  
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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| DavidW hollers, "ClubFloyd session in the Toyshop!" | |||
| chaudmin arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | DavidW says (to chaudmin), "By the way, hi." | ||
| chaudmin says (to DavidW), "hello" | |||
| DavidW says, "Unfortunately, our regular host, Jacqueline, is busy for May, so I'll be temporary host in her absence." | |||
| DavidW says, "Three games tied for 1st in the surveymonkey poll: All Alone, Being Andrew Plotkin, and Slouching Towards Bedlam." | |||
| DavidW says, "All three are on Floyd; I'm hoping we can pick one of those three to play today." | |||
| DavidW says, "I suggest waiting a bit for more people." | |||
| elks arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW says, "hi elks" | ||
| DavidW asks, "So, of All Alone, Being Andrew Plotkin, and Slouching Towards Bedlam -- which game should we play?" | |||
| Roger says, "b.a.p. is a lot of fun" | |||
| DavidW says (to Roger), "Feel free to join us." | |||
| Roger arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Roger says, "oh yeah" | ||
| DavidW asks, "chaudmin? elks? Any opinion? Is 'Being Andrew Plotkin' okay with you?" | |||
| chaudmin says, ""fine by me" | |||
| elks exclaims, "yep!" | |||
| DavidW says, "yay." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask bap2" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 0 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | At last, your troubled fortunes seemed to come to an end. It all Floyd | happened very quickly: the callback from Red Hat, the bizarre Floyd | interview with Human Resources, the handshake, the filling out of W-2 Floyd | forms, and then your first day of work. Floyd | Floyd | You thought maybe your experience writing Interactive Fiction games Floyd | (sixteenth place in the last IF Comp, a good improvement from 33rd Floyd | place the year before that) had finally landed you a programming job. Floyd | But no, you seemed to qualify only for menial clerical work. You took Floyd | it. What else could you do? Sigh. Floyd | Floyd | File Room Floyd | This bleak room with its short, slumping ceiling does nothing to Floyd | brighten your morale. Short file cabinets, marked in reverse Floyd | alphabetical order, crawl in a line along the walls like an army of Floyd | stupid robots. One measly window lets in a tiny square of sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | You see a copier machine here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cabinets" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 1 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABINETS Floyd | Floyd | The file cabinets are marked in reverse alphabetical order: cabinet Z, Floyd | cabinet Z-Y, cabinet X-Y, etc. Floyd | Floyd | > | says, "Reminder: you can give commands to Floyd with either f or > before the command." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cabinet z" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 2 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABINET Z Floyd | Floyd | File cabinet Z takes documents from Zz-Ze. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x copier" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X COPIER Floyd | Floyd | The copier has a lid which covers a big pane of glass, and a panel Floyd | with buttons. The big green button makes copies. That's all you've Floyd | ever needed to push on it. In fact, your annoying supervisor, Melvin Floyd | Prufrock, impressed upon you, at stammering length, how temperamental Floyd | the machine is, and how expensive copier repair guys are. Bah. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "I'm gonna push the button" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Has there *ever* been a non-tempermental copier?" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push green button" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 3
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH GREEN BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | The machine is already busy making copies.
Floyd |
Floyd | Melvin, your supervisor, gangles into the room. With his elongated
Floyd | height and pasty, translucent skin, he looks like the big funky alien
Floyd | at the end of "Close Encounters," only more puppet-like. He approaches
Floyd | you cautiously. Even though he's your boss, he always seems to be
Floyd | intimidated by you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "H-hi, Peter," he says.
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: Oh, hi Melvin.
Floyd | 2: Go away, idiot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| DavidW says, "go ahead" | ||
| chaudmin says, "dang it" | |||
| chaudmin says, "let's be nice" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 3
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "Oh, hi Melvin."
Floyd |
Floyd | Melvin swallows, his dry throat making a thwupping noise that really
Floyd | turns your stomach. "Mmm. Making some copies there?" he asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: No, I'm hacking into NORAD and launching Global Thermonuclear War.
Floyd | 2: Yeah, pictures of Valerie's butt. Wanna see?
Floyd | 3: (sigh) Yes, Melvin. I'm making copies. What's up?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| DavidW says, "poor Melvin" | ||
| chaudmin says, "heheh" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 3
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "No, I'm hacking into NORAD and launching Global
Floyd | Thermonuclear War."
Floyd |
Floyd | "I don't get it," Melvin says.
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: (sigh) Yes, Melvin. I'm making copies. What's up?
Floyd | 2: There's this rhetorical technique called 'sarcasm.' Heard of it?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 3
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "There's this rhetorical technique called 'sarcasm.' Heard of
Floyd | it?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah, like I've never heard of sarcasm," he says. I guess it means
Floyd | he's heard of it, but he's not very clever at it.
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: (sigh) Yes, Melvin. I'm making copies. What's up?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| DavidW says, "heh. Figures." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 3
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "(sigh) Yes, Melvin. I'm making copies. What's up?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Melvin fiddles with a small stack of folders in his sweaty hands. "I
Floyd | was wondering, um. Are you busy?"
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: Yes. I'm terribly busy. You'll have to come back later.
Floyd | 2: What is it you want, Melvin?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| chaudmin says, "well, whatever advances the plot" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 4 Floyd | Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You say, "What is it you want, Melvin?" Floyd | Floyd | "I was wondering if you could sort these for me," he says, handing you Floyd | the folders. There are sweat stains on them. Stifling the urge to make Floyd | a comment, you adjust your grip to touch only the dry spots. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x folders" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X FOLDERS Floyd | Floyd | The folders are a stack of about thirty plain folders, currently Floyd | unsorted. Floyd | Floyd | Melvin fidgets, waiting for you to finish. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x melvin" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X MELVIN Floyd | Floyd | Melvin Prufrock is a thin, translucent looking individual, with tics Floyd | and other twitchy mannerisms passing for a personality. He is insanely Floyd | tall, approaching six foot eight, but probably only weighs 130 pounds Floyd | with clothes on. You don't even want to consider what he's like Floyd | without clothes on. He also looks like he's about six years younger Floyd | than you are, so about nineteen, and yet he's several rankings above Floyd | you on the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Melvin fidgets, waiting for you to finish. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose sorting folders is a spectator sport in this office." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're Peter Feeney, a bright young guy with a healthy self-image. You Floyd | do feel that life hasn't brought you the success and fame that you Floyd | deserve, but that will come with time, in your humble opinion. Floyd | Floyd | Melvin fidgets, waiting for you to finish. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take folders" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE FOLDERS Floyd | Floyd | You already have those. Floyd | Floyd | Melvin fidgets, waiting for you to finish. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm guessing 'sort folders' is what he's waiting for." | ||
| chaudmin says, "I suppose" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sort folders" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SORT FOLDERS Floyd | Floyd | You're actually pretty much of a whiz at sorting, which might be why Floyd | you got the job you did. "Time me," you tell Melvin, and 13 seconds Floyd | later you're done. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "nice" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Give them back, I guess?" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "give folders to melvin" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 10 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE FOLDERS TO MELVIN Floyd | Floyd | You start to hand them to Melvin, but he starts making a choking Floyd | noise. You realize he's trying to tell you that you've sorted them Floyd | into the wrong order again. For whatever reason, they like to use Floyd | reverse alphabetical order in this company. Go figure. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "oh noo" | ||
| DavidW says, "tros folders" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sort folders in reverse" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > SORT FOLDERS IN REVERSE Floyd | Floyd | You re-sort the folders, taking only 11 seconds this time. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tros folders" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > TROS FOLDERS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "haha" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "give folders to melvin" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 12 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE FOLDERS TO MELVIN Floyd | Floyd | Melvin says, "Excellent. You're really amazing at this. Oh, and could Floyd | you file them now? I guess that's really what I was after." Without Floyd | even giving you a chance to say no, Melvin hustles away. You swear you Floyd | almost hear his bones clacking together when he moves that fast. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It might've worked." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "file folders" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 13 Floyd | Floyd | > FILE FOLDERS Floyd | Floyd | Well, let's see. The Z's are on top. The first one is labeled, Floyd | "Zefferelli," so it should probably go into the Z cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "aw, man" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x zefferelli" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 14 Floyd | Floyd | > X ZEFFERELLI Floyd | Floyd | The folders are a stack of about thirty plain folders, currently Floyd | sorted into reverse alphabetical order. On top is one labelled Floyd | "Zefferelli." Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "office simulator" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "file folder in z cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 15 Floyd | Floyd | > FILE FOLDER IN Z CABINET Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the Z cabinet) Floyd | You stick the Zefferelli folder into cabinet Z and close the drawer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x folders" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 16 Floyd | Floyd | > X FOLDERS Floyd | Floyd | (the sorted folders) Floyd | The folders are a stack of about thirty plain folders, currently Floyd | sorted into reverse alphabetical order. On top is one labelled "Zarf: Floyd | Classified." Below that is one labelled "Zarf: Declassified." Floyd | Floyd | "Zarf?" you think to yourself. "Could it be?" The one and only Zarf? Floyd | Xyzzy Award winner? IF Competition winner? The mighty Inscruitable Floyd | One? Floyd | Floyd | You are strongly tempted to open them and see what's inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open folders" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 17 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FOLDERS Floyd | Floyd | (the sorted folders) Floyd | Eagerly, you flip open the "Zarf: Classified" folder, only to find Floyd | that it contains a top secret patent application for the design of a Floyd | new improved type of cup holder. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "nice" | ||
| DavidW says, "a DVD tray" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open declassified" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 18 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DECLASSIFIED Floyd | Floyd | Eagerly, you flip open the "Zarf: Declassified" folder. It contains a Floyd | blurry photograph and an employee record. Could it be? Zarf works Floyd | here, at Red Hat? Gosh. You feel awed merely by being near the master. Floyd | What it must be like to be Zarf. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x photo" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 19 Floyd | Floyd | > X PHOTO Floyd | Floyd | The photograph is a blurred likeness, but you can only assume that Floyd | it's a picture of Zarf. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x record" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 20 Floyd | Floyd | > X RECORD Floyd | Floyd | It's an employee record for one Andrew Plotkin. He's been working here Floyd | since the company he used to work for was bought out by Red Hat. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read record" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 21 Floyd | Floyd | > READ RECORD Floyd | Floyd | It's an employee record for one Andrew Plotkin. He's been working here Floyd | since the company he used to work for was bought out by Red Hat. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "be zarf" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 21 Floyd | Floyd | > BE ZARF Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "worth a shot" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, worth trying, sure." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "file folders in z" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 22 Floyd | Floyd | > FILE FOLDERS IN Z Floyd | Floyd | (the sorted folders in the Z cabinet) Floyd | That doesn't belong in this cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "One folder at a time, I guess." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "file folder in z" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 23 Floyd | Floyd | > FILE FOLDER IN Z Floyd | Floyd | (the sorted folders in the Z cabinet) Floyd | That doesn't belong in this cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "dang" | ||
| elks says (to Floyd), "file zarf in z" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 24 Floyd | Floyd | > FILE ZARF IN Z Floyd | Floyd | (the sorted folders in the Z cabinet) Floyd | That doesn't belong in this cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 25 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some sorted folders Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x z cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 26 Floyd | Floyd | > X Z CABINET Floyd | Floyd | File cabinet Z takes documents from Zz-Ze. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Za isn't in range." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cabinets" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 27 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABINETS Floyd | Floyd | The file cabinets are marked in reverse alphabetical order: cabinet Z, Floyd | cabinet Z-Y, cabinet X-Y, etc. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "x z-y" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "file folder in z-y" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 28
Floyd |
Floyd | > FILE FOLDER IN Z-Y
Floyd |
Floyd | (the sorted folders in the Z-Y cabinet)
Floyd | (first opening the Z-Y cabinet)
Floyd | The Z-Y cabinet drawer seems to be stuck. Not locked, just kind of not
Floyd | moving very easily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x z-y" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 29
Floyd |
Floyd | > X Z-Y
Floyd |
Floyd | File cabinet Z-Y takes documents from Za-Yi.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open z-y" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 30
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN Z-Y
Floyd |
Floyd | The Z-Y cabinet drawer seems to be stuck. Not locked, just kind of not
Floyd | moving very easily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick it" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 31 Floyd | Floyd | > KICK IT Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "foiled again" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 32 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | File Room Floyd | This bleak room with its short, slumping ceiling does nothing to Floyd | brighten your morale. Short file cabinets, marked in reverse Floyd | alphabetical order, crawl in a line along the walls like an army of Floyd | stupid robots. One measly window lets in a tiny square of sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | You see a copier machine here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull z-y" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 33
Floyd |
Floyd | > PULL Z-Y
Floyd |
Floyd | Man, this cabinet is really stuck shut. Better try again. This time,
Floyd | with feeling.
