  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask 18rooms16" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 18 Rooms to Home (Room 16) Floyd | A serialized work of interactive fiction. by Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150613 / 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 includes 16, 17, and 18, and so on. All released Floyd | rooms are available at [LINK] Floyd | Floyd | This release is Room 16. This is near the end of Yesenia's journey, Floyd | but it's just a short way into yours. Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "This is probably the bus itself, I'll guess." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | Tourists move down the steps toward Cabrillo Pavilion in long waves, Floyd | unconsciously mimicking the ocean beyond. Yesenia loiters awkwardly at Floyd | the sidewalk's edge and pretends to be fascinated by the fat little Floyd | palm trees, the blue sign reading ZOO with its arrow, or anything else Floyd | that will keep her face away from pedestrians. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia turns at the distant roar of a bus. The familiar white body Floyd | with its upper yellow stripe comes around the bend, and she reads 20 Floyd | Carpinteria with relief. The crowd at the bus stop shuffles around, Floyd | and Yesenia queues up to board, rolling the flowered suitcase behind Floyd | her. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | It's like any other MTD bus: bluish-gray plastic seats crowded with Floyd | passengers, huge windows, and an array of silver poles and black Floyd | straps for standing passengers. No one's standing right now, though. Floyd | Floyd | The driver taps the fare box and gives Yesenia a meaningful look. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia braces her suitcase against her leg. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia digs hurriedly through her pockets and comes up with two Floyd | crumpled singles. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, ">put money in box?" | |
| Emily says, "I assume we pay the fare, yeah" | ||
| Zach says, ">listen to singles" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "put money in box" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT MONEY IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "put singles in box" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SINGLES IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia flattens the two singles against the fare box and then feeds Floyd | them into the machine. The fare box chimes its approval. Floyd | Floyd | The driver says, "No change," and points at the sign that says the Floyd | same thing. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia says, "That's fine," and she hefts her suitcase and moves Floyd | further in so the next person can pay. There are still a few seats Floyd | free: one at the front behind the driver (occupied by a newspaper), Floyd | one in the middle across from the rear door, and one at the very back. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "hm, choice!" | |
| Emily asks, "are we a back of the bus kind of woman?" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x newspaper" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > X NEWSPAPER Floyd | Floyd | It's a folded copy of the Santa Barbara News-Press. Yesenia could see Floyd | the articles if she unfolds it. Floyd | Floyd | The last two passengers pay and board. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we are a back of the bus woman, yes." | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "get newspaper" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > GET NEWSPAPER Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia picks up the folded newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | The bus pulls away from the curb. Yesenia shifts her weight to Floyd | compensate and puts a hand on one of the silvery poles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "sit in back" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > SIT IN BACK Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia takes the back seat. Floyd | Floyd | The bus picks up speed as it chugs along. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily asks, "read the paper?" | |
| DavidW says, "yes please" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "unfold newspaper" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > UNFOLD NEWSPAPER Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia unfolds the newspaper fully and holds it in front of her Floyd | faceSince she's sitting in the back, she only has to angle her body Floyd | and raise the newspaper to hide her face entirely. That worked out Floyd | well. Floyd | Floyd | A portly man in his mid-forties opens up his iPad and starts listening Floyd | to the news. Yesenia can tell that he's listening to the news because Floyd | he's not using headphones, in clear violation of the bus policy sign. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "read newspaper" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > READ NEWSPAPER Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia skims the newspaper, but she doesn't really want to read about Floyd | the cleanup cost of the Santa Barbara oil spill. It's too depressing. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "There was a disturbance today at the Santa Barbara Floyd | Zoo, when a masked woman confronted a group of schoolchildren. KEYT Floyd | reporter Vanessa Ellis is on the scene. Vanessa, over to you." Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia's heart drops like a brick. If there's footage.... Floyd | Floyd | The bus rumbles through a pothole. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily asks, "we just came from the zoo, right?" | |
| Zach asks, "Can we nag him about breaking the bus rules?" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "talk to man" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MAN Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia says, "Excuse me, would you mind turning that off?" Floyd | Floyd | The portly man frowns at her. "Yes, yes I would. It's a free country." Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "Thank you, Brandon! I'm at the Santa Barbara Zoo, Floyd | where a group of schoolchildren were about to board their bus when a Floyd | masked woman attempted to take them hostage." Floyd | Floyd | The bus slows down before entering a traffic circle. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Oh Yesenia, what did you do?" | |
| Zach says, "hooray" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "turn off ipad" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN OFF IPAD Floyd | Floyd | It isn't something Yesenia can switch. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "Witnesses describe the woman as five-five, dressed in Floyd | white and lavender, with a crown of flowers in her hair. The pending Floyd | catastrophe was averted when a bystander engaged her in hand-to-hand Floyd | combat, giving students and teachers a chance to escape." Floyd | Floyd | The bus swings majestically out onto Coast Village Road. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily asks, "*crown of flowers*?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||
| Zach says, "damn hippies" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Zach says, "damn ninja hippies" | ||
| Emily asks, "are we the frilly villainess or are we the bystander?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Maybe we were the bystander?" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME | Jacqueline says, "Perhaps." | |
Floyd |
Floyd | Yesenia wonders how much of her is visible behind the newspaper. How
Floyd | much of this worry is paranoia? How much do they need to see, to
Floyd | recognize her? There are thousands of people in Santa Barbara with her
Floyd | build, her height, and her coloration - but none of the others happen
Floyd | to be on the bus just now.
