  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says, "We were playing an awesome game in which we were turned into a vampire but I can't recall the name and if DW doesn't appear we probably won't finish it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess we could play a SpingThing thing." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But honestly I'm leaving for a month soon and I would be okay with just relaxing today, too." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "This morning, that is." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Because later today I have to gather all the things to pack." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But if people wanted me to set something up, I would be happy to." | ||
| Ghogg says, "Horror of Rylvania" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was mostly looking forward to resuming Horror of Rylvania (which I had just looked up! but thanks, Ghogg!) but I can also do that on my own." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Except now Ghogg is here." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So hrm. Whatcha wanna do, Ghogg?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "heh, well, I'm doing chores and stuff" | ||
| Ghogg asks, "load up a SpringThing, I guess?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh, you don't want to resume HoR?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "maybe wait for davidw to pick up horror again. it was fun." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It was indeed fun. I like it." | ||
| Ghogg asks, "I thought you said you were packing?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No. I am pre-packing relaxing." | ||
| Ghogg says, "oh" | ||
| Ghogg says, "try Dirk then" | ||
| Ghogg says, "it is silly" | ||
| Ghogg says, "I went through the first bit" | ||
| Ghogg says, "and since it's in Back Garden, you don't have to feel all judge-y" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Will it run on Floyd?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "yeah, z-machine" | ||
| Ghogg says, "(most springthing will not run on floyd)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I ask because it was inspired by 2001 Arcade." | ||
| Ghogg says, "yes, it is parser" | ||
| Ghogg says, "(well, sort of. but it's not action-based)" | ||
| Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. | JoshuaH says, "I'm fine with taking a week off or doing something light. I'm bit more awake than usual, but I'm not feeling super brainy." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask dirk" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Guild INSERT 50 CENTS Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Well, Dirk, you got your chance. The "progressive" institute for Floyd | adventurers emphasized more than just the physical angle that came Floyd | naturally to you. It emphasized mental stuff--like sines and cosines Floyd | over just being able to jump a real long way. But what really hurt was Floyd | how the other adventurers told you you were nice and all but would Floyd | never amount to much. That you could never do anything for The Social Floyd | Good. That confused you. Being mean wasn't good, so how could they be Floyd | chosen for doing bigger good things? | Jacqueline says, "Okay, I'm now confused." | |
| Jacqueline says, "But let's see where this goes." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Possibly I am just not yet fully awake. Also, I am cold and will need to go put on a sweater." | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Guild INSERT 50 CENTS Floyd | Floyd | But man, they made fun of you for everything, even the stuff you knew: Floyd | like knowing your left from your right. "Everyone knows that! When'll Floyd | that be helpful?" Floyd | Floyd | They all got their various quests. Some got cushy teaching jobs. Some Floyd | became sub-toadies for demigods. But you--you, well, there was word of Floyd | Princess Daphne, held by the dragon Singe. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Guild INSERT 50 CENTS Floyd | Floyd | Your classmates jibed she was as un-smart as you. They even said the Floyd | quest was beneath them, too silly if you looked at it right. Little Floyd | more than a multiple choice test. Of course they could beat Singe the Floyd | dragon, but it'd be a loss if anything in Singe's castle was unfair. Floyd | You had to be street-smart. Dragons were like that. Plus there was no Floyd | proof such a quest would advance society. | Jacqueline says, "Oh, okay, I am catching on now." | |
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Guild INSERT 50 CENTS Floyd | Floyd | When you asked a retired adventurer, he mentioned it might be a bit Floyd | trickier than the four-answer multiple choice tests that plagued you. Floyd | There might be FIVE choices! "But Dirk, I believe in you. Some of Floyd | those questions may be loaded. You have the reflexes, the timing." Floyd | Floyd | "But if the questions are loaded, doesn't that mean they're extra Floyd | hard?" Floyd | Floyd | "Just use your common sense, Dirk, and don't overthink everything. Floyd | Those eggheads, they'll consider how things that help 'em are Floyd | physically impossible, and at least they'll feel smart when they die. Floyd | They'd rather spend hours studying what they calculate is inside the Floyd | castle than rely on their reflexes. That won't happen with you. Um, I Floyd | mean, there--you'll keep focused on what's important. Like, you're Floyd | good at being distracted by stuff that flashes. That'll help." Floyd | Floyd | Wow! Nobody ever put it that way before! | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Flaming Pit 49 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | You hear the sounds of two coins falling. You blink, and you're Floyd | outside an eerie castle. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Castle Floyd | You walk across the moat's drawbridge, which collapses. Hanging on to Floyd | the remainder, you hack at some weird purple tentacles that come up Floyd | from the moat, lift yourself up, and then you rush past a gate before Floyd | it slams down, then a door before it shuts. Floyd | Floyd | Great. Hack at enemies, enter gates and doors before they shut. How Floyd | hard can it be? Floyd | Floyd | Dirk Floyd | A twice-as-expensive, yet still free, text adventure by Andrew Schultz Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150401 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Flaming Pit Floyd | There're three ropes here swinging back and forth to the left. There's Floyd | a ledge beyond them. The one you're on is currently retracting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, brb: sweater." | |
| Jacqueline says, "So, I'm having unpleasant flashbacks now." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am reminded of losing untold wealth." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "As I pump quarter after quarter into an impossible-to-play game, just to see its ahead-of-its-time graphics." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump to rope" | ||
Floyd ] Flaming Pit 49 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > JUMP TO ROPE Floyd | Floyd | You can process complex sentences much better than your mean Floyd | classmates gave you credit for, Dirk. But worrying about nice long Floyd | beautiful three-word sentences right now may be the difference between Floyd | life and death. Floyd | Floyd | Commands: U/L/D/R to move Dirk, S for sword/attack, or Z to wait, Floyd | which is usually a bad idea. H gives a command list, and an empty Floyd | command refreshes your current situation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Flaming Pit 300 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You grab onto a rope. The timing's easy enough. Another swings back Floyd | from the left. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Flaming Pit 679 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You grab the next rope, not thinking about it. The eggheads up on Floyd | adventure theory might think a second too long and reach at the wrong Floyd | time, but you don't. Another swings back from the left. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Flaming Pit 1174 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You grab the next rope yet again, not even worrying if you might mess Floyd | this up. Oh, hey! There's a ledge to the left! You reach out your hand Floyd | reflexively. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Horsing Around Walls and Fire 2138 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You jump off the rope and onto the ledge and through the door. Floyd | Floyd | Horsing Around Walls and Fire Floyd | Oh, look! A horse with a gem on top! You forget your mission, Floyd | distracted by something shiny. When you climb on, the horse takes off. Floyd | Your horse swerves right, almost smack into a fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Our mission is Daphne, right?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Which is possibly the most classic of all classic exampes of Damsel in Distress." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Horsing Around Walls and Fire 2633 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You avoid the fire to the right so well that you're now careening Floyd | towards a fire on the left. Hooray, variety. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 2682 [2 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You and your horse crash into the fire to the right. HOT HOT HOT! Floyd | Floyd | You're just skin and bones now, Dirk. Mini-skeletons swirl about you Floyd | as you peer around. You're in a void...and then... POP! Back to Floyd | adventuring! Floyd | Floyd | Underground River Floyd | You walk obliviously to the edge of a narrow cliff and are suprised Floyd | when it collapses ten feet from the edge. You fall into a purple Floyd | river, and even more surprisingly, right into a barrel swept along by Floyd | a current of purple water. Before you can properly appreciate the luck Floyd | involved, you float past a sign saying YE BOULDERS and suddenly see Floyd | there's a small flashing cave to the left--better go there, or you'll Floyd | hit that rock wall ahead. Or to the sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 3061 [2 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You navigate to the left, remembering you row your oar on the right. Floyd | Now there's a passage right in the next cavern! It flashes, which Floyd | might kill you, but crashing into a wall certainly will. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jacqueline says, "Help! I seem to be playing without adult supervi-- oh, hi, Ghogg." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 3440 [2 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You navigate to the right, remembering you row your oar on the left. Floyd | If there's a trick special case, you're in trouble, but the passage Floyd | left in the next cavern doesn't look like one! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 3819 [2 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You navigate to the left. Now there's a passage right in the next Floyd | cavern! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 4198 [2 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You navigate to the right. As the water changes from purple to orange, Floyd | you float along, past a sign saying YE RAPIDS, where you see a passage Floyd | to the right and up It's dang near a road, a lighter orange than the Floyd | rest of the river! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Huh. What happened there? Just missing punctuation, or something more?" | |