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel a faint cool breath of air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yank z-y" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 34
Floyd |
Floyd | > YANK Z-Y
Floyd |
Floyd | You give the stuck cabinet drawer the old heave-ho, and instead of
Floyd | merely opening, it yanks loose from the wall, revealing a strange,
Floyd | small door in the wall!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "my my" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 35 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The strange secret door is only about three feet high, and painted a Floyd | shade of crimson. Gold flecks in the paint give it a sparkly, almost Floyd | magical appearance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open it" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 0 Moves: 36 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | A hush of ancient air, tinged with organic sweetness, flows out of the Floyd | opened portal. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter it" | |||
Floyd ] Weird Tunnel Score: 3 Moves: 37 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER IT Floyd | Floyd | You pass through the portal into a dark tunnel, which sighs with Floyd | melodic longing as you enter. Floyd | Floyd | Weird Tunnel Floyd | You are on your hands and knees in a claustrophobic tunnel. It leads Floyd | down, as nearly as you can tell, but your equilibrium is distorted in Floyd | here. The curving walls gleam with the semblance of wet rock, but the Floyd | palms of your hands tell a different story. It feels like organic Floyd | tissue, a thick layer of hide, with the elastic strength of muscle. Floyd | Like sharkskin, it is silken and slick in one direction but resists Floyd | any backwards movement with a roughened grain. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. one-way passage, eh?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "well, no going back now" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x walls" | |||
Floyd ] Weird Tunnel Score: 3 Moves: 37 Floyd | Floyd | > X WALLS Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "we can undo and save" | ||
| DavidW says, "But I suspect we're fine so far." | |||
| chaudmin P | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Weird Tunnel Score: 3 Moves: 37 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You begin to crawl forward, the tunnel floor oozing and pliable under Floyd | your knees and palms. The secret door bangs shut and disappears. The Floyd | tunnel begins to shiver, and from up ahead a roar like a waterfall Floyd | issues from the darkness. Your hands suddenly lose traction as gravity Floyd | begins its quickening pull. You begin to slide down... down... down... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | DavidW says, "push space or push enter" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] At Zarf's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 38 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | B E I N G A N D R E W P L O T K I N Floyd | by J. Robinson Wheeler Floyd | Type ABOUT for information about this release.Release 2 / Serial Floyd | number 080423 / Inform v6.31 Library 6/11 Floyd | Floyd | At Zarf's Desk (in Zarf's head) Floyd | Weird! You're inside Zarf's head!You see the opening of Zarf's eyes, Floyd | giving you a sort of bifocal window into the surrounding environment. Floyd | Outside of Zarf, you see a workdesk containing a gigantic computer Floyd | monitor, a keyboard, tidy arrangements of notes, and a collection of Floyd | little toys and knick-knacks. Floyd | Floyd | Inside of Zarf's head, you see weird flashes of light. A number of Floyd | eerie sounds float around. You presume these effects are caused by the Floyd | random firing of synapses in a very active mind. There are no exits Floyd | that you can perceive. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf types some code into his computer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x notes" | |||
Floyd ] At Zarf's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 39 Floyd | Floyd | > X NOTES Floyd | Floyd | Beyond the fact that they're tidy, you can't really read what's Floyd | written on them from here. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf types more code into his computer, then saves the file. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x code" | |||
Floyd ] At Zarf's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 40 Floyd | Floyd | > X CODE Floyd | Floyd | You are suddenly humbled by the awareness that you don't know the Floyd | first thing about professional programming, because you can't tell Floyd | what this code does, even though it looks quite organized, efficient, Floyd | and well-commented. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf compiles his code. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x toys" | |||
Floyd ] At Zarf's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 41 Floyd | Floyd | > X TOYS Floyd | Floyd | There are little colored shapes and game pieces, a couple of metal Floyd | cubes sitting next to each other. There is a larger, third cube, an Floyd | elaborate assemblage of puzzle pieces, plated with gold. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf traces down a typo, saves again, and recompiles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x monitor" | |||
Floyd ] At Zarf's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 42 Floyd | Floyd | > X MONITOR Floyd | Floyd | The gigantic computer monitor is displaying a lot of complicated Floyd | programming code. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf takes a drink out of a glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Bet the gold cube is important." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x gold cube" | |||
Floyd ] At Zarf's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 43 Floyd | Floyd | > X GOLD CUBE Floyd | Floyd | It is actually not a cube at all, but sort of a very abstract human Floyd | torso sculpture. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf says, "It's in *California*?" His voice echoes, deep and Floyd | resonantly, through his head. Floyd | Floyd | > | zarf says, "o hai" | ||
| DavidW says, "o hai, zarf. Fancy seeing you here." | |||
| chaudmin says, "heya" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take cube" | |||
Floyd ] At Zarf's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 43 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CUBE Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the cubes or the gold cube? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm, I wonder if that works. Do we just look out the eyes or have motor control too?" | ||
| elks says (to Floyd), "gold cube" | |||
Floyd ] At Zarf's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 44 Floyd | Floyd | > GOLD CUBE Floyd | Floyd | You are unable to exert any control over Zarf's movements. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf types some more code into his computer. Floyd | Floyd | > | elks says, "Guess not" | ||
| DavidW says, "His synapses are nearby, though." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x lights" | |||
Floyd ] At Zarf's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 44 Floyd | Floyd | > X LIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x synapses" | |||
Floyd ] At Zarf's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 44 Floyd | Floyd | > X SYNAPSES Floyd | Floyd | Inside of Zarf's head, you see weird flashes of light. A number of Floyd | eerie sounds float around. You presume these effects are caused by the Floyd | random firing of synapses in a very active mind. There are no exits Floyd | that you can perceive. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf saves his code ag-- Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] Hedge Score: 3 Moves: 45 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, you are falling from a somewhat drastic height at the usual Floyd | 9.8 meters per second squared. Your acceleration and velocity are Floyd | halted when a large hedge on the Red Hat campus grounds rushes up to Floyd | catch you. Floyd | Floyd | Hedge Floyd | Spiny, poky leaves weed their way through your clothing and stab you Floyd | in uncomfortable and sensitive places. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "huh. How'd that happen?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "it was probably timed" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x hedge" | |||
Floyd ] Hedge Score: 3 Moves: 45 Floyd | Floyd | > X HEDGE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah. Try out or stand." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "exit hedge" | |||
Floyd ] Hedge Score: 3 Moves: 45 Floyd | Floyd | > EXIT HEDGE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3 Moves: 45 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Peter climbs out of the hedge. Meanwhile, back upstairs... Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette (as Valerie) Floyd | The kitchenette is a bland little room with rose print wallpaper and Floyd | the constant smell of coffee and orange rinds. You do your best to Floyd | keep the place tidy, but of course that's impossible with the 300 Floyd | pound gorillas, also known as "co-workers," who sling their hairy bulk Floyd | through here every day, leaving an unsightly mess. Since it's still Floyd | morning, you can stand to look at the place without getting out the Floyd | sponge and cleaning up. A coffee maker burbles in the corner. Floyd | Floyd | Melvin rotates into your field of view one awkward angle at a time. He Floyd | bangs his akimbo elbows on the sides of the doorframe, making a Floyd | horrible clanking noise on the metal. It doesn't seem to faze him. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey there, beautiful," he says in a syrupy voice. Floyd | Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel] Floyd | 1: Hi, Melvin. Floyd | 2: (sigh) Hi, Melvin. Floyd | 3: (groan) Goodbye, Melvin. Floyd | Floyd | >> | DavidW says, "I'm pretty sure Melvin isn't a '300 pound gorilla'." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3 Moves: 45
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "(sigh) Hi, Melvin."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hey, don't sound so negative," Melvin says. "I was just saying
Floyd | hello." He leans casually against the fridge, and it tilts, causing a
Floyd | clunk and a splash noise inside. "Whoops," he says. "Don't worry about
Floyd | it. So, busy for lunch?"
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: (groan) Goodbye, Melvin.
Floyd | 2: Yeah, I've got big lunch plans. Sorry.
Floyd | 3: If you don't clean up that fridge right now, it's going to cause a
Floyd | big problem for someone later. Namely, me.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "3" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3 Moves: 45
Floyd |
Floyd | > 3
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "If you don't clean up that fridge right now, it's going to
Floyd | cause a big problem for someone later. Namely, me."
Floyd |
Floyd | Melvin says, "Come on, I know you love to clean things up. I just did
Floyd | you a favor. I just gave you an excuse for the next time you decide to
Floyd | take an extra break from your desk."
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: (groan) Goodbye, Melvin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] Valerie's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 46 Floyd | Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You say, "(groan) Goodbye, Melvin." Floyd | Floyd | "So I'll seeya later?" Melvin calls out as you leave. Brrr. Serves you Floyd | right for trying to sneak an extra break from work. You steal back to Floyd | your desk, hoping no one besides Melvin saw you so obviously slacking. Floyd | Floyd | Valerie's Desk (as Valerie) Floyd | Your desk looked spiffy when you left it last night. By the time you Floyd | got here this morning, the minions of evil had sneaked in and dropped Floyd | off a messy pile of work. You've ignored it so far, but it's not Floyd | really going to go away on its own. On your computer, though, is email Floyd | that needs to be read. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a messy pile of work here. Floyd | Floyd | By the way, your phone is ringing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x work" | |||
Floyd ] Valerie's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 47 Floyd | Floyd | > X WORK Floyd | Floyd | You've ignored it so far, but it's not really going to go away on its Floyd | own. You'd probably better at least start to process it, so that maybe Floyd | you can make a dent in it by lunchtime and maybe have a clean desk Floyd | again by six this evening. Floyd | Floyd | You suppose there is another option. You could just clean up the pile Floyd | so it's not so messy. That would be a step towards starting to process Floyd | it, and it would make things look much nicer, and you still wouldn't Floyd | actually have to start doing anything yet. Floyd | Floyd | Your phone rings again. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "clean pile" | |||
Floyd ] Valerie's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 48 Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN PILE Floyd | Floyd | You clean up the messy pile. Now it's a clean pile. You can't fool Floyd | yourself, as much as you wanted to believe you could, into thinking Floyd | that cleaning up the pile represented actual doing of work. Floyd | Floyd | Your phone rings again. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "might answer the phone." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "answer phone" | |||
Floyd ] Valerie's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 48
Floyd |
Floyd | > ANSWER PHONE
Floyd |
Floyd | You answer the phone. It's your coworker Debra, wondering if you got
Floyd | any of her emails, but telling you never mind, because she figured it
Floyd | out by herself. Then she hangs up. Sweet Lord, when will you deliver
Floyd | us from idiot coworkers?
Floyd |
Floyd | Just as you hang up, you hear your name being yelled and see someone
Floyd | running up toward you.
Floyd |
Floyd | That cute young temp who started here a few weeks ago, whatsisname --
Floyd | Peter? -- is red-faced and perspiring slightly. One of his
Floyd | shirtsleeves is twisted (you resist the urge to straighten it), and
Floyd | his collar is turned up. There are also a number of twigs and hedge
Floyd | leaves clinging to him.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm glad you're here!" Peter says brightly. "I really need to talk to
Floyd | somebody about what just happened to me!"
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: A 'hello' would be nice.
Floyd | 2: What did you do, get up on the wrong side of the flower bed this
Floyd | morning?
Floyd | 3: Funny, I don't even remember buying a ticket for the 'Hear the
Floyd | secrets of a crazed Temp' lottery.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| chaudmin says, "all the options are snark" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd ] Valerie's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 48
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "What did you do, get up on the wrong side of the flower bed
Floyd | this morning?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Whuh?" Peter asks. Well, it isn't so much of a question as it is a
Floyd | grunt. You help pick off a couple of the more prominent leaves. "Well,
Floyd | the leaves, right," he says. "That's not what I came to talk about,
Floyd | but it's part of it. Indirectly, I mean. I fell in a hedge."
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: Why don't you go ahead and get to the point?
Floyd | 2: You indirectly fell in a hedge?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| DavidW says, "It's a snarky company." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd ] Valerie's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 48
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "You indirectly fell in a hedge?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, I didn't plan on it when I went into the little secret door and
Floyd | ended up inside someone else's brain. Only when the second flash of
Floyd | light came did I fall into the hedge," Peter says. "But, here's the
Floyd | interesting part."
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: If that's the dull part, I'm guessing you left out the part about
Floyd | evil alien robots from dimension X who plan to take over the world
Floyd | from their headquarters at Red Hat.
Floyd | 2: Yeah, yeah, whatever. How about dinner tonight?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] Valerie's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 48
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "If that's the dull part, I'm guessing you left out the part
Floyd | about evil alien robots from dimension X who plan to take over the
Floyd | world from their headquarters at Red Hat."
Floyd |
Floyd | Peter says, "No, the cool part, see, is that it was *Zarf's* head that
Floyd | I was inside!"
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: Yeah, yeah, whatever. How about dinner tonight?
Floyd | 2: Who the hell is Zarf?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd ] Valerie's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 48
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "Who the hell is Zarf?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "You never heard of Zarf?" Peter asks. Then he pauses, thinks a
Floyd | moment, and says, "Hmm, I guess you wouldn't have. Never mind. Here's
Floyd | an idea. How about we go to dinner tonight, and we can talk more
Floyd | then?"
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: Okay. dinner it is.
