  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| DavidW says, "well, we could play the last of the ShuffleComp games I uploaded a few weeks ago: When the Land Goes Under the Water." | ||
| Roger says, "sure" | ||
| chaudmin says, "alright" | ||
| DavidW says, "I've played it already, but there's two halves, so I'd prefer to play the half I didn't see." | ||
| 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 whentheland" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to restore a saved game? | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd | Would you like to restore a saved game?
Floyd | > NO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | When the Land Goes Under the Water is a purely exploratory piece. The
Floyd | only verbs that are strictly necessary are GO, EXAMINE, LOOK, TAKE,
Floyd | INVENTORY, and SCORE. Others may be implemented. If you intend to
Floyd | write a review or discuss it with others, I suggest you play through
Floyd | it exactly once. For more detailed information, type ABOUT.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
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| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | She awoke when the sun's glare reached her face, dancing in between Floyd | the flapping of her sails. Floyd | Floyd | When the Land Goes Under the Water Floyd | a walk among the ashes by Nikephoros De Kloet Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150505 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Square Floyd | As a girl, she was told that orichalcum was unbreakable; that the Floyd | green-gold tiles on the floor of the great old Kormákozh Square would Floyd | outlast and outlive her. Besides the creeping dirt seemingly emerging Floyd | from between the broken tiles, signs of ruin were around her. The Floyd | land's breaking has reduced the gilded façades of the shops that Floyd | surrounded the square to rubble and ashes. Breaks in the surrounding Floyd | ring of debris were open to the northwest and east. Floyd | Floyd | She could see her makeshift raft here. Floyd | Floyd | > | says (to chaudmin), "The 'push space' action is a button in the Toyshop, not a direct command to Floyd." | |
| chaudmin asks, "huh. how long has it been like that?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x shops" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X SHOPS Floyd | Floyd | She couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Always. The 'push space', 'push enter', 'push save', and 'clear save' are all external." | |
| chaudmin says, "hm. I see." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x raft" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X RAFT Floyd | Floyd | Made of reclaimed wood. Buoyant cheap timber used for doors in the Floyd | poor quarter. The mast was hardwood she recovered from the dining Floyd | table of some Dúc, whose wife unwittingly gave up her silk sheets for Floyd | her sails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x rubble" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X RUBBLE Floyd | Floyd | In some places, it was little more than mounds of dust, cobbles, and Floyd | potsherds. She had struggled to find meaning in the debris, to Floyd | identify what this or that mound of dust and ashes was before the Floyd | land's breaking. She did not any more. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I forgot that there's accented letters in this. I won't be able to see them." | |
| Roger says, "the dining room table of some dick" | ||
| DavidW says, "Du'c, I think it was." | ||
| DavidW says, "Or maybe Du^c." | ||
| DavidW says, "I suggest looking at our inventory." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x orichalcum" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X ORICHALCUM Floyd | Floyd | Orichalcum is bright green and flecked with veins of gold, a nobler Floyd | marble. Until the land's breaking she had only seen it as it should Floyd | be: Polished and perfect, unbreakable, eternal. The walls of the Floyd | Emperor's Palace, the Oceanic Bulwarks, all shone with gleaming green Floyd | that reflected its tint onto the people and streets of the City. And Floyd | then they were all shattered like the tiles in the square. Were they Floyd | even orichalcum at all, she wondered, or just cleverly-painted ceramic Floyd | glaze? She squinted at them, and could not remember the pattern of the Floyd | mosaic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | She was carrying: Floyd | the remains of a novitiate's robes (being worn) Floyd | a necklace of glass beads (being worn) Floyd | an orange and blue sash (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x robes" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROBES Floyd | Floyd | Little more than rags, the robes used to mark her as a novitiate of Floyd | the god Imbelá. Their brilliant white was matted with countless stains Floyd | – blood, and ashes, and more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x necklace" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X NECKLACE Floyd | Floyd | Each one was perfectly clear, but for a dot of black glass inside Floyd | them; a reminder of impurity. She thought that it was the day she was Floyd | supposed to return them to the temple, and take her priest's necklace Floyd | of pure, clear beads. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x sash" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X SASH Floyd | Floyd | Her family colours, in the silk of the eyeworm that was reserved for Floyd | the noble houses. Unlike her robes, they refused to fade or stain – Floyd | how odd that this miraculous fabric was exclusive to those whose Floyd | clothes were never soiled. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin asks, "time to explore?" | |
| DavidW says, "If you like." | ||
| DavidW says, "The game is all about exploring." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Chanting Row Floyd | Chanting Row was one of the city's main throughfares. It was wide as Floyd | four oxcarts abreast, leading from the opulence of the palace quarter Floyd | all the way to the Eastern Sea Gate. Floyd | Floyd | In ages past, pleasure ships would dock right up to the avenue's end, Floyd | disgorging nobles riding opulent sedan chairs. She had never seen Floyd | that. Before the land's breaking, the eastern end of the row had been Floyd | taken over by tenements and poorhouses, a dumping ground for the Floyd | city's abandoned. The pleasure ships would dock on the Western Sea Floyd | Gate, instead. Floyd | Floyd | This stretch used to run west to east, straight and true, so much so Floyd | one could see the sea from this end; but then it had become twisted Floyd | and broken, surrounded by rubble. The square was to the west. The Floyd | debris formed a slope that one might climb, to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x rubble" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X RUBBLE Floyd | Floyd | In some places, it was little more than mounds of dust, cobbles, and Floyd | potsherds. She had struggled to find meaning in the debris, to Floyd | identify what this or that mound of dust and ashes was before the Floyd | land's breaking. She did not any more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] 0/12 Across the DebrExits: NW and E Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Across the Debris Floyd | Here the debris formed a sort of sloping mound, though the broken Floyd | ruins squeezed that mound into a narrow defile that ran northwest to Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] 0/12 Behind a TenemeExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Behind a Tenement Floyd | The tenement, to the north, cast a long shadow over this patio. She Floyd | could not tell it had been a patio; dirt and dust had overtaken the Floyd | floor. Rubble and debris surrounded her, though she thought she saw a Floyd | entrance to the temple of Kózh to the east. Another break in the Floyd | debris allowed movement back west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x tenement" | ||
Floyd ] 0/12 Behind a TenemeExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > X TENEMENT Floyd | Floyd | It seemed unsteady, looming over her. Its white granite face had been Floyd | blackened with ash and pockmarked with damage from an unknown source. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x patio" | ||
Floyd ] 0/12 Behind a TenemeExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > X PATIO Floyd | Floyd | She couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] 0/12 Crumbling KitchExits: NE, S, and U Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | She crossed the threshold into the dark tenement. Floyd | Floyd | Crumbling Kitchen Floyd | The inside was caked with dust and given a yellowing pallor by the Floyd | sharp light of the sun outside, which flattened the whole room in Floyd | white. But it seemed mercifully undisturbed. The stairway leading up Floyd | looked bent, but serviceable. Both the passages to south and northeast Floyd | remained, though the way to other rooms in the dwelling had crumbled Floyd | away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] 0/12 Tinsmith LaneExits: N, SW, and E Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | She walked out to the broken street. Floyd | Floyd | Tinsmith Lane Floyd | Named after the craftsmen who made their dwellings here, though she Floyd | had only known Tinsmith Lane as a street inhabited by prostitutes and Floyd | thieves; among the common folk it had a less kind name. But the land's Floyd | breaking erased such distinctions: the road was barely recognizable. Floyd | It was a smear of cobblestones in the maelstrom of debris. Breaks in Floyd | the rubble allowed passage to the southwest, east, and north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] 0/12 Ransacked ShoExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | She found her way into a small shop. Floyd | Floyd | Ransacked Shop Floyd | Shelves long emptied of their wares. It had sold amphorae of cheap, Floyd | bitter wine and even more bitter herbs - preparations of pennyroyal Floyd | and silphium. A ragged drapery was hung on one corner of the room, a Floyd | last reminder of homeliness left behind. The exit was west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x drapery" | ||
Floyd ] 0/12 Ransacked ShoExits: NE and W Floyd | > Floyd | > X DRAPERY Floyd | Floyd | White, once, though a smear of blood was slashed across it, one man's Floyd | attempt to debase himself before the gods, before the end. It shifted Floyd | slightly in the wind. Floyd | Floyd | The motion was suspicious. She gingerly lifted the dirty curtain, Floyd | finding a passage into a dark hiding place behind it to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] 0/12 Hidden CacheExits: SW Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | She went through the hole behind the drapery. Floyd | Floyd | Hidden Cache Floyd | A cubbyhole hastily repurposed to hide away the shopkeeper's few Floyd | possessions. A passage led southwest, back to the shop. Floyd | Floyd | A small glinting mirthstone was abandoned on the floor of the alcove, Floyd | lighting up the dark space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x mirthstone" | ||