| Ghogg says, "probably just a typo" | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 4693 [2 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | Now that stripe is left and up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "You want to drive?" | |
| Ghogg asks (of Jacqueline), "have you played dragon's lair?" | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 5188 [2 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Now that stripe is right and up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I just feel like only one person should drive." | |
| Ghogg says, "nah, you can drive, I didn't know how we were doing this today" | ||
| Ghogg says, "I'm also ok with whatever on this one. Dying is Fun (tm)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Ghogg), "Yes, I've played it. Or, more accurately, I've tried to play it. Clearly you missed my initial comments about losing untold wealth." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 5683 [2 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | Now it's left and up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 6178 [2 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Just as you worry the next part of the rapids will be a stripe leading Floyd | into a cavern wall, the water changes to green as -- ding ding -- you Floyd | are by YE WHIRLPOOLS. There's one to the left. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 6429 [2 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | Whirlpool to the right. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 6680 [2 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You paddle towards the whirlpool, then away. That's a trick those Floyd | eggheads in adventuring class would never try! You forget why it Floyd | works, but doing not thinking matters now. Whirlpool to the left. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 6931 [2 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | Again with the contrary paddling. Whirlpool to the right. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 7182 [2 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | One more reverse-paddle, for Roman Hruska. The water picks up speed. Floyd | You're thrown into the air. But there's a chain there, up and to the Floyd | right. It flashes and dings. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Who is Roman Hruska?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Plummeting Disc 7231 [1 life] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | The chain flashed and dinged for you, but it wasn't able to snag you Floyd | as you fell back into the water. Too bad, Dirk. Floyd | Floyd | You're just skin and bones now, Dirk. Mini-skeletons swirl about you Floyd | as you peer around. You're in a void...and then... POP! Back to Floyd | adventuring! Floyd | Floyd | Plummeting Disc Floyd | You jump through a doorway to a glowing wooden circle suspended in Floyd | midair. It flashes and starts falling. You scream, but at least you Floyd | keep your eyes open to see the ledge to the left! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] U and Pool Balls 10535 [1 life] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Not too bad a jump. Half the ledge collapses, but amazingly, your half Floyd | remains perfectly horizontal. You run away from it to a door, anyway. Floyd | Floyd | U and Pool Balls Floyd | A very long rainbow/ROY G BIV colored U lies below. Very large pool Floyd | balls roll back and forth with perfect conservation of energy, so you Floyd | can't wait forever them to die out. Oh, and a huge black bowling ball Floyd | just upwards means you REALLY can't wait. First up is a red ball. Oh Floyd | man! This place is all topsy turvy, and you even have to wait just Floyd | right to pass the red ball below. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline | Roman Lee Hruska was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Nebraska. Hruska was known as one of the most vocal conservatives in the United States Senate during the 1960s and 1970s. | |
| Ghogg says, "Hruska was a senator who defended Nixon" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I can, I think, be forgiven for not knowing who Roman Hruska was." | ||
| Ghogg says, "even after nixon was gone he claimed watergate was made up by his opponents" | ||
| Ghogg says, "but I dunno what this has to do with the text" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I am not sure how to time this. Want to try, Ghogg?" | ||
| JoshuaH says, "Per Wiki, this quote: "Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they, and a little chance? We can't have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos."" | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] U and Pool Balls 10535 [1 life] Floyd | Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Ugh! Long non-fourth-wall four-letter commands make Dirk's head hurt. Floyd | Well, there are some meta-commands. But here are the main short ones. Floyd | Floyd | U/L/D/R to move Dirk, S for sword/attack, or Z to wait, which is Floyd | usually a bad idea. H gives a command list, and an empty command Floyd | refreshes your current situation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] U and Pool Balls 10535 [1 life] Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | You're a man of action, Dirk! Well, except if nasty math story Floyd | problems are involved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "hmm" | |
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] U and Pool Balls 10535 [0 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You get smooshed by the black ball. Or the red. Being smooshed, you Floyd | don't care about the details. Up being down and down being up in this Floyd | room didn't help, either. Floyd | Floyd | You bounce back up, filled with rage! You cross your arms and glare at Floyd | someone--anyone--who is responsible for your failure. As if you Floyd | couldn't make the right move unless someone above said so! You have Floyd | some interesting ideas, Dirk. But you never got to share them Floyd | in adventuring school, where you felt DOING meant more than WRITING. Floyd | Floyd | Sadly, just as your glare gets cooking, your flesh itself melts away, Floyd | and your bones crumble to the floor, more musical than you ever got in Floyd | art class. Floyd | [NOTE: okay, I think you've paid your dues. The command LI gives Floyd | you an infinite-lives cheat if you just want to play through again. Floyd | Also, DIRCHEAT tells you which way you should've gone.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** GAME OVER *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "oo cheating" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "This game was so, so full of death." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So full." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Such death." | ||
| Ghogg asks, "infinite lives?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure." | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "li" | ||
Floyd ] U and Pool Balls 10535 [0 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > LI Floyd | Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Guild INSERT 50 CENTS Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Well, Dirk, you got your chance. The "progressive" institute for Floyd | adventurers emphasized more than just the physical angle that came Floyd | naturally to you. It emphasized mental stuff--like sines and cosines Floyd | over just being able to jump a real long way. But what really hurt was Floyd | how the other adventurers told you you were nice and all but would Floyd | never amount to much. That you could never do anything for The Social Floyd | Good. That confused you. Being mean wasn't good, so how could they be Floyd | chosen for doing bigger good things? | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "li" | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Guild INSERT 50 CENTS Floyd | Floyd | But man, they made fun of you for everything, even the stuff you knew: Floyd | like knowing your left from your right. "Everyone knows that! When'll Floyd | that be helpful?" Floyd | Floyd | They all got their various quests. Some got cushy teaching jobs. Some Floyd | became sub-toadies for demigods. But you--you, well, there was word of Floyd | Princess Daphne, held by the dragon Singe. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Guild INSERT 50 CENTS Floyd | Floyd | Your classmates jibed she was as un-smart as you. They even said the Floyd | quest was beneath them, too silly if you looked at it right. Little Floyd | more than a multiple choice test. Of course they could beat Singe the Floyd | dragon, but it'd be a loss if anything in Singe's castle was unfair. Floyd | You had to be street-smart. Dragons were like that. Plus there was no Floyd | proof such a quest would advance society. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Adventurers' Guild INSERT 50 CENTS Floyd | Floyd | When you asked a retired adventurer, he mentioned it might be a bit Floyd | trickier than the four-answer multiple choice tests that plagued you. Floyd | There might be FIVE choices! "But Dirk, I believe in you. Some of Floyd | those questions may be loaded. You have the reflexes, the timing." Floyd | Floyd | "But if the questions are loaded, doesn't that mean they're extra Floyd | hard?" Floyd | Floyd | "Just use your common sense, Dirk, and don't overthink everything. Floyd | Those eggheads, they'll consider how things that help 'em are Floyd | physically impossible, and at least they'll feel smart when they die. Floyd | They'd rather spend hours studying what they calculate is inside the Floyd | castle than rely on their reflexes. That won't happen with you. Um, I Floyd | mean, there--you'll keep focused on what's important. Like, you're Floyd | good at being distracted by stuff that flashes. That'll help." | Ghogg says, "hmm, maybe it has to wait until the game starts" | |
