ClubFloyd Transcript:
Guilty Bastards by Kent Tessman
As played on ifMUD on December 28, 2014

The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Below is a transcript of Guilty Bastards written by Kent Tessman. Guilty Bastards was released in 1998 and was nominated for the Best NPCs Xyzzy Award. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting IFDB.


WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.


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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load guiltybastards"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
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Floyd | Guilty Bastards
Floyd | Copyright (c) 1998 by Kent Tessman
Floyd |
Floyd | Release 2.09 02-09-00
Floyd | Written using the Hugo Compiler v2.5
Floyd | (New players should type "help".)
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hotel room
Floyd |   Morning sunlight filters through the gauzy drapes.  Old wooden night
Floyd | table, fan overhead, the usual trappings.  The door leads out into the
Floyd | hallway.  The neatly made bed looks exactly the same as it did when you
Floyd | saw it this morning--from where you woke up slumped in the chair in the
Floyd | corner.
Floyd |   The desk clerk must've slipped an envelope under the door sometime
Floyd | early this morning.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm. I do see that GB was a finalist for Best NPCs in its year. That's a good sign."
Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take envelope"
Floyd | You scoop the envelope up off the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | Looking good.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying an envelope.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x envelope"
Floyd | It's addressed to you in handwriting.  Plain white envelope, no return
Floyd | address, no postmark.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read envelope"
Floyd | It's addressed to you in handwriting.  Plain white envelope, no return
Floyd | address, no postmark.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the envelope.)
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the envelope are a small note and a studio pass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "read envelope"
DavidW says, "open envelope. read letter."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read note"
Floyd | Handwritten, again, but this time on Rocket Pictures stationery.
Floyd |
Floyd | "8:30 at the studio.
Floyd |
Floyd |            --MW"
Floyd |
Floyd | (which of course stands for Milt Walker)
Floyd |
Floyd | (Footnote 1)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "heh footnotes"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "fn"
Floyd | You can't use the word "fn".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), ""
Floyd | What?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote"
Floyd | Try "footnote (number)".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote 1"
Floyd | Milt Walker, the head of Rocket Pictures, is one of those people you've
Floyd | met in passing (since you don't exactly run in the same social circles)
Floyd | and under somewhat shady circumstances.  It was a couple years ago and
Floyd | involved Milt's son and a boatload of South American marijuana.  Grass,
Floyd | he kept calling it.  You remember finding it vaguely funny sitting
Floyd | across a table from this austere-looking studio head in a seedy Los
Floyd | Angeles bar while he speculated in a low voice about how he was going
Floyd | to "get rid of that much grass."  How he did get his son out of that
Floyd | jam and what part you played in the whole imbroglio you swore never to
Floyd | reveal, not even here.
Floyd |
Floyd | (Footnote 2)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "try f or note as an abbrev for footnote"
Jacqueline says, "imbroglio"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f 2"
Floyd | You can't use the word "f".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote 2"
Floyd | Yes, it's true:  the author heisted the idea for these footnotes from
Floyd | the Infocom game "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".  But they are
Floyd | a pretty nifty idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pass"
Floyd | It's a drive-on parking pass for the Rocket Pictures Studios lot dated
Floyd | today.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "time"
Floyd | Better start with a verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Hrm. Wanna lay bets on whether or not the time is in the status bar that we can't see?"
Jacqueline says, "I'm pretty much 100% certain that sleepmask doesn't work with Hugo games, but it may be worth me checking."
JoshuaH says, "There is."
DavidW says, "oh, yeah, better check that."
DavidW says, "there might also be a 'time' command."
Jacqueline says, "I just tried 'time'"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit"
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit (YES or NO)?
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask guiltybastards"
Floyd | %% Critical error.
Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file.
Floyd ] Your hotel room
Floyd ] 8:00 a.m.
Floyd | Guilty Bastards
Floyd | Copyright (c) 1998 by Kent Tessman
Floyd |
Floyd | Release 2.09 02-09-00
Floyd | Written using the Hugo Compiler v2.5
Floyd | (New players should type "help".)
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hotel room
Floyd | Morning sunlight filters through the gauzy drapes.  Old wooden night
Floyd | table, fan overhead, the usual trappings.  The door leads out into the
Floyd | hallway.  The neatly made bed looks exactly the same as it did when
Floyd | you saw it this morning--from where you woke up slumped in the chair
Floyd | in the corner.
Floyd | The desk clerk must've slipped an envelope under the door sometime
Floyd | early this morning.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Huh."
Jacqueline says, "The 'critical error' is a bit concerning, but it seems to be marking stuff up."
Jacqueline says, "And running, which I didn't expect."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take envelope"
Floyd ] Your hotel room
Floyd ] 8:01 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ENVELOPE
Floyd |
Floyd | You scoop the envelope up off the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Yep. There's the time."
Jacqueline says, "We don't have much time to get to the studio, it would seem."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open it"
Floyd ] Your hotel room
Floyd ] 8:02 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the envelope.)
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the envelope are a small note and a studio pass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read note"
Floyd ] Your hotel room
Floyd ] 8:03 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ NOTE
Floyd |
Floyd | Handwritten, again, but this time on Rocket Pictures stationery.
Floyd |
Floyd | "8:30 at the studio.
Floyd |
Floyd |            --MW"
Floyd |
Floyd | (which of course stands for Milt Walker)
Floyd |
Floyd | (Footnote 1)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "fn 1"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FN 1
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use the word "fn".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote 1"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FOOTNOTE 1
Floyd |
Floyd | Milt Walker, the head of Rocket Pictures, is one of those people
Floyd | you've met in passing (since you don't exactly run in the same social
Floyd | circles) and under somewhat shady circumstances.  It was a couple
Floyd | years ago and involved Milt's son and a boatload of South American
Floyd | marijuana.  Grass, he kept calling it.  You remember finding it
Floyd | vaguely funny sitting across a table from this austere-looking studio
Floyd | head in a seedy Los Angeles bar while he speculated in a low voice
Floyd | about how he was going to "get rid of that much grass."  How he did
Floyd | get his son out of that jam and what part you played in the whole
Floyd | imbroglio you swore never to reveal, not even here.
Floyd |
Floyd | (Footnote 2)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote 2"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FOOTNOTE 2
Floyd |
Floyd | Yes, it's true:  the author heisted the idea for these footnotes from
Floyd | the Infocom game "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".  But they are
Floyd | a pretty nifty idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "mm. See if there's a status line with the next command."
Jacqueline says, "There will be. It's just the footnotes."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ] Pelican Hotel
Floyd ] 8:04 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the door and leave, closing the door behind you, then head
Floyd | down the stairs and outside to the street.
Floyd |
Floyd | Pelican Hotel
Floyd | The exterior of the Pelican has been painted so many times that its
Floyd | peeling shell is probably suitable protection against radioactive
Floyd | fallout.  Warm Los Angeles sunlight glows through the hazy blue-gray
Floyd | of the summer sky.  The rather quiet street outside the hotel runs
Floyd | south toward Sunset Blvd.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Hrm. I guess possible there were other things in the room, but it seems unlikely."
Jacqueline says, "Still, the rule is we agree before we move on."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Your hotel room
Floyd ] 8:03 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hotel room
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "yes, I'm still lagging. An entire page of text showed up all at once."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x table"
Floyd ] Your hotel room
Floyd ] 8:04 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | The night table is off to the left of the door, set along the wall.
Floyd | Sitting on the night table are your cousin's car keys.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "aha"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take keys"
Floyd ] Your hotel room
Floyd ] 8:05 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE KEYS
Floyd |
Floyd | You grab the keys off the night table.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bed"
Floyd ] Your hotel room
Floyd ] 8:06 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BED
Floyd |
Floyd | There's nothing too remarkable about the bed.  It's comfortable
Floyd | enough, from what you remember.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x chair"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't need to refer to that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Okay, I think that's it. Anything else before we head out?]"
DavidW says, "I told Dropbox to pause; that might help"
DavidW says, "Considering that we need to be at the studio soon, I wouldn't do the usual exhaustive search in the room."
Jacqueline says, "That's what I was thinking."
DavidW says, "so yes, we should go."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ] Pelican Hotel
Floyd ] 8:07 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the door and leave, closing the door behind you, then head
Floyd | down the stairs and outside to the street.
Floyd |
Floyd | Pelican Hotel
Floyd | The exterior of the Pelican has been painted so many times that its
Floyd | peeling shell is probably suitable protection against radioactive
Floyd | fallout.  Warm Los Angeles sunlight glows through the hazy blue-gray
Floyd | of the summer sky.  The rather quiet street outside the hotel runs
Floyd | south toward Sunset Blvd.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in volvo"
Floyd ] Pelican Hotel
Floyd ] 8:08 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET IN VOLVO
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb into the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to studio"
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 8:14 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DRIVE TO STUDIO
Floyd |
Floyd | You drive midtown to the main gate of Rocket Pictures Studios and park
Floyd | in Visitor Parking.
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio gate, in your cousin's Volvo
Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios.  It's everything a Hollywood
Floyd | studio should be:  it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the
Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like
Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a
Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and
Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all.
Floyd | (This last is demonstrated by the fact that there are one- and
Floyd | two-story shopping plazas and office buildings stretching as far as
Floyd | the eye can see instead of souvenir shops and T-shirt stands.)
Floyd |
Floyd | (Footnote 8)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JoshuaH asks, "8?"
Jacqueline says, "Yeah. They're not autonumbered."
Jacqueline exclaims, "MINIGAME: Find all the footnotes!"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote 8"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FOOTNOTE 8
Floyd |
Floyd | Let's face it:  Maybe Hollywood never was what it used to be.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out"
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 8:15 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open gate"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN GATE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't do that with the studio gate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 8:14 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio gate, in your cousin's Volvo
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "So, like, is there a thing to stick our pass in to open this gate or something?"
DavidW says, "just 'n', I think. Or examine gate, if there's a call button."
JoshuaH says, "We've already parked."
Jacqueline says, "Hm. You'd think it'd be called Studio Parking or something."
Jacqueline shrugs.
DavidW says, "also, when you did 'undo', I think you got back into the car."
Jacqueline says, "Yes, I did. On purpose."
DavidW says, "I'm still lagging a bit."
Jacqueline says, "But I guess if you all think we're here, we can get out."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out"
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 8:15 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 8:16 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio gate
Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios.  It's everything a Hollywood
Floyd | studio should be:  it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the
Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like
Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a
Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and
Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "So, um."
Jacqueline says, "Try random directions? Or..."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter studio"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER STUDIO
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't enter the studio gate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JoshuaH says, "Maybe N."
DavidW says, "I said try 'north' or examine the gate."
DavidW says, "The gate might not be coded as a door object."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 8:17 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio backlot
Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here
Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next
Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white
Floyd | paint.  If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get
Floyd | to the main building.  Or you could turn around and head back to the
Floyd | parking lot.  More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "(and I really hate lagging like this. I type a reply and wait a minute or more for it to show up.)"
Jacqueline says (to DW), "It's fine. Gives me a chance to poke at other things while we go slowly for your lag. :)"
Jacqueline says, "So, more N, then."
DavidW says, "I guess. The note wasn't specific where to meet Milt."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 8:18 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main building
Floyd | You're just in front of the main administrative building.  Somewhere
Floyd | behind these walls are the executive offices of Rocket Pictures:  a
Floyd | motley assemblage of manic creative near-genius, mediocre posturing,
Floyd | epidemic insecurity, monumental bravado, white-knuckle risk-taking,
Floyd | milquetoast acquiescence, stark paranoia, and great leather furniture.
Floyd |   Milt Walker is here, standing outside the building.
Floyd |
Floyd | Milt speaks in a fairly low voice, straight and to the point, looking
Floyd | around, careful not to be overheard.  "Maybe you already guessed this,
Floyd | but I asked you here to talk about Cindy Painter's death.  I don't
Floyd | know if there's anything that you can find out that the cops haven't
Floyd | or won't, but I'm willing to give you twelve hours to see what you can
Floyd | do."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Wow. That is some writing, that is."
Jacqueline says, "Hrm. Witness."
DavidW says, "I suppose we should ask Milt about Cindy, since I, for one, haven't even heard of her before."
Jacqueline says, "Yeah. We haven't. Good place to start."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask Milt about Cindy"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 8:19 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT CINDY
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's such a goddamned tragedy," Milt says, pulling his glasses down
Floyd | and rubbing his eyes.  "I've known her for years, since long before
Floyd | she came here, tried to break in.  Knew her father, her parents are in
Floyd | Detroit.  She was just on the verge; she was making a picture for
Floyd | us--Stuart Fina was the executive on it."  He points over toward the
Floyd | side building.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Here," Milt says.  He hands you a report marked "LAPD Homicide
Floyd | Report".  "A contact of mine at the Police Department managed to
Floyd | procure this.  I don't know if it will be of any help."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "After we grill Milt, either go into the main building, or check out what the admin bldg knows."
