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The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask 18rooms18" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 18 Rooms to Home (Room 18) Floyd | A serialized work of interactive fiction. by Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150521 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 18 Rooms to Home is a serialized game that begins at the end. Floyd | Floyd | As each update is released, the story will move further back in time - Floyd | so the first release includes room 18, the second will include room 17 Floyd | and 18, the third will include 16, 17, and 18, and so on. Floyd | Floyd | This release is Room 18. This is the far end of Yesenia's journey, but Floyd | it's only the beginning of yours. Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Draconis pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | The front door has been propped open with a rock, but there's no one Floyd | in sight. Yesenia kicks it out of the way - why doesn't anyone Floyd | understand security around here? - and swings her suitcase into the Floyd | familiar darkness of her apartment building. Two flights of stairs Floyd | later, she reaches the door to her apartment. Floyd | Floyd | It's been a very long day. It's good to come home, however briefly. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | During the day, the hallway's cool shadows provide relief from the Floyd | California sun. But at night, it's simply dark, because the scattered Floyd | wall sconces aren't close enough or bright enough to provide decent Floyd | illumination. Still, this is home, and there's nothing more welcome to Floyd | Yesenia right now than the sight of her own front door. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia parks her suitcase beside her apartment door. Floyd | Floyd | There's a folded note taped to the door. Yesenia frowns at it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Right now, Yesenia is more concerned with what she doesn't Floyd | have. What she doesn't have is her purse, which is in the restaurant Floyd | office. Floyd | Floyd | It'll take a full hour to get back to the restaurant by bus, but Floyd | Camilla can drive her there in 15 minutes, if the traffic on 101 isn't Floyd | too bad. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > READ NOTE Floyd | Floyd | It's a plain white piece of paper, folded into thirds. Illegible black Floyd | marker has smudged through from the inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "unfold note" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > UNFOLD NOTE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia peels the note off the door. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia unfolds the note. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > READ NOTE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia stares at the note. There's one sentence written on it in Floyd | stark black marker. Floyd | Floyd | Come on in. Floyd | Floyd | It's not Camilla's handwriting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia's sweaty and tired, and the wind made a mess of her hair. But Floyd | it doesn't matter, because only Camilla will see her before she can Floyd | freshen up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x suitcase" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X SUITCASE Floyd | Floyd | It's a large blue suitcase patterned with pink and white flowers. It's Floyd | new, durable, and easy to spot at the airport. Floyd | Floyd | In better lighting, the suitcase would be truly hideous against the Floyd | red walls of the apartment building. It's one small reason for her to Floyd | be glad of the dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x Yesenia" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X YESENIA Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia's sweaty and tired, and the wind made a mess of her hair. But Floyd | it doesn't matter, because only Camilla will see her before she can Floyd | freshen up. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm not used to third person present tense combo." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Shall we open the door?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Do what the note says?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x suitcase" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X SUITCASE Floyd | Floyd | It's a large blue suitcase patterned with pink and white flowers. It's Floyd | new, durable, and easy to spot at the airport. Floyd | Floyd | In better lighting, the suitcase would be truly hideous against the Floyd | red walls of the apartment building. It's one small reason for her to Floyd | be glad of the dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open suitcase" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN SUITCASE Floyd | Floyd | Considering the contents of her suitcase, Yesenia really isn't Floyd | inclined to unpack in the middle of the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | Apart from that, she doesn't have the key. It's in her purse, and her Floyd | purse is at the restaurant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "knock" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > KNOCK Floyd | Floyd | (the unfolded note) Floyd | Yesenia raps on the unfolded note with her knuckles. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hee hee" | |
| Jacqueline says, "um" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia knocks on the apartment door. Floyd | Floyd | There's no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia reaches out to try the door, and the knob turns easily. Unease Floyd | coils in her belly, and a familiar prickling runs down her arms. Floyd | Floyd | She pushes the door open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "knock on suitcase" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > KNOCK ON SUITCASE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia raps on the flowered suitcase with her knuckles. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "I am amused by that action." | |
| Draconis asks, "Shall we go in?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think yes, go in, but it'll also end the game." | ||
| Draconis says, "Oh..." | ||
| Draconis says, "I'm not really familiar with how this game works." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Odd how, even though this has been short, she's built the tension well." | ||
| Draconis says, "Yes." | ||
| Draconis says, "I like the atmosphere." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "It's a serialized game. So it's going to be 18 short games. The first two are out, so we'll play 17 next." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Is there anything you can think of *other* than going in?" | ||
| Draconis says, "Ahhh." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x sconce" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X SCONCE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia studies the flickering light irritably. She's pointed it out Floyd | before to the apartment management - how dark it is, how unsafe. Floyd | Floyd | Not unsafe for her, of course. (Not that management knows that.) But Floyd | what about every other young woman living here? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "We could try leaving." | |
| Jacqueline says, "True" | ||
| DavidW says, "Not many other reasonable options I can think of. Unreasonable options include eating the note." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "snrk" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But Yesenia isn't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | During the day, the hallway's cool shadows provide relief from the Floyd | California sun. But at night, it's simply dark, because the scattered Floyd | wall sconces aren't close enough or bright enough to provide decent Floyd | illumination. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia is standing in front of her own front door. It's open. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia's flowered suitcase is parked beside her apartment door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia glances down the hall, but she can't leave now. What if Floyd | Camilla's in trouble? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia glances down the hall, but she can't leave now. What if Floyd | Camilla's in trouble? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Home Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia starts to cross the threshold when an all-too-familiar voice Floyd | within says, "Welcome home." Floyd | Floyd | "Chris," Yesenia says. Ice forms in her gut, but her skin prickles Floyd | with heat. "What are you doing here?" She bites back her next words - Floyd | What have you done to Camilla? Floyd | Floyd | "Welcome home, Yesenia," the other woman says. "Or should I say..." Floyd | Floyd | "No," Yesenia says sharply, "you shouldn't." And she steps through the Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Too many mistakes in a very long day. Or maybe not Floyd | enough.... *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "VAMPIRES!" | |
| Jacqueline folds her arms and leans back in her chair. "That is my theory." | ||
| Emily says, "okay, that's alarming" | ||
| Emily says, "I figured she had superpowers or something" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "On account of the comment about the hallway lighting?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Do the name choices suggest any obvious locale?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Emily), "See Vampires *have* super powers." | ||
| Draconis says, "My mind jumped to vampires also though I don't know why." | ||
| Emily says (to Jacqueline), "that is valid" | ||
| Draconis asks, "So is that the actual end of the first room?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Draconis), "Perhaps the crossing-the-threshold bit." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Camilla's a vampire name, but she's just our room mate. Unless she's 'the other woman' as well." | ||
| Emily says, "I notice that there's a "come in" note, which might count as a universal invitation" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, now I feel like I'm going to be sad that 17 is before this, not after it." | ||
| DavidW says (to Draconis), "As I understand it, that's the18th room." | ||
| DavidW says, "We'll add a room/scene before that in the next version." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ice in the belly and hot on the skin is I think what made me contemplate vampires." | ||
