's drawing out every single goddamned syllable. Floyd | That "wgah'n" -- that took eleven seconds. If he were just reading it Floyd | straight, we'd have been out of here in forty-five minutes, and you'd Floyd | have the rest of your day back. But instead, he's doing all these Floyd | vibratos and ululations, going over the same phrase over and over. Floyd | It's enough to drive you insane. | genericgeekgirl snrk. | |
| genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | It's enough to drive you insane. Floyd | ...f'shugg s'uhn y-fhtagn gotha, ngthrod Shub-Niggurath y'hah Floyd | hupadgh uln k'yarnak nguaaah lloig gluinyth 'fhalma h'gof'nn ah grah'n Floyd | ngfhtagn nw, ngshtunggli shugg n'gha ngnog, ngooboshu nastell'bsna Floyd | naflr'luh s'uhn. F'n'gha naflorr'e ron ngphlegeth h'bug 'fhalma ep Floyd | li'hee shagg... Floyd | Floyd | There's a pause in the chanting. Suddenly, you hear a baleful Floyd | gurgling, almost a roar, coming from deep below. It's your stomach. Floyd | You missed breakfast, and now you're missing lunch, too. Azathoth's Floyd | ample arse! How long is this ceremony going to take? | genericgeekgirl says, "New favourite swear." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "10 hours" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 1 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | Hunger Daemon Floyd | The Travails of a Cafeteria Cultist by Sean M. Shore Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 141014 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Restaurant Basement Floyd | You're in the basement of a defunct little bistro in the West 7th Floyd | neighborhood of Saint Paul. This is where your cult does most of its Floyd | culting, on account of how your Aunt Sandy doesn't want any sacrifices Floyd | in the house, and well, fair enough. Uncle Stu owns the building, so Floyd | you're not squatting or anything, but he's kept the place in a state Floyd | of perpetual Coming Soonedness, so that you all can do your thing here Floyd | with no interference. Floyd | Floyd | As I say, defunct bistro, so the restaurant-type stuff you'd Floyd | normally find here is mostly gone. In their place there's a group of Floyd | guys wearing hooded robes, facing an altar at one end of the chamber. Floyd | Your Uncle Stu has a lectern in front of him, atop which is a decrepit Floyd | leather-bound book from which he is chanting. There's a wooden stair Floyd | leading to the pantry above and a winged horror slumped in a folding Floyd | chair in the corner. Floyd | Floyd | [First-time players should type ABOUT. Those playing via web browser: Floyd | use ESC and X to navigate the menus, or turn on screen reader mode.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Sci-fi languages sure love them apostrophes." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] HELP MENU Floyd ] Press a number to choose an option or Floyd ] ESCAPE or X to exit. Floyd ] (Press M to turn Book Mode ON.) Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | (If you're using a screen reader, press S to turn on Screen Reader Floyd | mode. This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) Floyd | Floyd | 1. About and Credits Floyd | 2. Hints | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] About and Credits (page 1 of 1) Floyd ] Floyd ] Press ESCAPE to return to menu or X to exit. Floyd ] (Press M to turn Book Mode ON.) Floyd ] Floyd | ( - About and Credits) Floyd | Floyd | Hunger Daemon is an entry in the 2014 Interactive Fiction Floyd | Competition. There are a couple of short timed sequences where it is Floyd | possible to lock yourself out of victory for a move or two, but it Floyd | will be very obvious when this happens, because the game will end. Floyd | Outside of that, the various "winning" endings should always be Floyd | available. Floyd | Floyd | To initiate a conversation with a character, you can TALK TO the Floyd | character, or SAY HELLO TO her, or ASK her ABOUT or TELL her ABOUT Floyd | something. Use TOPICS to display conversation topics. Occasionally a Floyd | character might respond to something not in her topics list. Floyd | Floyd | You can use GO TO to return to places you've already been. There are Floyd | also a few other nonstandard verbs. I hope that they're obvious in Floyd | context. Note: you might find yourself needing to INFLATE or SQUEEZE Floyd | or REMEMBER some things. Floyd | Floyd | Thanks to Graham Nelson and Emily Short for Inform 7, and to Eric Eve, Floyd | David Fisher and Wade Clarke for very helpful extensions. All praise Floyd | to my testers: Sam Kabo Ashwell, Neil Butters, Bob Reeves, Gráinne Floyd | Ryan, Andrew Schultz, and Steven Westwood. Any remaining shortcomings Floyd | or errors in this game are wholly my responsibility. Lovecraftian Floyd | gibberish courtesy of the Cthuvian Ipsum Generator Floyd | ([LINK]). The cover art is Floyd | adapted from a photo by Knoell8504 on Wikimedia Commons Floyd | ([LINK]). Floyd | Floyd | Apologies to Rabbi Spilker, who deserves better than to appear here. Floyd | Floyd | I can be reached at mister_patient@yahoo.com. Thanks for playing. Floyd | Floyd | ------------------------ | genericgeekgirl says, "Inflate!" | |
| JoshuaH arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] About and Credits (page 1 of 1) Floyd ] Floyd ] Press ESCAPE to return to menu or X to exit. Floyd ] (Press M to turn Book Mode ON.) Floyd ] | DavidW says, "Hope Uncle Stu doesn't get turned into uncle stew." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 1 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Restaurant Basement Floyd | You're in the basement of a defunct little bistro in the West 7th Floyd | neighborhood of Saint Paul. The restaurant-type stuff you'd normally Floyd | find here is mostly gone. In their place there's a group of guys Floyd | wearing hooded robes, facing an altar at one end of the chamber. Your Floyd | Uncle Stu has a lectern in front of him, atop which is a decrepit Floyd | leather-bound book, from which he is chanting. There's a wooden stair Floyd | leading to the pantry above and a winged horror slumped in a folding Floyd | chair in the corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 2 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're Barry, just a regular guy in the service of the Great Old Ones. Floyd | OK, "in the service of" might be a little strong. You haven't done Floyd | much serving of late. You only show up for the high holidays and Floyd | important rituals if you can help it. Floyd | Floyd | ...cphlegeth shogg nnnphlegeth ftaghu shagg stell'bsnanyth Floyd | ehye... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 3 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a hooded robe (hood lowered) (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | ...naflftaghu ooboshu sgn'wahl stell'bsna hupadgh hrii... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf26" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 3 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Because I have to know." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "raise hood" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 4 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > RAISE HOOD Floyd | Floyd | You lift your hood, covering your features and making you look quite Floyd | sinister. Floyd | Floyd | ...zhro vulgtlagln sll'ha uh'e naflkn'a hlirgh h'uln 'ai... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 3 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Restaurant Basement Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove rope" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 3 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE ROPE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove robe" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 4 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE ROBE Floyd | Floyd | Everyone else is wearing one. You'd look out of place without it. Floyd | Floyd | ...zhro vulgtlagln sll'ha uh'e naflkn'a hlirgh h'uln 'ai... Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Fine, fine." | |
| JoshuaH says, "Played this already, so just watching." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x horror" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 5 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > X HORROR Floyd | Floyd | It's a creature summoned from beyond the stars, beyond the depths of Floyd | madness, to serve your uncle. It can scarcely even be described. To Floyd | truly look upon it, to apprehend its features fully, would fracture Floyd | one's mind. Floyd | Floyd | That said, it's a tall, lumpy, yellowish humanoid guy with black eyes Floyd | and some tendrils around the mouth. It's just sitting there on the Floyd | chair. Floyd | Floyd | ...ep uh'e ah ep hai nafl'ai fm'latgh uh'e nailyaa ph'goka mg ch' Floyd | phlegeth vulgtm grah'n... Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "CONFORMITY" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "I bet it's hungry." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look upon horror" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 5 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UPON HORROR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "feed horror" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 6 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > FEED HORROR Floyd | Floyd | (the hooded robe) Floyd | The winged horror doesn't seem like he's up for a lot of interaction Floyd | right now. It's hard to tell if he's quietly preparing for something, Floyd | or meditating, or just bored, but he hasn't moved much in the last Floyd | couple of days. Floyd | Floyd | ...fm'latgh gnaiih ehye ebunma shtunggli nnnshogg goka... Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "'Berry'? Are we all food items?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "eat horror" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 7 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > EAT HORROR Floyd | Floyd | It might come to that. Great Cthulhu, you are famished. Floyd | Floyd | ...r'luh sgn'wahloth gotha uln k'yarnak... Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "num nu," | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat uncle" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 8 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > EAT UNCLE Floyd | Floyd | It might come to that. Great Cthulhu, you are famished. Floyd | Floyd | ...gafh'drn ftaghu wgah'n athg sgn'wahl k'yarnak geb y'hahor Floyd | gnaiih... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 9 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Restaurant Basement Floyd | You're in the basement of a defunct little bistro in the West 7th Floyd | neighborhood of Saint Paul. The restaurant-type stuff you'd normally Floyd | find here is mostly gone. In their place there's a group of guys Floyd | wearing hooded robes, facing an altar at one end of the chamber. Your Floyd | Uncle Stu has a lectern in front of him, atop which is a decrepit Floyd | leather-bound book, from which he is chanting. There's a wooden stair Floyd | leading to the pantry above and a winged horror slumped in a folding Floyd | chair in the corner. Floyd | Floyd | ...stell'bsnaoth y'hah nafluaaah hai, ooboshu geb ep... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x uncle" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 10 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > X UNCLE Floyd | Floyd | He's the leader of your little group. He got into the cult thing when Floyd | he was off doing fieldwork in Paraguay for grad school, and unearthed Floyd | this great big book -- the one he's chanting from on the lectern. Floyd | He's been converting friends and family to his new religion ever Floyd | since. Tonight's a big night for him: after this ritual, he'll be Floyd | ready to eat the Heart of, um, Something? -- it starts with a U -- Floyd | which will turn him into a Vessel for an Old One, whatever that means. Floyd | That is, if we can ever get the chanting out of the way. Floyd | Floyd | ...goka hupadgh, h'chtenff nog hlirgh athg s'uhn 'bthnk Floyd | nathrod... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x lectern" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 11 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > X LECTERN Floyd | Floyd | It's your basic wooden lectern. Your uncle probably swiped it from Floyd | the Catholic school across the street. Floyd | Floyd | ...nnnvulgtm uln geb, fm'latgh athg vulgtm 'fhalma y'hah Floyd | h'fhalma... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 12 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | It's the book that got your uncle started many years ago, when he came Floyd | across it in a dig in Paraguay. It's at least a thousand pages long. Floyd | A lot of the pages seem to have been inserted after the fact. You Floyd | haven't spent a lot of time handling it, but when you have, the Floyd | reddish leather on the cover has flaked off and stuck to your fingers. Floyd | There's no title on it, and it's written in an ancient language that Floyd | you still can't read, despite your uncle's best efforts. Floyd | Floyd | You lean over to have a peek at the section that Stu is reading from. Floyd | Dagon's dingus! He's still on page 13! We're going to be here all Floyd | day. Maybe you can slip out discreetly and get your lunch from the Floyd | fridge upstairs. Floyd | Floyd | ...hupadgh hlirgh ch'agl wgah'n shagg ph'hai 'bthnk ron... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "inflate uncle" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 13 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > INFLATE UNCLE Floyd | Floyd | (first taking Uncle Stu) Floyd | I don't suppose Uncle Stu would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | ...ah hriioth vulgtm uln mnahn' shogg n'ghft nglui zhro... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "inflate horror" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 14 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > INFLATE HORROR Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the winged horror) Floyd | The winged horror doesn't seem like he's up for a lot of interaction Floyd | right now. It's hard to tell if he's quietly preparing for something, Floyd | or meditating, or just bored, but he hasn't moved much in the last Floyd | couple of days. Floyd | Floyd | ...gnaiihoth li'hee stell'bsna kadishtuoth ya k'yarnak nw Floyd | y-fm'latgh ckadishtu... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "squeeze horror" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 15 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > SQUEEZE HORROR Floyd | Floyd | The winged horror doesn't seem like he's up for a lot of interaction Floyd | right now. It's hard to tell if he's quietly preparing for something, Floyd | or meditating, or just bored, but he hasn't moved much in the last Floyd | couple of days. Floyd | Floyd | ...r'luh lw'nafh gnaiih ee ep bug nglui, ilyaa geb lw'nafh... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "squeeze me" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 16 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > SQUEEZE ME Floyd | Floyd | Keep your hands to yourself. Floyd | Floyd | ...chafh'drn hupadgh shtunggli fm'latgh zhro, naflhrii grah'n Floyd | phlegeth shugg... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "inflate me" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 17 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > INFLATE ME Floyd | Floyd | (first taking yourself) Floyd | You are always self-possessed. Floyd | Floyd | ...zhro vulgtlagln sll'ha uh'e naflkn'a hlirgh h'uln 'ai... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 17 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 17 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | Instead of xyzzying when current game is Hunger Daemon: Floyd | try playing Adventure; Floyd | now the joke is out of the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Nooooo." | |
| Zach :( | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Haha, cute." | ||
| Zach says, "Yay, Inform joke" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x altar" | ||
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 18 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd | Floyd | > X ALTAR Floyd | Floyd | It's actually a coffee table with a granite top, the biggest one that Floyd | would fit down the stairs to get here. It is pretty heavy, and it's Floyd | got some eldritch runes that were carved on its surface with a power Floyd | drill. Tonight, supposedly, there will be a sacrifice lashed to it as Floyd | well. Like your uncle says, you can't make an Floyd | appeasing-the-Great-Old-Ones omelet without breaking a few Floyd | blood-of-the-innocents eggs. Floyd | Floyd | ...cphlegeth shogg nnnphlegeth ftaghu shagg stell'bsnanyth Floyd | ehye... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 19 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | You tiptoe over to the stairs as gingerly as you can. Some of the Floyd | other cultists give you a look of mild disapproval, leavened with Floyd | jealousy at your having the courage to slip out first. No one says Floyd | anything, though, and your uncle continues his chanting. Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | This is where all the food would be stored, if the bistro were open Floyd | and functioning. There's a big fridge in the corner and many dusty Floyd | shelves along the walls. A wooden stair leads down to the basement, Floyd | and a doorway leads north to the kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | On the dusty shelves are some pizza boxes and some cans of near-food. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 20 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd | Floyd | > X PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | They're from Papa Dimitri's on Hamline, from yesterday. They still Floyd | smell faintly of pizza, which isn't helping you curb your hunger right Floyd | now, even if the pizza wasn't all that great. The boxes are closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 21 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Alas, all that remains are some greasy sheets of wax paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh xyzzy response" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "lick wax paper" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 22 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd | Floyd | > LICK WAX PAPER Floyd | Floyd | Greedily you begin licking the day-old grease off the wax paper. Floyd | Remembering that you are a human being, you stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Yisssss." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cans" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 23 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd | Floyd | > X CANS Floyd | Floyd | You turn them to read the labels and wipe away some dust. They're Floyd | food, I guess, but none of them can be eaten individually, or in Floyd | combination. There's coconut milk, a can of chipotles in adobo, Floyd | horseradish, a bottle of fish sauce, and sundry other substances which Floyd | might be described as food-adjacent. None of them will address your Floyd | hunger. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 24 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You open the fridge, revealing an unexpectedly empty Ziploc bag. The Floyd | bag has the word "Barry" written on it with a black Sharpie, for all Floyd | the good that did you. It used to enclose a sandwich. The sandwich Floyd | is now presumably enclosed by Walter, who is the only one who's been Floyd | up here. Where is that clown? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Wax paper? Fancy." | |
| DuoDave slinks off to his apartment. | genericgeekgirl says, "That bastard." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open can" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 25 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CAN Floyd | Floyd | You don't have a can opener, but more to the point, you have no reason Floyd | to open them. It might come to that eventually, but for now, you can Floyd | withstand the siren call of the horseradish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bag" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 26 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BAG Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "close fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 27 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You close the fridge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 28 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | This is where all the food would be stored, if the bistro were open Floyd | and functioning. There's a big fridge in the corner and many dusty Floyd | shelves along the walls. A wooden stair leads down to the basement, Floyd | and a doorway leads north to the kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | On the dusty shelves are some pizza boxes (in which are some greasy Floyd | sheets of wax paper) and some cans of near-food. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take paper" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 29 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAPER Floyd | Floyd | You take the sheets of wax paper. They're still quite slick and Floyd | slippery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take cans" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 30 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CANS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Because." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 31 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | pizza boxes: They're a bit bulky to port around, and you have no real Floyd | use for them. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Kitchen?" | |
| Zach says, ">take all, always" | ||
| Zach says, "Sure" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 32 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | This is the bistro's cramped kitchen. With your eye for detail, you Floyd | notice a couple of things subtly out of place. For one thing, Walter Floyd | is laid out on the floor. Also, the Ark of, um, Whatever, which he Floyd | was guarding, is open and empty. The oven appears to be intact, for Floyd | what that's worth, which is probably very little. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the restaurant's office leads west, the pantry is to the Floyd | south, and the dining room is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kick walter" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 32 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > KICK WALTER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x walter" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 33 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X WALTER Floyd | Floyd | He's a big dude -- a monster, really -- and a friend of your uncle's. Floyd | He's supposed to be keeping watch. Instead, he's sprawled out on the Floyd | floor, face down, sleeping peacefully. There's a faint chemical whiff Floyd | coming off him, as opposed to the usual aquavit. You're not a Floyd | physician per se -- a second-year vet student, actually -- but as far Floyd | as you can tell, he's not dying or anything, just knocked out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x ark" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARK Floyd | Floyd | The Ark of Whatever -- Mythos names give you a headache -- is a large, Floyd | ornate box, covered in raised pictograms in some ancient tongue. It's Floyd | clearly very old, and somewhat alien-looking, and too big to schlep Floyd | downstairs. It contains the great Heart of Something or other, the Floyd | crucial object needed for your uncle's transformation ritual that Floyd | takes place tomorrow. Or it did: the ark is open and empty. Floyd | Floyd | You run your finger over the raised pictograms, wondering how the hell Floyd | this could have happened. In order to even open the box, you'd need Floyd | to have the combination, and press the symbols in the right --. Oh, Floyd | Jesus. THIS IS YOUR FAULT. Floyd | Floyd | press any key | genericgeekgirl says, "Uh oh." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "But maybe we can cook Walter." | ||
| genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] A Month Ago at the State Fair, On Line for Bacon on a St34k Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | It's a hot, sweaty day at the state fair. You're here along with Floyd | perhaps a hundred thousand of your fellow Minnesotans, having spent Floyd | the day gawking at the prize rabbits, admiring the butter sculptures Floyd | of the dairy princesses, checking out the reliably liberal crop art, Floyd | and consuming 4000 calories, much of it in the form of soybean oil. Floyd | Floyd | A Month Ago at the State Fair, On Line for Bacon on a Stick Floyd | You're at the head of the line at the Fat Bacon stand, ready for your Floyd | opportunity to give $5 in exchange for a piece of bacon on a stick. Floyd | This is what your day has been missing. Floyd | Floyd | Some teenagers are manning the booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "My day has not been missing bacon on a stick." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "eat teenagers" | ||