Jacqueline says, "Probably go speak to the exec, but let's read the report first."
DavidW says, "oh, read that report, of course."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read report"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 8:20 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ REPORT
Floyd |
Floyd | The report is titled "LAPD HOMICIDE REPORT".  It describes how on May
Floyd | 23, Cindy Painter, a twenty-four year-old actress, was found strangled
Floyd | in her apartment on National Boulevard.  Forensics suggest that she
Floyd | opened the door to have the intruder burst in on her.  The body was
Floyd | found in the bedroom; there were no signs of assault other than
Floyd | strangulation.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "That is a very short report."
DavidW says, "ask Milt about Fina"
Lionheart arrives, full of funk, but no fun. DavidW says, "also note that when he mentioned Stuart Fina, he pointed to a side building."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about fina"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 8:21 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT FINA
Floyd |
Floyd | "He's a pretty sharp kid," he says.  "Been with us about a year,
Floyd | worked on a couple of medium-sized pictures.  This picture Cindy was
Floyd | doing--Hugs and Kisses--was his first as Executive in Charge
Floyd | of Production.  Sounds like he's done a good job on it."
Floyd |
Floyd | "You might want to go to her apartment--I don't know if the police are
Floyd | still there or not.  Maybe you can find something they're missing."
Floyd | He hands you a single apartment key.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Sure, my boss has the key to my apartment."
JoshuaH says, "I was about to say."
Jacqueline says, "I mean, I guess he's a family friend, but still. Ca-reepy."
DavidW says, "ask him about police. Maybe we can get a donut too."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask him about police"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 8:22 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK HIM ABOUT POLICE
Floyd |
Floyd | (Assuming you mean Milt.)
Floyd | Milt doesn't seem to know anything about the police.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm going to be in and out today--I've still got a damned studio to
Floyd | run, even with all this mess going on.  I'll try to keep checking back
Floyd | out here for you after an hour or so."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about suspects"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT SUSPECTS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use the word "suspects".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about witnesses"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT WITNESSES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use the word "witnesses".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline frowns.
DavidW says, "I don't think we have much else to ask Milt about at this time."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 8:23 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio backlot
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "verbose"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > VERBOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | Verbose descriptions.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 8:24 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio backlot
Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here
Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next
Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white
Floyd | paint.  If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get
Floyd | to the main building.  Or you could turn around and head back to the
Floyd | parking lot.  More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] Side building
Floyd ] 8:25 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Side building
Floyd | The people who work in this building are the people who all hope
Floyd | that one day they'll end up working in the other building.  Not that
Floyd | this building is bad--not that it's a fire hazard or anything like
Floyd | that--although the budget allocated for repairs to the roof probably
Floyd | went into new oak paneling inside the main building.  And maybe this
Floyd | place someone like you could at least get into.  Probably just by
Floyd | leaving the shade of this tree and climbing up the set of three stairs
Floyd | that leads to the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "also, if time is critical, we shouldn't dillydally."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd | %% Critical error.
Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file.
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 8:26 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Reception area
Floyd | You could plunk yourself down in one of the two comfy-looking
Floyd | high-backed chairs while waiting for someone.  The minty-blue hospital
Floyd | tint to the walls could take some getting used to, though.  A hallway
Floyd | of office doors extends to the west, or you can go back outside to the
Floyd | south.
Floyd | The building's receptionist is sitting at her desk.  Her nameplate
Floyd | says her name is Anne.
Floyd |
Floyd | The phone rings.  Anne answers it and takes down a message.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask anne about fina"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 8:27 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK ANNE ABOUT FINA
Floyd |
Floyd | "Who shall I say is here?" Anne asks, looking you up and down.
Floyd | "Um...forget it.  I'll just buzz him."  She punches a couple of
Floyd | buttons on her phone and speaks very briefly into it before hanging
Floyd | up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Since we're on a clock, I hate to wait. Just go w?"
DavidW says, "I dunno."
DavidW says, "Try, see if Anne stops us."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 8:28 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Now, seeing as you don't know your way around here, the best you can
Floyd | hope for is to wind up wandering the halls and maybe getting security
Floyd | called on you.  Better to wait here if there's someone you need to
Floyd | see.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "There we go then."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask anne about cindy"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 8:29 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK ANNE ABOUT CINDY
Floyd |
Floyd | "I think it's horrible what happened to her!  I was so upset when I
Floyd | heard--I didn't know her, though."  Anne looks at you.  "What do you
Floyd | have to do with it?  Is that why you're here?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "say yes"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAY YES
Floyd |
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "yes"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question.  (Although you sound rather positive.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask anne about fina"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 8:30 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK ANNE ABOUT FINA
Floyd |
Floyd | "I just called him for you."  She seems a little annoyed with your
Floyd | impatience.  "You're welcome to have a seat."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "hrm"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask anne about anne"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 8:31 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK ANNE ABOUT ANNE
Floyd |
Floyd | Anne looks at you in a way that says, hey, I'm just the
Floyd | receptionist--I'm not bothering you, am I?
Floyd |
Floyd | Stuart Fina appears from somewhere down the hallway.  He obviously
Floyd | doesn't recognize you, but he manages to greet you with one of those
Floyd | practised smiles that suggests you're the best thing that's happened
Floyd | to him all day.  "Hi there.  Stuart Fina."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "so, sit on on chair as the room description suggests."
DavidW says, "er sit on THE chair"
Jacqueline asks, "Ask Fina about Cindy, I guess?"
Jacqueline says, "I doubt >INTRODUCE ME is a thing"
JoshuaH says, "Ya."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about cindy"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 8:32 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT CINDY
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah, well, geez..."  Stuart trails off, shaking his head.  "God, I
Floyd | really don't know what to say...I mean it's terrible, absolutely
Floyd | terrible.  She had such a bright future.  She was going to be a huge
Floyd | star.  Her picture, the one she was doing with us--it's going to be a
Floyd | hit.  A huge hit.  When people see it they're going to think
Floyd | about James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and all wonder 'What if...?'"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "yes, ask Fina about Cindy, movie, Milt."
DavidW says, "and about Fina himself, of course."
Jacqueline says, "What if, eh? So her death might be good for publicity for the film, but that seems a bit much."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about fina"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 8:33 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT FINA
Floyd |
Floyd | Stuart would probably rather not talk about himself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline exclaims, "Well, Stuart will just have to get over that!"
JoshuaH exclaims, "As if!"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about movie"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 8:34 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT MOVIE
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh, it's going to be a big, big hit.  It's testing through the
Floyd | roof--test audiences are just loving it.  Cindy's perfect in it:  this
Floyd | sweet, adorable girl plotting all these terrible ways to kill her
Floyd | cheating lover."  Stuart sighs heavily.  "It just makes what happens
Floyd | to Cindy that much sadder...that much more of a tragedy."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "maybe ask him about alibi."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about milt"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 8:35 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT MILT
Floyd |
Floyd | "Milt?  I idolize Milt," Stuart says.  "You know what he is in this
Floyd | business?  The godfather.  The king.  Milt talks and people don't even
Floyd | question it.  If there's one guy you don't want to look like an idiot
Floyd | in front of it's Milt Walker."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about alibi"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT ALIBI
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use the word "alibi".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline exclaims, "!"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about actors"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT ACTORS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use the word "actors".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about actor"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT ACTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use the word "actor".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Was curious about co-stars."
DavidW says, "I think it's time to visit her apartment."
Jacqueline says, "..Joshua?]"
JoshuaH says, "Sure."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ] Side building
Floyd ] 8:36 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Side building
Floyd | The people who work in this building are the people who all hope
Floyd | that one day they'll end up working in the other building.  Not that
Floyd | this building is bad--not that it's a fire hazard or anything like
Floyd | that--although the budget allocated for repairs to the roof probably
Floyd | went into new oak paneling inside the main building.  And maybe this
Floyd | place someone like you could at least get into.  Probably just by
Floyd | leaving the shade of this tree and climbing up the set of three stairs
Floyd | that leads to the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "We didn't get much of anything from him, did we?"
Jacqueline says, "Not really, no."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Wait, which way back to the car?"
Jacqueline exclaims, "I'm always losing my car!"
JoshuaH asks, "E then S?"
Jacqueline asks, "Ah, yeah. We're in a nook, aren't we?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e'"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E'
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use the word "e'".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 8:37 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio backlot
Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here
Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next
Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white
Floyd | paint.  If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get
Floyd | to the main building.  Or you could turn around and head back to the
Floyd | parking lot.  More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 8:38 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio gate
Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios.  It's everything a Hollywood
Floyd | studio should be:  it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the
Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like
Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a
Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and
Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in volvo"
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 8:39 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET IN VOLVO
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb into the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to apartment"
Floyd | %% Critical error.
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Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 8:50 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DRIVE TO APARTMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | You drive south to National Blvd. and pull over to the curb next to
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building.
Floyd |
Floyd | National Boulevard, in your cousin's Volvo
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's
Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex.  Maybe it's not
Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad.  National extends to the
Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 8:51 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 8:52 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick
Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the
Floyd | stairs leading up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 8:53 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "So what does that mean, precisely? POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS? It means we unlock the door and enter, right?"
DavidW says, "if you see any trash receptacles, dumpsters, please check 'em out."
Jacqueline nods.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter apartment"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 8:54 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER APARTMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | You unlock the door and go in, ducking under the tape and closing the
Floyd | door quietly behind you.
Floyd |
Floyd | (Now keep in mind that this is a crime scene, and you may want to be
Floyd | fairly judicious about what you disturb--or at least leave disturbed.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated:  a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle
Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention.  There's a television
Floyd | in the corner.  The sole bedroom is to the north.  East takes you into
Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sofa"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 8:55 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SOFA
Floyd |
Floyd | The sofa is cloth-covered, off-white, relatively new, low almost to
Floyd | the floor, and not the cheapest you could possibly find.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "search sofa. Anything could be in the cushions. Also look under it and behind it."
Jacqueline says, "It commands our attention because it is There."
Jacqueline says, "Okay. There was a warning about disturbing stuff, but..."
Jacqueline shrugs.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search sofa"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 8:56 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH SOFA
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look under sofa"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 8:57 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER SOFA
Floyd |
Floyd | A cassette tape is half-sticking out from under the sofa, probably
Floyd | overlooked by the police.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "oho"
Jacqueline says, "Those slackers."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get tape"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 8:58 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET TAPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JoshuaH says, "I remember cassettes."
Jacqueline says, "heh"
DavidW says, "Few policepeople play IF, I guess."
Jacqueline says (to DW), "I did when I was a policepeople."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tape"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 8:59 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TAPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Handwritten on the cassette label is "New Songs - May 15".  If the the
Floyd | tape player in the Volvo worked, you'd even be able to give it a
Floyd | listen.  The contact address on the tape is in Santa Monica.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks (of Joshua), "oh, make me feel old, why don't you?"
Jacqueline says (to DW), "If it's any consolation, I remember a car we had that had an 8-track in it."
Roger says, "Our pickup did"
DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "yes, that helps."
Roger says, "Clunk clunk goes the buttons"
Jacqueline says, "You're welcome. It was a '78 convertible Super Beatle."
Jacqueline says, "I think it was a '78, anyway. One of the last years."
Jacqueline asks, "So... bedroom?"
DavidW says, "Look behind sofa"
Jacqueline says, "Oh, right."
Jacqueline says, "I got the impression it was in the center of the room, but perhaps not."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look behind sofa"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 9:00 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND SOFA
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't find anything behind the sofa.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Examine television; there could be a sticker or doodad on it."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x television"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 9:01 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TELEVISION
Floyd |
Floyd | The fairly expensive television is sitting on the floor in the way in
Floyd | of a fairly expensive television just purchased by someone who has yet
Floyd | to buy a nice wall-unit for it.  The TV is turned off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "ok, leave the tv alone. Bedroom next, please."
Jacqueline says, "Ah. A TV that doesn't mount to the wall. It's like a time machine, this game."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 9:02 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Not a good idea:  everything in the bedroom has been covered with
Floyd | plastic--presumably to protect the crime scene from contamination--so
Floyd | you'd be best not to go tromping around all over it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "PEOPLE"
DavidW says, "Kitchen, then."
Jacqueline asks, "How are we s'posed to investimagate?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd ] 9:03 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | Refrigerator, stove, sink, kitchen window.  An empty carton of
Floyd | grapefruit juice sitting on the counter.  The living room is back out
Floyd | to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "fridge"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FRIDGE
Floyd |
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x fridge"
Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd ] 9:04 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FRIDGE
Floyd |
Floyd | Done in the same style and color as the stove:  part of a matching
Floyd | set.  The fridge is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open fridge"
Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd ] 9:05 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE
Floyd |
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in fridge"
Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd ] 9:06 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN FRIDGE
Floyd |
Floyd | The refrigerator is curiously empty of anything edible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close fridge"
Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd ] 9:07 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CLOSE FRIDGE
Floyd |
Floyd | Closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look through window"
Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd ] 9:08 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK THROUGH WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the window you can see behind the building, where a narrow
Floyd | alley plays host to a garbage dumpster.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "DUMPSTER"
DavidW says, "It's possible the tape is the *only* thing we're to find here."