| Draconis asks (of Jacqueline), "Isn't the vampire 'Carmilla', with an 'r'?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Dunno. Maybe." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Actually, now that you mention it, DRACONIS is kind of a vampire name." | ||
| Draconis says, "I think Camilla was someone in the Aeneid though I don't know..." | ||
| Emily nervous sideways glances | ||
| Draconis says, "..." | ||
| Draconis bares his fangs. | ||
| DavidW says, "Camilla was also someone in the Lovecraft stories, I believe." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So. 17?" | ||
| Emily says, "yes please!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | DavidW says, "yes please" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask 18rooms17" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 18 Rooms to Home (Room 17) Floyd | A serialized work of interactive fiction. by Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150602 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 18 Rooms to Home is a serialized game that begins at the end. Floyd | Floyd | As each update is released, the story will move further back in time - Floyd | so the first release includes room 18, the second will include room 17 Floyd | and 18, the third will include 16, 17, and 18, and so on. All released Floyd | rooms are available at [LINK] Floyd | Floyd | This release is Room 17. This is near the end of Yesenia's journey, Floyd | but it's still near the beginning of yours. Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | Yesenia hefts her suitcase down from the bus. It's about three minutes Floyd | from the bus stop to her apartment, and she takes the distance Floyd | briskly, stopping only once to shove windblown hair out of her eyes. Floyd | Floyd | There's an easy cut across the grass, but Yesenia takes the sidewalk Floyd | instead, with the suitcase rollling along behind her. She rounds the Floyd | corner of the building and starts up the front walk. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | A wide concrete walkway leads around the three-story building and up Floyd | to the front door, flanked by ground lights on both sides, which shine Floyd | in response to the setting sun. On the right, regimentally spaced palm Floyd | trees provide an illusion of privacy for the west-facing windows. On Floyd | the left, there's a parking lot for the apartment, but since the Floyd | divider is all of six inches wide, the parked cars in the first row Floyd | rest their noses against the walkway. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia parks her suitcase beside the building's front door. Floyd | Floyd | There's a bank of resident mailboxes set into the outer wall, just to Floyd | the right of the front door. The doorbells are on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia's sweaty and tired, and the wind made a mess of her hair. But Floyd | it doesn't matter, because only Camilla should see her before she can Floyd | freshen up. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Extra l in rolling" | |
| Draconis says, "And a second space before 'only' in the player's description." | ||
| Draconis says, "/nitpick" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Right now, Yesenia is more concerned with what she doesn't Floyd | have. What she doesn't have is her purse, which is in the restaurant Floyd | office. Floyd | Floyd | It'll take a full hour to get back to the restaurant by bus, but Floyd | Camilla can drive her there in 15 minutes, if the traffic on 101 isn't Floyd | too bad. She just has to get inside and let Camilla know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mailboxes" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAILBOXES Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia glances at the mailbox for apartment #32. As expected, the Floyd | mailbox is crammed with mail. Floyd | Floyd | Camilla isn't very good about checking the mailbox, so Yesenia's Floyd | absence always leads to crumpled mail. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take mail" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE MAIL Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia doesn't need to move her mailbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read mail" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > READ MAIL Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia glances at the mailbox for apartment #32. As expected, the Floyd | mailbox is crammed with mail. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "empty mailbox" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > EMPTY MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "hmmm" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search mailbox" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see inside, since her mailbox is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open mailbox" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | The mailbox is locked. Yesenia will have to unlock it first. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I bet we don't have the key." | |
| DavidW says, "And we probably have no key." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Right now, Yesenia is more concerned with what she doesn't Floyd | have. What she doesn't have is her purse, which is in the restaurant Floyd | office. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It would explain why we had no mail in the hallway." | |
| Emily says, "right, ok" | ||
| Emily says (to DavidW), "well, that inventory listing is pretty uninformative -- technically, it doesn't say we don't have the mail" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Unless -- these inventory messages are a way to HIDE inventory we actually have?" | ||
| Draconis says, "True." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "unlock mailbox" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia reaches automatically for her mailbox key, but of course she Floyd | doesn't have her keys. Because she doesn't have her purse. Because Floyd | it's in the restaurant. Floyd | Floyd | But... she pauses to consider the angles of the sun. There's still Floyd | sunlight touching the mailbox, which means she could open it with Floyd | sufficient focus. And it wouldn't be the first time she's Floyd | opened the mailbox without a key. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Sneaky." | |
| Emily says, "...right, okay" | ||
| Emily asks, "focus??" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "focus on mailbox" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS ON MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | Shielded from sight by the building and a palm tree, Yesenia stretches Floyd | her awareness to the setting sun. The orange light warms her, just as Floyd | it warms the mailbox. Floyd | Floyd | The sun has power over the mailbox; its heat can make the metal Floyd | expand. Its absence can make the metal shrink. And she has Floyd | power over.... Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia focuses. The tumblers click into the unlocked position, and Floyd | she pulls it open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "so definitely not a vampire, then" | |
| DavidW says, "That's *not* vampirism." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Prolly not vampirism." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "open mailbox" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This I will acknowledge." | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "get all from mailbox" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ALL FROM MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia pulls the mail out of her mailbox. Among the advertisements Floyd | and junk mail (promptly discarded into a convenient recycling bin), Floyd | she discovers three white envelopes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "But the people in her apartment could STILL be vampires." | |
| DavidW says, "hee hee" | ||
| Emily says, "presumably then all she has to do is focus on them to obliterate them in a puff of dust, though" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x envelopes" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X ENVELOPES Floyd | Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x mail" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAIL Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, her mailbox, the third envelope, the second Floyd | envelope, or the first envelope? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x first envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X FIRST ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | According to the postmark, this envelope was mailed from Santa Barbara Floyd | three days ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "hmm" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "x second envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X SECOND ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | According to the postmark, this envelope was mailed from Santa Barbara Floyd | two days ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| willbuntu arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| willbuntu clears the checkers board. | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x third envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X THIRD ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | According to the postmark, this envelope was mailed from Santa Barbara Floyd | one day ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'd like to know if the envelopes are addressed to me or my roommate." | |
| Emily says, "well, that's conveniently sequential, I guess" | ||
| willbuntu goes home. | Emily asks, "should we open them and risk that they're not addressed to us?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe it will stop us if they're not ours." | ||
| DavidW says, "yes. Open them." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "open first envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN FIRST ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia rips open the first envelope, revealing a letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So we don't commit mail fraud and go to prison." | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "read letter" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > READ LETTER Floyd | Floyd | (the first letter) Floyd | Yesenia unfolds the first letter. Floyd | Floyd | It's typed in simple serif letters. Floyd | Floyd | We need to talk. Call me - Floyd | Floyd | and a number that Yesenia doesn't recognize. There's a 305 area code, Floyd | though, and that's the Miami area. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh shit, that's it. The people in her apartment are postal inspectors." | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "open second envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN SECOND ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia rips open the second envelope, revealing a letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "ha!" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "read second letter" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SECOND LETTER Floyd | Floyd | (the second letter) Floyd | Yesenia unfolds the second letter. Floyd | Floyd | It's typed in simple serif letters. Floyd | Floyd | I'm trying to help you. You don't have to hide from me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "We might have a cell phone too, I suppose?" | |