Floyd ] 1/12 Hidden CacheExits: SW Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIRTHSTONE Floyd | Floyd | Raw mirthstone. It was worth more than the whole building it was found Floyd | in. Numerous slaves would die extracting mirthstone from the bowels of Floyd | the earth; at night, mirthstone gems lit the way in the richest Floyd | streets in the Palace Quarter. The owner had thought to trade it for Floyd | supplies, but waited too long; he could not find anyone who would Floyd | trade food and water for light. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh good. You found this right away." | |
| chaudmin says, "I take it there's a dark area, then" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] 1/12 Hidden CacheExits: SW Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | She wrapped her hand in a fold of her robe, and gingerly tied the Floyd | mirthstone to her sash, careful not to touch it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] 1/12 Ransacked ShoExits: NE and W Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ransacked Shop Floyd | Shelves long emptied of their wares. It had sold amphorae of cheap, Floyd | bitter wine and even more bitter herbs - preparations of pennyroyal Floyd | and silphium. A ragged drapery was hung on one corner of the room, a Floyd | last reminder of homeliness left behind. The exit was west, or through Floyd | a hidden passage northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] 1/12 Tinsmith LaneExits: N, SW, and E Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tinsmith Lane Floyd | Named after the craftsmen who made their dwellings here, though she Floyd | had only known Tinsmith Lane as a street inhabited by prostitutes and Floyd | thieves; among the common folk it had a less kind name. But the land's Floyd | breaking erased such distinctions: the road was barely recognizable. Floyd | It was a smear of cobblestones in the maelstrom of debris. Breaks in Floyd | the rubble allowed passage to the southwest, east, and north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] 1/12 Temple of VelExits: S Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Weaving into the rubble, she entered a dark temple. Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Velê Floyd | Velê, god of vices, clandestine mother. A place where the poor and Floyd | wretched of the Tin Quarter would have served men from the Palace Floyd | Quarter and Velatine Hill. Floyd | Floyd | While the walls were made of dirty stone, a gleaming gold effigy of Floyd | Velê loomed over the altar, still standing in spite of the collapsing Floyd | roof. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x effigy" | ||
Floyd ] 2/12 Temple of VelExits: S Floyd | > Floyd | > X EFFIGY Floyd | Floyd | Velê was a tall woman with an impossibly generous figure, clad only in Floyd | a voluminous cloak. She held the cloak open, displaying a dark cavity Floyd | within her garment that was said to hold the obscene desires of Floyd | supplicants within it. Her face was sharply proportioned, beautiful, Floyd | though mutilated; the patriarch god Pésazh had taken her nose as Floyd | punishment for her vanity. The statue itself, of course, was cast in Floyd | violet gold, one and a half times the height of a person. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cavity" | ||
Floyd ] 3/12 Temple of VelExits: S Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAVITY Floyd | Floyd | The opening of her cloak was an empty recess, big enough to hold a Floyd | person, or perhaps two if they squeeze together. Supplicants – rich Floyd | old men from the Venatine Hill – would come to the temple and see Floyd | their desires appear inside Velê's cloak. Invariably, that desire Floyd | would be one or two lithe novitiates of the God of Vices. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter cavity" | ||
Floyd ] 4/12 Temple of VelExits: S Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER CAVITY Floyd | Floyd | The mirthstone lit her way into the alcove, allowing her to see the Floyd | inside of the recess. It smelled oddly even then, a velvety, silent Floyd | space. She stepped on something soft; and walked out of the god's Floyd | cloak with a smaller cloak of her own: Lurid red silk, threaded with Floyd | abstract, sinuous lines of gold. It was, technically, the cloak of a Floyd | high priestess; but it had been dropped to the floor by a novitiate, Floyd | who had been made to stand in the alcove inside her god's cloak for a Floyd | ritual. And there, forgotten, the cloak was left for the duration of Floyd | the ceremony, as the lust and ennui turned to panic when the land Floyd | began to break. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "oho" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cloak" | ||
Floyd ] 4/12 Temple of VelExits: S Floyd | > Floyd | > X CLOAK Floyd | Floyd | (the red cloak) Floyd | Lurid red silk, threaded with abstract, sinuous lines of gold. It was, Floyd | technically, the cloak of a high priestess; but it had been dropped to Floyd | the floor by a novitiate, who had been made to stand in the alcove Floyd | inside her god's cloak for a ritual. And there, forgotten, the cloak Floyd | was left for the duration of the ceremony, as the lust and ennui Floyd | turned to panic when the land began to break. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "wear it" | ||
Floyd ] 4/12 Temple of VelExits: S Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR IT Floyd | Floyd | She put on the red cloak. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "When the land breaks, it breaks like the wind" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] 4/12 Tinsmith LaneExits: N, SW, and E Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | She fled the suffocating darkness of the temple. Floyd | Floyd | Tinsmith Lane Floyd | Named after the craftsmen who made their dwellings here, though she Floyd | had only known Tinsmith Lane as a street inhabited by prostitutes and Floyd | thieves; among the common folk it had a less kind name. But the land's Floyd | breaking erased such distinctions: the road was barely recognizable. Floyd | It was a smear of cobblestones in the maelstrom of debris. Breaks in Floyd | the rubble allowed passage to the southwest, east, and north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] 4/12 Crumbling KitchExits: NE, S, and U Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crumbling Kitchen Floyd | The inside was caked with dust and given a yellowing pallor by the Floyd | sharp light of the sun outside, which flattened the whole room in Floyd | white. But it seemed mercifully undisturbed. The stairway leading up Floyd | looked bent, but serviceable. Both the passages to south and northeast Floyd | remained, though the way to other rooms in the dwelling had crumbled Floyd | away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] 4/12 Cramped QuarteExits: E and D Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | She clambered up the decaying stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Cramped Quarters Floyd | The walls of the upper floor had fallen away, clearing out the Floyd | constrained space of the tiny quarters above. Even then, this place Floyd | felt cramped, the bent walls threatening to collapse in on her. What Floyd | remained of furniture was just mismatched piles of wood and splinters. Floyd | A staircase led back down. Only one window was left, overlooking a Floyd | neighbouring roof to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x wood" | ||
Floyd ] 4/12 Cramped QuarteExits: E and D Floyd | > Floyd | > X WOOD Floyd | Floyd | Much of it had been salvaged for firewood; the rest rotted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd ] 4/12 Cramped QuarteExits: E and D Floyd | > Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | An arch of dull stone, its curtains long ripped off, its shape Floyd | distorted by the crumbling of the building. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] 4/12 Sun-baked RooExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | She stepped outside through the window. Floyd | Floyd | Sun-baked Roof Floyd | The dirty mortar that used to cover this flat stone roof had crackled Floyd | and flaked to dust, leaving only a dirty roof battered by the sun. The Floyd | house below was half collapsed; the roof drooped menacingly towards Floyd | one edge. A window led back west. Floyd | Floyd | A tent, someone's erstwhile shelter, had collapsed there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x tent" | ||
Floyd ] 4/12 Sun-baked RooExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > X TENT Floyd | Floyd | Little more than rags and sticks, the fabric for the tent was a scrap Floyd | of a heavy tapestry. Its occupant could no longer sleep indoors, for Floyd | fear of buildings collapsing on him; he had cast himself to sea, a day Floyd | prior, having realised that the building might collapse beneath him. Floyd | No other sign of him remained. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter tent" | ||
Floyd ] 4/12 Sun-baked RooExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER TENT Floyd | Floyd | That was not something she could enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take tent" | ||
Floyd ] 5/12 Sun-baked RooExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE TENT Floyd | Floyd | She pulled at the remains of the tent's fabric, leaving the sticks Floyd | behind like so much trash. She examined the scrap of fabric: It Floyd | depicted a devotional scene of the goddess Velê. A supplicant is led Floyd | to the temple by an... interestingly clad priestess; his walk into it Floyd | is on the back of prostrate temple-slaves, who would serve as the Floyd | stepping stones of the temple's reflecting pool. The tapestry was torn Floyd | just before the point where it gets graphic, however. Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the tent, she found a jewelry box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] 5/12 Sun-baked RooExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | Oval and made of black bronze. It belonged to a lady, who had it Floyd | stolen from her by a servant in the panic, after social graces had Floyd | fallen away but before despair had quite set in. The lid was coral, Floyd | and featured a cameo carving. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x carving" | ||
Floyd ] 6/12 Sun-baked RooExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARVING Floyd | Floyd | The coral accreted in alternating layers of black and turquoise, Floyd | allowing a clever artisan to carve contrasting designs in the Floyd | material, which is then polished to a high sheen. It depicted a lonely Floyd | rock on the ocean, buffeted by waves, a nude woman standing atop the Floyd | stone. If one were to turn the box this and that way, depending on the Floyd | angle, the woman would look either desperate, or defiant. She was Floyd | Celephais, God of Exile, who cast her name to the sea and took a Floyd | foreign one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||