Floyd | 2: Can't do it tonight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| chaudmin says, "hmmm" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] Valerie's Desk Score: 3 Moves: 48 Floyd | Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You say, "Okay. dinner it is." Floyd | Floyd | Peter says, "Excellent! But, first things first. Can you meet me after Floyd | work up in the file room? I really want to show you something." Floyd | Floyd | Valerie says, "It's against my better judgment, but all right." Floyd | Floyd | Little do they suspect that Melvin, nearby, is spying on them and Floyd | making plans of his own.Even littler do they suspect that Melvin Floyd | is not what he seems... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||
| elks says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] Around the Corner Score: 3 Moves: 48
Floyd |
Floyd | Around the Corner (as "Melvin")
Floyd | SCANNING cubicle_space(3,1,15):
Floyd | TERRAN_LIFEFORM targets(2):
Floyd |
Floyd | RECOGNIZE: ID(696095)["Peter Danielson Feeney"]
Floyd | dETAIL_LIST New unit underling
Floyd | Problem report: DANGEROUS (watchflag)
Floyd | Problem report: ATTITUDE
Floyd | Resistant to authority. CONVERSE_MODE(shy,servile);
Floyd |
Floyd | RECOGNIZE: ID(344904)["Valerie Ann Michelle Conrad"]
Floyd | dETAIL_LIST Established unit (no connection)
Floyd | Problem report: ATTITUDE
Floyd | Responds to authority.
Floyd | CONVERSE_MODE(extrovert,lecherous);
Floyd |
Floyd | SOUNDSCAN targets(344904,696095): Process... Process...
Floyd | 696095: << Go FileRoom >> << Show 344904
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| Floyd OBJ_ID(0001001)[##Portal] >> | |||
Floyd | 344904: << accept order Go >> Floyd | Floyd | ANALYSIS: TERMINATE Action << Show >> | |||
| Floyd #ifSucc << EXECUTE ORDER_ID(904)[##CoverUp] >> | |||
Floyd | #else << TERMINATE ID(696095) >> Floyd | Floyd | NEXTACT: Floyd | [1]FOLLOW Floyd | [2]WAIT Floyd | [3]KILL Floyd | Floyd | >> | DavidW says, "oh my my my" | ||
| elks says, "umm.." | |||
| chaudmin says, "ohhh noooo" | |||
| elks says, "I like the converse_mode tag" | |||
| DavidW says, "Someday all NPCs will have such tags." | |||
| chaudmin says, "guess we should follow" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] Around the Corner Score: 3 Moves: 48 Floyd | Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | FOLLOW MODE ACTIVE. --NOMINAL-- Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Later that evening... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 48
Floyd |
Floyd | File Room (as Valerie)
Floyd | The file room is one of your favorite rooms in the company building.
Floyd | One, it's always orderly and clean; and two, it doesn't sport brightly
Floyd | colored IKEA furniture. It's businesslike and efficient. There's even
Floyd | a window to give the area a sense of openness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Peter is standing here, pacing, when you arrive. "What took you?
Floyd | Didn't we say 6:30?" Peter asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: Sorry I'm late.
Floyd | 2: Okay, so show me this amazing file cabinet of yours.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 49 Floyd | Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You say, "Okay, so show me this amazing file cabinet of yours." Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, so show me this amazing file cabinet of yours," you tell Peter. Floyd | "I'm starving." Floyd | Floyd | Peter says, "Here's what you do. Go to file cabinet Z-Y and try to Floyd | open it." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open z-y" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 50
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN Z-Y
Floyd |
Floyd | You try to open the cabinet, but it seems to be stuck shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's stuck," you say.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Give it a good pull," says Peter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "yank z-y" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 51
Floyd |
Floyd | > YANK Z-Y
Floyd |
Floyd | You yank on the drawer, and it flies clean out of the cabinet, sending
Floyd | you spilling backwards. Loose folders slide out in a snaky line
Floyd | sideways across the floor, emptying their contents in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Egad!" yells Peter. "That didn't happen last time!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, it did this time," you tell Peter. "Help me clean up the
Floyd | papers."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| chaudmin says, "hmm" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "clean up papers" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 51
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLEAN UP PAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | As you both lean down to clean up the papers, you see a pair of shoes
Floyd | enter the room from the darkened hallway. Perched in the shoes is a
Floyd | pair of stilts. Balanced on the stilts is a kind of potato head with
Floyd | Melvin's face on it. In other words, Melvin is standing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Do you two want to tell me what you're doing here?" Melvin asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: No.
Floyd | 2: Practicing the Lambada.
Floyd | 3: Smooching.
Floyd | 4: It's none of your business, Melvin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 51
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "No."
Floyd |
Floyd | Melvin's eyes narrow. He kicks some of the papers with his toe. "I
Floyd | could report this as company espionage. That's what it looks like to
Floyd | me."
Floyd |
Floyd | Peter says, "Hey, be cool, Melvin. It was just an accident. I spilled
Floyd | a cabinet and Valerie offered to help me clean up."
Floyd |
Floyd | Melvin looks at you. "Just an innocent spill. This is the second time
Floyd | today that cabinet has 'innocently' spilled open."
Floyd |
Floyd | "So I'm clumsy," says Peter, shrugging.
Floyd |
Floyd | Melvin says, "Why don't you two put things back where you found them,
Floyd | and I won't have to report this?"
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: Okay. Sorry.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 52 Floyd | Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You say, "Okay. Sorry." Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, Melvin," says Peter. Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry," you say through gritted teeth. Floyd | Floyd | Melvin folds his clanky arms and waits impatiently for you to finish Floyd | cleaning up the scattered papers, his red little eyes sweeping back Floyd | and forth between you and Peter like a Cylon's. Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "no one notices he's a robot" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x melvin" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 53 Floyd | Floyd | > X MELVIN Floyd | Floyd | Melvin seemed harmless enough at first, but lately he's been giving Floyd | you the definite creeps. For one thing, he doesn't work anywhere near Floyd | your station, yet you seem to meet him two or three times a day. Floyd | You're starting to get the feeling that he's obsessing about you, and Floyd | you're starting to lose your ability to be nice to him. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Do people get the cylon reference? Battlestar Galactica was a while back." | ||
| Roger says, "It's like the KITT scanner" | |||
| chaudmin says, "I just assumed it was some kind of scanner, yeah" | |||
| DavidW says (to Roger), "right" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "clean up papers" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 54 Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN UP PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | Melvin watches as you pick up the scattered folders and papers and Floyd | shove them into the open cabinet. Peter puts the YZ cabinet back Floyd | against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | "There, Melvin," Peter says. Floyd | Floyd | Melvin says, "Okay, now get out." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "kick melvin" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 55 Floyd | Floyd | > KICK MELVIN Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "dang" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "leave" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 56 Floyd | Floyd | > LEAVE Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to say which compass direction to go in. Floyd | Floyd | Melvin glowers, waiting for you to leave. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 56 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Melvin watches as you exit the building. You leave him behind at the Floyd | entrance and walk a safe distance away. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, that was weird. I've never seen Melvin act like that," Peter Floyd | says. Floyd | Floyd | "Really?" you ask. "He's always seemed a sort of a creep to me." Floyd | Floyd | "Is there any way we can sneak back in, do you think?" Floyd | Floyd | "Really?" asks Peter. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah. Now I'm curious. If Melvin hadn't showed up like that, I Floyd | wouldn't have believed you really found something. Now I want to see Floyd | what it is." "Won't Melvin be watching?" Floyd | Floyd | "He can't sit there all night," you say. "He has to go home at some Floyd | point, right?" "Should we go to dinner first?" Floyd | Floyd | "Nah. Let's just go for it. Come on. Melvin doesn't really have any Floyd | authority over me, anyway." Floyd | Floyd | Peter says, "Excellent." Floyd | Floyd | And so ... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 56
Floyd |
Floyd | File Room
Floyd | The file room is one of your favorite rooms in the company building.
Floyd | One, it's always orderly and clean; and two, it doesn't sport brightly
Floyd | colored IKEA furniture. It's businesslike and efficient. There's even
Floyd | a window to give the area a sense of openness. Early moonlight peeks
Floyd | in, drawing a long amber trapezoid on the carpet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Peter is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Peter says, "Okay, I don't see him. Let's be careful this time." He
Floyd | moves the Z-Y cabinet quietly aside to reveal a strange little door in
Floyd | the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: Whoa.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 57 Floyd | Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You say, "Whoa." Floyd | Floyd | Peter says, "Go on in. It's safe. If all goes well, I'll meet you by Floyd | the hedge in a few minutes." Floyd | Floyd | "Which hedge?" you ask. "How will I find you?" Floyd | Floyd | "Trust me on this one," says Peter. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x peter" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 58 Floyd | Floyd | > X PETER Floyd | Floyd | Pete is a bright-looking guy with reddish hair and a solid frame. He Floyd | always seems to be on the attack, mad about something, but there's Floyd | also a twinkle in his dark blue eyes, as if he's also in on a joke you Floyd | can't guess at. Also, he's got a cute butt. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "great" | ||
| DavidW says, "Hopefully he's not a robot too." | |||
| DavidW says, "It's creepy when robots have cute butts." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter door" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 59 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since the secret door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 60 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | A hush of ancient air, tinged with organic sweetness, flows out of the Floyd | opened portal. Floyd | Floyd | > | elks says, ">pinch butt" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "pinch butt" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 60 Floyd | Floyd | > PINCH BUTT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "worth a shot." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter portal" | |||
Floyd ] Weird Tunnel Score: 3 Moves: 61 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER PORTAL Floyd | Floyd | You pass through the portal into a dark tunnel, which sighs with Floyd | melodic longing as you enter. Floyd | Floyd | Weird Tunnel Floyd | You are on your hands and knees in a claustrophobic tunnel. It leads Floyd | down, as nearly as you can tell, but your equilibrium is distorted in Floyd | here. The curving walls gleam with the semblance of wet rock, but the Floyd | palms of your hands tell a different story. It feels like organic Floyd | tissue, a thick layer of hide, with the elastic strength of muscle. Floyd | Like sharkskin, it is silken and slick in one direction but resists Floyd | any backwards movement with a roughened grain. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] Weird Tunnel Score: 3 Moves: 62 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're Valerie Conrad, a fast-rising young data analyst. You love Floyd | using your sharp wit, honed during verbal duels with your five older Floyd | brothers. You know that you've been successful due to your smarts and Floyd | your experience, and you hate the implication that physical Floyd | attractiveness has anything to do with it. Of course, that doesn't Floyd | mean that one can't look sharp and sexy if one so chooses (if you do Floyd | say so yourself). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Weird Tunnel Score: 3 Moves: 62 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You begin to crawl forward, the tunnel floor oozing and pliable under Floyd | your knees and palms. The secret door bangs shut and disappears. The Floyd | tunnel begins to shiver, and from up ahead a roar like a waterfall Floyd | issues from the darkness. Your hands suddenly lose traction as gravity Floyd | begins its quickening pull. You begin to slide down... down... down... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] In Zarf's Kitchen Score: 3 Moves: 63 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In Zarf's Kitchen (in Zarf's head) Floyd | Weird! You really are inside someone's head!You see the opening of Floyd | this guy Zarf's eyes, giving you a sort of bifocal window into the Floyd | surrounding environment. Out through his eyes you can see that he's in Floyd | the middle of making dinner. On the stove, a pan of onions has been Floyd | sautéed golden brown in olive oil. On the countertop you see a bottle Floyd | of white wine, two measuring cups, a small bowl, and a plate of ribbed Floyd | pasta. Floyd | Floyd | Inside of Zarf's head, you see weird flashes of light. A number of Floyd | eerie sounds float around. You presume these effects are caused by the Floyd | random firing of synapses in a very active mind. Floyd | Floyd | Each time there is a flash, you notice a shadow nearby that never Floyd | seems to brighten. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf stirs a cup of white wine into the pan of onions and lets it Floyd | simmer. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "suspicious shadow." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x shadow" | |||
Floyd ] In Zarf's Kitchen Score: 3 Moves: 64 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHADOW Floyd | Floyd | The shadow falls in a diagonal slant, and a sensation comes from it, Floyd | but you are unable to tell whether it is warmth or cold. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf measures out roughly a cup of really squishy blue cheese. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "what is he making" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x wine" | |||
Floyd ] In Zarf's Kitchen Score: 3 Moves: 65 Floyd | Floyd | > X WINE Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of white wine is missing a cup, which was added to the pan Floyd | of onions. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf stirs the simmering onions. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x onions" | |||
Floyd ] In Zarf's Kitchen Score: 3 Moves: 66 Floyd | Floyd | > X ONIONS Floyd | Floyd | The pan contains a quantity of chopped white onions which have Floyd | simmered until golden brown. A cup of white wine has been added to the Floyd | mixture for flavoring. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf stirs the simmering onions. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "some sort of pasta, but I dislike blue cheese." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x pasta" | |||
Floyd ] In Zarf's Kitchen Score: 3 Moves: 67 Floyd | Floyd | > X PASTA Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the plate of ribbed pasta. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf adds the cheese to the simmering onions and mixes it around. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "great, I'm hungry now." | ||
| DavidW asks, "can we search or touch the shadow?" | |||
| Roger says, "It gets better/worse" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "touch shadow" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 3 Moves: 68 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH SHADOW Floyd | Floyd | You touch the shadow, and move deeper inside the brain. Floyd | Floyd | Inside Zarf's Brain Floyd | The noise is really loud here, and there is more to see. A visual Floyd | juxtaposition mars your sense of place. The walls are angular but Floyd | smooth, are a warm red, living rock, are cold dead clay and calcite. Floyd | Cave tunnels lead in all directions, but without a compass or a way to Floyd | mark your trail, you sense that you could easily get lost. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a control panel here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh" | ||
