ClubFloyd Transcript:
Starry Seeksorrow by Caleb Wilson (as Ayla Rose)
As played on ifMUD on May 24, 2014

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

Below is a transcript of Starry Seeksorrow written by Caleb Wilson (as Ayla Rose). It was a Commended entry in ShuffleComp: Disc 2. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting IFDB.


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


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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask seeksorrow"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You wake up. That's not good. You are one of Klaus's dolls. Klaus must
Floyd | be in danger.
Floyd |
Floyd | Starry Seeksorrow
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Ayla Rose
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150505 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hidden Lawn
Floyd | A narrow, secluded spot in which Klaus is fond of reading. The ground
Floyd | is covered by beds of lacegrass. The sky is a crescent of deep blue
Floyd | above interlocking squirrel puzzle trees. Archways under bowed trunks
Floyd | open north and east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Klaus is lying on his back in the grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | A starry seeksorrow grows near Klaus's head.
Floyd |
Floyd | A heavy edition of Archibault's 1,001 Knights of Slee has
Floyd | fallen at Klaus's side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A paper doll stands here, shivering slightly in the breeze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You are Bonnie Blithe, an eighteen-inch high doll with ceramic hands,
Floyd | feet, and head, and a cloth body. Klaus's parents, who are skilled
Floyd | magicians, enchanted you to come to life in case he comes under
Floyd | threat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x klaus"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KLAUS
Floyd |
Floyd | Klaus is lying flat on his back. His skin is dotted with sweat. He
Floyd | appears comatose, though his eyes are open, the pupils glimmering
Floyd | yellow, pink, and green.
Floyd |
Floyd | Klaus is the only child of two skilled magicians. He is perhaps too
Floyd | curious for his own good, which is why his parents enchanted his dolls
Floyd | to protect him in case of a magical attack.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x starry"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STARRY
Floyd |
Floyd | A peculiar and worrisome orchid with green-black petals, dappled in
Floyd | yellow and pink.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x doll"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOLL
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll is about six inches high and cut from cardstock.
Floyd | Klaus's parents have enchanted it to obey your commands. The doll is
Floyd | equipped with a paper dragon face, paper thigh boots, and a paper
Floyd | fringed dress.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Command the doll with the syntax >DOLL, GO EAST or >DOLL, TAKE THE
Floyd | BOOK.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Doug says, "I've played this before so I'll just watch. Also I'm leaving in an hour."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x book"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | Klaus lugs this heavy reference manual of otherworldly knights
Floyd | everywhere. The book's paper dust jacket is illustrated with a drawing
Floyd | of a shield and sword.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Now I'm wanting to hear the song that inspired this."
DavidW says, "I've also played it, although I'm sure I didn't learn all the game's secrets."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "read it"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Flipping randomly through the book of knights, you find an anecdote in
Floyd | which Swa Wortilda narrowly defeated Plulph.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Doug says, "oh yeah, I never did listen to the song."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take starry"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE STARRY
Floyd |
Floyd | The starry seeksorrow is still attached to the stem. You will have to
Floyd | cut it first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I don't remember a song at all."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a long white dress (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Well, each of these games was inspired by a song."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x dress"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DRESS
Floyd |
Floyd | (the long white dress)
Floyd | Klaus sewed the dress for you, after cutting the cloth from the
Floyd | curtains in his parents' parlor. It is very much like a shapeless sack
Floyd | with a fringe of lace at the bottom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oh. That. I don't listen to any of the songs, then."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Greenhouse
Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north, northwest, and west to the
Floyd | hidden lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above
Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams.
Floyd |
Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a galen's
Floyd | glory, a ligerlily, and a watchflower.
Floyd |
Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is
Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be
Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | A six-foot high tangle of zephyrwort whirls and dances over the grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > ABOUT
Floyd |
Floyd | [Seeksorrow is an entry for ShuffleComp Disc 2 by Ayla Rose.
Floyd | It is inspired by the song "The Violet Hour" by Dolls Come to Life.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tremendous thanks for my testers Chandler Groover, Juhana Leinonen,
Floyd | and Tim Wolfe.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cover image was made with a public domain photo, taken by
Floyd | MiraculixHB, of the damage caused by the weevil Rhopalapion
Floyd | longirostre:
[LINK]Floyd | ld.JPG]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "lots of strange flowers here"
DavidW says, "I'm pretty sure violets are not the answer."
Doug says, "I see a few things in the song lyrics that appear in the game, but the game is much more than what's in the song"
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chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x zephyrwort"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ZEPHYRWORT
Floyd |
Floyd | A living storm of leaves and tendrils, moving under its own power.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Roger arrives, full of fun, but no funk.
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x sweet"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SWEET
Floyd |
Floyd | A flower with glossy black petals like a tail coat and top hat, and a
Floyd | yellow pistil like a magic wand.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sweet maskelyne seems to doff its top hat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Dolls Come to Life being the band name is less intruiging than it being a part of the song, for some reason."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x ligerlily"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LIGERLILY
Floyd |
Floyd | A flower whose petals, striped black and yellow, form the face of a
Floyd | snarling, maned cat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x watchflower"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WATCHFLOWER
Floyd |
Floyd | The petals, arranged in the form of a small globe, are red-veined
Floyd | white, with a central grey ring and black dot. The flower looks very
Floyd | much like an eye staring back at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The glass wall is intact; there's no way inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x trough"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TROUGH
Floyd |
Floyd | A tiled trough in the greenhouse floor. It looks intended to collect
Floyd | and then drain water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x pipe"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | The pipe allows water in the trough to flush out of the greenhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x faucet"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FAUCET
Floyd |
Floyd | Small and made of metal. It's etched with the illegible calligraphy of
Floyd | a spell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Folly
Floyd | Patterns of green and gold play around a structure of mossy stones
Floyd | built to look like a ruined temple. Its walls are overgrown with
Floyd | creeping diamondbane. Paths lead east, south to the hidden lawn, and
Floyd | southeast to the greenhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | A single diamondbane flower grows low enough for you to reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the temple is a grooved marble altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar are a pair of clippers and a guide book.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
lalonde_stride says (to Floyd), "read about seeksorrow in guidebook"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ ABOUT SEEKSORROW IN GUIDEBOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x guidebook"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GUIDEBOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x guide book"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GUIDE BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | Cowell's Guide to Arcane Flowers, Trees, and Shrubs is a
Floyd | standard reference for magical gardening. Klaus loves to pore over it
Floyd | whenever he gets the chance. There's an index at the back, allowing
Floyd | you to consult the book on particular plants.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Consult the guide book with the syntax >LOOK UP X IN BOOK or >CONSULT
Floyd | BOOK ON X.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take book"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x altar"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ALTAR
Floyd |
Floyd | The temple might be fake, but this altar has the unfalsifiable eerie
Floyd | presence of the real thing; Klaus's parents, avid antiquarians,
Floyd | imported it from an otherworldly dig-site. Once Klaus "sacrificed" you
Floyd | on this altar. (And then sewed you up again, thankfully.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Some significance of an expedition nags at your mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar is a pair of clippers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "think about expedition"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK ABOUT EXPEDITION
Floyd |
Floyd | [You don't need to do that. Just >EXAMINE things that are mentioned in
Floyd | the text.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x expedition"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > X EXPEDITION
Floyd |
Floyd | The memory writhes like something alive. It's like a fat snake woven
Floyd | into a tapestry of dry and dusty threads.
