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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 Discussion
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| DavidW says, "It's noon! ClubFloyd time!" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suspect we'll need to wait a bit." | ||
| DavidW says, "Ghogg, helado, and chaudmin aren't online." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Roger's idle. Zach, are you awake?" | ||
| Zach says, "heya" | ||
| DavidW asks, "hi Zach. Interested in Floyding today?" | ||
| Zach says, "Sure" | ||
| Zach arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| Roger arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Roger says, "hey here I am" | |
| DavidW says, "We'll probably play more Shufflecomp today unless -- hey Roger! -- people have played them already." | ||
| Roger says, "sure" | ||
| DavidW says, "We played Comrade last week, because I goofed on uploading By the Lake." | ||
| Zach says, "I haven't played a gosh darn one" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Shall we start with that one?" | ||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask bythelake2" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | WARNING! This is not a nice game.
| Zach says, "Eeek!" | |
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: NORTH WEST Floyd | This is your favorite place. Floyd | A small, almost forgotten lake just outside the city limits. His Floyd | parents own the cabin here, but they never go here. And you have to Floyd | look for it, deep in the wood, so nobody ever comes here. Floyd | But even though he's here, lying beside you in the tall grass, you Floyd | can still feel work in your bone. It's only Tuesday, and your eyes are Floyd | already dry, your shoulders clenched, and the spot where the headset Floyd | grabs onto your head has turned into an annoying small red dot. You Floyd | rub it absent-mindedly and look at him. He seems distracted today, Floyd | distant somehow. Floyd | "Thanks for picking me up, honey." Floyd | He nods and stares up at the full moon. Floyd | "Are you allright?" Floyd | He raises his hip awkwardly and rummages around in his pocket. As you Floyd | watch, a small shiver runs down your arms. It's been a warm June day, Floyd | and you're still only wearing your t-shirt. He rolls over, his eyes Floyd | warm and kind, and raises the knife. Floyd | Floyd | By the lake Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Eldridge Murray Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150506 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You feel the the knife plunge deep into your chest - sudden, burning, Floyd | confused pain. You scream out and he rolls over and covers your mouth, Floyd | his calloused, warm hand terribly familiar. You try to writher away Floyd | from under him, but all strength has left you, and you want to scream, Floyd | to bite, but you can just wriggle helplessly. Tears burn in your eye Floyd | and you choke on something metallic and viscous. And then you don't Floyd | wriggle anymore, your legs go numb, and you feel your useless heart Floyd | still pump blood through the hole in your chest. He looks at you, and Floyd | above the hands that killed you his eyes are calm and friendly. "I'm Floyd | sorry, dear" he whispers. "I just don't love you anymore." Floyd | You look up at the moon, that old mistress, that has looked down on Floyd | all our wars and all our blood, but there is no dignity in death. He Floyd | crinkles his nose and you feel the warmth spread from your crotch down Floyd | your leg. And then it ends. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't go on. Floyd | Floyd | Shore Floyd | The Grass is long and wild, and apruptly turns into a sandy beach to Floyd | the north. In the moonlight everything appears gray, ominous. Floyd | There is a dark, wet spot in the grass, and from it drag marks lead Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "wow, lover/husband/whatever, we could've just broken up" | |
| DavidW says, "You'd think so, yeah." | ||
| Zach says, "No time!" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: NORTH WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You look like you did when you died, clean sneakers, jeans, t-shirt. Floyd | The fabric of your t-shirt is torn and bloody on your chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I've played this already, so I can step in to help if needed." | |
| DavidW says, "The exits in the status bar are lowercase when we've been there before, but it's a small geography. We won't get lost." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: NORTH WEST Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Your ghostly form doesn't allow for this anymore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x shoes" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: NORTH WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X SHOES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Use the Force, Luke" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | You blink. You were distracted for a moment, lost in thought. You Floyd | look again, at your hands and the shovel. Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x shovel" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > X SHOVEL Floyd | Floyd | You remember buying this at the hardware store, sad with the Floyd | realization you had to kill her. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "wow. I didn't see that at all." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "shovel" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > SHOVEL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Women really dig this look, but you never really cared for it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a shovel Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily asks, "whoa, did XYZZY just make us magically shift personae?" | |
| Zach says, "Looks like it" | ||
| DavidW says, "Yes. And I didn't know that." | ||
| DavidW says, "I played the entire game to the end without learning this bit." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: NORTH WEST Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shore Floyd | The Grass is long and wild, and apruptly turns into a sandy beach to Floyd | the north. In the moonlight everything appears gray, ominous. Floyd | There is a dark, wet spot in the grass, and from it drag marks lead Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Alexa here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "neat" | |
Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: NORTH WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X ALEXA Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x body" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: NORTH WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X BODY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x her" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: NORTH WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X HER Floyd | Floyd | You look like you did when you died, clean sneakers, jeans, t-shirt. Floyd | The fabric of your t-shirt is torn and bloody on your chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: NORTH WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Women really dig this look, but you never really cared for it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Hooray" | |
| DavidW says, "heh. We really shouldn't be able to see Alexa's ghost." | ||
| Zach says, "Apparently we're both people now" | ||
| DavidW says, "The body is back west." | ||
| DavidW says, "no, it just hasn't been debugged entirely well." | ||
| Emily asks, "should we try to dig a grave?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Three testers are credited, but they missed things." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: NORTH WEST Floyd | Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: NORTH WEST Floyd | Floyd | > DIG WITH SHOVEL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we should xyzzy again and play normally." | |
| Emily says, "worth a try" | ||
| Emily says, "sure" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: NORTH WEST Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | You blink. You were distracted for a moment, lost in thought. You Floyd | look again, at your hands and the shovel. Floyd | > | Roger says, "Or possibly restart, if we're suspecting bugs" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: NORTH WEST Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Women really dig this look, but you never really cared for it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plugh" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: NORTH WEST Floyd | Floyd | > PLUGH Floyd | Floyd | You blink. You were distracted for a moment, lost in thought. You Floyd | look again, at your hands and the shovel. Floyd | > | Emily says, "oh, hm, it looks like we cannot go back" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pier Floyd | The wooden pier extends a few yards into the lake. Looks like some Floyd | repairwork has been done on it recently, as the outer end looks new Floyd | and shiny in places. Floyd | Out in the lake, in silhouette, the island is barely visible. Floyd | Floyd | A nail gun is sticking up, front forward, between the boards. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "once we have blood on our hands, it's too late, we're MacBethed up" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yeah, this is messing things up." | ||
Floyd ] Pier
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south
Floyd |
Floyd | > YEAH, THIS IS MESSING THINGS UP.
Floyd |
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yzzyx" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > YZZYX Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plover" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > PLOVER Floyd | Floyd | You blink. You were distracted for a moment, lost in thought. You Floyd | look again, at your hands and the shovel. Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "get nail gun" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > GET NAIL GUN Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x nail gun" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > X NAIL GUN Floyd | Floyd | From what you can tell, it's in working condition. The battery light Floyd | is glowing faintly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha. That's so not supposed to happen." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take wood" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE WOOD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x pier" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > X PIER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x boards" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > X BOARDS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach asks, "Maybe we can build a coffin?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south UP Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You take a step off the pier, fearing for a second you'll just sink Floyd | into the lightless depths. But you sort of hover over the lake. Not at Floyd | all unpleasant. You cast a last look down before going on. Floyd | And something looks back. A white face, beneath the pier, hands Floyd | reaching up. For a second, a voice, distant, like through rain Floyd | Floyd | "You weren't ... the first. Avenge us. You can't touch ... can't Floyd | see, but you can ... possess." Floyd | Floyd | The woman sinks, sinks. Is gone. You continue on. Floyd | Floyd | Island Floyd | It's very small, you can cross it in three quick steps. It's covered Floyd | in some vegetation. Floyd | Floyd | There is even a small tree here. Floyd | Floyd | The main attraction is the fire pit, which seems to see regular use. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of junk sits besides the fire pit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You guys really should restart and avoid xyzzy." | |
| Roger says, "Feeling slightly better about my own bugfest now" | ||
| Emily says, "yeah, I'm getting that impression" | ||
| DavidW says, "You're not supposed to ever be Paul." | ||
| DavidW says, "The game only makes sense as Alexa." | ||
| Zach says, "If you guys want. I like NG+" | ||
| DavidW asks, "NG+?" | ||
| Zach says, "New Game Plus" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm still not sure what you mean by the phrase." | ||
| Zach says, "Don't worry; just a joke" | ||
| DavidW asks, "okay with everyone if I restart this?" | ||
| Emily says, "yes, please" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Island
Floyd ] Exits: south UP
Floyd |
Floyd | > RESTART
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart?
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | WARNING! This is not a nice game.