Floyd | Floyd | Wow! Nobody ever put it that way before! | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Closing Wall 49 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | You hear the sounds of two coins falling. You blink, and you're Floyd | outside an eerie castle. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Castle Floyd | You walk across the moat's drawbridge, which collapses. Hanging on to Floyd | the remainder, you hack at some weird purple tentacles that come up Floyd | from the moat, lift yourself up, and then you rush past a gate before Floyd | it slams down, then a door before it shuts. Floyd | Floyd | Great. Hack at enemies, enter gates and doors before they shut. How Floyd | hard can it be? Floyd | Floyd | Dirk Floyd | A twice-as-expensive, yet still free, text adventure by Andrew Schultz Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150401 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Closing Wall Floyd | A wall is rapidly closing in front of you. Yup, the ones to the left Floyd | and right already WERE closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "li" | ||
Floyd ] Closing Wall 49 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > LI Floyd | Floyd | You have a vision of two kids in a castle with weird lights and Floyd | noises. They tie a coin around a string and sticking them into some Floyd | sort of booth and giggling. Man! You always wanted to learn to yo-yo. Floyd | You're gonna do that once you crack this castle. (You now have Floyd | infinite lives.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |
| Ghogg says, "yay" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "If only that worked." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "It... it never worked, did it?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "no" | ||
| Ghogg asks, "this happens in that amc show ... crash and set fire or something?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am surprised, given how many quarters I lost as a kid, that I never ever at least considered trying that." | ||
| Ghogg says, "I think maybe it worked in the early 70s" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "h" | ||
Floyd ] Closing Wall 49 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > H Floyd | Floyd | U/D/L/R moves Dirk up down left or right. S uses his sword. Floyd | (A)BOUT and (C)REDITS are also commands. You can take a (T)RANSCRIPT Floyd | if you find a bug. Floyd | A blank command will let you look. If you've already moved in your Floyd | current room, it will print the last thing that happened. This may be Floyd | useful right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Unfortunately you can't blank command on Floyd." | |
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Drink Me 477 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You jump through the wall and land awkwardly but safely. Floyd | Floyd | Drink Me Floyd | There's a potion ahead of you with a big DRINK ME sign and a door to Floyd | the right. What to do? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a" | ||
Floyd ] Drink Me 477 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > A Floyd | Floyd | Yes, this game is an "interpretation" of Dragon's Lair.I got the idea Floyd | in April 2012 after seeing the April Fool's arcade pack up at IFDB. So Floyd | I read [LINK] for the move source, and I Floyd | noted that there was more than one possible right move--I wanted to Floyd | allow that. It seemed too sticky. Floyd | Floyd | Then up popped Bart Massey's Bitwise Operators extension. However, Floyd | with April Fool's 11 months away, I wrote up the Flaming Ropes rooms Floyd | and put the game aside. Then I entered Spring Thing '13, and then in Floyd | '14, I convinced myself I really should've moved beyond a silly joke Floyd | like this. Plus I'd managed to procrastinate the potentially Floyd | repetitive typing here with much less fun repetitive FreeCell, among Floyd | other things (hint: BlockSite is a great add-on.) Floyd | Floyd | In '15, after squeezing in updates for my '13 Spring Thing game, I Floyd | just had time to worry whether it was worth the bother for me (it was. Floyd | If I'd started earlier, it would be, for sure, for you) and whip up Floyd | the text and some features! I'd never have bothered if Aaron Reed Floyd | hadn't opened the Back Garden for Spring Thing, because this work Floyd | isn't fully serious, but maybe it will give you an idea for your own Floyd | tribute. If you wonder if you should, maybe this will give you the Floyd | confidence to do at least as well. Floyd | Floyd | A weakness of the game is that, if you go in the wrong direction, you Floyd | don't get a "special" death. For instance, if Dirk can fall into a pit Floyd | or be buried by rocks, the game chooses one death at random. But Floyd | that's what a post-comp release is for! Floyd | Floyd | Incidentally, this game is based on "easy mode." But "hard mode" might Floyd | be a post-comp release, because I saw how to design it the day before Floyd | comp entries were due. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "I have a few chore things, go ahead and drive" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drink potion" | ||
Floyd ] Drink Me 477 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK POTION Floyd | Floyd | You can process complex sentences much better than your mean Floyd | classmates gave you credit for, Dirk. But worrying about nice long Floyd | beautiful two-word sentences right now may be the difference between Floyd | life and death. Floyd | Floyd | Commands: U/L/D/R to move Dirk, S for sword/attack, or Z to wait, Floyd | which is usually a bad idea. H gives a command list, and an empty Floyd | command refreshes your current situation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Crypt Creeps 905 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You walk out the door to the right and it shuts behind you, just as a Floyd | beam comes zapping by. Floyd | Floyd | Crypt Creeps Floyd | Just another hallway going forward. Exits are up ahead to the side, Floyd | but...first, those bouncing skeleton heads that popped out. They're Floyd | too many, and too low, to fight. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm confused as to what 'up ahead' means when I can only go U/D/L/R" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Plummeting Disc 954 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The skull heads somehow manage to pull you down. You swing your sword, Floyd | but it can't reach that close and low at the same time. Floyd | Floyd | You're just skin and bones now, Dirk. Mini-skeletons swirl about you Floyd | as you peer around. You're in a void...and then... POP! Back to Floyd | adventuring! Floyd | Floyd | Plummeting Disc Floyd | You jump through a doorway to a glowing wooden circle suspended in Floyd | midair. It flashes and starts falling. You scream, but at least you Floyd | keep your eyes open to see the ledge to the left! Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "I had that problem in the real game" | |
| Ghogg says, "like up sometimes meant a different thing" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, yes." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "There is that." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So are you saying it's a feature not a bug?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "like 'back in the 3d world' or 'literally physically up'" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Ghogg says, "it's possible" | ||
| Ghogg says, "I'm pretty sure he referred to a video when he made this" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Cage and Geyser 4258 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Not too bad a jump. Half the ledge collapses, but amazingly, your half Floyd | remains perfectly horizontal. You run away from it to a door, anyway. Floyd | Floyd | Cage and Geyser Floyd | There's a cage all around you to the left and right. Electricity Floyd | flows from down. A door snaps open and closed, upward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Cage and Geyser 5173 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Well, that wasn't too bad. You jump closer to the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Cage and Geyser 6499 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You time the door perfectly! You jump just after it shuts. There's a Floyd | narrow bridge across, with a huge flume of lava to the left. It sprays Floyd | every few seconds. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Just 'after'? Or just 'before'?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Also, does this mean just the lava is to the left or the bridge we need to cross is also to the left?" | ||
| Ghogg thinks | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Olethros' disconnect ("Everything is very confusing. It is like a salad.") is super apropos right now." | ||
| Ghogg says, "I think go up" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Twirling Boulders 6548 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Perhaps you felt guilty of your impeccable timing. Or perhaps you just Floyd | have a fear of crumbly bridges. Or you wonder how the bridge survived Floyd | the first flume. Whichever, it does not matter now where you are. Floyd | Floyd | You're just skin and bones now, Dirk. Mini-skeletons swirl about you Floyd | as you peer around. You're in a void...and then... POP! Back to Floyd | adventuring! Floyd | Floyd | Twirling Boulders Floyd | You're on a narrow walkway. Two spinning boulders on sticks, in a Floyd | circle, periodically block your passage up. There's no way down. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "hmm" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Wait, so what the command to know what we were supposed to do? DI?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "DL?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "DIRCHEATS" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "er, DIRCHEAT" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(I think)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "dircheat" | ||
Floyd ] Twirling Boulders 6548 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > DIRCHEAT Floyd | Floyd | Direction cheating is now on. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh. Not retroactive. Damn." | |
| Ghogg says, "let's just keep going" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Twirling Boulders 10574 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You ignore computing the relevant angular velocities, instead Floyd | concentrating: I don't want the left boulder to hit me, or the right. Floyd | You don't stop fearing both til they both pass at once. Your mad Floyd | sprint succeeds! Floyd | Floyd | A ghostly apparition--well, it's more a sheet than anything--opens its Floyd | folds and draws a glowing weapon. You hear thorns spring up behind you Floyd | and to the sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "S?" | |