Floyd |
Floyd | The iPad says, "One of the teachers, Katie Edwards, captured part of
Floyd | their encounter. We'll show you that footage now."
Floyd |
Floyd | The bus pulls to a stop in accordance with traffic regulations.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Emily says, "sooo that wasn't informative" | |
| Jacqueline says, "This guy may out us in a sec." | ||
| Emily says, "I'm tempted to distract the man by kissing him but I bet that's not the correct solution" | ||
| DavidW asks, "The author plays her cards very closely, doesn't she?" | ||
| Emily asks, "could we focus on the ipad?" | ||
| Emily asks, "maybe burn it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x crown" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > X CROWN Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "kiss man" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > KISS MAN Floyd | Floyd | The portly man might not like that. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad marvels, "Will you look at that!" Floyd | Floyd | The bus rumbles back into motion. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Game), "Oh, but he might." | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "focus on ipad" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS ON IPAD Floyd | Floyd | If only she could! But the man's holding his iPad out of the sunlight, Floyd | to avoid glare on the screen. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "It's quite an impressive sight." After a pause, it Floyd | continues, "Both the masked woman and the intervening bystander fled Floyd | the scene before the police could arrive." Floyd | Floyd | The bus picks up speed as it merges onto the freeway. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Yeah, we need more self-confidence" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Well, it is best to ask for his consent first." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But yes." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "man, kiss me" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > MAN, KISS ME Floyd | Floyd | The portly man has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "Anthony Torres was here with his daughter, and they Floyd | saw the entire exchange. Anthony, what did you see?" Floyd | Floyd | Despite the air conditioning, several of the windows are cracked open, Floyd | and there's enough wind to whip Yesenia's hair across her face. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "aww" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Game), "See, I'm not sure he does have better things to do." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But okay." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "ask man about headphones" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT HEADPHONES Floyd | Floyd | (To speak with someone, use the command TALK TO.) Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "It was The Hyacinth. I'm sure of it. I study these Floyd | things. She normally stomps around Miami, but she's come to California Floyd | for some reason." Floyd | Floyd | The bus exits the freeway and turns left over the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "we supposedly came from Miami" | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "The Hyacinth!" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "smell me" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL ME Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia smells sunscreen, sea winds, diesel, and industrial Floyd | antiseptic. Some of these are more pleasant than others.. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "What about the woman who stopped the attack?" Floyd | Floyd | The bus stops to pick up a few more passengers and then rumbles back Floyd | into motion. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "~*pastel vigilantism*~" | |
| DavidW asks, "Is that a superhero name or what, though?" | ||
| Emily says, "our suitcase has a floral design on it, IIRC" | ||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||
| DavidW asks, "So we were the attacker?" | ||
| Emily says, "I'm really not sure at this point" | ||
| Emily says, "I kind of want to hear more of the iPad report even though that might cause trouble for us" | ||
| DavidW says, "I haven't seen any obvious way to stop the report yet." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "sing" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > SING Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We could probably close the window, but I don't see what good that would do." | |
| Emily says, "I guess we can't drown it out, either" | ||
| Emily says, "I thought it whipping the hair over our face was good" | ||
| Emily says, "more camouflage" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I think the wind blowing hair across our face it a good thing." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, it's our first play through. I say we just see where this goes." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Well, what else is around? The fan? The other passengers?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | It's loud, both from the bus's steady roar and the chatter of Floyd | passengers.. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad answers, "She was just a bitty thing, but she picked The Floyd | Hyacinth up and threw her like a stuffed elephant. She was knocking Floyd | her all over the parking lot. The Hyacinth knocked her down a few Floyd | times, but she just got right back up. She must've had powers of her Floyd | own." Floyd | Floyd | The manicured lawns of Toro Canyon pass the bus windows and vanish Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Should we just keep listening?" | |
| Emily says, "I guess" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | It's loud, both from the bus's steady roar and the chatter of Floyd | passengers.. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says in a little kid's voice, "It was pretty scary." Floyd | Floyd | A recorded voice announces, "Real and Sandpiper," and the bus stops to Floyd | let the heavyset woman off before lurching back into motion. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "I think we'll hear it regardless." | |