| Emily says, "and our correspondent is a creepy stalker, apparently" | ||
| Emily asks, "maybe try calling after we've read the third letter?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "open third envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN THIRD ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia rips open the third envelope, revealing a letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "read third letter" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > READ THIRD LETTER Floyd | Floyd | (the third letter) Floyd | As Yesenia unfolds the letter, a playing card falls to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | At the sight of it, Yesenia's stomach clenches, and goose bumps Floyd | prickle across her shoulders. Floyd | Floyd | It's typed in simple serif letters. Floyd | Floyd | Call me, or I'm coming to see you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x playing card" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLAYING CARD Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia picks up the playing card. Floyd | Floyd | It's a standard playing card: paper coated with plastic, with a blue Floyd | design on the back. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia turns it over. As she expected, it's the Jack of Spades - Floyd | which means the Jack of Shadows. Floyd | Floyd | Chris, she thinks, and glances around apprehensively. Is Floyd | Chris already here? She always drives, because she hates the bus.... Floyd | .... Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "so that's the person who's waiting upstairs, I guess" | |
| DavidW says, "mmhm" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "call phone number" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > CALL PHONE NUMBER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I believe that's right, yes." | |
| DavidW asks, "A female Chris, then?" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "dial phone number" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > DIAL PHONE NUMBER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "use telephone" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > USE TELEPHONE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x phone" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHONE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x smartphone" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X SMARTPHONE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x retro flip phone" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X RETRO FLIP PHONE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay. I guess we don't have a phone." | |
| DavidW says, "I wonder what this focus power does, exactly." | ||
| Emily says, "it seemed like we needed the sun to power our heat-glare" | ||
| Emily asks, "so maybe we're a sort of human magnifying glass?" | ||
| Emily asks, "able to draw and increase/direct powers from other things?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's go find some dry leaves." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "focus on playing card" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS ON PLAYING CARD Floyd | Floyd | While Yesenia could focus on the playing card, that would be... Floyd | indiscreet. And she strives for discretion these days. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Or do we intensify, well, any quality?" | |
| Emily says (to DavidW), "that sounds really fun to play and really hard to author" | ||
| Emily says, "so I'm going to hope for yes" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hee" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "focus on first letter" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS ON FIRST LETTER Floyd | Floyd | (the first letter) Floyd | While Yesenia could focus on the first letter, that would be... Floyd | indiscreet. And she strives for discretion these days. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "If we focus on our suitcase, what might happen? Pinker? Actual flowers?" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "focus on suitcase" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS ON SUITCASE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia could focus on the suitcase - but there's no good reason to do Floyd | so. Considering the contents of her suitcase, she's not about to Floyd | unpack in the middle of the walkway. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "hm" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "focus on me" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS ON ME Floyd | Floyd | While Yesenia could focus on herself, that would be... indiscreet. And Floyd | she strives for discretion these days. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. So ambiguous." | |
| Emily asks, "would she get naked?" | ||
| Emily asks, "burn off own clothes?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clothes" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X CLOTHES Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | A wide concrete walkway leads around the three-story building and up Floyd | to the front door, flanked by ground lights on both sides, which shine Floyd | in response to the setting sun. On the right, regimentally spaced palm Floyd | trees provide an illusion of privacy for the west-facing windows. On Floyd | the left, there's a parking lot for the apartment, but since the Floyd | divider is all of six inches wide, the parked cars in the first row Floyd | rest their noses against the walkway. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia's flowered suitcase is parked beside the building's front Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | There's a bank of resident mailboxes set into the outer wall, just to Floyd | the right of the front door. The doorbells are on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "I am intrigued yet mystified" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "palm trees" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > PALM TREES Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x palm" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X PALM Floyd | Floyd | They're very picturesque. They appear on all the apartment's Floyd | brochures. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x windows" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X WINDOWS Floyd | Floyd | From here, the apartments are just so many closed windows. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x doorbells" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOORBELLS Floyd | Floyd | It's a standard apartment doorbell panel. Pushing a doorbell will Floyd | alert whoever's in the apartment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read panel" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > READ PANEL Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read doorbells" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > READ DOORBELLS Floyd | Floyd | It's a standard apartment doorbell panel. Pushing a doorbell will Floyd | alert whoever's in the apartment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | What a good idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember purse" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > REMEMBER PURSE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think about chris" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT CHRIS Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "who is chris" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > WHO IS CHRIS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "focus palm" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS PALM Floyd | Floyd | While Yesenia could focus on the palm tree, that would be... Floyd | indiscreet. And she strives for discretion these days. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't know if we just have a skeleton key ala rezrov or something more adaptable yet." | |
| Emily says, "yeah, possibly we won't find out until Room 16" | ||
| DavidW asks, "We could, I suppose, try focusing on the note or door inside?" | ||
| Emily says, "sure" | ||
| Emily says, "go for it" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > HIDE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I feel like we should try to get to where we were at the beginning of 18" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | A wide concrete walkway leads around the three-story building and up Floyd | to the front door, flanked by ground lights on both sides, which shine Floyd | in response to the setting sun. On the right, regimentally spaced palm Floyd | trees provide an illusion of privacy for the west-facing windows. On Floyd | the left, there's a parking lot for the apartment, but since the Floyd | divider is all of six inches wide, the parked cars in the first row Floyd | rest their noses against the walkway. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia's flowered suitcase is parked beside the building's front Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | There's a bank of resident mailboxes set into the outer wall, just to Floyd | the right of the front door. The doorbells are on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open front door" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN FRONT DOOR Floyd | Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter it" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER IT Floyd | Floyd | The front door has been propped open with a rock, but there's no one Floyd | in sight. Yesenia kicks it out of the way - why doesn't anyone Floyd | understand security around here? - and swings her suitcase into the Floyd | familiar darkness of her apartment building. Two flights of stairs Floyd | later, she reaches the door to her apartment. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "hm. Perhaps we could use that rock." | |
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | Floyd | Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | During the day, the hallway's cool shadows provide relief from the Floyd | California sun. But at night, it's simply dark, because the scattered Floyd | wall sconces aren't close enough or bright enough to provide decent Floyd | illumination. Still, this is home, and there's nothing more welcome to Floyd | Yesenia right now than the sight of her own front door. Floyd | Floyd | There's a folded note taped to the door. Yesenia frowns at it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "What for?" | |