Floyd |
Floyd | Klaus's parents, Victor and Alva Lindworm, acquired the altar fifteen
Floyd | years ago. They had heard news of a secret expedition to the ruins of
Floyd | Slee, the ancient otherwordly city which is the source of all magic.
Floyd | The expedition was headed by their old tutor from Blackbow, Percival
Floyd | Vitus Peck; Victor and Alva, who had just moved into their estate at
Floyd | Nightshade, young and full of mischief before they had a young Klaus
Floyd | to worry over, decided it would be a legendary lark to infiltrate
Floyd | Percival's expedition and reassign the ownership of some of his finds.
Floyd | So they donned preposterous disguises, feathers, false beards, dark
Floyd | glasses, long robes and longswords, and blustered their way into the
Floyd | dig site, where they stole this altar out from under Percival's nose.
Floyd |
Floyd | Further significances nag at your mind: a personal relationship, and a
Floyd | tragedy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Hrm. Crap. Have to step away for a sec, but will be back and will say hi when I've caught up on the backscroll."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x relationship"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RELATIONSHIP
Floyd |
Floyd | The memory stands out like a misshapen leaf in an otherwise flawless
Floyd | hedge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Alva and Victor had no particular reason to dislike Percival Vitus
Floyd | Peck, beyond the generalized and impersonal disdain engendered by any
Floyd | unexceptional teacher in the breast of his students. Until they heard
Floyd | news of his expedition to Slee, neither had even thought of him in
Floyd | several years.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
lalonde_stride says (to Floyd), "x tragedy"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TRAGEDY
Floyd |
Floyd | The memory gleams like a glowing flower almost buried under deep
Floyd | jungle growth.
Floyd |
Floyd | In order to infiltrate the dig site, Victor and Alva had to disable a
Floyd | warning spell set in place by Percival. It was easy to delete the
Floyd | spell--Percival's magic was dull and obvious, no match for the casual
Floyd | genius of the two brilliant Blackbow alumni, fired as they were by the
Floyd | low-stakes villainy of what they doing. The warning spell vanished as
Floyd | they wriggled their fingers like spiders; they did not realize they
Floyd | were deleting a warding spell along with the warning spell. Once they
Floyd | had flown away into the sky with the stolen altar obediently floating
Floyd | behind them, the missing warding spell was noticed, but not by
Floyd | Percival. A Rotted Leps emerged from the necrotic, abysmal depths of
Floyd | Slee and carried off Percival's infant son Charlie from his cradle in
Floyd | the command tent, and Percival was sent insane by grief and rage.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "oh no :("
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x clippers"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CLIPPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | A standard pair of gardening clippers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take it"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
lalonde_stride asks, "cut the seeksorrow?"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book on seeksorrow"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ON SEEKSORROW
Floyd |
Floyd | The starry seeksorrow orchid is the most dangerous and alluring of
Floyd | arcane flowers. Its scent, like a combination of hot metal, burnt
Floyd | sugar, blood, sweet pine sap, vinegar, bones, violets, rotten silk,
Floyd | peat, earthworms, overripe pears, apple juice, roses, and many other
Floyd | fleeting notes, is so complex as to induce catatonia in anyone
Floyd | unfortunate enough to smell it. The starry seeksorrow does not have a
Floyd | natural habitat, and grows only under the influence of a magician's
Floyd | curse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I would cut it, yes."
Roger says, "Maybe a rotting dingo ate your baby"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x diamondbane"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DIAMONDBANE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the diamondbane flower)
Floyd | A spiny flower with hundreds of short, stiff, dark blue petals.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book on diamondbane"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ON DIAMONDBANE
Floyd |
Floyd | The diamondbane is a flower with dubious magical qualities, which
Floyd | grows on a creeping vine. It is seldom grown in or near greenhouses
Floyd | due to the bloom's damaging effect on glass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "aha"
lalonde_stride says (to Floyd), "consult book on watchflower"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ON WATCHFLOWER
Floyd |
Floyd | The watchflower is an ornamental orchid whose jointed stem allows
Floyd | it unusually flexible rotation while seeking the sun, though it is
Floyd | sometimes said that it just looks around because it is curious.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut diamondbane with clippers"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT DIAMONDBANE WITH CLIPPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | (the diamondbane flower with the pair of clippers)
Floyd | You cut the diamondbane flower free from its stem. It flutters to the
Floyd | ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take flower"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FLOWER
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book on sweet"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ON SWEET
Floyd |
Floyd | The sweet maskelyne is a rare and magical flower, though it is
Floyd | possible that its apparent magic is all just illusions.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book on ligerlily"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ON LIGERLILY
Floyd |
Floyd | The ligerlily is an aggressive flower whose bloom can move under
Floyd | its own power. Since it is known to fiercely defend itself against all
Floyd | natural pollinators, it must be pollinated (carefully) by hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Roger says, "Thanks floral rape culture"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Greenhouse
Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north, northwest to the folly, and
Floyd | west to the hidden lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above
Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams.
Floyd |
Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a galen's
Floyd | glory, a ligerlily, and a watchflower.