Floyd ] 6/12 Sun-baked RooExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN BOX Floyd | Floyd | She opened the jewelry box, revealing a topaz bracelet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x bracelet" | ||
Floyd ] 7/12 Sun-baked RooExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > X BRACELET Floyd | Floyd | Clear, orange-gold crystals of enormous size came from mines in a Floyd | distant and hostile land far to the southwest. The interlocking Floyd | trapezoidal stones that surrounded the silver periphery of this Floyd | bracelet were cuttings from one such stone; on its way to Atlantis, it Floyd | had broken the back of a slave and killed a mule with its sheer Floyd | weight. The cuttings were scraps, remains after the enormous original Floyd | stone was cut into a shape pleasing to its owner. Floyd | Floyd | This bracelet had been a lover's gift, and invitation – its recipient Floyd | laughed, and never wore it, finding it at once gaudy and pedestrian; Floyd | but the gesture was taken as it was meant, and the two of them were Floyd | happy, for a time, until the tides had separated all lovers on the Floyd | island. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "wear it" | ||
Floyd ] 7/12 Sun-baked RooExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR IT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the topaz bracelet) Floyd | She put on the topaz bracelet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take box" | ||
Floyd ] 7/12 Sun-baked RooExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BOX Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] 7/12 Sun-baked RooExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | She was carrying: Floyd | a jewelry box (open but empty) Floyd | a topaz bracelet (being worn) Floyd | a torn tapestry Floyd | a red cloak (being worn) Floyd | a raw mirthstone (tied to her sash) (providing light) Floyd | the remains of a novitiate's robes (being worn) Floyd | a necklace of glass beads (being worn) Floyd | an orange and blue sash (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "it seems wrong to be wearing treasured objects" | |
| chaudmin says, "but it feels so right" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] 7/12 Cramped QuarteExits: E and D Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | She returned indoors through the window. Floyd | Floyd | Cramped Quarters Floyd | The walls of the upper floor had fallen away, clearing out the Floyd | constrained space of the tiny quarters above. Even then, this place Floyd | felt cramped, the bent walls threatening to collapse in on her. What Floyd | remained of furniture was just mismatched piles of wood and splinters. Floyd | A staircase led back down. Only one window was left, overlooking a Floyd | neighbouring roof to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] 7/12 Crumbling KitchExits: NE, S, and U Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | She clambered down the broken steps. Floyd | Floyd | Crumbling Kitchen Floyd | The inside was caked with dust and given a yellowing pallor by the Floyd | sharp light of the sun outside, which flattened the whole room in Floyd | white. But it seemed mercifully undisturbed. The stairway leading up Floyd | looked bent, but serviceable. Both the passages to south and northeast Floyd | remained, though the way to other rooms in the dwelling had crumbled Floyd | away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] 7/12 Behind a TenemeExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | She stepped outside. Floyd | Floyd | Behind a Tenement Floyd | The tenement, to the north, cast a long shadow over this patio. She Floyd | could not tell it had been a patio; dirt and dust had overtaken the Floyd | floor. Rubble and debris surrounded her, though she thought she saw a Floyd | entrance to the temple of Kózh to the east. Another break in the Floyd | debris allowed movement back west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe, but you're also saving them from being lost forever." | |
| chaudmin says, "true" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] 7/12 Temple of KózExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | She slipped into the dark temple through a crumbling archway. Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Kózh Floyd | Kózh, god of slaves, father of chains. The slaves of the Tin Quarter, Floyd | as well as those destitute enough that they were soon to be slaves, Floyd | would come to this simple temple to be preached at by the fettered Floyd | brothers. Officially, the fettered brothers preached obedience, love Floyd | of one's master, meekness. But there were always whispers – would the Floyd | slaves really come to this place to hear that? The secret died with Floyd | the fettered brothers. No light entered the temple from the outside. Floyd | No pews – slaves were expected to stand. The only exit was west. Floyd | Floyd | An altar to the slave-god remained. Floyd | Floyd | The walls were covered by a mosaic of rough tiles. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "like the pirate rat" | |
| DavidW says, "Captain Verdeterre, yes." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x mosaic" | ||
Floyd ] 8/12 Temple of KózExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > X MOSAIC Floyd | Floyd | It depicted a long line of slaves chained together by their feet, or Floyd | upon closer inspection a single slave's progression through life. He Floyd | (She? The figure is stylised, faceless, identityless) waits on their Floyd | master hand and foot, suffers terrible abuse, and then dies – perhaps Floyd | of some ailment relating to the removal of their ears, nose, and lips. Floyd | But then they are reborn in the Basalt Galleries, Kózh's version of Floyd | the afterlife, where they become slaves of Kózh himself for all Floyd | eternity. An image of the god dominates that end of the mosaic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x god" | ||
Floyd ] 9/12 Temple of KózExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > X GOD Floyd | Floyd | (the depiction of Kózh) Floyd | Kózh: Always shown as a gaunt man, his head shorn, his eyes downcast, Floyd | his body wrapped in chains from which hang the bodies of slaves, tiny Floyd | and doll-like relative to his godly frame. His mouth was a vacant hole Floyd | through which shines a permanent grin; Pésazh had taken his lips as Floyd | punishment for a forgotten crime. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "brutal" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x altar" | ||
Floyd ] 10/12 Temple of KózExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > X ALTAR Floyd | Floyd | A squat stone block, carved with the same omnipresent chain motif. Floyd | Deep dark stains covered it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x stains" | ||
Floyd ] 10/12 Temple of KózExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > X STAINS Floyd | Floyd | Blood, of course. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "of course" | |
| DavidW says, "Just once, stains ought to be melted chocolate." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x motif" | ||
Floyd ] 10/12 Temple of KózExits: W Floyd | > Floyd | > X MOTIF Floyd | Floyd | Kózh was not known for subtlety. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "pfft" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] 10/12 Behind a TenemeExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | She walked out into the sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | Behind a Tenement Floyd | The tenement, to the north, cast a long shadow over this patio. She Floyd | could not tell it had been a patio; dirt and dust had overtaken the Floyd | floor. Rubble and debris surrounded her, though she thought she saw a Floyd | entrance to the temple of Kózh to the east. Another break in the Floyd | debris allowed movement back west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] 10/12 Across the DebrExits: NW and E Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Across the Debris Floyd | Here the debris formed a sort of sloping mound, though the broken Floyd | ruins squeezed that mound into a narrow defile that ran northwest to Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] 10/12 Chanting RowExits: SE and W Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Chanting Row Floyd | Chanting Row was one of the city's main throughfares. It was wide as Floyd | four oxcarts abreast, leading from the opulence of the palace quarter Floyd | all the way to the Eastern Sea Gate. This stretch used to run west to Floyd | east, straight and true, so much so one could see the sea from this Floyd | end; but then it had become twisted and broken, surrounded by rubble. Floyd | The square was to the west. The debris formed a slope that one might Floyd | climb, to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||
Floyd ] 10/12 Chanting RowExits: SE and W Floyd | > Floyd | > X GATE Floyd | Floyd | She couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] 10/12 Ruined SquareExits: NW and E Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Square Floyd | Besides the creeping dirt seemingly emerging from between the broken Floyd | tiles, signs of ruin were around her. The land's breaking has reduced Floyd | the gilded façades of the shops that surrounded the square to rubble Floyd | and ashes. Breaks in the surrounding ring of debris were open to the Floyd | northwest and east. Floyd | Floyd | A tide of rising water had blocked access to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | She could also see her makeshift raft here. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "oh, so those are the two halves" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x sheets" | ||
Floyd ] 10/12 Ruined SquareExits: NW and E Floyd | > Floyd | > X SHEETS Floyd | Floyd | She couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x raft" | ||
Floyd ] 10/12 Ruined SquareExits: NW and E Floyd | > Floyd | > X RAFT Floyd | Floyd | Made of reclaimed wood. Buoyant cheap timber used for doors in the Floyd | poor quarter. The mast was hardwood she recovered from the dining Floyd | table of some Dúc, whose wife unwittingly gave up her silk sheets for Floyd | her sails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x sails" | ||