| Ghogg asks, "do you remember this part of the game?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "I thought I needed weapon here" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. S." | ||
| Ghogg says, "(I didn't beat dragon's lair 1, mind" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "S=Sword" | ||
| Ghogg says, "oh" | ||
| Ghogg says, "go for it then" | ||
| Ghogg says, "I did beat 2" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But yeah, I only remember this from watching the game when no one was playing it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I never got far. I think I was too young to understand it." | ||
| Ghogg says, "I understood. I just never had that many quarters" | ||
| JoshuaH says, "I only ever got as far as a half a minute in, so I'm absolutely useless." | ||
| Ghogg says, "it was usually a 'premium' game on top of that" | ||
| Ghogg says, "do S then" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I just watched it thinking how much fun it was, then I'd suck it up and put a quarter in and instantly die. Then I'd watch it for awhile, longingly, until I regained courage and quickly lost my next quarter. Wash, rinse, repeat." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Twirling Boulders 12765 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Shtwack! You've beaten lots scarier ghosts than that in practice. But Floyd | thorns spring up to each side. You don't have time to think why the Floyd | ghost was guarding that wall up ahead, either. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Okay, crap. So how do we go 'up ahead'?" | |
| Ghogg says, "I think you had to run here" | ||
| Ghogg says, "up" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So U is 'up ahead,' not literally up. Got it." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Wind Tunnel 12814 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You fail to move back away from the thorns. Floyd | safe moves are/were down. Floyd | Floyd | You're just skin and bones now, Dirk. Mini-skeletons swirl about you Floyd | as you peer around. You're in a void...and then... POP! Back to Floyd | adventuring! Floyd | Floyd | Wind Tunnel Floyd | Against your better judgement, you open a bulging door with a big Floyd | WHOOSHING behind you. Fortunately, you don't have time to think of Floyd | what anachronisms are swirling around, or you'd already be killed! As Floyd | it is, you're distracted by a diamond or something in a window to a Floyd | bottomless pit to the left. You think there may've been a door to the Floyd | right, but you're not sure. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "aw" | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Your turn!" | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Tentacle Room 13242 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | Well, that jewel is certainly shiny, but that flashing door to the Floyd | right gave off even more light! You tumble through it. And none too Floyd | soon. Floyd | Floyd | Tentacle Room Floyd | Well, this isn't too bad, for starters. One tentacle comes down, just Floyd | daring you to slice it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Tentacle Room 13291 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | A tentacle that bright green is hard to miss. So is that weapon rack Floyd | flashing on the wall up a ways. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Tentacle Room 13670 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You jump ahead just in time to escape some tentacles, and to see Floyd | another squeezing down from above. Oh! Hey! There's that door out of Floyd | here flashing to the right! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Tentacle Room 14165 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | The door shuts. Thank goodness the stairs behind you are flashing now! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "b" | ||
Floyd ] Tentacle Room 14165 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > B Floyd | Floyd | You hear a humming buzz. (To show commands, type H.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Tentacle Room 15080 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | As you go right and climb the stairs, tentacles swarm down from there. Floyd | Looks like you better retreat. Hey! That bench flashing to the left! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Tentacle Room 16406 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Yours not to reason why, but that door ahead is open now--and Floyd | flashing! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Slide and Pit 18394 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | One of your fellow adventurers would've stopped you to force you to Floyd | calculate the possibility something like this would happen Or he Floyd | would've stopped to calculate, himself. He would be dead. You are not. Floyd | Onward! Floyd | Floyd | Slide and Pit Floyd | Aaaaaa! There's a pit ahead of you, down! There's a wall to your left, Floyd | but in a fit of lost ego (or clarity?) you imagine it's to the right, Floyd | for people who matter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg asks, "joshua, you wanna drive?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I can. He doesn't appear to be here anymore." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Earthquake Room 18443 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You fall down the shaft. Really, that was sort of unfair, how quick it Floyd | happened, but what did you expect, from an evil intelligent dragon? Floyd | safe moves are/were left. Floyd | Floyd | You're just skin and bones now, Dirk. Mini-skeletons swirl about you Floyd | as you peer around. You're in a void...and then... POP! Back to Floyd | adventuring! Floyd | Floyd | Earthquake Room Floyd | You notice your sword on your left, and the ground on every other side Floyd | also seems to be crumbling. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I was confused by the fit of lost clarity." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Earthquake Room 19769 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | That's natural. Run where the landslide ain't. What's not natural are Floyd | the spikes coming out from the wall that blocked you to the left. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Bat King 19818 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | The spikes that impale you leave you unconscious before impact with Floyd | the ground below. Yay? Floyd | safe moves are/were up. Floyd | Floyd | You're just skin and bones now, Dirk. Mini-skeletons swirl about you Floyd | as you peer around. You're in a void...and then... POP! Back to Floyd | adventuring! Floyd | Floyd | Bat King Floyd | You're dive-bombed by bats. Not enough to flee, but you should ward Floyd | them off. Maybe by then enough walkways will vanish, Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "sword" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I wonder if he meant to end that sentence there." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Bat King 21144 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Well, now the bats are chased, pretty much every walkway crumbled Floyd | except to the left. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Bat King 23335 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Oop! Some stairs are out ahead. The ones just beyond flash, not like Floyd | you could go back in this narrow passage. You could just make it if Floyd | you jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "period" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Bat King 24661 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Oh, hey, how's this for variety? A giant bat that can't fly stumbles Floyd | out of a doorway and raises his wings. You can't exactly go back. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "it's back garden! it's supposed to be punk and stuff" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "h" | ||
Floyd ] Bat King 24661 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > H Floyd | Floyd | U/D/L/R moves Dirk up down left or right. S uses his sword. Floyd | (A)BOUT and (C)REDITS are also commands. You can take a (T)RANSCRIPT Floyd | if you find a bug. Floyd | A blank command will let you look. If you've already moved in your Floyd | current room, it will print the last thing that happened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "c" | ||
Floyd ] Bat King 24661 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > C Floyd | Floyd | Thanks to Alice Grove, Marco Innocenti, and Hanon Ondricek for Floyd | pinch-hit testing for not the first time. Consider this my commitment Floyd | to test their next cool ideas earlier. And to get my own actual real Floyd | story ideas out earlier. Floyd | Thanks to Don Bluth for creating Dragon's Lair. Although the Floyd | humiliation of that one time I scored "only" 147 still burns, it was Floyd | great fun. Floyd | Thanks to www.dragons-lair-project.com for having the walkthrough of Floyd | "easy mode." And for permission to integrate it. Floyd | Thanks to the folks who created the Dragon's Lair DVD so I could solve Floyd | it there. One day I'll hit up a real arcade machine. Floyd | Thanks to DJ Tommy for his walkthrough video at [LINK]Floyd | Thanks to Laren Ferguson for writing that "How to Beat Dragon's Lair" Floyd | book that made me very popular in school for a few days. Though I Floyd | still was too awed by the graphics to follow instructions. Well, until Floyd | Showbiz Pizza/Chuck E Cheese moved away from the mall across route 52. Floyd | Then all I had was that book, and I studied real hard! I got a pretty Floyd | high score in my final game at a Chuck E Cheese in Chicago. One day Floyd | I'll beat an actual cabinet. Floyd | Last and certainly not least (trivia: people are 2nd-most likely to Floyd | click on the last in a list of links,) thanks to Greg Boettcher for Floyd | holding Spring Thing, and to Aaron Reed for creating the Back Garden Floyd | so I felt comfortable submitting a silly game like this. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nice." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Electric Throne 24710 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You'll never know what a hug from Princess Daphne feels like. Probably Floyd | better than from the Bat King, you guess. Floyd | safe moves are/were sword. Floyd | Floyd | You're just skin and bones now, Dirk. Mini-skeletons swirl about you Floyd | as you peer around. You're in a void...and then... POP! Back to Floyd | adventuring! Floyd | Floyd | Electric Throne Floyd | Zzzaap! A magnetic throne siphons your scabbard away from you. To make Floyd | matters worse, the circular room you're in? The rug starts rolling up. Floyd | There's a lot of volts on that shiny floor to the left and behind, and Floyd | now, up ahead. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, I guess that was obvious." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Electric Throne 26036 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | The circular rug continues to roll you up from the left. More of the Floyd | circle is closing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Electric Throne 29291 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | The circle's almost closed. The throne is to the right. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Electric Throne 31966 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | The throne spins you around as your scabbard snaps back in place. An Floyd | electric charge comes along the wire. Yes! A door to the right! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Plummeting Disc, Extra Stops 33954 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You stumble out before the electricity gets to you. Floyd | Floyd | Plummeting Disc, Extra Stops Floyd | You jump through a door onto a disc suspended in midair. Floyd | Congratulations, Dirk! Your weight broke the balance of magic that Floyd | kept it there! It begins falling. But it's kind of fun, and your Floyd | screams echo really neato, so you watch three ledges to the right go Floyd | by, then three to the left. The ground below is coming up close, Floyd | though! Only three more ledges to the right. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Flaming Pit 37258 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | There're actually three jumps, here. You decide to be all fancy and go Floyd | for the lowest floor, like you get style points for it or something. Floyd | Floyd | Flaming Pit Floyd | There're three ropes here swinging back and forth to the left. There's Floyd | a ledge beyond them. The one you're on is currently retracting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "And now we're back where we started at the very beginning, right?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Flaming Pit 37509 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You grab onto a rope. The timing's easy enough. Another swings back Floyd | from the left. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Flaming Pit 37888 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You grab the next rope, not thinking about it. The eggheads up on Floyd | adventure theory might think a second too long and reach at the wrong Floyd | time, but you don't. Another swings back from the left. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Flaming Pit 38383 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You grab the next rope yet again, not even worrying if you might mess Floyd | this up. Oh, hey! There's a ledge to the left! You reach out your hand Floyd | reflexively. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Horsing Around Walls and Fire 39347 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You jump off the rope and onto the ledge and through the door. Floyd | Floyd | Horsing Around Walls and Fire Floyd | Oh, look! A horse with a gem on top! You forget your mission, Floyd | distracted by something shiny. When you climb on, the horse takes off. Floyd | Your horse swerves right, almost smack into a fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Okay, crap. What did I do the first time?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I went U. So don't go U." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "f l" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "oopsie" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Horsing Around Walls and Fire 39842 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You avoid the fire to the right so well that you're now careening Floyd | towards a fire on the left. Hooray, variety. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Horsing Around Walls and Fire 40337 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You avoid the fire to the left. Now there's fire on the right. And a Floyd | pillar up ahead! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Horsing Around Walls and Fire 40832 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You avoid the pillar and the fire. Now there's fire on the left with a Floyd | pillar ahead. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Horsing Around Walls and Fire 41327 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You avoid the fire to the left. Now there's a wall ahead and to the Floyd | left. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Horsing Around Walls and Fire 42653 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You avoid the wall! There's another wall ahead and to the left, and no Floyd | time to think about the lack of variety. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 43197 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | Your horse crashes into the ground. You brush yourself off, kicking Floyd | open a door hard enough that it slams shut to deflect a random bolt of Floyd | lightning. Take that, deportment classes you hated! Floyd | Floyd | Underground River Floyd | You walk obliviously to the edge of a narrow cliff and are suprised Floyd | when it collapses ten feet from the edge. You fall into a purple Floyd | river, and even more surprisingly, right into a barrel swept along by Floyd | a current of purple water. Before you can properly appreciate the luck Floyd | involved, you float past a sign saying YE BOULDERS and suddenly see Floyd | there's a small flashing cave to the left--better go there, or you'll Floyd | hit that rock wall ahead. Or to the sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay. We've been here, too." | |
| Ghogg says, "yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 43576 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You navigate to the left, remembering you row your oar on the right. Floyd | Now there's a passage right in the next cavern! It flashes, which Floyd | might kill you, but crashing into a wall certainly will. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 43955 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You navigate to the right, remembering you row your oar on the left. Floyd | If there's a trick special case, you're in trouble, but the passage Floyd | left in the next cavern doesn't look like one! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 44334 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You navigate to the left. Now there's a passage right in the next Floyd | cavern! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 44713 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You navigate to the right. As the water changes from purple to orange, Floyd | you float along, past a sign saying YE RAPIDS, where you see a passage Floyd | to the right and up It's dang near a road, a lighter orange than the Floyd | rest of the river! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 45208 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | Now that stripe is left and up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 45703 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Now that stripe is right and up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 46198 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | Now it's left and up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 46693 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Just as you worry the next part of the rapids will be a stripe leading Floyd | into a cavern wall, the water changes to green as -- ding ding -- you Floyd | are by YE WHIRLPOOLS. There's one to the left. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 46944 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | Whirlpool to the right. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 47195 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You paddle towards the whirlpool, then away. That's a trick those Floyd | eggheads in adventuring class would never try! You forget why it Floyd | works, but doing not thinking matters now. Whirlpool to the left. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 47446 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | Again with the contrary paddling. Whirlpool to the right. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Underground River 47697 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | One more reverse-paddle, for Roman Hruska. The water picks up speed. Floyd | You're thrown into the air. But there's a chain there, up and to the Floyd | right. It flashes and dings. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, here's where I died." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Last time I did U." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "R?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Plummeting Disc 48241 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | Got it! Your momentum swings you over to a ledge, where not one but Floyd | two gates close behind you as you make it to the next area. Floyd | Floyd | Plummeting Disc Floyd | You jump through a doorway to a glowing wooden circle suspended in Floyd | midair. It flashes and starts falling. You scream, but at least you Floyd | keep your eyes open to see the ledge to the right! Floyd | Floyd | This room looks vaguely familiar. You grab reflexively for your sword, Floyd | but it's on the other side as last time. Hmm. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "R?" | |
| Ghogg says, "ok" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Black Knight on Horse 51545 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | Not too bad a jump. Half the ledge collapses, but amazingly, your half Floyd | remains perfectly horizontal. You run away from it to a door, anyway. Floyd | Floyd | Black Knight on Horse Floyd | As you observe the thorns to the right, a streak of lightning flashes Floyd | and sticks your sword in its sheath! Then a knight charges you from Floyd | above! Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg thinks | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Have we seen this yet?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "no" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm thinking we haven't." | ||
| Ghogg says, "I have seen it in the game" | ||
| Ghogg says, "but I don't remember what to do" | ||
| Ghogg says, "either down or left I guess" | ||
| Ghogg asks, "left, because the charge would hit you?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Let's do L?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "ok" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. I'll do L." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Black Knight on Horse 53484 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You execute a nice somersault to the left. At least you didn't have to Floyd | roll backwards! You never quite got the hang of that. The knight comes Floyd | thundering back on his horse. You got turned around, so the thorns are Floyd | on your right, now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "L?" | |