DavidW says, "The window seems significant to me."
DavidW says, "aka trash receptacle."
DavidW says, "We must get to it."
DavidW says, "god I hate lagging. I mentioned the window before you looked through it."
Jacqueline says, "I lived in Alaska on dialup once, DW. I recall the pain."
DavidW says, "ow"
Jacqueline asks, "Should we just run right for the dumpster, or is there more we'd like to do here?"
DavidW says, "Make sure you close the fridge. Look in oven and close it. ExamineCheck the juice container"
JoshuaH says, "Probably not anything in the sink."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sink"
Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd ] 9:09 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SINK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's pretty much your average stainless-steel kitchen sink and faucet
Floyd | combo.  Entirely appropriate for washing dishes or rinsing vegetables
Floyd | or anything like that.  The boring tangle of plumbing is likely
Floyd | concealed in the cupboard beneath the sink.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "ooh, cupboard"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search cupboard"
Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd ] 9:10 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH CUPBOARD
Floyd |
Floyd | The cupboard is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open cupboard"
Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd ] 9:11 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN CUPBOARD
Floyd |
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the kitchen sink's plumbing in the cupboard.
Floyd | Various cleaning supplies--rags, cleansers, disinfectants, etc.--are
Floyd | tucked away in the cupboard in the space around and behind the
Floyd | plumbing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search cupboard"
Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd ] 9:12 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH CUPBOARD
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the kitchen sink's plumbing in the cupboard.
Floyd | Various cleaning supplies--rags, cleansers, disinfectants, etc.--are
Floyd | tucked away in the cupboard in the space around and behind the
Floyd | plumbing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Really? That took a minute to give me no new info?"
DavidW says, "search the rags"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd ] 9:11 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | Refrigerator, stove, sink, kitchen window.  An empty carton of
Floyd | grapefruit juice sitting on the counter.  The living room is back out
Floyd | to the west.
Floyd |   You can see the kitchen sink's plumbing in the open cupboard.
Floyd | Various cleaning supplies--rags, cleansers, disinfectants, etc.--are
Floyd | tucked away in the cupboard in the space around and behind the
Floyd | plumbing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search rags"
Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd ] 9:12 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH RAGS
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a box of garbage bags tucked away behind the pipes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "take those"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd ] 9:13 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying an envelope, your cousin's car keys, a police report,
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment key, and a cassette tape.  Inside the
Floyd | envelope are a small note and a studio pass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "But... but... crime scene"
Jacqueline says, "Fine."
DavidW says, "the garbage bags, I mean"
Jacqueline says, "I guess we already took the tape."
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah, I realize."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take bags"
Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd ] 9:14 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BAGS
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open stove"
Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd ] 9:15 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN STOVE
Floyd |
Floyd | You're either hungry or you've suddenly been struck by the urge to
Floyd | cook.  Neither is really what you should be thinking about right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Maybe I wanted to search the oven for someone's head."
DavidW says, "Some IF ovens have dismembered heads."
Jacqueline says, "Totally."
Jacqueline says, "It's as if ovens are made for the purpose in IF."
Jacqueline says, "So, how do we get to that dumpster? We don't climb through this window."
DavidW says, "timing"
inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. DavidW says, "(it's kinda eerie that heads in ovens is a minor trope)"
DavidW asks, "Did you close the fridge?"
DavidW says, "I think we can probably reach the dumpster from outside. I don't think going through the window is a good idea unless we have no choice."
JoshuaH says, "sidewalk outside goes S"
Jacqueline says, "I did close the fridge, but not the cupboard."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close cupboard"
Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd ] 9:16 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CLOSE CUPBOARD
Floyd |
Floyd | Closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 9:17 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated:  a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle
Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention.  There's a television
Floyd | in the corner.  The sole bedroom is to the north.  East takes you into
Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 9:18 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You go out, ducking under the police tape before closing and locking
Floyd | the door behind you again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 9:19 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick
Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the
Floyd | stairs leading up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 9:20 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks (of JoshuaH), "To an alley, maybe?"
Jacqueline says, "Wait."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 9:19 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick
Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the
Floyd | stairs leading up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 9:18 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 9:19 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick
Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the
Floyd | stairs leading up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 9:20 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | National Boulevard
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's
Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex.  Maybe it's not
Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad.  National extends to the
Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JoshuaH says, "Ah. I didn't fully read. Sorry."
DavidW asks, "Are you going to lock the apartment door?"
Jacqueline asks, "Where did you see the alley?"
Jacqueline says (to DW), "No, but I didn't *un*lock, it either."
DavidW says, "I'm guessing there's an alley."
Jacqueline says, "I can go back and try, though."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 9:19 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick
Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the
Floyd | stairs leading up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 9:18 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "lock apartment"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 9:19 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOCK APARTMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | It's already locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "So, which way?"
DavidW asks, "Can we reach that overhang?"
DavidW asks, "Is anything in the greenery?"
Jacqueline asks, "What command do you want me to try?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search greenery"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH GREENERY
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 9:18 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 9:19 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick
Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the
Floyd | stairs leading up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search greenery"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 9:20 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH GREENERY
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 9:19 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick
Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the
Floyd | stairs leading up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "(You moved before I could react.)"
DavidW says, "Not outside the apartment door. Outside the building."
DavidW says, "argh. Lagging really badly now."
DavidW says, "Outside the building there"
DavidW says, "Outside the building there's an overhang and greenery."
Jacqueline says, "Yeah. I went there and searched the greenery. Not sure about the overhang, though."
DavidW says, "Maybe we can climb up there? But the dumpster has to be ground accessible, logically."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb overhand"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CLIMB OVERHAND
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use the word "overhand".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb overhang"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CLIMB OVERHANG
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use the word "overhang".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I didn't see you search the greenery here."
DavidW says, "oh wait, I see you did"
Jacqueline says, "So. The dumpster."
JoshuaH says, "Maybe it's E from National, but other than that or through the window, I'm stumped."
DavidW asks, "yeah. If you can't find it by walking around the building, go through the window. But really, how to expect to go from dumpster to window?"
JoshuaH says, "The desc also mentioned other apartments' doors."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 9:20 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "oops"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 9:21 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You unlock the door and go in, ducking under the tape and closing the
Floyd | door quietly behind you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated:  a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle
Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention.  There's a television
Floyd | in the corner.  The sole bedroom is to the north.  East takes you into
Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Wait. Undoing a bit."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 9:20 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 9:19 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick
Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the
Floyd | stairs leading up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 9:19 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick
Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the
Floyd | stairs leading up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 9:18 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 9:17 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated:  a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle
Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention.  There's a television
Floyd | in the corner.  The sole bedroom is to the north.  East takes you into
Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Unable to undo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 9:18 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You go out, ducking under the police tape before closing and locking
Floyd | the door behind you again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 9:19 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick
Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the
Floyd | stairs leading up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 9:20 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | National Boulevard
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's
Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex.  Maybe it's not
Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad.  National extends to the
Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 9:21 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Going east will just get you further away from your car and where you
Floyd | want to be.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Hrm."
Jacqueline asks, "Gosh, maybe the window?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 9:22 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Going west will just take you past the back of the building to the
Floyd | south, away from your car and where you want to be.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I haven't been mapping, so I can't suggest directions explicitly."
Jacqueline says, "I'll undo until we're back in her livingroom."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 9:21 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | National Boulevard
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's
Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex.  Maybe it's not
Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad.  National extends to the
Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 9:20 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | National Boulevard
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's
Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex.  Maybe it's not
Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad.  National extends to the
Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 9:19 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick
Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the
Floyd | stairs leading up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 9:18 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 9:17 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated:  a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle
Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention.  There's a television
Floyd | in the corner.  The sole bedroom is to the north.  East takes you into
Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd ] 9:18 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | Refrigerator, stove, sink, kitchen window.  An empty carton of
Floyd | grapefruit juice sitting on the counter.  The living room is back out
Floyd | to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open window"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't do that with the kitchen window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline glares at the kitchen window.
Jacqueline sighs, grabs a pen.
DavidW says, "seriously, the dumpster must be accessible from outside."
Jacqueline says, "Yeah. It will be. The only clue we have is 'behind the building,' so it's odd that we're not allowed to go wandering. Perhaps I should wander from the base of the stairs, not from our car."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 9:17 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated:  a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle
Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention.  There's a television
Floyd | in the corner.  The sole bedroom is to the north.  East takes you into
Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 9:18 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You go out, ducking under the police tape before closing and locking
Floyd | the door behind you again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 9:19 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick
Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the
Floyd | stairs leading up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Is this a mythical dumpster?"
Jacqueline asks, "A taunt?"
DavidW says, "Or wander the hallway; there might be a backstairs."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 9:20 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 9:21 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You unlock the door and go in, ducking under the tape and closing the
Floyd | door quietly behind you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated:  a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle
Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention.  There's a television
Floyd | in the corner.  The sole bedroom is to the north.  East takes you into
Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 9:20 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 9:21 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Seeing as none of the other doors belongs to you, you'll probably have
Floyd | a hard time doing that without getting arrested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oh, like a mountain painted on a backdrop? That would be evil. I suppose it's possible, but ick if so."
Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Exactly like a mountain painted on a backdrop."
DavidW says, "If you're giving up on the dumpster, try to play the tape or go to the Santa Monica address on the tape."
DavidW says, "oh, also open the box of garbage cans and VERIFY that only bags are in there."
DavidW says, "er box of bags"
Jacqueline gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop.
Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. Jacqueline says, "Sorry about that. Back."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open bags"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN BAGS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't do that with the box of garbage bags.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bags"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 9:22 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BAGS
Floyd |
Floyd | The garbage bags are stretchy plastic and dull orange in color.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "I don't think we have a tape player, do we?"
Jacqueline asks, "Maybe we're down to the address in SM?"
DavidW says, "I wasn't sure if we had a player or not."
JoshuaH says, "Just the broken one in the car."
Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
Jacqueline says, "There wasn't one mentioned in the apartment."
Jacqueline says, "Possibly there was a Walkman(TM) on the body."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 9:22 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 9:23 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick
Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the
Floyd | stairs leading up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 9:24 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | National Boulevard
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's
Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex.  Maybe it's not
Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad.  National extends to the
Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 9:25 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET IN CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb into the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to santa monica"
Floyd | %% Critical error.
Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file.
Floyd ] Santa Monica
Floyd ] 9:40 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DRIVE TO SANTA MONICA
Floyd |
Floyd | You drive to Santa Monica and park along Ocean Avenue.
Floyd |
Floyd | Santa Monica, in your cousin's Volvo
Floyd | This is about as far west as you can get on the mainland United
Floyd | States and not be driving on the sand.  Ocean Avenue extends north and
Floyd | south, lined with palm trees and brightly colored, Santa Monica-ish
Floyd | buildings.  You can get a better view of the beach to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "or a walkman in the dumpster. :)"
Jacqueline says, "I hate when people call it 'continental US' or 'mainland US'"
Jacqueline exclaims (at DW), "Taunt me no more with your mythical dumpster!"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read cassette"
Floyd ] Santa Monica
Floyd ] 9:41 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ CASSETTE
Floyd |
Floyd | Handwritten on the cassette label is "New Songs - May 15".  If the the
Floyd | tape player in the Volvo worked, you'd even be able to give it a
Floyd | listen.  The contact address on the tape is in Santa Monica.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "So, the contact address is SM, and now here we are in SM, at the beach. Um."
DavidW says, "'Taunting Dumpster': the new rad game that everyone's talking about!"
Jacqueline exclaims, "ClubFloyd were told there was a dumpster to find. You won't believe what happens next!"
DavidW asks, "Might there be surfer dudes and dudettes? Frankie and Annette?"
Jacqueline asks, "Man. Frankie and Annette? You were worried about dating yourself?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] Santa Monica
Floyd ] 9:42 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | To get anywhere by driving, try something along the lines of "drive to
Floyd | my hotel".  (Or, if you plan to walk, you'll have to get out of the
Floyd | car.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET IN CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | A bit redundant, don't you think?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh oh oh. Still in the car."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Santa Monica
Floyd ] 9:42 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Santa Monica, in your cousin's Volvo
Floyd | This is about as far west as you can get on the mainland United
Floyd | States and not be driving on the sand.  Ocean Avenue extends north and
Floyd | south, lined with palm trees and brightly colored, Santa Monica-ish
Floyd | buildings.  You can get a better view of the beach to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to address"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DRIVE TO ADDRESS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use the word "address".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Meh"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out"
Floyd ] Santa Monica
Floyd ] 9:43 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] Overlooking the beach
Floyd ] 9:44 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overlooking the beach
Floyd | From here you can see the hazy mist hanging over the Pacific Ocean
Floyd | and the long curve of the coastline north past Malibu.  A cement
Floyd | stairway descends to the beach from here, or you can go back east to
Floyd | where the Volvo is parked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Well, let's just go because it's there, shall we?"