Floyd ] 10/12 Ruined SquareExits: NW and E Floyd | > Floyd | > X SAILS Floyd | Floyd | She couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] 10/12 Ruined SquareExits: NW and E Floyd | > Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | [You have seen 10 out of 12 stories of Atlantis. You have not Floyd | closely examined: the entrance to the temple of Kózh and the depiction Floyd | of Celephais.] Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "time to go back then" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] 10/12 Chanting RowExits: SE and W Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Chanting Row Floyd | Chanting Row was one of the city's main throughfares. It was wide as Floyd | four oxcarts abreast, leading from the opulence of the palace quarter Floyd | all the way to the Eastern Sea Gate. This stretch used to run west to Floyd | east, straight and true, so much so one could see the sea from this Floyd | end; but then it had become twisted and broken, surrounded by rubble. Floyd | The square was to the west. The debris formed a slope that one might Floyd | climb, to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] 10/12 Across the DebrExits: NW and E Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Across the Debris Floyd | Here the debris formed a sort of sloping mound, though the broken Floyd | ruins squeezed that mound into a narrow defile that ran northwest to Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] 10/12 Behind a TenemeExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Behind a Tenement Floyd | The tenement, to the north, cast a long shadow over this patio. She Floyd | could not tell it had been a patio; dirt and dust had overtaken the Floyd | floor. Rubble and debris surrounded her, though she thought she saw a Floyd | entrance to the temple of Kózh to the east. Another break in the Floyd | debris allowed movement back west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x entrance" | ||
Floyd ] 11/12 Behind a TenemeExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > X ENTRANCE Floyd | Floyd | On closer inspection, the carved columns showed the unmistakable motif Floyd | of Kózh, god of slaves. Made of orichalcum (distinctive among the Floyd | granite that formed most of the rubble in this district), they were Floyd | carved to look wrapped in chains. Together, they formed an archway, Floyd | though the arch had crumbled; the interior of the temple itself was Floyd | dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] 11/12 Behind a TenemeExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | Oval and made of black bronze. It belonged to a lady, who had it Floyd | stolen from her by a servant in the panic, after social graces had Floyd | fallen away but before despair had quite set in. The lid was coral, Floyd | and featured a cameo carving. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x carving" | ||
Floyd ] 11/12 Behind a TenemeExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARVING Floyd | Floyd | The coral accreted in alternating layers of black and turquoise, Floyd | allowing a clever artisan to carve contrasting designs in the Floyd | material, which is then polished to a high sheen. It depicted a lonely Floyd | rock on the ocean, buffeted by waves, a nude woman standing atop the Floyd | stone. If one were to turn the box this and that way, depending on the Floyd | angle, the woman would look either desperate, or defiant. She was Floyd | Celephais, God of Exile, who cast her name to the sea and took a Floyd | foreign one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x celephais" | ||
Floyd ] 12/12 Behind a TenemeExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > X CELEPHAIS Floyd | Floyd | She was emaciated and hateful, or frail and wronged. She was a victim, Floyd | or a perpetrator. There were crimes. She was impure. Precious little Floyd | more was known to Atlantis' people: her worship was a crime. Her Floyd | followers were cast into the sea, exiled to the deep. The ladies who Floyd | had her effigy on their dressers were at times traitors, at times Floyd | dilettantes. The box had been a symbol of hushed rebellion, youthful Floyd | defiance, affluent irony. And then it was used by a survivor to store Floyd | the last of his food, for three days, until he threw himself to the Floyd | sea. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "success" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] 12/12 Across the DebrExits: NW and E Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Across the Debris Floyd | Here the debris formed a sort of sloping mound, though the broken Floyd | ruins squeezed that mound into a narrow defile that ran northwest to Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes" | |
| Fang arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] 12/12 Chanting RowExits: SE and W Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Chanting Row Floyd | Chanting Row was one of the city's main throughfares. It was wide as Floyd | four oxcarts abreast, leading from the opulence of the palace quarter Floyd | all the way to the Eastern Sea Gate. This stretch used to run west to Floyd | east, straight and true, so much so one could see the sea from this Floyd | end; but then it had become twisted and broken, surrounded by rubble. Floyd | The square was to the west. The debris formed a slope that one might Floyd | climb, to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] 12/12 Ruined SquareExits: NW and E Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Square Floyd | Besides the creeping dirt seemingly emerging from between the broken Floyd | tiles, signs of ruin were around her. The land's breaking has reduced Floyd | the gilded façades of the shops that surrounded the square to rubble Floyd | and ashes. Breaks in the surrounding ring of debris were open to the Floyd | northwest and east. Floyd | Floyd | A tide of rising water had blocked access to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | She could also see her makeshift raft here. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "time to sail" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter raft" | ||
Floyd ] 12/12 Ruined SquareExits: NW and E Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER RAFT Floyd | Floyd | [You have seen all 12 stories of Atlantis.] Floyd | Floyd | This will end the story. Are you sure? | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] 12/12 Ruined SquareExits: NW and E Floyd | This will end the story. Are you sure? Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | She had found as much as she could of the world she was leaving Floyd | behind. She carried a small history with her away from that place, but Floyd | could not tell if that history deserved to survive; if it should be Floyd | told. Still, she climbed onto her raft, with the trinkets and memories Floyd | she could take, and waited for the water to rise and take her away, a Floyd | small reminder of a dead world floating in an Atlantic current. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** little remained from the fall of Atlantis *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "yeah, that history seems pretty bleak" | |
| DavidW says, "well, you explored the poor part of town. The other branch is where the richer folk lived." | ||
| chaudmin asks, "play again?" | ||
| Roger says, "The lost city of Atlanta is sort of inherently tragic" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure why the author wants people to only play the game once and not allow contrast and comparison." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think I would like to play again, yes. I never saw the other half." | ||
| chaudmin says, "I've got cousins in Atlanta" | ||
| chaudmin says, "seems like a nice place" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to restore a saved game? | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd | Would you like to restore a saved game?
Floyd | > NO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | When the Land Goes Under the Water is a purely exploratory piece. The
Floyd | only verbs that are strictly necessary are GO, EXAMINE, LOOK, TAKE,
Floyd | INVENTORY, and SCORE. Others may be implemented. If you intend to
Floyd | write a review or discuss it with others, I suggest you play through
Floyd | it exactly once. For more detailed information, type ABOUT.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | She awoke when the sun's glare reached her face, dancing in between Floyd | the flapping of her sails. Floyd | Floyd | When the Land Goes Under the Water Floyd | a walk among the ashes by Nikephoros De Kloet Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150505 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Square Floyd | As a girl, she was told that orichalcum was unbreakable; that the Floyd | green-gold tiles on the floor of the great old Kormákozh Square would Floyd | outlast and outlive her. Besides the creeping dirt seemingly emerging Floyd | from between the broken tiles, signs of ruin were around her. The Floyd | land's breaking has reduced the gilded façades of the shops that Floyd | surrounded the square to rubble and ashes. Breaks in the surrounding Floyd | ring of debris were open to the northwest and east. Floyd | Floyd | She could see her makeshift raft here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We are rebels today." | |
| DavidW says, "Hope the author forgives us this trespass." | ||
| Roger says, "The author retracted and regrets the directive, I seem to recall from the postmortem" | ||
| DavidW asks (of Roger), "oh?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Okay. That makes me feel better, actually." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x raft" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X RAFT Floyd | Floyd | Made of reclaimed wood. Buoyant cheap timber used for doors in the Floyd | poor quarter. The mast was hardwood she recovered from the dining Floyd | table of some Dúc, whose wife unwittingly gave up her silk sheets for Floyd | her sails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Gilded Lane Floyd | Gilded Lane had been paved with gold, and when gold proved too soft, Floyd | it was paved with orichalcum. But then, orichalcum proved too soft, Floyd | too. She saw a mess of green-gold tiles, stopped mid-spin, where the Floyd | street used to be. All around her were the husks of crumbled Floyd | buildings, like the limbs of buried giants breaking through the Floyd | ground. The maw of a tunnel opened up to the southwest; the square was Floyd | back southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x tiles" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X TILES Floyd | Floyd | A sinkhole had begun, but not quite opened, in the middle of the road, Floyd | collapsing into a cracked pucker of broken tiles, half-buried in dirt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x orichalcum" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X ORICHALCUM Floyd | Floyd | A sinkhole had begun, but not quite opened, in the middle of the road, Floyd | collapsing into a cracked pucker of broken tiles, half-buried in dirt. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hold on. We seem to have lost our status line." | |
| chaudmin says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "Somehow, 'restart' lost it." | ||
| chaudmin says, "whoops" | ||
| DavidW says, "We might need to quit and load again, I think." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is that okay?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "sure" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd ] 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 (to Floyd), "load sleepmask whentheland" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to restore a saved game? | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd | Would you like to restore a saved game?