Floyd ] A Month Ago at the State Fair, On Line for Bacon on a St35k Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > EAT TEENAGERS Floyd | Floyd | It might come to that. Great Cthulhu, you are famished. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] A Month Ago at the State Fair, On Line for Bacon on a St36k Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a five-dollar bill Floyd | an all-important note that explains how to open the Ark of Gl'thub Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Did someone steal the whatever from the ark?" | |
| DavidW says, "(gosh I'm lagging a lot)" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||
Floyd ] A Month Ago at the State Fair, On Line for Bacon on a St37k Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > X NOTE Floyd | Floyd | It's the folded-up piece of paper on which is written the exact Floyd | sequence of pictograms one presses to open the Ark of Gl'thub. It is Floyd | not the only copy, thankfully. Floyd | Floyd | You hear someone muttering "Move it, dude," somewhere behind you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Yeah" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to DW), "Yeah. And it's "ALL OUR FAULT" for reasons unknown." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "move it" | ||
Floyd ] A Month Ago at the State Fair, On Line for Bacon on a St38k Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE IT Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | The teens give you a look as if to say, Are you going to buy anything? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "buy bacon" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY BACON Floyd | Floyd | You reach into your pocket, pull out the money, and hand it over to Floyd | the girl. She hands you your bacon on a stick. It's not all that Floyd | great. Meanwhile: Floyd | Floyd | the all-important note that explains how to open the Ark of Gl'thub: Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | At least, this is your best guess as to what happened, since the money Floyd | and the note were in the same pocket. But more to the point, who Floyd | would even have picked it up, with all the garbage floating around the Floyd | state fair? Who would have noticed it? There's no way that anyone Floyd | could make sense of it. It's just scribbles on a piece of paper. No Floyd | big deal. Stu has another copy, so we're all good. Floyd | Floyd | press any key | ||
| genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | press any key Floyd | Floyd | OK, maybe not. Crap. You need to make this right, like right now. Floyd | Stu is going to eat you alive if he finds out that the Heart is gone, Floyd | and that is literally. Oh man, oh man. Where to even start? Jeff! Floyd | Jeff will know what to do. Better get over to the bookstore pronto, Floyd | before Stu figures out what's happened. Floyd | Floyd | press any key | ||
| genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 39 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | This is a small professional kitchen. Although the pots and pans and Floyd | smaller appliances are all gone, the oven is still functional, as long Floyd | as your uncle keeps paying the gas bill. Also here, not part of the Floyd | original decor, is the Ark of Whatever. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the restaurant's office leads west, the pantry is to the Floyd | south, and the dining room is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Walter is here, unconscious. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "lick walter" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 40 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > LICK WALTER Floyd | Floyd | It might come to that. Great Cthulhu, you are famished. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put walter in oven" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 41 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > PUT WALTER IN OVEN Floyd | Floyd | You briefly consider incinerating Walter as payment for stealing your Floyd | sandwich. You decide that this might be disproportionate to the Floyd | crime. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open oven" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 42 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN OVEN Floyd | Floyd | You open the oven. Perhaps there's a turkey roasting inside? That Floyd | would be very helpful right now. Yeah, not so much. It's scrubbed Floyd | clean and empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "North?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "enter oven" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 43 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER OVEN Floyd | Floyd | Suicide sounds like a pretty good alternative to whatever Stu might do Floyd | to you, but perhaps there's still another way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach :O | |
| Zach says, "Sure" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 44 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | The old bistro had ten tables and seated about forty. The chairs are Floyd | propped up on the tables upside-down and covered in dust. Large Floyd | windows look out onto the street, but they're soaped up so that the Floyd | public can't see all the important renovation work going on in here, Floyd | which is to say none. The kitchen is to the south, the bathroom is to Floyd | the west, and you can walk out onto the street to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging from the ceiling is a funky, thrift-store-looking chandelier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x chandelier" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 45 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X CHANDELIER Floyd | Floyd | It's been painted white, which transforms it from "schlock" into Floyd | "shabby chic." Floyd | Floyd | As you look at the chandelier, your eye is drawn to a security camera, Floyd | facing toward the front door and bathroom. A tiny red light on the Floyd | camera is illuminated. A wire leads from the camera along the ceiling Floyd | to the south, towards the kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x camera" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 46 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X CAMERA Floyd | Floyd | A small security camera. It appears to be functioning even now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x wire" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 47 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X WIRE Floyd | Floyd | A thin, black cable artfully and unobtrusively mounted on the wall. Floyd | It connects to the security camera and leads south towards the Floyd | kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wave at camera" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 47 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > WAVE AT CAMERA Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "follow wire" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 47 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > FOLLOW WIRE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Back to the kitchen briefly and maybe we can see something new?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take camera" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 48 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CAMERA Floyd | Floyd | You can't reach it. Well, you could, if you started stacking tables Floyd | and chairs, but frankly, the camera itself is not too interesting. Floyd | Perhaps it recorded something of interest, though? Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Sure" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 49 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | This is a small professional kitchen. Although the pots and pans and Floyd | smaller appliances are all gone, the oven is still functional, as long Floyd | as your uncle keeps paying the gas bill. Also here, not part of the Floyd | original decor, is the Ark of Whatever. Floyd | Floyd | The cable from the security camera runs through here and into a small Floyd | hole above the office door. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the restaurant's office leads west, the pantry is to the Floyd | south, and the dining room is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Walter is here, unconscious. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "cut wire" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 50 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > CUT WIRE Floyd | Floyd | You can't reach it. Well, you could if you started stacking tables Floyd | and chairs, but there's no point. You don't want the cable. You Floyd | might want the signal that it carried, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 51 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | It's a tiny hole drilled in the wall near the ceiling, to allow the Floyd | cable to pass through. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I missed the office door earlier." | |
| DavidW asks, "follow wire?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 52 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the office door) Floyd | (first unlocking the office door) Floyd | It's locked, and Uncle Stu presumably has the key that must fit in its Floyd | oversized keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break door" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 53 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the office door) Floyd | It's too strong; you won't be able to force it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 54 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the office door) Floyd | It's a heavy, unmarked wood-veneer door, with an outsized old-timey Floyd | lock with prominent keyhole. Uncle Stu presumably has the key, which Floyd | is not very helpful at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "look in keyhole?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look through keyhole" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 55 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK THROUGH KEYHOLE Floyd | Floyd | It's certainly big, but you can't see all the way through on account Floyd | of the tumblers or whatever they're called. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Oversized keyhole sounds like a CLUE." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "look in hole" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 56 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN HOLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not going to be a productive use of your time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "find clue" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 56 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > FIND CLUE Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "look under door -- is there a gap?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under door" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 57 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the office door) Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 58 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the office door) Floyd | There's no one in there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search walter" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 59 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH WALTER Floyd | Floyd | He's got nothing on him. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach asks, "Find Stu?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "He's the guy downstairs." | ||
| DavidW asks, "So, no putting wax paper under the door and sticking a letter opener into the keyhole to make the key drop onto the wax paper, eh?" | ||
| DavidW says, "If there's tumblers, though, that suggests lockpicking it." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Well, we've got nothing. Onward, I suppose." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search robe" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 60 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH ROBE Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 61 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | The old bistro had ten tables and seated about forty. The chairs are Floyd | propped up on the tables upside-down and covered in dust. Large Floyd | windows look out onto the street, but they're soaped up so that the Floyd | public can't see all the important renovation work going on in here, Floyd | which is to say none. The kitchen is to the south, the bathroom is to Floyd | the west, and you can walk out onto the street to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging from the ceiling is a funky, thrift-store-looking chandelier. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a small security camera mounted in the corner of the Floyd | ceiling, and a thin black wire running from it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take chandelier" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 62 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CHANDELIER Floyd | Floyd | It's pretty firmly attached to the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Maybe in the bathroom?" | |
| Zach says, "Let's explore everywheres" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I bet there's also money in the office, with which to buy foods." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think the game suggested we need to visit Jeff at the bookstore. Don't forget about that." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 63 Floyd ] Exits: east WEST Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom Floyd | With all the guys spending a lot of time in the restaurant, this tends Floyd | to get used a fair bit. It has the usual accoutrements: toilet, sink, Floyd | and the like. You can return to the dining room to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There's a frosted window on the west wall, currently wide open. Floyd | Floyd | Strangely, there's a filthy pillow on the floor underneath the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ew." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pillow" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 64 Floyd ] Exits: east WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | It's a regular pillow that has had a rough time lately, it seems. Floyd | It's yellowed from sweat, has black dirt all over it, and smells of Floyd | garbage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search pillow" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 65 Floyd ] Exits: east WEST Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing unexpected inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look out window" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 66 Floyd ] Exits: east WEST Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK OUT WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | You can see your Saturn parked outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 67 Floyd ] Exits: east WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X TOILET Floyd | Floyd | It's a nondescript model in working order. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 68 Floyd ] Exits: east WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X SINK Floyd | Floyd | It's a nondescript model in working order. Floyd | Floyd | The sink is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "flush toilet" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 69 Floyd ] Exits: east WEST Floyd | Floyd | > FLUSH TOILET Floyd | Floyd | You flush the toilet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on sink" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 70 Floyd ] Exits: east WEST Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON SINK Floyd | Floyd | You're clean enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn off sink" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 71 Floyd ] Exits: east WEST Floyd | Floyd | > TURN OFF SINK Floyd | Floyd | The tap is already off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "enter toilet" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 72 Floyd ] Exits: east WEST Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER TOILET Floyd | Floyd | You don't need to go at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf27" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Bathroom 72 Floyd ] Exits: east WEST Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "exit window" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 72 Floyd ] Exits: east WEST Floyd | Floyd | > EXIT WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter window" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 73 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Alley Floyd | This damp, quiet alley runs along the west side of the restaurant. Floyd | It's littered with leaves and paved with gravel. Randolph Avenue is Floyd | back to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A window leads back east into the building. Parked right alongside, Floyd | in a little spot reserved for employees, is your Saturn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 72 Floyd ] Exits: east WEST Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "was the pillow used to muffle the sound of something jumping into the bathroom from the window?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hm." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "One sec." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 73 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Alley Floyd | This damp, quiet alley runs along the west side of the restaurant. Floyd | It's littered with leaves and paved with gravel. Randolph Avenue is Floyd | back to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A window leads back east into the building. Parked right alongside, Floyd | in a little spot reserved for employees, is your Saturn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 74 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You're about to get in when you notice that the car has been messed Floyd | with. There are muddy footprints on it, for one thing. And the trunk Floyd | seems to be ajar. You definitely didn't drive up here with it open. Floyd | Someone must have broken the lock on -- no, wait. There's no sign of Floyd | forced entry. Whoever it was simply opened the trunk from the inside Floyd | of the car, which you failed to lock. Awesome. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Inconclusive." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Also we're the worst." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 75 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You close the trunk and hop in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Lionheart arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | genericgeekgirl says, "That's a really weird response." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 74 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Alley Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter window" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 75 Floyd ] Exits: east west Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom Floyd | With all the guys spending a lot of time in the restaurant, this tends Floyd | to get used a fair bit. It has the usual accoutrements: toilet, sink, Floyd | and the like. You can return to the dining room to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There's a frosted window on the west wall, currently wide open. Floyd | Floyd | Strangely, there's a filthy pillow on the floor underneath the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says (to DW), "Ok, still inconclusive." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take pillow" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 76 Floyd ] Exits: east west Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x pillow" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 77 Floyd ] Exits: east west Floyd | Floyd | > X PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | It's a regular pillow that has had a rough time lately, it seems. Floyd | It's yellowed from sweat, has black dirt all over it, and smells of Floyd | garbage. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ew." | |
| DavidW asks, "Shouldn't we at least examine the footprints?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Do not want." | ||
| Lionheart asks, "What's on tonite?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yes, but I was testing your theory." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Christ." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hunger Daemon by Sean M Shore." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "From the Comp." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 78 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Alley Floyd | This damp, quiet alley runs along the west side of the restaurant. Floyd | It's littered with leaves and paved with gravel. Randolph Avenue is Floyd | back to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A window leads back east into the building. Parked right alongside, Floyd | in a little spot reserved for employees, is your Saturn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x footprints" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 79 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > X FOOTPRINTS Floyd | Floyd | Someone with smallish feet was clearly standing on your car. The mud Floyd | itself is a very dark, almost black, gritty clay. It reminds you of Floyd | the mud you tracked on your aunt's kitchen floor after you guys were Floyd | all in Carver's Cave last week. This may not be a coincidence. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "So, when we enter and exit the window, we don't seem to need to climb onto the car or anything." | |
| DavidW says, "I wonder if Jeff is a sensitive. Maybe Jeff can touch things like the pillow and find out its story. </wildtheory>" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Which is weird." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x clay" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 79 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > X CLAY Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the muddy footprints or the black dirt? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dirt" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 80 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > X DIRT Floyd | Floyd | It's a black, gritty clay. Seems recently applied. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x trunk" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 81 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > X TRUNK Floyd | Floyd | It's larger than it looks from the outside, one of the few aspects of Floyd | the car that provides a pleasant surprise. It's open. Floyd | Floyd | In the trunk are a flashlight and some Breaking Bad DVDs. Floyd | Floyd | Not inside the trunk is your tire iron. It appears to have been Floyd | stolen. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Welp." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x flashlight" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 82 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > X FLASHLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | It's not battery-powered; it's the sort you have to crank to generate Floyd | a charge. In addition to being a little greener, it also means that Floyd | it pretty much always works with a little effort. Floyd | Floyd | The flashlight is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dvds" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 83 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > X DVDS Floyd | Floyd | They're Sam's, not yours, but you're in no mood to return them anytime Floyd | soon. These are the very cool limited edition set, with the case Floyd | shaped like a tank of methylamine. Thankfully the thief has left Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 84 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | flashlight: Taken. Floyd | Breaking Bad DVDs: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x car" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 85 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > X CAR Floyd | Floyd | It's a 2001 Saturn sedan. The color, as represented to you by the Floyd | dealership, is "grey bronze." Others with less sophisticated tastes Floyd | might call it "brown." The paint job is marred by the presence of Floyd | muddy footprints on the roof. The trunk is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open car" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 86 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CAR Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter trunk" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 87 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER TRUNK Floyd | Floyd | You're planning to pre-stuff yourself into the trunk for the long Floyd | one-way trip to the woods that Stu is going to give you? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "enter car" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 88 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER CAR Floyd | Floyd | You close the trunk and hop in. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Wah" | |