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "I dunno. Mindless mayhem." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sconce" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X SCONCE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia studies the flickering light irritably. She's pointed it out Floyd | before to the apartment management - how dark it is, how unsafe. Floyd | Floyd | Not unsafe for her, of course. (Not that management knows that.) But Floyd | what about every other young woman living here? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Discreet mayhem." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "focus on sconce" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS ON SCONCE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can only focus the sun when she has access to direct sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline raises an eyebrow. | |
| Jacqueline says, "Okay then." | ||
| DavidW says, "Yesenia might have other powers." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "True" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia is carrying: Floyd | a playing card Floyd | a third letter Floyd | a second letter Floyd | a first letter Floyd | a third envelope (open but empty) Floyd | a second envelope (open but empty) Floyd | a first envelope (open but empty) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "huh. Our inventory is standard now?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "That's unexpected." | ||
| DavidW says, "it is, yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "That might be a bug." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I wonder what triggers the ending. Can we get deeper into the thing with Chris and the chyk? I'm expecting it to stop before then, but... it would be great to get it resolved eventually (which I was not anticipating would be possible)." | ||
| Emily says, "that would be interesting" | ||
| Emily says, "if the game gave both more past and more future" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "I wonder if Chris and Camilla are the same person with different personalities." | ||
| DavidW says (to Emily), "I like that idea." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's go see." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia reaches out to try the door, and the knob turns easily. Unease Floyd | coils in her belly, and a familiar prickling runs down her arms. Floyd | Floyd | She pushes the door open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "enter door" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER DOOR Floyd | Floyd | She's about to cross the threshold when an all-too-familiar voice Floyd | within says, "Welcome home." Floyd | Floyd | "Chris," Yesenia says. Ice forms in her gut, but her skin prickles Floyd | with heat. "What are you doing here?" She bites back her next words - Floyd | What have you done to Camilla? Floyd | Floyd | "Welcome home, Yesenia," the other woman says. "Or should I say..." Floyd | Floyd | "No," Yesenia says sharply, "you shouldn't." And she steps through the Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Too many mistakes in a very long day. Or maybe not Floyd | enough.... Floyd | ** (Something could have been different this time.) *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Emily says, "hm!" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hrm." | |
| Emily asks, "so what could we do different?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "That 'should I say...' -- perhaps Yesenia has another personality too?" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x note" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X NOTE Floyd | Floyd | It's a plain white piece of paper, folded into thirds. Illegible black Floyd | marker has smudged through from the inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily asks, "or maybe just another name?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "So this is just going to let you play them all the way through? That's... if this is the case, why not just wait until #1 comes out and then play it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We don't enter the room right away." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "open note" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN NOTE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia peels the note off the door. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia unfolds the note. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "I think the "something could have been different" suggests that we could get a different ending" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "read note" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > READ NOTE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia stares at the note. There's one sentence written on it in Floyd | stark black marker. Floyd | Floyd | Come on in. Floyd | Floyd | It's not Camilla's handwriting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, true. I missed that." | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "x playing card" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLAYING CARD Floyd | Floyd | It's the Jack of Spades. Chris's calling card. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily asks, "so what should we try instead? leaving?" | |
| DavidW asks, "Maybe we can leave this time, now there's another room?" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But Yesenia isn't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia glances down the hall, but she can't leave now. What if Floyd | Camilla's in trouble? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "tear card" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > TEAR CARD Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "When we open the door, is there sunlight?" | |
| Emily says, "hm, interesting possibility" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia reaches out to try the door, and the knob turns easily. Unease Floyd | coils in her belly, and a familiar prickling runs down her arms. Floyd | Floyd | She pushes the door open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "focus on door" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can only focus the sun when she has access to direct sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "I guess not" | |
| Emily says, "it does seem interesting we can open the door as a separate action from attracting Chris's notice" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "yeah" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "destroy note" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > DESTROY NOTE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia is no stranger to violence, but she doesn't see the need for Floyd | it here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x first letter" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > X FIRST LETTER Floyd | Floyd | (the first letter) Floyd | It's typed in simple serif letters. Floyd | Floyd | We need to talk. Call me - Floyd | Floyd | and a number that Yesenia doesn't recognize. There's a 305 area code, Floyd | though, and that's the Miami area. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "call chris" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > CALL CHRIS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shout" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOUT Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to shout? Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "it seems like at this point Yesenia has enough information to know that it is Chris who will be inside" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shout chris" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOUT CHRIS Floyd | Floyd | (to herself) Floyd | (To speak with someone, use the command TALK TO.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to chris" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CHRIS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "open suitcase" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN SUITCASE Floyd | Floyd | Considering the contents of her suitcase, Yesenia really isn't Floyd | inclined to unpack in the middle of the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | Apart from that, she doesn't have the key. It's in her purse, and her Floyd | purse is at the restaurant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | During the day, the hallway's cool shadows provide relief from the Floyd | California sun. But at night, it's simply dark, because the scattered Floyd | wall sconces aren't close enough or bright enough to provide decent Floyd | illumination. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia's flowered suitcase is parked beside her apartment door. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia is standing in front of her own front door. It's open. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I can't think of anything except restarting and try focusing on the card outside. Also, did we look at the suitcase in the sunlight?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "become camilla" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > BECOME CAMILLA Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "be camilla" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > BE CAMILLA Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn into camilla" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN INTO CAMILLA Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I *think* we did, but I'm not sure." | |
| Jacqueline says, "maga says he didn't get the different ending, but that he thinks there are hints on intfic, should it come to that." | ||
| DavidW says, "We never rang the doorbell. Also, rock." | ||
| Emily looks at the hints | ||
| Emily says, "okay, I'm not sure I would have thought of this" | ||
| Emily says, "but I will say nothing unless people wish it" | ||
| Emily says, "we did focus on the card earlier, but it said that would be indiscreet" | ||
| Emily says, "likewise each of the letters" | ||
| DavidW asks, "focus on a window?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure" | ||
| DavidW says, "we'll need to restart to do that." | ||
| Emily says, "fine by me" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "We do?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway
Floyd | >
| ||
| Sequitur arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
Floyd | > RESTART
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart?