JoshuaH says, "Sure."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd | %% Critical error.
Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file.
Floyd ] Beach
Floyd ] 9:45 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb down the cement steps to the sandy beach below.
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | You're facing south on a walking/running/rollerblading/whatever path
Floyd | that parallels the beach north-south along the ocean.  Quite a few
Floyd | people are involved in beach-ish activities.  You could follow the
Floyd | coastline further to the south, or go back up to the higher ground
Floyd | overlooking the beach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "The address was 'Surfing USA'."
JoshuaH says, "Hrm."
Roger says, "Heh"
Jacqueline asks, "Well, continuing in the 'because it is there' theme, S?"
DavidW says, "I'm guessing the critical errors are failures to display an image."
DavidW says, "yes, explore the beach, please."
Jacqueline says (to DW), "That was my thought, too."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 9:46 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd | The house is archetypically tall and thin--the norm for houses along
Floyd | this row on the Santa Monica beach.  A balcony looks out from the
Floyd | second story--you can hear music from above.  There's a doorbell here
Floyd | at path level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Well of course we just stumbled upon the musician's house.'"
Jacqueline says, "Of course we did."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ring bell"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 9:47 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RING BELL
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the doorbell and hear a muffled ring indoors.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, ">ask billy about the myth of the dumpster"
DavidW says, "I guess wait a turn and hope Billy isn't dead."
Jacqueline says, "haha"
Jacqueline says, "GOOD PLAN"
Jacqueline hopes Billy isn't dead.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 9:48 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | After a minute or so, Billy Van Earl comes ambling down from somewhere
Floyd | upstairs.  "Hey," he says, squinting.  He obviously doesn't know you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you want to keep waiting (YES or NO)?
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 9:50 a.m.
Floyd | Do you want to keep waiting (YES or NO)?
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Hrm"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to billy"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 9:51 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TALK TO BILLY
Floyd |
Floyd | Billy is listening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Y'know, strangled and with a cassette player playing beside his cooling body."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about cindy"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 9:52 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT CINDY
Floyd |
Floyd | Billy raises his eyebrows.  "Geez...I never heard of her, you know?
Floyd | Wish I could help you out."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "OH REALLY"
Jacqueline is doubtful.
Jacqueline asks, "Can I scream, J'ACCUSE! yet?"
JoshuaH asks, "ask about cassette?"
Jacqueline says, "Oh, okay. Fine."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask Billy about cassette"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 9:53 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT CASSETTE
Floyd |
Floyd | Billy shrugs.  "It's just a tape of some of our songs.  We make, like,
Floyd | dozens of 'em, give 'em out all over the place.  Who knows where that
Floyd | one came from?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "ask him about cindy, fina, movie, cassette, milt, apartment."
DavidW says, "show him the cassette too, if necessary"
Jacqueline asks, "Why would you put your address on cassettes you randomly hand out to strangers, hm? HM?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about fina"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 9:54 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT FINA
Floyd |
Floyd | "Never heard of the guy."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "This was before Google."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about movie"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 9:55 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT MOVIE
Floyd |
Floyd | "I've never heard of that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about milt"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 9:56 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT MILT
Floyd |
Floyd | "Should I know who that is?" Billy asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about apartment"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 9:57 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT APARTMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | Billy doesn't seem to know anything about Cindy Painter's door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about billy"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 9:58 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT BILLY
Floyd |
Floyd | Billy would probably rather not talk about himself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about music"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 9:59 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT MUSIC
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's my band, Funkzilla.  It's our new CD."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JoshuaH says, "Oh god."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about funkzilla"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 10:00 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT FUNKZILLA
Floyd |
Floyd | "Funkzilla's my band.  We just put out a new CD:  El Thump."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JoshuaH says, "Oh GAWD."
DavidW says, "what about Cindy? You haven't asked about Cindy yet."
Jacqueline says, "Gosh, now I am suddenly not wishing that this game had a soundtrack."
Jacqueline says (to DW), "I did."
Jacqueline says, "First thing. Claims not to have heard of her."
DavidW says, "oh. hm."
DavidW asks, "This is looking like a dead end. Maybe return to Milt with the tape?"
Roger says, "what there are CDs now"
Roger says, "I thought we were trapped in the past"
Jacqueline shrugs. "I guess. He said he'd be back in an hour.
JoshuaH says, "Sounds good."
Jacqueline says (to Roger), "CDs were a thing you published, but you didn't really burn music to them on your computer at this point, I think, so mix tapes were also a thing."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | %% Critical error.
Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file.
Floyd ] Beach
Floyd ] 10:01 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | You're facing south on a walking/running/rollerblading/whatever path
Floyd | that parallels the beach north-south along the ocean.  Quite a few
Floyd | people are involved in beach-ish activities.  You could follow the
Floyd | coastline further to the south, or go back up to the higher ground
Floyd | overlooking the beach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ] Overlooking the beach
Floyd ] 10:02 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overlooking the beach
Floyd | From here you can see the hazy mist hanging over the Pacific Ocean
Floyd | and the long curve of the coastline north past Malibu.  A cement
Floyd | stairway descends to the beach from here, or you can go back east to
Floyd | where the Volvo is parked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car"
Floyd ] Overlooking the beach
Floyd ] 10:03 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET IN CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no car here to get in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh. Oops."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Overlooking the beach
Floyd ] 10:02 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overlooking the beach
Floyd | From here you can see the hazy mist hanging over the Pacific Ocean
Floyd | and the long curve of the coastline north past Malibu.  A cement
Floyd | stairway descends to the beach from here, or you can go back east to
Floyd | where the Volvo is parked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ] Santa Monica
Floyd ] 10:03 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Santa Monica
Floyd | This is about as far west as you can get on the mainland United
Floyd | States and not be driving on the sand.  Ocean Avenue extends north and
Floyd | south, lined with palm trees and brightly colored, Santa Monica-ish
Floyd | buildings.  You can get a better view of the beach to the west.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car"
Floyd ] Santa Monica
Floyd ] 10:04 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET IN CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb into the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to studio"
Floyd | %% Critical error.
Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file.
Floyd | %% Critical error.
Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file.
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 10:09 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DRIVE TO STUDIO
Floyd |
Floyd | You drive midtown to the main gate of Rocket Pictures Studios and park
Floyd | in Visitor Parking.
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio gate, in your cousin's Volvo
Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios.  It's everything a Hollywood
Floyd | studio should be:  it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the
Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like
Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a
Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and
Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out"
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 10:10 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Assuming Milt is still there."
DavidW says, "Or ask more about the CD and Funkzilla."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 10:11 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio backlot
Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here
Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next
Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white
Floyd | paint.  If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get
Floyd | to the main building.  Or you could turn around and head back to the
Floyd | parking lot.  More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd | Johnny LaFleure, French-Canadian movie star, is outside one of the
Floyd | soundstages having a smoke.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline exclaims, "zomg It's Johnny LaFleure?!"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x lafleure"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 10:12 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X LAFLEURE
Floyd |
Floyd | Johnny LaFleure, French-Canadian movie star, looks at you over the top
Floyd | of his sunglasses and a fresh Players Light.  His demeanor both puts
Floyd | you at ease and creeps you out:  it seems to say both "Hey, how you
Floyd | doing?" and "Hey, got any younger sisters?" at the same time in that
Floyd | smooth Quebecoise accent.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline backs away slowly.
DavidW says, "We could also try turning on the tv and hope a random news story fits into our story somehow."
Jacqueline says, "I guess we should ask creepy Canadian about Cindy."
Jacqueline says (to DW), "I did consider that earlier, but given the time it takes to get there, let's not do that unless we're out of options."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask lafleure about cindy"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 10:13 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK LAFLEURE ABOUT CINDY
Floyd |
Floyd | "It is sad what happened to her," Johnny said.  "I would be very upset
Floyd | if that happened to me."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "HAHAHA"
Jacqueline says, "That is awesome."
Roger asks, "heh. Is this guy the NPC-award-winner?"
DavidW says, "oh, he's a keeper, he is."
DavidW says, "(hoping that subsequent drawls don't make my comment come out wrong.)"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask lafleure about milt"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 10:14 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK LAFLEURE ABOUT MILT
Floyd |
Floyd | "I like Milt Walker," Johnny tells you, nodding.  "When I was down a
Floyd | little, when my movies weren't doing so good, Milt he didn't give up
Floyd | on me.  And now look at me I'm a star again!  You believe me, it's
Floyd | good to be me."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JoshuaH says, "ask lafluere about 90 alterna-funk bands"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask lafleure about funkzilla"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 10:15 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK LAFLEURE ABOUT FUNKZILLA
Floyd |
Floyd | Johnny LaFleure doesn't seem to know anything about Funkzilla.
Floyd |
Floyd | Johnny drops the butt of his cigarette onto the ground and flattens it
Floyd | under his toe.  "Back to work," he says, and disappears back into the
Floyd | soundstage.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Roger says, "Ask him about poutine"
JoshuaH says, "(90's, whatever)"
Jacqueline exclaims, "Wait, LaFleure! Come le back!"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 10:14 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio backlot
Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here
Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next
Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white
Floyd | paint.  If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get
Floyd | to the main building.  Or you could turn around and head back to the
Floyd | parking lot.  More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd | Johnny LaFleure, French-Canadian movie star, is outside one of the
Floyd | soundstages having a smoke.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Roger says, "I bet we find a crushed cigarette butt at or near the crimescene, perhaps under the mythical dumpster"
Jacqueline says, "hm. Possibly, yeah."
Jacqueline says, "Though we've been to the crime scene and found no such thing."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask johnny about johnny"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 10:15 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK JOHNNY ABOUT JOHNNY
Floyd |
Floyd | Johnny LaFleure would probably rather not talk about himself.
Floyd |
Floyd | Johnny drops the butt of his cigarette onto the ground and flattens it
Floyd | under his toe.  "Back to work," he says, and disappears back into the
Floyd | soundstage.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Roger says, "I'm prepared to lose this bet"
Jacqueline says, "I think Johnny LaFleure would simply ADORE to talk about himself, game."
DavidW says (to Roger), "Best NPCs in general, not any one in particular."
Jacqueline asks, "Do y'all want me to undo again to ask him something?"
Roger says, "Oh I see"
Roger says, "Ennhh that kinda feels like cheating in a game like this"
Jacqueline says, "We have been undoscumming a lot, actually."
Jacqueline says, "Because the game is kind of cruel with its time."
DavidW says, "Also, finalist, not winner."
Jacqueline says, "But this one is straight-forward."
Roger says, "Alright"
Jacqueline asks, "What next? Milt?"
JoshuaH says, "Milt."
Jacqueline says, "Also, ever since living in Alaska, I can't understand why anyone would go by 'Milt,' but I digress."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 10:16 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main building
Floyd | You're just in front of the main administrative building.  Somewhere
Floyd | behind these walls are the executive offices of Rocket Pictures:  a
Floyd | motley assemblage of manic creative near-genius, mediocre posturing,
Floyd | epidemic insecurity, monumental bravado, white-knuckle risk-taking,
Floyd | milquetoast acquiescence, stark paranoia, and great leather furniture.
Floyd |   Milt Walker is here, standing outside the building.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about cassette"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 10:17 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT CASSETTE
Floyd |
Floyd | Milt doesn't seem to know anything about the cassette tape.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Did you take the butt?"
DavidW says, "Take the cigarette butt -- it might be a clueeee"
Jacqueline says, "Oh, true."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 10:16 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main building
Floyd | You're just in front of the main administrative building.  Somewhere
Floyd | behind these walls are the executive offices of Rocket Pictures:  a
Floyd | motley assemblage of manic creative near-genius, mediocre posturing,
Floyd | epidemic insecurity, monumental bravado, white-knuckle risk-taking,
Floyd | milquetoast acquiescence, stark paranoia, and great leather furniture.
Floyd |   Milt Walker is here, standing outside the building.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 10:15 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio backlot
Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here
Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next
Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white
Floyd | paint.  If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get
Floyd | to the main building.  Or you could turn around and head back to the
Floyd | parking lot.  More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 10:14 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio backlot
Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here
Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next
Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white
Floyd | paint.  If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get
Floyd | to the main building.  Or you could turn around and head back to the
Floyd | parking lot.  More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd | Johnny LaFleure, French-Canadian movie star, is outside one of the
Floyd | soundstages having a smoke.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask johnny about movie"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 10:15 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK JOHNNY ABOUT MOVIE
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, I've heard good things and I've heard bad things.  There's no
Floyd | sure things, you know?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Johnny drops the butt of his cigarette onto the ground and flattens it
Floyd | under his toe.  "Back to work," he says, and disappears back into the
Floyd | soundstage.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take butt"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BUTT
Floyd |
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take cigarette"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE CIGARETTE
Floyd |
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Sorry. No go."