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| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: NORTH WEST Floyd | This is your favorite place. Floyd | A small, almost forgotten lake just outside the city limits. His Floyd | parents own the cabin here, but they never go here. And you have to Floyd | look for it, deep in the wood, so nobody ever comes here. Floyd | But even though he's here, lying beside you in the tall grass, you Floyd | can still feel work in your bone. It's only Tuesday, and your eyes are Floyd | already dry, your shoulders clenched, and the spot where the headset Floyd | grabs onto your head has turned into an annoying small red dot. You Floyd | rub it absent-mindedly and look at him. He seems distracted today, Floyd | distant somehow. Floyd | "Thanks for picking me up, honey." Floyd | He nods and stares up at the full moon. Floyd | "Are you allright?" Floyd | He raises his hip awkwardly and rummages around in his pocket. As you Floyd | watch, a small shiver runs down your arms. It's been a warm June day, Floyd | and you're still only wearing your t-shirt. He rolls over, his eyes Floyd | warm and kind, and raises the knife. Floyd | Floyd | By the lake Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Eldridge Murray Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150506 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You feel the the knife plunge deep into your chest - sudden, burning, Floyd | confused pain. You scream out and he rolls over and covers your mouth, Floyd | his calloused, warm hand terribly familiar. You try to writher away Floyd | from under him, but all strength has left you, and you want to scream, Floyd | to bite, but you can just wriggle helplessly. Tears burn in your eye Floyd | and you choke on something metallic and viscous. And then you don't Floyd | wriggle anymore, your legs go numb, and you feel your useless heart Floyd | still pump blood through the hole in your chest. He looks at you, and Floyd | above the hands that killed you his eyes are calm and friendly. "I'm Floyd | sorry, dear" he whispers. "I just don't love you anymore." Floyd | You look up at the moon, that old mistress, that has looked down on Floyd | all our wars and all our blood, but there is no dignity in death. He Floyd | crinkles his nose and you feel the warmth spread from your crotch down Floyd | your leg. And then it ends. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't go on. Floyd | Floyd | Shore Floyd | The Grass is long and wild, and apruptly turns into a sandy beach to Floyd | the north. In the moonlight everything appears gray, ominous. Floyd | There is a dark, wet spot in the grass, and from it drag marks lead Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I was pretty sure I knew who the author is, but those character names clinches it." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Introduction to By the lake Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | Testers | ||
| Zach presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Introduction to By the lake Floyd | This game was written for the 2015 Shufflecomp by Eldridge Murray. It Floyd | is a short horror game and contains some graphic content. It's Floyd | inspired by "The ghost who walks" by Karen Elson. I've received an Floyd | excellent number of songs, and choosing one was hard. Everyone one of Floyd | them deserved a game. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bitte LEERTASTE drücken um fort zu fahren. | ||
| Zach presses the yellow enter button. | ||
| Zach pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Introduction to By the lake Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | Testers | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: NORTH WEST Floyd | Shore Floyd | The Grass is long and wild, and apruptly turns into a sandy beach to Floyd | the north. In the moonlight everything appears gray, ominous. Floyd | There is a dark, wet spot in the grass, and from it drag marks lead Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Edge of the Woods Floyd | The woods begin here, dark and impenetrable. Floyd | Floyd | The headlights of the car illuminate the scene with the merciless Floyd | glare of a medical lamp. Floyd | Floyd | He stands here, and digs. Floyd | Floyd | Your body lies here, crumpled, with dirt in its hair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "dig my grave" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > DIG MY GRAVE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Digging is hard. The lake is right there, dude." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x body" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > X BODY Floyd | Floyd | They say sleeping people are beautiful, and you always thought that Floyd | was a lie. Sleeping people are ugly. And that's how you look, one eye Floyd | half-closed, the other staring mindlessly, mouth slightly agape. Your Floyd | torso a mess of blood, with something blue shimmering inside the Floyd | wound. Ugly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x blue" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > X BLUE Floyd | Floyd | Some unthinkable part of your viscera. You clench your hands as you Floyd | remember the pain. So sudden, so severe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x him" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > X HIM Floyd | Floyd | You used to gently mock his hipster looks, the weird, spotty beard, Floyd | checkered shirts and cord trousers. And the scene is so surreal. It's Floyd | like an ad. The shovel, the small hole before him. And now you hate Floyd | him. Everything about him. You want to see him suffer. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Hipsters are murders: confirmed" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "kick him" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | | Emily asks, "why did we ever get with this jerk?" | |
Floyd | > KICK HIM Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily asks, "can we push him into the hole?" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure." | ||
| DavidW says, "er re getting together with him in the first place." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "push him" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH HIM Floyd | Floyd | Your ghostly form doesn't allow for this anymore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "enter hole" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER HOLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "talk to him" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO HIM Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "haunt him" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > HAUNT HIM Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh. I tried haunt too." | |
| Zach says, "heh" | ||
| Emily says, "it feels natural" | ||
| DavidW says, "We do get a special ability, but it's clued elsewhere." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You look like you did when you died, clean sneakers, jeans, t-shirt. Floyd | The fabric of your t-shirt is torn and bloody on your chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "hm" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "moan" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > MOAN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "say boo" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > SAY BOO Floyd | Floyd | (to He) Floyd | You want to scream at him, ask for answers, curse him for all Floyd | eternity. But it's useless. He isn't able to notice your presence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "enter body" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER BODY Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Turns out being dead is sort of disempowering" | |
| DavidW says, "Somewhat, yes." | ||
| Emily asks, "are there any locations we've not seen?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We can't touch or take anything. We can look and move and that's almost it, except..." | ||
| Emily asks, "maybe north of the shore?" | ||
| Emily asks, "we went there in the previous playthrough as Him, I think, but not this one?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, the clue happens when we go north of the pier." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "east" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: NORTH west Floyd | Floyd | > EAST Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shore Floyd | The Grass is long and wild, and apruptly turns into a sandy beach to Floyd | the north. In the moonlight everything appears gray, ominous. Floyd | There is a dark, wet spot in the grass, and from it drag marks lead Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "north" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > NORTH Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pier Floyd | The wooden pier extends a few yards into the lake. Looks like some Floyd | repairwork has been done on it recently, as the outer end looks new Floyd | and shiny in places. Floyd | Out in the lake, in silhouette, the island is barely visible. Floyd | Floyd | A nail gun is sticking up, front forward, between the boards. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily asks, "can we make the nail gun fire as though possessed??" | |
| Emily says, "because that sounds fun" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x island" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > X ISLAND Floyd | Floyd | You know it, a small place where people go to make out. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Yeah, let's nail him!" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "x gun" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > X GUN Floyd | Floyd | From what you can tell, it's in working condition. The battery light Floyd | is glowing faintly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "fire gun" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > FIRE GUN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "use gun" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > USE GUN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "shoot gun" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > SHOOT GUN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "hm" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take gun" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE GUN Floyd | Floyd | Your ghostly form doesn't allow for this anymore. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "it seems like it's kind of conspicuously pre-lodged in place, so maybe we need to lure Him over here and then fire it. somehow" | |
| Emily says, "but we could also explore further north" | ||
| DavidW says, "If you miss the clue, I'll point it out. But you haven't triggered the clue yet." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "north" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south UP Floyd | Floyd | > NORTH Floyd | Floyd | You take a step off the pier, fearing for a second you'll just sink Floyd | into the lightless depths. But you sort of hover over the lake. Not at Floyd | all unpleasant. You cast a last look down before going on. Floyd | And something looks back. A white face, beneath the pier, hands Floyd | reaching up. For a second, a voice, distant, like through rain Floyd | Floyd | "You weren't ... the first. Avenge us. You can't touch ... can't Floyd | see, but you can ... possess." Floyd | Floyd | The woman sinks, sinks. Is gone. You continue on. Floyd | Floyd | Island Floyd | It's very small, you can cross it in three quick steps. It's covered Floyd | in some vegetation. Floyd | Floyd | There is even a small tree here. Floyd | Floyd | The main attraction is the fire pit, which seems to see regular use. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of junk sits besides the fire pit. Floyd | Floyd | A mouse runs out from the undergrowth and sits by the fire pit. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "ah, we can hover (only above water?)" | |
| Emily says, "and POSSESS" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes. POSSESS." | ||
| Roger says, "That's sort of a weird heteronormative twist" | ||
| Emily says, "POSSESS sounds like a good time" | ||
| Zach says, "Ah" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "possess mouse" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south UP Floyd | Floyd | > POSSESS MOUSE Floyd | Floyd | There's something in the mouse - quick, alert, and scared, so scared, Floyd | always scared - but you manage to wrestle control from it. The world Floyd | seems gargantuan and hostile. It takes a moment to get your bearings. Floyd | Four feet, the unconsciously swishing tail. The heart, hammering so Floyd | fast inside your chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Maybe we can possess the gun" | |
| Emily says, "maybe the mouse will find somethng interesting up the tree or in the junk pile" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x junk" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south UP Floyd | Floyd | > X JUNK Floyd | Floyd | There is a huge heap of discarded food wrappers, beer cans, used Floyd | napkins and the like beside the fire pit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "climb tree" | ||
Floyd ] branch Floyd ] Exits: down Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB TREE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | branch Floyd | You are on the branch overlooking the fire pit. Floyd | Floyd | An old bird's nest sits here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x nest" | ||
Floyd ] branch Floyd ] Exits: down Floyd | Floyd | > X NEST Floyd | Floyd | It has been long abandoned. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "...hm, not sure that's very useful" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "get in nest" | ||
Floyd ] branch Floyd ] Exits: down Floyd | Floyd | > GET IN NEST Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "push nest" | ||
Floyd ] branch Floyd ] Exits: down Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH NEST Floyd | Floyd | You push with all the strength of your little legs, and the nest Floyd | skitters off the branch and tumbles lightly into the pit below. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Island Floyd | It's very small, you can cross it in three quick steps. It's covered Floyd | in some vegetation. Floyd | Floyd | There is even a small tree here. Floyd | Floyd | The main attraction is the fire pit, which seems to see regular use. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of junk sits besides the fire pit. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "I feel like that was something we were meant to do, but I'm not sure how it helps" | |
| Emily asks, "do we want to build a fire?" | ||
| Roger says, "Seems likely enough to me" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x pit" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > X PIT Floyd | Floyd | In the fire pit are a nest and a lighter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "burn nest" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > BURN NEST Floyd | Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "turn on lighter" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON LIGHTER Floyd | Floyd | It isn't something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "possess lighter" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > POSSESS LIGHTER Floyd | Floyd | You quickly dart from the mouse into the lighter. Floyd | You touch the lighter. There is that familiar scraping of the flint Floyd | and a small spark, but the nest is not really dry enough on its own to Floyd | catch fire. Floyd | Floyd | You quickly dart back into the mouse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "push junk" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH JUNK Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x jukn" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > X JUKN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x junk" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > X JUNK Floyd | Floyd | There is a huge heap of discarded food wrappers, beer cans, used Floyd | napkins and the like beside the fire pit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "get napkins" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > GET NAPKINS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "arr" | |
| Roger says, "Possibly the dude needs to be in the pit before we immolate him" | ||