| Emily says, "if this is like the other game, it's short enough to replay if we decide we need to change course" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That's what I'm thinking." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | It's loud, both from the bus's steady roar and the chatter of Floyd | passengers.. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "Thank you, Anthony. Brandon, back to you." Floyd | Floyd | Yucca and palms and carefully clipped shrubbery yield to the Floyd | fantastically painted bridge railing outside Kim's Market. Floyd | Floyd | > | two-star asks, "do we know where our stop is?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "Let's look at the current state of the Santa Barbara Floyd | County oil spill." Floyd | Floyd | The bus has reached Carpinteria proper, and the bus begins to empty as Floyd | more people get off at each stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to **), "I would think so." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Huh. So he didn't stand up and point at us. That's... good?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "Kevin Reese Dolman, aka Surgical Strike, has publicly Floyd | repented his act of terrorism and joined the cleanup efforts alongside Floyd | Angelina Manatee. More than 44% of the coastline is now clear, thanks Floyd | primarily to the efforts of regular volunteers." Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia sees her stop coming up, and she presses the yellow strip. The Floyd | bus chimes and announces, "Stop requested." Floyd | Floyd | > | two-star asks, "Sorry, I meant do we, the players, know where our, the PC's, stop is?" | |
| DavidW says, "Perhaps we did the right thing with the newspaper." | ||
| two-star says, "And, never mind." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to **), "We don't. We only know that we live in the Tradewinds Apts, iirc" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But yeah, I figured Carolyn would make that part easy, as she has." | ||
| two-star says, "I was thinking this was going to be a thing where we had the option of getting off at different places." | ||
| Emily says, "'Angelina Manatee'" | ||
| Emily asks, "I dunno, I guess we get off?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Once the bus stops." | ||
| Emily says, "(and are we now going to have to play out that whole encounter with our enemy again?)" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "When asked about the experience of working with her Floyd | former nemesis, Manatee said...." but the bus rolls to a stop, and Floyd | Yesenia misses the sound bite as she heads for the door. Floyd | 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 | About halfway there, she realizes that she doesn't have her purse. Floyd | ¡Carajo! She tries to think back to when she last had it., Floyd | and she realizes it must have been in the restaurant office. She'll Floyd | have to ask Camilla for a ride once she gets home. Floyd | Floyd | There's an easy cut across the grass, but Yesenia takes the sidewalk Floyd | instead, with the suitcase rolling along behind her. She rounds the Floyd | corner of the building and starts up the front walk. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "yes" | |
| Emily pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk 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 | > | Emily says, "...hm" | |
| Emily says, "I feel like structurally the deal should be that we can do something different from last time, but I 'm not sure we actually learned anything on the ride that would change what we do now" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So we got a little more (but vague) backstory" | ||
| Emily says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps we lucked out with the bus ride, but I don't see that we got new options for the last two rooms." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We got a hint that we're probably strong, but we knew that from what we did to the car last time." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "open mailboxs" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN MAILBOXS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily 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), "x hyacinth" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X HYACINTH Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| 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 | > | Emily says, "so this seems the same" | |
| 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 | > | Roger says, "That is a FEDERAL OFFENSE young lady" | |
| 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 (to Roger), "No, tampering with someone ELSE's mail is. This is ours, so it's okay." | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "open first envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN FIRST ENVELOPE | DavidW says (to Roger), "We're possibly a supervillian at this point." | |
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 | >
| Roger says, "Behold our minor misdemeanors and tremble" | |
| Emily asks, "does anyone have a better idea than just redoing what we did last time?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Emily), "I have no better idea." | ||
| chaudmin asks, "have you tried losing the fight?" | ||
| DavidW says (to chaudmin), "Then we get restrained and dragged inside." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. Breakfast just arrived, so I'll be watching for a few." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "open second envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN SECOND ENVELOPE 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 | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "open third envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN THIRD ENVELOPE 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 | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "read first letter" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > READ FIRST 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 | > | ||
| 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 | > | ||