DavidW says, "okay"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 10:16 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main building
Floyd | You're just in front of the main administrative building.  Somewhere
Floyd | behind these walls are the executive offices of Rocket Pictures:  a
Floyd | motley assemblage of manic creative near-genius, mediocre posturing,
Floyd | epidemic insecurity, monumental bravado, white-knuckle risk-taking,
Floyd | milquetoast acquiescence, stark paranoia, and great leather furniture.
Floyd |   Milt Walker is here, standing outside the building.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about funkzilla"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 10:17 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT FUNKZILLA
Floyd |
Floyd | Milt doesn't seem to know anything about Funkzilla.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, ">ASK MILT ABOUT RED HERRINGS"
Jacqueline says, ">ALSO ASK MILT ABOUT MYTHICAL DUMPSTERS"
DavidW says, "At least we verified that Funkzilla is a valid topic."
DavidW says, "also, try asking about dumpster -- it seems this game understands game objects as topics."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about dumpster"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 10:18 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT DUMPSTER
Floyd |
Floyd | Milt doesn't seem to know anything about the dumpster.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "aha. The dumpster is a real object."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about kdfjldjf"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT KDFJLDJF
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use the word "kdfjldjf".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Hm. Okay. Dumpster exists."
Jacqueline says, "Dammit"
Jacqueline says, "So, we really must find that damn thing."
Jacqueline says, "Also, we can turn on the TV while we're there"
Jacqueline asks, "Anything else before we head back to the apartment?"
DavidW says, "NOT mythical."
DavidW says, "Yes, do the happy dumpster dance."
JoshuaH asks, "milt about lafluere" JoshuaH says, "ask milt about lafluere"
JoshuaH says, "? or the musician"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about billy"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 10:19 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT BILLY
Floyd |
Floyd | Milt shakes his head, frowning slightly.  "I may have heard of
Floyd | him--he's, what, in some kind of band?  I don't see what that has to
Floyd | do with Cindy's death."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about johnny"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 10:20 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT JOHNNY
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's a tough one," Milt says.  "I mean, I like Johnny--he's a star
Floyd | and I think despite making some terribly shitty movies he's a good
Floyd | actor--but he can be tough to handle, to say the least.  Especially
Floyd | where other people's wives are involved and such."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show cassette to milt"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 10:21 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW CASSETTE TO MILT
Floyd |
Floyd | Milt doesn't seem too interested in the cassette tape.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to JoshuaH), "f ask milt about lafluere"
Jacqueline says, "Anything else before we go for a drive>"
DavidW asks, "Maybe ask Anne about Lafluere too?"
Jacqueline asks, "?"
DavidW says, "If Lafluere is a creep around women, let's ask Anne about him."
JoshuaH says, "Te receptionist."
Jacqueline says, "hm. ya think? Okay"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about anne"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 10:22 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT ANNE
Floyd |
Floyd | "That girl who works over in the other building?  She's the niece of
Floyd | one of our shareholders."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "(also Lafluere is our top suspect, on almost no evidence whatsoever.)"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 10:23 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio backlot
Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here
Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next
Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white
Floyd | paint.  If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get
Floyd | to the main building.  Or you could turn around and head back to the
Floyd | parking lot.  More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 10:24 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio gate
Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios.  It's everything a Hollywood
Floyd | studio should be:  it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the
Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like
Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a
Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and
Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car"
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 10:25 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET IN CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb into the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to apartment"
Floyd | %% Critical error.
Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file.
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 10:36 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DRIVE TO APARTMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | You drive south to National Blvd. and pull over to the curb next to
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building.
Floyd |
Floyd | National Boulevard, in your cousin's Volvo
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's
Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex.  Maybe it's not
Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad.  National extends to the
Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 10:37 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 10:38 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Sure, you could go for a stroll now, but what would that
Floyd | accomplish?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 10:37 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | National Boulevard
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's
Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex.  Maybe it's not
Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad.  National extends to the
Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 10:38 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick
Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the
Floyd | stairs leading up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "See, I even made a map of this bit, but I prefer brute-force wandering."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 10:39 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER
Floyd |
Floyd | Be a little more specific about what you'd like to enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JoshuaH says, "I'm curious about how a studio mogul knows about a lame unsigned funk-metal band. But, like, whatevs."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter apartment"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 10:40 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER APARTMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | You unlock the door and go in, ducking under the tape and closing the
Floyd | door quietly behind you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated:  a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle
Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention.  There's a television
Floyd | in the corner.  The sole bedroom is to the north.  East takes you into
Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn on tv"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 10:41 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TURN ON TV
Floyd |
Floyd | You turn the television on.  The local L.A. news is on the current
Floyd | channel.  There's a brief mention of Cindy Painter's death, with no
Floyd | details other than that police are investigating.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "watch tv"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WATCH TV
Floyd |
Floyd | Better start with a verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 10:44 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 10:41 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated:  a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle
Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention.  There's a television
Floyd | in the corner.  The sole bedroom is to the north.  East takes you into
Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn off tv"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room
Floyd ] 10:42 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TURN OFF TV
Floyd |
Floyd | Switched off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "So, ideas on the dumpster... ?"
JoshuaH asks, "drive to alley?"
DavidW says, "Wear the garbage bags. Enter the bedroom."
DavidW says, "(god, that took me ages to think of)"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear bag"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WEAR BAG
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't wear garbage bag.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JoshuaH says, "Haha."
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 10:43 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You go out, ducking under the police tape before closing and locking
Floyd | the door behind you again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 10:44 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick
Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the
Floyd | stairs leading up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Apartment stairs
Floyd ] 10:45 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Apartment stairs
Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's
Floyd | apartment.  At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow
Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is
Floyd | closed.  The doors to the other apartments are closed, too.  You can
Floyd | go back down to the ground from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 10:44 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick
Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the
Floyd | stairs leading up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 10:45 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | National Boulevard
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's
Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex.  Maybe it's not
Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad.  National extends to the
Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET IN
Floyd |
Floyd | Be a little more specific about where you'd like you to get.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 10:46 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET IN CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb into the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to alley"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DRIVE TO ALLEY
Floyd |
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh but we have."
DavidW says, "We won't contaminate the bedroom if we're plastic wrapped."
Jacqueline says, "Okay. I looked at a walkthrough. Sorry. Just for this, though. Immediately shut the window."
Jacqueline says, "We would never have gotten this otherwise."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out of car"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 10:47 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET OUT OF CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd ] 10:48 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick
Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the
Floyd | stairs leading up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JoshuaH says, "Oh. I thought you meant disguise ourselves as a bag of garbage and wait for the garbagemen to pick us up and throw us in the dumpster."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go behind building"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GO BEHIND BUILDING
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Josh), "hahah"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 10:47 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | National Boulevard
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's
Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex.  Maybe it's not
Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad.  National extends to the
Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go behind building"
Floyd ] Back alley
Floyd ] 10:48 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GO BEHIND BUILDING
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Back alley
Floyd | A narrow sliver of pavement between two buildings, one of them being
Floyd | Cindy Painter's.  The kind of narrow sliver that would be hell trying
Floyd | to maneuver through for parking, not to mention the miracle that the
Floyd | guys driving the garbage truck to get that dumpster must have to
Floyd | perform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x dumpster"
Floyd ] Back alley
Floyd ] 10:49 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DUMPSTER
Floyd |
Floyd | Dented and beaten-up and closed at the moment.  Scattered on the
Floyd | ground around the dumpster are sundry bits and traces of garbage.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search garbage"
Floyd ] Back alley
Floyd ] 10:50 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH GARBAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search dumpster"
Floyd ] Back alley
Floyd ] 10:51 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH DUMPSTER
Floyd |
Floyd | The dumpster is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open dumpster"
Floyd ] Back alley
Floyd ] 10:52 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN DUMPSTER
Floyd |
Floyd | With a bit of effort you manage to force the lid of the dumpster open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Is the window scene described as an 'alley'? Also, don't forget diagonal directions."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search dumpster"
Floyd ] Back alley
Floyd ] 10:53 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH DUMPSTER
Floyd |
Floyd | The dumpster contains, well, a lot of garbage, including an ordinary
Floyd | green garbage bag, a bright green garbage bag, a bright red garbage
Floyd | bag, a black garbage bag, a dark gray garbage bag, a bright yellow
Floyd | garbage bag, a reddish brown garbage bag, a white garbage bag, a light
Floyd | gray garbage bag, a bright orange garbage bag, a olive garbage bag, a
Floyd | dull orange garbage bag, a dark brown garbage bag, a light brown
Floyd | garbage bag, a bluish-green garbage bag, a yellowy brown garbage bag,
Floyd | a charcoal-colored garbage bag, a maroon garbage bag, a dark blue
Floyd | garbage bag, and an ordinary red garbage bag.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "omg. srsly?"
JoshuaH says, "Holy moly."
Jacqueline asks, "Is this a clue that we need another clue before we do this?"
Roger says, "Haha"
Jacqueline asks, "Or heck, do we just search each one?"
DavidW says, "wow. 'GO BEHIND BUILDING'. Seriously, wow."
JoshuaH says, "examine our bags to see what color they are"
DavidW says, "Choose the one that matches the one we found. Dull orange, I think it was."
Jacqueline exclaims, "Oh, right!"
Jacqueline exclaims, "Of course!"
Jacqueline asks, "Ours were dull orange?"
JoshuaH says, "I think so."
DavidW says, "I think so. Examine it again if you have to."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search dull orange garbage bag"
Floyd ] Back alley
Floyd ] 10:54 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH DULL ORANGE GARBAGE BAG
Floyd |
Floyd | The dull orange garbage bag is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "examine box"
Jacqueline says, "That was anticlimactic"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open dull orange garbage bag"
Floyd ] Back alley
Floyd ] 10:55 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN DULL ORANGE GARBAGE BAG
Floyd |
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the dull orange garbage bag are a birthday card and a torn
Floyd | business card.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "oho"
Jacqueline asks, "Polic, what did you do while you were here, eh?"
Jacqueline says, "Police, even."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read card"
Floyd ] Back alley
Floyd ] 10:56 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ CARD
Floyd |
Floyd | More like the tattered corner of what used to be a business card.  The
Floyd | only word you can really make out is "...Bixby".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take business card"
Floyd ] Back alley
Floyd ] 10:57 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BUSINESS CARD
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read birthday card"
Floyd ] Back alley
Floyd ] 10:58 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ BIRTHDAY CARD
Floyd |
Floyd | A birthday card with bright cartoon balloons drawn all over the front.
Floyd | Inside:
Floyd |
Floyd |       "Cindy Baby,
Floyd |
Floyd | Happy birthday, baby!  You're a real inspiration for me and my
Floyd | music and the whole band.  Me and Funkzilla wouldn't be the same
Floyd | without you.
Floyd |
Floyd |       Billy xoxo"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "aHA"
Jacqueline says, "J'ACCUSE AGAIN"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take birthday card"
Floyd ] Back alley
Floyd ] 10:59 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BIRTHDAY CARD
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "So, go confront Mr. Billy Lyingpants?"
DavidW says, "huh. He said he didn't even know her."
Roger says, "CASE CLOSED"
DavidW says, "read the business card"
DavidW says, "and take the card"
DavidW says, "er take the business card"
Jacqueline says, "We did take the biz card. It is just a corner. Mentions a new thing: Bixby."
Jacqueline says, "Maybe she was dating Bill Bixby and made him mad and he turned green and strangled her."
DavidW says, "oh wait, that was in the scroll back. Sometimes I miss stuff when the screen jumps more than a screenful of text"
DavidW says, "I suppose ask Milt about Bixby."
DavidW says, "Or revisit Billy. Or both."
Jacqueline asks, "So, back to Milt, then back to Mr Lyingpants?"
Roger says, "Ask Jean, maybe"
DavidW asks, "who's Jean?"
DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "I don't care which you visit next." Jacqueline says (to DW), "I think he means Johnny."
JoshuaH says, "Milt seems like an info giver, so maybe talk to him first."
DavidW says, "It'll be interesting enough to see how you leave the alley."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go to car"
Floyd ] Back alley
Floyd ] 11:00 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GO TO CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no car here to get in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "'go around building'? 'leave alley'? 'go to front of building'?"
DavidW asks, "'go back'?"
DavidW asks, "'out'?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 11:01 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | National Boulevard
Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's
Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex.  Maybe it's not
Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad.  National extends to the
Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "yay"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car"
Floyd ] National Boulevard
Floyd ] 11:02 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET IN CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb into the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go to studio"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GO TO STUDIO
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't enter the studio pass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to studio"
Floyd | %% Critical error.
Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file.
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 11:13 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DRIVE TO STUDIO
Floyd |
Floyd | You drive midtown to the main gate of Rocket Pictures Studios and park
Floyd | in Visitor Parking.