| Emily says, "oh, I had assumed we were going to cause a light that would attract his attention so he'd come see what was up and then we could kill him with the possessed nail gun" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "possess nest" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > POSSESS NEST Floyd | Floyd | You can't possess that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Could be, but seems as likely to me that we shoot him, he falls into the pit, and we torch him. Maybe." | |
| Emily asks, "isn't the gun over on the pier while we're on an island in the middle of the lake, though?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes. There's a lake between pier and island." | ||
| Roger says, "He's gonna theatrically stumble around for a while" | ||
| Emily says, "I mean, I'm up for burning the guy's corpse if we get a chance, we're not friends" | ||
| Emily says, "I'm still angry about my blue viscera" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "push junk" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH JUNK Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "search jukn" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH JUKN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I admit when I played, I was hoping the nest would be a mouse-sized boat." | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "search junk" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK Floyd | Floyd | After nosing around in it for a bit, you discover a small bottle of Floyd | lighter fluid. It's hard work, but you manage to pull it out of the Floyd | junk with your teeth. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "You've made my heart blue" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "possess bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > POSSESS BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't possess that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "put bottle in pit" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BOTTLE IN PIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking bottle of lighter fluid) Floyd | It's too heavy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "open bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | It isn't something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "break bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "push bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x pit" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > X PIT Floyd | Floyd | In the fire pit are a nest and a lighter. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > JUMP ON BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | You jump on the bottle and a little lighter fluid flies into the pit. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "oh, clever" | |
| Roger says, "errr, Jump On Bottle" | DavidW says, "squeeze bottle also works." | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "possess lighter" | ||
Floyd ] Island Floyd ] Exits: south up Floyd | Floyd | > POSSESS LIGHTER Floyd | Floyd | (the lighter) Floyd | You quickly dart from the mouse into the lighter. Floyd | You touch the lighter. There is that familiar scraping of the flint Floyd | and a small spark, and the fluid lights up instantaneously. The nest Floyd | catches fire, and soon there is a nice fire going in the pit. Floyd | There is movement at the shore. A figure appears on the pier. Floyd | You leave the mouse and it darts away. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "TIME TO NAILGUN" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pier Floyd | The wooden pier extends a few yards into the lake. Looks like some Floyd | repairwork has been done on it recently, as the outer end looks new Floyd | and shiny in places. Floyd | Out in the lake, in silhouette, the island is barely visible. Floyd | Floyd | Paul stands here, looking wearily at the fire on the island. Floyd | Floyd | A nail gun is sticking up, front forward, between the boards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "possess gun" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > POSSESS GUN Floyd | Floyd | He is about to turn back as the nail hits him in the Adam's apple. He Floyd | stands for a second, and slowly grabs his throat like a surprised Floyd | baronet in a soap opera. He takes one step forward and slowly turns on Floyd | the spot. Blood gushes down his shirt with every heartbeat, Floyd | statisfyingly black and plentiful. He falls forward, chipping one of Floyd | his teeth on the wood. Floyd | You kneel beside him, wishing you could pick up that little bit of Floyd | enamel as a memento. Floyd | It takes him a few minutes to die, and you idly wonder if he will go Floyd | on, or if he will have to stay, like you. Maybe for people like him Floyd | death is the only exit there is. Floyd | You look up, at the moon. The lake is silent. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You found rest. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Emily says, "uh, okay, wow, that was over a little faster than I had anticipated" | |
| Zach says, "Yeah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Emily), "Funny you should say that." | ||
| Emily asks (of DavidW), "oh? was I supposed to do a whole other bunch of stuff?" | ||
| DavidW says, ""Everything We Do Is Games" is next." | ||
| Emily says, "ha ha ha" | ||
| Roger says, "This game taught me an important lesson about not leaving your nail gun lying around" | ||
| Zach says, "ha ha" | ||
| Emily says, "in particular, don't leave it carefully propped at a shooting-people angle" | ||
| Roger says, "Hmmm maybe he was setting a trap. Okay I can sort of buy that." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, the nail gun placement was a bit leading." | ||
| Roger says, "It could have been all babelfishy, hanging up old hubcabs and arranging shovels for the perfect ricochet shot" | ||
| DavidW says, "btw, if you possess the car, you honk the horn, but can't run him over." | ||
| Emily asks (of Roger), "have you played 10 Second Defense?" | ||
| Emily says, "because it kind of is that" | ||
| Roger says, "I've not" | ||
| Emily says, "(oops, Defence, apparently. there goes my US spelling again)" | ||
| Emily says (to DavidW), "oo, I hadn't considered trying that" | ||
| Emily says, "I could imagine a Conan Kill Everything expansion on this in which there are just a whole pile of different ways to off him" | ||
| DavidW says, "oo, that would be fun" | ||
| Roger says, "I'm not generally someone who says 'this story/game needed a twist', but, here, yes, I think it does." | ||
| Emily says, "I did like the POSSESS mechanic concept" | ||
| Emily says, "though, hm, we never actually tried possessing *him*" | ||
| Emily asks, "anyone mind if I quickly try that?" | ||
| Roger says, "nah let's go for it. Knife too, while we're at it" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Pier Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "possess him" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > POSSESS HIM Floyd | Floyd | You touch him, but there is something in him - warm, protective, Floyd | fierce - and you shrink back. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "go ahead" | |
| Emily says, "hrm" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "possess knife" | ||
Floyd ] Pier Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > POSSESS KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't think the knife is there except in the prologue." | |
| Emily says, "ah, maybe we're in the wrong place now" | ||
| DavidW says, "There's a response for possess body too." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Floyd ] Exits: north west Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shore Floyd | The Grass is long and wild, and apruptly turns into a sandy beach to Floyd | the north. In the moonlight everything appears gray, ominous. Floyd | There is a dark, wet spot in the grass, and from it drag marks lead Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Edge of the Woods Floyd | The woods begin here, dark and impenetrable. Floyd | Floyd | The headlights of the car illuminate the scene with the merciless Floyd | glare of a medical lamp. Floyd | Floyd | Your body lies here, crumpled, with dirt in its hair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "possess body" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > POSSESS BODY Floyd | Floyd | You really don't want to try that. What if you cannot leave? Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "fair point" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "possess car" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > POSSESS CAR Floyd | Floyd | You touch the car, and it suddenly honks. He looks up, startled. For a Floyd | few seconds he stands, breathing open-mouthed. Then he shrugs and gets Floyd | back to digging. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Also I think, hey, something of the classic fairy tale structure, which always has people getting murderized in the woods, would help her. Like if the PC was Grandma and the NPC was the deranged woodman" | |
| Emily says, "(and that's a smidge buggy, I suppose, if he's off at the pier already)" | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "get me" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd | Floyd | > GET ME Floyd | Floyd | Your ghostly form doesn't allow for this anymore. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Awww was hoping for the 'self-possessed' default message." | |
| DavidW says, "There's other bugs. Pushing the nest again has it re-topple out of the tree. And the lighter fluid can be re-found in the junk pile." | ||
| DavidW says, "There's also no explicit unpossess verb." | ||
| Emily says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "But, as you say, the gimmick of possession is a good one." | ||
| Roger says, "I'm ready to move on, into the light, as it were." | ||
| Emily says, "yeah, me too" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd ] Edge of the Woods
Floyd ] Exits: east
Floyd |
Floyd | > QUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
Floyd | > YES
Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0
| ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | DavidW says, "Okay, the next game is "Everything We Do Is Games"." | |
| Roger says, "Let's see if Floyd can handle it" | ||
| ***** NOTE: Everything We Do Is Games could not run on Floyd ***** | ||
| DavidW asks, "Anyway, "Heading East" next?" | ||
| Emily says, "when I played the first time, I tried playing online, and what I saw was a blank browser page with no cntent" | ||
| DavidW says (to Emily), "oh, nice." | ||
| Emily says, "which felt maybe a little more true-to-conceptt" | ||
| Emily says, "you felt the presence-of-absence more" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| Emily says, "if that makes any sense at all" | ||
| DavidW says, "it does." | ||
| Zach has disconnected. | ||
| Zach has connected. | Roger says, "I would do everything for games, but I won't do that" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask headingeast" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hey. U asleep? Floyd | | Emily says, "oy" | |
| Zach says, "U Asleep is totally a party school" | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Nah. What's up? Floyd | | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Wanna steal your Floyd | dad's car? I need Floyd | to go for a drive Floyd | | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Oh ya? Ok. He's Floyd | not snoring yet Floyd | tho. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Ah k Floyd | | DavidW says, "This looks much better in an interpreter." | |
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | In an hour tho Floyd | | Roger says, "Try to give this one the benefit of the doubt as long as you can" | |
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Sounds good :3 Floyd | | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Where to? Floyd | | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | I dunno... past Floyd | Coquitlam? I know Floyd | a place Floyd | | DavidW says, "also, yay Canadian content." | |
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Sounds good Floyd | | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | ^_^ Floyd | | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Thank Floyd | you Floyd | | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | No problem Floyd | | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Stay tuned Floyd | | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] In the living room Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Half an hour later, the old man goes to bed; you wait a few more Floyd | minutes, until he starts snoring. When he's snoring, the way is clear; Floyd | grab the keys from the table, and let's go pick Jane up. Floyd | Floyd | Heading East Floyd | By Alex Davies Floyd | First-time players should type ABOUT. Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150507 / Inform v6.33 Library 6/11 Floyd | Floyd | In the living room Floyd | The room is dark and warm, it's a hot June night. There's barely a Floyd | glimmer of light from the street, but you know where everything is: Floyd | the TV and the couch on the east wall, the door to your room behind Floyd | you, and the one for your Dad's on the opposite side, the dinner table Floyd | kind of in the way, and the front door. The keys must be on the entry Floyd | table, near the door; at least that's where they always are. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I've played this already." | |
| Emily says, "as have I" | ||
| Roger exclaims, "Me too!" | ||
| DavidW says, "Did I lose everyone? Or has everyone played this too." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Should we skip this? or just rush through it or what?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch entry table" | ||
Floyd ] In the living room Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH ENTRY TABLE Floyd | Floyd | You touch the top of the entry table, expecting to find the keys... Floyd | But you can't find them. Crap! You hope he put them somewhere else, Floyd | because if they're still in his pants pockets, you're just gonna have Floyd | to go back to bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch dining table" | ||
Floyd ] In the living room Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH DINING TABLE Floyd | Floyd | Maybe the keys were left on that table... You carefully run your Floyd | fingers on the surface of the table, but they're not here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch tv" | ||
Floyd ] In the living room Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH TV Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch couch" | ||
Floyd ] In the living room Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH COUCH Floyd | Floyd | You get closer to the front of the couch and run your hands on it, Floyd | just in case... ah! The car keys got stuck in the back of the couch. Floyd | They must have fell from your dad's pocket. You grab them quietly, Floyd | trying to not make them jingle too much. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] In the living room
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You slowly, carefully put your shoes on, then unlock the door and
Floyd | leave quietly. Locking the door behind you without making any noise is
Floyd | always a bit scary, but you've mastered the trick; once it's locked,
Floyd | you wait a few minutes, just in case, but the light in your Dad's room
Floyd | remains off. You walk to the car, unlock it manually, and start it as
Floyd | smoothly as you can.
| ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] In the living room Floyd | You slow down when you reach Jane's block; but she's been posted Floyd | behind that big oak since you texted her, and she climbs quickly in Floyd | your car. Floyd | "Hey" you nod. Floyd | "Hey. Thanks for picking me up" she says as she put the guitar in the Floyd | back of the car. Floyd | "Yeah sure. I was worried you'd forget the guitar, forgot to remind Floyd | you" Floyd | "Well, we're going camping, of course I'm bringing it! ;)" Floyd | "Haha yeah. Sounds great. You ok though? :/" Floyd | "It's..." She sighs, exasperated. "My stupid sister and her stupid Floyd | boyfriend" Floyd | She doesn't say more. But there's no need. "Ok. Going east, then?" Floyd | "Yeah. I'll tell you" | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | "..." | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, wanna get pot?" she says out of the blue. Floyd | "Haha. Sure, might as well, we're going to be up there a few hours eh? Floyd | :)" Floyd | "I know a guy. Go towards SFU, I'll tell you" Floyd | "Ok. And we'll just stop at 7/11 for munchies?" Floyd | "I brought chips" Floyd | "Duuude, you rock :D" Floyd | "I know duuude :D" You bump fists jokingly. | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | "Is that the place?"