| chaudmin says, "ohh" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x panel" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 3 Moves: 69 Floyd | Floyd | > X PANEL Floyd | Floyd | The control panel has the appearance of a music stand, rising from a Floyd | single stalk to about the height of your rib cage. The flat surface Floyd | has but one button and a rectangular plate about four inches by six Floyd | inches. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x plate" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 3 Moves: 70 Floyd | Floyd | > X PLATE Floyd | Floyd | The rectangular plate is made of some sort of smooth, colorless Floyd | ceramic. Floyd | Floyd | Out of the corner of your eye, you notice a curious gentleman casually Floyd | leaning against one of the walls here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x man" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 3 Moves: 70 Floyd | Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | The thief is a slippery character with beady eyes that flit back and Floyd | forth. He carries, along with an unmistakable arrogance, a large bag Floyd | over his shoulder and a vicious stiletto, whose blade is aimed Floyd | menacingly in your direction. I'd watch out if I were you. Floyd | Floyd | He does not speak, but it is clear from his aspect that the bag will Floyd | be taken only over his dead body. Floyd | Floyd | The thief makes a sudden, swift movement in your direction. You catch Floyd | a glimpse of his stiletto moving, and then -- Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | DavidW says, "That was the thief from Zork!" | ||
| chaudmin says, "dang, I wanted to push the button." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | DavidW says, "There's likely to be another chance." | ||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 3 Moves: 70 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, you are falling, but all you see are slashes of yellow light Floyd | and dark green shapes. One of the largest shapes, with a dimple in the Floyd | center, moves towards you quickly. As it nears, you feel a sense of Floyd | time slowing, and your eyes catch the details. It is a large hedge, Floyd | and the dimple is a crushed spot roughly the size of Peter's body. You Floyd | hope he flattened most of the sharpest branches when he landed... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | DavidW says, "This game seems fairly linear." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] Northwest Campus Score: 3 Moves: 71 Floyd | Floyd | Northwest Campus (as Peter) Floyd | You are at the northwest edge of the corporate campus. A decorated Floyd | line of hedges hidden by a corner of stately trees, with leaves that Floyd | gently whisper in the evening wind. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a large hedge here. Floyd | Floyd | Valerie plummets into the big hedge with an unladylike Floyd | ka-thump-krickle. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x valerie" | |||
Floyd ] Northwest Campus Score: 3 Moves: 72 Floyd | Floyd | > X VALERIE Floyd | Floyd | Valerie is a knockout brunette with almond shaped eyes, a flashing Floyd | smile, a cutting sense of humor, and a real sense of style. She always Floyd | seems to be trying to prove something to the world, like she can dish Floyd | it out as well as she can take it. Also, she has a cute butt. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "again with the butts." | ||
| DavidW says, "Their babies will have the cutest butts ever." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x hedge" | |||
Floyd ] Northwest Campus Score: 3 Moves: 73 Floyd | Floyd | > X HEDGE Floyd | Floyd | The large hedge has been atrociously flattened by your violent Floyd | arrivals. Valerie is somewhere in the hedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "help valerie" | |||
Floyd ] Northwest Campus Score: 3 Moves: 73
Floyd |
Floyd | > HELP VALERIE
Floyd |
Floyd | You help Valerie out of the hedge. "Wow!" she says. "That was really
Floyd | intense. So, who is that guy?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Zarf. Andrew Plotkin. He works here."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh. Oh! Yeah. I know that guy. I meant the *other* guy."
Floyd |
Floyd | "What other guy?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "The one back in the brain."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Wait, you went farther back in the brain? How'd you do that?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Didn't you see the shadow?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Um. No."
Floyd |
Floyd | "You ought to go and try it, then."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah! No. Yeah. No."
Floyd |
Floyd | "You need to be more decisive."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Let's eat first. When I put the file cabinet back and came out here,
Floyd | I had the feeling Melvin was watching the back of my head."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Dinner, then?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | [Hit any key.]
| |||
| elks says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] Northwest Campus Score: 3 Moves: 73
Floyd |
Floyd | Colonel Pho's Restaurant
Floyd | She picked a nice place, you have to admit. Reasonable prices,
Floyd | delicious, spicy food. The usual Americanized Asian decorations are
Floyd | strung liberally about the restaurant, providing a cozy, if slightly
Floyd | kitschy, atmosphere.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So, what do you do?" Valerie asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I write text adventure games."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Check, please."
Floyd |
Floyd | "No, really. It's this new medium called Interactive Fiction. It's
Floyd | really cool. That guy Zarf? He's the master, man. You should play some
Floyd | of his stuff."
Floyd |
Floyd | "What's so great about interactive fiction?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's kind of hard to explain to someone who's never heard of it
Floyd | before. Me, I like writing it. Playing it is kind of dumb. It's always
Floyd | too hard. It was originally based on puzzles."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Puzzles? Like what? Jump the pegs to leave only one left?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Peter sputters. "Eeeagh! No! Well, yes. But that's a terrible example.
Floyd | I mean like: find the gold key, to open the door. Find the magic sword
Floyd | to kill the ogre."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hmm. How about, find the object to activate the control panel?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Could be, yeah."
Floyd |
Floyd | "What about a sneaky thief guy? How would you get past him?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "!!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I've never seen anyone pronounce an exclamation point before. How'd
Floyd | you do that?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's the thief from Zork! He must be some sort of symbolic internal
Floyd | defense mechanism. Or something. You didn't see an elvish sword of
Floyd | great antiquity in there, maybe glowing blue?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "No."
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm still thinking about that panel," Peter says. "Maybe if we
Floyd | activated that, we could control Zarf."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Is that a responsible thing to do?" Valerie asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | "No, but it sounds kind of fun, doesn't it?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sure, I guess," she says. "What do you think we'd need to prove to
Floyd | Zarf's internal control unit that we were Zarf?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "A picture of him, maybe?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Do you have one?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "No. Yes! In the file cabinet! There was a photo of him in the file!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, let's go back and get it."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now you're talking."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | [Hit any key.]
| chaudmin says, "it is hard to explain to someone who's never heard of it before" | ||
| DavidW says, "I know." | |||
| elks says, "mmhm" | |||
| DavidW says, "One of these days I really must write up an elevator speech." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 73
Floyd |
Floyd | File Room (as Peter)
Floyd | This bleak room with its short, slumping ceiling looks disconcertingly
Floyd | eerie at night. The army of stupid file cabinet robots looks ready to
Floyd | spring to life at any moment. The one measly window lets in a tiny
Floyd | rectangle of moonlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | A secret door has been revealed in the wall behind the Z-Y cabinet.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Should we turn the lights on?" Valerie asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: Probably better not.
Floyd | 2: I guess so.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| chaudmin says, "the lights turn on; Melvin is there." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think 1." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 74 Floyd | Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You say, "Probably better not." Floyd | Floyd | You tell Valerie, "Probably better not. I don't want to attract any Floyd | attention." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 74
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | A hush of ancient air, tinged with organic sweetness, flows out of the
Floyd | opened portal.
Floyd |
Floyd | Valerie asks, "Why don't we both go?"
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: Will that work?
Floyd | 2: Sure. Why not?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| chaudmin says, "hmm" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 75 Floyd | Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You say, "Will that work?" Floyd | Floyd | Valerie says, "Sure. Why not?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter portal" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 76 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER PORTAL Floyd | Floyd | Valerie stops you. "Wait, we forgot the photo." Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "oh yeah" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x z-y" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 77
Floyd |
Floyd | > X Z-Y
Floyd |
Floyd | File cabinet Z-Y takes documents from Za-Yi.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "search z-y" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 78
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH Z-Y
Floyd |
Floyd | You search the Z-Y cabinet, and locate the Zarf:Declassified file.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take photo" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 3 Moves: 79 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter portal" | |||
Floyd ] Weird Tunnel Score: 3 Moves: 80 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER PORTAL Floyd | Floyd | You pass through the portal into a dark tunnel, which sighs with Floyd | melodic longing as you enter. Floyd | Floyd | Weird Tunnel (as Peter) Floyd | You are on your hands and knees in a claustrophobic tunnel. It leads Floyd | down, as nearly as you can tell, but your equilibrium is distorted in Floyd | here. The curving walls gleam with the semblance of wet rock, but the Floyd | palms of your hands tell a different story. It feels like organic Floyd | tissue, a thick layer of hide, with the elastic strength of muscle. Floyd | Like sharkskin, it is silken and slick in one direction but resists Floyd | any backwards movement with a roughened grain. Floyd | Floyd | Valerie follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Weird Tunnel Score: 3 Moves: 80 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You begin to crawl forward, the tunnel floor oozing and pliable under Floyd | your knees and palms. The secret door bangs shut and disappears. The Floyd | tunnel begins to shiver, and from up ahead a roar like a waterfall Floyd | issues from the darkness. Your hands suddenly lose traction as gravity Floyd | begins its quickening pull. You begin to slide down... down... down... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] Zarf's Apartment Score: 3 Moves: 81 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Zarf's Apartment (in Zarf's head) (as Peter) Floyd | Zarf seems at first to be in a library, but on second glance, he's Floyd | just at home but owns a *lot* of books. A couple thousand of them, by Floyd | the looks of it. He is holding a bar code scanner and is scanning the Floyd | ISBN numbers of books from a tall stack, one at a time, into his Floyd | computer. Floyd | Floyd | Inside of Zarf's head, you see weird flashes of light. A number of Floyd | eerie sounds float around. You presume these effects are caused by the Floyd | random firing of synapses in a very active mind. A deep shadow here Floyd | slashes diagonally, refusing the light. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, I'll stay here," says Valerie. "Try to get that panel Floyd | activated. I'll holler if I see anything happen." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x books" | |||
Floyd ] Zarf's Apartment Score: 3 Moves: 82 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | There are hundreds and hundreds of books, too many to describe Floyd | individually. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf scans another book from the stack. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin asks, "is the shadow getting bigger?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "touch shadow" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 3 Moves: 83 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH SHADOW Floyd | Floyd | You touch the shadow, and feel a chill go through your bones. Floyd | Floyd | "I think he felt that," yells Valerie. Floyd | Floyd | Inside Zarf's Brain (as Peter) Floyd | The noise is really loud here, and there is more to see. A visual Floyd | juxtaposition mars your sense of place. The walls are angular but Floyd | smooth, are a warm red, living rock, are cold dead clay and calcite. Floyd | Cave tunnels lead in all directions, but without a compass or a way to Floyd | mark your trail, you sense that you could easily get lost. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a control panel here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Sequitur arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | |||
| Sequitur has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x panel" | DavidW says, "I didn't see the shadow change size at all." | ||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 3 Moves: 84 Floyd | Floyd | > X PANEL Floyd | Floyd | The control panel has the appearance of a music stand, rising from a Floyd | single stalk to about the height of your rib cage. The flat surface Floyd | has but one button and a rectangular plate about four inches by six Floyd | inches. Floyd | Floyd | Out of the corner of your eye, you notice a curious gentleman leaning Floyd | against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | elks says, "I didn't catch that either" | ||
| DavidW asks, "I guess we put the photo on the plate?" | |||
| chaudmin says, "mm, before it was just a shadow, now it's a "deep shadow"." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put photo on plate" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 3 Moves: 85 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PHOTO ON PLATE Floyd | Floyd | You put the blurry photo onto the ceramic plate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push button" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 6 Moves: 86 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You touch the button. It pulses once, and then a bright blue glow Floyd | sweeps across the ceramic plate.The disk's color changes to blue and Floyd | pulsates three times. A similar glow issues from the ceramic plate, Floyd | and then a microphone telescopes up from a previously invisible Floyd | opening. The thief moves back into the darkness and vanishes. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "huh." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x microphone" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 6 Moves: 87 Floyd | Floyd | > X MICROPHONE Floyd | Floyd | It is a slender golden rod with a burnished tip. The tip contains a Floyd | spherical windscreen. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x windscreen" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 6 Moves: 88 Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDSCREEN Floyd | Floyd | It is a slender golden rod with a burnished tip. The tip contains a Floyd | spherical windscreen. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin asks, "can we speak into the mic?" | ||
| DavidW says, "talk to it? yeah, try." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "talk to mic" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 6 Moves: 88
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO MIC
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: Test. Test. Testing 1, 2, 3, 4. Hello?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 6 Moves: 88
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "Test. Test. Testing 1, 2, 3, 4. Hello?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel a sudden sense of pressure and release, and a darkening of
Floyd | the environment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Valerie yells, "Is it working? He's looking around like he knows
Floyd | someone is messing with him."