| DavidW says, "I don't see how to return to room 17." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, that's fine, but I thought you meant through the open door." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh. You mean from the outside?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart? Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I only know of the outside window." | |
| DavidW says, "And we need to be outside to focus." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Right. Okay." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTART Floyd | Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart? | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 18 Rooms to Home (Room 17) Floyd | A serialized work of interactive fiction. by Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150602 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 18 Rooms to Home is a serialized game that begins at the end. Floyd | Floyd | As each update is released, the story will move further back in time - Floyd | so the first release includes room 18, the second will include room 17 Floyd | and 18, the third will include 16, 17, and 18, and so on. All released Floyd | rooms are available at [LINK] Floyd | Floyd | This release is Room 17. This is near the end of Yesenia's journey, Floyd | but it's still near the beginning of yours. Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | Yesenia hefts her suitcase down from the bus. It's about three minutes Floyd | from the bus stop to her apartment, and she takes the distance Floyd | briskly, stopping only once to shove windblown hair out of her eyes. Floyd | Floyd | There's an easy cut across the grass, but Yesenia takes the sidewalk Floyd | instead, with the suitcase rollling along behind her. She rounds the Floyd | corner of the building and starts up the front walk. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | A wide concrete walkway leads around the three-story building and up Floyd | to the front door, flanked by ground lights on both sides, which shine Floyd | in response to the setting sun. On the right, regimentally spaced palm Floyd | trees provide an illusion of privacy for the west-facing windows. On Floyd | the left, there's a parking lot for the apartment, but since the Floyd | divider is all of six inches wide, the parked cars in the first row Floyd | rest their noses against the walkway. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia parks her suitcase beside the building's front door. Floyd | Floyd | There's a bank of resident mailboxes set into the outer wall, just to Floyd | the right of the front door. The doorbells are on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in window" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | The apartment windows are too far away for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x suitcase" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X SUITCASE Floyd | Floyd | It's a large blue suitcase patterned with pink and white flowers. It's Floyd | new, durable, and easy to spot at the airport. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | It's a large blue suitcase patterned with pink and white flowers. It's Floyd | new, durable, and easy to spot at the airport. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Someone has propped open the front door with a triangular rock. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia feels a familiar flare of annoyance, but it's a relief this Floyd | one time, since her keys are in her purse and her purse is at the Floyd | restaurant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rock" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ROCK Floyd | Floyd | If Yesenia moves the rock, she won't be able to get into the building, Floyd | so she leaves it alone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rock" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROCK Floyd | Floyd | Someone has propped open the front door with a triangular rock. A few Floyd | scratch marks show it's not the first time. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Dang" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open mailbox" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | The mailbox is locked. Yesenia will have to unlock it first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock mailbox" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia reaches automatically for her mailbox key, but of course she Floyd | doesn't have her keys. Because she doesn't have her purse. Because Floyd | it's in the restaurant. Floyd | Floyd | But... she pauses to consider the angles of the sun. There's still Floyd | sunlight touching the mailbox, which means she could open it with Floyd | sufficient focus. And it wouldn't be the first time she's Floyd | opened the mailbox without a key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sun" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X SUN Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia gazes for a moment into the setting sun. It doesn't hurt her Floyd | eyes. It never has. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh. We didn't try that before." | |
| Jacqueline says, "nice" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "absorb sun" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > ABSORB SUN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Can we store it up and unleash it upstairs?" | |
| DavidW says, "darn. No battery power." | ||
| DavidW says, "That's what I was thinking of, yes." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "focus mailbox" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | Shielded from sight by the building and a palm tree, Yesenia stretches Floyd | her awareness to the setting sun. The orange light warms her, just as Floyd | it warms the mailbox. Floyd | Floyd | The sun has power over the mailbox; its heat can make the metal Floyd | expand. Its absence can make the metal shrink. And she has Floyd | power over.... Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia focuses. The tumblers click into the unlocked position, and Floyd | she pulls it open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Sequitur says, "ne" | |
| Sequitur says, "Ugh, sorry." | ||
| Sequitur has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline says, "I, for one, am okay with the hintage." | |
| DavidW asks, "We perhaps can drain heat too?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in mailbox" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | In her mailbox are some crumpled letters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take letters" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE LETTERS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia pulls the mail out of her mailbox. Among the advertisements Floyd | and junk mail (promptly discarded into a convenient recycling bin), Floyd | she discovers three white envelopes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open first" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN FIRST Floyd | Floyd | According to the postmark, this envelope was mailed from Santa Barbara Floyd | three days ago. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia rips open the first envelope, revealing a letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read first" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > READ FIRST Floyd | Floyd | (the first letter) Floyd | Yesenia unfolds the first letter. Floyd | Floyd | It's typed in simple serif letters. Floyd | Floyd | We need to talk. Call me - Floyd | Floyd | and a number that Yesenia doesn't recognize. There's a 305 area code, Floyd | though, and that's the Miami area. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open second" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN SECOND Floyd | Floyd | According to the postmark, this envelope was mailed from Santa Barbara Floyd | two days ago. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia rips open the second envelope, revealing a letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read second" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SECOND Floyd | Floyd | (the second letter) Floyd | Yesenia unfolds the second letter. Floyd | Floyd | It's typed in simple serif letters. Floyd | Floyd | I'm trying to help you. You don't have to hide from me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open third" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN THIRD Floyd | Floyd | According to the postmark, this envelope was mailed from Santa Barbara Floyd | one day ago. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia rips open the third envelope, revealing a letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read third" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > READ THIRD Floyd | Floyd | (the third letter) Floyd | As Yesenia unfolds the letter, a playing card falls to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | At the sight of it, Yesenia's stomach clenches, and goose bumps Floyd | prickle across her shoulders. Floyd | Floyd | It's typed in simple serif letters. Floyd | Floyd | Call me, or I'm coming to see you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take card" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CARD Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia picks up the playing card. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | It's a standard playing card: paper coated with plastic, with a blue Floyd | design on the back. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia turns it over. As she expected, it's the Jack of Spades - Floyd | which means the Jack of Shadows. Floyd | Floyd | Chris, she thinks, and glances around apprehensively. Is Floyd | Chris already here? She always drives, because she hates the bus.... Floyd | .... Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "so re hintage: apparently we need to look at all the things we've gotten in the mail, then examine the scenery in this room more closely" | |
| Emily says, "and that last bit was a hint" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Would not have done that otherwise." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scratches" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X SCRATCHES Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Also, damn. Chris is a creepy dude." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shadows" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X SHADOWS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | A wide concrete walkway leads around the three-story building and up Floyd | to the front door, flanked by ground lights on both sides, which shine Floyd | in response to the setting sun. On the right, regimentally spaced palm Floyd | trees provide an illusion of privacy for the west-facing windows. On Floyd | the left, there's a parking lot for the apartment, but since the Floyd | divider is all of six inches wide, the parked cars in the first row Floyd | rest their noses against the walkway. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia's flowered suitcase is parked beside the building's front Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | There's a bank of resident mailboxes set into the outer wall, just to Floyd | the right of the front door. The doorbells are on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lot" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X LOT Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia scans the parking lot again, taking her time. She doesn't know Floyd | what Chris is driving these days, but she knows it'll be a cut above Floyd | the norm. Floyd | Floyd | And it is - a sleek, matte black car with a T-shaped logo on its nose, Floyd | sitting three cars down and barely a centimeter off the walkway. The Floyd | large black crystals hanging off the rearview mirror seal her Floyd | suspicions. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crystals" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRYSTALS Floyd | Floyd | The sun's failing light glimmers through the large black crystals. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We can probably unlock his car." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "focus crystals" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS CRYSTALS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia considers the black crystals. The sun is touching them, and Floyd | she's in the sunlight, but... what could she do with them, except Floyd | damage the car? There are easier ways to damage the car. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "huh" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "focus on car" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS ON CAR Floyd | Floyd | (the sleek black car) Floyd | While Yesenia could focus on the sleek black car, that would be... Floyd | indiscreet. And she strives for discretion these days. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "it does seem like we're meant to damage the car, though" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock car" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK CAR Floyd | Floyd | (the sleek black car) Floyd | Even if Yesenia could get inside (and she's not sure she can), what Floyd | could she do with it? Hotwiring was never her specialty, and she's Floyd | getting an unsettling high-tech vibe off the car that suggests Floyd | hotwiring wouldn't be enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take crystals" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CRYSTALS Floyd | Floyd | The crystals are hanging from the rearview mirror, and the rearview Floyd | mirror is inside the car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drain crystals" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > DRAIN CRYSTALS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in crystals" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN CRYSTALS Floyd | Floyd | The crystals are hanging from the rearview mirror, and the rearview Floyd | mirror is inside the car. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily asks, "could we focus on a palm tree and make it fall on the car?" | |