Floyd | "Yeah, that house there. Shit do you have money?"
Floyd | "How much do we need?"
Floyd | "20 bucks for an eighth :/"
Floyd | You count your change. "$8.75, you?"
Floyd | "Damn it, $6.75. We're short, like, 5 bucks :("
Floyd | You pause for a second. "Well... My dad usually has change lying
Floyd | around everywhere..."
Floyd | "Yeah but..." She stops, uneasy.
Floyd | "He won't mind... I mean if he asks I'll say it was for fast food or
Floyd | something ^^'"
Floyd | "Ok. You sure?"
Floyd | "Yeah. Besides, I haven't smoked in ages"
Floyd | "Hehe, k"
| DavidW asks, "Am I going too fast?" | |
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | Inside the car Floyd | The car is a Chevrolet... something. Like, it's not a truck, just a Floyd | regular, dark red, automatic car. It's fine. Your dad always keeps Floyd | change around, sometimes in the most random places, for like Tim Floyd | Hortons, or groceries, or like to give to bums. He probably won't Floyd | notice if you grab some, and he won't mind anyway. Floyd | Floyd | Jane is here, looking around her. "I dunno, where does he keep Floyd | change?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under seat" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER SEAT Floyd | Floyd | You reach under the seat and pull it back a little, then look down. Floyd | "There's nothing. How about you?" Floyd | "Nah. Maybe if we..." she reaches under her seat awkwardly, and pats Floyd | around on the floormat. "Mmmh... Pfff no there's nothing" Floyd | "Let me see if I can..." You stick your arm under the seat, and fish Floyd | around... Ah! That was definitely something cold, like metal. "I'll Floyd | just... reach... and... Pff! Hey, a loonie!" Floyd | "Jesus, your Dad *does* have change lying around everywhere" Floyd | "Told you" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying your Dad's car keys, your Novice license, your Floyd | cellphone and some change. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I did think this part was implemented cleverly" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x license" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > X LICENSE Floyd | Floyd | You got it six months ago. And six months ago, you started borrowing Floyd | your Dad's car for a ride while he was sleeping. Pretty sure he knows Floyd | (oh yeah, especially since that day where you and Jane forgot A & W Floyd | bags in the car), but he's never mentioned it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cellphone" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > X CELLPHONE Floyd | Floyd | It's just your cell phone. You've had it for a while, I guess. You Floyd | don't use it much for calls, but you sure text. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x change" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > X CHANGE Floyd | Floyd | Your money, plus Jane's, plus the change you found in the car, that Floyd | makes it $16.50. In other words, not quite enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open glove compartment" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN GLOVE COMPARTMENT Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, could you try the glovebox?" Floyd | "Oh yeah, sure" She pops it open. Floyd | "There's... Ah yeah, three quarters here" Floyd | "Cool" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The car door, with a pretty deep compartment in which your dad keeps a Floyd | few things, like his old CDs and his sunglasses. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in door compartment" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN DOOR COMPARTMENT Floyd | Floyd | You reach inside the compartment. "Hey, there's actually a few coins Floyd | here..." Floyd | "Oh yeah?" She checks the one on her side. Floyd | "Yeah... let's see... Like, three dimes" Floyd | "I got a dime and two quarters" Floyd | "Man, we're loaded!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floor mat" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > X FLOOR MAT Floyd | Floyd | It's a kind of plastic mat; an annoying plastic mat, because it always Floyd | moves under your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under it" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER IT Floyd | Floyd | You lift the floormat, to see if anything fell under it... Mmh, no, Floyd | there doesn't seem to be anything. Floyd | "Ugh, it's..." says Jane, looking at her fingers. Floyd | "Is it dirt?" Floyd | "Yeah" Floyd | "Come on, we're going in the woods, don't tell me that --" Floyd | "Ya ya ya ya, I know!" she rolls her eyes. "Well, I can't... ah!" Floyd | "Found anything?" Floyd | "Yeah it's... ugh, just a quarter" Floyd | "Hahaha" Floyd | "Hey shut up, I worked hard for this one" Floyd | ":p" Floyd | Floyd | "Man, there sure is a lot of places you can hide change in a car" she Floyd | says. Floyd | "Yeah. I'm sure you can hear all the coins when my Dad goes over a Floyd | speed bump ^^" Floyd | "Haha yeah" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search floor" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | You look under your feet, to see if anything fell... A-ha! There was a Floyd | quarter between the edge of the floormat and the side of the console Floyd | in the middle. Floyd | "Cool! I can't really see anything on my side" Floyd | Floyd | You think for a second. "Are you sure it's gonna be ok? I mean, we Floyd | have a lot of change... :/" Floyd | "Ah, don't worry about that, I'm sure it'll be fine..." Floyd | "Yeah but... I dunno" Floyd | "Yeah well what's he gonna do? Make a fuss?" Floyd | "Yeah, and then we won't have any" Floyd | She shrugs. "It'll be fine, trust me" Floyd | "K" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x back seat" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > X BACK SEAT Floyd | Floyd | You can't really see behind, because twisting your neck is awkward, Floyd | but there might be coins back there after all... Floyd | Floyd | You think for a second. "Are you sure it's gonna be ok? I mean, we Floyd | have a lot of change... :/" Floyd | "Ah, don't worry about that, I'm sure it'll be fine..." Floyd | "Yeah but... I dunno" Floyd | "Yeah well what's he gonna do? Make a fuss?" Floyd | "Yeah, and then we won't have any" Floyd | She shrugs. "It'll be fine, trust me" Floyd | "K" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jane, search back seat" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car
Floyd |
Floyd | > JANE, SEARCH BACK SEAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Jane has better things to do.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jane, x back seat" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car
Floyd |
Floyd | > JANE, X BACK SEAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Jane has better things to do.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search back seat" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH BACK SEAT Floyd | Floyd | "Oh yeah," you say, "do you think there's some in the back?" Floyd | "Ah yeah maybe. I'll check" Floyd | She throws her leg between the seats and climbs into the back of the Floyd | car. "Well... Ah, there's like a dime here!" she says while checking Floyd | in the seats. "And let's see... nothing on the rear deck, I think..." Floyd | "Did you check behind the seats? Like, the pockets?" Floyd | "Oh right, good call! Let's see..." she puts her hand in it and Floyd | searches while making a face. "Yeah, there's... Hey, that's a loonie!" Floyd | "Sweet!" Floyd | "Yeah!... I'm just gonna come back from outside now" Floyd | "Ya it's awkward as hell :p" Floyd | She opens the passenger door and sits back in her seat. Floyd | "Thanks duuude ;)" Floyd | "Haha yeah you bet dude" Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, so... Have you been writing anything lately?" Floyd | "Yeah..." you reply. "I mean nothing major, but yeah, a little bit. Floyd | You?" Floyd | "A song :) but I haven't finished it yet" Floyd | "Cool. You'll show me?" Floyd | "Sure, we'll write the rest when we're high :p" Floyd | "Haha sounds good" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dashboard" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > X DASHBOARD Floyd | Floyd | Right under the windshield, where you're supposed to put your parking Floyd | receipt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x windshield" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDSHIELD Floyd | Floyd | It's just the windshield, with the dashboard under it; it's not really Floyd | dirty right now, and you hope it won't be after your little trip to Floyd | the mountains, so that your Dad doesn't notice. Hopefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x steering wheel" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > X STEERING WHEEL Floyd | Floyd | The wheel is pretty high, but you don't mind, and then you can drum up Floyd | your fingers on the dashboard when you're waiting at a long light. Floyd | There's the horn in the middle, and various switches on the side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | Between the two seats, there's a few cupholders, and a little Floyd | compartment that opens from the top. Floyd | Floyd | "Pff look at us, looking for dimes to get pot" you say jokingly. Floyd | "Haha yeah, that's pretty bad" Floyd | "I do want it pretty bad, so there's that" Floyd | "Yeah, it's gonna be pretty awesome" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cupholders" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > X CUPHOLDERS Floyd | Floyd | There's two cupholders side-by-side in the console between the seats. Floyd | They're good for soda, but the milkshakes from the place on Robson Floyd | never quite fit. The trick is to drink a third of it, and then squish Floyd | them in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in them" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN THEM Floyd | Floyd | "Did we look here?" Floyd | She shrugs. Floyd | "There's a dime I think... Ugh, it's... stuck..." Floyd | "Niiice. Covered in sugar?" she says. Floyd | "Must be. Yuck, it sticks to my fingers" Floyd | "Gross :p" Floyd | Floyd | "So your Dad still doesn't know?" Floyd | "What, that I take the car sometimes?" Floyd | "Yeah" Floyd | "I dunno" you shrug. "I'm sure he knows, but he doesn't say anything" Floyd | Pause. Floyd | "Which is pretty cool I guess" Floyd | "Yeah. Your Dad is cool" Floyd | "Yeah, he's alright. We get along well. I mean, it could have been Floyd | worse" Floyd | "Yeah" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in console compartment" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN CONSOLE COMPARTMENT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in little compartment" | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK IN LITTLE COMPARTMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the small compartment. There's a box of Tic-Tacs there, and a
Floyd | few coins.
Floyd | "Sweet! That's like... 80 cents!"
Floyd | "That's all? Sucks :/ It was probably the most obvious place"
Floyd | "Yeah... I'm sure there's more lying around."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Alright, we have enough :D"
Floyd | "Yay! Ok, I'm going"
Floyd | "K. I hope it'll be fine..."
Floyd | "?"
Floyd | "With all that change and all..."
Floyd | She shrugs. "I don't care. I'll try it."
Floyd | And with that, she's out of the car.
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| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | ... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | Yeah, he doesn't seem very chill. He's like laughing at her. But she Floyd | doesn't move one bit. So he starts acting all important and macho -- Floyd | like, arms wide open moving a lot, his face kind of in her face. "u Floyd | disrespecting me? i'm doing u a favor selling pot to a teenager and u Floyd | come here with your lunch money? man i don't have time to waste", you Floyd | can totally picture it. But she doesn't move one bit. Even crosses her Floyd | arms, unimpressed like "r u done here bro". Floyd | Floyd | God, she's *amazing*. So determined and self-assured. You wish you Floyd | could do that. Floyd | Floyd | The guy's still at it but she shrugs like "ok u don't want my money i Floyd | guess". Then she starts to turn away but he grabs her by the arm; and, Floyd | like, he starts getting angry like "wtf r u doing". And then bam -- Floyd | she gives him the money, like right in his hand, and she puts the Floyd | other one out. And she got him, and he knows it, and he's like "pff Floyd | whatever", and he gives her the pot. She nods a thank you and walks Floyd | away; he looks at her while she walks away, shaking his head but Floyd | almost grinning. | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Inside the car Floyd | "You ok?" Floyd | "Yeah, no worries. He tried to make a fuss, but yknow. He had to I Floyd | guess, but it's not like he didn't want to sell it to me so..." Floyd | "Haha nice." You stop, unsure of what to say next. But you say it Floyd | anyway. "You're amazing. Like, seriously" Floyd | "Haha yeah thanks. I get around." Floyd | "No, really! Hey how am I gonna get pot when you're gone?" Floyd | "Haha. You're gonna miss me, eh?" Floyd | "You kidding? Totally." Floyd | Floyd | You stop -- an awkward silence. It's not that funny I guess. Anyway, Floyd | she breaks it: Floyd | "So -- head east!" Floyd | "East!!" | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "..." | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "So... yeah." | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "..." | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "What happened?" you ask, tentatively.