Floyd |
Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is
Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be
Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | A six-foot high tangle of zephyrwort whirls and dances over the grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book about galen's"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ABOUT GALEN'S
Floyd |
Floyd | The galen's glory, known since antiquity to cure all manner of
Floyd | maladies and complaints both magical and mundane, is a useful addition
Floyd | to any garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x galen's"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GALEN'S
Floyd |
Floyd | A flower with broad petals of red, yellow, white, and black; the
Floyd | colors of the four humours.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "blood, phlegm, bile, and melancholy, if I remember correctly."
Roger says, "Two flavours of bile"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "throw diamondbane at glass"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > THROW DIAMONDBANE AT GLASS
Floyd |
Floyd | You throw the diamondbane flower at the greenhouse wall. A pane of
Floyd | glass cracks at the impact and the flower explodes in a puff of
Floyd | petals.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "yehaw"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a crack in the glass, but, as it's only paper-thin, you're
Floyd | too large to fit through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "dang"
Doug says, "took me forever to come up with throwing the diamondbane."
DavidW asks (of Doug), "You didn't consult the book?"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hidden Lawn
Floyd | A narrow, secluded spot in which Klaus is fond of reading. The ground
Floyd | is covered by beds of lacegrass. The sky is a crescent of deep blue
Floyd | above interlocking squirrel puzzle trees. Archways under bowed trunks
Floyd | open north, to the folly, and east, to the greenhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | Klaus is lying on his back in the grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | A starry seeksorrow grows near Klaus's head.
Floyd |
Floyd | A heavy edition of Archibault's 1,001 Knights of Slee has
Floyd | fallen at Klaus's side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A paper doll stands here, shivering slightly in the breeze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, e"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, E
Floyd |
Floyd | It might be useful to ask the paper doll to do something, but you
Floyd | don't have a working mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Greenhouse
Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north, northwest to the folly, and
Floyd | west to the hidden lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above
Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams.
Floyd |
Floyd | A narrow crack stretches a foot vertically across a single grass-level
Floyd | pane in the greenhouse wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a galen's
Floyd | glory, a ligerlily, and a watchflower.
Floyd |
Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is
Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be
Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | A six-foot high tangle of zephyrwort whirls and dances over the grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I Have No Mouth But I Must Delegate Jobs to Paper Dolls."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchard
Floyd | The hummocky ground is shaded by large fruit trees. Paths leads south
Floyd | to the greenhouse, west to the folly, and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | A coffintree grows here. High in its branches sprouts an immature gall
Floyd | the size of a baby's casket; close to the ground its massive mature
Floyd | gall has split open, ready for use.
Floyd |
Floyd | A chimecherry tree is covered with fruit. Most of the cherries are
Floyd | unripe, but one bunch hanging six feet up, bright red and glossy,
Floyd | looks ready to chime.
Floyd |
Floyd | A clump of needlevine is entangled with the bunch of ripe
Floyd | chimecherries. One spiny tendril dangles down almost to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort blows in to greet you on a dancing column of
Floyd | vegetation.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book about zephyrwort"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ABOUT ZEPHYRWORT
Floyd |
Floyd | Zephyrwort is a mobile, semi-intelligent weed. The zephyrwort
Floyd | plant has a playful manner, seemingly enjoying following and even
Floyd | pestering people it comes across, though fortunately it is easily
Floyd | distracted. Since it does not permanently root, instead resting at
Floyd | night to take sustenance from pools of water or from the dew, the
Floyd | zephrywort rarely grows larger than human-height, though travelers
Floyd | have reported finding vast monocultures of zephyrwort, thrashing
Floyd | jungles in which the playful teasing of the plant, magnified to the
Floyd | scale of a landscape, can quickly become deadly.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I may just not be awake this morning. I'm enjoying reading this, but am not 100% sure I'm tracking it well."
Jacqueline asks, "Is it as disorienting as it seems, or do I just need more coffee?"
DavidW says, "I've played it before, and I need more tea."
DavidW says, "I think part of the disorientation is all the plant names are compounded names."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cherries"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CHERRIES
Floyd |
Floyd | Klaus's favorite fruit.
Floyd |
Floyd | Once he ate a quart of them in one afternoon, which he much regretted
Floyd | later that evening.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x needlevine"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NEEDLEVINE
Floyd |
Floyd | A vine with mottled, red-brown leaves, covered with needle-like
Floyd | thorns.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book about cherries"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ABOUT CHERRIES
Floyd |
Floyd | You check the index, but see no entry for cherries.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book about chimecherries"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ABOUT CHIMECHERRIES
Floyd |
Floyd | The sweet and tart fruit of the chimecherry tree contains, instead
Floyd | of a pit, a tiny metal bell. When ripe, the fruit splits, allowing the
Floyd | bunches of cherries to ring like a windchime. Because of its lack of
Floyd | seeds, the chimecherry does not grow naturally and must be magically
Floyd | propagated.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book about needlevine"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ABOUT NEEDLEVINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Needlevine, an epiphytic parasite, is a common weed in magical
Floyd | gardens. It has no roots, instead subsisting directly on the magical
Floyd | energy of other arcane plants, leeched through a prehensile
Floyd | haustorium. The needlevine is equipped with sharp thorns, which it is
Floyd | quick to brandish at anyone who disturbs it, making its eradication
Floyd | quite difficult.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Maybe I should have a coffee as well."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "pull needlevine"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > PULL NEEDLEVINE
Floyd |
Floyd | The vine spasms at your touch, and dozens of needles stab into your
Floyd | body. Fortunately your body is made of cloth.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x coffintree"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > X COFFINTREE
Floyd |
Floyd | A tall tree with long, straight branches at the top. Several galls
Floyd | grow from it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x gall"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GALL
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the immature gall or the mature gall?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "immature"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > IMMATURE
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like a large, angular nut.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x mature"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MATURE
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like a huge, angular nut with an open seam running around its
Floyd | rim. The inside of the gall is etched with the spectronym the
Floyd | erstwhile gall ghost gave itself: Revilecto.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some significance of the history of a ghost nags at your
Floyd | mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "See, IRTA coffeetree. So that's a clue for me, right there."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x history"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HISTORY
Floyd |
Floyd | The memory glitters like a diamond in a heap of shattered glass.