| Emily asks, "like, lasercut through its trunk?" | ||
| DavidW says, "ha ha" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "focus on tree" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS ON TREE Floyd | Floyd | While Yesenia could focus on the palm tree, that would be... Floyd | indiscreet. And she strives for discretion these days. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "dammit" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "focus on mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS ON MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia considers the black crystals. The sun is touching them, and Floyd | she's in the sunlight, but... what could she do with them, except Floyd | damage the car? There are easier ways to damage the car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in car" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | (the sleek black car) Floyd | Yesenia can't see inside, since the sleek black car is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "DAMAGE THE STALKER CAR" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > DAMAGE THE STALKER CAR Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under car" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER CAR Floyd | Floyd | (the sleek black car) Floyd | Yesenia finds nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open car with card" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CAR WITH CARD Floyd | Floyd | (the sleek black car with the playing card) Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I feel like just knowing that his or her car is here isn't enough." | |
| Jacqueline says, "(Do we actually know Chris is a guy?)" | ||
| Jacqueline is not sure we do. | ||
| DavidW says, "I thought it said Chris is female." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh, did it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Cool." | ||
| DavidW | "Welcome home, Yesenia," the other woman says. "Or should I say..." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Oh, right!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Great catch." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x arms" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARMS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "prickle" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > PRICKLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch sun" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH SUN Floyd | Floyd | It's a little far away for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read crystals" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > READ CRYSTALS Floyd | Floyd | The sun's failing light glimmers through the large black crystals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look through crystals" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK THROUGH CRYSTALS Floyd | Floyd | The crystals are hanging from the rearview mirror, and the rearview Floyd | mirror is inside the car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x black light" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X BLACK LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "scry crystals" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > SCRY CRYSTALS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trunk" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRUNK Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hood" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X HOOD Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x car window" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAR WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "break crystals" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > BREAK CRYSTALS Floyd | Floyd | The crystals are hanging from the rearview mirror, and the rearview Floyd | mirror is inside the car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open car" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CAR Floyd | Floyd | (the sleek black car) Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock car" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK CAR Floyd | Floyd | (the sleek black car) Floyd | Even if Yesenia could get inside (and she's not sure she can), what Floyd | could she do with it? Hotwiring was never her specialty, and she's Floyd | getting an unsettling high-tech vibe off the car that suggests Floyd | hotwiring wouldn't be enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock car with crystals" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK CAR WITH CRYSTALS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "grow flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > GROW FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "I wonder what other powers we have?" | |
| DavidW says, "I dunno." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia isn't feeling especially drowsy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wake" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > WAKE Floyd | Floyd | The dreadful truth is, this is not a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > SING Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lot" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X LOT Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia stares grimly at the sleek black car. If anything, Chris loves Floyd | her cars even more than Camilla does, and she certainly keeps them in Floyd | better condition. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sabotage care" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > SABOTAGE CARE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sabotage car" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > SABOTAGE CAR Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open hood" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN HOOD Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open trunk" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN TRUNK Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of Emily), "Out of curiosity, was this all the hintage?" | |
| DavidW says, "Tried hood and trunk earlier." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake tree" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > SHAKE TREE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB TREE Floyd | Floyd | Not only would that be indiscreet, but it might damage the trees. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "the hintage only went as far as "notice the car"" | |
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Sorry, must have scrolled by on me." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we need to do *something* with the crystals, but I don't know what." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "focus crystals on card" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS CRYSTALS ON CARD Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to focus the large black Floyd | crystals. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, that focus ... on construction doesn't work, so that's not it." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to crystals" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN TO CRYSTALS Floyd | Floyd | The crystals are hanging from the rearview mirror, and the rearview Floyd | mirror is inside the car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub card" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > RUB CARD Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia rubs the playing card. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Can we set off the car alarm?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push car" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH CAR Floyd | Floyd | (the sleek black car) Floyd | Yesenia doesn't need to move the sleek black car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit car" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT CAR Floyd | Floyd | (the sleek black car) Floyd | Yesenia takes a deep, centering breath and then slams her foot into Floyd | the black car's front bumper. She's reserving her strength; after all, Floyd | there's no need to punt it across the parking lot, and there would be Floyd | awkward questions if she did. Floyd | Floyd | The car launches an strenuous protest, flashing its lights wildly, Floyd | shrilling an alarm, and honking its horn - not polite little beeps, Floyd | but bewildered, angry blares. If Chris is anywhere around, that should Floyd | get her attention. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok, that worked." | |
| DavidW asks, "Now what?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, since Carolyn will see this: 'an strenuous' and 'push' should probably work." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Um, hide?" | ||
| Emily says, "yeah, maybe" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "See if Chris comes?" | ||
| Emily says, "yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Not sure where though. Palm trees are skinny." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hide behind palm" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > HIDE BEHIND PALM Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Among the other parked cars?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Also, this implies we are super strong, fwiw." | ||
| DavidW says, "'hide' isn't a known verb." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh right. Strong female protagonist." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "In more ways than one, it would seem." | ||
| DavidW asks, "If we can't hide, I suppose we wait, go in, push doorbell, or now try focusing the crystals?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was about to just wait." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We can undo, it would seem." | ||
| DavidW says, "okay" | ||
| Emily says, "go for it" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | There's a sudden clatter from the apartment building, and then Chris Floyd | explodes from within. Floyd | Floyd | Chris is tall and well-coiffed, as always, but her brown eyes are wide Floyd | with rage, and if she has a perfect manicure today, it's concealed by Floyd | her clenched fists. "What the hell are you doing? What the Floyd | hell are you doing to my car?" Floyd | Floyd | "Getting your attention," Yesenia says. "It seems to have worked." Floyd | Floyd | (To speak with Chris, TALK TO CHRIS.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, and we're still in sunlight here. :)" | |