| Zach says, "Oh, IRTA hoping in the trunk" | ||
| DavidW says, "I've never heard of a crankable flashlight, but I like the idea of a flashlight that one can wind up." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "drive" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 89 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd | Floyd | > DRIVE Floyd | Floyd | (the Saturn) Floyd | You don't need to DRIVE. Just move like you normally would, and the Floyd | car will move with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach asks, "Drive?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Randolph Avenue 90 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST south southwest WEST Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Randolph Avenue (in the Saturn) Floyd | You're on Randolph Avenue, which stretches far to the west toward Floyd | Highland Park and to the east towards the river. The part we're on Floyd | here is firmly middle class, maybe on the low side. There are a lot Floyd | of small close-set houses with minimally-tended lawns, pockmarked by Floyd | the occasional commercial space, including your restaurant. Floyd | Floyd | Your cult's shop, Unspeakable Books and Gifts, is located a few miles Floyd | to the west. Jeff should be there; you should head over, ASAP. Floyd | Carver's Cave is to the northeast. That's where you guys originally Floyd | obtained the Heart, and is probably worth checking out. There's also Floyd | an alleyway to the southwest. The dining room is to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 91 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You drive off towards Highland Park for a couple of miles. You arrive Floyd | at your destination a few minutes later. Floyd | Floyd | Cleveland Avenue (in the Saturn) Floyd | You're on Cleveland Avenue outside a magic shop affiliated with your Floyd | cult, wedged between an insurance agent and a Subway. A faded sign Floyd | above the nondescript entrance to the north reads "Unspeakable Books Floyd | and Gifts." A placard indicates that the shop is closed, but you can Floyd | see that the lights are on. The bistro and Randolph Avenue are back Floyd | to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Standing out front is a sandwich board advertising an improbable and Floyd | already completed Back to School sale. Or I should say, "B4ck to Scho Floyd | l." Floyd | Floyd | A mostly-deflated red balloon hangs limply from the sandwich board. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x balloon" | ||
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 92 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > X BALLOON Floyd | Floyd | It's a plain red balloon. It's currently deflated. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "inflate balloon" | ||
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 93 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > INFLATE BALLOON Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the balloon) Floyd | You can't reach it from inside the car. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Aww" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "exit" | ||
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 94 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > EXIT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the Saturn. (Incidentally, you don't need to worry Floyd | about closing or locking or unlocking the car. Just enter and exit. Floyd | The locking and unlocking will be assumed. No one else will mess with Floyd | your car, I promise). Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Orly." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "inflate balloon" | ||
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 95 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > INFLATE BALLOON Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the balloon) Floyd | You inflate the balloon, carefully holding it closed with your fingers Floyd | when you're done. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hee." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop balloon" | ||
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 96 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > DROP BALLOON Floyd | Floyd | You let go of the inflated balloon. It shoots around erratically Floyd | before dropping to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 97 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x board" | ||
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 98 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > X BOARD Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those folding, freestanding advertisements put out in Floyd | front of shops. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take board" | ||
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 99 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOARD Floyd | Floyd | That would be an extremely awkward thing for you to lug around, for Floyd | zero payoff. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If we get that red balloon, we only need 98 more." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hehe" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter subway" | ||
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 100 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER SUBWAY Floyd | Floyd | You're hungry, yes, but stay on target. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Darn." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter shop" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 101 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER SHOP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd | You find the shop unlocked, strangely enough. Floyd | Floyd | This is the front room of Unspeakable Books and Gifts. It's a "magic" Floyd | shop for the pinks, the rubes who spell magick with a k. They come Floyd | here to buy healing crystals and novelty Buffy-themed Tarot decks and Floyd | books about UFOs and accessing their past lives. There's a long Floyd | display case filled with various mystical knickknacks. There's also a Floyd | large bookshelf crammed with hokey New Age titles. You can exit back Floyd | onto the street to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Mean game to offer a Subway shop and not let us in." | |
| Ghogg arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x case" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 102 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Floyd | > X CASE Floyd | Floyd | Lying on the ground behind the display case, bathed in a strange Floyd | yellow light, is your friend Jeff. He's apparently frozen in place. Floyd | You half-expect him to suddenly spring to life like one of those Floyd | annoying street performers, but it doesn't look like that will happen. Floyd | Frozen Jeff is holding a partially open box, emerging from which is an Floyd | enormous, otherworldly, terrifying-looking beetle, also motionless. Floyd | Next to the two of them is a small ceramic oval. It seems to be the Floyd | source of the strange yellow light, which also envelops an old Floyd | computer monitor that's stashed back here for some reason. I have to Floyd | say, this doesn't make for a welcoming retail environment. As for the Floyd | case itself, it's just a typical display counter, filled with Floyd | knickknacks. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "What." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x knickknacks" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 103 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Floyd | > X KNICKKNACKS Floyd | Floyd | Pendants, crystals, amulets, "healing" magnets, and all manner of Floyd | other crap. High profit margins, you're told. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 104 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | clunky old computer monitor: You reach for the monitor, but receive a Floyd | mild electric shock when you come in contact with the yellow light. Floyd | strange yellow light: You tentatively touch the yellow field. You Floyd | feel a zap, a little stronger than a static electricity zap. Nothing Floyd | dramatic seems to have happened, but it's definitely not letting you Floyd | through. Floyd | small oval: It is either extremely heavy, or else it's somehow Floyd | magically bonded in place. Probably the latter. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oops." | |
| Ghogg asks, "when's the last time you saved?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take knickknacks" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 105 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KNICKKNACKS Floyd | Floyd | The display case isn't open. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Before exiting through the window." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf28" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 105 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open case" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 106 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CASE Floyd | Floyd | You don't have a key, nor any need for the overpriced garbage inside Floyd | the case. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 107 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | The bookshelf is loaded down with titles like Unlocking the Floyd | Secrets of the Mayan Pyramids and Gaia Moon Menstrual Life Floyd | Force Power. More importantly, though, it's a secret door. Floyd | Well, not secret from you. You can open it by pulling the Mi-go Floyd | bookend. It's currently closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Menstrual Life Force Power." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x jeff" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 108 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Floyd | > X JEFF Floyd | Floyd | He's on the ground and seems to be frozen, mid-action, in some sort of Floyd | energy field. The action, near as you can tell, is to release some Floyd | sort of enormous beetle from a rune-covered box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x beetle" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 109 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Floyd | > X BEETLE Floyd | Floyd | It is huge, terrifying and probably deadly, covered in eyes and Floyd | sporting oversized vicious mandibles. The box in which it was stored Floyd | reads "Qua'ox" in tiny copper letters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x oval" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 110 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Floyd | > X OVAL Floyd | Floyd | It's a smooth little oval-shaped object, about the size of an ice Floyd | cream sandwich. The terra cotta color suggests that it's ceramic, and Floyd | therefore maybe fragile. There's a single rune on it, which might Floyd | mean something if you had ever paid attention in Sunday school, but Floyd | well, that could never happen. But you don't need a degree from Floyd | Mythos Divinity School to realize that this thing is generating some Floyd | kind of stasis field in which Jeff and the beetle are trapped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 111 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Floyd | > X LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | (the strange yellow light) Floyd | It's a sickly ochre field that envelops Jeff and the beetle. It Floyd | pulses slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x computer" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 111 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x monitor" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 112 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Floyd | > X MONITOR Floyd | Floyd | It's an old, clunky, heavy tube-based piece of crap. It's bathed in Floyd | the same yellow light as Jeff and the beetle. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Hm. If we break the oval, we'll be attacked by the Qua'ox beetle." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "You don't think it's friendly? :)" | ||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Why is there a monitor and no computer?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 113 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd | This is the front room of Unspeakable Books and Gifts. It's a "magic" Floyd | shop for the pinks, the rubes who spell magick with a k. They come Floyd | here to buy healing crystals and novelty Buffy-themed Tarot decks and Floyd | books about UFOs and accessing their past lives. There's a long Floyd | display case filled with various mystical knickknacks. There's also a Floyd | large bookshelf crammed with hokey New Age titles. You can exit back Floyd | onto the street to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the counter, you can see Jeff and a nasty-looking beetle, Floyd | motionless, bathed in a strange yellow light. A small terra cotta Floyd | oval seems to be generating the light, which also encompasses a clunky Floyd | old computer monitor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push monitor" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 114 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH MONITOR Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Can the monitor be pulled out of the field via its cord or cable?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open bookshelf" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 115 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BOOKSHELF Floyd | Floyd | You pull the Mi-go, and hear a click from a hidden catch. The Floyd | bookshelf opens up, revealing stairs down. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Ooowh" | |
| DavidW says, "Bet we need the flashlight for the basement here." | ||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Downward?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "crank flashlight" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 116 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Floyd | > CRANK FLASHLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You crank up the flashlight a little, and then switch it on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf29" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 116 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 117 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Secret Chamber Floyd | If there's a customer who really knows what he's talking about, Jeff Floyd | brings him down here. He's got the place pimped out mad-scientist Floyd | style, with beakers and tubes and the like. There's also a carved Floyd | wooden bookshelf stuffed to capacity with tomes, grimoires, librams, Floyd | and even the occasional "book." Stairs lead back up to the shop. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting among the beakers and tubes is a latex glove. Floyd | Floyd | On one end of the room, there's a shrine to the Chairman of the Board, Floyd | the Big C himself, in all his tentacled glory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x glove" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 118 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > X GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | It's a lonely glove. Probably Jeff has been using it during his Floyd | experiments. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x beakers" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 119 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > X BEAKERS Floyd | Floyd | Typical Dr. Frankenstein or Herbert West stuff: bubbling flasks, Floyd | wires, jars of strange fluids, and powders. You've got some lab Floyd | experience, but you don't know what any of this stuff does. That's Floyd | Jeff's department. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x tubes" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 120 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > X TUBES Floyd | Floyd | Typical Dr. Frankenstein or Herbert West stuff: bubbling flasks, Floyd | wires, jars of strange fluids, and powders. You've got some lab Floyd | experience, but you don't know what any of this stuff does. That's Floyd | Jeff's department. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take glove" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 121 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear glove" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 122 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | You put on the latex glove. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "moonwalk" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 122 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > MOONWALK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "take the glove" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x shrine" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 123 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > X SHRINE Floyd | Floyd | It's a small-scale statuette of Great Cthulhu, waving his tentacles Floyd | around in a threatening manner, with little people trampled under his Floyd | feet. It's pretty sweet, even to a cafeteria cultist like yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "admire shrine" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 123 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > ADMIRE SHRINE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take shrine" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 124 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SHRINE Floyd | Floyd | No need to anger the Big Guy, if he exists. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bookshelf" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 125 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKSHELF Floyd | Floyd | (the carved wooden bookshelf) Floyd | It's a heavy wooden bookshelf, with a lot of grotesque flourishes Floyd | carved in, groaning under the weight of the volumes it contains. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x volumes" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 126 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > X VOLUMES Floyd | Floyd | There are hundreds of books here on all manner of occult topics. Only Floyd | a few have titles on the spines. Most are bound in some sort of Floyd | leather, the source of which you don't want to know. Others have Floyd | ostentatious locks or other hardware to impress upon the reader how Floyd | badass they (and by extension you) are. Naturally, old warhorses like Floyd | the Necronomicon are represented, along with some rarer Floyd | stuff. You could CONSULT TOMES ABOUT something. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Yay" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "consult tomes about rune" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 127 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > CONSULT TOMES ABOUT RUNE Floyd | Floyd | The Joy of Culting explains that it's a special stone used to Floyd | immobilize things or people. Once activated, you need only break it Floyd | to dispel the effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 128 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a latex glove (being worn) Floyd | a red balloon Floyd | some Breaking Bad DVDs Floyd | a flashlight (providing light) Floyd | a filthy pillow Floyd | some cans of near-food Floyd | some greasy sheets of wax paper Floyd | a Ziploc bag (open but empty) Floyd | a hooded robe (hood lowered) (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "consult tomes about qua'ox" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "consult tomes about qua'ox" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 129
Floyd ] Exits: up
Floyd |
Floyd | > CONSULT TOMES ABOUT QUA'OX
Floyd |
Floyd | You search the tomes, hoping that you can find something useful about
Floyd | this creature. Ah, here: it's Van der Wurff's Compendium of
Floyd | Otherworldly Fauna. And it's written in Yuggothic. Awesome. You had
Floyd | to learn that for your binding (essentially your cult mitzvah), but
Floyd | you've read approximately zero Yuggothic since then. Pressing on, you
Floyd | flip around the book until you find a picture of what you're looking
Floyd | for, then translate, painfully: "The Qua'ox is a beetle-like creature
Floyd | from..." blah blah blah, yeah, yeah, how do we defeat it? Oh, there
Floyd | we go: "The Qua'ox, like many predators, is particularly drawn by
Floyd | rapid, irregular movement, like that of potential prey. It is also
Floyd | attracted by the color red."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| genericgeekgirl says, "We'll give it a balloon <3" | |
| DavidW says, "ah. the balloon is red" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "And it'll fly once we let it go." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Prey-like." | ||
| DavidW says, "indeed" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "But how to break this thing." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 130 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd | This is the front room of Unspeakable Books and Gifts. It's a "magic" Floyd | shop for the pinks, the rubes who spell magick with a k. They come Floyd | here to buy healing crystals and novelty Buffy-themed Tarot decks and Floyd | books about UFOs and accessing their past lives. There's a long Floyd | display case filled with various mystical knickknacks. There's also a Floyd | large bookshelf crammed with hokey New Age titles. You can exit back Floyd | onto the street to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the counter, you can see Jeff and a nasty-looking beetle, Floyd | motionless, bathed in a strange yellow light. A small terra cotta Floyd | oval seems to be generating the light, which also encompasses a clunky Floyd | old computer monitor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf30" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 130 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Just testing, not prepping." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break oval" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 131 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK OVAL Floyd | Floyd | You smash the oval, and the yellow field dissolves. Jeff seems dazed Floyd | for a moment as the magic releases him. The beetle, however, recovers Floyd | very quickly. It senses your presence, and begins to leap towards Floyd | your face! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 130 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ok, too easy." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "inflate balloon" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 131 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > INFLATE BALLOON Floyd | Floyd | You inflate the balloon, carefully holding it closed with your fingers Floyd | when you're done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break oval" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 132 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK OVAL Floyd | Floyd | You smash the oval, and the yellow field dissolves. Jeff seems dazed Floyd | for a moment as the magic releases him. The beetle, however, recovers Floyd | very quickly. It senses your presence, and begins to leap towards Floyd | your face! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop balloon" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 133 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > DROP BALLOON Floyd | Floyd | You let go of the inflated balloon. It shoots wildly around the room Floyd | as it deflates. The beetle's instincts kick in. It launches itself Floyd | at the balloon, following it through the open bookcase and down the Floyd | stairs! Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Woohoo" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Welp. I hope we're done with the books." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "close bookshelf." | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 134
Floyd ] Exits: south down outside
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLOSE BOOKSHELF.