| Ghogg says, "yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Black Knight on Horse 55423 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You got a weak grade in gymnastics, but you've got the practical part Floyd | down. Another roll to the left, and you escape the knight again. Oh, Floyd | look. There's a hole to the right! No thorns! Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg exclaims, "r!" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Are you sure?" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Let' just jump in a random hole!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||
| Ghogg exclaims, "yes!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Lizard King 58147 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You dive for the hole and make it as the sword lashes against you. Floyd | Floyd | Lizard King Floyd | Oh no! A magnetic pot of gold schlurps your sword from your scabbard, Floyd | ten feet away. Then it jangles off. Then there's a weird grunt from Floyd | the right as a giant lizard in purple robes raises a golden scepter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Good call, I guess?" | |
| Ghogg says, "nah, I just remembered that bit" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, ack." | ||
| Ghogg says, "and I remember the lizard...hmm..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "'Schlurps' is a pretty good word." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "S or L?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "no idea what to do" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Smithee 58196 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | KONK! You pass out with a goofy smile on your face. Floyd | That's...something. The lizard king drags you away. Floyd | safe moves are/were left up. Floyd | Floyd | You're just skin and bones now, Dirk. Mini-skeletons swirl about you Floyd | as you peer around. You're in a void...and then... POP! Back to Floyd | adventuring! Floyd | Floyd | Smithee Floyd | You stick your sword in a magic fire, and immediately another glowing Floyd | sword whistles and comes swooping down at you! Didn't you learn Floyd | anything last time, Dirk? Oh, yeah, there's also fire on a couple Floyd | sides of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, L." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Snake Room 58245 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | The magic sword descends on you. At least you weren't beaten by Floyd | someone weaker than you. Floyd | safe moves are/were sword. Floyd | Floyd | You're just skin and bones now, Dirk. Mini-skeletons swirl about you Floyd | as you peer around. You're in a void...and then... POP! Back to Floyd | adventuring! Floyd | Floyd | Snake Room Floyd | A snake pops down from the ceiling and hisses at you! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline sighs. | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Fire and Lightning Room 58294 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Bummer, Dirk! Slashing up enemies mindlessly is your specialty, and Floyd | now wasn't the time to mix it up. Floyd | safe moves are/were sword. Floyd | Floyd | You're just skin and bones now, Dirk. Mini-skeletons swirl about you Floyd | as you peer around. You're in a void...and then... POP! Back to Floyd | adventuring! Floyd | Floyd | Fire and Lightning Room Floyd | Oh no! A bolt strikes from the ceiling and sets fire to everywhere Floyd | except your right. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |
| Jacqueline says, "That one I should have gotten. Now I'm evidently in a mood to just die die die die die die" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Fire and Lightning Room 59209 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | More lightning strikes from the ceiling! It surrounds you on all sides Floyd | except to the left. Well, you could probably get away with going up, Floyd | too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Fire and Lightning Room 60535 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | The lightning fire continues to burn to the right and above. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Fire and Lightning Room 61450 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Another ray blasts the door ahead, making it impossible to go forward! Floyd | There's also the matter of the right and back walls being on fire, Floyd | too. But the fire to the left died. Too bad an overturned bench is Floyd | blocking a possible crawlspace to the left. You'd think it'd have Floyd | burned up. Floyd | Floyd | It looks too sturdy--and close to the wall--to hack up, and if it's Floyd | glued there, you're in trouble. If not, hmm... Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "sword" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Earthquake Room 61499 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Ouch, Dirk! You had one way to go, but it didn't work out. Floyd | safe moves are/were left. Floyd | Floyd | You're just skin and bones now, Dirk. Mini-skeletons swirl about you Floyd | as you peer around. You're in a void...and then... POP! Back to Floyd | adventuring! Floyd | Floyd | Earthquake Room Floyd | You notice your sword on your right, and the ground on every other Floyd | side also seems to be crumbling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Earthquake Room 62825 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | That's natural. Run where the landslide ain't. What's not natural are Floyd | the spikes coming out from the wall that blocked you to the right. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Electric Knight 62874 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | The spikes that impale you leave you unconscious before impact with Floyd | the ground below. Yay? Floyd | safe moves are/were up. Floyd | Floyd | You're just skin and bones now, Dirk. Mini-skeletons swirl about you Floyd | as you peer around. You're in a void...and then... POP! Back to Floyd | adventuring! Floyd | Floyd | Electric Knight Floyd | A huge electric knight appears up ahead! He's way too far to attack. Floyd | For now. You reflexively feel your sword on the right and notice the Floyd | electric tiles glowing: up, down and right. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This game is doing a really great job of making me feel the way that I felt when I tried to play this game." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Electric Knight 64813 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Ooh! Look! The knight mashes his sword, and now there's an opening to Floyd | the right. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Electric Knight 66752 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | And now it's ahead! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Electric Knight 68943 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Boy. You sure are lucky there's a way out, even though the pulses are Floyd | coming faster, The right is not glowing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Electric Knight 70882 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | The pulses come faster! Faster! Just like Reefer Madness. Wait, that Floyd | doesn't exist yet. But a little space to the left does. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Electric Knight 72821 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You'd think the knight would try and push you down, leaving a space Floyd | open. But it's kind of smart he's not letting you go up. He's just Floyd | making you jump back and forth. There's an opening to the right. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg asks, "wait reefer madness is like 1940s isn't it?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "No." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh wait." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Huh. I guess there's a 1936 version?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Electric Knight 74760 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You jump forth and back. The knight doesn't see it, but you're Floyd | cheating up with each movement, even as you jump faster. One more. The Floyd | right is blocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "L?" | |
| Ghogg says, "I didn't realize there was a version that wasn't the old timey" | ||
| Ghogg says, "and yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Electric Knight 78786 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Okay, he's out of charges. And boy is it convenient you're right by Floyd | him! And that he's winding up for his sword-blow like a baseball Floyd | batter! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "S?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Or a direction?" | ||
| Ghogg thinks | ||
| Ghogg says, "sword" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Monsters 81026 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Well, that's as close to a talking villain as you can get, since Floyd | nobody's done any talking, yet. There's a gap to jump over ahead, but Floyd | that's nothing compared to the board. Floyd | Floyd | Mud Monsters Floyd | You're in a big mud land. What could live here? Mud monsters, that's Floyd | what. They squelch toward you slowly and surround you. They don't seem Floyd | to expect any resistance. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "I've got the video playing in my other window" | |
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | ||
| Ghogg says, "I find the reverse-direction repeats interesting" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "NOW we're cheating!" | ||
| Ghogg says, "I think sword" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Monsters 82352 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The mud monsters back up a bit, allowing passage ahead. You can't see Floyd | them, but you hear their blurp bloop blurp behind and may even do so Floyd | in the next room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I wouldn't have done that. Good job." | |
| Ghogg says, "(he does it in the video!)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(yay cheating!)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't even know what that last bit means." | ||
| Ghogg says, "well, the they aren't exactly the same" | ||
| Ghogg says, "go ahead I guess, dunno" | ||
| Ghogg says, "and even with a video the ordering / reversing makes it different" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Monsters 83678 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Oo! A green geyser to jump over! It just finished firing! And it Floyd | flashed, too! Double bonus! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "What do the flashes mean, again?" | |
| Ghogg says, "hee" | ||