| Emily says, "nice" | ||
| Emily says, "good point also :)" | ||
| Emily says, "but I suppose we could talk to her before incinerating" | ||
| Jacqueline shrugs. "So it's a departure from vampire cannon." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That or I'm completely wrong." | ||
| Emily asks, "do we actually have any evidence that vampirism is involved?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Zero." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "talk to chris" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CHRIS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia says, "What are you doing here?" Floyd | Floyd | Chris says, "You don't belong here. I came to bring you back." Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "it feels sort of Nobilis-y to me" | |
| DavidW asks, "Maybe we're a star, fallen from the heavens?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Baby, I'm a Star" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "talk to chris" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CHRIS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia says, "You're not welcome, Chris. It's time for you to go." Floyd | Floyd | Chris shakes her head. "Jack. Call me who I am, and remember who you Floyd | are." Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "(let's see if we hav emore to say)" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Emily says, "huh" | ||
| Emily asks, "maybe we're actually from a deck of cards too?" | ||
| Emily says, "ACES" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "talk to chris" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CHRIS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia says, "Sending creepy letters is not the way to open a Floyd | conversation. Especially when I've been gone for a week." Floyd | Floyd | Chris says in a reasonable tone, "Well, I didn't know you were gone." Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "Trumps of Doom!" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry. I've been playing Zangband." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia says, "You need to leave. Now." Floyd | Floyd | Instead of answering, Chris glances west to the setting sun. It's so Floyd | familiar a gesture that it makes Yesenia's heart ache, and for a Floyd | second she even forgets what it means. But Chris is the Jack of Floyd | Shadows.... Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "I guess it's good to have a highly linear conversation method when I the player have no idea what my protagonist should say" | |
| Emily says, "maybe we need to focus on her before she can do anything sinister" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia says, "I gave enough of my life away. I'm done." Floyd | Floyd | Chris says, "You can't ever be done. That's what it means, to be what Floyd | we are." Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia says, "The eastern seaboard got by for some two hundred years Floyd | without me. It can do it again." Floyd | Floyd | Chris says, "Those were more innocent times. You can't turn your back Floyd | on responsibility." Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Eastern seaboard? That came from nowhere." | |
| Jacqueline says, "New theory: We are a demigod with a pink flowery suitcase." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia says, "If you did something to Camilla, you will regret it. I Floyd | mean that more than I have ever meant anything." Floyd | Floyd | Chris says, "So that's her name." She smiles faintly. "Pretty." Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | The setting sun slips beneath the trees, and both women are immersed Floyd | in the shadows stretching across the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | Chris says, "I'm sorry it had to be this way," and she thrusts a hand Floyd | toward Yesenia. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia dodges down the walkway, but she's too slow. The air itself Floyd | catches her in a vice grip, and she's dragged across the concrete to Floyd | fall at Chris's feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "I'm just going to play this out, then undo and fight back?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "What do you all think?" | ||
| Emily says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "okay with me" | ||
| Emily says, "that sounds good to me" | ||
| DavidW says, "I want to know what Chris can do." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia opens her mouth to snarl defiance, but Chris tightens her Floyd | invisible grip, and Yesenia's words abate into coughing and the Floyd | struggle to breathe. Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | Chris turns to stare at the damage to her front bumper. "That really Floyd | wasn't necessary," she says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia opens her mouth to snarl defiance, but Chris tightens her Floyd | invisible grip, and Yesenia's words abate into coughing and the Floyd | struggle to breathe. Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | The sound of conversation drifts up the walk, and Chris spins to look. Floyd | No one's in view yet, but someone's clearly coming. Floyd | Floyd | "We can't stay out here," she mutters, and the grip of air pulls Floyd | Yesenia upright like a doll. "In we go." Floyd | Floyd | As an afterthought, Chris grabs Yesenia's suitcase on her way into the Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | Tradewinds has always been Yesenia's refuge from the tourist-laden Floyd | town. Yesenia likes how her neighbors don't trade rumors, or complain Floyd | about odd noises, or speculate about Camilla's actual profession. But Floyd | right now, a little more nosiness would be nice, because there's no Floyd | one in the lobby and no one in the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia seethes as Chris hauls her into the elevator, and she Floyd | continues to seethe as Chris hauls her out again on the third floor. Floyd | Floyd | Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | During the day, the hallway's cool shadows provide relief from the Floyd | California sun. But at night, it's simply dark, because the scattered Floyd | wall sconces aren't close enough or bright enough to provide decent Floyd | illumination. It couldn't be a better environment for the Jack of Floyd | Shadows if someone had planned it that way. Even by day, Chris's power Floyd | would wax in a place like this, and Yesenia tastes despair at the Floyd | thought. Floyd | Floyd | The door of Yesenia's apartment stands wide open. There's a folded Floyd | note taped to it. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can also see Chris here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia hangs limply in Chris's grip. There's nothing to do but wait. Floyd | Floyd | Chris drags Yesenia across the threshold of her own apartment. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** As homecomings go, it couldn't get much worse. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Well, wait. Undo a ton, or just restart?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Possibly quicker to restart." | ||
| Emily says, "sure" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That went longer than I expected." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I think so." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTART Floyd | Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart? | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 18 Rooms to Home (Room 17) Floyd | A serialized work of interactive fiction. by Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150602 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 18 Rooms to Home is a serialized game that begins at the end. Floyd | Floyd | As each update is released, the story will move further back in time - Floyd | so the first release includes room 18, the second will include room 17 Floyd | and 18, the third will include 16, 17, and 18, and so on. All released Floyd | rooms are available at [LINK] Floyd | Floyd | This release is Room 17. This is near the end of Yesenia's journey, Floyd | but it's still near the beginning of yours. Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | Yesenia hefts her suitcase down from the bus. It's about three minutes Floyd | from the bus stop to her apartment, and she takes the distance Floyd | briskly, stopping only once to shove windblown hair out of her eyes. Floyd | Floyd | There's an easy cut across the grass, but Yesenia takes the sidewalk Floyd | instead, with the suitcase rollling along behind her. She rounds the Floyd | corner of the building and starts up the front walk. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | A wide concrete walkway leads around the three-story building and up Floyd | to the front door, flanked by ground lights on both sides, which shine Floyd | in response to the setting sun. On the right, regimentally spaced palm Floyd | trees provide an illusion of privacy for the west-facing windows. On Floyd | the left, there's a parking lot for the apartment, but since the Floyd | divider is all of six inches wide, the parked cars in the first row Floyd | rest their noses against the walkway. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia parks her suitcase beside the building's front door. Floyd | Floyd | There's a bank of resident mailboxes set into the outer wall, just to Floyd | the right of the front door. The doorbells are on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "focus on mailbox" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS ON MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | Shielded from sight by the building and a palm tree, Yesenia stretches Floyd | her awareness to the setting sun. The orange light warms her, just as Floyd | it warms the mailbox. Floyd | Floyd | The sun has power over the mailbox; its heat can make the metal Floyd | expand. Its absence can make the metal shrink. And she has Floyd | power over.... Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia focuses. The tumblers click into the unlocked position, and Floyd | she pulls it open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take mail" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE MAIL Floyd | Floyd | (the crumpled letters) Floyd | Yesenia pulls the mail out of her mailbox. Among the advertisements Floyd | and junk mail (promptly discarded into a convenient recycling bin), Floyd | she discovers three white envelopes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x first envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X FIRST ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | According to the postmark, this envelope was mailed from Santa Barbara Floyd | three days ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x second envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X SECOND ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | According to the postmark, this envelope was mailed from Santa Barbara Floyd | two days ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily asks, "if she's jack of shadows, then we're what? jack of sunlight?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x third envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X THIRD ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | According to the postmark, this envelope was mailed from Santa Barbara Floyd | one day ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hee" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read first letter" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > READ FIRST LETTER Floyd | Floyd | According to the postmark, this envelope was mailed from Santa Barbara Floyd | three days ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open first letter" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN FIRST LETTER Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia rips open the first envelope, revealing a letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | According to the postmark, this envelope was mailed from Santa Barbara Floyd | three days ago. Floyd | Floyd | In the first envelope is a first letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily asks, "and are there four kinds of thing, and if so, what are the other two besides darkness and light?