Floyd |
Floyd | "What should I try?" you ask.
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's up to you," Valerie yells back.
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: Umm. Zarf, drop your book.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 6 Moves: 88
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "Umm. Zarf, drop your book."
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a slight shift in the floor, then a heavy, echoing thud from
Floyd | somewhere outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | Valerie yells, "Yay! He dropped the book! Try something else."
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: Zarf, stand up.
Floyd | 2: Zarf, do the funky chicken.
Floyd | 3: Zarf, explain 'So Far'.
Floyd | 4: Zarf, give me all your chocolate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| chaudmin says, "so many options..." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, he'll never agree to explain So Far." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "3" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 6 Moves: 88
Floyd |
Floyd | > 3
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "Zarf, explain 'So Far'."
Floyd |
Floyd | A hollow noise rumbles up from the caves, like gigantic steel doors
Floyd | swinging shut and locking. From the shadows, the stranger with the
Floyd | rucksack and stiletto speaks in a low voice, saying, "I do not explain
Floyd | my work. You, however, have some explaining to do." He steals closer,
Floyd | an inch at a time, circling you.
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: Valerie, help!
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| chaudmin says, "whoops." | ||
| DavidW says, "ha ha ha. Told ya so." | |||
| chaudmin says, "should've had him give me his chocolate." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 6 Moves: 89 Floyd | Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You say, "Valerie, help!" Floyd | Floyd | A violent red light pulses through the inside of the brain. Valerie Floyd | enters, looking spooked. Floyd | Floyd | Valerie says, "Uh oh, I think he's pissed." Floyd | Floyd | "Who are you two?" the thief demands, extending his stiletto blade. Floyd | Floyd | You back slowly away from the control panel, your eye on the tunnel Floyd | openings. "What do we do now?" you ask Valerie. "Usually the trip ends Floyd | by this point." Floyd | Floyd | The thief circles closer, his eyes locked on yours, glinting in the Floyd | darkness the same as his blade. Floyd | Floyd | "What if we get stuck here?" Valerie wonders aloud. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "talk to thief" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 6 Moves: 90 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO THIEF Floyd | Floyd | You can't think of anything to say. Floyd | Floyd | The thief suddenly lunges. Valerie yanks you backwards. Floyd | Floyd | "Run!" she screams. Floyd | Floyd | "Which way?" Floyd | Floyd | "*Any* way!" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 6 Moves: 91 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You experience blind panic for the first time in your life, despite Floyd | the absurdity of the setting, and the recognizable fiction of the Floyd | threat. Your life; how small and petty it all seems, and how short. Floyd | There is little light in these twisting tunnels, and the faster you Floyd | run, the more time moves in slow motion, and your thoughts turn Floyd | inward. Your life has been blind and short, you think; appropriate, Floyd | because down this last dark turn of the cave tunnel you have met with Floyd | an unexpected, dead end. Floyd | Floyd | Dead End Floyd | It is the classic dead end. More than that, it is the archetypal dead Floyd | end. Nowhere forward, nowhere back. The ceiling shocks with its Floyd | height, the walls oppress with their closeness. There are no exits. Floyd | Floyd | A helix of light hangs in the air here, twirling and changing colors. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Valerie here. Floyd | Floyd | "We're trapped!" whispers Valerie, as much color drained from her face Floyd | as there is pulsating in the helix above. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "touch helix?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "touch helix" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 6 Moves: 91 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH HELIX Floyd | Floyd | It has no substance, only color and light. Floyd | Floyd | The thief enters, his stiletto blade extended. "You two don't belong Floyd | here," he says. "And I believe you have something of mine." Floyd | Floyd | "Help!" you yell. "Hel--" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] Hedge Score: 6 Moves: 92 Floyd | Floyd | Hedge Floyd | Spiny, poky leaves weed their way through your clothing and stab you Floyd | in uncomfortable and sensitive places. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "and we lost the photo, didn't we?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "yeah..." | |||
| Roger says, "I'd kinda forgotten just how Inceptiony this was (or vice versa)" | |||
| chaudmin says, "I guess it's still in there somewhere." | |||
| DavidW says, "perhaps it won't matter; Zarf knows we're intruders already." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Northwest Campus Score: 6 Moves: 93 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Northwest Campus Floyd | You are at the northwest edge of the corporate campus. A decorated Floyd | line of hedges hidden by a corner of stately trees, with leaves that Floyd | gently whisper in the evening wind. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Valerie and a large hedge here. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, that was freaky," says Valerie. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, let's call it a night," you say. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh come on. This is getting fun. This is my kind of Interactive Floyd | Fiction!" Floyd | Floyd | "More like interactive reality. Oh, damn. Where is it? I've lost the Floyd | photo." Floyd | Floyd | "Maybe you dropped it when we fell. Look in the hedge." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "search hedge" | |||
Floyd ] Northwest Campus Score: 6 Moves: 94 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH HEDGE Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing in the hedge. Floyd | Floyd | "It's not there," you say."I bet the thief took it. That means the Floyd | show's over." Floyd | Floyd | "Do you think we should tell Zarf about this?" Floyd | Floyd | "Hmm. Maybe it's better if he doesn't know." Floyd | Floyd | "I don't know about that. If it were your head, wouldn't you want to Floyd | know that people were hacking into it?" Floyd | Floyd | "Good point. Okay, we'll tell him first thing tomorrow." Floyd | Floyd | "Agreed," says Valerie. Floyd | Floyd | "Agreed," you say. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "leave" | |||
Floyd ] Northwest Campus Score: 6 Moves: 95 Floyd | Floyd | > LEAVE Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to say which compass direction to go in. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "go home" | |||
Floyd ] Northwest Campus Score: 6 Moves: 95 Floyd | Floyd | > GO HOME Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "out" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Northwest Campus Score: 6 Moves: 96 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Northwest Campus Score: 6 Moves: 97 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | "Can I walk you to your car?" you ask Valerie Floyd | Floyd | "You can limp me there," she says, grimacing. "I think I twisted my Floyd | ankle." Floyd | Floyd | You puff out your chest. "I can carry you, if you want." Floyd | Floyd | Valerie laughs. "Ooh. The last of the gallant gentlemen." She shakes Floyd | her head. "No thanks, I'm tough," she says. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "carry val" | |||
Floyd ] Northwest Campus Score: 6 Moves: 97 Floyd | Floyd | > CARRY VAL Floyd | Floyd | Peter carries Valerie to her car, trying desperately not to huff and Floyd | sweat and collapse. Floyd | Floyd | Early the next morning, Zarf wakes and takes a long walk to work, Floyd | trying to blow off some steam. It doesn't help... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | chaudmin says, "haha" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] Zarf's Desk Score: 6 Moves: 98 Floyd | ** Library error 10 (0,0) ** Floyd | Floyd | Zarf's Desk Floyd | You are *pissed*. Someone's been messing with you, and you know Floyd | exactly who it was. *How* they did it, you don't know, but that's the Floyd | first thing on your mind this morning. Find evil scum, tell evil scum Floyd | off. Then, get some work done. Floyd | Floyd | On the computer is a MUD window. You are logged onto ifMUD. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "meta" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x window" | |||
Floyd ] Zarf's Desk Score: 6 Moves: 98
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Sargent says (to Zarf), "Hey."
Floyd | inky says, "hi Z"
Floyd | Iain says, "Hullo."
Floyd | You say, "grnn. Not happy."
Floyd | Rob says (to Iain), "that's what I thought until recently"
Floyd | Iain says (to Rob), "Oh?"
Floyd | Sargent says (to Zarf), "What's up?"
Floyd | inky says, "erm?"
Floyd | You say, "Details not important. I have a mission to destroy
Floyd | evil
Floyd | scum."
Floyd | Sargent says, "Ugly buildup in the bathtub?"
Floyd | inky says, "probably some sort of foaming cleanser is in
Floyd | order"
Floyd | Rob says, "bleach and a stiff brush will take care of that"
Floyd | Adam says, "You coul-- Damn it."
Floyd | Sargent says, "HA ha."
Floyd | Emily groans.
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly, Evil Scum are here. You recognize one of them only from a
Floyd | vivid mental snapshot that appeared yesterday morning. You recognize
Floyd | the other from seeing her around once or twice. You are not pleased to
Floyd | see either of them, although it saves you the trouble of hunting them
Floyd | down.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Um, hi Mr. Plotkin," says the first.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm Valerie Conrad, and this is Peter Feeney," says the other.
Floyd |
Floyd | "We came to tell you about -- something weird that we discovered."
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's a portal into your head," says Valerie, which doesn't make any
Floyd | logical sense, but it does explain things, if it's true.
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: And you decided to take not just one trip, but three? Thanks a
Floyd | *lot*.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| DavidW says, "Very meta." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] Zarf's Desk Score: 6 Moves: 98
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "And you decided to take not just one trip, but three? Thanks
Floyd | a *lot*."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sorry about that. It was just ordinary curiosity at first."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Perfectly natural."
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: There's nothing natural or ordinary about it. Where is this portal?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] Zarf's Desk Score: 6 Moves: 98
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "There's nothing natural or ordinary about it. Where is this
Floyd | portal?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "In the file room."
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: Take me there. Now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] Zarf's Desk Score: 6 Moves: 98
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "Take me there. Now."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, okay."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | [Hit any key.]
| |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 6 Moves: 99 Floyd | Floyd | File Room Floyd | The file room is an unimpressive rectangular room full of squat Floyd | cabinets. The file cabinets are a pale yellow, like raw milk, and each Floyd | stands about 38 inches high. There is a maladjusted ceiling tile, and Floyd | scruffy stains on the padded carpeting. In the north wall is a window, Floyd | about two and a half feet square, with a crank latch. A copier machine Floyd | sits near the wall, bearing no make or marking that you recognize, Floyd | even though no company produces generic photocopiers that you know of. Floyd | Even more curiously, the wall socket behind it is empty, meaning that Floyd | the copier is not plugged in, and yet it definitely seems to be turned Floyd | on. Floyd | Floyd | Peter pulls the second cabinet from the end away from the wall, Floyd | revealing a portal fashioned from slats of aged cedar. Ornate brass Floyd | hinges, possibly hand-crafted, clamp the door securely to the wall. Floyd | Beyond being bizarre, it is curiously anachronistic. The portal itself Floyd | antedates this building by at least a century and a half, in your Floyd | estimation. Floyd | Floyd | "This is it," says Peter. "I don't know what would happen if you went Floyd | through it, though." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "This... could get awkward... ?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "nice descriptions." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x copier" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 6 Moves: 100 Floyd | Floyd | > X COPIER Floyd | Floyd | The copier machine sits near the wall, bearing no make or marking that Floyd | you recognize. Even more curiously, the copier is not plugged in, and Floyd | yet it definitely seems to be turned on. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "The room description is different, isn't it?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "yeah. more detailed." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 6 Moves: 101 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The door swings easily on its hinges, which have been recently oiled. Floyd | Someone is evidently its caretaker, but it is beyond your ability to Floyd | guess whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "here goes nothing." | ||
| DavidW asks, "also, ceiling tile?" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter portal" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 6 Moves: 101
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER PORTAL
Floyd |
Floyd | A voice shouts, "STOP!" It is an odd voice, a peculiar sounding shout.
Floyd | It sounds less like a voice yelling and more like a normal voice
Floyd | mechanically amplified.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Melvin!" shouts Peter.
Floyd |
Floyd | This "Melvin" bears no resemblance to any human being, living or dead.
Floyd | The ersatz flesh on his disjointed skeleton is a remarkable elastic,
Floyd | tinted with some care to mimic caucasian melanin. Under the
Floyd | fluorescent light, it reflects slightly too much green, and it
Floyd | wrinkles unnaturally at limb joints. More care has been taken in the
Floyd | face, allowing for a range of facial expressions. Currently, the
Floyd | expression is one of intended menace.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You leave me no choice but to terminate you," says Melvin. He goes to
Floyd | the copier and punches a sequence of numbers on the button panel. A
Floyd | strange shuddering vibration pulses through the room, from back to
Floyd | front.
Floyd |
Floyd | "The file cabinets!" yells Peter. "They're moving!"
Floyd |
Floyd | The file cabinets are growing taller. Beneath each, a small footpad is
Floyd | extending, and the cabinet bodies are rising on stalks. A single
Floyd | cycloptic ruby eye irises open on the face of each.