Floyd |
Floyd | You push on the bookcase and the door clicks shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW asks, "I suppose if we threw a can at the oval, the can would be likely imprisoned too?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Huh, dunno. I was preparing to throw things at it if we couldn't easily break it." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "jeff, hello" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 135
Floyd ] Exits: south down outside
Floyd |
Floyd | > JEFF, HELLO
Floyd |
Floyd | Jeff is still regaining consciousness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jeff appears from behind the counter, rubbing his eyes. "Man, am I
Floyd | glad to see you," he says, as he surveys the scene. He holds out a
Floyd | fist expectantly. "Iä, dude! Great work!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "beam" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 135 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > BEAM Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to jeff" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 136 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO JEFF Floyd | Floyd | You leave Jeff hanging. He sheepishly withdraws his fist. Floyd | Floyd | (You could ask him about how he ended up in stasis or the beetle.) Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "haha" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 135 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fistbump" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 136 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > FISTBUMP Floyd | Floyd | You bump Jeff's fist, giving him an Iä in return. Floyd | Floyd | (You could ask him about how he ended up in stasis or the beetle.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask jeff about beetle" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 137 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JEFF ABOUT BEETLE Floyd | Floyd | You ask Jeff about the beetle, and explain about its current location. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, man, that sucked pretty bad. Thanks again. I had the box up Floyd | here because I was gonna mail-order it out to some brothers in Eau Floyd | Claire. Nice work, dude. I can wrangle it with this," he says, Floyd | producing a small whistle from his pocket. He puts it to his lips, Floyd | and carefully opens the secret door once again. The beetle, Floyd | apparently waiting right behind it, leaps out right at Jeff's face. Floyd | He blows the whistle. You hear nothing, but the beetle drops to the Floyd | ground, legs up, motionless. Jeff scoops it up and puts it in an Floyd | unbroken box. "Alright, we got that taken care of." Floyd | Floyd | You could ask him about how he ended up in stasis. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Break with what, though? We don't have a mop handle or similar." | |
| genericgeekgirl asks, "What??" | ||
| Zach says, "Ha ha, first bump" | ||
| DavidW asks, "We shouldn't be able to talk to Jeff, should we? Isn't he still in stasis?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask about statis" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 138 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT STATIS Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry, dude. Can't help you with that." Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "You're really lagged, I think." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask about stasis" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 139 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT STASIS Floyd | Floyd | "I'm a dumbass, basically," says Jeff. "This girl comes in. I've Floyd | never seen her before, so I figure she's a pink who's here to realign Floyd | her aura or something. But she starts talking about Carver's Cave Floyd | with some authority, so I'm wondering if maybe she's on the team but Floyd | just from out of town. Then she produces the piece of paper you lost Floyd | with the code to open the Ark of Gl'thub and asks for help in Floyd | translating the symbols. And I'm like, dude. This can't be | JoshuaH says, "The question mark should be the letter "a" with an accent." | |
Floyd | right. So I tell her to hold on for a sec while I get something. I'm
Floyd | going to sic the Qua'ox on her, but she's too fast, and pushes me
Floyd | down. Next thing I know, she produces a Gothaullog stone and I'm
Floyd | frozen."
Floyd |
Floyd | You could ask him about the young woman or the small oval.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| genericgeekgirl says, "Or semi-lagged. I dunno." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "But we broke the oval and released him from stasis and handled the beetle." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask about oval" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 140 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OVAL Floyd | Floyd | "Oh yeah," he says. "That's a Gothaullog stone. Puts you in stasis, Floyd | but I guess you figured that part out. She must have been digging Floyd | into our stuff for a while now, to figure out how to make or find one Floyd | of those." Floyd | Floyd | You could ask him about the young woman. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask about girl" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 140 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT GIRL Floyd | Floyd | Who do you mean, the teenagers or the young woman? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask about woman" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 141 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | You ask Jeff to describe the young woman. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, she was young, maybe early twenties. Dark frizzy hair, Floyd | shoulder-length. Wore a sort of trench coat or something." Floyd | Floyd | You could tell him about the Heart of Something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "tell jeff about heart" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 142 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > TELL JEFF ABOUT HEART Floyd | Floyd | You mention to Jeff that you are pretty sure that his young woman Floyd | snuck into the bistro, knocked out Walter, and made off with the Heart Floyd | of Something. Floyd | Floyd | "Holy crap!" he says. "She has the Heart of Unktahe? Does anyone Floyd | else know?" You reply in the negative. "Alright, man, we've got to Floyd | get that thing back, like, ASAP. Otherwise, we're both gonna end up Floyd | on the slab. I've got a spell we can use to try to track her down. Floyd | We'll need two things: some personal object of hers, and an image of Floyd | some sort. See if you can get that stuff and bring it to me. I'll Floyd | make preparations here." Floyd | Floyd | You could ask him about Carver's Cave, the spell or Uncle Stu. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, sorry, I missed the oval being broken. Large chunks of story show up all at once." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yiss, the pillow is hopefully hers." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "As DISGUSTING as it is." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "show pillow to jeff" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 143 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW PILLOW TO JEFF Floyd | Floyd | You hand over the pillow to Jeff in the hopes that it might be a Floyd | component for the spell. He holds it with an outstretched arm, with Floyd | thumb and forefinger grasping as little of it as possible. "Barry, Floyd | man, I don't think this is hers. I'm pretty sure she fished this out Floyd | of the garbage somewhere. There's gotta be something less grody we Floyd | can use." He hands it back to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ha." | |
| Zach says, "Aww" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Thank goodness." | ||
| genericgeekgirl asks, ""an image of some sort". Of her??" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Strange wording." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 144 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a latex glove (being worn) Floyd | some Breaking Bad DVDs Floyd | a flashlight (providing light) Floyd | a filthy pillow Floyd | some cans of near-food Floyd | some greasy sheets of wax paper Floyd | a Ziploc bag (open but empty) Floyd | a hooded robe (hood lowered) (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Not giving him his glove back. Mine now." | |
| DavidW says, "The security camera ought to give us an image, I think." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask jeff about stu" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 145 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JEFF ABOUT STU Floyd | Floyd | "Dude, your uncle is going to be pissed if he gets to the end Floyd | of that ritual and there's no Heart for him to eat." Floyd | Floyd | You could ask him about Carver's Cave or the spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask about spell" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 146 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT SPELL Floyd | Floyd | "It's just your basic locator spell. We'll need an image of her, and Floyd | something belonging to her. Get those, and we can give it a shot." Floyd | Floyd | You could ask him about Carver's Cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask about carver's cave" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 147
Floyd ] Exits: south down outside
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT CARVER'S CAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | You ask Jeff about Carver's Cave.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah, well, she seems to know what she's doing, so I wouldn't be
Floyd | shocked if she's visited it. Might be worth checking out, if you
Floyd | haven't already been there," he replies.
Floyd |
Floyd | You have nothing specific in mind to discuss with Jeff right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "I suspect we'll find the 'object of hers' at the cave." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Onward to the cave, I guess." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 148 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd | This is the front room of Unspeakable Books and Gifts. It's a "magic" Floyd | shop for the pinks, the rubes who spell magick with a k. They come Floyd | here to buy healing crystals and novelty Buffy-themed Tarot decks and Floyd | books about UFOs and accessing their past lives. There's a long Floyd | display case filled with various mystical knickknacks. There's also a Floyd | large bookshelf crammed with hokey New Age titles. You can exit back Floyd | onto the street to the south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a clunky old computer monitor and Jeff here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x monitor" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 149 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > X MONITOR Floyd | Floyd | It's an old, clunky, heavy tube-based piece of crap. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take monitor" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 150 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MONITOR Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl :D | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "I bet there isn't one in the office." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Because why the hell else is this here." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 151 Floyd ] Exits: north east inside Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cleveland Avenue Floyd | You're on Cleveland Avenue outside a magic shop affiliated with your Floyd | cult, wedged between an insurance agent and a Subway. A faded sign Floyd | above the nondescript entrance to the north reads "Unspeakable Books Floyd | and Gifts." A placard indicates that the shop is closed, but you can Floyd | see that the lights are on. The bistro and Randolph Avenue are back Floyd | to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | Standing out front is a sandwich board advertising an improbable and Floyd | already completed Back to School sale. Or I should say, "B4ck to Scho Floyd | l." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter car" | ||
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 152 Floyd ] Exits: north east inside Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER CAR Floyd | Floyd | You get into the Saturn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Randolph Avenue 153 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST south southwest west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Randolph Avenue (in the Saturn) Floyd | You're on Randolph Avenue, which stretches far to the west toward Floyd | Highland Park and to the east towards the river. The part we're on Floyd | here is firmly middle class, maybe on the low side. There are a lot Floyd | of small close-set houses with minimally-tended lawns, pockmarked by Floyd | the occasional commercial space, including your restaurant. Floyd | Floyd | Your cult's shop, Unspeakable Books and Gifts, is located a few miles Floyd | to the west. Carver's Cave is to the northeast. That's where you Floyd | guys originally obtained the Heart, and is probably worth checking Floyd | out. There's also an alleyway to the southwest. The dining room is Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Mounds Boulevard 154 Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You take West 7th into downtown, and from there, follow Mounds Floyd | Boulevard along the river until you reach the edges of Indian Mounds Floyd | Park. Floyd | Floyd | Mounds Boulevard (in the Saturn) Floyd | You're on Mounds Boulevard at Cherry Street, a little east of Floyd | downtown. "Mounds," because some Native American burial mounds are Floyd | just down the road. It's a pretty nice fall tableau here: lots of Floyd | colorful leaves, the Mississippi River below, acorns everywhere. You Floyd | hate to think that whatever Stu has planned is going to ruin this. Floyd | The super-secret entrance to Carver's Cave is down the bluff towards Floyd | the river, and Randolph Avenue is southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x leaves" | ||
Floyd ] Mounds Boulevard 155 Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN Floyd | Floyd | > X LEAVES Floyd | Floyd | When the leaves change here, it's really quite nice, but it's a very Floyd | short window. When they're gone, the Cities are gray, brown and white Floyd | until mid-April at least. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x acorns" | ||
Floyd ] Mounds Boulevard 156 Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN Floyd | Floyd | > X ACORNS Floyd | Floyd | When the leaves change here, it's really quite nice, but it's a very Floyd | short window. When they're gone, the Cities are gray, brown and white Floyd | until mid-April at least. Floyd | Floyd | The charge on the flashlight gives out. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh right, that." | |
| DavidW says, "oo, acorns" | ||
| DavidW says, "Any IF game with acorns has to be good." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hehe" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Mounds Boulevard 156 Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | There are none at all available! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "count leaves" | ||
Floyd ] Mounds Boulevard 156 Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN Floyd | Floyd | > COUNT LEAVES Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Mounds Boulevard 157 Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You can't drive the car onto the sidewalk. Well, you shouldn't, at Floyd | least. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Mounds Boulevard 158 Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the Saturn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 159 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up DOWN INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | Making sure that no one is watching, you hop the railing and scramble Floyd | down the bluff side as carefully as you can. Floyd | Floyd | Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave Floyd | You're much of the way down the bluff here. The mouth of Carver's Floyd | Cave has long since been barricaded and then covered naturally with Floyd | rocks and sediment, but your cult, like Gollum, knows the secret ways. Floyd | Only the followers of the Old Ones can penetrate the mysteries of -- Floyd | well, goddammit. The shrub that normally covers up the secret Floyd | entrance is gone. Wait, not gone: crushed. A jagged boulder is in Floyd | its place. There's only a narrow crack leading into the bluff side Floyd | now. You can also head further up and down the bluff. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x crack" | ||
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 160 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up DOWN INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > X CRACK Floyd | Floyd | There's only a narrow passageway leading in and out of the cave now. Floyd | You might be able to fit in, barely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf31" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 160 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up DOWN INSIDE Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "See what's downwards or squeeze in?" | |
| Zach says, "I like squeezing" | ||
| DavidW says, "hm. Down first, I think." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 161 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Base of the Bluff Floyd | You're at the bottom of the bluff now, with the river directly before Floyd | you. Protruding from the bluff is a small pipe. A stream of water Floyd | emerges and drips into the river. Floyd | Floyd | The entrance to the cave is above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 162 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIPE Floyd | Floyd | Yeah, I don't think that's gonna work. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 163 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > X PIPE Floyd | Floyd | Small is a relative term, I guess. But you couldn't fit in it, let's Floyd | put it that way. Water trickles out of it into the river. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look in pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 164 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN PIPE Floyd | Floyd | The small pipe is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf32" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 164 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 165 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | The headline in tomorrow's Pioneer Press: Area Man, Unable to Floyd | Drop Heavy Robe for Some Reason, Drowns. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We might find our missing tire iron." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove robe" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 166 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE ROBE Floyd | Floyd | You take off the hooded robe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 167 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | The headline in tomorrow's Pioneer Press: Area Man, Unable to Floyd | Drop Heavy Robe for Some Reason, Drowns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop robe" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 168 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > DROP ROBE Floyd | Floyd | You probably want to hang onto it. You can't be a proper cultist Floyd | without it. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Well, Fine." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x river" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 169 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > X RIVER Floyd | Floyd | The banks -- at least those parts that are not given over to docks -- Floyd | are lined with trees in the process of losing their leaves. Up here, Floyd | the river is not nearly so impressively wide as it is in, say, St. Floyd | Louis. On the other hand, it is cleaner. Well, cleanish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 170 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave Floyd | You're much of the way down the bluff here. The shrub that normally Floyd | covers up the secret entrance is gone. A jagged boulder is in its Floyd | place. There's only a narrow crack leading into the bluff side now. Floyd | You can also head further up and down the bluff. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "In?" | |
| Zach says, "Sure" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "One sec." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 171 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Base of the Bluff Floyd | You're at the bottom of the bluff now, with the river directly before Floyd | you. Protruding from the bluff is a small pipe. A stream of water Floyd | emerges and drips into the river. Floyd | Floyd | The entrance to the cave is above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 172 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK WATER Floyd | Floyd | Yeesh. Not unless you were dying of thirst. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 173 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave Floyd | You're much of the way down the bluff here. The shrub that normally Floyd | covers up the secret entrance is gone. A jagged boulder is in its Floyd | place. There's only a narrow crack leading into the bluff side now. Floyd | You can also head further up and down the bluff. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ok :)" | |
| DavidW asks, "was anything in the pipe? Or river?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Nope." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 174 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You try wedging yourself into the crack. You suck in your chest, Floyd | twist your torso, turn your head, but it's no good. You rub up Floyd | against the sides of the boulder and the rock wall, and can make no Floyd | progress. Damn you, friction! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 175 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Base of the Bluff Floyd | You're at the bottom of the bluff now, with the river directly before Floyd | you. Protruding from the bluff is a small pipe. A stream of water Floyd | emerges and drips into the river. Floyd | Floyd | The entrance to the cave is above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "get wet" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 175 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > GET WET Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take water" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 176 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE WATER Floyd | Floyd | You catch some of the trickling water and let it run through your Floyd | fingers. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "We need butter" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "rub self with wax paper" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 177 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > RUB SELF WITH WAX PAPER Floyd | Floyd | Wincing a little at the inherent grossness of this activity, you rub Floyd | the greasy wax paper on your skin. You now smell vaguely like an old Floyd | pizza, and you are noticeably oranger. On the plus side, you should Floyd | have an easier time sliding through that narrow crevice. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "And this is why I take all the things!" | |