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "grr" | Emily says, "INQUIRING MINDS MUST KNOW" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read letter" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > READ LETTER Floyd | Floyd | (the first letter) Floyd | Yesenia unfolds the first letter. Floyd | Floyd | It's typed in simple serif letters. Floyd | Floyd | We need to talk. Call me - Floyd | Floyd | and a number that Yesenia doesn't recognize. There's a 305 area code, Floyd | though, and that's the Miami area. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open second envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN SECOND ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia rips open the second envelope, revealing a letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read letter" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > READ LETTER Floyd | Floyd | (the first letter) Floyd | It's typed in simple serif letters. Floyd | Floyd | We need to talk. Call me - Floyd | Floyd | and a number that Yesenia doesn't recognize. There's a 305 area code, Floyd | though, and that's the Miami area. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read second letter" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SECOND LETTER Floyd | Floyd | (the second letter) Floyd | Yesenia unfolds the second letter. Floyd | Floyd | It's typed in simple serif letters. Floyd | Floyd | I'm trying to help you. You don't have to hide from me. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Wish this switched the focus. Pun almost intended." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open third envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN THIRD ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia rips open the third envelope, revealing a letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read third letter" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > READ THIRD LETTER Floyd | Floyd | (the third letter) Floyd | As Yesenia unfolds the letter, a playing card falls to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | At the sight of it, Yesenia's stomach clenches, and goose bumps Floyd | prickle across her shoulders. Floyd | Floyd | It's typed in simple serif letters. Floyd | Floyd | Call me, or I'm coming to see you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "leave" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > LEAVE Floyd | Floyd | But Yesenia isn't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cars" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia briefly scans the cars with an uninterested eye. She notes Floyd | Camilla's battered white coupe parked two rows back. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Wait, what triggers us looking for Chris' car?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x camilla's car" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAMILLA'S CAR Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine Camilla's battered Floyd | white coupe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x camilla's coupe" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAMILLA'S COUPE Floyd | Floyd | Camilla's car is fairly new - a 2014 Subaru - but it looks like it's Floyd | been through a minor war. It always puzzles Yesenia how Camilla can Floyd | love driving so much, yet be so unwilling to go to the body shop. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The card." | |
| DavidW says, "We don't know Chris is here until we look at the playing card." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x card" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARD Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia picks up the playing card. Floyd | Floyd | It's a standard playing card: paper coated with plastic, with a blue Floyd | design on the back. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia turns it over. As she expected, it's the Jack of Spades - Floyd | which means the Jack of Shadows. Floyd | Floyd | Chris, she thinks, and glances around apprehensively. Is Floyd | Chris already here? She always drives, because she hates the bus.... Floyd | .... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "c parking lot" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > C PARKING LOT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x parking lot" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X PARKING LOT Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia scans the parking lot again, taking her time. She doesn't know Floyd | what Chris is driving these days, but she knows it'll be a cut above Floyd | the norm. Floyd | Floyd | And it is - a sleek, matte black car with a T-shaped logo on its nose, Floyd | sitting three cars down and barely a centimeter off the walkway. The Floyd | large black crystals hanging off the rearview mirror seal her Floyd | suspicions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hit car" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT CAR Floyd | Floyd | (the sleek black car) Floyd | Yesenia takes a deep, centering breath and then slams her foot into Floyd | the black car's front bumper. She's reserving her strength; after all, Floyd | there's no need to punt it across the parking lot, and there would be Floyd | awkward questions if she did. Floyd | Floyd | The car launches an strenuous protest, flashing its lights wildly, Floyd | shrilling an alarm, and honking its horn - not polite little beeps, Floyd | but bewildered, angry blares. If Chris is anywhere around, that should Floyd | get her attention. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | There's a sudden clatter from the apartment building, and then Chris Floyd | explodes from within. Floyd | Floyd | Chris is tall and well-coiffed, as always, but her brown eyes are wide Floyd | with rage, and if she has a perfect manicure today, it's concealed by Floyd | her clenched fists. "What the hell are you doing? What the Floyd | hell are you doing to my car?" Floyd | Floyd | "Getting your attention," Yesenia says. "It seems to have worked." Floyd | Floyd | (To speak with Chris, TALK TO CHRIS.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, yeah. At some point we need to fight." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I think." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hit chris" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT CHRIS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia steps into Chris and reaches out to throw the other woman. Floyd | Chris dodges sideways. Floyd | Floyd | Chris protests, "It doesn't have to be this way!" Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia lunges for Chris and then drops to execute a leg sweep. Chris Floyd | parries with a snap-kick and then falls back to recover. Floyd | Floyd | Chris protests, "Knock it off!" Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm hoping that 'focus crystals' when Chris is here somehow zaps her badly." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "focus on crystals" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS ON CRYSTALS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia considers the black crystals. The sun is touching them, and Floyd | she's in the sunlight, but... what could she do with them, except Floyd | damage the car? There are easier ways to damage the car. Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | Chris touches something in her jacket pocket, and the car obediently Floyd | shuts up. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hmph." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Why didn't she do that earlier?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hit chris" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT CHRIS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia steps into Chris and reaches out to throw the other woman. Floyd | Chris dodges sideways. Floyd | Floyd | Chris says, "Can't we talk about this?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You didn't fight her before." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I know. Instead we had that conversation with the car alarm going off the whole time." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "focus on chris" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS ON CHRIS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia reaches her mind toward the sun. It's setting rapidly, but Floyd | there's still enough light... and she seizes that light and focuses Floyd | upon Chris. She doesn't want to hurt her - but she closes her power Floyd | all around her. There's just enough vibration leaking through for Floyd | Chris to know what's happening. Floyd | Floyd | Chris freezes immediately. "Think about what you're doing," she says Floyd | in a tight voice. Floyd | Floyd | "I thought about it," Yesenia says. "And I want you to go away. And Floyd | leave me alone. Now." She waits a few breaths longer, to make Floyd | sure Chris gets the point, and then releases the power. Floyd | Floyd | Chris glares at her, but then she goes to the car. A door handle Floyd | extrudes as Chris reaches for it, and she gets inside the car. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia watches the sleek black car back up, and she watches it leave Floyd | the parking lot, and she keeps watching until it vanishes down the Floyd | road. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "oho" | |
| Emily asks, "so do we go inside now?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess so." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | The front door has been propped open with a rock, but there's no one Floyd | in sight. Yesenia kicks it out of the way - why doesn't anyone Floyd | understand security around here? - and swings her suitcase into the Floyd | familiar darkness of her apartment building. Two flights of stairs Floyd | later, she reaches the door to her apartment. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Emily pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | Floyd | Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | During the day, the hallway's cool shadows provide relief from the Floyd | California sun. But at night, it's simply dark, because the scattered Floyd | wall sconces aren't close enough or bright enough to provide decent Floyd | illumination. It couldn't be a better environment for the Jack of Floyd | Shadows if someone had planned it that way. Yesenia never realized Floyd | that before, and she feels sick at the idea. Floyd | Floyd | The door of Yesenia's apartment stands wide open. There's a folded Floyd | note taped to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | There's a muffled sound from within the apartment, and Yesenia calls Floyd | Camilla's name as she crosses the threshold at speed. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** It could have been so much worse. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Emily says, "that seems like the best ending we've gotten so far" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Hm. Possibly that's the best ending for now?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes it does" | ||
| Emily asks, "are those the only two episodes out yet?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So far, yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "As of this morning." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe there'll be another installment by next week." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The first two came out quickly. I'm... kind of assuming (hoping?) these are mostly already written." | ||
| Emily says, "it seems like it might get progressively harder to do them" | ||
| Emily says, "but who knows" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Emily says, "interesting experiment, though, definitely" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "For both her and us." | ||
| Emily says, "and I'm curious where this is going" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes. Me too." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks for coming, folks." | ||
| Emily says, "thanks for hosting!" | ||
| Emily 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, "This was fun, yes." | |
| DavidW says, "I'm also curious where this is going."NB: ClubFloyd played the next installment as well. That transcript can be found here. | ||