Floyd |
Floyd | The gall first formed on the bark of the coffintree six months ago;
Floyd | since then, when the most recent gall ghost spore first arrived, the
Floyd | gall grew to maturity and split open, releasing the ghost to wander
Floyd | the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | A further significance nags at your mind: the question of an intruder.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x intruder"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > X INTRUDER
Floyd |
Floyd | The memory stands out like a discolored spine in a vast library of
Floyd | otherwise identical volumes.
Floyd |
Floyd | A conversation between Victor and Alva several years ago concerned the
Floyd | security of their magic garden. It seemed they were worried about the
Floyd | possibility of a revenger. The garden was sealed tight with a hundred
Floyd | warding spells; there was no way anyone who wished Alva and Victor or
Floyd | their child Klaus harm could get inside. Of course, one loophole had
Floyd | to be left; without such a loophole, gall ghosts would be unable to
Floyd | enter the garden to fertilize the coffintree. And a magical garden
Floyd | with no ghost-inhabited coffintree is no magical garden at all...
Floyd |
Floyd | What if someone who wished ill against the Lindworms found a way to
Floyd | infiltrate the warded garden? What if such a person stipulated that
Floyd | when they died, they be buried in a coffin gall, knowing that they
Floyd | would subsequently become a gall ghost which could freely enter
Floyd | through the garden's wards?
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book about coffintree"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ABOUT COFFINTREE
Floyd |
Floyd | The coffintree is host to a symbiotic species of ghost which
Floyd | induces the growth of large, hollow galls which resemble, and are
Floyd | occasionally used as, coffins. A corpse buried in such a coffin gall
Floyd | will become, in turn, a coffintree ghost, and float in the form of an
Floyd | invisible spore until it finds an unfertilized coffintree to
Floyd | inhabit.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "tree ghost"
Jacqueline says, "Interesting."
Jacqueline says, "Imaginative writing."
chaudmin says, "lots of exposition"
DavidW says, "I only managed the save Klaus. If there's also a way to warn the parents about the ghost, or to get rid of the ghost too, I didn't figure that part out."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take zephyrwort"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE ZEPHYRWORT
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort, seeming to enjoy this game, cheerfully evades you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]                                Gate
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Gate
Floyd | The red brick wall which bounds the northeast corner of the garden is
Floyd | broken here by a wrought-iron gate. The bricks are overgrown with
Floyd | mime's-mouth. A path leads southwest, to the orchard; far beyond the
Floyd | gate to the northeast is the pink stone bulk of Nightshade, Klaus's
Floyd | parents' house.
Floyd |
Floyd | One mime's-mouth flower droops down within reach on a long tendril.
Floyd |
Floyd | A red-brown statue of a dogjaw, with its tail curled under its body,
Floyd | stands here on a granite plinth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x mime's"
Floyd ]                                Gate
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MIME'S
Floyd |
Floyd | A tiny flower whose two red petals are parted like lips.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book about mime's"
Floyd ]                                Gate
Floyd |
Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ABOUT MIME'S
Floyd |
Floyd | The mime's-mouth is a useful flower which grows on a climbing,
Floyd | deciduous vine. Shaped like a pair of human lips, the mime's-mouth can
Floyd | be worn in emergencies to provide a voice for those who have
Floyd | none.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "aha"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut mime's with clippers"
Floyd ]                                Gate
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT MIME'S WITH CLIPPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You cut the mime's-mouth flower free from its stem. It flutters to the
Floyd | ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "nice"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "wear mime's"
Floyd ]                                Gate
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR MIME'S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the mime's-mouth flower)
Floyd | You attach the mime's-mouth flower to your face.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "And if there's no mimemouth, try tulips."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x gate"
Floyd ]                                Gate
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GATE
Floyd |
Floyd | A heavy gate, beyond which you can see an avenue of mundane oak trees,
Floyd | a field sloping down to a slow river, and, almost at the outer extent
Floyd | of your magical vision, the eclectic towers, wings, and windows of
Floyd | Nightshade.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x nightshade"
Floyd ]                                Gate
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NIGHTSHADE
Floyd |
Floyd | Nightshade is a whimsical maze of a magical manor house. Under the
Floyd | whimsy, if you know where to look for it, are deep foundations of
Floyd | madness and horror. But that's the world of magic in general; you
Floyd | would know, being nothing more than a magical collection of memories
Floyd | and motivations brought to life to help Klaus in case of emergency.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something significant about the recent history of Nightshade nags
Floyd | at your memory.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x history"
Floyd ]                                Gate
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HISTORY
Floyd |
Floyd | The memory shines like a polished star on a wall of tarnished silver.
Floyd |
Floyd | Nightshade has a long and frankly bewildering history; your magically
Floyd | implanted memory includes most of it, at least in abbreviated form.
Floyd | What seems important just now is something that happened shortly after
Floyd | Alva inherited the place, when she and her new husband spent a weekend
Floyd | expelling all the ghosts that had accumulated at the estate over the
Floyd | years like barnacles on an old hull.
Floyd |
Floyd | A further significances nag at your mind: the memory of a ghost hunt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x hunt"
Floyd ]                                Gate
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HUNT
Floyd |
Floyd | The memory rattles like an impervious bumble bee trapped inside a
Floyd | closed book.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some of the ghosts were strong enough to be met with blades--the young
Floyd | couple had great fun chasing the ghosts with swords in their right
Floyd | hands and blue-flaming candles in their left--but many were weaker,
Floyd | and paradoxically these weaker ghosts were the greater hazard. Weak
Floyd | ghosts often inhabit statues and sculptures, of which there is (or was
Floyd | then) no shortage at Nightshade, and once inhabiting a statue, like a
Floyd | hermit crab inside a shell, the ghost can only be shaken loose and
Floyd | expelled with the proper magic formula: the magic word, followed by
Floyd | the given name it bore in life, followed by its hidden spectronym.
Floyd | Alva and Victor spent a weekend trading duties: one would research the
Floyd | given names and spectronyms of the offending ghosts, and the other
Floyd | would roam looking for eerie, moving statues and shouting out the
Floyd | formula: "Susohabor Beatrice Huskloom! Susohabor Henry Osteorn!
Floyd | Susohabor Reginald Gravesile!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oh, I missed this stuff."