Floyd | > NO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | When the Land Goes Under the Water is a purely exploratory piece. The
Floyd | only verbs that are strictly necessary are GO, EXAMINE, LOOK, TAKE,
Floyd | INVENTORY, and SCORE. Others may be implemented. If you intend to
Floyd | write a review or discuss it with others, I suggest you play through
Floyd | it exactly once. For more detailed information, type ABOUT.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | She awoke when the sun's glare reached her face, dancing in between Floyd | the flapping of her sails. Floyd | Floyd | When the Land Goes Under the Water Floyd | a walk among the ashes by Nikephoros De Kloet Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150505 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Square Floyd | As a girl, she was told that orichalcum was unbreakable; that the Floyd | green-gold tiles on the floor of the great old Kormákozh Square would Floyd | outlast and outlive her. Besides the creeping dirt seemingly emerging Floyd | from between the broken tiles, signs of ruin were around her. The Floyd | land's breaking has reduced the gilded façades of the shops that Floyd | surrounded the square to rubble and ashes. Breaks in the surrounding Floyd | ring of debris were open to the northwest and east. Floyd | Floyd | She could see her makeshift raft here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | She was carrying: Floyd | the remains of a novitiate's robes (being worn) Floyd | a necklace of glass beads (being worn) Floyd | an orange and blue sash (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh. It's just gone." | |
| chaudmin says, "just like atlantis" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x robes" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROBES Floyd | Floyd | Little more than rags, the robes used to mark her as a novitiate of Floyd | the god Imbelá. Their brilliant white was matted with countless stains Floyd | – blood, and ashes, and more. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder if winning the other way somehow saved a file that the game reads to somehow...? Weird." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x necklace" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X NECKLACE Floyd | Floyd | Each one was perfectly clear, but for a dot of black glass inside Floyd | them; a reminder of impurity. She thought that it was the day she was Floyd | supposed to return them to the temple, and take her priest's necklace Floyd | of pure, clear beads. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x sash" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X SASH Floyd | Floyd | Her family colours, in the silk of the eyeworm that was reserved for Floyd | the noble houses. Unlike her robes, they refused to fade or stain – Floyd | how odd that this miraculous fabric was exclusive to those whose Floyd | clothes were never soiled. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Gilded Lane Floyd | Gilded Lane had been paved with gold, and when gold proved too soft, Floyd | it was paved with orichalcum. But then, orichalcum proved too soft, Floyd | too. She saw a mess of green-gold tiles, stopped mid-spin, where the Floyd | street used to be. All around her were the husks of crumbled Floyd | buildings, like the limbs of buried giants breaking through the Floyd | ground. The maw of a tunnel opened up to the southwest; the square was Floyd | back southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x tiles" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X TILES Floyd | Floyd | A sinkhole had begun, but not quite opened, in the middle of the road, Floyd | collapsing into a cracked pucker of broken tiles, half-buried in dirt. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Darn. An exits command would help when the status line is missing." | |
| chaudmin says, "we must rely on our memory" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] 0/13 Twisted TunneExits: NE and W Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | She descended into the tunnel below. Floyd | Floyd | Twisted Tunnel Floyd | The land had contorted this section of street into a spiraling vortex Floyd | of cobblestones and dirt, dead grass poking incongruously from the Floyd | helical ceiling. The passage ran northeast and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||
Floyd ] 0/13 Twisted TunneExits: NE and W Floyd | > Floyd | > X CEILING Floyd | Floyd | Like a great rolling ocean wave, stopped just before the break. Floyd | Cobblestones and tiles flecked with gold, dirt and grasses, dead Floyd | flowers, all were caught in the movement of the dried, cracked earth; Floyd | some hung overhead like curious, inverted vines. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tunnel" | ||
Floyd ] 0/13 Twisted TunneExits: NE and W Floyd | > Floyd | > X TUNNEL Floyd | Floyd | She couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] 0/13 Overgrown GardExits: N and E Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | She emerged from the tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | Overgrown Garden Floyd | This had been a formal garden, a gathering place for aristocrats. But Floyd | she found within it only a dried fountain, and a lawn that had become Floyd | overgrown with grass. The grass, in turn, was a matted patch of drying Floyd | hay, caked with dust and ash, waiting to catch fire in the constant Floyd | sun. A breach in the land was still open to the east; to the north, Floyd | she could see a jagged passage into the remains of a palace. Floyd | Floyd | The fountain was long drained of water, but it still stood. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, I was too slow." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x tunnel" | ||
Floyd ] 0/13 Overgrown GardExits: N and E Floyd | > Floyd | > X TUNNEL Floyd | Floyd | She couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no, I wanted to examine the tunnel two rooms ago." | |
| DavidW says, "Don't worry about it." | ||
| chaudmin says, "wait a minute, the status line is back" | ||
| DavidW says, "I also ... huh, you're right." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x grass" | ||
Floyd ] 0/13 Overgrown GardExits: N and E Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRASS Floyd | Floyd | Dead or dying, whitening at the edges, as though they turned to salt Floyd | in the harsh air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x fountain" | ||
Floyd ] 0/13 Overgrown GardExits: N and E Floyd | > Floyd | > X FOUNTAIN Floyd | Floyd | A simple square of grey stone. It had been cunningly designed so that Floyd | the water would come at the top of the fountain in spurts, creating Floyd | roiling waves on its surface. The artisan who designed it had been Floyd | exiled from Atlantis, so that he could never craft a similar wonder Floyd | for another noble house. Its bottom was a mosaic of Lonkê, god of the Floyd | ocean. Floyd | Floyd | Half-hidden among the mosaic tiles was an obol. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay, it must be a feature of the game, then, to make the line go away until we're through the tunnel." | |
| chaudmin says, "Lonk" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x mosaic" | ||
Floyd ] 0/13 Overgrown GardExits: N and E Floyd | > Floyd | > X MOSAIC Floyd | Floyd | Lonkê was a foreign god, a deity who washed upon the shore of Atlantis Floyd | for a distant land. He had the upper body of a man, the lower body of Floyd | a shark, and the head of a moray eel, which in the fine mosaic would Floyd | sinuously peer at the viewer through the water. Pésazh had taken his Floyd | left hand as a punishment for his hubris – that effigy showed it Floyd | replaced with a jagged harpoon tip. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That chief god dude sure likes to take away body parts from the other gods. Must be a fetish of his." | |
| chaudmin says, "maybe he's collecting parts to create his own god" | ||
| chaudmin says, "a la frankenstein" | ||
| DavidW says, "He took the prostitute goddess's nose, the slave god's lips, this one's left hand." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x obol" | ||
Floyd ] 1/13 Overgrown GardExits: N and E Floyd | > Floyd | > X OBOL Floyd | Floyd | A heptagonal token made of steel, with a border in orichalcum. One Floyd | side depicted an eye; the other side, a right hand. The god Pésazh Floyd | collected a toll on the dead, taking from them parts of their body as Floyd | repayment for their sins; these coins were struck as surrogate Floyd | offerings, so that the wealthy dead could remain whole in the Floyd | hereafter. Symbolically, this one was struck for a man of envy (the Floyd | eye) and greed (the hand); he did not get a chance to be buried with Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "there he goes again, taking body parts" | |
| DavidW says, "wow. Psazh preys on the dead too." | ||
| DavidW says, "Take the obol." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] 1/13 Overgrown GardExits: N and E Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If we find his temple, this thing might let us escape whole." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] 1/13 Half a FoyerExits: N, S, W, and U Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | She walked through a passage into the remains of a palace. Floyd | Floyd | Half a Foyer Floyd | This rich foyer had been floored with brilliant marble tiles and Floyd | draped with silks. One of the grand columns along its side had Floyd | toppled, preventing movement into most of the palace complex. Holes in Floyd | the wall – hard to tell if they had been intentional passages – led Floyd | north and south, outside. A hidden door in the west had become a Floyd | jagged hole. And a collapsed staircase still allowed an unsteady climb Floyd | to an upstairs room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x silks" | ||
Floyd ] 1/13 Half a FoyerExits: N, S, W, and U Floyd | > Floyd | > X SILKS Floyd | Floyd | Little remained; jagged strands flapping in the twisting wind, Floyd | goldenrod speckled with dirty white. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tiles" | ||
Floyd ] 1/13 Half a FoyerExits: N, S, W, and U Floyd | > Floyd | > X TILES Floyd | Floyd | Pristine marble from the east, each tile individually carved into the Floyd | likeness of a condemned man. The villa had belonged to a magistrate, Floyd | who made his guests walk on the faces of the men he had sentenced to Floyd | death or exile. She found their broken visages littering the floor, Floyd | crunching under her steps. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ew" | |