| DavidW says, "Or a tire iron." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 178 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave Floyd | You're much of the way down the bluff here. The shrub that normally Floyd | covers up the secret entrance is gone. A jagged boulder is in its Floyd | place. There's only a narrow crack leading into the bluff side now. Floyd | You can also head further up and down the bluff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness 179 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | The grease from the pizza is just enough to enable you to contort your Floyd | way in. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "crank flashlight" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 180 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > CRANK FLASHLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You crank up the flashlight a little, and then switch it on. Floyd | Floyd | Carver's Cave Floyd | You're in Carver's Cave, a small natural fissure underneath Saint Floyd | Paul. The Lakota called this place Wakan Tipi, the House of Floyd | the Great Spirit. It used to be accessible, a tourist attraction Floyd | even. Every so often, the entrance would be lost in a rockslide, and Floyd | the city would open it back up again, until finally they chose to Floyd | block it off entirely. Floyd | Floyd | There's a beach of sorts, and beyond that, a calm, dark pool extending Floyd | into the blackness. Water laps gently near your feet, and there's an Floyd | audible trickle from somewhere deep in the darkness. It's otherwise Floyd | deathly quiet, and very chilly. You can leave to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Lying on the beach is the hacked-up corpse of a giant serpent, Floyd | marinating in a puddle of purplish blood. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x blood" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 181 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > X BLOOD Floyd | Floyd | It's a purplish gelatinous goo, roughly the consistency of cold maple Floyd | syrup. It has a very bitter, acrid odor. It's pooled inside the Floyd | corpse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat blood" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 182 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > EAT BLOOD Floyd | Floyd | You're not a vampire. But frankly, not even a vampire would drink Floyd | this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x corpse" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 183 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > X CORPSE Floyd | Floyd | It's the body of the Great Spirit, or one such Great Spirit, that your Floyd | uncle summoned in order to kill and cut out its heart. That was Floyd | another super-boring hours-long ceremony, but got pretty good at the Floyd | end when it turned into some hardcore LARPing. Your buddy Jake got in Floyd | the final blow with a replica Glamdring from the SkyMall catalog. The Floyd | bad news is that the serpent's blood burned right through the sword. Floyd | Anyway, your uncle then cut out the still-beating heart and put it in Floyd | the Ark, where you assumed it was safe and secure, which it was, Floyd | before your dumb ass got involved. Floyd | Floyd | The serpent's purplish blood is pooled in and around the corpse. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha wax paper" | |
| DavidW says, "Clever" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I wouldn't have thought of it if Zach hadn't suggested butter." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x beach" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 184 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > X BEACH Floyd | Floyd | It's a beach only in the strictest sense. It's made up a dark, gritty Floyd | clay. You don't feel any particular compulsion to pull up a chaise Floyd | longue or an umbrella. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x clay" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 185 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > X CLAY Floyd | Floyd | (the beach) Floyd | It's a beach only in the strictest sense. It's made up a dark, gritty Floyd | clay. You don't feel any particular compulsion to pull up a chaise Floyd | longue or an umbrella. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 185 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pool" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 186 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > X POOL Floyd | Floyd | Calm, but not entirely still. There's a definite current flowing Floyd | towards the south. The cave presumably drains in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "So... something small, put into the pool, might come out the drain pipe outside." | |
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Sure, but what?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "South?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, look south please" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 187 Floyd ] Exits: north up down inside Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | With the pizza grease slathered on, and some creative shoulder Floyd | movements and breathing, you manage to push your way through the Floyd | crevice. Floyd | Floyd | Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave Floyd | You're much of the way down the bluff here. The shrub that normally Floyd | covers up the secret entrance is gone. A jagged boulder is in its Floyd | place. There's only a narrow crack leading into the bluff side now. Floyd | You can also head further up and down the bluff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 186 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Carver's Cave Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Confused." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 187 Floyd ] Exits: north up down inside Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | With the pizza grease slathered on, and some creative shoulder Floyd | movements and breathing, you manage to push your way through the Floyd | crevice. Floyd | Floyd | Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave Floyd | You're much of the way down the bluff here. The shrub that normally Floyd | covers up the secret entrance is gone. A jagged boulder is in its Floyd | place. There's only a narrow crack leading into the bluff side now. Floyd | You can also head further up and down the bluff. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "So south and outside is the same direction." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 188 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | The grease from the pizza is just enough to enable you to contort your Floyd | way in. Floyd | Floyd | Carver's Cave Floyd | You're in Carver's Cave, a small natural fissure underneath Saint Floyd | Paul. There's a beach of sorts, and beyond that, a calm, dark pool Floyd | extending into the blackness. Water laps gently near your feet, and Floyd | there's an audible trickle from somewhere deep in the darkness. It's Floyd | otherwise deathly quiet, and very chilly. You can leave to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Lying on the beach is the hacked-up corpse of a giant serpent, Floyd | marinating in a puddle of purplish blood. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take blood" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 189 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BLOOD Floyd | Floyd | With your gloved hand, you carefully scoop some ichor into the Ziploc Floyd | bag. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Um, ok." | |
| Zach says, "eww" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take corpse" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 190 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CORPSE Floyd | Floyd | It's pretty gross. The cold down here has kept it from decomposing Floyd | very much, but it's been chewed on by something, and it's all hacked Floyd | apart. Best to just leave it alone. Floyd | Floyd | A wrapper from a Baby Ruth bar floating just below the surface of the Floyd | pool emerges from the darkness to the north, at the back of the cave. Floyd | The current carries it to the south and out of view. Oh man, a Baby Floyd | Ruth would be awesome right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 191 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Maybe if we wait, more things come through?" | |
| Zach says, "Oh right, why are we messing with this crap" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf33" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Carver's Cave 191 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "We're *hungry*" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 192 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You once again try to twist your way through the gap. As you contort Floyd | yourself in, though, you notice that the Ziploc bag of ichor is caught Floyd | on a particularly sharp edge of the rock. If you go any further, the Floyd | bag will almost certainly tear in catastrophic fashion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 193 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "OHHHHHH." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put bag in pool" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 194 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BAG IN POOL Floyd | Floyd | You place the bag in the frigid water. It seems to be Floyd | neutrally-buoyant, suspended a few inches under the surface. The Floyd | current catches it, and it begins to drift towards the south wall of Floyd | the cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 195 Floyd ] Exits: north up down inside Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | With the pizza grease slathered on, and some creative shoulder Floyd | movements and breathing, you manage to push your way through the Floyd | crevice. Floyd | Floyd | Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave Floyd | You're much of the way down the bluff here. The shrub that normally Floyd | covers up the secret entrance is gone. A jagged boulder is in its Floyd | place. There's only a narrow crack leading into the bluff side now. Floyd | You can also head further up and down the bluff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 196 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Base of the Bluff Floyd | You're at the bottom of the bluff now, with the river directly before Floyd | you. Protruding from the bluff is a small pipe. A stream of water Floyd | emerges and drips into the river. Floyd | Floyd | The entrance to the cave is above you. Floyd | Floyd | Deposited here underneath the pipe is that Baby Ruth wrapper you saw Floyd | earlier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look in pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 197 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN PIPE Floyd | Floyd | The Ziploc bag has washed down here and clings to a rusty burr on the Floyd | inside of the pipe. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Uh oh." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bag" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 198 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BAG Floyd | Floyd | As you grasp the open bag, you realize that it is now empty, or Floyd | emptyish; there's a thin film of purple goo still clinging to the Floyd | interior, but that's about it. Apparently the ichor is water-soluble. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 197 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Base of the Bluff Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 196 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Base of the Bluff Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 195 Floyd ] Exits: north up down inside Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 194 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Carver's Cave Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 193 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Carver's Cave Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bag" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 194 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > X BAG Floyd | Floyd | It's sandwich-sized and made of a fairly flimsy material. Floyd | Floyd | In the Ziploc bag is some acidic goo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "close bag" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 195 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE BAG Floyd | Floyd | You close the Ziploc bag. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put bag in pool" | ||
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 196 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BAG IN POOL Floyd | Floyd | You place the bag in the frigid water. It seems to be Floyd | neutrally-buoyant, suspended a few inches under the surface. The Floyd | current catches it, and it begins to drift towards the south wall of Floyd | the cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 197 Floyd ] Exits: north up down inside Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | With the pizza grease slathered on, and some creative shoulder Floyd | movements and breathing, you manage to push your way through the Floyd | crevice. Floyd | Floyd | Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave Floyd | You're much of the way down the bluff here. The shrub that normally Floyd | covers up the secret entrance is gone. A jagged boulder is in its Floyd | place. There's only a narrow crack leading into the bluff side now. Floyd | You can also head further up and down the bluff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 198 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Base of the Bluff Floyd | You're at the bottom of the bluff now, with the river directly before Floyd | you. Protruding from the bluff is a small pipe. A stream of water Floyd | emerges and drips into the river. Floyd | Floyd | The entrance to the cave is above you. Floyd | Floyd | Deposited here underneath the pipe is that Baby Ruth wrapper you saw Floyd | earlier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bag" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 199 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BAG Floyd | Floyd | As you grasp the bag, it snags ever-so-slightly on a jagged edge of Floyd | the pipe, but comes loose. There's now a tiny tear in the corner. Floyd | It's not enough to cause any serious leakage, but you'll have to be Floyd | careful. If you were to squeeze the bag, the blood would extrude, Floyd | like frosting from a pastry bag. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Good to know." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take wrapper" | ||
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 200 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE WRAPPER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Take the wrapper" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "I bet the wrapper is hers." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "One step ahead of you." | ||
| Zach says, "What kind of monster would eat Baby Ruths" | ||
| DavidW says, "sorry, really lagging here." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I want to frost someone with blood." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Like that bitch whenw e find her." | ||
| Zach says, "Mwaha" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "So the blood ate through the metal sword." | ||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Maybe the lock?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Or the door itself. Or whatever." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 201 Floyd ] Exits: north up down inside Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave Floyd | You're much of the way down the bluff here. The shrub that normally Floyd | covers up the secret entrance is gone. A jagged boulder is in its Floyd | place. There's only a narrow crack leading into the bluff side now. Floyd | You can also head further up and down the bluff. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Hmm, good idea" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Mounds Boulevard 202 Floyd ] Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mounds Boulevard Floyd | You're on Mounds Boulevard at Cherry Street, a little east of Floyd | downtown. "Mounds," because some Native American burial mounds are Floyd | just down the road. It's a pretty nice fall tableau here: lots of Floyd | colorful leaves, the Mississippi River below, acorns everywhere. You Floyd | hate to think that whatever Stu has planned is going to ruin this. Floyd | The super-secret entrance to Carver's Cave is down the bluff towards Floyd | the river, and Randolph Avenue is southwest. Floyd | Floyd | Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Mounds Boulevard 203 Floyd ] Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You get into the Saturn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Randolph Avenue 204 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south southwest west Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Randolph Avenue (in the Saturn) Floyd | You're on Randolph Avenue, which stretches far to the west toward Floyd | Highland Park and to the east towards the river. The part we're on Floyd | here is firmly middle class, maybe on the low side. There are a lot Floyd | of small close-set houses with minimally-tended lawns, pockmarked by Floyd | the occasional commercial space, including your restaurant. Floyd | Floyd | Your cult's shop, Unspeakable Books and Gifts, is located a few miles Floyd | to the west. Carver's Cave is to the northeast. There's also an Floyd | alleyway to the southwest. The dining room is to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Randolph Avenue 205 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south southwest west Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't drive the car onto the sidewalk. Well, you shouldn't, at Floyd | least. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Randolph Avenue 206 Floyd ] Exits: northeast south southwest west Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the Saturn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 207 Floyd ] Exits: north south west Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | The old bistro had ten tables and seated about forty. The chairs are Floyd | propped up on the tables upside-down and covered in dust. Large Floyd | windows look out onto the street, but they're soaped up so that the Floyd | public can't see all the important renovation work going on in here, Floyd | which is to say none. The kitchen is to the south, the bathroom is to Floyd | the west, and you can walk out onto the street to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging from the ceiling is a funky, thrift-store-looking chandelier. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a small security camera mounted in the corner of the Floyd | ceiling, and a thin black wire running from it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 208 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | This is a small professional kitchen. Although the pots and pans and Floyd | smaller appliances are all gone, the oven is still functional, as long Floyd | as your uncle keeps paying the gas bill. Also here, not part of the Floyd | original decor, is the Ark of Whatever. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the restaurant's office leads west, the pantry is to the Floyd | south, and the dining room is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The cable from the security camera runs through here and into a small Floyd | hole above the office door. Floyd | Floyd | Walter is here, unconscious. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "squeeze bag on office door" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 209 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > SQUEEZE BAG ON OFFICE DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the office door) Floyd | You smear a little goo on the door. Nothing happens. Apparently it Floyd | can't burn through artificial wood-veneer. Go science! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "squeeze bag on office lock" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 210 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > SQUEEZE BAG ON OFFICE LOCK Floyd | Floyd | You can't effectively smear the goo onto the metal bits of the lock; Floyd | there's not much exposed. You might have better luck if you could Floyd | somehow get the goo into the keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 211 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Baby Ruth wrapper Floyd | a Ziploc bag (closed) Floyd | some acidic goo Floyd | a clunky old computer monitor Floyd | a latex glove (being worn) Floyd | some Breaking Bad DVDs Floyd | a flashlight (providing light) Floyd | a filthy pillow Floyd | some cans of near-food Floyd | some greasy sheets of wax paper Floyd | a hooded robe Floyd | Floyd | And you're all greased up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "squeeze bag in lock" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 212 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > SQUEEZE BAG IN LOCK Floyd | Floyd | You manage to put the corner of the Ziploc bag into the keyhole. It's Floyd | in fairly deep. Floyd | Floyd | You inject some of the purple goo directly into the office door lock. Floyd | Immediately, an acrid smoke begins to waft from the door. You can Floyd | hear the lock mechanism sizzling as it corrodes. When you withdraw Floyd | the bag, there's a jagged hole where the lock used to be. The bag Floyd | itself becomes snagged in the molten metal and rips apart, so you Floyd | throw it away. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, so we have a metal melter." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Woo!" | ||
| Zach says, "Yay!" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 213 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open the office door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Office 214 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Office Floyd | This is one of those miserable windowless back rooms you find in a Floyd | restaurant or retail shop. You can imagine the kind of boss who might Floyd | lair here. He's got a mustache, maybe a hairpiece too, and wears a Floyd | wide, earth-toned tie. He smokes, probably cheap cigars. He's loud Floyd | and abusive to his employees. As the place is not in use, he's not Floyd | actually here, but his presence lingers nonetheless. Floyd | Floyd | The office door leads back out east into the kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting on a desk is a small, boxy security system. It seems to be Floyd | lacking a monitor; in its place is a post-it note. A thin wire leads Floyd | out of it and up through a hole near the ceiling. There's also a Floyd | printer attached. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "All greased up and nowhere to go" | |
| DavidW says, "drat. I was too late yet again." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||
Floyd ] Office 215 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > X NOTE Floyd | Floyd | It reads: "Fixing the monitor. Sorry! -- Jeff". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put monitor on desk" | ||
Floyd ] Office 216 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > PUT MONITOR ON DESK Floyd | Floyd | You put the clunky old computer monitor on the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hook up monitor" | ||
Floyd ] Office 216 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > HOOK UP MONITOR Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to hook up the clunky old computer monitor to? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wire" | ||
Floyd ] Office 217 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > WIRE Floyd | Floyd | That's not possible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hook up monitor to wire" | ||
Floyd ] Office 218 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > HOOK UP MONITOR TO WIRE Floyd | Floyd | That's not possible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hook up monitor to printer" | ||
Floyd ] Office 219 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > HOOK UP MONITOR TO PRINTER Floyd | Floyd | You hook up the monitor to the security system and power it on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x monitor" | ||
Floyd ] Office 220 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > X MONITOR Floyd | Floyd | The system is composed of a central unit, probably some sort of Floyd | internal storage for the feed. There are also several controls, the Floyd | most interesting of which are the rewind button and the print button. Floyd | There's also an ancient printer attached. The display is small and Floyd | not exactly crisp. It's currently showing the empty and static dining Floyd | room. Floyd | Floyd | The charge on the flashlight gives out. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You were right about needing the bookstore monitor. Good call, that." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Need all the things!" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "rewind" | ||