Floyd | "It's just... ugh. She's visiting, right?"
Floyd | "Right"
Floyd | "And she brought Brandon, you know, her fiancé"
Floyd | "Right"
Floyd | "And like... The guy's working in real estate out there in Toronto,
Floyd | right? So like, three-piece suit and the smile and oh i'm a people
Floyd | person right"
Floyd | "Right..."
Floyd | "Anyway. It's fine, except that he was like asking questions, like 'Oh
Floyd | well what good is an art degree anyway? It's not about quality anyway,
Floyd | all that contemporary shit...'"
Floyd | "Ugh, of course"
Floyd | "Yeah, that kind of guy! And like 'What are you going to Concordia
Floyd | for? You're gonna have to come back and live in your parents' basement
Floyd | anyway. It's not like it gives you a job!'"
Floyd | "?????"
Floyd | "Yeah! Total. Massive. Douchebag."
Floyd | ":/ sorry. Why does your sister like him?"
Floyd | "Ugh dunno. And like, she didn't like say anything! Like he was all
Floyd | laughing loud, and my sister was like looking at me... and I was like
Floyd | 'Dude! How about, like, saying something! Control your man! I'm your
Floyd | sister, for fuck's sake!'"
Floyd | "Really?"
Floyd | "Yeah! ... well, no, not really. OF COURSE i didn't say anything,
Floyd | cause i'm stupid"
Floyd | ":("
| DavidW says, "Concordia's in Montreal, I think." | |
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry" she says after a while. Floyd | "That's fine" Floyd | "It's just... Family's hard, yknow?" Floyd | "Heh, tell me about it" Floyd | "Well, no, I mean... ugh, sorry, I just" Floyd | "Hey no, I know what you meant" Floyd | "Yeah. Sorry. Ugh, I hate this" Floyd | "Haha I know. Drives you crazy eh? Not finding the words. Like, for Floyd | your songs too" Floyd | "Pff whatever, writing nerd" Floyd | "U jealous? :D" Floyd | ":D" | DavidW says, "I don't know how to say smileys in real life like that." | |
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A remote place in the woods Floyd | Sitting in the grass on the side of a hill, with the forest all Floyd | around, with a guitar, some pot, and your best friend. Best way to Floyd | spend the night. You feel very good, completely in the moment, Floyd | although you can't help but think about how it's the last few months, Floyd | already nostalgic. Floyd | Floyd | Jane is sitting next to you, eating some chips. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about school" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT SCHOOL Floyd | Floyd | "So, how do you feel about this Concordia University?" Floyd | "You know what, pretty good. I mean, Montreal sounds like such a... I Floyd | dunno, like, a vibrant, and different, and exciting city -- and their Floyd | campus is amazing apparently, and the classes I could take all sound Floyd | so cool... I'm really gonna like it I think :D" Floyd | "Cool! Sounds good. You sound excited :)" Floyd | "Yeah well, I wouldn't be going there if I wasn't, right?" Floyd | "Haha I guess yeah" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about montreal" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT MONTREAL Floyd | Floyd | "Have you ever been to Montreal?" Floyd | "Nope, never been further east than Saskatoon" she replies. "You?" Floyd | "When I was, like, 10. Apparently I hated it cause I couldn't read any Floyd | of the signs -- I dunno, I just remember the theme park" Floyd | "Haha, nice" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about french" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT FRENCH Floyd | Floyd | "Are you gonna have to work on your French then?" Floyd | "Nah, I mean a bit, but not that much. Concordia is an English Floyd | university, so I'll be fine" Floyd | "Yeah, but you'll be surrounded by French people in the city, right? I Floyd | mean, it's basically expatriation" Floyd | "I guess yeah. Guess I should have worked a bit harder in French class Floyd | :p" Floyd | "Haha, instead of sitting at the back of the class and chatting with Floyd | your neighbour? :p" Floyd | "Yeah -- that damn neighbour" Floyd | "Lol u mad? :D" Floyd | ":D" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about us" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT US Floyd | Floyd | Ah, this is a tough question. You struggle to find the words for a few Floyd | minutes. Floyd | "Do you really... I mean... We're gonna stay... yknow..." Floyd | You think you see in her eyes that she's as scared as you. But she Floyd | says, with a confident voice: "We're gonna keep in touch? Yeah! Of Floyd | course! Why wouldn't we?" Floyd | "I don't know, it's just... far away, right?" Floyd | "Yeah, sure, I guess, but like, it's only three hours of time Floyd | difference! Like, nothing!" Floyd | "I guess, yeah, it's pretty convenient if we want to, like, call each Floyd | other..." Floyd | "Yeah! It's gonna be fine, I'm sure. We always talk for hours, and Floyd | we'll have even more to talk about :)" Floyd | "Haha yeah, that sounds good :)" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about vancouver" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT VANCOUVER Floyd | Floyd | "Isn't it gonna be weird, to like not be living in Vancouver anymore?" Floyd | "Yeah, it's true. I'll miss all the cool shit happening here" Floyd | "Yeah. And it's not like you can come back visit all the time..." Floyd | "I know... It's a bummer :/" Floyd | "Yeah. Anyway..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about art" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT ART Floyd | Floyd | "So, are you still talking about doing an album?" Floyd | "Yeah! I mean... I want to, but it's hard" Floyd | "To write?" Floyd | "No, more like... I don't know, I have a lot of songs, but it's like I Floyd | have a hard time finishing them, and like, actually being proud of Floyd | them... you ever get that feeling?" Floyd | "Nah, I mean... I have ideas, but I don't start them. Like, I know if Floyd | I start it I have to finish writing it till the end, or it drives me Floyd | crazy, so I don't" Floyd | "Oh yeah?" Floyd | "Yeah! Not you?" Floyd | "No, it's like the opposite! Like, sometimes I get ideas and like, I Floyd | HAVE to grab my guitar and spend like half an hour working out chords Floyd | and stuff" Floyd | "But what if you don't have time to finish it?" Floyd | "I don't know, I don't care? I'm like 'meh', and I forget about it. I Floyd | mean, that's how I know a song is good, if I want to come back to it" Floyd | "Huh. Interesting" Floyd | "Huh indeed" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat chips" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > EAT CHIPS Floyd | Floyd | "Can I have some?" Floyd | "Sure" she says, tilting the bag towards you. You grab some chips and Floyd | eat them almost instantly -- can't resist, and you feel really hungry Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play guitar" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY GUITAR Floyd | Floyd | You reach out for the guitar. "Do you mind?" Floyd | "Nah, it's cool, just chillin here" Floyd | You strum a few chords, aimlessly. You don't really know a song, and Floyd | you can't sing. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about guitar" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT GUITAR Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, will you help me one day on the guitar?" Floyd | "Oh yeah, we've been talking about it for ages. Shit, sorry :/" Floyd | "No, that's cool! It's just... let's not forget, right? I mean, let's Floyd | do it this summer" Floyd | "Yeah, this summer for sure. Before I leave, definitely" Floyd | "Cool :) and I'll practice while you're gone and then we'll start a Floyd | band :p" Floyd | "Haha, yeah sounds good ;)" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about band" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT BAND Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about music" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT MUSIC Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about songs" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT SONGS Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about jane" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT JANE
Floyd |
Floyd | "So... how do... How do you feel?"
Floyd | "Fine?"
Floyd | "I mean... about leaving and stuff"
Floyd | "Oh." She sits there quietly for a while.
Floyd | "I dunno, I felt like asking, because..."
Floyd | "No, yeah, it's okay. I mean, thanks." She sighs heavily. "I dunno. I
Floyd | mean, I'm excited, sure. But at the same time... like why can't I
Floyd | stay? Like, I'm going to have to leave everything behind, right?
Floyd | Family, you, friends, the city I grew up in, and all that... Is it
Floyd | worth it? I mean, it is... It's just..."
Floyd | "Right"
Floyd | "It's just a huge change, and it's hard. And the closer it gets, the
Floyd | worse it's gonna be"
Floyd | "Right, yeah" You sit there, quietly, for a moment.
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| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods
Floyd | "It sucks, and it doesn't suck, at the same time"
Floyd | "Yeah." Another pause. "Well, if you need to talk, you know..."
Floyd | "Yeah. Sure, yeah. Hey, thanks"
Floyd | "Sure. And in the meantime, let's enjoy this summer?"
Floyd | "Yup, definitely. It's gonna be a good one"
Floyd | "Hehe. Yeah, I think so too :)"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about summer" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT SUMMER Floyd | Floyd | "Any plans for the summer?" Floyd | "Not really, no. Maybe go somewhere with my parents for a week, but Floyd | not even sure right now. You?" Floyd | You shrug. "No, nothing. My Dad's gonna work, I think" Floyd | "Ah. Sucks" Floyd | "Whatever", you shrug, trying to act casual. "I'm gonna try to get a Floyd | part-time job somewhere, but I don't really know where. I don't know. Floyd | I really don't feel like it" Floyd | "Yeah, that sucks. Well, in any case, we'll make time to hang out?" Floyd | "For sure :D I want that more than getting a job :p might be why I'm Floyd | so not motivated to look for one" Floyd | "Haha yeah I bet ^^" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about job" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT JOB Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about family" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT FAMILY Floyd | Floyd | "How are your parents?" Floyd | She shrugs. "Fine, I think. I dunno. I think it's hard for them, but Floyd | they haven't talked too much about it" Floyd | "That's good I guess" Floyd | "Yeah... I dunno. I don't know why, but I think it's gonna be worse Floyd | when my sister's gone" Floyd | "Ah, yeah. Yeah, maybe" Floyd | She fiddles with her hair, and doesn't say more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about future" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT FUTURE Floyd | Floyd | Ah, this is a tough question. You struggle to find the words for a few Floyd | minutes. Floyd | "Do you really... I mean... We're gonna stay... yknow..." Floyd | You think you see in her eyes that she's as scared as you. But she Floyd | says, with a confident voice: "We're gonna keep in touch? Yeah! Of Floyd | course! Why wouldn't we?" Floyd | "I don't know, it's just... far away, right?" Floyd | "Yeah, sure, I guess, but like, it's only three hours of time Floyd | difference! Like, nothing!" Floyd | "I guess, yeah, it's pretty convenient if we want to, like, call each Floyd | other..." Floyd | "Yeah! It's gonna be fine, I'm sure. We always talk for hours, and Floyd | we'll have even more to talk about :)" Floyd | "Haha yeah, that sounds good :)" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about friends" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT FRIENDS Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about pot" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT POT Floyd | Floyd | "Do you think we should smoke some more?" Floyd | "Nah" she makes a face. "I mean, I'm pretty high right now lol" Floyd | "Haha yeah me too" Floyd | "You can if you wanna tho" Floyd | "Yeah. Nah. I'm good" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about woods" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT WOODS Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jane about song" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK JANE ABOUT SONG
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hey, so... You wrote a song lately?"