| chaudmin says, "brutal" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] 1/13 Looted ApartmenExits: D Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Looted Apartments Floyd | It was just barely perceptible that at the top of the stairs, passages Floyd | would splay out in all directions, leading into various wings of the Floyd | palace. Most of them were gone, as was the palace's roof, ripped away. Floyd | All that remained of the upper floor of the villa was a curious island Floyd | of orichalcum-flecked ceramic tiles, cracking in the sunlight. Even Floyd | then, this little patch of opulence had been ransacked, more than Floyd | once, by various desperate bands – and later, desperate individuals. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of ash, the remains of a campfire, marred the tiles on the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | The only furniture that remained was a lectern made of gold, rendered Floyd | worthless by the calamity. Floyd | Floyd | She could also see a tarnished lantern here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Atlantis is a lot less fun than I thought." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x ash" | ||
Floyd ] 2/13 Looted ApartmenExits: D Floyd | > Floyd | > X ASH Floyd | Floyd | (the pile of ash) Floyd | The grey-black ash betrayed scrolls and furniture; someone's attempt Floyd | at staving off the wind and cold of the nights, the roaming feral Floyd | dogs, the hunger. For four days and four nights they were tended by a Floyd | desperate man, a lesser servant whose master chose to leave behind. Floyd | Until he went out into the ruins to seek food, and did not return. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x lectern" | ||
Floyd ] 3/13 Looted ApartmenExits: D Floyd | > Floyd | > X LECTERN Floyd | Floyd | As it could not be eaten or burned, it was left alone as its Floyd | companions were ransacked, a silent witness to the chaos. Its base is Floyd | sculpted into a vaguely human shape, a stylised depiction of the Floyd | slave-god, Kózh. But its surface rarely held scrolls; the master of Floyd | this manor had used it more as a pillory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x god" | ||
Floyd ] 3/13 Looted ApartmenExits: D Floyd | > Floyd | > X GOD Floyd | Floyd | She couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x depiction" | ||
Floyd ] 3/13 Looted ApartmenExits: D Floyd | > Floyd | > X DEPICTION Floyd | Floyd | She couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Whipped the slaves over this thing, I guess." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x lantern" | ||
Floyd ] 4/13 Looted ApartmenExits: D Floyd | > Floyd | > X LANTERN Floyd | Floyd | A cage of silver, blackening at the edges. Inside, ensconced safely Floyd | from errant fingers, is an illuminated mirthstone, a facet-cut piece Floyd | of hell. The silver lantern is shaped into an angular, polyhedral form Floyd | that makes it uncomfortable to hold, though the stone emits no heat. Floyd | Instead, one holds it by a leaden hoop attached to the top. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x kazh" | ||
Floyd ] 4/13 Looted ApartmenExits: D Floyd | > Floyd | > X KAZH Floyd | Floyd | She couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take lantern" | ||
Floyd ] 4/13 Looted ApartmenExits: D Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE LANTERN Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] 4/13 Half a FoyerExits: N, S, W, and U Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Half a Foyer Floyd | This rich foyer had been floored with brilliant marble tiles and Floyd | draped with silks. One of the grand columns along its side had Floyd | toppled, preventing movement into most of the palace complex. Holes in Floyd | the wall – hard to tell if they had been intentional passages – led Floyd | north and south, outside. A hidden door in the west had become a Floyd | jagged hole. And a collapsed staircase still allowed an unsteady climb Floyd | to an upstairs room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] 4/13 Servants' QuartExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Servants' Quarters Floyd | Most walls had crumbled into impenetrable piles of rubble; all she Floyd | found in this wing of the palace was a shaded, closet-sized room. The Floyd | plaster on the walls had cracked into spiderwebs of grey-white flakes, Floyd | showing the smooth stone beneath. Though once this wing of the palace Floyd | had been a maze of passages, the rubble and damage meant she could Floyd | only exit to the east, west, and north. Floyd | Floyd | Most furniture had become firewood, but she could see the collapsed Floyd | remains of a bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||
Floyd ] 4/13 Servants' QuartExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > X BED Floyd | Floyd | A pile of dirty hay on a pile of rotting wood. Floyd | Floyd | A speck of grey was visible among the hay, some kind of token or Floyd | amulet made of iron. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x token" | ||
Floyd ] 4/13 Servants' QuartExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > X TOKEN Floyd | Floyd | (the obol) Floyd | A heptagonal token made of steel, with a border in orichalcum. One Floyd | side depicted an eye; the other side, a right hand. The god Pésazh Floyd | collected a toll on the dead, taking from them parts of their body as Floyd | repayment for their sins; these coins were struck as surrogate Floyd | offerings, so that the wealthy dead could remain whole in the Floyd | hereafter. Symbolically, this one was struck for a man of envy (the Floyd | eye) and greed (the hand); he did not get a chance to be buried with Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "no the other token" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x iron" | ||
Floyd ] 5/13 Servants' QuartExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > X IRON Floyd | Floyd | Cast as a profile cameo of the god Azh. It was rusted around the Floyd | edges. The amulet was a chambermaid's, a symbol of something she Floyd | yearned for as she prepared for a life regimented by the path her Floyd | masters had set before her. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "take it" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] 5/13 Servants' QuartExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] 5/13 Half a FoyerExits: N, S, W, and U Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Half a Foyer Floyd | This rich foyer had been floored with brilliant marble tiles and Floyd | draped with silks. One of the grand columns along its side had Floyd | toppled, preventing movement into most of the palace complex. Holes in Floyd | the wall – hard to tell if they had been intentional passages – led Floyd | north and south, outside. A hidden door in the west had become a Floyd | jagged hole. And a collapsed staircase still allowed an unsteady climb Floyd | to an upstairs room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] 5/13 Servants' QuartExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Servants' Quarters Floyd | Most walls had crumbled into impenetrable piles of rubble; all she Floyd | found in this wing of the palace was a shaded, closet-sized room. The Floyd | plaster on the walls had cracked into spiderwebs of grey-white flakes, Floyd | showing the smooth stone beneath. Though once this wing of the palace Floyd | had been a maze of passages, the rubble and damage meant she could Floyd | only exit to the east, west, and north. Floyd | Floyd | Most furniture had become firewood, but she could see the collapsed Floyd | remains of a bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "wrong way" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] 5/13 Argentine ArcaExits: E and W Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | She left the palace through a side door. Floyd | Floyd | Argentine Arcade Floyd | One of the Palace Quarter's particular jewels was, upon a time, a long Floyd | promenade flanked on both sides by spindly columns of pure silver, Floyd | carved to resemble the ghost ash trees that used to blanket the Floyd | island. This patch of the street endured, for a time; though the Floyd | street rose sharply to the north and south, as though the whole Floyd | wayfare was peeling off the earth at its ends. The back entrance of a Floyd | grand villa was east; to the west, a temple remained. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Not going west or north of Servants' Qs?" | |
| DavidW says, "oh, you probably typed e by accident" | ||
| chaudmin says, "yeah. confused my directions" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x temple" | ||
Floyd ] 5/13 Argentine ArcaExits: E and W Floyd | > Floyd | > X TEMPLE Floyd | Floyd | All but unrecognisable – soot had covered the pristine white façade. Floyd | Imbelá's temple was unadorned on the outside; its simple entrance Floyd | somehow endured, to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] 5/13 Temple of ImbeExits: E Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | She stepped into a familiar, broken temple. Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Imbelá Floyd | Imbelá, god of purity. Here the first daughters of noble families Floyd | would come to be preached at by third and fourth daughters who had Floyd | been promised to the temple as initiates. It was their virtue and Floyd | purity, they were told, that sustained Atlantis. When the land Floyd | cracked, blame was put upon all daughters of the great houses; blood Floyd | was spilled over perceived slights against the gods. Floyd | Floyd | Though it had toppled to the ground, Imbelá's heavy stone effigy still Floyd | seemed to judge her. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x effigy" | ||
Floyd ] 6/13 Temple of ImbeExits: E Floyd | > Floyd | > X EFFIGY Floyd | Floyd | Imbelá, whose statue was made of simple soapstone, whose head was Floyd | depicted as a featureless orb because she gave all her features to the Floyd | god Pésazh to atone for her temptations. The god of purity, who had Floyd | judged the novitiate's every step, like others before her. Even from Floyd | the ground, it still seemed to judge and weigh her heart. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push it" | ||
Floyd ] 6/13 Temple of ImbeExits: E Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH IT Floyd | Floyd | It was fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "not much here" | |
| DavidW says, "I guess." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] 6/13 Argentine ArcaExits: E and W Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | She returned to the sunlight outside. Floyd | Floyd | Argentine Arcade Floyd | One of the Palace Quarter's particular jewels was, upon a time, a long Floyd | promenade flanked on both sides by spindly columns of pure silver, Floyd | carved to resemble the ghost ash trees that used to blanket the Floyd | island. This patch of the street endured, for a time; though the Floyd | street rose sharply to the north and south, as though the whole Floyd | wayfare was peeling off the earth at its ends. The back entrance of a Floyd | grand villa was east; to the west, a temple remained. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x columns" | ||