Floyd ] Office 221 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > REWIND Floyd | Floyd | You rewind the feed. It's impossible to tell that anything is Floyd | happening, as there is no activity on the screen whatsoever. Then all Floyd | of a sudden, someone emerges from the bathroom, walking backwards with Floyd | her back to you. Oh, right, rewinding. It's a young woman, wearing a Floyd | crazily oversized coat with all manner of crap protruding from the Floyd | pockets, to the point where it's a wonder that she can even move. In Floyd | one hand she has the Heart of Something; in the other she has a Floyd | sandwich. Oh. Sorry, Walter. Floyd | Floyd | The reverse feed continues, with nothing happening for a minute or Floyd | two. Then you see the young woman once again. She holds a rag in one Floyd | hand, and tiptoes backward towards the bathroom, this time with her Floyd | face to the camera. You pause the image. She's got medium-length Floyd | dark hair, a little frizzy. Freckles, maybe. Looks a little like Floyd | Alia Shawkat. It's obviously not really her, but still. Floyd | Floyd | Wait, this woman is totally familiar. Who is she? You've definitely Floyd | seen her. Think, man, think! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd ] Office 222 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | You focus on the young woman. Who is she? Did you go to school with Floyd | her, maybe? Meet her at a party? You close your eyes for a moment. Floyd | You see her, next to you, somewhere. You try to visualize talking to Floyd | her, but can't. A-ha! She was eating at the goddamned bacon booth at Floyd | the state fair, with you and Sam. Sam knew her. In fact, she gave Floyd | something to Sam: a hairclip or something. Finally, a lucky break! Floyd | All you have to do now is ask your ex-girlfriend, with whom you had a Floyd | messy breakup, to help you. That should work out great. Sam lives to Floyd | the north of the restaurant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press print" | ||
Floyd ] Office 223 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > PRESS PRINT Floyd | Floyd | The printer fires up with a grating whirr. After an interminable Floyd | staccato dance of feeding and adjusting, it begins printing, and spits Floyd | out an image of the young woman. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Who or what is an Alia Shakwat?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Shawkat, rather." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Oh. Arrested Development." | ||
| genericgeekgirl shrugs. | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take image" | ||
Floyd ] Office 224 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE IMAGE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't know her, but I assume someone famous? ('Famous' doesn't mean what it used to.)" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "An actress, apparently." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I thought the wrapper would be enough, but I do wanna see what happens with Sam :D" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf34" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Office 224 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg goes home. | genericgeekgirl asks, "Onward?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Office 225 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Office Floyd | This is one of those miserable windowless back rooms you find in a Floyd | restaurant or retail shop. You can imagine the kind of boss who might Floyd | lair here. He's got a mustache, maybe a hairpiece too, and wears a Floyd | wide, earth-toned tie. He smokes, probably cheap cigars. He's loud Floyd | and abusive to his employees. As the place is not in use, he's not Floyd | actually here, but his presence lingers nonetheless. Floyd | Floyd | The office door leads back out east into the kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting on a desk is a small, boxy security system. It displays the Floyd | dining room in blurry black and white. A thin wire leads out of it Floyd | and up through a hole near the ceiling. There's also a printer Floyd | attached. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "yup yup" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "rewind" | ||
Floyd ] Office 226 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > REWIND Floyd | Floyd | You rewind the feed once more. There's the young woman, stealing the Floyd | Heart, after having knocked out Walter. Floyd | Floyd | You recall seeing the young woman at the State Fair, chatting with Floyd | Sam. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "rewind" | ||
Floyd ] Office 227 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > REWIND Floyd | Floyd | You rewind the feed once more. There's the young woman, stealing the Floyd | Heart, after having knocked out Walter. Floyd | Floyd | You recall seeing the young woman at the State Fair, chatting with Floyd | Sam. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I thought there might be something fun." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Office 228 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 229 Floyd ] Exits: north south west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | This is a small professional kitchen. Although the pots and pans and Floyd | smaller appliances are all gone, the oven is still functional, as long Floyd | as your uncle keeps paying the gas bill. Also here, not part of the Floyd | original decor, is the Ark of Whatever. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the restaurant's office leads west, the pantry is to the Floyd | south, and the dining room is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The cable from the security camera runs through here and into a small Floyd | hole above the office door. Floyd | Floyd | Walter is here, unconscious. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 230 Floyd ] Exits: north down Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | This is where all the food would be stored, if the bistro were open Floyd | and functioning. There's a big fridge in the corner and many dusty Floyd | shelves along the walls. A wooden stair leads down to the basement, Floyd | and a doorway leads north to the kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | On the dusty shelves are some pizza boxes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 229 Floyd ] Exits: north south west Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 230 Floyd ] Exits: north south west Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | The old bistro had ten tables and seated about forty. The chairs are Floyd | propped up on the tables upside-down and covered in dust. Large Floyd | windows look out onto the street, but they're soaped up so that the Floyd | public can't see all the important renovation work going on in here, Floyd | which is to say none. The kitchen is to the south, the bathroom is to Floyd | the west, and you can walk out onto the street to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging from the ceiling is a funky, thrift-store-looking chandelier. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a small security camera mounted in the corner of the Floyd | ceiling, and a thin black wire running from it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nf" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room 230 Floyd ] Exits: north south west Floyd | Floyd | > NF Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Randolph Avenue 231 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH northeast south southwest west Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Randolph Avenue Floyd | You're on Randolph Avenue, which stretches far to the west toward Floyd | Highland Park and to the east towards the river. Your cult's Floyd | bookstore is located a few miles to the west, Carver's Cave is to the Floyd | northeast, and there's an alleyway to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | Sam's place is to the north, and the dining room is south. Floyd | Floyd | Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Randolph Avenue 232 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH northeast south southwest west Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You think about hoofing it all the way to Hague Avenue, but realize Floyd | that it will take too much time. You'd better drive there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter car" | ||
Floyd ] Randolph Avenue 233 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH northeast south southwest west Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER CAR Floyd | Floyd | You get into the Saturn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 234 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hague Avenue (in the Saturn) Floyd | You're outside your ex-girlfriend's place. She lives on a quiet, | DavidW says, "And she stole our sandwich! Don't gloss over that, game." | |
Floyd | leafy side street, in a ground-floor apartment. You haven't been here
Floyd | or talked to her since the breakup a few weeks ago. You can head back
Floyd | to the bistro to the south, or the bookshop to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the north is Sam's front door. There's a prominent doorbell next
Floyd | to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| genericgeekgirl says, "Bitch is going down!" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ring bell" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 235 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > RING BELL Floyd | Floyd | You can't reach the doorbell from inside your car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "exit car" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 235 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > EXIT CAR Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 236 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the Saturn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ring bell" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 237 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > RING BELL Floyd | Floyd | You ring the bell. You hear footsteps, and then she appears at the Floyd | door: Samiira Abdi, your girlfriend up until a few weeks ago. She was Floyd | a really great catch, you recall with a sigh. Tall and lanky, smart, Floyd | pretty with a distinctive East African nose, and for a couple of Floyd | years, she skated with the Minnesota RollerGirls under the name Somali Floyd | Hatchet, which is just impossibly sexy. Right now, she's sporting a Floyd | look you've never seen outside of old family photos: a hijab. She Floyd | doesn't seem all that thrilled to see you. Floyd | Floyd | "Hi, Barry," she says, affectlessly. "What are you doing here?" -- Floyd | she stops and sniffs for a moment -- "Besides wearing a pizza?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could ask her about how she's doing or the hijab.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x samiira" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 238 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > X SAMIIRA Floyd | Floyd | Samiira Abdi, your girlfriend up until a few weeks ago. She was a Floyd | really great catch, you recall with a sigh. Tall and lanky, smart, Floyd | pretty with a distinctive East African nose, and for a couple of Floyd | years, she skated with the Minnesota RollerGirls under the name Somali Floyd | Hatchet, which is just impossibly sexy. Right now, she's sporting a Floyd | look you've never seen outside of old family photos: a hijab. She Floyd | doesn't seem all that thrilled to see you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hijab" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 239 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > X HIJAB Floyd | Floyd | It's rather shocking to see her in it. She is not what you'd call a Floyd | practicing Muslim, which, improbably, is at least part of the reason Floyd | why you're not together anymore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask how she's doing" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 239
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK HOW SHE'S DOING
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask her about her" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 240 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > ASK HER ABOUT HER Floyd | Floyd | You pause awkwardly. "So, how have you been?" Floyd | Floyd | "I'm OK. Work's been decent." Another pause. "I'm seeing someone, Floyd | you know." Floyd | Floyd | You could ask her about the hijab or seeing someone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask her about hijab" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 241 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > ASK HER ABOUT HIJAB Floyd | Floyd | You point to the hijab. "So what's the deal with --" Floyd | Floyd | "My father is coming over later," she says, her accent suddenly Floyd | growing stronger. "I thought maybe you were him. I mean, he knows I Floyd | don't wear it all the time, or ever, I guess, but it makes things Floyd | easier when he's around." Floyd | Floyd | You could ask her about seeing someone. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "We shouldn't. But we're going to." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask about seeing someone" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 242 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT SEEING SOMEONE Floyd | Floyd | "Already?" you say. "That was pretty qui-- oh God, it isn't the same Floyd | guy from your office party?" Floyd | Floyd | She looks down for a second. "Yes, him. Charles. Is his name." Floyd | Floyd | You already knew his name. A few weeks ago, you arrived unannounced Floyd | at Sam's office party. You found her in a supply room, drunk, blouse Floyd | unbuttoned, with this Charles person. That was the beginning of the Floyd | end. Floyd | Floyd | No, that was the end of the end. The beginning of the end was when Floyd | you did the same thing to her a couple of months before. You are a Floyd | giant idiot. Floyd | Floyd | You could ask her about the young woman or Uma. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah we are." | |
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Uma??" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask about uma" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 243 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT UMA Floyd | Floyd | You try to lighten the mood. "Hey, how's Uma's leg doing? She still Floyd | hobbling around?" Floyd | Floyd | Uma is Sam's cat, and the reason you two got together. Sam brought Floyd | her in one night with physalopterosis on one of your first shifts Floyd | assisting at the U Clinic, and you got to talking. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh my God, that dummy is killing me," she says. "Every five Floyd | minutes she cries to have me lift her up on the bed, and then three Floyd | seconds later she is crying to get back down." You shake your head in Floyd | sympathy. Cats. Floyd | Floyd | You could ask her about the young woman. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask about woman" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 244 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | "Look, Sam, I'm sorry to ask you like this, but it's super-important: Floyd | do you remember at the state fair, there was this one woman you were Floyd | talking to when we were at the bacon booth? Someone you worked with, Floyd | maybe? She gave you something, like a hairclip. Do you still have Floyd | it, you think? I am really sorry to be bugging you about this, but Floyd | believe me when I say it's a matter of life and death." Floyd | Floyd | Sam thinks for a moment. "Her name was Leah Weinstein or Weinberg or Floyd | something. She worked at the office for a couple of days then quit. Floyd | She offered me the hairclip when I said we were going on the Crazy Floyd | Mouse and my hair kept getting in my face. She must have forgotten Floyd | about it, and so did I. Why do you need it?" Floyd | Floyd | You could tell her about some cockamamie story or the spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Obviously, we were *supposed* to visit Jeff before visiting Sam." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "We couldn't have gotten here without the monitor, so.. yes." | ||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Story or truth?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, this is the Sam who owns the DVDs." | ||
| DavidW says, "We saved. Choose whichever." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "tell story" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 244 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > TELL STORY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "tell her about story" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 245 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > TELL HER ABOUT STORY Floyd | Floyd | Quick, come up with something! "Um, yeah, Leah works at the Floyd | restaurant now. Or she will, you know, when it opens. So she needs Floyd | her hairclip back." Sam stares at you, her arms crossed. I don't Floyd | think she's buying it. Floyd | Floyd | You could tell her about the spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "tell her about spell" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 246 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > TELL HER ABOUT SPELL Floyd | Floyd | "OK," -- you clear your throat -- "I need to track her down because Floyd | she stole a valuable relic that is going to prevent my cult from Floyd | channeling an Old One's essence into my uncle. Personally, I don't Floyd | care, but I guess it's an important religious thing, and he's going to Floyd | be pissed if we don't get it back. The hairclip is a component in a Floyd | magic spell to find her." Floyd | Floyd | She smirks. "Yeah, OK, that sounds perfectly reasonable. Is there a Floyd | voodoo doll involved?" Floyd | Floyd | "No, just a picture. Do you have the clip?" Floyd | Floyd | "Maybe. Wait here," she says, and heads inside. She returns a few Floyd | moments later with a small tortoise-shell-colored hairclip. "I think Floyd | this is it," she says, and starts to hand it to you. Then she quickly Floyd | withdraws it. "You really need this? What, are you dating this girl Floyd | now?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, I really do, and no, I am not. I never met her." Floyd | Floyd | She's about to give you the clip when she pauses again. "Hey, you Floyd | still have my Breaking Bad DVDs, don't you? I think before you Floyd | destroy the world you ought to give me back my discs." Floyd | Floyd | You could ask her about the Breaking Bad DVDs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask her about dvds" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 247 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > ASK HER ABOUT DVDS Floyd | Floyd | (Sam about the Breaking Bad DVDs) Floyd | "I could've sworn I returned those to you," you say. "You sure I have Floyd | them?" Floyd | Floyd | "Nice try, Barry. You're holding them." Floyd | Floyd | You could give Sam the DVDs. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hahahahaha." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give sam the dvds" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 248 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE SAM THE DVDS Floyd | Floyd | She takes custody of the discs and finally relents, handing over the Floyd | clip. "Have fun drowning the world in blood. It was good to see you, Floyd | Barry." With that, she retreats into her apartment and closes the Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x clip" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 249 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > X CLIP Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those little hinged plastic hair clippie things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear clip" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 250 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR CLIP Floyd | Floyd | It would probably look quite fetching, but your hair is too short to Floyd | make good use of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hee hee" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf35" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Hague Avenue 250 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter car" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 251 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER CAR Floyd | Floyd | You get into the Saturn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 252 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Hague Avenue (in the Saturn) Floyd | You're outside your ex-girlfriend's place. She lives on a quiet, Floyd | leafy side street, in a ground-floor apartment. You haven't been here Floyd | or talked to her since the breakup a few weeks ago. You can head back Floyd | to the bistro to the south, or the bookshop to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Sam's front door. There's a prominent doorbell next Floyd | to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 253 Floyd ] Exits: north northeast east inside Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cleveland Avenue (in the Saturn) Floyd | You're on Cleveland Avenue outside a magic shop affiliated with your Floyd | cult, wedged between an insurance agent and a Subway. A faded sign Floyd | above the nondescript entrance to the north reads "Unspeakable Books Floyd | and Gifts." A placard indicates that the shop is closed, but you can Floyd | see that the lights are on. The bistro and Randolph Avenue are back Floyd | to the east. Sam's apartment is to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | Standing out front is a sandwich board advertising an improbable and Floyd | already completed Back to School sale. Or I should say, "B4ck to Scho Floyd | l." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 254 Floyd ] Exits: north northeast east inside Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the Saturn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter shop" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 255 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER SHOP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd | This is the front room of Unspeakable Books and Gifts. It's a "magic" Floyd | shop for the pinks, the rubes who spell magick with a k. They come Floyd | here to buy healing crystals and novelty Buffy-themed Tarot decks and Floyd | books about UFOs and accessing their past lives. There's a long Floyd | display case filled with various mystical knickknacks. There's also a Floyd | large bookshelf crammed with hokey New Age titles. You can exit back Floyd | onto the street to the south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Jeff here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give clip to jeff" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 256 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE CLIP TO JEFF Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You hand it over. "Alright, cool. Now we just need a picture of Floyd | her." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give photo go jeff" | ||