Floyd | "Yeah", she says with a smile. "It's... yknow. About graduating to
Floyd | being a cog"
Floyd | "Haha. Like, totally not inspired by true events"
Floyd | "Noooo, definitely not a song I wrote about myself or my fears or
Floyd | whatever
Floyd | "Hehe yeah ^^"
Floyd | "I'm having trouble though. Like, I want to find something powerful,
Floyd | like, something that really means what I want to say, and that's
Floyd | like... you know... powerful" She pauses for a second. "Wanna help me?
Floyd | Like, say something to finish the line when I look at you?"
Floyd | "Yeah, sure. Show me :D"
Floyd | "K :D It's only the last two lines... Anyway"
Floyd |
Floyd | She grabs the guitar and strums a few chords.
Floyd | "Ok, here we go", and she starts singing, in her raw, quavering,
Floyd | beautiful voice:
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| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Countdown till you're eighteen, then it's over Floyd | Here is your toga, now it's time to go Floyd | Here is your adult life, a dull life Floyd | Taxes spouse don't forget to call back home Floyd | Welcome to the machine, you must now... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | choose: comfort or calling | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Don't look back, you'll soon forget... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | where you came from | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | She gazes out into the night as the last chord reverberates in the Floyd | dark, a light smile on her face. "That's good dude. Real good. Floyd | Thanks." Floyd | You both stay quiet. It feels right. And this moment, this very night, Floyd | is the memory that never fades. | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | [You have reached the end of Heading East, by Alex Davies. But Floyd | would you like to talk with Jane a little longer?] Floyd | > | Emily says, "so I liked some things about this, but it didn't have enough of an arc or enough stakes to make it onto my favorites list" | |
| Emily says, "and I did run into a lot of things Jane didn't have comments on" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's hard to get that right. I felt that the author did better than many other authors attempting something like this, though." | ||
| DavidW says, "It all felt appropriately bittersweet." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Are people up for one more?" | ||
| Roger says, "Maybe" | ||
| DavidW says, "Next on my list is Molly and the Butter Thieves." | ||
| Roger says, "Yeah I'd be up for a bit of that" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd ] A remote place in the woods Floyd | Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You will remember this moment through the years *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||
| 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?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask molly" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Conversations in this game use keywords. Floyd | Floyd | If no words above were colored or emphasized, or if you'd like to Floyd | choose a different way to emphasize keywords, press K now. Floyd | Floyd | Press N to begin from the beginning or R to restore Floyd | an existing story. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are Molly Butterfield, dairy farmer extraordinaire. You have the Floyd | finest cows and the sweetest butter for miles around, and word of it Floyd | has spread far and wide. Floyd | Floyd | Perhaps too far. Floyd | Floyd | In the past week there have been two mysterious butter disappearances Floyd | from your own kitchen. There will not be a third. Floyd | Floyd | This time, you'll be lying in wait for the thief. And you'll be armed Floyd | with a fire poker. | DavidW says (to Molly), "Try a nail gun." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push space" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | with a fire poker. Floyd | Molly and the Butter Thieves Floyd | An Interactive Tale by Cosmic Hamster Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150507 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Please type help for general instructions and commands unique Floyd | to this game. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | You wait in the shadows in the corner, your eye on the front door, Floyd | which leads east. You've got a fire poker with you just in case. In Floyd | the center of the room is a sturdy table. Floyd | Floyd | On the sturdy table is a fancy dish of butter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Has anyone not played this?" | |
| Roger says, "I've not but I also don't feel up to driving; the weather's finally broken here, might take off." | ||
| DavidW says, "Like, I can go through the motions, but that's not really what CF is supposed to be about." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "help" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > HELP Floyd | Floyd | Besides the usual commands, you can also follow someone who's Floyd | visible or stop following someone. There's an exits Floyd | command, though it won't always be helpful. The keywords Floyd | command allows you change the keyword style. Floyd | Floyd | During conversations, emphasized keywords should be visible. At these Floyd | times you can type just a keyword to proceed. Floyd | Floyd | You may find undo, save and restore useful Floyd | in this game. For some background about the game, try about Floyd | and credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "credits" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > CREDITS Floyd | Floyd | Thanks to Joshua Houk, Doug Orleans, TCR, and Andrew Schultz for Floyd | testing, Dannii, Juhana, Andrew Schultz, and Ryan Veeder for coding Floyd | help, and Mark Awnings and Cordelia for additional feedback. Floyd | Floyd | Songs that inspired this game: "Teddy Bears' Picnic" by Anne Murray, Floyd | "Rain and Snow" by The Be Good Tanyas, "Lullabye for a Stormy Night" Floyd | by Vienna Teng, "Highway 5" by Marian Call, and "The Caterpillar" by Floyd | The Cure. The combination of songs brought to mind some folk tales Floyd | collected by D. L. Ashliman at Floyd | <[LINK] as well, and this Floyd | influenced the story quite a bit. Floyd | Floyd | The cover art of a wooden butter mold is adapted from "Sviestine" by Floyd | Bernelis at the Lithuanian language Wikipedia. Changes made include Floyd | cropping, adjusting the contrast, and modifying the background. The Floyd | original photo is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, and, per the Floyd | requirements, so is the cover art. The original photo is also licensed Floyd | under the GNU Free Documentation License. The original photograph can Floyd | be found at <[LINK], Floyd | its author at <[LINK], the Floyd | CC BY-SA 3.0 license at Floyd | <[LINK], and the GNU Floyd | Free Documentation License at Floyd | <[LINK] Floyd | se,_version_1.2>. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Molly and the Butter Thieves was written for ShuffleComp: Floyd | Disc 2, an event where entrants wrote interactive fiction inspired by Floyd | songs, the songs having been submitted by other participants and then Floyd | shuffled into playlists. Songs that inspired this game are listed Floyd | under credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dish" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X DISH Floyd | Floyd | A china dish shows off an exquisite specimen of butter, round from the Floyd | butter mold and stamped with your signature imprint of a flower. Floyd | Floyd | With all the labor that goes into making butter, you feel a twinge of Floyd | regret that you're sacrificing it to lure a thief, and on a beautiful Floyd | dish passed down from your grandparents, to boot. But you're Floyd | determined to find out who has been stealing your butter, and why. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a cow lowing outside--unusual for this time of night. Floyd | Something must have startled Millicent. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x poker" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X POKER Floyd | Floyd | An iron fire poker, useful for scaring off intruders if necessary. Floyd | Floyd | The door creaks open, revealing a sliver of night. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The front door is open. Floyd | Floyd | Glimmering points of light float in through the doorway like different Floyd | colored fireflies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x points" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X POINTS Floyd | Floyd | Points of light drift and flicker like tiny luminescent butterflies. Floyd | Floyd | The flickering points of light drift towards your fancy plate of Floyd | butter. Now the butter dish is rising into midair. The butter dish Floyd | balances, then hovers towards the front door, accompanied by the Floyd | lights. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Not now! Floyd | Floyd | The butter on its dish floats through the doorway, surrounded by the Floyd | glimmering sparks, and then the door closes behind it. Floyd | Floyd | You let out the breath you've been holding and lay down the fire Floyd | poker. You won't be needing a heavy thing like that to deal with a Floyd | couple of sparks. You're better off using your wits, and if need be, Floyd | your fists. Now, where's that thief off to? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Yard Floyd | It's shadowy in the yard. You can just make out the red water pump in Floyd | the moonlight. The farmhouse stands to the west, and the forest to the Floyd | east. There ought to be a path into the forest, but you can make out Floyd | only a tangle of trees. Floyd | Floyd | White pebbles glint in the grass. Floyd | Floyd | Points of light drift and flicker, carrying with them the dish of Floyd | butter. Floyd | Floyd | The glimmering lights are making their way slowly east across the Floyd | field. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pebbles" | ||
Floyd ] Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PEBBLES Floyd | Floyd | You scoop up a generous handful of pebbles. Floyd | Floyd | The glimmering lights are making their way slowly east across the Floyd | field. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pump pump" | ||
Floyd ] Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > PUMP PUMP Floyd | Floyd | You sidle over to the bright red water pump and begin pumping water. Floyd | The thief startles at the noise and vanishes along with the coveted Floyd | butter. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** YOU HAVE SCARED AWAY THE THIEF AND NOW YOUR FANCY Floyd | BUTTER DISH IS GONE FOREVER *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Yard Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Yard Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Stream Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Forest Stream Floyd | You feel as though you have entered not one forest, but two. The trees Floyd | you've always known are still here, but tonight new trees have joined Floyd | them, and an unfamiliar mass of wild brambles has overtaken most of Floyd | the ground. The new vegetation intersects the old and grows right Floyd | through it, unaffected by its presence. A stream flows through the Floyd | center of it all. Floyd | Floyd | You know every path through the forest--this is your home, after all. Floyd | But tonight you're not sure you'll be able to find your way back. Floyd | Floyd | Unless, perhaps, you have something to mark the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop pebble" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Stream Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP PEBBLE Floyd | Floyd | Good idea! You'll leave a trail of pebbles as you go through the Floyd | strange forest so you'll be able to find your way back. (You are Floyd | now leaving a trail of pebbles automatically.) Floyd | You drop some pebbles on the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trees" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Stream Floyd | > Floyd | > X TREES Floyd | Floyd | Strange, otherworldy plants and trees surround you. Floyd | Floyd | The colored points of light float slowly south with the fancy dish of Floyd | butter, staying well away from the stream. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hollow Log Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hollow Log Floyd | A clearing in the heart of the double-natured forest. Unfamiliar vines Floyd | hang down through familiar trees, and strange toadstools grow near a Floyd | hollow log that wasn't here before this evening. Floyd | Floyd | You drop some pebbles on the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toadstools" | ||
Floyd ] Hollow Log Floyd | > Floyd | > X TOADSTOOLS Floyd | Floyd | Strange, otherworldy plants and trees surround you. Floyd | Floyd | The colored points of light float slowly southeast with the fancy dish Floyd | of butter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take vine" | ||