Floyd ] 6/13 Argentine ArcaExits: E and W Floyd | > Floyd | > X COLUMNS Floyd | Floyd | They had some how become twisted, like the limbs of dying trees, Floyd | looming over the street in a diseased, tarnished way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's odd how purity is represented by absence and austerity." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] 6/13 Servants' QuartExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Servants' Quarters Floyd | Most walls had crumbled into impenetrable piles of rubble; all she Floyd | found in this wing of the palace was a shaded, closet-sized room. The Floyd | plaster on the walls had cracked into spiderwebs of grey-white flakes, Floyd | showing the smooth stone beneath. Though once this wing of the palace Floyd | had been a maze of passages, the rubble and damage meant she could Floyd | only exit to the east, west, and north. Floyd | Floyd | Most furniture had become firewood, but she could see the collapsed Floyd | remains of a bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] 6/13 Palace ArmoryExits: S Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Palace Armory Floyd | The weapons to fight Atlantis' enemies would be stored in armories Floyd | like these, each noble house fielding its own gleaming-armoured Floyd | soldier-slaves. When an enemy came that could not be fought off with Floyd | weapons, their arms spilled out onto the streets. The armory seemed Floyd | empty for its size, an arched stone gallery meant to supply a hundred Floyd | fighting men. A passage led back south. Floyd | Floyd | She could see a broken spear here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x spear" | ||
Floyd ] 7/13 Palace ArmoryExits: S Floyd | > Floyd | > X SPEAR Floyd | Floyd | (the broken spear) Floyd | The weaponry of Atlantis comes in two classes: The vast bronze Floyd | behemoths that stride over the ocean to bring fear and awe to the Floyd | colonies to the east and west; and the arms of palace guards, the Floyd | tools of enforcing order. This spear was the latter; stout and Floyd | weighted, it was made as much to beat as to pierce, punishment as much Floyd | as weapon. The ebony haft had been broken in half, perhaps an Floyd | ill-thought strike. The spear point had a curious shape. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x point" | ||
Floyd ] 8/13 Palace ArmoryExits: S Floyd | > Floyd | > X POINT Floyd | Floyd | Shaped like the body of a squid, eight arms joined together into a Floyd | barbed point, two arms outstretched like the spars on a boar spear. A Floyd | bright bronze alloy polished to an imitation-gold sheen, two beady Floyd | eyes inset with onyx. Part of a set of dozens, all of which would Floyd | eventually be swallowed by the earth. All, but this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take spear" | ||
Floyd ] 8/13 Palace ArmoryExits: S Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SPEAR Floyd | Floyd | (the broken spear) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x haft" | ||
Floyd ] 8/13 Palace ArmoryExits: S Floyd | > Floyd | > X HAFT Floyd | Floyd | She couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] 8/13 Servants' QuartExits: N, E, and W Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Servants' Quarters Floyd | Most walls had crumbled into impenetrable piles of rubble; all she Floyd | found in this wing of the palace was a shaded, closet-sized room. The Floyd | plaster on the walls had cracked into spiderwebs of grey-white flakes, Floyd | showing the smooth stone beneath. Though once this wing of the palace Floyd | had been a maze of passages, the rubble and damage meant she could Floyd | only exit to the east, west, and north. Floyd | Floyd | Most furniture had become firewood, but she could see the collapsed Floyd | remains of a bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] 8/13 Half a FoyerExits: N, S, W, and U Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Half a Foyer Floyd | This rich foyer had been floored with brilliant marble tiles and Floyd | draped with silks. One of the grand columns along its side had Floyd | toppled, preventing movement into most of the palace complex. Holes in Floyd | the wall – hard to tell if they had been intentional passages – led Floyd | north and south, outside. A hidden door in the west had become a Floyd | jagged hole. And a collapsed staircase still allowed an unsteady climb Floyd | to an upstairs room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] 8/13 Palace QuarteExits: NW and S Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | She found herself leaving the palace for the remains of the western Floyd | quarter. Floyd | Floyd | Palace Quarter Floyd | The Palace Quarter did not so much have streets as extremely long Floyd | plazas, promenades flanked by rows of gilded fountains that would Floyd | stretch on towards the horizon. It had no alleys – servants and Floyd | slaves Floyd | would instead scurry between palaces and villas in tunnels beneath the Floyd | earth, out of the sight of the nobility. The tunnels had burst into Floyd | the surface when the land broke, cracking open the meticulously tiled Floyd | squares, isolating each villa into an island. She found herself in an Floyd | oddly preserved stretch of the quarter, surrounded mostly by unnatural Floyd | chasms, connecting buildings to the south and northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x fountains" | ||
Floyd ] 8/13 Palace QuarteExits: NW and S Floyd | > Floyd | > X FOUNTAINS Floyd | Floyd | She couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x chasms" | ||
Floyd ] 8/13 Palace QuarteExits: NW and S Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHASMS Floyd | Floyd | She couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] 8/13 Temple of PésaExits: SE Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | She wandered into a dark temple. Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Pésazh Floyd | Pésazh, king-god, father of god-kings. All that remained was a Floyd | fraction of his temple complex, a windowless antechamber that lingered Floyd | after the earth swallowed the rest of the temple. Sunlight filtered in Floyd | from the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | A wooden altar, used for preliminary prayers, still survived in the Floyd | antechamber. Floyd | Floyd | The god's stern visage stared north into a temple hall that was no Floyd | longer there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x altar" | ||
Floyd ] 9/13 Temple of PésaExits: SE Floyd | > Floyd | > X ALTAR Floyd | Floyd | The altar was a softly curving parabola of wood, supported on legs of Floyd | gold, upon which offerings would be laid. And as the stern god's Floyd | chastisement of his pantheon sustained the world, so did symbols of Floyd | his justice – almonds for eyes, ginger for hands, carrots for noses Floyd | – Floyd | become burnt offerings to him. And on bad years, the symbols would be Floyd | altogether more direct. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x visage" | ||
Floyd ] 10/13 Temple of PésaExits: SE Floyd | > Floyd | > X VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | Pésazh was tall and severe, cast in a statue of white gold. He was the Floyd | namer of sins, and as such, he was the only whole god; every other Floyd | deity had given something of themselves as punishment, when the Floyd | god-father identified their crime. He was wrapped in fine cloth and Floyd | burdened by a heavy crown, his bearded face almost hidden under the Floyd | finery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crown" | ||
Floyd ] 10/13 Temple of PésaExits: SE Floyd | > Floyd | > X CROWN Floyd | Floyd | Cast in traditional black bronze, the crown resembled a bulbous limb Floyd | of a baobab tree that deigned to twist itself upon the god's head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cloth" | ||
Floyd ] 10/13 Temple of PésaExits: SE Floyd | > Floyd | > X CLOTH Floyd | Floyd | She couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] 10/13 Temple of PésaExits: SE Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | That seemed to be a part of the effigy of Pésazh. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] 10/13 Temple of PésaExits: SE Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | She couldn't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x beard" | ||
Floyd ] 10/13 Temple of PésaExits: SE Floyd | > Floyd | > X BEARD Floyd | Floyd | She couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. We've missed three things, but I'm not sure what or where." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] 10/13 Temple of PésaExits: SE Floyd | > Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | [You have seen 10 out of 13 stories of Atlantis. You have not Floyd | closely examined: the depiction of Azh, the depiction of Kózh, and the Floyd | cut mirthstone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x lantern" | ||
Floyd ] 10/13 Temple of PésaExits: SE Floyd | > Floyd | > X LANTERN Floyd | Floyd | A cage of silver, blackening at the edges. Inside, ensconced safely Floyd | from errant fingers, is an illuminated mirthstone, a facet-cut piece Floyd | of hell. The silver lantern is shaped into an angular, polyhedral form Floyd | that makes it uncomfortable to hold, though the stone emits no heat. Floyd | Instead, one holds it by a leaden hoop attached to the top. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x mirthstone" | ||
Floyd ] 11/13 Temple of PésaExits: SE Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIRTHSTONE Floyd | Floyd | Mirthstone is almost always clumsily cut; the hazards of working with Floyd | the material prevent anyone from accruing enough experience to become Floyd | a true master. The artisan who made this one lived longer than most, Floyd | and his family was compensated well for this beautifully cut piece; Floyd | with its impurities severed, the faceted sliver inside shines with a Floyd | harsh white light. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's probably radium, or some other radioactive element." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x amulet" | ||
Floyd ] 11/13 Temple of PésaExits: SE Floyd | > Floyd | > X AMULET Floyd | Floyd | Cast as a profile cameo of the god Azh. It was rusted around the Floyd | edges. The amulet was a chambermaid's, a symbol of something she Floyd | yearned for as she prepared for a life regimented by the path her Floyd | masters had set before her. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x azh" | ||