DavidW says, "oho!"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x dogjaw"
Floyd ]                                Gate
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOGJAW
Floyd |
Floyd | A statue of a prehistoric psuedomammal, a cynodont, carved from an
Floyd | unusually large piece of petrified wood. Its body is bulky and
Floyd | powerful, with a barrel-like torso, short, sturdy, clawed legs, and a
Floyd | huge toothy mouth. It's red-brown, with stripes along its flank like a
Floyd | young boar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "ok. I know what I missed doing now."
chaudmin says, "I'm thinking this statue is suspicious"
DavidW says, "I also know where the spectronym can be found."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchard
Floyd | The hummocky ground is shaded by large fruit trees. Paths leads south
Floyd | to the greenhouse, west to the folly, and northeast to the gate.
Floyd |
Floyd | A six-foot high tangle of zephyrwort dances and whirls beneath the
Floyd | tree trunks.
Floyd |
Floyd | A coffintree grows here. High in its branches sprouts an immature gall
Floyd | the size of a baby's casket; close to the ground its massive mature
Floyd | gall has split open, ready for use. Some significance of the history
Floyd | of a ghost nags at your mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | A chimecherry tree is covered with fruit. Most of the cherries are
Floyd | unripe, but one bunch hanging six feet up, bright red and glossy,
Floyd | looks ready to chime.
Floyd |
Floyd | A clump of needlevine is entangled with the bunch of ripe
Floyd | chimecherries. One spiny tendril dangles down almost to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x mature"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MATURE
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like a huge, angular nut with an open seam running around its
Floyd | rim. The inside of the gall is etched with the spectronym the
Floyd | erstwhile gall ghost gave itself: Revilecto.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "revilecto"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]                                Gate
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Gate
Floyd | The red brick wall which bounds the northeast corner of the garden is
Floyd | broken here by a wrought-iron gate. The bricks are overgrown with
Floyd | mime's-mouth. A path leads southwest, to the orchard; far beyond the
Floyd | gate to the northeast is the pink stone bulk of Nightshade, Klaus's
Floyd | parents' house. Something significant about the recent history of
Floyd | Nightshade nags at your memory.
Floyd |
Floyd | A red-brown statue of a dogjaw, with its tail curled loosely under its
Floyd | body, stands here on a granite plinth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "so... susohabor percival revilecto!"
chaudmin says, "time to banish this ghost"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "susohabor percival revilecto"
Floyd ]                                Gate
Floyd |
Floyd | > SUSOHABOR PERCIVAL REVILECTO
Floyd |
Floyd | The statue of the dogjaw shatters and a squirm of otherworldly
Floyd | translucency arises from the fragments: the ghost known as Percival
Floyd | Revilecto.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ghost shrieks with rage. "You bloody stupid toy! Have you any idea
Floyd | what hells I endured to avenge myself on those who fully deserved my
Floyd | revenge--"
Floyd |
Floyd | But the invisible hooks of the magic word are already dragging it
Floyd | backwards into oblivion. Its complaint is silenced as the ghost
Floyd | vanishes into a crack of air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Please do. I never knew I could."
DavidW says, "yay!"
Jacqueline says, "Nice"
chaudmin says, "hooray"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]                                Gate
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Gate
Floyd | The red brick wall which bounds the northeast corner of the garden is
Floyd | broken here by a wrought-iron gate. The bricks are overgrown with
Floyd | mime's-mouth. A path leads southwest, to the orchard; far beyond the
Floyd | gate to the northeast is the pink stone bulk of Nightshade, Klaus's
Floyd | parents' house. Something significant about the recent history of
Floyd | Nightshade nags at your memory.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fragments of a broken statue litter the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Roger says, "Who are you going to call? Ghostbanishers."
DavidW says, "You should get a better ending than I got, then."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x fragments"
Floyd ]                                Gate
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FRAGMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | The red-brown fragments of a shattered statue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchard
Floyd | The hummocky ground is shaded by large fruit trees. Paths leads south
Floyd | to the greenhouse, west to the folly, and northeast to the gate.
Floyd |
Floyd | A six-foot high tangle of zephyrwort dances and whirls beneath the
Floyd | tree trunks.
Floyd |
Floyd | A coffintree grows here. High in its branches sprouts an immature gall
Floyd | the size of a baby's casket; close to the ground its massive mature
Floyd | gall has split open, ready for use. Some significance of the history
Floyd | of a ghost nags at your mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | A chimecherry tree is covered with fruit. Most of the cherries are
Floyd | unripe, but one bunch hanging six feet up, bright red and glossy,
Floyd | looks ready to chime.
Floyd |
Floyd | A clump of needlevine is entangled with the bunch of ripe
Floyd | chimecherries. One spiny tendril dangles down almost to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Greenhouse
Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north to the orchard, northwest to the
Floyd | folly, and west to the hidden lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above
Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams.
Floyd |
Floyd | A narrow crack stretches a foot vertically across a single grass-level
Floyd | pane in the greenhouse wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a galen's
Floyd | glory, a ligerlily, and a watchflower.
Floyd |
Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is
Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be
Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort blows in to greet you on a dancing column of
Floyd | vegetation.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hidden Lawn
Floyd | A narrow, secluded spot in which Klaus is fond of reading. The ground
Floyd | is covered by beds of lacegrass. The sky is a crescent of deep blue
Floyd | above interlocking squirrel puzzle trees. Archways under bowed trunks
Floyd | open north, to the folly, and east, to the greenhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | Klaus is lying on his back in the grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | A starry seeksorrow grows near Klaus's head.
Floyd |
Floyd | A heavy edition of Archibault's 1,001 Knights of Slee has
Floyd | fallen at Klaus's side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A paper doll stands here, shivering slightly in the breeze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut seeksorrow with clippers"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT SEEKSORROW WITH CLIPPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You cut the starry seeksorrow free from its stem. It flutters to the
Floyd | ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I'd also move the seeksorrow to another location, at least."
DavidW says, "Dunno if we can burn it or destroy it."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take seeksorrow"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE SEEKSORROW
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "But we don't want Klaus smelling it again."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, e"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, E
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll goes east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a great rush of wind and leaves from elsewhere in the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll blows in from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "hmm"
chaudmin says, "oh, the zephyrwort"
DavidW says, "yes, the blowhard is a nuisance."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Greenhouse
Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north to the orchard, northwest to the
Floyd | folly, and west to the hidden lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | A six-foot high tangle of zephyrwort whirls and dances over the grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above
Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams.