Floyd ] Hollow Log Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE VINE Floyd | Floyd | The surrounding forest seems so strange, almost threatening. You don't Floyd | trust it far enough to do anything with it. Floyd | Floyd | The thief is going southeast, and is almost out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Slope Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Forest Slope Floyd | The trees are sparse here at the edge of the forest, and the ground Floyd | slopes down to the east. Well, some of it does. A spongy layer of Floyd | ground with tall grass and another layer that's rocky are oddly Floyd | interwoven with each other. Floyd | Floyd | As you make your way through the grass, you stop for a moment. You've Floyd | seen this place before. Floyd | Floyd | Haven't you? Floyd | Floyd | You drop the last of your pebbles on the ground. Floyd | Floyd | The colored points of light float slowly east with the fancy dish of Floyd | butter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bog Floyd | You stand in a moonlit bog at the bottom of a valley. Mist drifts Floyd | across the spongy turf, and amidst the fog, floating in midair, is the Floyd | ghostly outline of a castle, draped with ivy and flowers. An almost Floyd | transparent bridge leads east across the mud to its front door. The Floyd | tangled forest lies to the west, and to the northwest is the opening Floyd | to a small cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x castle" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > X CASTLE Floyd | Floyd | The ghostly form of a castle stands to the east, across the bridge. Floyd | The castle walls look as if they are not quite solid. Or not Floyd | quite...there. Floyd | Floyd | The thief is floating toward the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You march up to the bridge and, as you step forward, find it to be Floyd | just as unsubstantial as it looks. You fall through it as though it Floyd | were air, and land splat in the mud. Floyd | Floyd | The thief floats east across the bridge with the butter. Floyd | Floyd | A new cluster of lights comes into view, lavender and rose and green. Floyd | The lights drift back and forth on this side of the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get out of mud" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > GET OUT OF MUD Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to get outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the mud. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cluster" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > X CLUSTER Floyd | Floyd | Floating here is a twisting constellation of glimmering lights, Floyd | lavender and rose and green. Here and there the points of light Floyd | lengthen into lines, suggesting edges of petals and fluttering fabric. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch cluster" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH CLUSTER Floyd | Floyd | The cluster of glimmering lights might not like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to cluster" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CLUSTER Floyd | Floyd | "Hail, bold mortal. Welcome to our banquet," says a voice. Floyd | Floyd | You choose a focal point amongst the floating lights and say "Good Floyd | evening," annoyed that you don't know whom you're addressing. Floyd | Floyd | "You may call me 'Your Majesty,'" says the voice, answering your Floyd | unspoken question. "It is only edges and glimpses of us you see now. Floyd | But tonight our worlds converge for a while, and as the night Floyd | draws on, you may see us in our true form." Floyd | Floyd | (Please type a keyword to proceed.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "form" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > FORM Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, mortal, we are of the fair folk," says the voice. "You cannot Floyd | see this, for we are not yet fully in your world, nor you in ours. But Floyd | we are happy to share what we have as the worlds come together, even a Floyd | crossing into our realm, should you desire it." Floyd | Floyd | (You could type banquet or Floyd | converge.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "converge" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > CONVERGE Floyd | Floyd | The voice answers. "Every so often the world of faerie and the world Floyd | of humans pass through each other, and while the worlds converge, we Floyd | may mingle." Floyd | Floyd | (You could type banquet.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "banquet" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > BANQUET Floyd | Floyd | "Our banquet is held in the castle there, across the bridge," says the Floyd | voice. "Do not neglect to bring a fairy flower with you." Floyd | Floyd | "I have tarried here long enough. I must go. See to the flower, Floyd | mortal," says the voice, and the lights vanish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cave" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAVE Floyd | Floyd | An opening to the northeast leads into a cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Bog Floyd | You stand in a moonlit bog at the bottom of a valley. Mist drifts Floyd | across the spongy turf, and amidst the fog, floating in midair, is the Floyd | ghostly outline of a castle, draped with ivy and flowers. An almost Floyd | transparent bridge leads east across the mud to its front door. The Floyd | tangled forest lies to the west, and to the northwest is the opening Floyd | to a small cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "to be honest, if I had to go to the fairy court to get back a missing butter dish, I'd probably write off the dish" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Cave Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floyd | A small cave in the rock, large enough to walk a little, but no more. Floyd | Overgrown tree roots and flowering vines camouflage the cave opening Floyd | to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | A ledge in the wall of the cave forms a natural seat. It gives you a Floyd | curious feeling to look at it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Emily), "heh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on seat" | ||
Floyd ] Cave Floyd | > Floyd | > SIT ON SEAT Floyd | Floyd | You sit on the stone seat and when you look at the cave from your new Floyd | perspective, you are cast adrift in a sea of memory: the look of Floyd | the vines hanging in the doorway, dark against the moon. Flower Floyd | shadows on the wall. Sitting on the smooth stone seat with your legs Floyd | dangling, not long enough to touch the ground. Fragments of Floyd | forgotten dreams. Floyd | Floyd | If they were dreams. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vines" | ||
Floyd ] Cave Floyd | > Floyd | > X VINES Floyd | Floyd | Overgrown tree roots and flowering vines camouflage the cave opening Floyd | to the southeast. The blossoms on the vines look oddly faint. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take flower" | ||
Floyd ] Cave Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE FLOWER Floyd | Floyd | The flowers look more like tricks of the light than real blossoms. As Floyd | you reach for one you wonder if you'll be able to touch it at all. But Floyd | you can, and once you've picked the flower, it seems more solid, Floyd | somehow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Cave Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a fairy flower Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell flower" | ||
Floyd ] Cave Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL FLOWER Floyd | Floyd | It smells both sweet and bitter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flower" | ||
Floyd ] Cave Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOWER Floyd | Floyd | A blossom you picked from the flowering vine. On the vine it looked Floyd | faint, as though it were not quite present, but now that you've picked Floyd | it, it looks more solid, somehow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Cave Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the natural seat. Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floyd | A small cave in the rock, large enough to walk a little, but no more. Floyd | Overgrown tree roots and flowering vines camouflage the cave opening Floyd | to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | A ledge in the wall of the cave forms a natural seat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You go to leave. A rainstorm was raging that night. That must Floyd | have been why you were lost, though you thought you knew the path. But Floyd | you found a cave and crept in, and sat on the ledge, and began to sing Floyd | to yourself in the dark. Floyd | Floyd | Curious children, about your own age, peeped into the cave, and Floyd | came in. By the end of the song you had a small audience sitting on Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | "I've never heard that lullaby before," one of them said. Floyd | Floyd | "My mother always sings it to me during a storm," you said. Floyd | Floyd | "The fairies don't sing about rain. They don't seem to like it Floyd | much." Floyd | Floyd | "What fairies?" Floyd | Floyd | "The ones who live over yonder. But don't worry--you're safe for Floyd | now. Sing us another." Floyd | Floyd | Bog Floyd | You stand in a moonlit bog at the bottom of a valley. Mist drifts Floyd | across the spongy turf, and amidst the fog, floating in midair, is the Floyd | ghostly outline of a castle, draped with ivy and flowers. An almost Floyd | transparent bridge leads east across the mud to its front door. The Floyd | tangled forest lies to the west, and to the northwest is the opening Floyd | to a small cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There are many hints that these fairies don't like water." | |
| Emily says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch bridge" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH BRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You touch the bridge, and it feels solid. You can't help but feel that Floyd | the flower has something to do with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily asks, "isn't that a standard witches/fairies can't cross running water thing?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Banquet Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | As you step onto the bridge, unsure if it will support you, you grip Floyd | your flower. Floyd | Floyd | The bridge holds, and you cross. Floyd | Floyd | Banquet Hall Floyd | A table stretches from one end of the hall to the other, spread with a Floyd | fine banquet, and seated along the table are scores of fairies. Other Floyd | fairies are walking through with pitchers and silver trays, Floyd | periodically disappearing through a set of doors to the north. There Floyd | is a great deal of laughter and singing going on. Floyd | Floyd | Your dish of butter is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | "Psst! Molly!" whispers a voice. Floyd | Floyd | You turn, and over in the corner, waving at you, is none other than Floyd | Tom the Baker. Floyd | Floyd | Tom, the man who jilted your friend Lucinda seven years ago. A Floyd | midsummer wedding had been planned, but on the appointed day, he never Floyd | showed up. No one ever saw him around after that. Floyd | Floyd | And to think all this years he's been here enjoying himself! You Floyd | hardly know whether to ignore him, or give him a piece of Floyd | your mind. Floyd | Floyd | (Please enter a keyword to proceed.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "except of course in those ballads where they transport you over the sea" | |
| DavidW says, "Vampires too" | ||
| Allen says, "and if you put your clothes on backwards, you're invisible" | ||
| Emily says, "note to self: dig moat" | ||
| Emily says, "also, missing lover from seven years ago? probably due to be sacrificed in some Tam Lin ritual now" | ||
| DavidW says, "In the UK, moats wouldn't be too out of place, I suppose." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "mind" | ||
Floyd ] Banquet Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > MIND Floyd | Floyd | You march forward, ready to light into him, but he is the first to Floyd | speak. Floyd | Floyd | "I cannot begin to tell you how sorry I am that I was not there to Floyd | marry Lucinda. But I must tell you this: do not drink the Floyd | wine the fairies offer you. Once you drink it, you cannot Floyd | leave the fairy realm." Floyd | Floyd | He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a folded-up piece of Floyd | paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Most moats don't have /running/ water" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tom" | ||
Floyd ] Banquet Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > X TOM Floyd | Floyd | This is the man who failed to show up for his own wedding to your Floyd | friend Lucinda, seven years ago, and was never seen since. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "paper" | ||
Floyd ] Banquet Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > PAPER Floyd | Floyd | He hands you a folded letter with "LUCINDA" written on the outside. Floyd | Floyd | "I would be so grateful if you would give this letter to Lucinda," he Floyd | says. Floyd | Floyd | (You could type wine.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask tom about lucinda" | ||
Floyd ] Banquet Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK TOM ABOUT LUCINDA Floyd | Floyd | Tom the Baker does not respond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wine" | ||
Floyd ] Banquet Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > WINE Floyd | Floyd | You ask him about the wine. Floyd | Floyd | "You see over there some others you may know," says Tom, "the midwife, Floyd | the miller's son. They, too, drank the fairy wine. It is not meant for Floyd | humans; it binds us to the realm of faerie. None of us can ever go Floyd | home again." Floyd | Floyd | You look over at the familiar faces, laughing and carrying on. They Floyd | take no notice of you. Floyd | Floyd | "Don't they see me?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | "If you drink enough, you forget those you knew. You forget Floyd | the human world. Our friends over there can't remember any life other Floyd | than this." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "forget" | ||