| Ghogg says, "it means 'go that way'" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, right." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, U?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "yeah" | ||
| Ghogg says, "oh so that's how you do the ball rolling" | ||
| Ghogg says, "(hit that part of the video)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Monsters 85869 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You see a sneaky passage between two geysers ahead. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So U again..." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "...right?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "sure" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Monsters 88544 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | Oh, hey, there's a path ahead to the next geyser! Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "sorry, multitasking, you can use your best judgement" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Nah. I'm multitasking, too, so it's all good." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Monsters 89870 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | The green geyser just ahead fires. The passage is kind of narrow, so Floyd | you can't really walk around it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Not sure what that means." | |
| Ghogg asks, "...wait?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, yeah. I guess." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The instructions made me think waiting is generally bad, but this sounds like an appropriate time to wait." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Monsters 89870 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | You're a man of action, Dirk! Well, except if nasty math story Floyd | problems are involved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Now u?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Monsters 91196 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Wow! A wide red pool of mud, and you on a plank being followed by mud Floyd | men. Thank goodness it's up high, so you can jump a bit farther. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "keep juuuumpppiiinng" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Monsters 92522 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | And one more green geyser ahead! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Mud Monsters 93848 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You hear a squilching sound behind--like when you cut previous enemies Floyd | open with a sword. But the mud monsters don't die--they appear in Floyd | small geysers to the side. You forget how not-fair this is when you Floyd | see the exit across one final green river! If you were more of a Floyd | naturalist, you might be disappointed you didn't get to jump a red Floyd | geyser, too, but really, it's time to move on. It Floyd | was...straightforward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Plummeting Disc, Extra Stops 95223 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You jump across the green river without and flume to blast you. Solid Floyd | ground! A nice wide exit! That was both straightforward and Floyd | exhausting. You needed all your adventurer training to get through, Floyd | for sure. Floyd | Floyd | Plummeting Disc, Extra Stops Floyd | You jump once again through a door onto a disc suspended in midair. Floyd | Congratulations, Dirk! Your weight broke the balance of magic that Floyd | kept it there! It begins falling. But it's kind of fun, and your Floyd | screams echo really neato, so you watch three ledges to the left go Floyd | by, then three to the right. The ground below is coming up close, Floyd | though! Only three more ledges to the left. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Don't understand that first sentence, but whatev." | |
| Ghogg says, "lesse" | ||
| Ghogg says, "I believe in the real game, using a stop returns you to a prior scene" | ||
| Ghogg asks, "so you want to ride this thing to the bottom but jump at the right time?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "(the game lets you 'loop' so you can get a higher score)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh. Huh." | ||
| Ghogg says, "that's not necessarily how this works, since some scenes are tweaked" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am good with whatever you want to do." | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Plummeting Disc, Extra Stops 95223 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Ugh! Long non-fourth-wall four-letter commands make Dirk's head hurt. Floyd | Well, there are some meta-commands. But here are the main short ones. Floyd | Floyd | U/L/D/R to move Dirk, S for sword/attack, or Z to wait, which is Floyd | usually a bad idea. H gives a command list, and an empty command Floyd | refreshes your current situation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Plummeting Disc, Extra Stops 95223 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | You're a man of action, Dirk! Well, except if nasty math story Floyd | problems are involved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Plummeting Disc, Extra Stops 95223 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | You're a man of action, Dirk! Well, except if nasty math story Floyd | problems are involved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "hmm" | |
| Ghogg says, "I don't think waiting really does anything" | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Flaming Pit 95272 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You miss the jump, even though you've prepped for this before. As you Floyd | tumble, you wonder what your peers would think. Floyd | safe moves are/were left. Floyd | Floyd | You're just skin and bones now, Dirk. Mini-skeletons swirl about you Floyd | as you peer around. You're in a void...and then... POP! Back to Floyd | adventuring! Floyd | Floyd | Flaming Pit Floyd | There're three ropes here swinging back and forth to the right. Floyd | There's a ledge beyond them. The one you're on is currently Floyd | retracting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "huh" | |
| Jacqueline says, "oops" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So long without death, too." | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Flaming Pit 95523 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You grab onto a rope. The timing's easy enough. Another swings back Floyd | from the right. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Flaming Pit 95902 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You grab the next rope, not thinking about it. The eggheads up on Floyd | adventure theory might think a second too long and reach at the wrong Floyd | time, but you don't. Another swings back from the right. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Flaming Pit 96397 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You grab the next rope yet again, not even worrying if you might mess Floyd | this up. Oh, hey! There's a ledge to the right! You reach out your Floyd | hand reflexively. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Horsing Around Walls and Fire 97361 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You jump off the rope and onto the ledge and through the door. Floyd | Floyd | Horsing Around Walls and Fire Floyd | Oh, look! Another horse with a gem on top! You forget your mission, Floyd | distracted by something shiny. Maybe this time... When you climb on, Floyd | the horse takes off. Your horse swerves left, almost smack into a Floyd | fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Horsing Around Walls and Fire 97856 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You avoid the fire to the left so well that you're now careening Floyd | towards a fire on the right. Hooray, variety. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Horsing Around Walls and Fire 98351 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You avoid the fire to the right. Now there's fire on the left. And a Floyd | pillar up ahead! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Horsing Around Walls and Fire 98846 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You avoid the pillar and the fire. Now there's fire on the right with Floyd | a pillar ahead. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Horsing Around Walls and Fire 99341 [3 lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You avoid the fire to the right. Now there's a wall ahead and to the Floyd | right. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Horsing Around Walls and Fire 100667 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You avoid the wall! There's another wall ahead and to the right, and Floyd | no time to think about the lack of variety. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Crypt Creeps 101211 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Your horse crashes into the ground. You brush yourself off, kicking Floyd | open a door hard enough that it slams shut to deflect a random bolt of Floyd | lightning. Take that, deportment classes you hated! Floyd | Floyd | Crypt Creeps Floyd | Just another hallway going forward. Exits are up ahead to the side, Floyd | but...first, those bouncing skeleton heads that popped out. They're Floyd | too many, and too low, to fight. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "U?" | |
| Ghogg says, "yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Crypt Creeps 102126 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Oh no! A big skeletal hand appears from a doorway to the left! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Avalanche 102175 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | There's no running. The hand grabs you. Floyd | safe moves are/were sword. Floyd | Floyd | You're just skin and bones now, Dirk. Mini-skeletons swirl about you Floyd | as you peer around. You're in a void...and then... POP! Back to Floyd | adventuring! Floyd | Floyd | Avalanche Floyd | You hear a rumbling above. The ground up and to the left begins Floyd | falling into a void. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "OH FFS OF COURSE" | |
| Jacqueline says, "(Sorry)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Avalanche 102426 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You stumble out of the way of the rubble. For now. A door to the right Floyd | flashes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] U and Pool Balls 102726 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You exit through the flashing door just as a bunch of rocks tumble Floyd | down where you were. Floyd | Floyd | U and Pool Balls Floyd | A very long rainbow/ROY G BIV colored U lies below. Very large pool Floyd | balls roll back and forth with perfect conservation of energy, so you Floyd | can't wait forever them to die out. Oh, and a huge black bowling ball Floyd | just upwards means you REALLY can't wait. First up is a red ball. Oh Floyd | man! This place is all topsy turvy, and you even have to wait just Floyd | right to pass the red ball below. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hahah" | |