Floyd |
Floyd | Peter rolls his eyes. "Well what the heck. It *is* a stupid robot
Floyd | army!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Go in, quick!" Valerie orders you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Go! We'll hold him off!" Peter shouts, bravely. "I think."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | [Hit any key.]
| chaudmin says, "ohhhhh nooooo" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] Weird Tunnel Score: 6 Moves: 102 Floyd | Floyd | You pass through the portal into a dark tunnel, which sighs with Floyd | melodic longing as you enter. Floyd | Floyd | Weird Tunnel Floyd | You are on your hands and knees in a claustrophobic tunnel. It leads Floyd | down, as nearly as you can tell, but your equilibrium is distorted in Floyd | here. The curving walls gleam with the semblance of wet rock, but the Floyd | palms of your hands tell a different story. It feels like organic Floyd | tissue, a thick layer of hide, with the elastic strength of muscle. Floyd | Like sharkskin, it is silken and slick in one direction but resists Floyd | any backwards movement with a roughened grain. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Weird Tunnel Score: 6 Moves: 102 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You begin to crawl forward, the tunnel floor oozing and pliable under Floyd | your knees and palms. The tunnel begins to shiver, and from up ahead a Floyd | roar like a waterfall issues from the darkness. Your hands suddenly Floyd | lose traction as gravity begins its quickening pull. You begin to Floyd | slide down... down... down... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (In Score: 6))) Moves: 103 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (In yourself))) Floyd | Recursion has always been one of your favorite tools, but you know far Floyd | too well that if it doesn't hit an escape clause, it will recur until Floyd | the stack overflows and the system crashes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf5" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (In Score: 6))) Moves: 103 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (InsScore: 6 (In Moves: 104)) Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (In yourself))) Floyd | Recursion has always been one of your favorite tools, but you know far Floyd | too well that if it doesn't hit an escape clause, it will recur until Floyd | the stack overflows and the system crashes. Floyd | Floyd | Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (In yourself)))) Floyd | Recursion has always been one of your favorite tools, but you know far Floyd | too well that if it doesn't return a value, it will recur until the Floyd | stack overflows and the system crashes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "careful" | ||
| elks asks, "could we find the shadow and panel?" | |||
| chaudmin says, "oh man." | |||
| DavidW says, "I suppose we can try to touch the shadow, but it might not be here." | |||
| chaudmin asks, "escape?" | |||
| DavidW says, "escape might work." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "escape" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (InsScore: 6 (InsMoves: 105In Floyd | y Floyd | Floyd | > ESCAPE Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to be more specific about how you want to do that. Floyd | Floyd | Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (In Floyd | yourself))))) Floyd | Recursion has always been one of your favorite tools, but you know far Floyd | too well that if it doesn't return a value, it will recur until the Floyd | stack overflows and the system crashes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "or return a value, it said?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "return value" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (InsScore: 6 (InsMoves: Floyd | 106Insi Floyd | Floyd | > RETURN VALUE Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to be more specific about how you want to do that. Floyd | Floyd | Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf Floyd | (Inside Zarf (In yourself)))))) Floyd | Recursion has always been one of your favorite tools, but you know far Floyd | too well that if it doesn't return a value, it will recur until the Floyd | stack overflows and the system crashes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "return me" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (InsScore: 6 (InsMoves: Floyd | 106Insi Floyd | Floyd | > RETURN ME Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that number. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "return 0" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (InsScore: 6 (InsMoves: 107In Floyd | y Floyd | Floyd | > RETURN 0 Floyd | Floyd | You halt the current execution and pop up to the next level. Floyd | Floyd | Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (In Floyd | yourself))))) Floyd | Recursion has always been one of your favorite tools, but you know far Floyd | too well that if it doesn't return a value, it will recur until the Floyd | stack overflows and the system crashes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh man" | ||
| chaudmin asks, "did it work?" | |||
| DavidW says, "sorta" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "return 0" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (InsScore: 6 (In Moves: 108)) Floyd | Floyd | > RETURN 0 Floyd | Floyd | You halt the current execution and pop up to the next level. Floyd | Floyd | Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (In yourself)))) Floyd | Recursion has always been one of your favorite tools, but you know far Floyd | too well that if it doesn't return a value, it will recur until the Floyd | stack overflows and the system crashes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "return 0" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (In Score: 6))) Moves: 109 Floyd | Floyd | > RETURN 0 Floyd | Floyd | You halt the current execution and pop up to the next level. Floyd | Floyd | Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (In yourself))) Floyd | Recursion has always been one of your favorite tools, but you know far Floyd | too well that if it doesn't return a value, it will recur until the Floyd | stack overflows and the system crashes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "return 0" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (In yourself)) Score: 6 Moves: 110 Floyd | Floyd | > RETURN 0 Floyd | Floyd | You halt the current execution and pop up to the next level. Floyd | Floyd | Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (In yourself)) Floyd | Recursion has always been one of your favorite tools, but you know far Floyd | too well that if it doesn't return a value, it will recur until the Floyd | stack overflows and the system crashes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "return 0" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf (In yourself) Score: 6 Moves: 111 Floyd | Floyd | > RETURN 0 Floyd | Floyd | You halt the current execution and pop up to the next level. Floyd | Floyd | Inside Zarf (In yourself) Floyd | Recursion has always been one of your favorite tools, but you know far Floyd | too well that if it doesn't return a value, it will recur until the Floyd | stack overflows and the system crashes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "return 0" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf (In yourself) Score: 6 Moves: 111 Floyd | Floyd | > RETURN 0 Floyd | Floyd | You return the last value, and a shadow falls over you. Touching it, Floyd | you fall inward. Meanwhile, a few turns ago... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | chaudmin says, "whew." | ||
| DavidW says, "wow" | |||
| chaudmin says, "that's a nice bit of coding, there." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 6 Moves: 111
Floyd |
Floyd | File Room (as Peter)
Floyd | The situation has gone from bad to worse, here. The army of mutant
Floyd | little file cabinet robots has herded you and Valerie back against the
Floyd | north wall. The window is behind you. Melvin is across the room,
Floyd | working controls on the copier, which has opened up to reveal some
Floyd | sort of pulsating machine innards.
Floyd |
Floyd | A secret door has been revealed in the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Valerie says, "What do we do?"
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: We go out the window.
Floyd | 2: We attack Melvin.
Floyd | 3: We make a break for the portal.
Floyd | 4: We do like Captain Kirk, and incapacitate Melvin with logic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| DavidW says, "I like 4." | ||
| chaudmin says, "me too." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "4" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 6 Moves: 112 Floyd | Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You say, "We do like Captain Kirk, and incapacitate Melvin with Floyd | logic." Floyd | Floyd | Valerie looks at you like you're the biggest nerd she has ever met, Floyd | and considering you both work at Red Hat, that's saying something. Floyd | "See what you can do, I guess," she says. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "incapacitate melvin with logic" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 6 Moves: 112 Floyd | Floyd | > INCAPACITATE MELVIN WITH LOGIC Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| elks says (to Floyd), "talk to melvin" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 6 Moves: 112
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO MELVIN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: Melvin. I submit that your plans are illogical.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| DavidW says, "melvin, calculate last digit of pi" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 6 Moves: 112
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "Melvin. I submit that your plans are illogical."
Floyd |
Floyd | Melvin looks up at you. "Illogical?" he asks. "My plans are perfect.
Floyd | Not that they're my plans, of course. The Great Brain of Dimension X
Floyd | knows all." Melvin begins to fidget, the first time you've seen him
Floyd | nervous since things started to get really weird. "Who am I to
Floyd | question his perfect logic? I am created in his perfect image. We
Floyd | serve logic. We serve the Great Brain."
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: I submit that your orders are illogical.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 6 Moves: 112
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "I submit that your orders are illogical."
Floyd |
Floyd | Melvin's left eyelid starts to twitch. "No, no. My orders are perfect.
Floyd | The Great Brain is incapable of error. The Great Brain is God! God is
Floyd | Logic!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Valerie whispers, "I think it's working!"
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: I submit that *you* are illogical!
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 6 Moves: 112
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "I submit that *you* are illogical!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "No -- no, it cannot be!" Melvin says. He looks confused, staring at
Floyd | the pulsating brain and back to you. "Logic is God. God is Logic.
Floyd | Those who do not serve God must be destroyed!"
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: I submit that the Great Brain is illogical. You serve a false God,
Floyd | a god of illogic! What is the penalty for serving a false God?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 6 Moves: 112
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "I submit that the Great Brain is illogical. You serve a
Floyd | false God, a god of illogic! What is the penalty for serving a false
Floyd | God?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Melvin begins to quiver and shake. "Illogical... illogical..." Smoke
Floyd | starts coming of his ears. "Must -- must -- serve -- groink! Blatt!"
Floyd | He makes a few sputtering noises and collapses.
Floyd |
Floyd | Valerie says, "There's no way that should have worked."
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly, Melvin springs back to his feet, shoots you an evil grin,
Floyd | and laughs like an insane android might at a time like this.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Idiot," Melvin says. "There's no such thing as the Great Brain. I'm
Floyd | just here to kill you because I'm an evil android bastard who loves to
Floyd | kill. And it'll be a special pleasure killing someone so dweebishly
Floyd | gullible."
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: Oh well. It was worth a shot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| DavidW says, "ha ha ha" | ||
| chaudmin says, "aw man." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 6 Moves: 112
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You say, "Oh well. It was worth a shot."
Floyd |
Floyd | Melvin says, "Hardly." He goes back to fiddling with the pulsating
Floyd | machine brain.
Floyd |
Floyd | Valerie whispers, "So. Any other bright ideas?"
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say? [0 to cancel]
Floyd | 1: I'll pick up one of the cabinets and throw it at Melvin. You should
Floyd | go for the portal. Then I'll figure out some way of getting in there
Floyd | myself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 6 Moves: 113 Floyd | Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You say, "I'll pick up one of the cabinets and throw it at Melvin. You Floyd | should go for the portal. Then I'll figure out some way of getting in Floyd | there myself." Floyd | Floyd | Valerie gives you a kiss. "For good luck," she says as the heroic Floyd | music swells. Floyd | Floyd | The conversation kind of trails off at that point. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 6 Moves: 114 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You pick up the nearest file cabinet, which turns out to be the Z-Y Floyd | cabinet. The stupid robot starts making a pathetic squealing noise. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey! Put him down this instant!" shrieks Melvin. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "throw cabinet at melvin" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 6 Moves: 114
Floyd |
Floyd | > THROW CABINET AT MELVIN
Floyd |
Floyd | (the army of mutant little file cabinet robots at Melvin)
Floyd |
Floyd | What heroic catch phrase would you like to utter?
Floyd | [1]Here's mud in your eye, sucker! [2]It's clobberin' time!
Floyd | [3]Hasta la vista, bubbala! [4]You remember when I said I'd kill you
Floyd | last? I lied!
Floyd | >>
| chaudmin asks, "well, what'll it be?" | ||
| DavidW says, "2" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 9 Moves: 115 Floyd | Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | "It's clobberin' time!" you shout. Floyd | Floyd | "Who do you think this mutant army is, the Yancy Street Gang?" Valerie Floyd | says. Floyd | Floyd | "Don't ruin my moment. Just get moving!" Floyd | Floyd | Valerie makes a gymnastic diving roll over the sinister little Floyd | cabinets and disappears into the portal. You fling the little metallic Floyd | beast at Melvin, but your aim is terrible. Fortunately, you lobbed it Floyd | so far to the side that it goes smashing into the pulsating copier Floyd | machine brain heart organ thingy, which implodes and then explodes, Floyd | emitting a terrific shower of sparks and a sad little dying scream. Floyd | Floyd | As you might expect, Melvin shouts, "Noooooooooooo!" as the little Floyd | army of stupid robots topples over en masse, vomiting their paper Floyd | folder guts all over the place. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "nice." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x melvin" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 9 Moves: 116 Floyd | Floyd | > X MELVIN Floyd | Floyd | Melvin Prufrock is a thin, translucent looking individual, with tics Floyd | and other twitchy mannerisms passing for a personality. He is insanely Floyd | tall, approaching six foot eight, but probably only weighs 130 pounds Floyd | with clothes on. You don't even want to consider what he's like Floyd | without clothes on. He also looks like he's about six years younger Floyd | than you are, so about nineteen, and yet he's several rankings above Floyd | you on the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Melvin withdraws some sort of bulbous metal ray gun from one of the Floyd | dead cabinets. "You should have escaped when you had the chance, Floyd | Peter!" he says as he pulls the trigger. For a moment, you feel Floyd | absolutely nothing, and then you realize with some shock that this is Floyd | because your nervous system has been completely vaporized, and the Floyd | rest of you along with it. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 9 out of a possible 12, in 116 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "whoops" | ||
| DavidW says, "undo!" | |||
| elks says, "aw man" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 9 Moves: 115 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | File Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter portal" | |||
Floyd ] Weird Tunnel Score: 9 Moves: 116 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER PORTAL Floyd | Floyd | You leap for the portal. Floyd | Floyd | Weird Tunnel (as Peter) Floyd | You are on your hands and knees in a claustrophobic tunnel. It leads Floyd | down, as nearly as you can tell, but your equilibrium is distorted in Floyd | here. The curving walls gleam with the semblance of wet rock, but the Floyd | palms of your hands tell a different story. It feels like organic Floyd | tissue, a thick layer of hide, with the elastic strength of muscle. Floyd | Like sharkskin, it is silken and slick in one direction but resists Floyd | any backwards movement with a roughened grain. Floyd | Floyd | You hear Melvin scream, "You can't get away from *ME*!" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Weird Tunnel Score: 9 Moves: 116 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You begin to crawl forward, the tunnel floor oozing and pliable under Floyd | your knees and palms. The tunnel begins to shiver, and from up ahead a Floyd | roar like a waterfall issues from the darkness. Your hands suddenly Floyd | lose traction as gravity begins its quickening pull. You begin to Floyd | slide down... down... down... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 9 Moves: 117 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside Zarf's Brain (as Peter) Floyd | The noise is really loud here, and there is more to see. A visual Floyd | juxtaposition mars your sense of place. The walls are angular but Floyd | smooth, are a warm red, living rock, are cold dead clay and calcite. Floyd | Cave tunnels lead in all directions, but without a compass or a way to Floyd | mark your trail, you sense that you could easily get lost. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a control panel, Valerie and Zarf here. Floyd | Floyd | "You made it!" says Valerie. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah," you say, "But Melvin's right on my tail." Floyd | Floyd | Zarf seems calm and sagelike. "It's okay. I know my way around, and I Floyd | have a plan. Mind you, the timing is apt to be rather ... cruel... Floyd | from now on." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf6" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 9 Moves: 117 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "talk to zarf" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 9 Moves: 117
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO ZARF
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | What would you like to say?