Floyd |
Floyd | A narrow crack stretches a foot vertically across a single grass-level
Floyd | pane in the greenhouse wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a galen's
Floyd | glory, a ligerlily, and a watchflower.
Floyd |
Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is
Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be
Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "The guide book said it can be distracted, though."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchard
Floyd | The hummocky ground is shaded by large fruit trees. Paths leads south
Floyd | to the greenhouse, west to the folly, and northeast to the gate.
Floyd |
Floyd | A coffintree grows here. High in its branches sprouts an immature gall
Floyd | the size of a baby's casket; close to the ground its massive mature
Floyd | gall has split open, ready for use. Some significance of the history
Floyd | of a ghost nags at your mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | A chimecherry tree is covered with fruit. Most of the cherries are
Floyd | unripe, but one bunch hanging six feet up, bright red and glossy,
Floyd | looks ready to chime.
Floyd |
Floyd | A clump of needlevine is entangled with the bunch of ripe
Floyd | chimecherries. One spiny tendril dangles down almost to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort blows in to greet you on a dancing column of
Floyd | vegetation.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but
Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut needlevine with clippers"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT NEEDLEVINE WITH CLIPPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | The needlevine spasms, then draws itself higher up into the
Floyd | chimecherry and out of sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x chimecherries"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CHIMECHERRIES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bunch of chimecherries)
Floyd | Klaus's favorite fruit.
Floyd |
Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls about the bunch of chimecherries, setting them
Floyd | jingling like bells.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "okay that should do it"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Greenhouse
Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north to the orchard, northwest to the
Floyd | folly, and west to the hidden lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above
Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams.
Floyd |
Floyd | A narrow crack stretches a foot vertically across a single grass-level
Floyd | pane in the greenhouse wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a galen's
Floyd | glory, a ligerlily, and a watchflower.
Floyd |
Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is
Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be
Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "it should, yes"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hidden Lawn
Floyd | A narrow, secluded spot in which Klaus is fond of reading. The ground
Floyd | is covered by beds of lacegrass. The sky is a crescent of deep blue
Floyd | above interlocking squirrel puzzle trees. Archways under bowed trunks
Floyd | open north, to the folly, and east, to the greenhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | A paper doll stands here, shivering slightly in the breeze.
Floyd |
Floyd | Klaus is lying on his back in the grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | A heavy edition of Archibault's 1,001 Knights of Slee has
Floyd | fallen at Klaus's side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "nicely donw"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, e"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, E
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll goes east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a metallic jingling sound from somewhere else in the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Greenhouse
Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north to the orchard, northwest to the
Floyd | folly, and west to the hidden lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | A paper doll stands here, shivering slightly in the breeze.
Floyd |
Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above
Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams.
Floyd |
Floyd | A narrow crack stretches a foot vertically across a single grass-level
Floyd | pane in the greenhouse wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a galen's
Floyd | glory, a ligerlily, and a watchflower.
Floyd |
Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is
Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be
Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, e"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, E
Floyd |
Floyd | The doll slips through the crack into the greenhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ligerlily roars and snaps at the paper doll; with no way to defend
Floyd | itself, the paper doll is knocked back into the drainage trough.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sweet maskelyne bobs in excitement.
Floyd |
Floyd | The faucet, enchanted by a spell, turns on. The trough fills with
Floyd | water, flushing the paper doll through the pipe and out of the
Floyd | greenhouse. The faucet turns off and the trough runs empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "oh nooo"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x doll"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOLL
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll is about six inches high and cut from cardstock.
Floyd | Klaus's parents have enchanted it to obey your commands. The doll is
Floyd | equipped with a paper dragon face, paper thigh boots, and a paper
Floyd | fringed dress.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I figured this out in an instant, but I was suspicious of something very early on."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x paper dragon"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PAPER DRAGON
Floyd |
Floyd | A scaly green dragon face with a curling, thorned tongue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "give clippers to doll"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE CLIPPERS TO DOLL
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll takes the pair of clippers, but it is too heavy and the
Floyd | doll bends under the strain.
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll puts down the pair of clippers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "well then"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take clippers"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE CLIPPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a pair of clippers
Floyd |   a starry seeksorrow
Floyd |   a mime's-mouth flower (being worn)
Floyd |   a guide book
Floyd |   a long white dress (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "give seeksorrow to doll"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE SEEKSORROW TO DOLL
Floyd |
Floyd | You give the starry seeksorrow to the paper doll.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "If you need a hint...?"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, e"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, E
Floyd |
Floyd | The doll can't fit through the crack while it is carrying the starry
Floyd | seeksorrow.
Floyd |
Floyd | The doll hunts for a way to the east but finds none.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin asks, "okay so only paper will fit?"
DavidW says, "yes"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take seeksorrow"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE SEEKSORROW
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll gives the starry seeksorrow to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "oh wait"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hidden Lawn
Floyd | A narrow, secluded spot in which Klaus is fond of reading. The ground
Floyd | is covered by beds of lacegrass. The sky is a crescent of deep blue
Floyd | above interlocking squirrel puzzle trees. Archways under bowed trunks
Floyd | open north, to the folly, and east, to the greenhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | Klaus is lying on his back in the grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | A heavy edition of Archibault's 1,001 Knights of Slee has
Floyd | fallen at Klaus's side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x knights"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KNIGHTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Klaus lugs this heavy reference manual of otherworldly knights
Floyd | everywhere. The book's paper dust jacket is illustrated with a drawing
Floyd | of a shield and sword.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x sword"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SWORD
Floyd |
Floyd | An ink drawing of a sword.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I love this."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut knights with clippers"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT KNIGHTS WITH CLIPPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | The book of knights doesn't need to be cut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut sword with clippers"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT SWORD WITH CLIPPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | Working carefully, you cut the paper sword out from the book's dust
Floyd | jacket.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a metallic jingling sound from somewhere else in the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut shield with clippers"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT SHIELD WITH CLIPPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | Working carefully, yourself cut the paper shield out from the book's
Floyd | dust jacket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take sword and shield"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE SWORD AND SHIELD
Floyd |
Floyd | paper sword: You already have that.