| 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), "get card" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CARD Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia picks up the playing card. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x card" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X 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 (to floyd), "x car" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAR 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 | > | Emily asks, "how did we vandalize the car last time?" | |
| DavidW says, "We kicked it." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "kick car" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > KICK 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 | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | (the sleek black car) Floyd | Yesenia considers kicking the pretty black car again, but she decides Floyd | against it. Someone might see her do it, and the car is already upset Floyd | enough. Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "iirc, we fought her than focused on her to make her go." | |
| Emily 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 | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "fight chris" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FIGHT CHRIS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia steps into Chris and then drops to execute a leg sweep. Chris Floyd | ducks around the blow. Floyd | Floyd | Chris says in an aggrieved tone, "Knock it off!" Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia lunges for Chris and throws an elbow toward her face. Chris Floyd | dodges sideways. Floyd | Floyd | Chris exclaims, "I didn't come here to fight!" Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "fight chris" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FIGHT CHRIS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia pivots toward Chris and then drops to execute a leg sweep. Floyd | Chris fends her off, though not without difficulty. Floyd | Floyd | Chris exclaims, "Knock it off!" Floyd | Floyd | The sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills Floyd | for help. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "hm" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "talk to chris" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CHRIS 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 (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 | | DavidW says, "Now focus on her." | |
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 | >
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| 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), "get note" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > GET NOTE Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia peels the note off the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily 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 | > | ||
| 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 | (This ending became available in Room 17. It is the best ending Floyd | currently available.) *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Emily says, "..." | |
| Emily says, "huh. okay." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh, huh. I guess since she's the Jack of Shadows she is empowered by shadows the way we are with the sun?" | ||
| Emily says, "I think so, yeah" | ||
| DavidW asks, "hm. 'Hyacinth' and 'crown of flowers' seems to suggest plant or flower power, maybe?" | ||
| Emily asks, "sort of Poison Ivy?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Emily), "Perhaps." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "What else do we know that's new?" | ||
| Emily says, "we have long hair and we started the game with two dollars" | ||
| DavidW says, "There were other hero and villian names mentioned in the report." | ||
| Emily says, "yeah, there was some kind of terrorist strike" | ||
| Emily says, "that is now being cleaned up" | ||
| DavidW asks, "There might be more to read in the newspaper?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, true." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess instead of listening/waiting, I should have had us read the paper." | ||
| Emily says, "the first response we got suggested that she was just skimming at best, though" | ||
| Emily says, "but we could start over and see, for sure" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Also, how sure are we that 2 dollars was all we had? What was the bus fare; can we read the fare box?" | ||
| Emily asks, "dunno. restart?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, please." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 18 Rooms to Home (Room 16) Floyd | A serialized work of interactive fiction. by Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150613 / 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 includes 16, 17, and 18, and so on. All released Floyd | rooms are available at [LINK] Floyd | Floyd | This release is Room 16. This is near the end of Yesenia's journey, Floyd | but it's just a short way into yours. Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Jacqueline says, "I missed that about skimming the paper. So perhaps not. Still, let's try sitting somewhere else." | |
| Emily pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | Tourists move down the steps toward Cabrillo Pavilion in long waves, Floyd | unconsciously mimicking the ocean beyond. Yesenia loiters awkwardly at Floyd | the sidewalk's edge and pretends to be fascinated by the fat little Floyd | palm trees, the blue sign reading ZOO with its arrow, or anything else Floyd | that will keep her face away from pedestrians. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia turns at the distant roar of a bus. The familiar white body Floyd | with its upper yellow stripe comes around the bend, and she reads 20 Floyd | Carpinteria with relief. The crowd at the bus stop shuffles around, Floyd | and Yesenia queues up to board, rolling the flowered suitcase behind Floyd | her. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | It's like any other MTD bus: bluish-gray plastic seats crowded with Floyd | passengers, huge windows, and an array of silver poles and black Floyd | straps for standing passengers. No one's standing right now, though. Floyd | Floyd | The driver taps the fare box and gives Yesenia a meaningful look. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia braces her suitcase against her leg. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x fare box" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > X FARE BOX Floyd | Floyd | There's a standard fare box beside the driver's seat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "read fare box" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > READ FARE BOX Floyd | Floyd | There's a standard fare box beside the driver's seat. Floyd | Floyd | The bus driver waits for Yesenia to pay her fare. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x driver" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > X DRIVER Floyd | Floyd | The bus driver is wearing a distinctly non-uniform jean jacket over a Floyd | button-down shirt. Her expression conveys the boredom of a thousand Floyd | summers spent driving up and down US-101. Floyd | Floyd | The bus driver says, "Come on, you're holding up the line." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask driver about fare" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK DRIVER ABOUT FARE Floyd | Floyd | (To speak with someone, use the command TALK TO.) Floyd | Floyd | A heavyset woman in a pale blue shirt pushes past Yesenia. She drops Floyd | two bus tokens in, paying for Yesenia's fare as well as her own. Floyd | "There. Go sit down," she says impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | There are still a few seats free: one at the front behind the driver Floyd | (occupied by a newspaper), one in the middle across from the rear Floyd | door, and one at the very back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "talk to driver" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DRIVER Floyd | Floyd | The bus driver interrupts her. "Honey, I got a bus to drive here, Floyd | okay? Please don't distract me." Floyd | Floyd | The last two passengers pay and board. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "right, okay" | |
| DavidW says, "The heavyset woman paid FOR us." | ||
| Emily says, "I guess carolyn didn't want us being held up on this" | ||
| DavidW says, "She was mentioned in our first runthrough." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | It's like any other MTD bus: bluish-gray plastic seats crowded with Floyd | passengers, huge windows, and an array of silver poles and black Floyd | straps for standing passengers. No one's standing right now, though. Floyd | Floyd | There are still a few unoccupied seats: one at the front behind the Floyd | driver, one in the middle across from the rear door, and one at the Floyd | very back. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia's suitcase is braced against her leg so that it won't roll Floyd | anywhere or fall over. Floyd | Floyd | The bus pulls away from the curb. Yesenia shifts her weight to Floyd | compensate and puts a hand on one of the silvery poles. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, it's done with smoke and mirrors (I personally wouldn't have guessed the syntax) so yeah, this is an elegant work-around." | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "get newspaper" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > GET NEWSPAPER Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia picks up the folded newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | A couple people glance at Yesenia, likely because she's standing when Floyd | there's room to sit. Floyd | Floyd | The bus picks up speed as it chugs along. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily asks, "middle? or front?" | |
| DavidW says, "hm. Front this time, maybe." | ||
| chaudmin says, "could also try not hiding behind the newspaper" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure what might be more interesting." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I kind of want to be outed this time." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "sit in front" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > SIT IN FRONT Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia takes the front seat. Floyd | Floyd | A portly man in his mid-forties opens up his iPad and starts listening Floyd | to the news. Yesenia can tell that he's listening to the news because Floyd | he's not using headphones, in clear violation of the bus policy sign. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I feel like we'll get more info that way." | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "read newspaper" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > READ NEWSPAPER Floyd | Floyd | It's a folded copy of the Santa Barbara News-Press. Yesenia could see Floyd | the articles if she unfolds it. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "There was a disturbance today at the Santa Barbara Floyd | Zoo, when a masked woman confronted a group of schoolchildren. KEYT Floyd | reporter Vanessa Ellis is on the scene. Vanessa, over to you." Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia's heart drops like a brick. If there's footage.... Floyd | Floyd | The bus rumbles through a pothole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "Thank you, Brandon! I'm at the Santa Barbara Zoo, Floyd | where a group of schoolchildren were about to board their bus when a Floyd | masked woman attempted to take them hostage." Floyd | Floyd | The bus slows down before entering a traffic circle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "just keep waiting? I'm afraid if we unfold the nespaper to read it, that will also prevent being caught" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "Witnesses describe the woman as five-five, dressed in Floyd | white and lavender, with a crown of flowers in her hair. The pending Floyd | catastrophe was averted when a bystander engaged her in hand-to-hand Floyd | combat, giving students and teachers a chance to escape." Floyd | Floyd | The bus swings majestically out onto Coast Village Road. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "One of the teachers, Katie Edwards, captured part of Floyd | their encounter. We'll show you that footage now." Floyd | Floyd | The bus pulls to a stop in accordance with traffic regulations. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder why we'd terrorize children, though? That's not a thing even supervillians do, normally." | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad marvels, "Will you look at that!" Floyd | Floyd | The bus rumbles back into motion. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "maybe we were tragically misunderstood" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "It's quite an impressive sight." After a pause, it Floyd | continues, "Both the masked woman and the intervening bystander fled Floyd | the scene before the police could arrive." Floyd | Floyd | The bus picks up speed as it merges onto the freeway. Floyd | Floyd | The portly man suddenly swivels in his chair to stare at Yesenia. He Floyd | squints at his iPad again and then squints at her unshielded face. Floyd | "Hey! That's you!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "yay" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "talk to man" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MAN Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia says, "Please, keep your voice down." Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "Anthony Torres was here with his daughter, and they Floyd | saw the entire exchange. Anthony, what did you see?" Floyd | Floyd | Despite the air conditioning, several of the windows are cracked open, Floyd | and there's enough wind to whip Yesenia's hair across her face. Floyd | Floyd | The portly man says, "You're a hero! The press want to talk to you!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily asks, "I guess we're the bystander, then?" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "talk to man" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MAN Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia says, "I don't want any attention." Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "It was The Hyacinth. I'm sure of it. I study these Floyd | things. She normally stomps around Miami, but she's come to California Floyd | for some reason." Floyd | Floyd | The bus exits the freeway and turns left over the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | The portly man says, "Hey, everyone! That girl - she's a hero! She Floyd | saved a bunch of kids from The Hyacinth this afternoon!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, maybe." | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "talk to man" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MAN Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia says, "Please, don't do this." Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "What about the woman who stopped the attack?" Floyd | Floyd | The bus stops to pick up a few more passengers and then rumbles back Floyd | into motion. Floyd | Floyd | One of the new passengers gives Yesenia a dirty look as he maneuvers Floyd | around her flowered suitcase. Floyd | Floyd | Other people on the bus are taking notice now. "Doesn't The Hyacinth Floyd | stay in Florida?" someone asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah, More than maybe." | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "talk to man" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MAN Floyd | Floyd | There's no point any more. The entire bus is looking at her. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad answers, "She was just a bitty thing, but she picked The Floyd | Hyacinth up and threw her like a stuffed elephant. She was knocking Floyd | her all over the parking lot. The Hyacinth knocked her down a few Floyd | times, but she just got right back up. She must've had powers of her Floyd | own." Floyd | Floyd | The manicured lawns of Toro Canyon pass the bus windows and vanish Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | The man's seatmate corroborates, "No, she's in town. Just saw it on Floyd | the news." Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia hears someone dialing a cell phone, but she can't spot who's Floyd | doing it - she just knows the sound came from the back of the bus. Floyd | Floyd | > | kpaquette says (to jacqueline), "I need to go because I want to play another game." | |
| Emily says, "UH OH" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "talk to man" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MAN Floyd | Floyd | There's no point any more. The entire bus is looking at her. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says in a little kid's voice, "It was pretty scary." Floyd | Floyd | A recorded voice announces, "Real and Sandpiper," and the bus stops to Floyd | let the heavyset woman off before lurching back into motion. Floyd | Floyd | Everyone's chattering now and staring at Yesenia. Even the bus driver Floyd | glances back in the rear view mirror. It's exactly the kind of Floyd | attention she doesn't want. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Phone cameras are ev-ry-where." | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "Thank you, Anthony. Brandon, back to you." Floyd | Floyd | Yucca and palms and carefully clipped shrubbery yield to the Floyd | fantastically painted bridge railing outside Kim's Market. Floyd | Floyd | Another passenger says, "I've got to call my sister about this!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "Let's look at the current state of the Santa Barbara Floyd | County oil spill." Floyd | Floyd | The bus has reached Carpinteria proper, and the bus begins to empty as Floyd | more people get off at each stop. Floyd | Floyd | No one on the bus cares about the Santa Barbara County oil spill. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Katie), "Okay. Have fun." | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] 20 to Carpinteria Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "Kevin Reese Dolman, aka Surgical Strike, has publicly Floyd | repented his act of terrorism and joined the cleanup efforts alongside Floyd | Angelina Manatee. More than 44% of the coastline is now clear, thanks Floyd | primarily to the efforts of regular volunteers." Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia sees her stop coming up, and she presses the yellow strip. The Floyd | bus chimes and announces, "Stop requested." Floyd | Floyd | A bleached blond in huge fuchsia sunglasses touches Yesenia's arm. Floyd | "Don't look so glum, chica. Smile! You're a hero!