Floyd | [1]What's the plan?
Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >>
| |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] Inside Zarf's Brain Score: 9 Moves: 118 Floyd | Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Zarf says, "Isn't it obvious?" Floyd | You can't think of anything in particular to say. Floyd | Floyd | There is a sound like a vacuum implosion, and a flash of light. Melvin Floyd | tumbles into view, holding some sort of ray gun. Floyd | Floyd | "He's got a gun!" shouts Valerie. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf says, "Follow me, please." Floyd | Floyd | Zarf leaves to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "guess we better follow." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Tunnels Score: 9 Moves: 119 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Melvin fires the ray gun, which emits a sizzling noise and a bright Floyd | stripe of electric blue laser light. "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!" he Floyd | screams. The two of you narrowly dodge the beam and follow Zarf down Floyd | the tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | Tunnels (as Peter and Valerie) Floyd | A huge cavern rises above you. The far reaches are lost in shadow Floyd | mist, and the vaults above fade into a darkness pierced with long Floyd | columns of stone. Chill water drips and pools in broken declivities. Floyd | You can hear little else. A river of smoke-grey travertine flows down Floyd | one wall of the chamber. Pale fungi gleam in phosphorescence somewhere Floyd | above. Gloomy side chambers stretch off in many directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Zarf here. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf says, "We're going to need a few things. Try to keep up." Floyd | Floyd | Zarf walks down through the floor. Vivid gold light flares around him. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Canyon Wall Score: 9 Moves: 120 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You follow Zarf through the floor, which melts open around you. You Floyd | hear Melvin close behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Canyon Wall (as Peter and Valerie) Floyd | Massive buttresses of stone rise all around you, climbing the canyon Floyd | wall, flowing down again in cascades of pale fluorite. A path seems to Floyd | climb up among them; but you don't think you can get to it right now. Floyd | Floyd | The carcass of the Wumpus is heaped before you. Hardened blood Floyd | trickles from its ravaged hide, puddling on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | There is a crossbow lying here; near the beast; loaded and cocked. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf says, "Take the crossbow." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take crossbow" | |||
Floyd ] Canyon Wall Score: 9 Moves: 121 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CROSSBOW Floyd | Floyd | Peter takes the crossbow. Floyd | Floyd | Valerie says, "Poor thing." Floyd | Floyd | Zarf walks through the east wall. Rich crimson light flares around Floyd | him. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Hunt the Wumpus, eh? I guess we're visiting other games to get inventory from." | ||
| chaudmin says, "I'm afraid to examine anything..." | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah, don't examine stuff." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Small Cave Score: 9 Moves: 122 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You follow Zarf through east wall, which melts open around you. You Floyd | hear Melvin close behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Small Cave (as Peter and Valerie) Floyd | You are in a dark pocket, a stony crack below the summit of the hill. Floyd | It is not quite high enough to stand in, but surprisingly long, Floyd | narrowing only slowly towards the back. The entrance is a circle of Floyd | blinding crimson to the west, partially obscured by the boulder. Floyd | Floyd | An ancient and filthy blanket is crumpled against one wall of the Floyd | cave. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Zarf here. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf says, "Take the blanket." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take blanket" | |||
Floyd ] Small Cave Score: 9 Moves: 123 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BLANKET Floyd | Floyd | Valerie takes the blanket. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf walks through the south wall. Shimmering grey light flares around Floyd | him. Floyd | Floyd | Melvin squeezes through the cave opening. "It's a good thing I Floyd | remembered to change my batteries!" he puffs. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "eep" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Storage Tent Score: 9 Moves: 124 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You follow Zarf through the south wall. Melvin is one step behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Storage Tent (as Peter and Valerie) Floyd | This is where the party kept all its supplies. However Roboff seems to Floyd | have cleaned everything out that was of any use. Several arrows of Floyd | Da-Glo paint on the wall attract your attention to the empty food and Floyd | water chests. Floyd | Lying on the ground is a brass torch of the "self-igniting" type. The Floyd | ignite button is on the handle. Floyd | There is a shovel lying here. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Zarf here. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf says, "Take the shovel." Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "You're not my real dad" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take shovel" | |||
Floyd ] Storage Tent Score: 9 Moves: 125 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SHOVEL Floyd | Floyd | Peter takes the shovel. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf says, "Okay, we need to take a slight detour." Floyd | Floyd | Zarf walks up through the ceiling. Pale green light flares around him. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the tent, Melvin hollers, "Little pigs, little pigs, let me Floyd | in!" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Tunnels Score: 9 Moves: 126 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You follow Zarf through the ceiling. You feel the heat of Melvin's ray Floyd | gun blast nearly singe your feet. Floyd | Floyd | Tunnels (as Peter and Valerie) Floyd | A huge cavern rises above you. The far reaches are lost in shadow Floyd | mist, and the vaults above fade into a darkness pierced with long Floyd | columns of stone. Chill water drips and pools in broken declivities. Floyd | You can hear little else. A river of smoke-grey travertine flows down Floyd | one wall of the chamber. Pale fungi gleam in phosphorescence somewhere Floyd | above. Gloomy side chambers stretch off in many directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Zarf here. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf says, "Fortunately, these tunnels lead everywhere. Come along." Floyd | Floyd | Zarf walks through the south wall. Rosy pink light flares around him. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] In Roc Nest Score: 9 Moves: 127 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You follow Zarf through the south wall. Melvin is one step behind you. Floyd | Floyd | In Roc Nest (as Peter and Valerie) Floyd | This nest is made from skillfully woven tree trunks, small bushes, and Floyd | large amounts of mud and roc guano for glue. Giant black feathers are Floyd | everywhere. In the center of the nest is an egg the size of a small Floyd | wagon. Nestled beneath the egg is a featureless white cube. Floyd | The roc perches on the side of the nest, watching you intently. Floyd | There is a stained scroll here. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Zarf here. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf says, "Take the scroll." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take scroll" | |||
Floyd ] In Roc Nest Score: 9 Moves: 128 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SCROLL Floyd | Floyd | Valerie takes the stained scroll. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf walks through the west wall of the nest. Blinding white light Floyd | flares around him. Floyd | Floyd | Melvin materializes through the rock face. "Where the hell are we?" he Floyd | says, staring around. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That's one of Enchanter, Sorcerer, or Spellbreaker. I forget which." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Control Room Score: 9 Moves: 129 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You follow Zarf through the west wall. You hear Melvin yelling, "Bad Floyd | bird! Bad!" Floyd | Floyd | Control Room (as Peter and Valerie) Floyd | This is the control room for all the machinery nearby. The controls Floyd | are all magical, of course. The walls are covered by blinking lights Floyd | and shifting displays, interspersed with arcane dials and glowing Floyd | buttons. It's all very mysterious looking. The exit, to the northwest, Floyd | leads into a room with machinery which would surely crush you if you Floyd | were to attempt to enter it. Floyd | A scroll of old, brittle parchment is here. Floyd | "Crash!" A huge hammer smashes against the stone floor outside. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf says, "Take the scroll." Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "more scrolls." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take scroll" | |||
Floyd ] Control Room Score: 9 Moves: 130 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SCROLL Floyd | Floyd | (the brittle scroll) Floyd | Peter takes the brittle scroll. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf says, "I need to take my own detour. You two, take the northwest Floyd | exit, wait for Melvin, and incapacitate him. Lay a trap if need be. Floyd | I'll rejoin you after." Floyd | Floyd | "Crash!" A huge hammer smashes against the stone floor outside. Floyd | Floyd | "Are you sure we can get through that?" Peter asks. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf touches a shadow and vanishes. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh. Great." Floyd | Floyd | "Crash!" A huge hammer smashes against the stone floor outside. Floyd | Floyd | Melvin bursts in from the east wall, covered with talon scratches and Floyd | roc feathers. "Note to self: Don't mess with the roc egg," he says. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 131 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You make it across the room, but just barely; just as you duck through Floyd | the door, a huge hammer crashes down behind, missing by an inch. Floyd | Something you stepped on along the way clicked as well, and with a Floyd | horrible screeching noise, the machinery speeds up, crashing faster Floyd | and faster until it's twice as fast as before. Floyd | Floyd | From behind, you hear Melvin cry, "Hey! No fair!" That machinery ought Floyd | to slow him down for at least a minute or two. Floyd | Floyd | Dead End (as Peter and Valerie) Floyd | It is the classic dead end. More than that, it is the archetypal dead Floyd | end. Nowhere forward, nowhere back. The ceiling shocks with its Floyd | height, the walls oppress with their closeness. There are no exits. Floyd | Floyd | Melvin will be here at any moment. Floyd | Floyd | "Do we know what to do?" Valerie asks Peter. Floyd | Floyd | "I hope so, or we're dead." Peter says. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This is Enchanter. iirc" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Crossbow, blanket, shovel, two scrolls?" | |||
| DavidW says, "A shovel and blanket suggests a bengal tiger trap, maybe." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf7" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 131 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "examine the scrolls, I guess?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x scroll" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 131 Floyd | Floyd | > X SCROLL Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the brittle scroll or the stained scroll? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| elks says (to Floyd), "x scrolls" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 131 Floyd | Floyd | > X SCROLLS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x brittle" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 132 Floyd | Floyd | > X BRITTLE Floyd | Floyd | The scroll reads "kulcad spell: dispel a magic spell". The spell seems Floyd | very long and extremely complicated. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x stained" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 133 Floyd | Floyd | > X STAINED Floyd | Floyd | The scroll reads "caskly spell: cause perfection." Floyd | Floyd | You hear the distant crash of a giant hammer, followed by a small Floyd | shriek from Melvin. It sounded more disappointed than fatal. Floyd | Floyd | > | elks asks, "lay a trap?" | ||
| chaudmin asks, "well, I guess we dig a hole?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "I guess?" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "dig with shovel" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 133 Floyd | Floyd | > DIG WITH SHOVEL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig floor with shovel" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 134 Floyd | Floyd | > DIG FLOOR WITH SHOVEL Floyd | Floyd | (the floor with the shovel) Floyd | Peter attacks the soft ground with the shovel. It seems to magically Floyd | bite large chunks at a time, like a ravenous rodent burrowing into Floyd | angel food cake. The scooped material seems to vanish like evaporating Floyd | bubbles, leaving only a deep pit behind. Floyd | Floyd | Unfortunately, Peter himself ends up at the bottom of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "hm." | ||
| chaudmin says, "maybe we get him to fall in the hole, then hit him with the shovel." | |||
| elks asks, "can we climb out?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't think so. We need to get Peter out." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "climb hole" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 135 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB HOLE Floyd | Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | There is a terrific crash and then a fast series of metallic whupping Floyd | noises. Melvin comes limping in through the southeast wall, looking Floyd | the worse for wear. Several spears are skewered in his sides, and one Floyd | leg drags limply behind him. Floyd | Floyd | "My ray gun got smashed by the hammer," he mopes.He looks down in the Floyd | pit and laughs. "What are you doing down there, digging a latrine? Floyd | Don't worry about that. Time to die." Floyd | Floyd | With a steely 'snikt', long metal blades protrude out of his knuckles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| elks says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 136 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | There are no exits. Floyd | Floyd | With quick, violent slashes of his metal claws, Melvin flays the flesh Floyd | from your bones. Then he flays your bones, for good measure. He just Floyd | goes freaky with the flaying in general. By that point, though, you've Floyd | effectively departed this mortal coil. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 9 out of a possible 12, in 136 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | elks says, "ahhh whoops" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf7" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 131 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok. This is before digging." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "dig floor with shovel" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 132 Floyd | Floyd | > DIG FLOOR WITH SHOVEL Floyd | Floyd | (the floor with the shovel) Floyd | Peter attacks the soft ground with the shovel. It seems to magically Floyd | bite large chunks at a time, like a ravenous rodent burrowing into Floyd | angel food cake. The scooped material seems to vanish like evaporating Floyd | bubbles, leaving only a deep pit behind. Floyd | Floyd | Unfortunately, Peter himself ends up at the bottom of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "take peter?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "or, peter, out?" | |||
| elks says, "we also have a crossbow" | |||
| chaudmin says, "forgot about the crossbow." | |||
| elks says, "we had one move when melvin entered" | |||
| DavidW says, "give crossbow to peter? I'm not sure what to do here." | |||
| elks asks, "could we just shoot him?" | |||
| chaudmin says, "I think peter already has the crossbow" | |||
| chaudmin asks, "cover hole with blanket?" | |||