Floyd | paper shield: You already have that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Greenhouse
Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north to the orchard, northwest to the
Floyd | folly, and west to the hidden lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | A paper doll stands here, shivering slightly in the breeze.
Floyd |
Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above
Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams.
Floyd |
Floyd | A narrow crack stretches a foot vertically across a single grass-level
Floyd | pane in the greenhouse wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a galen's
Floyd | glory, a ligerlily, and a watchflower.
Floyd |
Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is
Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be
Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "give sword to doll"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE SWORD TO DOLL
Floyd |
Floyd | The doll takes the paper sword and bows its thanks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "give shield to doll"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE SHIELD TO DOLL
Floyd |
Floyd | The doll takes the paper shield and bows its thanks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "don't know how a paper sword is supposed to be useful, but okay"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, e"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, E
Floyd |
Floyd | The doll slips through the crack into the greenhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ligerlily roars and snaps at the paper doll; the doll, fending off
Floyd | the attack with its paper shield, stands its ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The watchflower watches with interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "It just does. It's magic logic."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, take galen's"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, TAKE GALEN'S
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll pulls ineffectually at the the galen's glory, which is
Floyd | still attached to its stem.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ligerlily roars and snaps at the paper doll; the doll, fending off
Floyd | the attack with its paper shield, stands its ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The watchflower watches with interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, cut galen's with sword"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, CUT GALEN'S WITH SWORD
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll cuts the galen's glory free from its stem. It flutters
Floyd | to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ligerlily roars and snaps at the paper doll; the doll, fending off
Floyd | the attack with its paper shield, stands its ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The watchflower watches with interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "what a weak flower"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, take galen's"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, TAKE GALEN'S
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll picks up the galen's glory.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ligerlily roars and snaps at the paper doll; the doll, fending off
Floyd | the attack with its paper shield, stands its ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The watchflower watches with interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "no, I think it's because the sword acts like a real sword in the doll's context."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, enter trough"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, ENTER TROUGH
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll gets into the trough.
Floyd |
Floyd | The faucet, enchanted by a spell, turns on. The trough fills with
Floyd | water, flushing the paper doll through the pipe and out of the
Floyd | greenhouse. The faucet turns off and the trough runs empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take galen's"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE GALEN'S
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll gives the galen's glory to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin asks, "alright! now do we need to get rid of the seeksorrow?"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut seeksorrow with clippers"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT SEEKSORROW WITH CLIPPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | The starry seeksorrow doesn't need to be cut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "or just leave it somewhere"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]                              Orchard
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchard
Floyd | The hummocky ground is shaded by large fruit trees. Paths leads south
Floyd | to the greenhouse, west to the folly, and northeast to the gate.
Floyd |
Floyd | A six-foot high tangle of zephyrwort dances and whirls beneath the
Floyd | tree trunks.
Floyd |
Floyd | A coffintree grows here. High in its branches sprouts an immature gall
Floyd | the size of a baby's casket; close to the ground its massive mature
Floyd | gall has split open, ready for use. Some significance of the history
Floyd | of a ghost nags at your mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | A chimecherry tree is covered with fruit. Most of the cherries are
Floyd | unripe, but one bunch hanging six feet up, bright red and glossy,
Floyd | looks ready to chime.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I left the seeksorrow in the folly. I didn't want Klaus to smell it."
DavidW says, "If there's a way to destroy it, I didn't learn it."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Folly
Floyd | Patterns of green and gold play around a structure of mossy stones
Floyd | built to look like a ruined temple. Its walls are overgrown with
Floyd | creeping diamondbane. Paths lead east to the orchard, south to the
Floyd | hidden lawn, and southeast to the greenhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the temple is a grooved marble altar. Some significance of the
Floyd | history of an expedition nags at your mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put seeksorrow on altar"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SEEKSORROW ON ALTAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the starry seeksorrow on the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "we shall sacrifice it to the gods"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hidden Lawn
Floyd | A narrow, secluded spot in which Klaus is fond of reading. The ground
Floyd | is covered by beds of lacegrass. The sky is a crescent of deep blue
Floyd | above interlocking squirrel puzzle trees. Archways under bowed trunks
Floyd | open north, to the folly, and east, to the greenhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | Klaus is lying on his back in the grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | A heavy edition of Archibault's 1,001 Knights of Slee has
Floyd | fallen at Klaus's side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Does paper doll's dragon face breath fire?"
DavidW says, "er breathe"
Jacqueline says, "Ooh. Interesting idea."
chaudmin says, "hm..."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Greenhouse
Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north to the orchard, northwest to the
Floyd | folly, and west to the hidden lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | A paper doll stands here, shivering slightly in the breeze.
Floyd |
Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above
Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams.
Floyd |
Floyd | A narrow crack stretches a foot vertically across a single grass-level
Floyd | pane in the greenhouse wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a ligerlily,
Floyd | and a watchflower.
Floyd |
Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is
Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be
Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take paper dragon"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE PAPER DRAGON
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll gives the paper dragon face to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "wear it"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't wear that!
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a metallic jingling sound from somewhere else in the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh."
DavidW says, "huh. Didn't know the face was takeable."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "give paper dragon to doll"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE PAPER DRAGON TO DOLL
Floyd |
Floyd | The doll takes the paper dragon face and bows its thanks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin asks, "maybe tell the doll to burn it?"
DavidW says, "we can try."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Folly
Floyd | Patterns of green and gold play around a structure of mossy stones
Floyd | built to look like a ruined temple. Its walls are overgrown with
Floyd | creeping diamondbane. Paths lead east to the orchard, south to the
Floyd | hidden lawn, and southeast to the greenhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the temple is a grooved marble altar. Some significance of the
Floyd | history of an expedition nags at your mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar is a starry seeksorrow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take seeksorrow"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE SEEKSORROW
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Greenhouse
Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north to the orchard, northwest to the
Floyd | folly, and west to the hidden lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | A paper doll stands here, shivering slightly in the breeze.
Floyd |
Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above
Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams.
Floyd |
Floyd | A narrow crack stretches a foot vertically across a single grass-level
Floyd | pane in the greenhouse wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a ligerlily,
Floyd | and a watchflower.