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio gate, in your cousin's Volvo
Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios.  It's everything a Hollywood
Floyd | studio should be:  it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the
Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like
Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a
Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and
Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out"
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 11:14 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I wonder where the commisary is."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 11:15 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio backlot
Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here
Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next
Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white
Floyd | paint.  If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get
Floyd | to the main building.  Or you could turn around and head back to the
Floyd | parking lot.  More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd | Johnny LaFleure, French-Canadian movie star, is outside one of the
Floyd | soundstages having a smoke.
Floyd |
Floyd | Johnny drops the butt of his cigarette onto the ground and flattens it
Floyd | under his toe.  "Back to work," he says, and disappears back into the
Floyd | soundstage.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 11:16 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main building
Floyd | You're just in front of the main administrative building.  Somewhere
Floyd | behind these walls are the executive offices of Rocket Pictures:  a
Floyd | motley assemblage of manic creative near-genius, mediocre posturing,
Floyd | epidemic insecurity, monumental bravado, white-knuckle risk-taking,
Floyd | milquetoast acquiescence, stark paranoia, and great leather furniture.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "He's not here now?"
Jacqueline says, "Urh"
DavidW says, "Johnny's job is to smoke cigs all day."
Jacqueline says, "At least when Johnny dies, the cause will be more clear."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 11:19 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 11:22 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 11:19 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main building
Floyd | You're just in front of the main administrative building.  Somewhere
Floyd | behind these walls are the executive offices of Rocket Pictures:  a
Floyd | motley assemblage of manic creative near-genius, mediocre posturing,
Floyd | epidemic insecurity, monumental bravado, white-knuckle risk-taking,
Floyd | milquetoast acquiescence, stark paranoia, and great leather furniture.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 11:16 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main building
Floyd | You're just in front of the main administrative building.  Somewhere
Floyd | behind these walls are the executive offices of Rocket Pictures:  a
Floyd | motley assemblage of manic creative near-genius, mediocre posturing,
Floyd | epidemic insecurity, monumental bravado, white-knuckle risk-taking,
Floyd | milquetoast acquiescence, stark paranoia, and great leather furniture.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nm"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NM
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use the word "nm".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 11:17 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | It's by trying to get into the main building that you learn--if you
Floyd | didn't know already--that trying to get into an office on a studio lot
Floyd | is like a maximum security jailbreak in reverse.  The Pentagon would
Floyd | be easier to get into.  Especially looking like a potential wannabe
Floyd | filmmaker, starved of sleep and cash the way you are.  Milt Walker's
Floyd | assistant has never heard of you, and the friendly yet stern gentleman
Floyd | behind the security desk suggests you get yourself on an appointment
Floyd | list.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Johnny LeFeure"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 11:18 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio backlot
Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here
Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next
Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white
Floyd | paint.  If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get
Floyd | to the main building.  Or you could turn around and head back to the
Floyd | parking lot.  More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JoshuaH says, "Maybe he'll be back in an hour like before."
Jacqueline says (to DW), "He left, too, though."
JoshuaH says, "(Milt)"
DavidW says, "(I was punning on his name, or trying to. Isn't feure the French word for smoke or fire?)"
Jacqueline says, "No, it's Johnny The Flower"
Roger says, "yup"
DavidW says, "I *know* but he smokes cigs and so I made a pun or tried to. My comments were split up by lag."
Roger says, "I think he's a mashup of Guy LaFleure and Johnny LaRue, but possibly only in my own continuum"
Jacqueline says, "You may be confusing him with Johnny LafFufFaFumée"
Jacqueline says, "Er, LaFumée"
Jacqueline says, "Weird paste to get the accent, there."
Jacqueline says, "(On a keyboard with no numpad)"
Jacqueline says, "I saw we go confront Mr. Lyingpants, then return."
DavidW says, "'feu' is fire; I verified that, at least."
Roger says, "Sounds bonne to me"
Jacqueline says, "Ah, yes. Feu is fire, fumée is smoke"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 11:19 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio gate
Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios.  It's everything a Hollywood
Floyd | studio should be:  it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the
Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like
Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a
Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and
Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car"
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 11:20 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET IN CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb into the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "okay, thanks."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to santa monica"
Floyd | %% Critical error.
Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file.
Floyd ] Santa Monica
Floyd ] 11:25 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DRIVE TO SANTA MONICA
Floyd |
Floyd | You drive to Santa Monica and park along Ocean Avenue.
Floyd |
Floyd | Santa Monica, in your cousin's Volvo
Floyd | This is about as far west as you can get on the mainland United
Floyd | States and not be driving on the sand.  Ocean Avenue extends north and
Floyd | south, lined with palm trees and brightly colored, Santa Monica-ish
Floyd | buildings.  You can get a better view of the beach to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out"
Floyd ] Santa Monica
Floyd ] 11:26 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] Overlooking the beach
Floyd ] 11:27 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overlooking the beach
Floyd | From here you can see the hazy mist hanging over the Pacific Ocean
Floyd | and the long curve of the coastline north past Malibu.  A cement
Floyd | stairway descends to the beach from here, or you can go back east to
Floyd | where the Volvo is parked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd | %% Critical error.
Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file.
Floyd ] Beach
Floyd ] 11:28 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb down the cement steps to the sandy beach below.
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | You're facing south on a walking/running/rollerblading/whatever path
Floyd | that parallels the beach north-south along the ocean.  Quite a few
Floyd | people are involved in beach-ish activities.  You could follow the
Floyd | coastline further to the south, or go back up to the higher ground
Floyd | overlooking the beach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 11:29 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd | The house is archetypically tall and thin--the norm for houses along
Floyd | this row on the Santa Monica beach.  A balcony looks out from the
Floyd | second story--you can hear music from above.  There's a doorbell here
Floyd | at path level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ring bell"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 11:30 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RING BELL
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the doorbell and hear a muffled ring indoors.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 11:31 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | After a minute or so, Billy Van Earl comes ambling down from somewhere
Floyd | upstairs.  "Hey," he says, squinting.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you want to keep waiting (YES or NO)?
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 11:33 a.m.
Floyd | Do you want to keep waiting (YES or NO)?
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask him about birthday card"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK HIM ABOUT BIRTHDAY CARD
Floyd |
Floyd | (Assuming you mean Johnny LaFleure.)
Floyd | Johnny LaFleure isn't here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about birthday card"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 11:34 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT BIRTHDAY CARD
Floyd |
Floyd | "What am I supposed to know about somebody's birthday card?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show card to billy"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW CARD TO BILLY
Floyd |
Floyd | Which card do you mean, the birthday card or the torn business card?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "AAAAAAAH"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show birthday card to billy"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 11:35 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW BIRTHDAY CARD TO BILLY
Floyd |
Floyd | Billy looks at the card, surprised.  Then not-so-surprised.  Then he
Floyd | swallows.  "Well, that could be any Billy, right?"  He reconsiders.
Floyd | Deep breath.  "Well...okay, so I did know her.  Look, can you blame
Floyd | me?  For lying, I mean?  I'm pretty freaked out here."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask him about cindy"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 11:36 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK HIM ABOUT CINDY
Floyd |
Floyd | (Assuming you mean Billy.)
Floyd | "Look, man," Billy says, "You don't think I'm broken up over what
Floyd | happened?  Maybe I even, like, loved her, you know?  You think I don't
Floyd | miss Holly?  Well I do."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "...Holly?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask him about holly"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 11:37 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK HIM ABOUT HOLLY
Floyd |
Floyd | (Assuming you mean Billy.)
Floyd | Billy's eyes widen.  "What?  Holly--?  Did I say Holly?  You
Floyd | mean...well, um.  God...damn..."  He blows his breath out.  You caught
Floyd | him.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Aw, geez, man..." Billy begins.  "Yeah, right--it sounds
Floyd | great to have all these chicks, right?  But it's a nightmare, you
Floyd | know?  I'm lying to Cindy, I'm making up excuses for where I've been,
Floyd | where I'm going, I'm sitting there in Malibu listening to Holly bitch
Floyd | and whine--and God, she can bitch and whine--all the time thinking
Floyd | 'Cindy's gonna kill me...Cindy's gonna kill me...'"  Really trying his
Floyd | best to get your sympathy.  "But what was I supposed to do?  Dump
Floyd | Holly?  She's Holly Golden, man."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask him about johnny"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 11:38 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK HIM ABOUT JOHNNY
Floyd |
Floyd | (Assuming you mean Billy.)
Floyd | Billy doesn't seem to know anything about Johnny LaFleure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask him about milt"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 11:39 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK HIM ABOUT MILT
Floyd |
Floyd | (Assuming you mean Billy.)
Floyd | "Exactly!  Milt Walker, man!" Billy says excitedly.  "If you want to
Floyd | find out what happened to Cindy, that's one dude you should talk
Floyd | to--Milt Walker's one of those guys who knows everything and
Floyd | everybody."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask him about murder"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 11:40 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK HIM ABOUT MURDER
Floyd |
Floyd | (Assuming you mean Billy.)
Floyd | Billy looks perplexed.  "Well, I don't know who killed her.
Floyd | I didn't have anything to do with it."  Then he suddenly clues in that
Floyd | maybe that's not the first thing on anyone's mind.  "You know, not
Floyd | that anybody'd even think I did, right?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask him about alibi"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK HIM ABOUT ALIBI
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use the word "alibi".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I have to go in an hour. It'd be cool to figure this out. I feel like we're far alongish."
JoshuaH says, "Yeah. I note that Billy has a totally different response to asking about Milt this time."
DavidW says, "We got a new lead: Holly Golden."
JoshuaH says, "Before, he was like "Should I know who that is?""
DavidW asks, "Did you ask about Bixby?"
Jacqueline says, "Oh, no."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about bixby"
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house
Floyd ] 11:41 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT BIXBY
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh, I know who you're talking about," Billy says, "but I don't know
Floyd | much about him.  Other than he was Cindy's agent and she talked about
Floyd | him once in a while.  I think he may've liked her, too.  In a way
Floyd | that's more than just her agent, you know?  Like, she said something
Floyd | once about how he said something that made her uncomfortable.  I don't
Floyd | really remember, though..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "She did tear up the business card, to be fair."
Jacqueline says, "Maybe Billy McLyingPantaloons really is just scared."
DavidW says, "Or someone did."
DavidW says, "I wouldn't assume that Cindy threw out that bag."
Jacqueline says, "Fair enough."
Jacqueline asks, "So... Milt?"
DavidW says, "I think we go to Anne (and Milt, if he's there, or Johnny) ask about Bixby and Holly."
DavidW says, "If Milt isn't there, try to talk to Fina again,"
Jacqueline says, "mmkay"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | %% Critical error.
Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file.
Floyd ] Beach
Floyd ] 11:42 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | You're facing south on a walking/running/rollerblading/whatever path
Floyd | that parallels the beach north-south along the ocean.  Quite a few
Floyd | people are involved in beach-ish activities.  You could follow the
Floyd | coastline further to the south, or go back up to the higher ground
Floyd | overlooking the beach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ] Overlooking the beach
Floyd ] 11:43 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overlooking the beach
Floyd | From here you can see the hazy mist hanging over the Pacific Ocean
Floyd | and the long curve of the coastline north past Malibu.  A cement
Floyd | stairway descends to the beach from here, or you can go back east to
Floyd | where the Volvo is parked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ] Santa Monica
Floyd ] 11:44 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Santa Monica
Floyd | This is about as far west as you can get on the mainland United
Floyd | States and not be driving on the sand.  Ocean Avenue extends north and
Floyd | south, lined with palm trees and brightly colored, Santa Monica-ish
Floyd | buildings.  You can get a better view of the beach to the west.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car"
Floyd ] Santa Monica
Floyd ] 11:45 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET IN CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb into the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to studio"
Floyd | %% Critical error.
Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file.
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 11:50 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DRIVE TO STUDIO
Floyd |
Floyd | You drive midtown to the main gate of Rocket Pictures Studios and park
Floyd | in Visitor Parking.