Floyd ] 12/13 Temple of PésaExits: SE Floyd | > Floyd | > X AZH Floyd | Floyd | Pésazh had plucked out the blind god's eyes for the crime of misplaced Floyd | compassion; of tempting the poor with abundance. The iron amulet Floyd | depicted Azh with the unmistakable hollow eyes. And thus the Floyd | compassionate god had learned the proper place of compassion; that it Floyd | should be measured, just so, that no-one thinks to rise above their Floyd | station. Such tokens were reminders of the order of things – as much Floyd | as they were promises of prosperity, or at least subsistence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x kozh" | ||
Floyd ] 12/13 Temple of PésaExits: SE Floyd | > Floyd | > X KOZH Floyd | Floyd | She couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] 12/13 Palace QuarteExits: NW and S Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Palace Quarter Floyd | The Palace Quarter did not so much have streets as extremely long Floyd | plazas, promenades flanked by rows of gilded fountains that would Floyd | stretch on towards the horizon. It had no alleys – servants and Floyd | slaves Floyd | would instead scurry between palaces and villas in tunnels beneath the Floyd | earth, out of the sight of the nobility. The tunnels had burst into Floyd | the surface when the land broke, cracking open the meticulously tiled Floyd | squares, isolating each villa into an island. She found herself in an Floyd | oddly preserved stretch of the quarter, surrounded mostly by unnatural Floyd | chasms, connecting buildings to the south and northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] 12/13 Half a FoyerExits: N, S, W, and U Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Half a Foyer Floyd | This rich foyer had been floored with brilliant marble tiles and Floyd | draped with silks. One of the grand columns along its side had Floyd | toppled, preventing movement into most of the palace complex. Holes in Floyd | the wall – hard to tell if they had been intentional passages – led Floyd | north and south, outside. A hidden door in the west had become a Floyd | jagged hole. And a collapsed staircase still allowed an unsteady climb Floyd | to an upstairs room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] 12/13 Looted ApartmenExits: D Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Looted Apartments Floyd | It was just barely perceptible that at the top of the stairs, passages Floyd | would splay out in all directions, leading into various wings of the Floyd | palace. Most of them were gone, as was the palace's roof, ripped away. Floyd | All that remained of the upper floor of the villa was a curious island Floyd | of orichalcum-flecked ceramic tiles, cracking in the sunlight. Even Floyd | then, this little patch of opulence had been ransacked, more than Floyd | once, by various desperate bands – and later, desperate individuals. Floyd | Floyd | A pile of ash, the remains of a campfire, marred the tiles on the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | The only furniture that remained was a lectern made of gold, rendered Floyd | worthless by the calamity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x lectern" | ||
Floyd ] 12/13 Looted ApartmenExits: D Floyd | > Floyd | > X LECTERN Floyd | Floyd | As it could not be eaten or burned, it was left alone as its Floyd | companions were ransacked, a silent witness to the chaos. Its base is Floyd | sculpted into a vaguely human shape, a stylised depiction of the Floyd | slave-god, Kózh. But its surface rarely held scrolls; the master of Floyd | this manor had used it more as a pillory. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh right, Kozh is on the lectern." | |
| chaudmin says, "had to read back through the transcript" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x kozh" | ||
Floyd ] 13/13 Looted ApartmenExits: D Floyd | > Floyd | > X KOZH Floyd | Floyd | Kózh is emaciated, scourged, his lips taken away by his master, his Floyd | body wrapped in chains from which would hang the bodies of mortal Floyd | slaves. This depiction's presence in the apartments was unusual; it Floyd | suggested a man who was greatly invested in the discipline of his Floyd | slaves. Over the years, the lashing of slaves to the lectern had made Floyd | it a focus of fear and loathing for the servants in the manor; the Floyd | master had liked to keep such a reminder close to him. Leather straps, Floyd | bloodied and rough, still adorned it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x straps" | ||
Floyd ] 13/13 Looted ApartmenExits: D Floyd | > Floyd | > X STRAPS Floyd | Floyd | Kózh is emaciated, scourged, his lips taken away by his master, his Floyd | body wrapped in chains from which would hang the bodies of mortal Floyd | slaves. This depiction's presence in the apartments was unusual; it Floyd | suggested a man who was greatly invested in the discipline of his Floyd | slaves. Over the years, the lashing of slaves to the lectern had made Floyd | it a focus of fear and loathing for the servants in the manor; the Floyd | master had liked to keep such a reminder close to him. Leather straps, Floyd | bloodied and rough, still adorned it. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "well, that's it then" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] 13/13 Half a FoyerExits: N, S, W, and U Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Half a Foyer Floyd | This rich foyer had been floored with brilliant marble tiles and Floyd | draped with silks. One of the grand columns along its side had Floyd | toppled, preventing movement into most of the palace complex. Holes in Floyd | the wall – hard to tell if they had been intentional passages – led Floyd | north and south, outside. A hidden door in the west had become a Floyd | jagged hole. And a collapsed staircase still allowed an unsteady climb Floyd | to an upstairs room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] 13/13 Overgrown GardExits: N and E Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Overgrown Garden Floyd | This had been a formal garden, a gathering place for aristocrats. But Floyd | she found within it only a dried fountain, and a lawn that had become Floyd | overgrown with grass. The grass, in turn, was a matted patch of drying Floyd | hay, caked with dust and ash, waiting to catch fire in the constant Floyd | sun. A breach in the land was still open to the east; to the north, Floyd | she could see a jagged passage into the remains of a palace. Floyd | Floyd | The fountain was long drained of water, but it still stood. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] 13/13 Twisted TunneExits: NE and W Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Twisted Tunnel Floyd | The land had contorted this section of street into a spiraling vortex Floyd | of cobblestones and dirt, dead grass poking incongruously from the Floyd | helical ceiling. The passage ran northeast and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] 13/13 Gilded Lane Exits: SE and SW Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Gilded Lane Floyd | Gilded Lane had been paved with gold, and when gold proved too soft, Floyd | it was paved with orichalcum. But then, orichalcum proved too soft, Floyd | too. She saw a mess of green-gold tiles, stopped mid-spin, where the Floyd | street used to be. All around her were the husks of crumbled Floyd | buildings. The maw of a tunnel opened up to the southwest; the square Floyd | was back southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x tunnel" | ||
Floyd ] 13/13 Gilded Lane Exits: SE and SW Floyd | > Floyd | > X TUNNEL Floyd | Floyd | The land had twisted, sucked streets and buildings into itself. She Floyd | could see an entrance into one such tunnel, to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess so. I was expecting more pleasantness in comparison to the poor side of town, but this was just as disturbing." | |
| chaudmin says, "yeah" | ||
| chaudmin says, "moral of the story: Atlantis sucked" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] 13/13 Ruined SquareExits: NW and E Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Square Floyd | Besides the creeping dirt seemingly emerging from between the broken Floyd | tiles, signs of ruin were around her. The land's breaking has reduced Floyd | the gilded façades of the shops that surrounded the square to rubble Floyd | and ashes. Breaks in the surrounding ring of debris were open to the Floyd | northwest and east. Floyd | Floyd | A rush of turbulent water prevented passage to the east. Floyd | Floyd | She could also see her makeshift raft here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Its virtue was interesting building material, I guess." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter raft" | ||
Floyd ] 13/13 Ruined SquareExits: NW and E Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER RAFT Floyd | Floyd | [You have seen all 13 stories of Atlantis.] Floyd | Floyd | This will end the story. Are you sure? | DavidW says, "Gold, silver, orichalcum, mirthstone." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] 13/13 Ruined SquareExits: NW and E Floyd | This will end the story. Are you sure? Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | She had found as much as she could of the world she was leaving Floyd | behind. She carried a small history with her away from that place, but Floyd | could not tell if that history deserved to survive; if it should be Floyd | told. Still, she climbed onto her raft, with the trinkets and memories Floyd | she could take, and waited for the water to rise and take her away, a Floyd | small reminder of a dead world floating in an Atlantic current. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** little remained from the fall of Atlantis *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That was certainly interesting." | |
| DavidW says, "Glad I never lived there, though." | ||
| chaudmin says, "yup" | ||
| DavidW says (to chaudmin), "Thank you for coming and driving." | ||
| chaudmin says, "no problem" | ||
| chaudmin says, "always a pleasure" | ||
| DavidW asks (of Roger), "Do you know where the post-mortem is posted?" | ||
| Roger says, "Let's see..." | ||
| Roger | [LINK] | ||
| DavidW says, "Thank you." | ||
| Roger disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | DavidW says, "heh: | What if you sifted through the ashes of a society that had just been wiped out, but the overwhelming mood was "these were horrible people and it's a good thing they're gone."" | |
| chaudmin says, "that pretty much sums it up" | ||
| chaudmin sets location to elsewhere | DavidW says, "Nice post-mortem. I enjoy reading those. Glad that's a new trend." | |
| Roger says, "As my game Comrade was played here, I guess I could link to mine:" | ||
| DavidW says, "please do" | ||
| Roger | [LINK] | ||
| DavidW says, "Thanks" | ||
| Fang was described as having "hit the Internet with the force of a punch to the head."[24] | DavidW says, "okay, I guess we're done for today. Thanks to everyone for playing and commenting, and I hope to see you all next week unless you're too busy writing your IntroComp entries." | |