Floyd |
Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is
Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be
Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, burn seeksorrow"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, BURN SEEKSORROW
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll is unable to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "I didn't think so"
DavidW says, "I also did nothing with the magician plant or its wand. Or the eye-ful flower either."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, e"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, E
Floyd |
Floyd | The doll slips through the crack into the greenhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ligerlily roars and snaps at the paper doll; the doll, fending off
Floyd | the attack with its paper shield, stands its ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The watchflower watches with interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, cut sweet"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, CUT SWEET
Floyd |
Floyd | (with the paper sword)
Floyd | The paper doll cuts the sweet maskelyne free from its stem. It
Floyd | flutters to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ligerlily roars and snaps at the paper doll; the doll, fending off
Floyd | the attack with its paper shield, stands its ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The watchflower watches with interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, take sweet"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, TAKE SWEET
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll picks up the sweet maskelyne.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ligerlily roars and snaps at the paper doll; the doll, fending off
Floyd | the attack with its paper shield, stands its ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The watchflower watches with interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, cut ligerlily"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, CUT LIGERLILY
Floyd |
Floyd | (with the paper sword)
Floyd | The paper doll cuts the ligerlily free from its stem. It flutters to
Floyd | the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "oh. we could've just done that"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, take ligerlily"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, TAKE LIGERLILY
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll picks up the ligerlily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, cut watchflower"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, CUT WATCHFLOWER
Floyd |
Floyd | (with the paper sword)
Floyd | The paper doll cuts the watchflower free from its stem. It flutters to
Floyd | the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Doug goes home.
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, take watchflower"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, TAKE WATCHFLOWER
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll picks up the watchflower.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, enter trough"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, ENTER TROUGH
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll gets into the trough.
Floyd |
Floyd | The faucet, enchanted by a spell, turns on. The trough fills with
Floyd | water, flushing the paper doll through the pipe and out of the
Floyd | greenhouse. The faucet turns off and the trough runs empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "boy, this is getting destructive."
chaudmin says, "ok now we've got a bunch of flowers"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x sweet"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SWEET
Floyd |
Floyd | A flower with glossy black petals like a tailcoat and top hat, and a
Floyd | yellow pistil like a magic wand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave sweet"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAVE SWEET
Floyd |
Floyd | But you aren't holding that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "doll, wave sweet"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, WAVE SWEET
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll waves the sweet maskelyne.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wand"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WAND
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll gives the sweet maskelyne to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a metallic jingling sound from somewhere else in the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "wave wand"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAVE WAND
Floyd |
Floyd | You wave the sweet maskelyne.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm. The wand isn't distinct from its plant."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x ligerlily"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LIGERLILY
Floyd |
Floyd | A flower whose petals, striped black and yellow, form the face of a
Floyd | snarling, maned cat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take ligerlily"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LIGERLILY
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll gives the ligerlily to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, ""feed seeksorrow to ligerlily""
DavidW says, "oo, try"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "feed seeksorrow to ligerlily"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > FEED SEEKSORROW TO LIGERLILY
Floyd |
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "maybe the ligerlily is dead now"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "wave ligerlily"
Floyd ]                             Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAVE LIGERLILY
Floyd |
Floyd | You wave the ligerlily.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a metallic jingling sound from somewhere else in the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I guess so."
Jacqueline asks, "Or maybe that's just not implemented?"
chaudmin says, "probably that"
chaudmin says, "well, I'm thinking there isn't much we can do here"
DavidW says, "anyway, drop the seeksorrow somewhere where Klaus isn't, then use the galen's."
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Folly
Floyd | Patterns of green and gold play around a structure of mossy stones
Floyd | built to look like a ruined temple. Its walls are overgrown with
Floyd | creeping diamondbane. Paths lead east to the orchard, south to the
Floyd | hidden lawn, and southeast to the greenhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the temple is a grooved marble altar. Some significance of the
Floyd | history of an expedition nags at your mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put seeksorrow on altar"
Floyd ]                               Folly
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SEEKSORROW ON ALTAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the starry seeksorrow on the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hidden Lawn
Floyd | A narrow, secluded spot in which Klaus is fond of reading. The ground
Floyd | is covered by beds of lacegrass. The sky is a crescent of deep blue
Floyd | above interlocking squirrel puzzle trees. Archways under bowed trunks
Floyd | open north, to the folly, and east, to the greenhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | Klaus is lying on his back in the grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | A heavy edition of Archibault's 1,001 Knights of Slee has
Floyd | fallen at Klaus's side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "give galen's to klaus"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE GALEN'S TO KLAUS
Floyd |
Floyd | The galen's glory settles down over Klaus's nose and mouth. For a few
Floyd | moments, nothing happens -- then he takes a deep, involuntary breath.
Floyd | After a few more breaths his eyes clear. He coughs and sits up
Floyd | suddenly, and the galen's glory falls from his face.
Floyd |
Floyd | As his consciousness returns, yours fades.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have saved Klaus ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last
Floyd | command, or read the EPILOGUE?
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "hooray"
Jacqueline says, "yay"
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "epilogue"
Floyd ]                            Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > EPILOGUE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Somewhere in a magic garden a notorious flower decomposes...
Floyd |
Floyd | ...over the autum it shrivels...
Floyd |
Floyd | ...over the winter it liquefies and turns to slime...
Floyd |
Floyd | ...and in the spring this most devious of all flowers reseeds itself.
Floyd | Its root system grows invisibly beneath a bed of lacegrass. It is
Floyd | careful not to extend a tendril and bud a new bloom until the time is
Floyd | right...
Floyd |
Floyd | --Beware The Starry Seeksorrow--
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last
Floyd | command, or read the EPILOGUE?
Floyd | >
chaudmin says, "noooo"
DavidW says, "oh well. Sequel!"
chaudmin says, "I don't think it's possible to destroy anyway"
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Roger says, "Seeksorrow 2, starring The Rock as the rock"
Jacqueline says, "Thanks, chaudmin, for driving that. I enjoyed watching it."
chaudmin says, "no problem"
Jacqueline exclaims, "Thanks for coming this week, everyone. One last SC game next week!"
DavidW says, "Thanks to claudmin and Jacqueline!"
chaudmin says, "yippee"




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