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio gate, in your cousin's Volvo
Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios.  It's everything a Hollywood
Floyd | studio should be:  it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the
Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like
Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a
Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and
Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out"
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 11:51 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 11:52 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio backlot
Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here
Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next
Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white
Floyd | paint.  If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get
Floyd | to the main building.  Or you could turn around and head back to the
Floyd | parking lot.  More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] Side building
Floyd ] 11:53 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Side building
Floyd | The people who work in this building are the people who all hope
Floyd | that one day they'll end up working in the other building.  Not that
Floyd | this building is bad--not that it's a fire hazard or anything like
Floyd | that--although the budget allocated for repairs to the roof probably
Floyd | went into new oak paneling inside the main building.  And maybe this
Floyd | place someone like you could at least get into.  Probably just by
Floyd | leaving the shade of this tree and climbing up the set of three stairs
Floyd | that leads to the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 11:54 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Reception area
Floyd | You could plunk yourself down in one of the two comfy-looking
Floyd | high-backed chairs while waiting for someone.  The minty-blue hospital
Floyd | tint to the walls could take some getting used to, though.  A hallway
Floyd | of office doors extends to the west, or you can go back outside to the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |   Anne, the building's receptionist, is sitting at her desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask anne about lafleur"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 11:55 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK ANNE ABOUT LAFLEUR
Floyd |
Floyd | Anne looks at you in a way that says, hey, I'm just the
Floyd | receptionist--I'm not bothering you, am I?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask anne about bixby"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 11:56 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK ANNE ABOUT BIXBY
Floyd |
Floyd | Anne looks at you in a way that says, hey, I'm just the
Floyd | receptionist--I'm not bothering you, am I?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask anne about fina"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 11:57 a.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK ANNE ABOUT FINA
Floyd |
Floyd | "Again?  Okay," she says, and calls Stuart Fina in his office.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 12:00 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 12:01 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | Stuart Fina appears from somewhere down the hallway.  He smiles a
Floyd | "You, again" smile.  "Oh, you again," he says.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you want to keep waiting (YES or NO)?
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 12:03 p.m.
Floyd | Do you want to keep waiting (YES or NO)?
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about holly"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 12:04 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT HOLLY
Floyd |
Floyd | "Holly Golden was the hot thing for quite a while," Stuart tells you.
Floyd | "But, you know, people always want a new hot thing.  She even tried
Floyd | for the role in Hugs and Kisses, but we went with Cindy
Floyd | Painter."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline makes a note.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about johnny"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 12:05 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT JOHNNY
Floyd |
Floyd | Stuart doesn't seem to know anything about Johnny LaFleure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JoshuaH says, "Ooh."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about billy"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 12:06 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT BILLY
Floyd |
Floyd | "I don't know anything about him."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "and Bixby"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about bixby"
Floyd ] Reception area
Floyd ] 12:07 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT BIXBY
Floyd |
Floyd | "He's Cindy's agent.  He was, I mean.  I never really had any dealings
Floyd | with him."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm. Might need Milt for more on Bixby, and maybe Johnny for more on Holly.,"
Gerynar arrives, full of funk, but no fun. Jacqueline says, "I wonder if we can just hop in the ol' volvo and drive to bixby"
DavidW says, "I dunno."
DavidW says, "Holly is looking like the suspect now."
Jacqueline asks, "So, to recap thus far: Billy is/was shagging both Holly & Cindy, Bixby was maybe into Cindy but she wasn't into him per se, and Holly competed for the role Cindy got in the movie?"
Jacqueline asks, "Anything else?"
DavidW says, "I think that's what we know so far. I bet Holly and Johnny might be dating now, though, as a wild guess."
Gerynar asks, "whatcha all playin'?"
DavidW says (to Gerynar), "Guilty Bastards."
Jacqueline says (to DW), "I would not be surprised, given what we heard about Johnny."
Jacqueline says, "Perhaps this game is called Guilty Bastards because all of them are guilty."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ] Side building
Floyd ] 12:08 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Side building
Floyd | The people who work in this building are the people who all hope
Floyd | that one day they'll end up working in the other building.  Not that
Floyd | this building is bad--not that it's a fire hazard or anything like
Floyd | that--although the budget allocated for repairs to the roof probably
Floyd | went into new oak paneling inside the main building.  And maybe this
Floyd | place someone like you could at least get into.  Probably just by
Floyd | leaving the shade of this tree and climbing up the set of three stairs
Floyd | that leads to the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 12:09 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio backlot
Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here
Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next
Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white
Floyd | paint.  If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get
Floyd | to the main building.  Or you could turn around and head back to the
Floyd | parking lot.  More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd | Johnny LaFleure, French-Canadian movie star, is outside one of the
Floyd | soundstages having a smoke.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "yeah, Hollywood is a long shag carpet."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask johnny about holly"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 12:10 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK JOHNNY ABOUT HOLLY
Floyd |
Floyd | "A sexy peach!" Johnny exclaims.  "Yes, I was her man not too long
Floyd | ago, but, you know, things did not work out.  My career got back on
Floyd | track and suddenly there were lots of other girls around and that was
Floyd | a cause of stress."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Okay, crap. I took a bite of soup just after typing that command, but before reading LaFleur's reply."
Jacqueline says, "That was a close one for my keyboard."
DavidW says, "heh heh"
JoshuaH says, "Heh. Poor, poor LaFleure."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask johnny about bixby"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 12:11 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK JOHNNY ABOUT BIXBY
Floyd |
Floyd | "That guy is a bastard," Johnny says.  "He punched me in the eye once.
Floyd | In the eye!  And when I was talking to him to be my agent!  What do
Floyd | you think about that, then?  I don't want to do business with no
Floyd | character like that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JoshuaH says, "Hulk smash."
Jacqueline says, "In the film that will be made of this, Johnny shall be played by (a young) GĂ©rard Depardieu. That is how I am imagining this, and it is not helping."
Jacqueline asks, "So... go find salmon sperm? Um, I mean... Milt?"
DavidW says, "I worry that we may be missing info because you seem to expect only one response to a topic. You never attempt to reask a topic for more detail."
DavidW says, "ask about bixby. Bixby might be Johnny's agent, for all we know."
DavidW says, "(grr lag)" DavidW asks, "So Bixby is a bastard.. but is he a *guilty* bastard?"
Jacqueline says, "hee"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 12:12 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main building
Floyd | You're just in front of the main administrative building.  Somewhere
Floyd | behind these walls are the executive offices of Rocket Pictures:  a
Floyd | motley assemblage of manic creative near-genius, mediocre posturing,
Floyd | epidemic insecurity, monumental bravado, white-knuckle risk-taking,
Floyd | milquetoast acquiescence, stark paranoia, and great leather furniture.
Floyd |   Milt Walker is here, standing outside the building.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "sure, find Milt."
Jacqueline says, "YAY MILT"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about bixby"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 12:13 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT BIXBY
Floyd |
Floyd | "He's been Cindy's agent since she came out here," Milt says.  "But
Floyd | he's what you'd call small time.  Cindy was starting to break out.  We
Floyd | talked about if, after her movie opened, she should be thinking about
Floyd | moving up to a bigger agent."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline adds 'Cindy was going to fire Bixby' to the list.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about holly"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 12:14 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT HOLLY
Floyd |
Floyd | "She's a famous actress.  She's been in some pictures for us.  A bit
Floyd | of a prima donna, too, for what it's worth.  I don't know what else to
Floyd | tell you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show birthday card to milt"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 12:15 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW BIRTHDAY CARD TO MILT
Floyd |
Floyd | Milt nods.  "Van Earl must've given that to her.  Good for her for
Floyd | throwing it out."
Floyd |
Floyd | Milt sighs.  "All right.  I should have told you--I knew that Cindy
Floyd | was seeing this...this Billy Van Earl.  But he's not capable of
Floyd | murder.  What he is is a goddamned deadbeat, and I just
Floyd | wanted to...show some respect for Cindy and not have this kind of
Floyd | thing get out.  He's not capable of murder."  Milt pauses.  "Or do you
Floyd | think he is?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline slow claps and says, "Way to help our investigation, Milt."
DavidW says, "show business card to milt"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show business card to milt"
Floyd ] Main building
Floyd ] 12:16 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW BUSINESS CARD TO MILT
Floyd |
Floyd | Milt looks at the card for a second.  "Might be Chuck Bixby.  He was
Floyd | Cindy's agent.  Got an office out on Wilshire."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "WILSHIRE! Yay, thank you, Milt."
JoshuaH says, "Yay location."
Jacqueline asks, "Anything else before we follow that lead?"
JoshuaH says, "I'm good."
DavidW says, "yay, an address."
DavidW says, "drive to Wilshire!!"
DavidW says, "Thanks, Milt! You're a sexy peach!"
Jacqueline says, "heehee"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Studio backlot
Floyd ] 12:17 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio backlot
Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here
Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next
Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white
Floyd | paint.  If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get
Floyd | to the main building.  Or you could turn around and head back to the
Floyd | parking lot.  More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 12:18 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Studio gate
Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios.  It's everything a Hollywood
Floyd | studio should be:  it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the
Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like
Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a
Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and
Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car"
Floyd ] Studio gate
Floyd ] 12:19 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET IN CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb into the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to wiltshire"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DRIVE TO WILTSHIRE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use the word "wiltshire".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to wilshire"
Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd ] 12:30 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DRIVE TO WILSHIRE
Floyd |
Floyd | You drive east along Wilshire, away from Beverly Hills and toward
Floyd | downtown.  You pull off onto a quiet side street and park.
Floyd |
Floyd | Just off Wilshire Blvd., in your cousin's Volvo
Floyd | This quiet, palm-tree-lined street runs south toward Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd | and the old office building at the corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out"
Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd ] 12:31 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the Volvo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Wilshire Blvd. building lobby
Floyd ] 12:32 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wilshire Blvd. building lobby
Floyd | You're standing right in the entrance to an old sunwashed stone
Floyd | office building at the corner of Wilshire and, well, somewhere just
Floyd | west of La Brea.  The lobby is about what you'd expect to find:
Floyd | office directory on one wall, small maintenance closet, fire alarm,
Floyd | ventilation grill.  Actually, of some interest but little use is the
Floyd | out-of-commission movie theater here on the ground level.  Other than
Floyd | that, you can go up and in to the offices.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I say we just go upstairs, but this isn't real life, it's IF, so we should probably toss the place."
DavidW says, "hm. Lots of details. At least read the directory first."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read directory"
Floyd ] Wilshire Blvd. building lobby
Floyd ] 12:33 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ DIRECTORY
Floyd |
Floyd | The directory is made up of those plastic letters stuck in a grooved
Floyd | backing mounted on the wall.  It looks like the listings haven't been
Floyd | updated since the mid-1980s or so, and a few of the letters are
Floyd | missing so the names are a little bastardized:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Dr. Emile Johns n - Br ast Enla gment
Floyd |    Greenhorn & Smi h - I migration Law ers
Floyd |
Floyd | (and the one you're looking for:)
Floyd |
Floyd |    Ch ck Bixby - Talent Agent
Floyd |
Floyd | (Footnote 20)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "It'd be in-ter-es-ting if more than one of our suspects lives or works in the same building."
DavidW says, "The closet might have rubber gloves."
DavidW says, "or a flashlight."
Jacqueline says, "Oh right. Footnotes."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote 20"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FOOTNOTE 20
Floyd |
Floyd | If you're thinking, "Golly, that's an odd cross-section," think again.
Floyd | This is Hollywood.  Those are probably the top three essential
Floyd | services.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search closet"
Floyd ] Wilshire Blvd. building lobby
Floyd ] 12:34 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH CLOSET
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open closet"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't do that with the maintenance closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x grill"
Floyd ] Wilshire Blvd. building lobby
Floyd ] 12:35 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X GRILL
Floyd |
Floyd | Angled rows of metal shutters form a grating that you can't see
Floyd | through, but through which you can definitely feel a draft.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:36 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb the stairs until you find the door to "Chuck Bixby - Talent
Floyd | Agent".
Floyd |
Floyd | Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd | The office is fairly bright--lots of windows.  The most notable
Floyd | thing in it is a big wooden desk on which, along with a bunch of other
Floyd | stuff, sits a computer.  The other most notable thing is a small,
Floyd | solid-looking safe visible under one side of the desk--notable in that
Floyd | "Hey, there's a safe here" sort of way.
Floyd |   Chuck Bixby is sitting at his desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bixby"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:37 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BIXBY
Floyd |
Floyd | Chuck is in his late thirties, graying hair clipped short, hanging
Floyd | onto cool for as long as he can.  He regards you for the most part
Floyd | with a bemused raised eyebrow--but then you get the impression he
Floyd | regards pretty much everyone this way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about bixby"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:38 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT BIXBY
Floyd |
Floyd | Chuck would probably rather not talk about himself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Hey, there's a safe here."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about safe"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT SAFE
Floyd |
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x safe"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:39 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SAFE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a solid-looking gray safe sitting on the floor by Chuck's desk.
Floyd | The safe is closed and has a dial to open the combination lock on the
Floyd | front.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about safe"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:40 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT SAFE
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's a good safe," Chuck tells you.  "Paid top dollar for it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about Cindy"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:41 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT CINDY
Floyd |
Floyd | "Cindy?  I thought the world of her," Chuck says.  "I still do.  I was
Floyd | as proud of her as of anybody I've ever represented.  She was going to
Floyd | go far--and she was such a good person, too."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about having the hots for Cindy and how she was going to fire his ass"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT HAVING THE HOTS FOR CINDY AND HOW SHE WAS GOING TO
Floyd | FIRE HIS ASS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use the word "having".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about job"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT JOB
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use the word "job".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about movie"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:42 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT MOVIE
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, I've never seen it--not even a test screening," Chuck says.