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] U and Pool Balls 102977 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | What luck! The red ball rolls by, and as you sneak through, it rolls Floyd | back to be crushed by the black ball. Just in case you needed proof Floyd | the black ball was destructive and not just scary. Floyd | Floyd | Now there's an orange ball down below. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "just keep trucking" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Just keep truckin' D?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] U and Pool Balls 103356 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Now it's the orange ball's turn to crash into the black ball after Floyd | missing you. You remember learning to cross a street watching for Floyd | chariots, and how your parents told you it was no joke. They were Floyd | right! Oh, look, a yellow ball down below. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] U and Pool Balls 103735 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The yellow ball is not too yellow to crash into the black ball after Floyd | missing you. Beyond it is a green ball. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "'Beyond' meaning 'more D'?" | |
| Ghogg says, "yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] U and Pool Balls 104114 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The color variety is nice, especially because you forgot Roy G Biv, Floyd | and it keeps you alert. If you had time to think, you'd be rather glad Floyd | you weren't going to get killed by a dingy grey ball or a horrid Floyd | pastel one. Since there's only a purple ball left below. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "it might switch at the very end once the balls are done" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] U and Pool Balls 104493 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The color variety is nice, especially because you forgot Roy G Biv, Floyd | and it keeps you alert. If you had time to think, you'd be rather glad Floyd | you weren't going to get killed by a dingy grey ball or a horrid Floyd | pastel one. Since there's only a purple ball left below. Well, it Floyd | could be indigo or violet. You went to adventuring school, not art Floyd | school. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] U and Pool Balls 104872 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You feel a brief disorientation. There's a small gap up ahead, instead Floyd | of a final indigo or violet ball, which is nice. And it's also up Floyd | ahead, not down below, which just makes more sense. Man! It'd be Floyd | embarrassing to miss this jump ahead, even with nobody watching. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Twirling Boulders 105300 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You jump over the small gap and have a leisurely jog to the next room. Floyd | Floyd | Twirling Boulders Floyd | You're on a narrow walkway. Two spinning boulders on sticks, in a Floyd | circle, periodically block your passage up. There's no way down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Twirling Boulders 109326 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You ignore computing the relevant angular velocities, instead Floyd | concentrating: I don't want the left boulder to hit me, or the right. Floyd | You don't stop fearing both til they both pass at once. Your mad Floyd | sprint succeeds! Floyd | Floyd | A ghostly apparition--well, it's more a sheet than anything--opens its Floyd | folds and draws a glowing weapon. You hear thorns spring up behind you Floyd | and to the sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay. This." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Twirling Boulders 111517 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Shtwack! You've beaten lots scarier ghosts than that in practice. But Floyd | thorns spring up to each side. You don't have time to think why the Floyd | ghost was guarding that wall up ahead, either. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Twirling Boulders 112843 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You escape the thorns! But now, since backward is forwards and Floyd | forwards is backwards, (or they are what they were) the exit is up Floyd | ahead! Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "there, swap" | |
| Ghogg says, "up now" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "How did they swap?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "How was that shown to the player?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Smithee 113807 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You made it, Dirk, and the exit didn't even have to flash at you! Way Floyd | to go! Floyd | Floyd | Smithee Floyd | You stick your sword in a magic fire, and immediately another glowing Floyd | sword whistles and comes swooping down at you! Oh, yeah, there's also Floyd | fire on a couple sides of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "well, in the game you are running 'down' on the screen" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Ah." | ||
| Ghogg says, "with the ball coming in from 'behind on the 3d'" | ||
| Ghogg says, "but at the very end you see from a reverse angle" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Smithee 114722 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Well, the sword being perpendicular to your sword, that gave a greater Floyd | range--ah, heck, you just swung and it clanged. Ooh! Here comes a Floyd | mace! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Smithee 116661 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The mace isn't appreciably different. Well, it's appreciably not Floyd | different to deflect. But now a glowing anvil up ahead rises and Floyd | swerves at you. There's fire to your left. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "R?" | |
| Ghogg says, "yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "R" | ||
Floyd ] Smithee 117987 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | Wow! You duck, but now a spear rises from a weapons rack and spins at Floyd | you. Time it wrong, and you won't smack it just SO. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "also, I need to go take care of some kid things" | |
| Ghogg asks, "I doubt we're too far from the end?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Taking care of children is generally a good thing you should do." | ||
| Ghogg exclaims, "take care!" | ||
| Ghogg goes home. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Smithee 119313 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Again, you hit the spear JUST perpendicular, and the angular Floyd | momentum--nah, you just didn't want it to point straight at you. You Floyd | treat your sword to a bit of magic fire, and a statue wakes up and Floyd | growls, raising its axe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Goop Room 120277 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | BZZZZZ! Your sword and the axe clash, and your sword wins. The statue Floyd | returns to its frozen state. Floyd | Floyd | Goop Room Floyd | Goop bubbles from a cauldron and dries behind you and to each side. Floyd | You suspect there'll be monsters to hack at soon, but not just yet. Floyd | Process of elimination, Dirk, process of elimination. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Goop Room 122468 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You escape the first wave of goop only to look into a beaker--and out Floyd | pops a goop monster! Good thing you grabbed it with your off-hand, Floyd | Dirk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Goop Room 125723 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Splat! Most of the goop behind you disappears as you hack the monster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Giddy Goons 125772 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You just walked right into the goop, there. Dirk. You don't even have Floyd | time for childhood memories when that was fun. Floyd | safe moves are/were down. Floyd | Floyd | You're just skin and bones now, Dirk. Mini-skeletons swirl about you Floyd | as you peer around. You're in a void...and then... POP! Back to Floyd | adventuring! Floyd | Floyd | Giddy Goons Floyd | A tiny purple pig with a dagger comes bouncing impossibly out from the Floyd | left! It's either very confident, or very backed up by friends who'll Floyd | totally bumrush you if you're passive. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Poop." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Giddy Goons 126151 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You've learned by now that slashing at the first enemy is always a Floyd | good start. Well, you sort of knew it already. But at least you didn't Floyd | forget. Several weird piggies come bouncing from the left, now! But Floyd | not as fast as if you hadn't taken care of business. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Giddy Goons 127477 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You head right. Maybe they'll tire out. Being that heavy while Floyd | bouncing, well...whew. And those stairs just up ahead--they won't just Floyd | be tiring for you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Giddy Goons 130732 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | The goons behind you hyperventilate a bit. They're far enough behind, Floyd | you think you can deal with their bigger cousin that just popped out Floyd | at the top. And you do, without thinking. You're at the top of the Floyd | spiral staircase. You should probably hit that door to the left before Floyd | anything pops up from it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Bats and Walkway 130781 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Good thinking, Dirk. Survive and advance. For whatever reason, the Floyd | piggies don't follow you through the door. Maybe bouncing up and down Floyd | that stairway was too exhausting. Floyd | Floyd | Bats and Walkway Floyd | Another scene, another narrow walkway forward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Bats and Walkway 131696 [3 Floyd | lives] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | The walkway behind crumbles. But there's still more to go. Good thing Floyd | this isn't a maze--that'd get confusing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I think I am done, actually." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Though this is fun." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And hrm. Maybe it'd be cool to finish it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But not alone." | ||
| Jacqueline shrugs. | ||