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 256 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE PHOTO GO JEFF Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give photo to jeff" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 257 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE PHOTO TO JEFF Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Sweet!" says Jeff. "Alright, dude. Showtime." He gathers up some Floyd | crap from behind the counter and leads you downstairs, to the shrine Floyd | of Great Cthulhu, peace be upon him. Jeff starts by drawing a Floyd | trapezoid on the wood floor with a piece of chalk. "Hey, better get Floyd | your robe on," he says. "Make this all official-like. I think the Floyd | big guys like it when we're dressed for the part." Seems reasonable, Floyd | so you comply. "Sit on this side," he says, pointing to the wide end; Floyd | he himself sits at the narrow end. OK, yeah, this is starting to come Floyd | back to you now. He scrawls out an Elder Sign in the middle, and then Floyd | lights a candle on either side of you. He dips into a bag of, well, Floyd | it looks like red sand, but is probably something like granulated Floyd | Shoggoth nightmares. Wait, no -- the bag is from Petco. Anyway, he Floyd | sprinkles that around a bit, then places the printout of the woman and Floyd | her hairclip in the center, on top of the sign. He grabs your hands Floyd | and closes his eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "OK, so now repeat after me: Ehye f'geb Tsathoggua wgah'n Floyd | k'yarnak gof'nn..." Floyd | Floyd | "I forget Tsathoggua vogon kayak golfing..." Floyd | Floyd | This goes on for much longer than you were hoping. Finally Jeff Floyd | yells, "Iä! Iä!" The sand begins to swirl around until it resolves Floyd | into the form of a street map. Wow, this is pretty bitchin'. You can Floyd | feel power flowing through you. Floyd | Floyd | "Barry, get ready! Watch for the spark!" At this, the image and the Floyd | hairclip are consumed in brilliant green flames, accompanied by thick Floyd | smoke. The fumes begin to sting your eyes and nose. You're tearing Floyd | up, and you feel an insistent itch in your nasal passages. A sneeze Floyd | is coming on. Hastur's hot hole, not now! Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hastur's hot hole!" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "do not sneeze" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 257 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > DO NOT SNEEZE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf36" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 257 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "squeeze nose" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 257 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > SQUEEZE NOSE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sneeze" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 257 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > SNEEZE Floyd | Floyd | That's what you're trying to avoid. Floyd | Floyd | You can't suppress it any longer. Your head rears back involuntarily, Floyd | brushing up against your lowered hood, and then propels forward. A Floyd | one-hundred-mile-per-hour blast of air and snot launches itself from Floyd | your nostrils. With nothing to stop it, or even blunt it, the sneeze Floyd | scatters the colored sand everywhere. A tiny spark from the green Floyd | flames shoots like a meteor and lands on the now-bare floor. Floyd | Floyd | Jeff shakes his head. Well, that's that, I guess. You're never going Floyd | to find another item of hers to use in the spell, at least not in Floyd | time. But on the bright side, you'll get to the meet the Old Ones, Floyd | after Stu gets a hold of you. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** It's not the end of the world, despite your best Floyd | efforts *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 257 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | The Secret Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear hood" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR HOOD Floyd | Floyd | With your hands unavailable, you grab an edge of the hood with your Floyd | teeth and make an exaggerated jerking motion with your head. The hood Floyd | flops up over your face. Good enough. Floyd | Floyd | You can't suppress it any longer. Your head rears back involuntarily, Floyd | and then propels forward. A one-hundred-mile-per-hour blast of air Floyd | and snot launches itself from your nostrils. Fortunately, the droopy Floyd | oversized hood catches most of the impact. The sand is still more or Floyd | less intact, and you've miraculously managed to keep hold of Jeff's Floyd | hands as well. A tiny spark from the green flame shoots like a meteor Floyd | and lands on the sand-map. Jeff, wiping a little snot from his face, Floyd | peers closely at it. The spark is on the south side of Summit Avenue, Floyd | between Hamline and Syndicate. That's where she is. Her house, Floyd | maybe? Is she super-rich or something? Floyd | Floyd | press any key | Zach says, "Yay" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf37" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 258 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | Summit and Syndicate Floyd | OK, so this is what's at Summit and Syndicate. You're Floyd | standing outside Mt. Zion Temple, which you've probably driven by Floyd | eight thousand times, but never really noticed. It's a synagogue, I Floyd | guess? It's certainly Jewish. There's a sign outside, with a blue Floyd | Star of David, since faded to purple. The temple itself is a low, Floyd | orange-brick mid-century modernist structure. Kowalski's supermarket Floyd | is to the east, and the entrance to the temple is south. The Floyd | restaurant is a drive to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | Streams of people approach the synagogue from all directions. They're Floyd | dressed all fancy-like for the most part. Some carry brown grocery Floyd | bags. Those with the bags are handing them to a volunteer standing Floyd | outside a van parked out front. Floyd | Floyd | There are several St. Paul police officers posted around the building. Floyd | That's odd. I guess something important must be going on. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 258 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > CF37 Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Huh, I didn't mean to do that. Muscle memory." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Meant to type space :)" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x police" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 259 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > X POLICE Floyd | Floyd | They seem to be just standing there, occasionally smiling and saying Floyd | hello to people as they walk in. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, ">take groceries from people" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take groceries" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 259 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE GROCERIES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x people" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 260 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > X PEOPLE Floyd | Floyd | People of various sizes and ages, most of them dressed semi-formally, Floyd | converging on the synagogue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x volunteer" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 261 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > X VOLUNTEER Floyd | Floyd | She's wearing a blue vest, designating her as an official person of Floyd | some kind. From time to time, you can see people walk up and hand her Floyd | a brown grocery bag full of canned goods. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a clunk and a "D'oh!" Someone's bag has ripped, and cans of Floyd | food are rolling down the sidewalk. The unfortunate person and the Floyd | volunteer scramble to catch them and toss them into other Floyd | not-quite-as-full bags sitting in the van. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take cans" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 262 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CANS Floyd | Floyd | You already have those. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 263 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Baby Ruth wrapper Floyd | a latex glove (being worn) Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a filthy pillow Floyd | some cans of near-food Floyd | a hooded robe (hood lowered) (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | And you're all greased up. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, right." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x van" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 264 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > X VAN Floyd | Floyd | It's sitting there with its side door open. There are a few dozen Floyd | bags inside, and you can also see a jacket or hoodie wadded up next to Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x jacket" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 265 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > X JACKET Floyd | Floyd | It's a dark green jacket, probably belonging to the volunteer. It Floyd | looks like a small piece of paper is poking out of a pocket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 266 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPER Floyd | Floyd | Hard to see from here, and it will look wicked suspicious to get much Floyd | closer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 267 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Summit and Syndicate Floyd | You're standing outside Mt. Zion Temple, which you've probably driven Floyd | by eight thousand times, but never really noticed. It's a synagogue, Floyd | I guess? It's certainly Jewish. There's a sign outside, with a blue Floyd | Star of David, since faded to purple. The temple itself is a low, Floyd | orange-brick mid-century modernist structure. Kowalski's supermarket Floyd | is to the east, and the entrance to the temple is south. The Floyd | restaurant is a drive to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | Streams of people approach the synagogue from all directions. They're Floyd | dressed all fancy-like for the most part. Some carry brown grocery Floyd | bags. Those with the bags are handing them to a volunteer standing Floyd | outside a van parked out front. Floyd | Floyd | There are several St. Paul police officers posted around the building. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh, maybe there's a food drive?" | |
| DavidW asks, "We can donate our near-food and get in, maybe?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give cans to woman" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 268 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE CANS TO WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | You approach the volunteer and she looks up at you. Floyd | Floyd | The volunteer seems grateful, but demurs. "Do you have a bag, maybe? Floyd | It's a bit clumsy like this. I bet you could grab a bag at Floyd | Kowalski's." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter supermarket" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 268 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER SUPERMARKET Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 269 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Every indication is that this Leah person is inside the synagogue. Floyd | You should start there. You can go to the supermarket and get some Floyd | Ho-Hos after Stu has become chaos incarnate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter synagogue" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 270 Floyd ] Exits: north WEST Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER SYNAGOGUE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the main entrance of the synagogue. Directly in front of you, Floyd | blocking access to what appears to be a fairly cushy lounge area, is a Floyd | long folding table. Mounted on the wall to your right you can see a Floyd | small wooden bin and a large wooden rack. The main sanctuary appears Floyd | to be to the west, and you can exit to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting behind the table is an elderly woman. She seems to be taking Floyd | tickets from people. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x woman" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 271 Floyd ] Exits: north WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | She's got busybody written all over her. She's relishing her Floyd | authority, tiny though it may be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x tickets" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 272 Floyd ] Exits: north WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X TICKETS Floyd | Floyd | They're little rectangles of cardstock being handed to the elderly Floyd | woman. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Steal the volunteer's ticket?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to woman" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 273 Floyd ] Exits: north WEST Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | "Welcome to Mount Zion," she says. "Ticket, please." Floyd | Floyd | Wait, what? Ticket? You have to pay to worship? "Um, how much are Floyd | they?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | "They're not for sale. They're sent out to members of the synagogue. Floyd | Space is at a premium during the High Holy Days, you know." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, yeah, sure. I'm actually a member; I just forgot my ticket." Floyd | Floyd | Great. With all the police around, breaking or sneaking in does not Floyd | seem to be an option. Better obtain a ticket somehow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 274 Floyd ] Exits: north WEST Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Ho-hos? After all this work, I think we're owed at least a burrito." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Or a Subway sandwich." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 275 Floyd ] Exits: north WEST Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | "Sir, I need to see a ticket before you can go in," she says flatly. Floyd | You notice the police are starting to look over in your direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 276 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Summit and Syndicate Floyd | You're standing outside Mt. Zion Temple, which you've probably driven Floyd | by eight thousand times, but never really noticed. It's a synagogue, Floyd | I guess? It's certainly Jewish. There's a sign outside, with a blue Floyd | Star of David, since faded to purple. The temple itself is a low, Floyd | orange-brick mid-century modernist structure. Kowalski's supermarket Floyd | is to the east, and the entrance to the temple is south. The Floyd | restaurant is a drive to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | Streams of people approach the synagogue from all directions. They're Floyd | dressed all fancy-like for the most part. Some carry brown grocery Floyd | bags. Those with the bags are handing them to a volunteer standing Floyd | outside a van parked out front. Floyd | Floyd | There are several St. Paul police officers posted around the building. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting in the van amongst the bags is a wadded-up jacket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take jacket" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 277 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE JACKET Floyd | Floyd | You don't need a woman's jacket, and also, the volunteer is standing Floyd | right there. But the small piece of paper poking out looks Floyd | intriguing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take paper" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 278 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAPER Floyd | Floyd | The volunteer is standing right there. Maybe if she were distracted, Floyd | and you were quick enough, you might be able to snag it, but not now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop cans" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 279 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > DROP CANS Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 278 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Summit and Syndicate Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "throw cans" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 279 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > THROW CANS Floyd | Floyd | You throw the cans of near-food a short distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 278 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Summit and Syndicate Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 279 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Summit and Syndicate Floyd | You're standing outside Mt. Zion Temple, which you've probably driven Floyd | by eight thousand times, but never really noticed. It's a synagogue, Floyd | I guess? It's certainly Jewish. There's a sign outside, with a blue Floyd | Star of David, since faded to purple. The temple itself is a low, Floyd | orange-brick mid-century modernist structure. Kowalski's supermarket Floyd | is to the east, and the entrance to the temple is south. The Floyd | restaurant is a drive to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | Streams of people approach the synagogue from all directions. They're Floyd | dressed all fancy-like for the most part. Some carry brown grocery Floyd | bags. Those with the bags are handing them to a volunteer standing Floyd | outside a van parked out front. Floyd | Floyd | There are several St. Paul police officers posted around the building. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting in the van amongst the bags is a wadded-up jacket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "squeeze blood on lady" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 279 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > SQUEEZE BLOOD ON LADY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hee" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bag" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 279 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > X BAG Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Zach), "ew" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 280 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You think about hoofing it all the way to Randolph Avenue, but realize Floyd | that it will take too much time. You'd better drive there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 281 Floyd ] Exits: north WEST Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the main entrance of the synagogue. Directly in front of you, Floyd | blocking access to what appears to be a fairly cushy lounge area, is a Floyd | long folding table. Mounted on the wall to your right you can see a Floyd | small wooden bin and a large wooden rack. The main sanctuary appears Floyd | to be to the west, and you can exit to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting behind the table is an elderly woman. She seems to be taking Floyd | tickets from people. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bin" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 282 Floyd ] Exits: north WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X BIN Floyd | Floyd | It's a small box mounted on the wall, which contains dozens of little Floyd | black cloth circles. Ohhhhh. These are the, whatchacallit, beanies Floyd | that Jews wear. Most people seem to have brought their own, but every Floyd | so often someone picks one out of the box and puts it on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x rack" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 283 Floyd ] Exits: north WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X RACK Floyd | Floyd | It looks vaguely like a towel rack, and in fact, there are things that Floyd | look vaguely like towels hanging from it. OK, not really towels: Floyd | they're clearly of a thin, smooth and not very absorbent material. Floyd | Each one has lots of little tassels or fringes on the ends, and Floyd | there's some Hebrew writing on one of the long sides. They are Floyd | however, roughly towel-shaped, and have blue stripes in a very Floyd | towelish pattern. I suppose "shawls" is more appropriate. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Was hoping for a bag, since it won't let us go to the grocery store." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 284 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Summit and Syndicate Floyd | You're standing outside Mt. Zion Temple, which you've probably driven Floyd | by eight thousand times, but never really noticed. It's a synagogue, Floyd | I guess? It's certainly Jewish. There's a sign outside, with a blue Floyd | Star of David, since faded to purple. The temple itself is a low, Floyd | orange-brick mid-century modernist structure. Kowalski's supermarket Floyd | is to the east, and the entrance to the temple is south. The Floyd | restaurant is a drive to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | Streams of people approach the synagogue from all directions. They're Floyd | dressed all fancy-like for the most part. Some carry brown grocery Floyd | bags. Those with the bags are handing them to a volunteer standing Floyd | outside a van parked out front. Floyd | Floyd | There are several St. Paul police officers posted around the building. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting in the van amongst the bags is a wadded-up jacket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Parking Lot 285 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTHEAST west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Parking Lot Floyd | This is the narrow, inadequate parking lot for Kowalski's supermarket. Floyd | It's filled to capacity, as usual. The entrance to the supermarket is Floyd | southeast, and the synagogue is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | There's a puddle of dirty water here. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Wait." | |
| DavidW says, "I suppose the paper in the jacket is the ticket we want." | ||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "That didn't work earlier, right?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yes." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I'm trying to get it." | ||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Didn't it tell me earlier somethign about hohos when I tried to go to the supermarket?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl grump. | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x puddle" | ||
Floyd ] Parking Lot 286 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTHEAST west Floyd | Floyd | > X PUDDLE Floyd | Floyd | It's not Superfund-dirty, but it's nothing you want to drink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Kowalski's Supermarket 287 Floyd ] Exits: northwest Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kowalski's Supermarket Floyd | This is Kowalski's, a Twin Cities chain of high-falutin supermarkets. Floyd | Everywhere you look, there is food stacked floor to ceiling, and all Floyd | of it looks good. You're near the produce, which is attractively lit Floyd | with special tinted lights, so that the greens and reds are deeper and Floyd | more alluring. There's a display of doughnuts in front of you, and by Floyd | the registers you can see racks of candy bars, chips, cookies, and all Floyd | sorts of horrible/delicious snacks. You desperately want them all. Floyd | Fortunately for you, the bakery and deli sections are on the far end Floyd | of the store, so that you can't smell them from here. You can exit to Floyd | the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | Each register has a stack of paper bags. You can probably take one Floyd | without opposition. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bag" | ||
Floyd ] Kowalski's Supermarket 288 Floyd ] Exits: northwest Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BAG Floyd | Floyd | You take a bag, and and you didn't even purchase anything! You're now Floyd | part of the criminal element, I guess. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put cans in bag" | ||
Floyd ] Kowalski's Supermarket 289 Floyd ] Exits: northwest Floyd | Floyd | > PUT CANS IN BAG Floyd | Floyd | (the Kowalski's bag) Floyd | You put the cans of near-food into the Kowalski's bag. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Kowalski's Supermarket 290 Floyd ] Exits: northwest Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Parking Lot 291 Floyd ] Exits: southeast west Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Parking Lot Floyd | This is the narrow, inadequate parking lot for Kowalski's supermarket. Floyd | It's filled to capacity, as usual. The entrance to the supermarket is Floyd | southeast, and the synagogue is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | There's a puddle of dirty water here. Floyd | Floyd | > | JoshuaH says, "Yeah, it did." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put bag in puddle" | ||