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The iPad says, "When asked about the experience of working with her Floyd | former nemesis, Manatee said...." but the bus rolls to a stop, and Floyd | Yesenia misses the sound bite as she heads for the door. Floyd | 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 | About halfway there, she realizes that she doesn't have her purse. Floyd | ¡Carajo! She tries to think back to when she last had it., Floyd | and she realizes it must have been in the restaurant office. She'll Floyd | have to ask Camilla for a ride once she gets home. Floyd | Floyd | There's an easy cut across the grass, but Yesenia takes the sidewalk Floyd | instead, with the suitcase rolling along behind her. She rounds the Floyd | corner of the building and starts up the front walk. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Emily pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | A flashbulb goes off in Yesenia's face. As she flinches back, a Floyd | reporter lunges forward, accompanied by his camerawoman. 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 | There's a minor gaggle of photographers and reporters milling about on Floyd | the front walk. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia belatedly remembers to drop her suitcase. It almost falls Floyd | over, but she catches it just in time. 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 | One of the reporters asks her camera crew, "Are you getting this?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh no" | |
| Emily says, "ha ha, whoops" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "talk to reporters" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO REPORTERS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia shouts, "No comment! No comment!" and raises her newspaper to Floyd | block her face from the flashbulbs. Floyd | Floyd | A cameraman circles around for a different angle. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Awkward" | |
| Emily says (to floyd), "focus on mailbox" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS ON MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | With the press here? She might as well write her media handle on her Floyd | own forehead. Floyd | Floyd | One of the reporters asks his camera crew, "Are we losing the light?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "talk to reporters" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO REPORTERS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia shouts, "No comment! No comment!" and raises her newspaper to Floyd | block her face from the flashbulbs. Floyd | Floyd | A reporter shouts, "Are you the Sun Queen's protege?" Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia feels the blood drain from her face. "No comment," she Floyd | manages. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "focus on camera?" | |
| Emily says, "I bet we are the Sun queen's protege!" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "focus on camera" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > FOCUS ON CAMERA Floyd | Floyd | While Yesenia could focus on the enormous black camera, that would Floyd | be... indiscreet. And she strives for discretion these days. Floyd | Floyd | Another flashbulb goes off in Yesenia's face. Yesenia shields her Floyd | face with her newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Sun Queen?" | |
| Emily says, "or the Sun Queen ourself" | ||
| Emily | Ã | ||
| Emily | A reporter shouts, "Are you the Sun Queen's protege?" | ||
| kpaquette sleeps | Emily asks, "just go inside?" | |
| DavidW says, "I guess so" | ||
| chaudmin says, "try kicking the car anyway" | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "kick car" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewind Apartments - Front Walk Floyd | > Floyd | > KICK CAR Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia is no stranger to violence, but she doesn't see the need for Floyd | it here. Floyd | Floyd | Another flashbulb goes off in Yesenia's face. Yesenia shields her Floyd | face with her newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| kpaquette goes home. | chaudmin says, "oh wait, we don't have the card" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Can't kick the car without reading the letters." | ||
| Emily says, "ah-- it won't let us unless we've opened the mailbox, and we can't do that without focusing, which the game won't let us do with reporters watching" | ||
| DavidW says, "We haven't found Chris's car yet." | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia kicks the rock out of the way and swings her suitcase into the Floyd | familiar darkness of her apartment building. She shuts the door on the Floyd | press, like shutting out an unwanted cat, but she can still hear their Floyd | voices through the door. Floyd | Floyd | Their clamoring fades as she climbs the two flights of stairs leading Floyd | to her apartment. It's been a very long day. It's good to come home, Floyd | however briefly. 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. 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 | > | DavidW says, "oh right, the rock." | |
| 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 (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 | Yesenia hears footsteps and voices on the stairs - not the tired Floyd | sounds of a neighbor, but the eager bumbling of the press. She curses Floyd | her neighbors silently. Doesn't anyone care about security? Floyd | Anyone at all? Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily asks, "go inside, or wait for the press to catch up?" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm torn." | ||
| Emily says, "I guess we could go inside, end the game, undo, then wait" | ||
| DavidW says, "okay" | ||
| 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 | Yesenia can hear the press galumphing through the hallway below her. Floyd | It's not as organized as a search-and-rescue, but it's likely to be Floyd | fruitful very soon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > IN 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 | Floyd | (This ending became available in Room 18. A better ending Floyd | exists.) *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Emily says, "...right. okay. about the same as originally." | |
| 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 | > | ||