Floyd | "The studio's really, really close-lipped about it.  What, do I think
Floyd | she would've moved on, got a new agent?  Maybe."  Chuck shrugs.
Floyd | "These things happen.  You lose clients, you get new clients.  You
Floyd | can't let it really affect you one way or the other."  A beat.
Floyd | "Waitasec--you weren't really asking about me, were you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about billy"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:43 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT BILLY
Floyd |
Floyd | "Look," he says, "I never really thought that much of him, not that it
Floyd | matters at all."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about holly"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:44 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT HOLLY
Floyd |
Floyd | Chuck shrugs.  "She's a movie star.  I don't know her.  I probably
Floyd | don't know much more than you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about fina"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:45 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT FINA
Floyd |
Floyd | "He was the studio guy in charge of Cindy's movie, but I've really
Floyd | only talked to him a couple of times," Chuck tells you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "In a surprise twist clickbait ending, it turns out Milt is guilty as sin."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about Milt"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:46 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT MILT
Floyd |
Floyd | "Milt Walker is a tough guy, a good guy, an honest guy, a bastard of a
Floyd | tough negotiator," Chuck tells you.  "You ask around this town, you'll
Floyd | get all sorts of opinions on what people think of Milt Walker."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show business card to milt"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW BUSINESS CARD TO MILT
Floyd |
Floyd | Milt isn't here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "er"
DavidW says, "Don't forget to ask about Holly, Billy, Johnny, and Fina."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show business card to bixby"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:47 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW BUSINESS CARD TO BIXBY
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah, that's mine."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about johnny"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:48 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT JOHNNY
Floyd |
Floyd | "I was almost his agent once," Chuck tells you.  "A few years ago,
Floyd | he'd done about nine lousy movies in a row and no one in town would
Floyd | even talk to him.  So we went out to dinner and he tried to sleep with
Floyd | my wife and I ended up punching him in the eye and, hey, today I'm not
Floyd | his agent."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "haha"
Jacqueline says, "This game definitely has its moments."
DavidW asks, "hm. Ask Bixby about wife?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about wife"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT WIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use the word "wife".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm. When we decide to leave, try listening to the vent."
DavidW says, "Ask about the band, I forget the name."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about funkzilla"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:49 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT FUNKZILLA
Floyd |
Floyd | Chuck doesn't seem to know anything about Funkzilla.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "Ask Bixby about LaFleure"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:50 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT LAFLEURE
Floyd |
Floyd | "I was almost his agent once," Chuck tells you.  "A few years ago,
Floyd | he'd done about nine lousy movies in a row and no one in town would
Floyd | even talk to him.  So we went out to dinner and he tried to sleep with
Floyd | my wife and I ended up punching him in the eye and, hey, today I'm not
Floyd | his agent."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:49 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd | The office is fairly bright--lots of windows.  The most notable
Floyd | thing in it is a big wooden desk on which, along with a bunch of other
Floyd | stuff, sits a computer.  The other most notable thing is a small,
Floyd | solid-looking safe visible under one side of the desk--notable in that
Floyd | "Hey, there's a safe here" sort of way.
Floyd |   Chuck Bixby is sitting at his desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "examine computer?"
JoshuaH says, "I wish I didn't know anything about Funkzilla, either."
Jacqueline says, "hee"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x computer"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:50 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X COMPUTER
Floyd |
Floyd | The computer is turned on and currently running some sort of Windows
Floyd | scheduler program showing Bixby's appointments--you don't recognize
Floyd | any of the names.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I feel like we need to come back here tonight, once Bixby's gone, and crack that safe."
Jacqueline says, "And that thought annoys me."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read appointments"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ APPOINTMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't do that with the computer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
JoshuaH says, "Well, we've only got 7 1/2 hours left or so."
Jacqueline says, "I shall have to duck out in a bit, but you all should continue when that time comes if you want to."
Jacqueline says, "Because next week we have New Years games."
Jacqueline asks, "What now?"
DavidW says, "I'm not sure where to go from here."
JoshuaH says, "show birthday card? He seems nonplussed about Billy, but the card opened more dialog earlier."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show birthday card to bixby"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:51 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW BIRTHDAY CARD TO BIXBY
Floyd |
Floyd | Chuck doesn't seem too interested in the birthday card.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "show tape to bixby?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show cassette to bixby"
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office
Floyd ] 12:52 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW CASSETTE TO BIXBY
Floyd |
Floyd | Chuck doesn't seem too interested in the cassette tape.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Did we ask about Milt?"
Jacqueline says, "Yeah."
Jacqueline | "Milt Walker is a tough guy, a good guy, an honest guy, a bastard of a tough negotiator," Chuck tells you. "You ask around this town, you'll get all sorts of opinions on what people think of Milt Walker."
DavidW says, "right. Milt is a .... bastard."
Jacqueline says, "I wonder where Holly lives."
Jacqueline says, "And if anyone had their breasts augmented."
DavidW asks, "hm. I suppose we search this building as much as we can, and maybe the beach?"
DavidW says, "and yeah, I really want to know how to find Holly."
Gerynar checks his chest and sighs in relief, still the same
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ] Wilshire Blvd. building lobby
Floyd ] 12:53 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wilshire Blvd. building lobby
Floyd | You're standing right in the entrance to an old sunwashed stone
Floyd | office building at the corner of Wilshire and, well, somewhere just
Floyd | west of La Brea.  The lobby is about what you'd expect to find:
Floyd | office directory on one wall, small maintenance closet, fire alarm,
Floyd | ventilation grill.  Actually, of some interest but little use is the
Floyd | out-of-commission movie theater here on the ground level.  Other than
Floyd | that, you can go up and in to the offices.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open grate"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN GRATE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't do that with the ventilation grill.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Listen to grate, I suggested."
Jacqueline asks, "hm. Set off a fire alarm to get into his safe?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen to grate"
Floyd ] Wilshire Blvd. building lobby
Floyd ] 12:54 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN TO GRATE
Floyd |
Floyd | The ventilation grill is not making a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "We might overhear something."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x alarm"
Floyd ] Wilshire Blvd. building lobby
Floyd ] 12:55 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ALARM
Floyd |
Floyd | A little red fire alarm mounted on the wall, with a handle to pull in
Floyd | case of fire.
Floyd |
Floyd | (Footnote 19)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
JoshuaH says, "Nice."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "alarm"
Floyd | > SAVESaved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote 18"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FOOTNOTE 18
Floyd |
Floyd | Jake Duffy is the younger brother of Sergeant Duffy, who ably assisted
Floyd | the player in Infocom's mystery games Deadline and The Witness, and
Floyd | was quick to slap the cuffs on him or her in Suspect.  (In other
Floyd | words, this is another case where the author has borrowed cheerfully
Floyd | from an interactive-fiction classic.)  Sergeant Duffy's key trait was
Floyd | his ability to appear instantly whenever needed, never overstaying his
Floyd | welcome, and subsequently disappearing just as instantly without a
Floyd | trace.  Now, Jake Duffy may not exactly be a cop like his big brother,
Floyd | but in a rare gesture of generosity toward the player's plight, at
Floyd | least that curious ability has here been made hereditary.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "ACK"
Jacqueline says, "DON'T READ DON'T READ TYPO"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote 19"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FOOTNOTE 19
Floyd |
Floyd | It is, of course, an offense to pull a fire alarm if there's no fire.
Floyd | Just in case you were thinking of doing anything of the sort.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline does not read it.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pull alarm"
Floyd | %% Critical error.
Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file.
Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd ] 12:56 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PULL ALARM
Floyd |
Floyd | You reach up, give the fire alarm a tug, and it starts ringing.
Floyd | Building security (actually just one old guy in a shabby navy blazer)
Floyd | arrives shortly and--after giving you a suspicious once-over--escorts
Floyd | you and everyone else across the street.
Floyd |
Floyd | Just off Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd | This quiet, palm-tree-lined street runs south toward Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd | and the old office building at the corner.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The building empties out as the fire department arrives, sirens
Floyd | wailing, lights flashing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oh, you're not pulling that."
Jacqueline says, "I am"
Jacqueline says, "I have"
Jacqueline says, "And I'd DO IT AGAIN"
Jacqueline asks, "Now, how do we get to that safe?"
DavidW says, "I went through this in RL yesterday. It's not fun,."
Jacqueline says, "hahaha aw"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd ] 12:56 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Just off Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd | This quiet, palm-tree-lined street runs south toward Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd | and the old office building at the corner.
Floyd | Chuck Bixby is standing around, like everyone else, waiting for the
Floyd | fire alarm to stop ringing.
Floyd | A crowd of people--some from the building, some who have just
Floyd | stopped on the street--watches the spectacle of fire trucks and
Floyd | firefighters.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd ] 12:56 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Just off Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd | This quiet, palm-tree-lined street runs south toward Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd | and the old office building at the corner.
Floyd | Chuck Bixby is standing around, like everyone else, waiting for the
Floyd | fire alarm to stop ringing.
Floyd | A crowd of people--some from the building, some who have just
Floyd | stopped on the street--watches the spectacle of fire trucks and
Floyd | firefighters.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd ] 12:56 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Just off Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd | This quiet, palm-tree-lined street runs south toward Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd | and the old office building at the corner.
Floyd | Chuck Bixby is standing around, like everyone else, waiting for the
Floyd | fire alarm to stop ringing.
Floyd | A crowd of people--some from the building, some who have just
Floyd | stopped on the street--watches the spectacle of fire trucks and
Floyd | firefighters.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd ] 12:57 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | The fire department is making everyone stay across the street from the
Floyd | building while the alarm is going off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go behind building"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GO BEHIND BUILDING
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Should I have not pulled it? It kinda seemed like it was there to be pulled."
DavidW says, "I don't think we can open the safe in these circumstances."
DavidW says, "We don't know the combo or have a stethoscope or touch-sensitive gloves or anything."
JoshuaH says, "Hmm. I'd say pull the alarm then hide in the duct, but..."
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd ] 12:58 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Just off Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd | This quiet, palm-tree-lined street runs south toward Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd | and the old office building at the corner.
Floyd | Chuck Bixby is standing around, like everyone else, waiting for the
Floyd | fire alarm to stop ringing.
Floyd | A crowd of people--some from the building, some who have just
Floyd | stopped on the street--watches the spectacle of fire trucks and
Floyd | firefighters.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I think you need to pick a better time to pull the alarm."
Jacqueline says, "It is admittedly hard to use a sphygmomanometer when there's a fire alarm going off."
Jacqueline says (to Gerynar), "We have a driver because we are on a timer, fyi."
Gerynar says, "sorry"
Jacqueline says, "And it's a brutal timer. Looking is a move. Going the wrong direction is a move."
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd ] 12:57 p.m.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Just off Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd | This quiet, palm-tree-lined street runs south toward Wilshire Blvd.
Floyd | and the old office building at the corner.
Floyd | Chuck Bixby is standing around, like everyone else, waiting for the
Floyd | fire alarm to stop ringing.
Floyd | A crowd of people--some from the building, some who have just
Floyd | stopped on the street--watches the spectacle of fire trucks and
Floyd | firefighters.
Floyd |   Your cousin's Volvo is parked here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Gerynar), "No worries, you were late to the party, so I was just letting you know."
Jacqueline says, "Also, IJLTS sphygmomanometer"
Jacqueline says, "And it's in my paste buffer now, so sphygmomanometer"
Gerynar says, "that makes me think of an episode of Big Bang Theory"
DavidW says, "well, you saved before pulling the fire alarm."
DavidW says, "Like, you can, I suppose, see if you can visit Chuck's office and find the combo in a desk drawer."
DavidW says, "ugh. I hate this lag. hate it."
Jacqueline says, "The mean old firemen won't let me enter the building, though."
Jacqueline says, "Hm, actually, Gerynar. We *do* need a new driver."
Jacqueline says, "I have to go volunteer soon. I should get ready."
Jacqueline says, "Although perhaps DW should drive so that things keep up with his lag."
Gerynar says, "can't really do it...I remember a bit about studying the source when I was learning HUGO"
DavidW says, "Climb a palm tree? I'm sure no one would notice."
Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Can you drive?"
Jacqueline says, "I'm afraid I'm out of here in a bit, for three+ hours."
DavidW says, "I don't think I can drive. Sorry. I should lie down soon."
Jacqueline says, "Gosh. Cindy's murder may go unsolved."
Jacqueline says, "Well, we could just table it until after New Year's games."
Jacqueline asks, "Shall we do that?"
JoshuaH says, "Sounds good to me."
DavidW says, "It's an interesting game, though, to be sure."
Jacqueline says, "I just saved. The save is called 'alarm'"
DavidW says, "yeah, I'm okay with tabling it."
Jacqueline says, "Okay, folks. Thanks for playing. See you next week for New Year's games."
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You click your ruby slippers together three times and disappear, safe in the knowledge that there's no place like home...
Seeya later.




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