Floyd ] Parking Lot 292 Floyd ] Exits: southeast west Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BAG IN PUDDLE Floyd | Floyd | You dip the bag into the puddle. It's now somewhat weakened, so you Floyd | hold it from the bottom, to keep it from falling apart completely. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Muhahaha." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 293 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast east Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Summit and Syndicate Floyd | You're standing outside Mt. Zion Temple, which you've probably driven Floyd | by eight thousand times, but never really noticed. It's a synagogue, Floyd | I guess? It's certainly Jewish. There's a sign outside, with a blue Floyd | Star of David, since faded to purple. The temple itself is a low, Floyd | orange-brick mid-century modernist structure. Kowalski's supermarket Floyd | is to the east, and the entrance to the temple is south. The Floyd | restaurant is a drive to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | Streams of people approach the synagogue from all directions. They're Floyd | dressed all fancy-like for the most part. Some carry brown grocery Floyd | bags. Those with the bags are handing them to a volunteer standing Floyd | outside a van parked out front. Floyd | Floyd | There are several St. Paul police officers posted around the building. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting in the van amongst the bags is a wadded-up jacket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give bag to volunteer" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 294 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast east Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE BAG TO VOLUNTEER Floyd | Floyd | You approach the volunteer and she looks up at you. Floyd | Floyd | You hand the bag over to the volunteer. She grabs it by the handles Floyd | and turns around, when suddenly, but not unexpectedly, the bottom Floyd | falls out. Cans spill out and begin rolling down the sidewalk. She Floyd | starts chasing after them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take ticket" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 295 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast east Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TICKET Floyd | Floyd | With the volunteer scrambling around grabbing cans, you deftly lift Floyd | the ticket from her jacket. You start to feel bad about this, but Floyd | then comfort yourself with the thought that she's probably been to a Floyd | zillion of these before. And she's wearing the blue vest, which is Floyd | probably a Get Into Yom Kippur Free card anyway. Floyd | Floyd | You make a show of tracking down a can or two, then hand them to her. Floyd | "Thanks!" she chirps, then resumes her duties. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl dances. | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "So much better than throwing cans at her :D" | ||
| DavidW says, "I wonder what the puddle is for." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "To make the bag rip." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x ticket" | ||
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 296 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast east Floyd | Floyd | > X TICKET Floyd | Floyd | It reads "Mt. Zion Temple Yom Kippur Afternoon Service." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter synagogue" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 297 Floyd ] Exits: north WEST Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER SYNAGOGUE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the main entrance of the synagogue. Directly in front of you, Floyd | blocking access to what appears to be a fairly cushy lounge area, is a Floyd | long folding table. Mounted on the wall to your right you can see a Floyd | small wooden bin and a large wooden rack. The main sanctuary appears Floyd | to be to the west, and you can exit to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting behind the table is an elderly woman. She seems to be taking Floyd | tickets from people. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give ticket to woman" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 298 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE TICKET TO WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | You hand your ticket to the woman, and she smiles. "L'shana Floyd | tovah," she says, whatever that means. The flow of the crowd Floyd | whisks you into the sanctuary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | This is the main sanctuary of the synagogue, decorated in soothing Floyd | pastels. The business end is to the south: there's a raised area, Floyd | with a podium, and behind that, there's a small flame burning adjacent Floyd | to a small pair of doors set into the south wall. In front of the Floyd | raised area there are rows of seats to accommodate the sizable crowd. Floyd | You came in from the east, and it looks like maybe there's a way out Floyd | to the south as well. Floyd | Floyd | Leah must be somewhere in this crowd. Floyd | Floyd | Standing behind the podium is a goateed man wearing white robes, Floyd | chanting something. The rabbi, presumably. Next to him is what Floyd | appears to be an animal horn. Floyd | Floyd | ...Ba-ruch a-tah A-do-nai... Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, did I miss stuff yet again? drat." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "find leah" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 299 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > FIND LEAH Floyd | Floyd | You survey the assembled congregants. Lots of people of all ages, Floyd | sizes, and unexpectedly, colors. Many of the boys are wearing the Floyd | same sad uniform: a button-down shirt, khakis, and sneakers. Don't Floyd | kids have suits anymore? Never mind that. Focus! Where is this Leah Floyd | person? Better keep searching the crowd. Floyd | Floyd | ...E-lo-hei-nu, Vei-lo-hei a-vo-tei-nu, v'imo-tei-nu... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 300 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You continue scanning the crowd for signs of the intrepid pain in the Floyd | ass who took the Heart. You don't see her, but you do see a kid Floyd | reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows instead of his Floyd | prayer book. You can only silently salute his forethought. Floyd | Floyd | ...E-lo-hei Av-ra-ham, E-lo-hei Yitz-chak, Vei-lo-hei Floyd | Ya-a-kov... Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Aww" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 301 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Dammit, where is she? Then, at last, you spot her: she's up very Floyd | close to the front, near the interior aisle, right in front of Floyd | everybody. Of course she is. As unsuspiciously as you can manage, Floyd | you thread your way through the crowd to arrive at an open seat just Floyd | behind hers. It's her alright -- same height, same build, same Floyd | freckles, same frizzy hair that you saw on the security system. You Floyd | know, in person, she might be kind of cute. Focus! Anyway, she looks Floyd | a little bored with the proceedings, truth to tell. She's checking Floyd | her phone from time to time. She's no longer wearing the enormous Floyd | many-pocketed trench coat. She does have a big canvas satchel with Floyd | her, though. Floyd | Floyd | ...E-lo-hei Sa-rah, Eh-lo-hei Riv-kah, Eh-lo-hei Racheil, Floyd | vei-lo-hei Lei-ah... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x satchel" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 302 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > X SATCHEL Floyd | Floyd | It's a big grayish tote bag which reads "Mojo Monkey" on the side. Oh Floyd | my God, the apple fritters at Mojo Monkey. When all this is done, you Floyd | absolutely need to get over to Mojo's and -- Cthulhu's cthornhole! Floyd | Stay on target! Floyd | Floyd | As you peer into the bag, you see what you can only assume is the Floyd | Heart. There's a parcel, about the size of a Chicago softball, Floyd | wrapped in newspaper, with visible streaks of blood. It's here with Floyd | her! She hasn't had to time to stow it safely anywhere. Hell, she Floyd | probably knows that that we're searching for it, and thinks that it's Floyd | safer with her. Oh, this is seriously lucky. Now, perhaps you can Floyd | ever-so-carefully take it out of the bag without her noticing... Floyd | Floyd | ...Ha-eil Ha-Ga-dol Ha-Gi-bor v'Ha-No-rah Eil Eil-yon... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf38" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Sanctuary 302 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Here goes nothin'." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take heart" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 303 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE HEART Floyd | Floyd | You bend down to pretend to tie your shoes, and checking that the Floyd | coast is clear, you reach into the bag. Blindly, you paw around until Floyd | you can feel the newspaper. Great Nyarlathotep, it's almost within Floyd | your grasp. Just another inch and... Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, there's a scream from the entrance to the sanctuary. A Floyd | policeman enters, takes a step, and falls over face-first. Striding Floyd | in over him is your Uncle Stu. Oh no. He must've found Jeff, who Floyd | must've spilled the beans. The rabbi stops his chanting, and everyone Floyd | turns to Stu in shock and puzzlement. Stu is changed, and not subtly. Floyd | He's grown considerably, and his skin, which seems thicker and tougher Floyd | somehow, is an ashen gray. The ritual is almost complete. All he Floyd | needs now is to consume the Heart. He raises his meaty fist; in it, Floyd | you can see a blue crystal. He intones some words that you can't make Floyd | out from here. Floyd | Floyd | You hear, and then feel, a high-pitched hum: a wave of sickening Floyd | energy, penetrating your skin, into your bones, into your skull. Floyd | People all around you begin convulsing in pain. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Yikes." | |
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Still hungry. Think we can eat this thing?" | ||
| Zach says, "Hmm" | ||
| Zach says, "Mmm" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Shouldn't we give the Heart to him? How would it help if we ate it?" | ||
| Zach says, "Help our tummies" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf39" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Sanctuary 303 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat heart" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 303 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > EAT HEART Floyd | Floyd | You seize upon an idea: the power can be yours, instead of Stu's. You Floyd | take a tentative bite of the Heart, then another. The blood trickles Floyd | down your throat, and instantly, you can feel your gnawing hunger Floyd | abate. Power courses through you. As Leah and the other congregants Floyd | crumple to the floor, you begin to thrum with otherworldly energy. Floyd | Stu looks up and sees you, sees that you've eaten the Heart. "No!" he Floyd | hisses, and leaps toward you in desperation. You've ascended far Floyd | beyond the likes of him, though. You snap his neck with your Floyd | outstretched talons as easily as you would a breadstick. You feel an Floyd | overwhelming surge as your form bursts through the ceiling of the Floyd | synagogue, and your mind encompasses the stars and the ocean floor. Floyd | Then a thought occurs to you: wasn't there supposed to be some sort of Floyd | ritual to prepare for this? The explosion that tears through you Floyd | demolishes much of Summit Avenue. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Your hunger is sated *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 303 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Yay" | |
| genericgeekgirl om nom nom. | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give heart to stu" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 303 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE HEART TO STU Floyd | Floyd | You make a choice: you are a cultist, dammit. It's time to show these Floyd | pinks what's what. Triumphantly, you hand over the Heart to Uncle Floyd | Stu. He's completed every step of the ritual but the last one, and Floyd | now his journey is complete. He puts a hand on your shoulder, gives Floyd | you an exaggerated wink, and tears into the Heart with his Floyd | suddenly-sharp teeth. With the first bite, he begins to grow more Floyd | massive. His jaw unhinges like a great serpent's, and he swallows the Floyd | rest of the Heart in one gulp. Tentacles emerge from his torso, and Floyd | he bursts through the ceiling with a primeval roar. It is glorious, Floyd | and you have made it possible. Iä! Iä! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have found religion *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 303 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "give heart to leah" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 304 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE HEART TO LEAH Floyd | Floyd | Leah is too busy dying to accept the Heart. Floyd | Floyd | Leah doubles over in agony, along with almost everyone in the crowd. Floyd | Damn, Stu is not the forgiving type. Well, there's certainly nothing Floyd | stopping you from reclaiming the Heart now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Aww" | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hahahaha, aw" | ||
| DavidW says, "ah. The game's good if either Stu or we eat it." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 304 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You run away, leaving Stu, Leah, and the bleeding congregation behind. Floyd | Somehow you find your way through a maze of corridors until you're Floyd | outside. You don't stop running until you reach your car. By now you Floyd | hear sirens coming south down Hamline, but you know it's too late for Floyd | them, and for anyone. Stu has the Heart, no thanks to you. The smart Floyd | money says that his reign will not be pleasant for you. Might as well Floyd | go to the Nepalese place across from Kowalski's. Yak dumplings make Floyd | as good a last meal as any. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You are eaten *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 304 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 305 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The main entrance to the sanctuary is complete pandemonium. You'd Floyd | never get through. Floyd | Floyd | Blood begins to drip from the rabbi's ears as your uncle invokes the Floyd | power of the crystal. You see figures all around the sanctuary Floyd | dropping to the floor. "Make it stop," Leah pleads, almost inaudibly Floyd | over the infernal hum. She collapses to the ground, twitching, tears Floyd | and blood streaking down her face. She looks up and recognizes you. Floyd | Clearly terrified, she curls up into a tighter ball. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 306 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Baby Ruth wrapper Floyd | a latex glove (being worn) Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a filthy pillow Floyd | a hooded robe (hood lowered) (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | And you're all greased up. Floyd | Floyd | Almost everyone in the sanctuary, except for you and your uncle, is on Floyd | the floor writhing, or worse, completely still. Leah quivers Floyd | involuntarily, her hands clutched around her ears, her eyes closed Floyd | tight. She whispers, perhaps to no one in particular, "Help me!" Floyd | Alright, Stu, you think. Point made. Let's skedaddle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kill leah" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 306 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > KILL LEAH Floyd | Floyd | You're generally a non-violent person. Floyd | Floyd | You stare, dumbstruck, as the last surviving members of the Floyd | congregation quiver their last. Stu strides over their bodies Floyd | triumphantly. Mission accomplished, I guess? You didn't expect him Floyd | to take it all the way, but Stu has been waiting for this moment for Floyd | quite a while. He's fired up and ready to roll. Glancing at you Floyd | dismissively, he snatches the Heart and tears into it with his Floyd | suddenly-sharp teeth. With the first bite, he begins to grow more Floyd | massive. His jaw unhinges like a great serpent's, and he swallows the Floyd | rest of the Heart in one gulp. Tentacles emerge from his torso, and Floyd | he bursts through the ceiling with a primeval roar. It is glorious. Floyd | Even though you lost the Heart to begin with, you did at least make an Floyd | effort to retrieve it, and Stu is feeling magnanimous. You serve at Floyd | his right tentacle for a brief while until the mood passes, and you Floyd | are consumed. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You are among the last to be eaten *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 306 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "skedaddle" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 306 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > SKEDADDLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 306 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | Pandemonium grips the main sanctuary of the synagogue. Your Uncle Floyd | Stu, transformed by the daylong ritual you escaped, clutches a Floyd | thrumming blue crystal. The congregants and rabbi convulse in pain, Floyd | as he shows no signs of letting up. You came in from the east, and it Floyd | looks like maybe there's a way out to the south as well. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting next to the podium is what appears to be an animal horn. Floyd | Floyd | You stare, dumbstruck, as the last surviving members of the Floyd | congregation quiver their last. Stu strides over their bodies Floyd | triumphantly. Mission accomplished, I guess? You didn't expect him Floyd | to take it all the way, but Stu has been waiting for this moment for Floyd | quite a while. He's fired up and ready to roll. Glancing at you Floyd | dismissively, he snatches the Heart and tears into it with his Floyd | suddenly-sharp teeth. With the first bite, he begins to grow more Floyd | massive. His jaw unhinges like a great serpent's, and he swallows the Floyd | rest of the Heart in one gulp. Tentacles emerge from his torso, and Floyd | he bursts through the ceiling with a primeval roar. It is glorious. Floyd | Even though you lost the Heart to begin with, you did at least make an Floyd | effort to retrieve it, and Stu is feeling magnanimous. You serve at Floyd | his right tentacle for a brief while until the mood passes, and you Floyd | are consumed. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You are among the last to be eaten *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Sanctuary 306 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Sanctuary Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "blow horn" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > BLOW HORN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the shofar) Floyd | You leap over to the podium and grab the horn. Seized by a sudden Floyd | flash of insight and pity, you inhale until you're full to bursting, Floyd | and put the horn to your lips. You sound a massive, deep blast that Floyd | reverberates against the walls of the sanctuary. You keep the blast Floyd | going, a single piercing note, forcing the air from your lungs until Floyd | they begin to ache. You look up, and see the congregation recovering. Floyd | The horn's blast is drowning out the crystal! Leah slowly uncurls Floyd | herself, opens her eyes, and sees you sounding the horn. She seems Floyd | oddly calm now, and starts to crawl away. Floyd | Floyd | Still you blow, your face turning red, then purple, the same note Floyd | sounding, shaking the very walls of the temple. You close your eyes Floyd | as you expel the last bit of air. Finally, there's a cracking sound, Floyd | and a pulse of white light. The crystal shatters. Floyd | Floyd | The rabbi stands, a trickle of blood running along his jawline and Floyd | down his chin. "Tekiah gedolah!" he shouts, as the other Floyd | congregants snap out of their fugues. Suddenly, there's another Floyd | crack, and your dumbstruck uncle crumples to the ground. Standing Floyd | over him is Leah, clutching a Torah in both hands. Her face is caked Floyd | with blood, her dress dirty and wrinkled, her mascara running in thick Floyd | black streaks down her face. She looks up at you and smiles. She's Floyd | the most beautiful woman you've ever seen. Three Saint Paul policemen Floyd | burst in with tasers and handcuffs, but frankly, their job has been Floyd | done for them. Floyd | Floyd | "I knew you couldn't be all bad," Leah says, between strained breaths. Floyd | "You were so gentle with my roommate's beagle when we brought her in Floyd | with a scratched eye last winter. It was really sweet." At this, she Floyd | throws up. Still, it's a nice moment. Floyd | Floyd | press any key | ||
| genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Como Park 307 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | Como Park Floyd | One year later. You stand under the chuppah on a warm summer day in Floyd | Como Park. Sailboats and canoes dot the lake in front of you. The Floyd | air is filled with bird songs and the scent of flowers. Leah stands Floyd | to your right, beaming and crying. Behind you are several dozen Floyd | guests. On her side: her parents, family, and friends. On yours: Floyd | Sandy, Jeff, and some of the other guys from the cult. Yeah, the cult Floyd | is still operating, but it's pretty mellow now. Fewer human Floyd | sacrifices, more pancake breakfasts. Mostly now it's just a way to Floyd | feel like you're part of something. Floyd | Floyd | The rabbi places his hands upon your heads and intones a final prayer. Floyd | At your feet is a glass, wrapped in a napkin. The rabbi points to it Floyd | and nods. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl squee! | |
| DavidW says, "oh wow." | ||
| Zach says, "Yay!" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smash glass" | ||
Floyd ] Como Park 307 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > SMASH GLASS Floyd | Floyd | You break the glass (on the second try) and kiss your bride. The Floyd | assembled crowd claps and hollers in approval. Even the winged horror Floyd | gives a celebratory screech. Floyd | Floyd | Let's get to the reception; you're starving. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Mazel tov *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||
Floyd ] Como Park 307 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > AMUSING Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Have you tried: Floyd | Floyd | Consulting the tomes about Arkham, or Cthulhu, or Yuggoth, or Floyd | Miskatonic U., or other Lovecrafty stuff? Floyd | Licking the wax paper? The Baby Ruth wrapper? Floyd | Kissing Walter? Floyd | Putting Walter in the oven? Floyd | Putting the Ziploc bag on Walter? Floyd | Putting the Breaking Bad DVDs in the security system? Floyd | Taking Sam's nose? Floyd | Taking Leah's satchel? Floyd | Burning anything? Floyd | Touching the ichor with your bare hand more than once? Floyd | Wearing the hairclip? Floyd | Singing while in the synagogue? Floyd | Greasing someone else? Floyd | Taking the houses on Randolph Avenue? Floyd | Filling the glove with water? Floyd | Swimming in the Mississippi River? Floyd | Taking the ark of the Torah? Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > | Zach says, "More like Necro-nom-nom-icon" | |
| Zach says, "That was pretty good" | ||
| Gerynar arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | DavidW says, "Unexpectedly happy ending found, yes." | |
| Gerynar has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | McMartin says, "Did you get the Best Ending there? I seem to have been in the wrong room." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah." | ||
| McMartin says, "Hooray" | ||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Anyone want to play around with the amusings, or are we done?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm done, I think." | ||