| 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), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia hears footsteps and voices on the stairs - not the tired Floyd | sounds of a neighbor, but the eager bumbling of the press. She curses Floyd | her neighbors silently. Doesn't anyone care about security? Floyd | Anyone at all? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia can hear the press galumphing through the hallway below her. Floyd | It's not as organized as a search-and-rescue, but it's likely to be Floyd | fruitful very soon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia hears the press galloping up the stairs to her floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A reporter reaches the top of the stairs, turns the corner, and spots Floyd | Yesenia. "I found her!" she shouts to her cameraman, and the rest of Floyd | the gaggle descends. Floyd | Floyd | Reporters are good at spotting blood in the water. A reporter shouts, Floyd | "Are you, in fact, the Sun Queen?" Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia feels the brief, mad temptation to shout, "Yes, yes, you found Floyd | me!" but she resists the urge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "talk to press" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PRESS Floyd | Floyd | Yesenia raises her hands toward the reporters and says in a loud, Floyd | clear, voice, "You're trespassing. You need to leave this building Floyd | before I call management." Floyd | Floyd | With a collective "awwww," the press shuffles back down the stairs. Floyd | Yesenia stands listening until the door clicks behind the last of Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We ARE the Sun Queen." | |
| 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, "let's go in with the press here" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, keep the press here." | ||
| 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. Floyd | Floyd | It shouldn't be unlocked - dammit, Camilla! How many times do Floyd | they have to have this conversation? Carp may be the home of surf, but Floyd | that doesn't mean it's always going to be safe. Floyd | Floyd | She pushes the door open. Floyd | Floyd | Another flashbulb goes off in Yesenia's face. Yesenia shields her Floyd | face with her newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Tradewinds Apartments - Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | She's about to cross the threshold when the air itself catches her in Floyd | a vice grip. Several strangled cries of dismay come from behind her, Floyd | and she realizes the reporters and camera crews are trapped, too. Floyd | Floyd | From within the apartment, Chris's all-too-familiar voice says, "Have Floyd | you lost your mind for good? Why did you bring the press Floyd | here?" The voice lowers. "You shouldn't have done this. You shouldn't Floyd | have made this public. Now you're responsible for what I have Floyd | to do." And the invisible grip jerks Yesenia across the threshold. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** And the Jack of Shadows succumbs to the dark. Floyd | Floyd | (This ending became available in Room 16. A better ending Floyd | exists.) *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | says (to Floyd), "Invite the press in for a cup of tea." | |
| Emily strokes chin thoughtfully | ||
| Emily says, "okay, so it was definitely good to play that a second time" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Succumbs to the dark, eh?" | ||
| Emily says, "that might not be death" | ||
| DavidW says, "Sounds a bit like Cloak in the Cloak and Dagger comics." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I feel like the first ending we got might be the best?" | ||
| Emily says, "yeah, definitely" | ||
| DavidW says, "Cloak's darkness realm hungers in some vaguely threatening way." | ||
| Emily says, "but this most recent one was informative" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Indeed." | ||
| DavidW says, "mmhm" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am going to head out, but feel free to poke at this a bit more if you'd like. I'll leave Perry running." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I will not be here next week. DW, can you sub?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I should be able to, yes." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Also, if 15 comes out, can you wait until the following week for me to be back?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Sure. We'll play something else." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Yay. Thanks!" | ||
| Emily says, "bye, Jacq!" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Bye!" | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess we only new inventory items we got from room 16 were the newspaper and singles? And I don't see any obvious use for those in rooms 17 or 18." | ||
| chaudmin says, ">give singles to press" | ||
| DavidW says (to chaudmin), "And they'll go off and buy coffee? You're dreaming." | ||
| Emily says, "I guess I could imagine that in a future episode, we might gain something interesting that we could show to the press, thus making their presence useful to us rather than an impediment" | ||
| DavidW says, "What I find refreshing about 18 Rooms so far is the commitment to branching narrative." | ||
| DavidW says (to Emily), "That's possible, yes." | ||
| Emily says, "yeah, though it makes me fear that by the time we get to episode 1, it's going to take Carolyn months to finish each one" | ||
| DavidW says, "hm. I think the way the geographic locations are strictly ordered is helping force some dovetailing there." | ||
| chaudmin says, "assuming we unlock one new ending for each room, that's still a lot of endings" | ||
| DavidW says (to chaudmin), "yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose, in theory, focusing on the newspaper would set it alight, if we weren't being discreet." | ||
| DavidW says, "hmmm. I foresee a release where the black crystals in the car become useful for dealing with Jack of Shadows." | ||
| Emily says, "their presence does seem quite pointed" | ||
| Emily says, "I wonder how much planning Carolyn did before starting"NB: ClubFloyd played the next installment as well. That transcript can be found here. | ||