| elks says (to Floyd), "cover hole with blanket" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 133 Floyd | Floyd | > COVER HOLE WITH BLANKET Floyd | Floyd | Valerie throws the blanket across the opening of the pit, covering it Floyd | completely. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the distant crash of a giant hammer, followed by a small Floyd | shriek from Melvin. It sounded more disappointed than fatal. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x crossbow" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 133 Floyd | Floyd | > X CROSSBOW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think the hole covering has to happen after Peter's out, but let's try stuff anyway." | ||
| chaudmin asks, "how do we cast the spells on the scrolls?" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, we can do CASKLY TRAP, I think." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "caskly trap" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 133 Floyd | Floyd | > CASKLY TRAP Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cast caskly" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 134 Floyd | Floyd | > CAST CASKLY Floyd | Floyd | The casting feels wrong, and you are momentarily blinded. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Spellname target, or CAST spellname ON target." | ||
| chaudmin says, "think I just wasted a turn." | |||
| DavidW says, "I guess 'trap' doesn't exist as such. Maybe caskly blanket or caskly hole." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "caskly hole" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 135 Floyd | Floyd | > CASKLY HOLE Floyd | Floyd | The casting feels wrong, and you are momentarily blinded. Floyd | Floyd | There is a terrific crash and then a fast series of metallic whupping Floyd | noises. Melvin comes limping in through the southeast wall, looking Floyd | the worse for wear. Several spears are skewered in his sides, and one Floyd | leg drags limply behind him. Floyd | Floyd | "My ray gun got smashed by the hammer," he mopes."Hey, where's your Floyd | boyfriend? You two get separated? Don't worry, you guys will have a Floyd | touching reunion in Hell." Floyd | Floyd | With a steely 'snikt', long metal blades protrude out of his knuckles. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "and yay, wasted turn and wasted scroll, I suspect." | ||
| DavidW says, "er yeah, not yay" | |||
| chaudmin says, "hopefully he'll fall in the hole" | |||
| DavidW says, "hmm. I wonder what would happen if we caskly'ed Melvin." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cast caskly on melvin" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 136 Floyd | Floyd | > CAST CASKLY ON MELVIN Floyd | Floyd | Peter intones the caskly spell. A shower of sparks erupts around Floyd | Melvin, and then a cloud of puffy white smoke. When it clears, Melvin Floyd | looks brand new. Floyd | Floyd | "Thanks, man," he says. "Now I am a perfect killing machine!" He then Floyd | demonstrates his newly perfected skills on you. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 9 out of a possible 12, in 136 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | elks says, "haha" | ||
| chaudmin says, "huh" | |||
| elks says, "since we've two scrolls, maybe we can caskly hammer and then dispel the magic before leaving.." | |||
| elks says, "although it said the other spell is long and complicated" | |||
| DavidW says, "The hammer is in the previous room, though." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cf7" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 131
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 132 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a brittle scroll Floyd | a stained scroll Floyd | a shovel Floyd | a blanket Floyd | a crossbow Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cast caskly on crossbow" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 133 Floyd | Floyd | > CAST CASKLY ON CROSSBOW Floyd | Floyd | The casting feels wrong, and you are momentarily blinded. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the distant crash of a giant hammer, followed by a small Floyd | shriek from Melvin. It sounded more disappointed than fatal. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "hmmmmm." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "dig floor with shovel" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 134 Floyd | Floyd | > DIG FLOOR WITH SHOVEL Floyd | Floyd | (the floor with the shovel) Floyd | Peter attacks the soft ground with the shovel. It seems to magically Floyd | bite large chunks at a time, like a ravenous rodent burrowing into Floyd | angel food cake. The scooped material seems to vanish like evaporating Floyd | bubbles, leaving only a deep pit behind. Floyd | Floyd | Unfortunately, Peter himself ends up at the bottom of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cover hole with blanket" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 135 Floyd | Floyd | > COVER HOLE WITH BLANKET Floyd | Floyd | Valerie throws the blanket across the opening of the pit, covering it Floyd | completely. Floyd | Floyd | There is a terrific crash and then a fast series of metallic whupping Floyd | noises. Melvin comes limping in through the southeast wall, looking Floyd | the worse for wear. Several spears are skewered in his sides, and one Floyd | leg drags limply behind him. Floyd | Floyd | "My ray gun got smashed by the hammer," he mopes."Hey, where's your Floyd | boyfriend? You two get separated? Don't worry, you guys will have a Floyd | touching reunion in Hell." Floyd | Floyd | With a steely 'snikt', long metal blades protrude out of his knuckles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "shoot melvin with crossbow" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 135 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOOT MELVIN WITH CROSSBOW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin asks, "why can't we use the crossbow?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "peter, shoot melvin with crossbow" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 9 Moves: 135
Floyd |
Floyd | > PETER, SHOOT MELVIN WITH CROSSBOW
Floyd |
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "maybe the 'shoot' verb doesn't know with-clauses." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot melvin" | |||
Floyd ] In the Pit Score: 9 Moves: 136 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOOT MELVIN Floyd | Floyd | You'll need a proper weapon first. Floyd | Floyd | Melvin takes a limping step forward and, like the idiot he always was, Floyd | falls for the trap and topples into the pit, just barely missing Floyd | Peter. Floyd | Floyd | In the Pit (as Peter) Floyd | You are down in the bottom of the pit. Crudely carved, spongy walls Floyd | lead up to a narrow opening. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a blanket here. Floyd | Floyd | Melvin looks like he's gotten the wind knocked out of him, if that's Floyd | possible. Probably getting past the crashing machinery trap took more Floyd | out of him than you guessed. He stands up woozily. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot melbin" | |||
Floyd ] In the Pit Score: 9 Moves: 136 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOOT MELBIN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot melvin" | |||
Floyd ] In the Pit Score: 12 Moves: 137 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOOT MELVIN Floyd | Floyd | You shoot the crossbow at Melvin, who is too disoriented to deflect Floyd | the bolt. It plunges straight into his gizzard. "EEEAGH!!" he cries Floyd | his last, before exploding into a million shiny pieces. Melvin is no Floyd | more. Floyd | Floyd | "That was funky," Valerie says from above. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin exclaims, "hooray!" | ||
| elks says, "yay" | |||
| elks says, "now to get out of the hole" | |||
| DavidW says, "ok, so we don't use the scrolls here then? Or at least, not vs Melvin." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cast caskly on hole" | |||
Floyd ] In the Pit Score: 12 Moves: 138 Floyd | Floyd | > CAST CASKLY ON HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You don't have that spell. Floyd | Floyd | "Come on up," Valerie calls down to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 12 Moves: 138 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Peter climbs out of the pit and rejoins Valerie. Floyd | Floyd | Dead End (as Peter and Valerie) Floyd | It is the classic dead end. More than that, it is the archetypal dead Floyd | end. Nowhere forward, nowhere back. The ceiling shocks with its Floyd | height, the walls oppress with their closeness. There are no exits. Floyd | Floyd | A deep pit has been dug here by Peter. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf appears in a cloud of orange smoke, wearing a long blue cloak Floyd | with electroluminescent highlights. He surveys the scene calmly. Floyd | "Okay," he says, retrieving the blanket and the crossbow. Floyd | Floyd | [1]How do we get out of here? Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | chaudmin says, "huh." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] Dead End Score: 12 Moves: 138 Floyd | Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "Like this," he says, and withdraws a small white cube and a spell Floyd | book from his cloak. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf begins to intone the blorple spell-- Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 12 Moves: 139 Floyd | Floyd | File Room (as Peter and Valerie) Floyd | The room is a disaster area. Ruined cabinets lie everywhere, the Floyd | remains of a once mighty (but very silly) army. The exploded pulsating Floyd | copier machine innards are leaking trails of acrid ochre smoke into Floyd | the air. Scorched company documents, flung willy nilly in the battle, Floyd | carpet the floor, hiding only the smallest of the many scuffs and Floyd | scratches. Floyd | Floyd | The secret door lies exposed in the wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Zarf here. Floyd | Floyd | "Now," says Zarf. "Your turn again." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "talk to zarf" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 12 Moves: 140 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO ZARF Floyd | Floyd | You can't think of anything in particular to say. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x documents" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 12 Moves: 141 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOCUMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Documents of all kinds carpet the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Perhaps we repair the mess with magic?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "oho" | |||
| elks says, "ooh, and close the portal with the other spell" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cast caskly on copier" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 12 Moves: 142 Floyd | Floyd | > CAST CASKLY ON COPIER Floyd | Floyd | Zarf says, "Try the other one first." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(even though we aren't in his mind anymore)" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cast kulcad on door" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 12 Moves: 143 Floyd | Floyd | > CAST KULCAD ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Peter intones the Kulcad scroll. It is long and complicated, and he Floyd | stumbles over the unfamiliar language. However, the magic is too Floyd | powerful to be constrained. The more he reads, the clearer his Floyd | pronunciation becomes, as the magic works through him. As he finishes Floyd | the incantation, there is a noise like the rushing of open wind Floyd | through a great tunnel. The secret door ripples and shimmers, trapped Floyd | in a state between reality and mirage. Then, so suddenly that it is Floyd | missed in a blink, the door is gone, leaving only a blank wall. There Floyd | is no trace that it had ever been here. Floyd | Floyd | Zarf nods. "Now the other," he says. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cast caskly on copier" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 12 Moves: 144 Floyd | Floyd | > CAST CASKLY ON COPIER Floyd | Floyd | Valerie intones the caskly spell. The room begins to melt; plaster, Floyd | plastic, metal, and glass drip down like wax; loose papers lift and Floyd | twirl in swelling eddies, spinning upwards from all directions. Floyd | Floyd | Then, familiar forms start reasserting themselves. Torn pages mend Floyd | themselves out of the whirlwind, flowing back into place. Cabinet Floyd | after cabinet slots itself into position, drawers agape, eating Floyd | documents that file themselves. All is changed. The copier machine Floyd | refuses its alien origins and becomes happily mudane, humming to life Floyd | and churning out copies of a wonderfully boring document. Floyd | Floyd | "What just happened?" Valerie asks. Floyd | Floyd | "Take a look," says Zarf. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 12 Moves: 144 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | File Room (as Peter) Floyd | The file room looks considerably cleaner, perhaps better than before. Floyd | The reassuring familiarity of its short, slumping ceiling seems now to Floyd | brighten your morale. Short file cabinets, marked in reverse Floyd | alphabetical order, stand in a clean line along the walls like a Floyd | perfect set of teeth. A window affords a beautiful view and a kind Floyd | square of sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | "Congratulations, that's the end of the story," says Zarf, pacing back Floyd | and forth. "But, that's not *really* the way it happened, is it?" Floyd | Floyd | What would you like to say? Floyd | [1]Yes.[2]No. Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | DavidW says, "ha ha" | ||
| chaudmin asks, "no?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "A little Spider and Web, eh?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "I think if we choose no, we have to find another solution, maybe?" | |||
| DavidW says, "try 2 for no." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 12 Moves: 144 Floyd | Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | He nods, apparently satisfied. "I didn't think you were stupid. Life Floyd | isn't like that." His hand moves to something that shines; a control Floyd | button is pressed. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 12 Moves: 145 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | At last, your troubled fortunes seemed to come to an end. It all Floyd | happened very quickly: the callback from Red Hat, the bizarre Floyd | interview with Human Resources, the handshake, the filling out of W-2 Floyd | forms, and then your first day of work. Floyd | Floyd | And then the next day of work, and the next, and the next. Life goes Floyd | on, routinely and normally, happily ever after. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have made a difference *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 12 out of a possible 12, in 145 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | see the author's end NOTES or QUIT? Floyd | > | chaudmin asks, "so I guess we rewrote history, then?" | ||
| DavidW says, "perhaps" | |||
| DavidW says, "notes, please." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "notes" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 12 Moves: 145 Floyd | Floyd | > NOTES Floyd | Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "uh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "endnotes" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 12 Moves: 145 Floyd | Floyd | > ENDNOTES Floyd | Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "end notes" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 12 Moves: 145 Floyd | Floyd | > END NOTES Floyd | Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hmph. Wonder if that's a bug in the re-release?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "oh well." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "note" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 12 Moves: 145 Floyd | Floyd | > NOTE Floyd | Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "NOTES" | |||
Floyd ] File Room Score: 12 Moves: 145 Floyd | Floyd | > NOTES Floyd | Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "that was fun." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I enjoyed it." | |||
| elks says, "yep" | |||
| DavidW says, "And that was 2 and a half hours. A goodly amount of time." | |||
| DavidW says, "Thanks for the game." | |||
| chaudmin says, "thanks for hosting." | |||
| elks exclaims, "Thanks!" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Shall I quit the game now?" | |||
| chaudmin says, "yeah" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0 | |||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | |||