Floyd ] Banquet Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > FORGET Floyd | Floyd | "If you are imprisoned here forever," you say, "then don't you wish to Floyd | forget what you have lost, as the others have done?" Floyd | Floyd | "Many times I have wanted to forget entirely," says Tom. "But I hoped Floyd | for the day when someone would visit from the human world, as you Floyd | have. Someone who could deliver this letter to Lucinda." Floyd | Floyd | "And besides," he continues, "if I were to forget, how could I warn Floyd | others who might come in, unsuspecting, like you? The fairies may have Floyd | trapped my body in this world," says Tom. "But they cannot trap my Floyd | will." Floyd | Floyd | "Please, give Lucinda the letter," he says. "And remember what I said Floyd | about the wine." Floyd | Floyd | Seeing a fairy approach, Tom slips away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x server fairy" | ||
Floyd ] Banquet Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > X SERVER FAIRY Floyd | Floyd | A fairy offering drinks to the guests. Floyd | Floyd | A fairy greets you and offers you a goblet of some purplish, Floyd | sweet-smelling liquid. You debate whether to say thank you or Floyd | to decline. (Please enter a keyword to proceed.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "thank you" | ||
Floyd ] Banquet Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > THANK YOU Floyd | Floyd | You thank the fairy for the drink, and with a nod, the server moves Floyd | on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x goblet" | ||
Floyd ] Banquet Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > X GOBLET Floyd | Floyd | A silver goblet full of a purplish liquid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x liquid" | ||
Floyd ] Banquet Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIQUID Floyd | Floyd | A silver goblet full of a purplish liquid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell it" | ||
Floyd ] Banquet Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL IT Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] Banquet Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | You've seen enough to know that your dish of butter is not in the Floyd | Banquet Hall. There's no use wasting more time on the banquet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Scullery Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (first opening set of doors) Floyd | Floyd | Scullery Floyd | Precariously-stacked dishes fill much of the scullery. Along the north Floyd | edge of the room, behind a half-wall, is a long channel with a stream Floyd | of water running through it. A grating across the floor is meant to Floyd | drain any stray water. A set of doors to the south leads back into the Floyd | banquet hall, and a little wooden door leads west. Floyd | Floyd | Among the stacks of dishes is your beautiful china butter dish passed Floyd | down from your grandparents. You were beginning to think you'd never Floyd | see it again! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dish" | ||
Floyd ] Scullery Floyd | > Floyd | > X DISH Floyd | Floyd | It's your fancy butter dish that you laid out to lure the thief! With Floyd | not a trace of butter left on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] Scullery Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x channel" | ||
Floyd ] Scullery Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHANNEL Floyd | Floyd | Water splashes into the channel through an opening in one end of the Floyd | room and flows out again at the other end. A thick half-wall divides Floyd | the channel from the rest of the scullery. It's clear that the stream Floyd | of water is meant for washing dishes, but the height and thickness of Floyd | the wall must make it difficult. Floyd | Floyd | You puzzle over the thick half-wall and the long grating. The fairies Floyd | seem to have gone to a lot of trouble to keep the floor dry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour goblet" | ||
Floyd ] Scullery Floyd | > Floyd | > POUR GOBLET Floyd | Floyd | You glance around to make sure no one is watching, then pour the Floyd | contents of the goblet over your shoulder. You hear a hiss as the Floyd | liquid burns a hole in the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fill goblet with water" | ||
Floyd ] Scullery Floyd | > Floyd | > FILL GOBLET WITH WATER Floyd | Floyd | You'd like to take your dish home, not fiddle with the channel of Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Scullery Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You doubt the fairies would appreciate you taking their silver goblet Floyd | home with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "The cheek, eh?" | |
| DavidW Molly, they won't appreciate you taking your own dish home. Just wait. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put goblet in channel" | ||
Floyd ] Scullery Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT GOBLET IN CHANNEL Floyd | Floyd | You'd like to take your dish home, not fiddle with the channel of Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop goblet" | ||
Floyd ] Scullery Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP GOBLET Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the little wooden door) Floyd | Floyd | Bog Floyd | You stand in a moonlit bog at the bottom of a valley. Mist drifts Floyd | across the spongy turf, and amidst the fog, floating in midair, is the Floyd | ghostly outline of a castle, draped with ivy and flowers. An almost Floyd | transparent bridge leads east across the mud to its front door. The Floyd | tangled forest lies to the west, and to the northwest is the opening Floyd | to a small cave. Floyd | Floyd | Oh, no. There's a fairy here, and she's already seen you! You stroll Floyd | by, doing your best not to call attention to the dish you're carrying. Floyd | Floyd | "What is this?" says the fairy. "Is this how you repay our Floyd | hospitality, mortal? How dare you steal our fine dish! Give it to me!" Floyd | Floyd | You recognize that voice. Floyd | Floyd | "Pardon, Your Majesty," you say, "but I won't have you calling it Floyd | yours when one of your thieving fairies stole it first!" Floyd | Floyd | Alas, diplomacy was never your strong suit. The Queen goes inside to Floyd | fetch the other fairies, and soon they are pouring out of the castle, Floyd | chasing after you. Floyd | Floyd | I hope you know your way home, Molly. There's no time to dilly-dally! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Slope Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Forest Slope Floyd | The trees are sparse here at the edge of the forest, and the ground Floyd | slopes down to the east. Well, some of it does. A spongy layer of Floyd | ground with tall grass and another layer that's rocky are oddly Floyd | interwoven with each other. Floyd | Floyd | A trail of pebbles leads northwest and east. Floyd | Floyd | A memory... Floyd | Floyd | After the rain died down on the night of the storm, the singing Floyd | came to an end and your little friends whispered, nudging you towards Floyd | the forest. "You'd better go. If the Fairy Queen catches sight of you Floyd | she might decide she'd like another servant." Floyd | Floyd | "What if the fairies should come after me?" you asked. Floyd | Floyd | "If you're quiet, they'll never know you were here. But if they Floyd | follow you, look for the dewleaf, which grows by running water. The Floyd | fairies cannot follow you through water. Dip the leaf in water, and Floyd | when you stand outside your home, throw the leaf down on the ground. Floyd | Then you'll be safe." Floyd | Floyd | "What does the leaf--" Floyd | Floyd | "Shh--they'll come looking for us any minute. You must go! Floyd | Goodbye!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Hollow Log Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hollow Log Floyd | A clearing in the heart of the double-natured forest. Unfamiliar vines Floyd | hang down through familiar trees, and strange toadstools grow near a Floyd | hollow log that wasn't here before this evening. Floyd | Floyd | A trail of pebbles leads north and southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Stream Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Forest Stream Floyd | It looks as though there is not one forest here, but two. The trees Floyd | you've always known are still here, but tonight new trees have joined Floyd | them, and an unfamiliar mass of wild brambles has overtaken most of Floyd | the ground. The new vegetation intersects the old and grows right Floyd | through it, unaffected by its presence. A stream flows through the Floyd | center of it all. Floyd | Floyd | A strange bush by the stream catches your eye. Floyd | Floyd | A trail of pebbles leads west and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bush" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Stream Floyd | > Floyd | > X BUSH Floyd | Floyd | The low bush has leaves like slices of water: clear, with ripples of Floyd | light running from tip to tip as though across the surface of a Floyd | stream. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take leaf" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Stream Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE LEAF Floyd | Floyd | You gently pull a dewleaf from the bush. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put it in stream" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Stream Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT IT IN STREAM Floyd | Floyd | You dip the dewleaf into the stream. Soon the leaf begins to glow, and Floyd | you draw it out again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Yard Floyd | It's shadowy in the yard. You can just make out the red water pump in Floyd | the moonlight. The farmhouse stands to the west, and the forest to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw leaf" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW LEAF Floyd | Floyd | You throw down the glowing wet dewleaf, and as it hits the ground, the Floyd | earth begins to shake. Floyd | Floyd | A crack appears in the ground, and you leap out of the way as it Floyd | lengthens and widens..... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | lengthens and widens..... Floyd | And the crack in the ground deepens into a trench, rapidly snaking Floyd | around the farmhouse.... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | around the farmhouse.... Floyd | And then you hear a loud rush of water, and the trench becomes a Floyd | river, completely encircling your home.... Floyd | Floyd | And then you catch sight of two more dishes being swept down the Floyd | stream: the ones that disappeared when your butter was stolen before. Floyd | You grab them as they approach.... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Yard
Floyd | You grab them as they approach....
Floyd | Then the fairies arrive from the east, a whole crowd of them, hopping
Floyd | mad. They gather on the opposite side of the river and command you to
Floyd | give them the dishes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You decline.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now if you'll excuse me," you say, "it's almost morning, and the
Floyd | milking won't wait. And then I've got an important letter to deliver."
Floyd |
Floyd | And the fairies never trouble you again.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE WON ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >
| Roger says, "This game taught me an important lesson of never trusting people from outside of your own society, because they are all thieves who will steal your butter and your men" | |
| Emily says, "it is a day full of valuable learning experiences" | ||
| DavidW says, "They stole the midwife too, which is extra-mean." | ||
| Emily says, "I'm not sure I completely understood the implications of our childhood vision" | ||
| Emily asks, "are we not really from around here?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I liked the game, although I kinda wish there was more to do." | ||
| DavidW says, "The visions were clues on what to do, I think." | ||
| Roger says, "It has its charms" | ||
| Roger says, "and churns" | ||
| Emily says (to DavidW), "yeah, I was just wondering, since it looks like we got lost here as a child and met some other children" | ||
| Emily asks, "what the deal was -- like, had we come from elsewhere? or were they somehow children from our own village that we had just never happened to meet?" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's not really clear." | ||
| Emily says, "ah well" | ||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps the other children were visiting the area, thanks to Lady Luck's meddling." | ||
| DavidW says, "Nephews and nieces of the blacksmith visiting for his eldest's wedding, perhaps." | ||
| DavidW says, "There are alternate losing endings. Drink the wine once and try to leave. Drink the wine twice and you forget the human world. Never throw the dewleaf, and the fairies take your dish away forever." | ||
| DavidW says, "Anyway, that's been more than 2 hours, so I think I'll wrap this session up." | ||
| Emily says, "cool -- thanks for organizing!" | ||
| DavidW says, "Thanks everyone for coming and playing or watching!" | ||
| DavidW says, "And commenting!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Emily), "Thank you" | ||
| DavidW says, "Jacqueline should be back next week, I think." | ||
